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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, powered by Seahawks dot Com.
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Speaker 2: Now here's your host. That's a chopie.
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Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of Hawk Talk. Yes, we're here
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Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl Super Bowl sixty. I am live
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Speaker 1: from the Seahawks Media Availability Center down there in San Jose.
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Speaker 1: Michael Bumpus is joining us from Radio Row over there
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Speaker 1: in San Francisco.
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Speaker 2: Bump, I can't believe we're finally here.
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Speaker 1: We've talked about this moment for a long time and
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Speaker 1: we were finally here speaking to resistance to the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 3: Hey, you've been talking about this for like nine years.
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Speaker 4: Dog, Finally who we are here every year, NASA's like,
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Speaker 4: this is the year we're going to the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 4: So now, so that makes it that much sweeter that
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Speaker 4: we had to wait this long. I don't mind waiting,
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Speaker 4: but we finally here.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Bum.
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Speaker 1: Tell me about your week a little bit, because to
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Speaker 1: peel the curtain back a little bit, a little different experience.
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Speaker 1: I'm staying at the Team hotel. Bump is going to
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Speaker 1: join us at a team hotel tomorrow. But right now,
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Speaker 1: you're staying in San Francisco. Tell me the vibes is
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Speaker 1: on radio row.
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Speaker 3: It's crazy.
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Speaker 4: First one obviously, first time the Hawks have been to
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Speaker 4: a super Bowl since I've been working for him.
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Speaker 3: Anybody that you can think of that you like in
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Speaker 3: the NFL.
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Speaker 4: I have seen from Rock Party, Trevor Lawrence, Fred Warner,
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Speaker 4: even the throwbacks man Sean Alexander. I even saw a
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Speaker 4: Big Hank talk to Big Hank over there. Okay, yea,
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Speaker 4: even be guys who already even in the league right now.
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Speaker 4: But it's crazy. Everyone is just trying to get their
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Speaker 4: stories together. We're scratching each other's back. You do interview
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Speaker 4: for me, I do interview for you. It's been fun, nough,
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Speaker 4: good experience.
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Speaker 1: No, that's great, and it's been nuts over here. Being
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Speaker 1: a part of Opening Night was an experience I'll never forget.
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Speaker 1: For one, we're helping get guys all over the place.
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Speaker 1: There's a million podiums, there's people in dressed up in
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Speaker 1: weird suits, asking random, weird questions. Everyone in their mom
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Speaker 1: gets credentialed to that event. And then afterwards we've been
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Speaker 1: having the media availabilities here, guys doing a million things.
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Speaker 1: It's really hard on the players throughout the week they
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Speaker 1: have to see at a podium for one hour.
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Speaker 2: They do that three straight days.
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Speaker 1: The bigger name guys than everyone else is kind of
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Speaker 1: at different tables and anyone can come up and ask
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Speaker 1: you questions.
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Speaker 2: So our guys have handled a lot of that.
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Speaker 1: If you're around them, they're just Coach McDonald talks all
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Speaker 1: being loose and focus right all the time. If you're familiar,
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Speaker 1: if you've seen them shadow boxing, that's been all. They've
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Speaker 1: been doing that all season, and they're doing that at podiums.
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Speaker 1: They're doing that everywhere, so it's been pretty cool. They
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Speaker 1: kind of feel the vibes of the team because this
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Speaker 1: is who they've been. They're talking their stuff. They're very confident.
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Speaker 2: Bunch.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited for Wes going down. But let's get into
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Speaker 1: these new England Patriots.
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Speaker 2: What's on tap? What's on tap?
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Speaker 1: Patriots fourteen and three in the regular season, first place
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Speaker 1: in AFC East. Losses to the Raiders, Steelers, in Bills
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Speaker 1: wins over the Dolphins, Panthers, Bill, Saints, Titans, Browns, Falcons, Buccaneers, Jets, Bengals, Giants, Ravens, Jets, Dolphins,
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Speaker 1: the playoffs to beat the Chargers, the Texans and the
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Speaker 1: Broncos to get here, Bump. And when you look at
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Speaker 1: this team, they're gonna get a lot of or at
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Speaker 1: least a lot of the noises. They didn't play anybody, obviously,
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Speaker 1: it's the NFL. They play who's on their schedule. They're
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Speaker 1: a good football team, but it is true that a
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Speaker 1: lot of teams that they've played have moved on from
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Speaker 1: their head coaches. They got to play the NFC South.
