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Recapping Week 6: Seahawks vs. Cardinals · Hawk Talk

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver
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Speaker 1: Michael Bumpus. Playfak go to roll right, jumpson off into
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Speaker 1: the right class to Michael Bumpers, who bounces off on
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Speaker 1: one tackler gets inside the forty down of the thirty
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Speaker 1: five yard line. Powered by seahawks dot Com mat pump
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Speaker 1: fakes looking at the goal line. He throws it into
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Speaker 1: the end zone. Touchdown. Sayhawks, it's Michael Bumpers with a
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Speaker 1: diving kitchen the end zone. Ten yard touchdown reception for Bumpus,
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Speaker 1: and the kid out of Washington State has found himself
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Speaker 1: a place on this team. Now here's your host, Nasa Chuby.
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Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of Hawk Talk. The Seahawks beat
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals nineteen to nine in a weird game at
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Speaker 1: Looming Field over the weekend. But it's a victory Monday.
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Speaker 1: It's a good feeling. The Seahawks takedown at a Vision
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Speaker 1: rival in the Arizona Cardinals. Great Sunday, but you know
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Speaker 1: how we do every week after a Seahawks win. We
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Speaker 1: talked to Big Ray getting the trenches. It's time to
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Speaker 1: go inside the trenches with former Seahawk Ray Roberts ray Man.
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Speaker 1: Huge win for the Seahawks at home, like I mentioned
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Speaker 1: against the Cardinals, but definitely not the way you expected.
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Speaker 1: The Seahawks team one hundred percent relied and were led
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Speaker 1: by their defense. What set out the most of you
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Speaker 1: when their defensive performance, well, you know, I just liked
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Speaker 1: the aggression that they played with that you can tell
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Speaker 1: at at the defensive front they were being a little
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Speaker 1: bit more aggressive. Actually, listened to Pete Carroll this morning,
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Speaker 1: was saying they made some little adjustments to the defensive
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Speaker 1: line so they could be more aggressive. And I'll be honest,
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Speaker 1: I think what they did was, I know, the last
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Speaker 1: against the Saints, I was saying, man like, they're like
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Speaker 1: a yard off the ball and they're kind of reading
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Speaker 1: and reacting, and it seems like they closed that gap
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Speaker 1: in that neutral zone. They kind of took up more
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Speaker 1: of that neutral zone and then they were attacking gaps
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Speaker 1: versus of reading and reacting. And I think that allowed
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Speaker 1: a guy like twenty four to have this most productive
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Speaker 1: game and all the time he had five tackles, I
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Speaker 1: think he had a sack, He had a past defense,
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Speaker 1: so he was on some really good work. Quentin Jefferson
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Speaker 1: came through with a sack. Darryl Taylor came through with
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Speaker 1: a sack, and it also came through with a sack.
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Speaker 1: I think Adams had a sack. So that defensive line
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Speaker 1: was getting super aggressive. And then of course you have
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Speaker 1: the young dudes in the back, the young Bucks with
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Speaker 1: h t Wu, Terry Willing coming up with an interception
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Speaker 1: and the fumble recovery and Kobe bryant Um forcing that fumble.
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Speaker 1: So I just liked the aggressiveness that the defense played with.
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Speaker 1: I love it, red, you love to see it. You
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Speaker 1: felt like this team needed a performance like that. What
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Speaker 1: does it mean for this defense when you can walk
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Speaker 1: off the field and say, like, we held it down
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Speaker 1: for our offense. It was about time. Yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: it builds that type of confidence because you know, you
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Speaker 1: want to play like complimentary football, and some people go like,
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Speaker 1: well what does that mean? Where you want to you know,
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Speaker 1: be able to play with short you know, create short
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Speaker 1: fields for your for your offense, get the ball back
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Speaker 1: to them with turnovers and such like that, keep them
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Speaker 1: off the scorm board they had. You know, the Cardinals
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Speaker 1: had eleven drives and didn't score one single touchdown, So
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Speaker 1: like that kind of stuff builds confidence just in the
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Speaker 1: whole concept of team chemistry. But then it's also important
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Speaker 1: for this defense to be able to look at tape
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Speaker 1: and go, this is this is how it works. This
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Speaker 1: is what it looks like when it works. So you
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Speaker 1: could say, like, well, they had injuries only offensive line,
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Speaker 1: their running back was out and all this other kind
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Speaker 1: of stuff. Well, that's cool, everyone has injuries, but it's
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Speaker 1: a good film for this defense to go, Okay, this
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Speaker 1: is what it looks like when you're doing it right.
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Speaker 1: So then you have a you can internalize it differently.
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Speaker 1: So I think it was a win for the defense
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Speaker 1: in so many other ways than just to score board. Now, Ray,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned two Cherik Willin, who's been balling, Kobe Bryant,
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Speaker 1: who's been balling. These rookies have played some of the
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Speaker 1: best football that anyone could have imagined. Right now, Intrigue
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Speaker 1: is probably at the point of looking at Rookie of
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Speaker 1: the Year type stuff, that's how well he's playing. Now,
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Speaker 1: it's early in his career, so I'm gonna put you
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Speaker 1: on the spot. But it's Trague already the best corner
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Speaker 1: since Richard Sherman played in Seattle. Well, I will say,
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Speaker 1: at least in the last few years, because we just
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Speaker 1: haven't seen We've seen some good corners here and they've
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Speaker 1: made some good plays, but they haven't been so impactful
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Speaker 1: and dynamic the way he has made him. And then
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Speaker 1: you know, obviously he's a little more quiet than Richard,
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Speaker 1: you know, so it's uh but but yeah, I would
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Speaker 1: have to say I can't just put my finger on
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Speaker 1: another cornerback where I would be like, well, I don't
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Speaker 1: know this guy might have been, but this dude has
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Speaker 1: been has shown up. You know, Like like I said
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Speaker 1: in the pre and postgame show, he doesn't know any better,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. He's just he's learning, you know,
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Speaker 1: like Quandre dig said, he's learning from the head up,
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Speaker 1: I mean from the shoulder up. And then he's applying
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Speaker 1: that to this talent and it's a length and its
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Speaker 1: ability that he has and it's just been a beautiful
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Speaker 1: thing to watch. Let's stick with the rookie theme. We
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Speaker 1: had another rook do you have his breaking out party?
