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Steel City Showdown · 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 at the ten yard launch. Second to day
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  Speaker 1: free wide receivers now in motion has Pumpas left to right,
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  Speaker 1: Julius Jones, a single setback Matt pumpfecks looking at the
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  Speaker 1: goal line. He throws it into the end zone. Touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Say Hawks, it's Michael Bumpas with a diving catch in
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  Speaker 1: the end zone. Our ten yard touchdown reception for Pumpas,
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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. Powered by Seahawks dot Com. Well,
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  Speaker 1: when a Hawk Talk Preview edition Week six, the Seattle
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks travel to Pittsburgh to take on the Steelers, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna send it over to NASA Shelby with these injury updates,
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  Speaker 1: thanks bump Well, we'll start with the obvious news. Starting
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Russell Wilson injured his finger last Thursday night against
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  Speaker 1: the Rams, hitting his finger on Aaron Donald's hand. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: that required surgery, and according to head coach Pete Carroll,
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  Speaker 1: things went very well all things considered. Russ had a
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  Speaker 1: very successful surgery and we're really happy with all of
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  Speaker 1: the reports, and we don't have any timelines for you
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  Speaker 1: at all right now, so that then that's all you
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  Speaker 1: want to hear, But we don't have anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: But he's in really good spirits and really active today
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  Speaker 1: as much as he can be around us and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and really happy for the results of you know, the
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  Speaker 1: initial part of it. We haven't seen very main doctors
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  Speaker 1: that ever say, you know, well, I didn't go that well.
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  Speaker 1: But but he went to a great doc and a
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  Speaker 1: great setup and all that, and it seems like he
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  Speaker 1: really matched out what he could possibly get done. Another
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  Speaker 1: thing to keep an eye out for is running back
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  Speaker 1: Chris Carson, who was held out last week with a
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  Speaker 1: neck injury. Pee Carroll hopes to get Chris Carson back tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna hold him out. He went through
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  Speaker 1: the walk through today. I think we're gonna hold him
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  Speaker 1: out today and bring him back tomorrow and see how
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  Speaker 1: he does. Lastly, and on a positive note, fourth round
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  Speaker 1: pick Trey Brown looks like he's ready to compete after
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  Speaker 1: returning from ir after missing the team's first five games
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  Speaker 1: with a knee injury. Here was head coach Pee Carroll,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be a real week for him.
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  Speaker 1: Last week was the you know, the partial week. I've
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  Speaker 1: already talked to him about this is the time he
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  Speaker 1: comes back to action and let's see if he can
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  Speaker 1: return to the level of play. When he got hurt,
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  Speaker 1: he was right at the verge of competing to be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in the play playtime, and uh we've done
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  Speaker 1: a lot of positive things and unfortunately his knee acted
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  Speaker 1: up and he couldn't you know, couldn't respond right then.
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  Speaker 1: But uh so I'm going back to where he was,
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  Speaker 1: and like I said to him today, let's let's pick
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  Speaker 1: up where you left off and show us that you
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  Speaker 1: got your stuff together, and let's see what that leaves
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  Speaker 1: you in the competition of it. So, um, he'll be battling,
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  Speaker 1: but he's he's full going, ready to go. All right,
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  Speaker 1: now that we've talked about the injuries, let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: The Pittsburgh Steelers versus Seattle Seahawks. What's on tap? What's
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  Speaker 1: on tap? The Seahawks are heading across the country after
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  Speaker 1: suffering itself lost last Thursday to the Los Angeles Rams,
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  Speaker 1: they had a long weekend, they're back at it. They're
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  Speaker 1: on the practice field getting ready for these Pittsburgh Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: who were two and three on this season. They opened
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  Speaker 1: the season with an impressive win over the Buffalo Bills.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Bill's only lost, beating them twenty three to sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Then they had then things got hard man three straight losses.