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Speaker 1: He was in a great division. On the playoff run,
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Speaker 1: they had not to go through all the quarterbacks. Bo
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Speaker 1: Knicks gets hurt, you know.
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Speaker 3: T J.
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Speaker 1: Straud was playing that great and he had some injuries.
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Speaker 1: And then you so say what you want. They're a good
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Speaker 1: football team. They're in Super Bowl for reason. Mike Vrabel
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Speaker 1: is an amazing head coach. But they're here, Bump. What
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Speaker 1: did you see out of them in the a AFC
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Speaker 1: Championship game?
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Speaker 3: Oh? Man, well, they took on the Broncos. It's crazy.
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Speaker 4: I was talking to Luke Wilson yesterday and he was like, man,
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Speaker 4: I almost wish it was the Broncos. We can go
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Speaker 4: back and relive that and wilcom but you know, it's
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Speaker 4: all good. You got the page, you can relivet something else.
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Speaker 4: The main storyline is going to this week was all
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Speaker 4: about the Broncos QB situation. Right bo Nix was out,
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Speaker 4: so he had to go up against Didham. He hadn't
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Speaker 4: thrown a pass in the NFL since twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 4: so he was gonna be rusty. We felt he was
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Speaker 4: gonna be rusty. He had some success early, connected with
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Speaker 4: Marvin Mills for a fifty two yard pass and found
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Speaker 4: Courtland Sudden for a six yard touchdown two places later.
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Speaker 4: The Broncos took an early seven lead. That was their
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Speaker 4: final score of the game. It was a rap after that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, goodness, gracious. I mean it's hard. You know, I
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Speaker 2: have your quarter.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to get through that. It was knowing and
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Speaker 1: the mess. Drake May ten to twenty one eighty six yards.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned that rushing touchdown. When I look at this team,
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Speaker 1: bumble rocks to talk about the head to head, I
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Speaker 1: think I'm impressed with Drake May. I'm impressed with the
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Speaker 1: running back that they have going on. And they have some
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Speaker 1: issues with Stevenson early on fumbling the football. Seems like
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Speaker 1: he's really corrected that and they've been getting after it
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Speaker 1: in the run game the last.
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Speaker 2: Couple of games.
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Speaker 1: Looking at the head to head regular season Seahawks are
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Speaker 1: eighth in total offense, tenth in rush offense, eighth against
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Speaker 1: on passed, and three in scoring. And then you look
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Speaker 1: at the Patriots they are third in total offense, sixth
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Speaker 1: and rushing offense, fourth pass offense, and second points per game.
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Speaker 2: So they put up numbers.
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Speaker 1: Again, they played who's on their schedule, but offensively they
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Speaker 1: stack up pretty high.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, numbers are good, man, Like you said, you play
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Speaker 3: who you have to play.
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Speaker 4: Defensively, the Hawks and number six overall, the number three
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Speaker 4: against the rush. They are number ten against the pass,
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Speaker 4: and their first one comes to points allowed. On the
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Speaker 4: other side, the Broncos are eighth overall, six against the run,
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Speaker 4: ninth against the pass, and fourth overall. Well fourth when
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Speaker 4: it comes to points per game, a time of possession
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Speaker 4: is about the same. The Hawks control the ball ball
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Speaker 4: of half an hour and the Broncos thirty one minutes.
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Speaker 3: You're talking sacks.
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Speaker 4: We got forty seven to their thirty five and intercessions
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Speaker 4: eighteen for the Hawks ten four of the Patriots.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, good teams both sides of the ball. You have
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Speaker 1: top offense, top defense. We're going up against each other.
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Speaker 1: Show should be fun matchup. But as you know, Bump,
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Speaker 1: these teams do have quite the history.
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Speaker 3: No your history.