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Speaker 1: And Ken Walker Man, he had twenty one cares for
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Speaker 1: ninety seven yards. I love the way they used him.
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Speaker 1: There's a direct snap to him. He had a thirty
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Speaker 1: four yard run, eleven yard touchdown. What do you see?
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Speaker 1: How did this rookie and what did you think of
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Speaker 1: his performance? Well, it was interesting, you know, buff you
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Speaker 1: and I spoke to him on Thursday and he was
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Speaker 1: and what was the difference between what he brings to
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Speaker 1: the table versus what Penny brought to the table. And
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Speaker 1: he was like, you know, no disrespect the penny. You know,
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Speaker 1: he's a bigger dude. He runs more downhill. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: shift your dude. And so that's what it looked like
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Speaker 1: on the field, Like even like it reminded me of
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Speaker 1: just a tiny bit of like Barry Sanders where some
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Speaker 1: of his best runs were like two yard games because
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Speaker 1: he broke about fifteen ankles on his way to those
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Speaker 1: two yards. And Tenneth Walker the third is that type
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Speaker 1: of is that type of runner? You know? I think
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Speaker 1: I saw the day where I think he leaves the
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Speaker 1: league and the most mistackles I think with twenty two
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Speaker 1: and he only has forty carries. So this dude has
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Speaker 1: like some the lateral movement and in his ability to
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Speaker 1: kind of put his foot in the ground and get
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Speaker 1: some yards. It's a beautiful thing. And so I was
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Speaker 1: just happy for a guy like him to be able
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Speaker 1: to come in and kind of fill the void. And
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Speaker 1: he came. I think he came up three yards shark
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Speaker 1: from one hundred yards. But I think the guy's going
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Speaker 1: to be really special and something good to have in
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Speaker 1: the back. Go here. Now. Staying on offense, Ray Gina
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Speaker 1: was sacked the season, I five times on Sunday. What
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Speaker 1: do you see from the offensive line overall? We know
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Speaker 1: Charles Cross and Abe Lucas looked really good this season.
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Speaker 1: We know they've got good play from Phil Haynes. Damian
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Speaker 1: Lewis gave Jackson awesome blythe but what do you see
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Speaker 1: overall on Sunday and what led to more sacks? Well,
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Speaker 1: I think what really led to the sacks or maybe
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Speaker 1: some protection confusion because the Cardinals started crowding the line
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Speaker 1: of scrimmage. They didn't have every dude covered in the
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Speaker 1: double A gap lits the two inside linebackers. At least
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Speaker 1: that's what they started out, and so then they were
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Speaker 1: running some games off that. I think there was either
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Speaker 1: the freeze, the strong safety or one of their linebackers.
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Speaker 1: Summer twenty five, I can't remember his name, but he
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Speaker 1: came up with a couple of those sacks because everyone's
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Speaker 1: like they're running picking rolls, so they're picking the offensive
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Speaker 1: lineman and he was rolling around the opposite way and
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Speaker 1: getting a sack. As it relates to the rookies, I think,
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Speaker 1: you know a lot of times people don't understand. So
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Speaker 1: it's really hard to compare rookie offensive lineman to like
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Speaker 1: veteran offensive lineman. So when you see the PFT stuff
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Speaker 1: and they're like, have the whole list of dudes, and
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Speaker 1: most of those dudes are better dudes. There's so many
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Speaker 1: little nuances to learn, uh in this game as an
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Speaker 1: offensive linement, and some of that stuff got them this week.
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Speaker 1: So there were guys that were getting into their chests
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Speaker 1: a little faster, with more power and speed than they
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Speaker 1: had expected. There were times where they were they were
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Speaker 1: getting right to the same depth of the quarterback, but
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Speaker 1: they were given the defender or two way goal. Usually
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Speaker 1: when you get to the depth of the quarterback, you
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Speaker 1: want to be an inside out on the on the
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Speaker 1: on the pass rusher, so you can run them around
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Speaker 1: the corner. What they were kind of head up to
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Speaker 1: them like they're trying to take a charge, but that
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Speaker 1: allows them to slide off back to the inside when
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Speaker 1: Gino steps up to get sacked. So that happened a
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Speaker 1: couple of times with the tackle. So those are things
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Speaker 1: you just learned from getting the reps and the reps
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Speaker 1: and the reps. So you don't want to, you know,
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Speaker 1: put up five sacks to get your quarterback hurt or
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Speaker 1: any of those kinds of things. But that's just a
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Speaker 1: learning process. And the thing I will also say is
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Speaker 1: that if you watch these guys play, they are not
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Speaker 1: getting help. They're they're going to get some some of
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Speaker 1: the best pass rushers in league all by themselves. That's
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Speaker 1: that's a that Even when I was a rookie play
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Speaker 1: against Derek Thomas, I had like running back help from
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Speaker 1: time to time, I would get a chip from the
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Speaker 1: running back. But these dudes are taken on these pass
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Speaker 1: rushers for the first time, learning how to study film,
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Speaker 1: learning how to study players, and they're doing it all
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Speaker 1: by themselves, and I think that that has to be commended. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's been impressive watching these rookies go to work. Ray.