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  Speaker 1: They lost twenty six to seventeen to the Las Vegas Raiders,
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  Speaker 1: twenty four to ten to the Cincinnati Bengals, in twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven to seventeen to the Packers. So they were reeling
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  Speaker 1: three game losing streak and they went into that game
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday trying to get off that nod and badly
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  Speaker 1: needing a victory, and they got that done. Got to
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  Speaker 1: win over the Denver Broncos twenty seven to nineteen. Ben
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  Speaker 1: Roethlisberger and the offensive line has been pretty noted that
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  Speaker 1: they've had struggles this year. It hasn't been a great
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  Speaker 1: year for them offensively and disappointing, but they got a
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  Speaker 1: huge win last week a bump. The thing that jumped
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  Speaker 1: out to me last week was Naji harris Man, Alabama's
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  Speaker 1: finance ran for a career best one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: two yards and a touchdown. He had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: cramping issues in the second half and he kind of
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  Speaker 1: had to sit on the sideline as Denver made a
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  Speaker 1: furious comeback. Man, they were up by eighteen. Teddy Bridgewater
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  Speaker 1: brings them back. I love Teddy. Two touchdown passes in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Unfortunately, the game came to an end
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  Speaker 1: on a fourth down heave with eleven seconds lap that
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  Speaker 1: was intercepted in the end zone. Steelers hold on to victory.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger finished the day probably one of his better
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  Speaker 1: performance of the season. When fifteen to twenty five or
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty three yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Ben looked all right, man. You mentioned fifteen to twenty
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  Speaker 1: five to fifty three, two touchdowns. Honestly, I thought Ben
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  Speaker 1: was gonna have an okay season this year. But he's
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  Speaker 1: starting to look old. But it always helps when you
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  Speaker 1: have a run game going. Nagy Hair stepping up. Chase
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  Speaker 1: Claypool had five receptions, one hundred and thirty yards and
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  Speaker 1: one touchdowns. The Steelers offensive line had their best game
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  Speaker 1: of the year, giving up just one sack, and Minca
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  Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick led all defenders with ten tackles and one tackle
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  Speaker 1: for loss. On the downside for the Steelers, wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster went to the hospital with a shoulder injury.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not gonna make it back for at least four months,
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  Speaker 1: might be the rest of the year. That's unfortunate for
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  Speaker 1: that young man. But thankfully they got a couple other
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  Speaker 1: receivers over there that can pick up the slack. But
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  Speaker 1: Juju man that has to hurt this offensive production. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no question, jud is probably the most dynamic electric player
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  Speaker 1: they have. But they're still talented offensively. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: I was kind of interesting why they're struggling so much
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  Speaker 1: on offense and just in general. So let's jump into
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  Speaker 1: his head to head comparison now looking at this, I'll
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  Speaker 1: start with defense again. It's unfortunate. I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: banging my head against the wall. I hate to look
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  Speaker 1: at these defensive numbers because I know the coaching staff
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  Speaker 1: doesn't like it. I don't like looking at it. The
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks ranked thirty second to last in the NFL in
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  Speaker 1: total defense, giving up four hundred and fifty yards a game.
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  Speaker 1: They're ranked thirty one in rush defense, giving up one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty five yards on the ground, and thirtieth
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  Speaker 1: in pass defense, given up three hundred and five through
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  Speaker 1: the air, thirtieth in the National Football League. On the
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  Speaker 1: flip side of the the Steelers are pretty much in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the pack. They are sixteenth in total defense,
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  Speaker 1: giving up three hundred and sixty one yards a game.
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  Speaker 1: They're pretty good stopping the run. They're ninth in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: only giving up one hundred yards per game, and through
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  Speaker 1: the air they're giving up two hundred and sixty yards
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  Speaker 1: which is nineteenth in the NFL. And points per game
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  Speaker 1: they're allowing twenty two points a game, which is tenth
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  Speaker 1: in National Football League. So the Steelers are doing some
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  Speaker 1: good things. We're gonna jump into the matchups there defensively,
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  Speaker 1: but when you look at his head to head, obviously
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers have a big time advantage, and we're just waiting, Bump.
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  Speaker 1: We were just waiting for the Seahawks defensively to do
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  Speaker 1: it we know they can do and put four quarters together.
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  Speaker 1: We saw half last week or against the Rams. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we saw half against the Titans. We've seen streaks in
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  Speaker 1: times against the forty nine Ers, we saw pretty close
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  Speaker 1: to a full game against the Colts. We're just waiting
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  Speaker 1: to see it all come together and we know they
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  Speaker 1: can do it. They just have to eventually do it, man,
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  Speaker 1: because at this point in the year, it's time to go.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to go. I'm done with advertisers. Give me
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  Speaker 1: the full meal. Now, let's talk about this offense, this
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  Speaker 1: new Geno Smith offense. Okay, now, these numbers don't reflects Gino,
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  Speaker 1: but he is the leader now of this offensive unit.
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  Speaker 1: All right. The offensive rank nineteenth in NFL. Talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks averaging in three hunt to fifty one yards
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  Speaker 1: per game, They're nineteenth running in the ball average in
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and four yards per game. Passing the rock,
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  Speaker 1: they're tied for sixteenth, averaging two hundred and forty seven
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  Speaker 1: yards per game. On the other side of the Steelers
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  Speaker 1: are ranked twenty seventh averaging three hundred nineteen to the yards,
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  Speaker 1: thirty first against running the football, averaging seventy three point
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  Speaker 1: six yards per game, and in the past they are
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  Speaker 1: nineteenth averaging two hundred and forty six yards per game.