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Speaker 1: Seahawks leed all time series between both programs eleven to nine,
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Speaker 1: eleven and eight in the regular season and zero to
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Speaker 1: one in the postseason. We don't need to talk about
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Speaker 1: what that one loss was against some retribution this week
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Speaker 1: that's going to happen. The Seahawks have won the last
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Speaker 1: three meetings, including the last four.
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Speaker 2: Thing Bump, those crazy.
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Speaker 1: The last four games will come down to the final
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Speaker 1: play wolast matchup. This last time was last year Seahawks
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Speaker 1: Mike McDonald's first road game. They go in and beat
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Speaker 1: the Patriots twenty three to twenty in overtime in Foxborough.
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Speaker 1: Jason Myers kick the game tying in game winning field goals.
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Speaker 1: Gino Smith had a great day, three or four over
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Speaker 1: three hundred yards in a touchdown came Metcalf had ten
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Speaker 1: receptions one hundred twenty nine yards and a touchdown and
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Speaker 1: that was the first, if you remember, the first real
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Speaker 1: breakout game for JSN. He had one hundred yards. That
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Speaker 1: was the first time he had clips one hundred yards
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Speaker 1: in his career. Obviously he's had a million since then.
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Speaker 1: And then for them, you know, Brissette was the quarterback
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Speaker 1: a lot different teams on both sides, obviously ra Abel
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Speaker 1: to head coach and all that. But one guy that
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Speaker 1: is another constant that game was Hunter Henry. He had
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Speaker 1: eight receptions for one hundred nine yards. Hunters got a
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Speaker 1: little bit more, you know, got some less tread on
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Speaker 1: the tires.
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Speaker 2: I'll say that he's been around for a little bit
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Speaker 2: but still still a good player.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens there, hopefully see howk can
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Speaker 1: repeat that history. But we will take a quick look
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Speaker 1: through the NFC West what's the word.
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Speaker 2: And the Seahawks or the NFC West champs again, what's
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Speaker 2: the word in the West? On Hawk talk?
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Speaker 4: You know, when like the police have a situation going down,
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Speaker 4: like nothing to see here, keep moving, nothing to see here.
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Speaker 4: That's that's what the West is like. There's nothing to
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Speaker 4: see because the West belongs to the Hawks. We already
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Speaker 4: knew that. The only news is that the Cardinals are
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Speaker 4: said hire Rams office a corner to Mike Lafloor as
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Speaker 4: their head coach. He's replacing Johnan Gannon, who's lego at
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Speaker 4: the end of the season, and the forty nine ers
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Speaker 4: are also hiring Raheem Morris as a defensive coordin and
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Speaker 4: to replace Sala who is now the head coach with
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Speaker 4: the Titans. You know, we still got news to make,
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Speaker 4: you know there, right, We just got film to put
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Speaker 4: out there.
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Speaker 3: Everybody else at home, but making moves in the division.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see Lafloora. I think he's
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Speaker 1: a good coach. He's got a lot to step into.
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Speaker 1: That's not a great situation right now in Arizona, but
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Speaker 1: we will see. But to your point, Bump, those teams
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Speaker 1: aren't playing. The Seattle Seahawks are.
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Speaker 2: In the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: Let's get back into those Patriots. Man up, hey, who
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Speaker 1: you got, who you got?
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Speaker 2: You know what time it is? Man up? Man up, brother,
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Speaker 2: Man up, man up.
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Speaker 1: On Hawk Talk, wegor rever you every week we're talking
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Speaker 1: about the quarterbacks. You gotta look at Drake May taking
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Speaker 1: on this Seahawks defense, and Drake May, honestly is probably
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Speaker 1: the biggest reason for this Patriots turnaround outside of head
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Speaker 1: coach Mike Vrabel.
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Speaker 2: He was a third.
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Speaker 1: Overall pick twenty twenty four draft from North Carolina two
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Speaker 1: year starter there after throwing for four thousand plus yards,
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Speaker 1: thirty eight touchdowns seven interceptions in twenty twenty two. During
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Speaker 1: his rookie season, he put up decent numbers, bump considering
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Speaker 1: the team that they had. They only won four games
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Speaker 1: four and thirteen. He was twenty two to twenty five
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Speaker 1: of three eighty three hundred and thirty eight two hundred
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Speaker 1: twenty seventy six yards, fifteen touchdowns, and ten interceptions. If
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Speaker 1: I could speak, he was sacked thirty four times. But
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Speaker 1: he did get to the Pro Bowls as a rookie.