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Speaker 1: It was a nice to see this defense put a
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Speaker 1: game together. Six sacks from six different players, you got
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Speaker 1: some turnovers. Now I'm looking at the Los Angeles Chargers.
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Speaker 1: We know they got Justin Herbert, I got Mike Williams,
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Speaker 1: Keen and Allen might be health. You got Eckler. They
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Speaker 1: brought over a couple of guys on defense to help out.
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Speaker 1: Is this the week that the Seahawks put two wins together?
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Speaker 1: I certainly hope so. I think this is going to
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Speaker 1: be the biggest challenge to me for this defense so far.
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Speaker 1: So even though you know the Tayson Hill experienced with
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Speaker 1: something different, I think they kind of caught him off
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Speaker 1: guards the amount that they used him. I don't think
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Speaker 1: they were surprised that they should use them. I just
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Speaker 1: think there was surprised at the amount that they used them.
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Speaker 1: But with this offense, with Justin Herbert and Williams and Eckler,
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Speaker 1: they can do a lot of things. And Ekeler is
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Speaker 1: like a Swiss Swiss army knife kind of a dude.
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Speaker 1: He can run the football. He's great at catching screens
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Speaker 1: and getting behind that pick off of the line and
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Speaker 1: creating yard Is that way Herbert has wanted to up
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Speaker 1: and coming young you know quarterbacks, you can most people
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Speaker 1: have him in the top five, behind the Homes and
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Speaker 1: Alan and probably Lamar Smith. Somewhere in there, so I
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Speaker 1: mean Lamar Jackson. So it's going to be a challenge,
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Speaker 1: I think for this defense to duplicate what they did
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Speaker 1: last week. And so hopefully a lot of that stuff
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Speaker 1: has been internalized, they kind of get the idea of
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Speaker 1: what it looks like putting forward is going to be
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Speaker 1: more aggressive. You know. Brian mulnay played an excellent football game,
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Speaker 1: like he did his best impersonation of al Woods as
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Speaker 1: he possibly could. There's one time he drove the center
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Speaker 1: all the way back to the lap of the quarterback
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Speaker 1: and actually tackled the runner with the ball. So I
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Speaker 1: think there's a lot of positives that came out of
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Speaker 1: this game that's going to have to carry over that
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Speaker 1: imperative that it carries over to this game. And then
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Speaker 1: I would say, like from the offensive perspective, those tackles
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Speaker 1: are going to be challenged with Khalil Mack and one
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Speaker 1: of the Bolsa brothers, they're very you know, skilled pass
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Speaker 1: rushers to at the top in the league, so it's
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Speaker 1: going to be a challenge for them to make sure
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Speaker 1: they keep them off, you know, and give them time
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Speaker 1: to go to the the ball. I hope you're right. Ray,
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Speaker 1: I think this is the week the Seahawks can get
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Speaker 1: a couple of wins together. They played really well on Sunday. Ray.
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Speaker 1: We appreciate you taking time, as you do every single
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Speaker 1: week to hop on with us. Have a good rest
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Speaker 1: of your week, and we'll talk to you soon. Right, yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: it's right, thanks brother. All right, it's time to figure
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Speaker 1: out what had happened. See what happened? At first? What
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Speaker 1: had happened was unharnock um. I let the show this man.
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Speaker 1: It was a weird game. Yeah, it was a weird game.
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Speaker 1: It was. It was one thing we haven't seen from
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks so far this season in general. But it
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Speaker 1: was a game where the Seahawks were never you never
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Speaker 1: felt like you were in doubt. They were always kind
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Speaker 1: of in control of the game. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: it wasn't what you used to seeing. The offense didn't
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Speaker 1: go crazy, the defense showed up. It was one of
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Speaker 1: the I don't know, it was just hard to put
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Speaker 1: my finger on it just didn't feel It felt different, good,
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Speaker 1: but different. Yeah, yeah, it was different. There were no
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Speaker 1: we're not a lot of really explosive plays for this offense,
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Speaker 1: and you held the Cardinals to nine points, and I
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Speaker 1: read an article from Cliff Kingsbury. He goes, like offensive
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Speaker 1: production or not having office production. It's something new to him. Right.
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Speaker 1: There's something that they were able to do is always
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Speaker 1: put up points. Can they sustain leads? That's a different story,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, it's been different. So the Seahawks played a
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Speaker 1: gritty game, a game that I think this defense needed,
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Speaker 1: like we mentioned with with big rave air, and it
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Speaker 1: started off rough man. Kyler Murray breaks up before forty
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Speaker 1: two yard run. These guys haven't put together one play
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Speaker 1: over thirty yards all season. And then the first drive
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Speaker 1: they break one off against the seahaustle like okay, here
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Speaker 1: we go, you know what I'm saying. And in two
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Speaker 1: plays later you get another explosive player for Rundal More
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Speaker 1: for twenty six yards. But the defense did their thing.
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Speaker 1: They got it together and they held up in the
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Speaker 1: red zone and say, okay, put it up, put it
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Speaker 1: on the foot, we'll give you three. Yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 1: When when you saw Kyler Murray go outside. Oh no,
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Speaker 1: we spent all that time talking about exposed to plays
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Speaker 1: in the pregame and I'm like, here we go again.