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  Speaker 1: This looks like a game nasks that maybe the defense
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  Speaker 1: and get right. You have Ben Roethlisberger, who's not the
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  Speaker 1: bind that he used to be. He's slowing. The pocket
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  Speaker 1: is not very mobile. You lose Juju Smith Schuster, but
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  Speaker 1: Nagi Harris, like he said, this, had one of his
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  Speaker 1: best performances as a Rockie hundred twenty two yards. They
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  Speaker 1: still got a couple good receivers over there, and the
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  Speaker 1: Hawks have played well back East. Okay, every week, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna find ways to make you guys believe. I just
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  Speaker 1: gave you a a few stats. Right there, be league baby,
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  Speaker 1: let's get it done. Know your history, No your history.
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  Speaker 1: As you mentioned, the Seahawks have been very comfortable making
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  Speaker 1: these cross country trips and they are much better at those,
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  Speaker 1: not back when Bump played. We know who's that's well documented.
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  Speaker 1: Things have changed in the current times series record against
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers and the Seahawks. The Seahawks leave that all
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  Speaker 1: time series ten to nine, including the postseason, with the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks winning the last two matchups. If you remember their
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  Speaker 1: last meeting, that was in twenty nineteen, the Seahawks won
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight to twenty six. In Week two, Russell Wilson
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  Speaker 1: had a big day, thrown for three hundred yards three touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger didn't play in the second half, left the
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  Speaker 1: game with an elbow injury that ended up ending his season.
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  Speaker 1: Never played another down for them that year. And then
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  Speaker 1: so in that game, Pittsburgh trailed by chew in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter and they kind of had the momentum they're
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  Speaker 1: coming back in the game. Seahawks were facing a third
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  Speaker 1: and twenty Russell Wilson throws a jump ball to Hyder
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  Speaker 1: Lockett passed was incomplete, but if you guys remember twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: you could challenge the pass interference rule. One of the
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  Speaker 1: few times we have the whole league that someone want
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  Speaker 1: to challenge. But Coach Carroll won that challenge and the
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  Speaker 1: thirty thirty eight yard penalty was the forest. The Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: scored two plays later with DK metcalf touchdown juggling in
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  Speaker 1: the back of the end zone. The Steelers tried to
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  Speaker 1: make an interesting later in the game, drew within two
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  Speaker 1: points once again, but Chris Carson and Ice the game
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  Speaker 1: with a two yard game on a fourth and one
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  Speaker 1: with two minutes remaining, and those boys took some knees.
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  Speaker 1: So it was good because that win snapped a really
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  Speaker 1: long losing streak in Pittsburgh against the Steelers. So the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks are riding a winning strink against that bunch, so
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  Speaker 1: hopefully they can keep that going bump. But as we
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  Speaker 1: talk about every week, the NFC West is a problem
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  Speaker 1: for the entire football league and they're still playing some
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  Speaker 1: good football. What's the word? And the Seahawks for the
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  Speaker 1: NFC West champs again, what's the word? In the West?
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  Speaker 1: On Hawk Talk West West. The West is still getting
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  Speaker 1: down Arizona Cardinals sitting at top of the Division five
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  Speaker 1: and though Los Angeles Brands right behind him at four
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  Speaker 1: and one, the Hawks in the niners bottom two, sitting
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  Speaker 1: at two in three. There's another battle in the NFC West.
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  Speaker 1: This weekend, the Arizona Cardinals remained the only undefeated team
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL after beating the forty nine or seventeen
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  Speaker 1: to old in a defensive battle. We got a chance
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  Speaker 1: to look at Trey Lance for the first time. He
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  Speaker 1: got his first start fifteen to twenty nine, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: ninety two yards, zero touchdowns, one interceptions, but he did
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  Speaker 1: leave the forty nin rushing eighty nine yards sixteen carries.
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  Speaker 1: But he struggled and throwing the ball around. He looked
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  Speaker 1: like a rookie at times. However, one of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: players of the game was when the forty nineties went
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  Speaker 1: on the thirteen play ninety three yard drive. But Trey
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  Speaker 1: Lance will stop at the goal line on four in
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  Speaker 1: one in the second quarter. He should went over the
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  Speaker 1: top there. He tried to slide underneath. I remember watching
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  Speaker 1: that game. Unlike Trey Lanz, you're a big boy, go
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  Speaker 1: over the top there. And then the Cardinals went to
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  Speaker 1: half of ten to zero, coming out both team straighty
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns in the third quarter, making the score seventeen to seven.