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Speaker 1: Now you look, he's taken a huge step in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five and some of these numbers are pretty crazy.
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Speaker 1: He finished the season with four thousand, three hundred ninety
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Speaker 1: four passing yards thirty one touchdowns, the most by Patriot
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Speaker 1: quarterback since Tom Brady. So any time you're on a
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Speaker 1: list with Tom, that's really good. He rushed for four
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards, so he's an athlete. He can
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Speaker 1: move his legs a little bit, four touchdowns as well.
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Speaker 1: He led the NFL and completion rate seventy two percent
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Speaker 1: of his passes, which is crazy yards per pass eight
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Speaker 1: point nine passer rating one thirteen point five QBR. He
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Speaker 1: put up some ridiculous stats. You know, every time I
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Speaker 1: look at this it stands out. He is awarded second
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Speaker 1: team All Pro. So he's the key, honestly for the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks defense is making life hard on him. The one
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Speaker 1: thing they'll bump that I want to point out about
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Speaker 1: Drake May is how much he has been sacked. He's
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Speaker 1: been sacked fifteen times this playoff run five in every game.
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Speaker 1: So that is an opportunity for the Seahawks defense to
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Speaker 1: get after him that way and might be able to
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Speaker 1: cause a couple turnovers.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Drake May, he's the reason. He's the reason these
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Speaker 3: guys are here.
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Speaker 4: Got some weapons around, and we'll talk about but twenty
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Speaker 4: three years of age, second youngest quarterback to start in
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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl behind the great Dann Marino. That ain't
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Speaker 4: won one. Drake will win one either. Let's talk about
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Speaker 4: our quarterback. I'm donald against the Pages defense. He's one
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Speaker 4: of the best quarterbacks in the game, just straight up fifth.
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Speaker 4: When it comes to pass the yards second whin, it
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Speaker 4: comes to the ars per past second win, it comes
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Speaker 4: to yards per completion. This year he completed sixty seven
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Speaker 4: percent of his passes four thousand and forty eight yards,
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Speaker 4: twenty five touchdowns, fourteen exceptions, tied for the most winning
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Speaker 4: consecutive seasons with who.
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Speaker 3: He's on the list with Tom Brady to get him
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Speaker 3: some love.
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Speaker 4: The Pro Bowl selection has nine game win and drives
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Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter since twenty twenty four.
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Speaker 3: That's the most in the NFL.
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Speaker 4: Play good in the individual game was twenty five to
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Speaker 4: thirty six three forty six, three touchdowns, zero interceptions. In
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Speaker 4: the conference championship set that was his conference championship game
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Speaker 4: that divisional he did the same. Man, he's looking good.
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Speaker 4: If he turned the ball over, that's something that we
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Speaker 4: wanted to see. He was decent against the pressure, and
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Speaker 4: he's going up against a good defensive rank. The Pages
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Speaker 4: defense rank eighth overall, like we've mentioned, fourth and scoring.
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Speaker 4: The Patriots defense, they've been blitzing like crazy all right
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Speaker 4: forty percent of the time since Week fourteen, they've been blitzing,
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Speaker 4: and I think that's to compensate for something or put
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Speaker 4: on the back end. But for some reason they felt
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Speaker 4: like they have to get after the quarterback in that way.
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Speaker 4: So we'll see they continue that that trend. If they do,
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Speaker 4: they should be guys open, just hold your water, salmon
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Speaker 4: and let.
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Speaker 3: The ball go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: No, I think I'm really looking forward to see what
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Speaker 1: Sam can do. We've talked about it all year. The
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Speaker 1: idea that he couldn't win a big game is laughable.
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Speaker 2: We've talked about that year. He's obviously done that back
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Speaker 2: to back to back games.