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Speaker 1: But thank god, the Seahawks defense was up for the challenge.
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Speaker 1: On the Seahawks en sewing drive, the Cardinals march fifty
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Speaker 1: five or excuse me, the Seahawks march nine plays fifty
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Speaker 1: four yards to settle for a field goal, tie the
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Speaker 1: game up at three. Boom. Cardinals come right back fifty
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Speaker 1: five yards on fourteen plays, but they turned the ball
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Speaker 1: over and downs. Kyler Murray wasn't as accurate as you know.
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Speaker 1: He probably would have hoped on that throw, and a
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Speaker 1: lot of throws throughout the ball game, the Cardinals turned
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Speaker 1: the ball over on downs and that was kind of
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Speaker 1: a theme for the game. Bum Cliff Kingsbury was very
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Speaker 1: arrogance up the right word, but confident in his offense.
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Speaker 1: And they went for it on fourth down a lot
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Speaker 1: and we're not successful. Yeah, there were one for five
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Speaker 1: on fourth downs. I can't remember a game that I
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Speaker 1: will watched where that many attempts where we're tried on
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Speaker 1: fourth down. And we saw ken Walker get going. Man.
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Speaker 1: We mentioned he had a seventeen yard direct snap bloom.
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Speaker 1: Then he breaks off a big run that set up
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Speaker 1: a field goal and made the score twelve to three,
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Speaker 1: and um, things got a little interesting. But now to
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Speaker 1: go right Kobe Bryant, he forces a fumbles recovered by
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Speaker 1: who else, Torik welland he's always around the football. Then
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Speaker 1: the Seahaws will go three and out, but have a
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Speaker 1: major misque for the second week in a row. On
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Speaker 1: this punt team Mike Diskon is in the in the
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Speaker 1: in the red zone, assume in the end zone. A
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Speaker 1: nice little stunt. I think they sent like a background
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Speaker 1: that second level late right up the air of the
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Speaker 1: b gap man blocked the kig Arizona falls on the
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Speaker 1: ball in the end zone. Made the score twelve to nine. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was That was tough because you felt like from
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks perspective, you'd stopped him on everything, your defense,
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Speaker 1: and from a confident perspective, you're like, we have stopped
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Speaker 1: them on everything, We've gave him nothing, and to just
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Speaker 1: give him something like that, you know, I believe that
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Speaker 1: John Boyle had the story post game. I believe Nick
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Speaker 1: Boloor said, you know, he was the one who made
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Speaker 1: the mistake on the call there to get that punt block,
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Speaker 1: and it's it's a it's a weird thing because that's
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Speaker 1: such a strong unit. Um. Nick Bloord is one of
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Speaker 1: the best special teams guys in the National Football Leagues,
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Speaker 1: a pro bowler, he's all things. So Nick's a great player.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna get this things figured out. But it was
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Speaker 1: really tough play because you make the score twelve nine
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Speaker 1: and now you're thinking, you know, pressures on offense has
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Speaker 1: got to do something right. Yeah, And that's the most
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Speaker 1: impressive thing that I saw on Sunday was when there
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Speaker 1: back was against the wall to say, okay, hey, we
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Speaker 1: have not been able to push the ball down the
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Speaker 1: field or get it in the end zone. They were
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Speaker 1: spawned in the biggest moment in the game, going seven
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Speaker 1: plays seventy five yards ending in eleven yard run by
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Speaker 1: ken Walker, making the score nineteen nine, only offensive touchdown
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Speaker 1: of the game. We will get into that touchdown a
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Speaker 1: little bit later. Bob's gonna break it down because ken
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Speaker 1: Walker got got he got busy. So but it was
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Speaker 1: just really cool to see from an offensive standpoint that
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Speaker 1: when when it mattered the most, that they came back
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Speaker 1: and answered right away. Yeah, they came back and answer.
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Speaker 1: And then Tarique wool and man fourth game in the row,
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Speaker 1: this guy has an interception sealed deal and it was beautiful, Mane.
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Speaker 1: It was a goal route. I forget who the receiver was,
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Speaker 1: but he's right on to him. He phases him out,
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Speaker 1: he locates the football, he high points that he comes
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Speaker 1: down with him. It looks like this man's been playing
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Speaker 1: corner his whole life, but that has not been the case.
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Speaker 1: And defensively, the Seahawks held the Cardinals to four of
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Speaker 1: sixteen on third downs, which is great. I mentioned there
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Speaker 1: were one for five on fourth down. Now, Colin Murray
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Speaker 1: did rush four hundred yards, but most of that was
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Speaker 1: on that first run forty two yard run on that
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Speaker 1: very first drive. But after that he had some he
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Speaker 1: had some some scrambles. But what I liked about is
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Speaker 1: that they kept him up the gut, right, you keep
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Speaker 1: him in the middle of the field, it gon'd be
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Speaker 1: more guys to corral him and tackle them. Yeah, and
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks defense, they held the Cardinals to three hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifteen yards, which the lowest output of the season
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Speaker 1: in terms of the Seahawks holding opponents too. Always great.
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Speaker 1: Also on the other side, when you can win a
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Speaker 1: game where vk and Tyler only have four receptions, yeah,
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Speaker 1: well those are two of your biggest playmates of the game.
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Speaker 1: So that means things are going well defensively, you know, offensively,
15:42
Speaker 1: the Seahawks still kind of struggled on third down for
15:44
Speaker 1: the second consecutive week, which is a little weird. I
15:47
Speaker 1: believe they dropped from first in the NFL to about
15:49
Speaker 1: eight or nine on third down percentage. But it's all
15:52
Speaker 1: good because the Seahawks came out with the victory. Let's
15:55
Speaker 1: see who may plays playmakers? Alright, playmakers every week. He
16:11
Speaker 1: has super forum for this offense to have a jen
16:14
Speaker 1: Geno Smith was twenty or thirty one for one ninety seven.