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Speaker 1: So it'll be really cool for him to get a
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Speaker 1: rubber stamp on his legacy because once you you can't
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Speaker 1: take that away. Once you win a Super Bowl. Once
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Speaker 1: you do that, you're etched in history forever. So we'll
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Speaker 1: see what Sam could do there. I'm hoping he plays
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Speaker 1: well and continue to silence a lot of the haters
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Speaker 1: that are out there. Next match up on to look
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Speaker 1: at him and look at the running backs Trayvon Henderson
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Speaker 1: and Ramandre Stevenson against the Seahawks front seven. They have
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Speaker 1: a nice little once two punch bump.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: Stevenson is the guy in terms of what he's been
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Speaker 1: what we've seen from him as of late, especially throughout
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. He was not the team's leading rusher though
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Speaker 1: Henderson was at Ohio State. He second or second round pick.
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Speaker 1: He rushed for a ton of yards in college this
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Speaker 1: year though, he had nine hundred and eleven yards and
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Speaker 1: nine touchdowns, so he's on some explosive plays there. But
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs twenty four carries for fifty seven yards.
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Speaker 1: When you look at Stevenson, he only had six hundred
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Speaker 1: and three yards, had some injuries throughout the season, seven touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: but in the playoffs he's been the guy. Fifty one carries,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety four yards, seven receptions for eighty
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Speaker 1: six yards. He runs the ball hard. They got two
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Speaker 1: backs that are more than capable. I know I mentioned
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Speaker 1: a little bit ago. I know the temperature what I've
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Speaker 1: heard in New England was not great on Stevenson early and.
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Speaker 2: Earlier this year.
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Speaker 1: He signed a contract coming in this season. I think
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Speaker 1: he fumbled three times in the first couple of games.
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Speaker 1: Since then, he's been kind of the bellk out getting
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Speaker 1: things done. So the Seahawks were great against the run.
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Speaker 1: They've been great across the run all year. It can't
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Speaker 1: be can't change this weekend because that will alleviate a
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Speaker 1: lot of pressure on Drake May if they're able to
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Speaker 1: run the football.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy.
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Speaker 4: You want Drake made to have to throw the football,
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Speaker 4: and he's completely seventeen percent of his passes right and
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Speaker 4: threty one touchdowns.
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Speaker 3: But he ain't seen a defense like this.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, kN Walker against the Pages defense, man, I've
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Speaker 4: been excited. Kim Walker has a thousand yards for the
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Speaker 4: second time in his career. He forced mistackles like crazy,
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Speaker 4: thirty percent of his combined carriers and receptions this season,
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Speaker 4: the second in the NFL amongst firers at least one
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Speaker 4: hundred and fifty touches. He's a looser man. And what
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Speaker 4: is the perfect example of that. You know where I'm
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Speaker 4: going rams in the A gap with the Madgie Johnson.
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Speaker 4: He was filthy man this year. Two one carries, one
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Speaker 4: thy twenty seven yards, five touchdowns, thirty run receptions for
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Speaker 4: two eighty two divisional game he had one hundred and
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Speaker 4: sixteen three touchdowns, three receptions, and a championship game nineteen
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Speaker 4: for sixty two one touchdown.
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Speaker 3: But I have four receptions for forty nine yards.
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Speaker 4: I'm can I man, He's it and he's had to
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Speaker 4: step up right because Sharbon Day is out. Sharba Day
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Speaker 4: hill up. I know he's with the team. I wish
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Speaker 4: he was a part of this. What canw is going
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Speaker 4: to hold it down for him? Man, he's sprinkling some
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Speaker 4: George Hallawani who got some snaps in the last game
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Speaker 4: or two. I like what his backfield is doing. The
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Speaker 4: Pages in the regular season was six against the run
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Speaker 4: a line one on one per game.
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Speaker 3: They can stop the run. Man.
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Speaker 4: They got two bigs in the middle of that defensive
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Speaker 4: line who can make things trouble.
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Speaker 3: But I just like the field in the flow of
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Speaker 3: this run game right now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, absolutely love that. I think Benwaukee you looking
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Speaker 2: at him.
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Speaker 1: I love how he's handled the media all throughout this
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Speaker 1: week and he's smooth and I'm excited for him because
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Speaker 1: I think he have a big day for the Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: The other match you want to look at looking at
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Speaker 1: the receivers, really the pass catchers Stefan Diggs, Hunter, Henry
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Speaker 1: but mccollins to get on this seat, Yoak's secondary. The
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Speaker 1: Seahawks just faced the best passing attack in the National
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Speaker 1: Football League outside of them, and that was the Rams,
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Speaker 1: and that was Pokinakula and now was Matthew Stafford. So
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Speaker 1: the Patriots receivers are not that they are still talented,
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Speaker 1: but it gives me confidence because the Seahawks were able
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Speaker 1: to take down the Rams twice. But we'll start with
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Speaker 1: the veteran Stefon Diggs. I mean, one of the best
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Speaker 1: for over a decade. He's going to be a Hall
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Speaker 1: of Famer. If you look the numbers, I think four
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Speaker 1: time Pro Bowl or first seam All Pro in twenty twenty.
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Speaker 1: Has eleven hundred eleven thousand, five hundred receiving yards, seventy
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Speaker 1: four touchdowns his first season in New England, spent the
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Speaker 1: first five in Minnesota, four in Buffalo, won in Hoaston.
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Speaker 1: Prior this year, he went over one thousand yards again,
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Speaker 1: eighty five receptions, one thousand yards, four touchdowns. This postseason
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Speaker 1: eleven receptions seventy three yards to one touchdown. He's played
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Speaker 1: in seventeen postseason games and almost has one thousand yards receiving.
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Speaker 1: He would be the eighteenth person or the nineteenth player
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Speaker 1: in NFL history to have one thousand yards in the postseason.
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Speaker 1: So he can get it done. Hunter Henry ten year vet,
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Speaker 1: He's enjoyed one of the best seasons of his career.
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Speaker 1: Sixty receptions, seven hundred and sixty eight yard, seven touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: career high in yards.
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Speaker 2: Then you got viewed.
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Speaker 1: He's got eight receptions one hundred and forty seven yards
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Speaker 1: and one touchdown in the playoffs. He made some big
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Speaker 1: catches there. And Matt Collins forty six receptions, five hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty yards, two touchdowns. They got playmakers, but in
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Speaker 1: advantage Seahawks. My opinion, we've seen this all year between
15:19
Speaker 1: Devin Witherspoon, Wreek Wool and Josh Joe, Kobe, Bryant Tyle,
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Speaker 1: you name all of them, Julian Love, I think the
15:24
Speaker 1: Seahawks have been managed in that matchup.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it.
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Speaker 4: Digg's not the guy that we knew from Buffalo and
15:30
Speaker 4: the bike is still a good football player, but works
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Speaker 4: from the slot. Get some guys on outside and stretch
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Speaker 4: the field. Douglas is capable, Williams is capable. But I'm
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Speaker 4: with you one hundredercent. I like our matchup. Let's talk
15:40
Speaker 4: about our receivers. Are we got JS and Cooper Cup
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Speaker 4: and Rashid Shaheed JSM best in the game. Let the
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Speaker 4: league seventeen and nine three yards first and yards per
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Speaker 4: touch fourteen point five, second in yards per game, fourth
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Speaker 4: in receptions with one hundred and nineteen, which is a
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Speaker 4: franchise record tied for six.
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Speaker 3: When it comes to touchdowns, he's got ten and.
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Speaker 4: Ninth yards per reception with fifteen a title the league
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Speaker 4: with twenty seven exposed to plays US twenty plays are
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Speaker 4: suing me. Twenty yards are more best receiver in SEAK
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Speaker 4: history when it talks about one season, and that's hard
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Speaker 4: to do with DK and Largen and.
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Speaker 3: Locket. I mean, the list goes on and on.
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Speaker 4: His thirteen ninety yard games are the most in a
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Speaker 4: single season in NFL history by a player twenty three
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Speaker 4: years or younger. In Pro Bowl selection First Team All
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Speaker 4: Pro this year, he got fifty out of fifty votes.
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Speaker 3: It was unanimous. We can go on and on. That's
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Speaker 3: the short list of his accompliments there on the year.
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Speaker 4: Like I said, seventeen hundred yards in the divisional game,
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Speaker 4: three receptions, nineteen yards in a touchdown. Only the second
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Speaker 4: time all year JSN was not the team's leading receiver.
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Speaker 3: I believe A. J. Barner was the other one.