16:17
Speaker 1: He had six carries for forty eight yards, a big
16:19
Speaker 1: carry on one of those drives of twenty four yards,
16:21
Speaker 1: scamper if there was a negative. He was sacked five times,
16:24
Speaker 1: but he did a good job making some big throws.
16:27
Speaker 1: The only one throw that was a real suspect, I
16:28
Speaker 1: want to say it was their first drive or d
16:30
Speaker 1: D came run a hitch. There was a corner right there.
16:32
Speaker 1: He kind of it was like a trust throw. He
16:34
Speaker 1: just threw it up there and said, let me see
16:35
Speaker 1: if d come downs with him. But once again it
16:38
Speaker 1: didn't throw for seventy eight completion completely percentage, but he
16:43
Speaker 1: showed control. He tucked the football, and he didn't make
16:46
Speaker 1: too many risky throws, like every throw is calculated. He's
16:50
Speaker 1: still going through his ree he still looked sharp. At
16:52
Speaker 1: no point did I think, all right, Gino, you're doing
16:54
Speaker 1: too much. Calm down. I always feel like he's in
16:56
Speaker 1: control in this offensive moving. Yeah, there's two throws in
16:59
Speaker 1: particular that really like. I believe the Seahawks were going
17:01
Speaker 1: towards the south end zone and Gino stood in there.
17:04
Speaker 1: They're bringing pressure. He got the ball off to believe
17:07
Speaker 1: it was d Eskridge. We'll talking about a little bit later,
17:09
Speaker 1: but just to stand in the pocket and know you're
17:12
Speaker 1: gonna get hit and not flinch at all. And that's
17:14
Speaker 1: what I love about Gino is this his poise over
17:18
Speaker 1: this offense and when things aren't going well and just
17:20
Speaker 1: kind of keeping everyone on the same page. So love
17:22
Speaker 1: to see that. And then in the backfield, we've been
17:25
Speaker 1: calling him K nine on the post game ken Walk.
17:28
Speaker 1: First NFL start twenty one, carries ninety seven yards a touchdown,
17:32
Speaker 1: definitely really probably should have been over a hundred yards
17:34
Speaker 1: or about four or five negative plays in there, but
17:36
Speaker 1: he said some nice runs and Ray mentioned it were
17:40
Speaker 1: to that one yard game he had where he broke
17:42
Speaker 1: like seven tackles. Was nuts. And then he had another
17:45
Speaker 1: one going up the right Seahawks sideline where he thought
17:48
Speaker 1: he was for sure down maybe for one yard game,
17:50
Speaker 1: breaks about four or five tackles and then barely does
17:53
Speaker 1: gets tripped up while the shootoss but he was about
17:55
Speaker 1: to go in the end zone there. So ken Walker
17:56
Speaker 1: is a shifty dude. Man. You see the I know
18:01
Speaker 1: Big Ray just compared him the Barrier Sanders, but I
18:03
Speaker 1: want to say John Schneider might have done the same
18:06
Speaker 1: thing earlier in the season or during training, kept someone
18:08
Speaker 1: else had compared to the Barry Sanders, and I might
18:10
Speaker 1: hold on. Now, Barry's Berry, I get him, But some
18:13
Speaker 1: of those runs, I'm like, all right, I don't see
18:15
Speaker 1: too many people who can't do that in Barry was
18:18
Speaker 1: one of those dudes. So nice to see ken Walker
18:20
Speaker 1: kind of taking older things and say, look, man, Rashot's
18:22
Speaker 1: down to worry. I got you. He performing well nextus
18:26
Speaker 1: Tarik willin every week we're talking about this guy. Five tackles,
18:29
Speaker 1: one past defended, one reception, and one fumble recovery to
18:32
Speaker 1: became the seventh player in franchise history and just the
18:35
Speaker 1: third rookie since year two thousand recorded an interception in
18:38
Speaker 1: four consecutive games. He is also the first rookie since
18:42
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy to record both in interception and upon in
18:45
Speaker 1: fumble recovery in consecutive games. This guy leads the NFL
18:50
Speaker 1: with four receptions. He's been a corner for twenty games
18:54
Speaker 1: in his life. He's doing it at the highest level
18:58
Speaker 1: against some of the best athletes in the world. It's
19:00
Speaker 1: fun to watch him perform, and it's also cool to
19:03
Speaker 1: see his maturation in the post game. I remember his
19:07
Speaker 1: first interview. He's kind of like in awe, like I
19:09
Speaker 1: can't believe him here, you know what I'm saying to them.
19:11
Speaker 1: Now to week six, he's like, yeah, I'm bunk here.
19:14
Speaker 1: You know, I'm trying to make a name for myself
19:15
Speaker 1: and do what I can't help this team win. It's
19:17
Speaker 1: been fun, shoo man to ride my guy. Man. Seriously,
19:21
Speaker 1: four interceptions, you're leading the league in interceptions. Here's the deal, man,
19:25
Speaker 1: This man had two interceptions in college and now he's
19:28
Speaker 1: doing that. I heard Pete talking today and you know,
19:31
Speaker 1: everyone's like, how could you guys, how did everyone miss
19:34
Speaker 1: on this guy? How do you wait to the fifth round?
19:35
Speaker 1: He runs a four twenty six, this and that, and
19:37
Speaker 1: then Pete was even like when we looked at the
19:39
Speaker 1: film and he what he's doing now he was not
19:41
Speaker 1: doing in college. He had Joan bits and pieces he
19:44
Speaker 1: chump plays, but he didn't put it all together. And
19:46
Speaker 1: whatever happened once he got here. I got no words
19:50
Speaker 1: for this man because at this point, at the pace
19:53
Speaker 1: he's on. Obviously he's not gonna get interception every game
19:55
Speaker 1: for his career, obviously I know that, But pacey's on,
19:59
Speaker 1: he's gonna move out of rookie of a year conversation,
20:02
Speaker 1: You're you're moving into defensive player. That your conversation just
20:06
Speaker 1: it's only a small sampleside, but I'm saying the pace
20:08
Speaker 1: he's playing at that just shows you how good he's
20:10
Speaker 1: playing right now. Pro Bowl paste too, Oh yeah, absolutely.
20:13
Speaker 1: And then his boy on the other side and inside,
20:16
Speaker 1: really Kobe Bryant playing really good at nicol This man
20:18
Speaker 1: at eight tackles, one pass defense, one force fumble. Kobe
20:22
Speaker 1: Bryant has a force fumble in three straight games, and
20:25
Speaker 1: now he has four in the season, which also leads
20:27
Speaker 1: the NFL. These dudes are balling out man. And here's
20:29
Speaker 1: the thing, Like, when you think of punching out the football,
20:31
Speaker 1: you think of Peanut Thomann, Right, those are the type
20:33
Speaker 1: of dudes you think of. Byron Maxwell's a guy within
20:35
Speaker 1: the Seahawks was really good at getting the ball out
20:37
Speaker 1: in that specific punch. But Kobe man that I didn't
20:40
Speaker 1: know that about his game. We know he's a gym
20:42
Speaker 1: Thrope Award winner at Cincinnati, we know he had good
20:44
Speaker 1: covered skills, lots of interceptions, But I didn't know he
20:46
Speaker 1: had this extra in his game. And he's coming with
20:49
Speaker 1: it in the Seahawks. I don't know where they'd be
20:51
Speaker 1: without these rookies. Man. Kobe Bryant had four forced fumbles
20:54
Speaker 1: in his whole college career. He's got four in six
20:58
Speaker 1: weeks in the NFL. They're duing some crazy things. I
21:00
Speaker 1: don't even think they realize what they're doing right now.
21:03
Speaker 1: And if they don't, just keep it up and be
21:05
Speaker 1: oblivious and just keep keep going out every we can
21:08
Speaker 1: do your thing. Next up, it's Ryan Neil. All he
21:11
Speaker 1: does is make plays man sub tackles, one sad, one
21:13
Speaker 1: tackle for lost, one pass defense, one QB hit. And
21:17
Speaker 1: for the second week, we see and we feel Ryan
21:20
Speaker 1: neil Last year he comes off the bench, he's making plays.
21:23
Speaker 1: This year he played behind Josh Jones for a bit.
21:25
Speaker 1: If they make the switch they bring him in. He's
21:28
Speaker 1: playing well. Not only is he playing well, but he's
21:30
Speaker 1: sending the right message to the defense in his postgame
21:33
Speaker 1: interviews always, and I'm interested to see what these guys
21:37
Speaker 1: with their mental is through their post games. In a
21:39
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, he was calling dudes out. He's like, look, man,
21:41
Speaker 1: you can't you can't do your job. They're gonna come
21:43
Speaker 1: in here and find somebody else to do it. And
21:46
Speaker 1: he put himself in that conversation too. So to see
21:48
Speaker 1: him step up again this week is good to see,
21:52
Speaker 1: right neil Man probably one of the best interviewers on
21:54
Speaker 1: the team. Also, I love hearing that dude speak because
21:56
Speaker 1: he just got a lot going on in his mind.
21:58
Speaker 1: So Ryan love to see out there making plays and
22:00
Speaker 1: shout out to this d line. Group this unit, this
22:04
Speaker 1: front seven, I'll group everyone together. He's been taking some heat.
22:08
Speaker 1: They've been taking some heat because things haven't gone well
22:11
Speaker 1: defensively and especially specifically in the running game. That has
22:14
Speaker 1: been a lot of pressures. So they've been They've been
22:15
Speaker 1: hearing about it for a couple of weeks and they
22:18
Speaker 1: stood up to the challenge. I mean, huge group effort
22:21
Speaker 1: by the defensive line coming into the game. They only
22:23
Speaker 1: had eight sacks in five games. On Sunday, they got
22:26
Speaker 1: to Kylin Murray six times when the shifties quarterbacks in
22:29
Speaker 1: the National Football League. He also held the Arizona running
22:32
Speaker 1: backs to forty four yards on eighteen carries. We mentioned
22:36
Speaker 1: Murray did rush for one hundred yards. He had a
22:37
Speaker 1: bulk of it on one carry. But just love to
22:40
Speaker 1: the defensive line. They've been hearing it and they rose
22:42
Speaker 1: to the challenge on Sunday and we're a big part
22:44
Speaker 1: of the victory. It's sir Big up to that defensive
22:48
Speaker 1: line and pulling four one of my favorites. You know
22:50
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I love when Poona is making some plays.
22:52
Speaker 1: Baby free agent at the University of Texas, Get him Poona.