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Speaker 4: At one time NC Championship game he had ten for
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Speaker 4: one fifty three and one touchdown on twelve targets. What
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Speaker 4: about Cooper cup Man, People were sleeping on this acquisition.
16:54
Speaker 3: I really like this acquisition.
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Speaker 1: He's been solid all year and again he's going to
16:57
Speaker 1: do things that aren't going to show up in the
16:59
Speaker 1: stat in the score. He's one of the best blocking
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Speaker 1: receivers out there. Jake Bobo even said he went to
17:03
Speaker 1: the Cooper Cup school of blocking. Kind of been that
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Speaker 1: way his whole career. Just a dog. Five receptions six
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Speaker 1: yards in the divisional game and then four receptions thirty
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Speaker 1: six yards in a touchdown the NFC Championship game, some
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Speaker 1: huge catches. He had the huge first down and he
17:16
Speaker 1: had to go ahead touchdown at the end of that game.
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Speaker 1: And then obviously, you know Rashichi can do. He finally
17:20
Speaker 1: got in the past game a fifty yard bomb on
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Speaker 1: that first drive, which I love because that puts it
17:24
Speaker 1: on film and the secondary, you know, has to account
17:26
Speaker 1: for that bump. But this is going to be a
17:29
Speaker 1: dogfight because the Patriots do have a very legit secondary
17:32
Speaker 1: and that starts with arguably the best player on their defense,
17:34
Speaker 1: Christian Gonzalez.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, man made the Pro Bowl for the first time,
17:38
Speaker 4: and through your career, he was second team All Pro.
17:40
Speaker 4: In twenty twenty four he was at Oregon and he
17:44
Speaker 4: was seventeenth overall pick in the twenty twenty three draft,
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Speaker 4: and according to the next year stats, Christian Zalaz's face
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Speaker 4: sixty two targets in soon covers this season, including the playoffs,
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Speaker 4: without allowing a touchdown, the most by any defensive back
17:55
Speaker 4: in the league. Seahawks rookie Nick and Mawaire rings second
17:59
Speaker 4: Si see one targets without a touchdown allowed. Does all
18:02
Speaker 4: this allowed a touchdown and someone coverage against Houston in
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Speaker 4: Week six of the twenty four season and has faced
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Speaker 4: eighty one can secutive zone targets without allowing a score.
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Speaker 3: This year.
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Speaker 4: He has sixty nine tackles, ten passes defended. And then
18:15
Speaker 4: you have the veteran Carlton Davis. He has sixty nine tackles,
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Speaker 4: ten passes defendant and three TFLs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be It's gonna be an entry matchup.
18:24
Speaker 1: That's exactly where you know. I feel like the Patriots
18:26
Speaker 1: probably feel really good about their secondary, but it's going
18:28
Speaker 1: to be a challenge. It's kind of one of those
18:29
Speaker 1: get your popcorn ready moments. I'm loving to see how
18:32
Speaker 1: Gonzalez going to match up, whether it's JSN, whether it
18:35
Speaker 1: is Cooper Cup, or whether it's Trashichi Heed and the last one,
18:37
Speaker 1: I want to look at bumbles, look at these returners.
18:39
Speaker 1: Get two the best returners in the game. You have
18:41
Speaker 1: Marcus Jones and Rashichi Heed. Marcus Jlones is a good cornerback.
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Speaker 1: For one, He's had some good numbers there. He got
18:46
Speaker 1: three interceptions on the season. But he's a great returner.
18:49
Speaker 1: He's tied for the league lead with two punt return touchdowns,
18:51
Speaker 1: having seventeen point three yards per punt as now all
18:54
Speaker 1: time career leader in punt return average fourteen and point
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Speaker 1: three per And somehow he didn't make it.
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Speaker 2: All Pro for the Pro Bowl.
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Speaker 1: He got edged out by Chim Murray DK from the
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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. And then you got Rashichi Heat who also
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Speaker 1: was somehow snubbed from being an All Pro returner considering
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Speaker 1: he has three return touchdowns this season. But either way,
19:14
Speaker 1: these two are the X factors. If you know they
19:16
Speaker 1: can break a game open. I think if if you
19:18
Speaker 1: were looking at my opinion, I think the Seahaws are
19:20
Speaker 1: gonna win. I think the only way they wouldn't is
19:23
Speaker 1: if they gave up a big play on special teams
19:25
Speaker 1: and turn the ball over. So but when you look
19:28
Speaker 1: at Jay Harbaugh, when you look at how he has
19:29
Speaker 1: this special teams playing. The Seahawks have had the best
19:31
Speaker 1: special teams union across the board all season long. So
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Speaker 1: I would be stunned if they allowed a big play
19:36
Speaker 1: on special teams. But both these guys could be a
19:39
Speaker 1: big X factor come the big one on Sunday. But
19:43
Speaker 1: we've been here, We've been talking to you guys for
19:45
Speaker 1: a long time since training camp. We're gonna tell you
19:48
Speaker 1: how SA get this done. Path to victory.
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Speaker 4: After forty five waits for the staff, Michael Dixon puts
19:55
Speaker 4: it down.
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Speaker 2: That kick is away. If that kick is good, the
19:59
Speaker 2: sayowks bit's gun, It's a path to victory.
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Speaker 1: On Hawk Talk, the Seahawks celebrate their fiftieth season.
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Speaker 2: Out of the franchise.
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Speaker 1: So many great players, so many great individuals around this organization,
20:12
Speaker 1: and for fifty years, the Seahawks have only been in
20:15
Speaker 1: this now for the fourth time, Bump, So a lot
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Speaker 1: of special things that happened on Sunday, first time in
20:19
Speaker 1: ten plus years. Last time they played the Patriots, they
20:22
Speaker 1: weren't able to get it done. And for the Seahawks
20:24
Speaker 1: to win this one, Bump, I think it really comes
20:26
Speaker 1: down to taking care of the football. That is a
20:28
Speaker 1: huge They've played clean, turnover free football throughout the playoffs.
20:32
Speaker 1: They need to continue to do that. And Donald's been
20:35
Speaker 1: amazing down the stretch. He has proven that he can
20:38
Speaker 1: win a big game.
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Speaker 2: He can do all that.
20:39
Speaker 1: If Sam Darnald continues to play the way that he
20:42
Speaker 1: is playing, it's going to be really really hard for
20:44
Speaker 1: the Patriots to contend in this one.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and if ken Walker can get involved too, Man,
20:49
Speaker 4: you need Sam to do the same with kin Walker
20:51
Speaker 4: has got to help out. He's been playing a great,
20:53
Speaker 4: great game with the last three or four games, Man,
20:55
Speaker 4: you will really go five games.
20:57
Speaker 3: Man, it feels like ken Walker has been doing this thing.
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Speaker 4: Defensively, you gotta get after the youngster Drake May. He's
21:03
Speaker 4: been sacked fifteen times, like you mentioned this postseason.
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Speaker 3: That's five each game.
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Speaker 4: You gotta make his live hell, get after him, keep contained,
21:10
Speaker 4: don't let him.
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Speaker 1: Run wild, absolutely, man, he's a legit player. And then
21:15
Speaker 1: keep dominating special seams like we've been saying. Man, this
21:17
Speaker 1: unit has been amazing all year long. They've made not
21:20
Speaker 1: only have they been good defensively in that side of it,
21:22
Speaker 1: they've made huge plays. Open games, wide open. Let's see
21:25
Speaker 1: if they can get that going and continue that and man,
21:28
Speaker 1: bring back the Lombardi trophy wear it belongs in small battle.
21:31
Speaker 1: One more, This one is for all the marbles. Super
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Speaker 1: Bowl sixty coming your way on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: We'll have all the coverage on the radio.
21:39
Speaker 1: Hopefully we're helling breaking a great game bump, a little
21:42
Speaker 1: postgame party action, Yeah, a lot going down. Hopefully you're
21:45
Speaker 1: talking about a parade and all that. The guys are focused.
21:47
Speaker 1: It's been a really fun week down here at the
21:48
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I'm excited. He's excited. He's Michael Bambas, some
21:51
Speaker 1: NASA troby seahawk getting ready to take on the Patriots in
21:53
Speaker 1: Super Bowl sixty.
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Speaker 2: This has been hawk talk.
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