22:56
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about this wide receivers or the
22:58
Speaker 1: wide receiver round up, not just receivers, man guys for
23:01
Speaker 1: catching the rock. No Offen had the most targets he's
23:03
Speaker 1: had all season, which is good to see. He had
23:05
Speaker 1: seven tis for six d s. Ridge let's go. D
23:09
Speaker 1: have been in your corner all year, baby, they're trying
23:11
Speaker 1: to hold you down. Dsk is getting his three targets,
23:14
Speaker 1: three receptions thirty nine yards. You mentioned DK and Lockett
23:17
Speaker 1: had two catches a piece, still got the win. That's interesting.
23:20
Speaker 1: And then Markue's good one. He had a big play,
23:22
Speaker 1: a big twenty two yard game. I believe it was
23:24
Speaker 1: on a third down when they were driving a score.
23:27
Speaker 1: Ken Walker had two receptions, Uncle Will had one, and
23:29
Speaker 1: then Kolby had a catch as well. Us eight different pasches.
23:33
Speaker 1: When you're spreading the ball around, you're keeping a defense
23:35
Speaker 1: on their heels. I love it. Yep. Gino has done
23:38
Speaker 1: nothing but spreads of love this season, and I love it.
23:40
Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, I love to see that. And you know,
23:43
Speaker 1: I think next week it's one of those things where
23:45
Speaker 1: it's almost like a precursor. It's like a clue. Right,
23:48
Speaker 1: If DK and Tyler have a game, really got four receptions,
23:51
Speaker 1: you can that's the safest bet in the world that
23:54
Speaker 1: they're gonna go off next week. So Charger secondary I
23:57
Speaker 1: would be aware of because these dudes are coming. They're
23:59
Speaker 1: gonna be hungry. So love to see that. But let's
24:02
Speaker 1: get back over to Ken Walker. I alluded to it
24:03
Speaker 1: earlier in the game. He had an eleven yard touchdown
24:06
Speaker 1: run that we're gonna break down in the coaches corner.
24:09
Speaker 1: Underneath hand off, the Walker cuts back outside of the
24:12
Speaker 1: ten step on Jaman to the five given touchdown saw
24:19
Speaker 1: Ken Walker the third from eleven yard job carries it
24:25
Speaker 1: into the end zone on the left side. Nice job
24:29
Speaker 1: by his offensive front. Great job by Gino getting him
24:33
Speaker 1: down there his second career touchdown. He is one happy man.
24:37
Speaker 1: Had the Seahawks how double off on Arizona eighteen to nine.
24:42
Speaker 1: What did you see, bump. It's a beautiful person ten
24:45
Speaker 1: play there in eleven person. Now that means one running back,
24:48
Speaker 1: one tight end. You got Kobe Parkinson who was on
24:51
Speaker 1: the right side of the line of scrimmage, right next
24:53
Speaker 1: to Abe Lucas. And this is really like a delayed counter. Look. Typically,
24:57
Speaker 1: on your counter you're gonna block everyone on the left
25:00
Speaker 1: side to the right, and you're gonna pull your left guard,
25:03
Speaker 1: excuse me, your right guard and your right tackle right here.
25:05
Speaker 1: If they say okay, Kobe, you're gonna pretty much take
25:07
Speaker 1: the position of that right tackle and you're gonna pull.
25:10
Speaker 1: So they pull the right guard and Kobe Parkinson and
25:13
Speaker 1: everyone else blocks down to the right. And another thing
25:16
Speaker 1: that you typically do is a misdirection right. You you
25:19
Speaker 1: line up ken Walker on the right side of Gino
25:22
Speaker 1: and make it seem like you're going to the right.
25:24
Speaker 1: These flip left. This is kind of like a delayed
25:26
Speaker 1: counter right. Ken Walker takes his time, he lets the
25:29
Speaker 1: pullers get in front of him, and finds space. Pretty much.
25:33
Speaker 1: I want to point out is that is that gay
25:35
Speaker 1: who's sixty that's Damian Lewis. Damian Lewis getting just enough
25:38
Speaker 1: of that end when he's pulling to the left to
25:41
Speaker 1: kind of spring ken Walker and then Kobe Parkinson leads
25:44
Speaker 1: the wave, gets up the gud, gets a body on
25:46
Speaker 1: the safety and once you get by that first wave,
25:49
Speaker 1: that first wave is that that d line if they've
25:51
Speaker 1: sent a blitzer. Once you get by that first wave,
25:53
Speaker 1: you gotta look for space outside. It's exactly what he does.
25:56
Speaker 1: Passes the first wave, he gets outside. Now he's one
26:00
Speaker 1: on one with the safety. He does skip stiff arm
26:04
Speaker 1: at the same time froze him and got into that
26:07
Speaker 1: end zone. I've never really seen a move like that,
26:09
Speaker 1: and now it's never really seen him, but it worked
26:11
Speaker 1: for him. Then he gets an end zone and does
26:13
Speaker 1: a dance that I see TikTok or something like that. Yeah,
26:17
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what the dance was because we're
26:19
Speaker 1: getting older and I apparently we're out of touch. Well
26:21
Speaker 1: it's young about that. But anyway, before we get into
26:24
Speaker 1: his dancing skills you mentioned on that delay counterlook what
26:27
Speaker 1: I like about to start off. So Kobe Parkinson, he's
26:29
Speaker 1: the one who's pulling from the right side of the formation.
26:33
Speaker 1: He doesn't flatline the guy, but he get gets just
26:35
Speaker 1: enough and that's what you asked where he gets just
26:37
Speaker 1: enough for Walker to get that second level DK another
26:40
Speaker 1: nice block right there, see on the edge, and then
26:42
Speaker 1: Ken Walker, Man, why don't you have to do this?
26:44
Speaker 1: You dubbed faithful buyer Murphy coming down from his position
26:47
Speaker 1: in the secondary. He's got one on one. They're gonna
26:50
Speaker 1: meet up. And almost honestly, this is what dbs and
26:55
Speaker 1: receivers do. Mainly dbs and like individual period angle tackle
26:58
Speaker 1: Joe right right, this is legit him at angle tackle.
27:01
Speaker 1: But when you're going against Ken Walker and you don't
27:03
Speaker 1: have the cone on the sideline to save you, this
27:05
Speaker 1: is what it looks like because he did that hop
27:07
Speaker 1: skip and a jump and Byron didn't know what was
27:10
Speaker 1: going on. He he looks like he's closing the gap
27:12
Speaker 1: and then he kind of gets frozen a little bit
27:14
Speaker 1: and the stiff arm. He didn't know what happens. And
27:16
Speaker 1: you look at it and you go, man, my man
27:18
Speaker 1: was in great position. I don't think he touches him up.
27:21
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think he lays one hand
27:23
Speaker 1: on him after all that. So, Ken Walker, you're about
27:25
Speaker 1: to be something special, dude, and we're gonna loved watching
27:28
Speaker 1: you play, you know, getting your feet wet. And what
27:31
Speaker 1: I loved about it too is bump here twenty one
27:33
Speaker 1: carry though, yeah, handled it, handled it, and it's one
27:36
Speaker 1: of those things where we're not we're not worried about
27:38
Speaker 1: his carry count and stuff like that. So it's a big,
27:41
Speaker 1: you know sign. I think from the coaches staff and
27:43
Speaker 1: Jane Wald and p Carroll were like, yo, it's your
27:45
Speaker 1: time now. That's why we're drafting your second round. We're
27:47
Speaker 1: gonna ride you to the end. So love to see
27:49
Speaker 1: that from young boy Ken. But you know what we
27:52
Speaker 1: do bump every week when we get this w let's
27:54
Speaker 1: getting that formation. Baby, here comes the Seahawk offense on
27:59
Speaker 1: the field and the Vikings defense crunching out there knowing
28:04
Speaker 1: that one kneel down and the Seahawks are gonna wind
28:08
Speaker 1: the clock down and women's one. It's the victory formation
28:11
Speaker 1: on Hawk Talk. The greatest victory known No excuses me.
28:15
Speaker 1: The greatest formation known to man is the victory formation.
28:19
Speaker 1: And this is how they did it. The defense did
28:22
Speaker 1: show up in a big way. Man eleven Drives only
28:26
Speaker 1: gave up three points. Extremely impressive, Like this defense gave
28:30
Speaker 1: up like thirty something, folty something, twenty something, and now
28:33
Speaker 1: they hold them to three against an explosive offense. Is
28:37
Speaker 1: not like Kyler Murray can't just put up fourteen to
28:39
Speaker 1: twenty one on his own. Like he didn't do that.
28:42
Speaker 1: They held him down and he was sacked six times
28:44
Speaker 1: from six different guys. Started with the defense. Defense balls
28:48
Speaker 1: that loved to see what they did. Most impressive performance
28:51
Speaker 1: this season dating back to Denver game. So love it.
28:53
Speaker 1: See it there and stand on defense. Man. These rookies
28:56
Speaker 1: man Treek will and fourth kentsecutive interception, Kobe another force fumble.
29:01
Speaker 1: They're playing with such confidence over there right now, and
29:03
Speaker 1: this guy's the limit, honestly, because right now, these guys
29:07
Speaker 1: are carrying us right now from from a rookie standpoint
29:09
Speaker 1: to have Abe Lucas, ken Walker, Charles Cross, Kobe Bryant,
29:13
Speaker 1: Tariq Will and boy A Mothe started and played well.
29:16
Speaker 1: So these rookies, this rookie class, it's early on. You know,
29:19
Speaker 1: This twenty twelve class would argue is the best rookie
29:22
Speaker 1: class in the history of the Seattle Seahawks, given the
29:25
Speaker 1: men that were drafted there in the Hall of Famers
29:27
Speaker 1: that they come from there. But as right now, this
29:29
Speaker 1: is the best rookie class I've seen because they're all
29:31
Speaker 1: making an impact that keep positions right now. So love
29:33
Speaker 1: to see what we saw from them. Yep, Kobe kin
29:38
Speaker 1: Walker to rookie tackles over there, it looks good. Man
29:41
Speaker 1: in Boston Portland, they get that game. You're still in
29:45
Speaker 1: the division race like this NFC West two years ago. Man,
29:49
Speaker 1: if you were three three, you'd be out this day
29:51
Speaker 1: pretty early. Yeah, right now because of the craziness that's
29:54
Speaker 1: going on. Man, they are still in the fight, man,
29:57
Speaker 1: and they show that they can win a game without
29:59
Speaker 1: dominant ending on offense. And in this league, you're gonna
30:02
Speaker 1: have to win in multiple ways, so good for the
30:04
Speaker 1: defense again, huge, huge on the defense. I'm hoping, like
30:08
Speaker 1: Ray said, we talked to him earlier, this is a
30:09
Speaker 1: confidence builder. It's gonna be a tough one against the Chargers.
30:12
Speaker 1: You mentioned all the playmakers. They got Herbert Keenan Allen,
30:15
Speaker 1: potentially Williams Eckler. They got a good defense, Khalil Mack
30:19
Speaker 1: defensive mining coach, and Joe S. Dailey. So it'll be
30:21
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see what we have there. But
30:23
Speaker 1: we'll break that all down for you on Wednesday. Reminder,
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30:41
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