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  Speaker 1: The forty nineties kick a field goal with four minutes
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  Speaker 1: twelve seconds remaining in the game, making the score seventeen
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  Speaker 1: to zero. The Niners were unable to get a stop
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  Speaker 1: as the Cardinals picked up a couple of first downs
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  Speaker 1: to ice the game. And what makes things worse, Trey
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  Speaker 1: Lance has a sprain name. But they're coming on a
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  Speaker 1: bye week, to have a bye week here, so there's
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  Speaker 1: time to get things right. I saw good and bad
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  Speaker 1: with Trey lands now. So I saw a guy who
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  Speaker 1: was clearly athletic, can really spend that football. But I
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  Speaker 1: saw an offense I was kind of handcuffed because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't want want to do too much with the rookie.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a big body like I mentioned at the
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  Speaker 1: goal line you go over the top, young fella. You
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  Speaker 1: can't lower your shoulders and trying to run over linebackers
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  Speaker 1: and safety. That's not gonna happen. This is not big
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  Speaker 1: Sky football or FCS football wherever you came from. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta get big and go over the top. But there's
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  Speaker 1: some promise in this young man. I mean there's a
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  Speaker 1: couple of throws. H I'm like, all right, I can
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  Speaker 1: kind of see what they're working with is I'm interested
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  Speaker 1: to see how he looks now after having what a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks essentially to get right and try to
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  Speaker 1: figure some things out. Yeah, no, you mentioned it. There
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  Speaker 1: was good and bad from Trey Lance. He did a
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  Speaker 1: couple of things, and it was kind of the accuracy
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  Speaker 1: for me. He missed a couple of throws. I think
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  Speaker 1: decision making a little bit. I mean, once you're playing
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  Speaker 1: every down and bolts are flying and you're out there
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  Speaker 1: on the field, it gets difficult. I did notice that
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  Speaker 1: they really simplified the game playing down and he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be They're gonna use him on the ground a lot
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  Speaker 1: when he's in the game. They're gonna run a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that stuff. I mean, he had eighty nine yards
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  Speaker 1: on sixteen carry, so giving them ball that one touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a forty nine Ers fan, you are six
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  Speaker 1: to your stomach. You're like, oh my goodness, it's about
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  Speaker 1: to get knocked out because that was a big hit
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  Speaker 1: that Simmons put on him on the goal line. It
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  Speaker 1: really would have changed the game, because you know, they
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  Speaker 1: ended up losing seventeen to ten, but that that was
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  Speaker 1: a difference in the game right there. But no Trey Lance.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's something there. We can see it, but
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  Speaker 1: he's a rookie. It's gonna take time, especially trying to
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  Speaker 1: pick up that Shanahan offense, and Kyle is going to
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  Speaker 1: do the best he can to get him up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: upright and ready to go for their next matchup. And
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  Speaker 1: also thing to look for is when Jimmy G's gonna
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  Speaker 1: come back. Now they have some time Max with Jami's
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  Speaker 1: gonna try to work back in. Trey Lances banged up
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  Speaker 1: trying to work back in. So the Niners are in
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  Speaker 1: a tough spot, but they're so are the Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that victory by the Cardinals, now the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: are three games behind the division lead. The Seahawks will
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  Speaker 1: play their next divisional game against those Cardinals on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: November twenty first, hopefully that game will be was starting
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Russell Wilson. Yeah, the Seahawks, Let's be frank, they
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  Speaker 1: got some work to do. I'm not one to write
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  Speaker 1: them off of the division right now this early in
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  Speaker 1: the season. With that being said, though, there's not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of room for air. You got three games. I
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  Speaker 1: know everyone downstairs and in this facility is concerned about Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: but just big picture thinking, you have a huge three
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  Speaker 1: week span here, we don't. Russell Wilson is hoping to
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  Speaker 1: target that Green Bay game to make his return. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you can go three and oh and you go
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  Speaker 1: to the bye week five and three, I think you're
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  Speaker 1: just fine because listen to Cardinals, They're not gonna go
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  Speaker 1: seventeen and now, they're not gonna go sixteen and one.
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  Speaker 1: They're not even gonna go fifteen and two. Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: and you got two games against them, so you can
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  Speaker 1: get back in this division. But to get there, it
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  Speaker 1: starts this weekend against the Pittsburgh Seelers. Let's get in
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  Speaker 1: those matchups. Man up is this whole man up? On
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  Speaker 1: Hawk Talk we started we always do with quarterback. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna take a look at Ben Roethlisberger versus Seahawks defense. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Ben is a really interesting player this year and just
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  Speaker 1: in general. He's had so much success in the National
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  Speaker 1: Football League. He has been a staple in the Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: Steelers organization. He's done a lot of great things. He's
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  Speaker 1: brought them to a super Bowl in twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: He's one hundred and twenty four for one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ninety five with one two hundred and eighty six yards,
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  Speaker 1: six touchdowns, four interceptions, and has been sacked eleven times. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you're a Seattle fan, you think eleven times over
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  Speaker 1: five weeks, that's not that bad. That's you know, We're
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  Speaker 1: used to seeing higher sack numbers here. But he was
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  Speaker 1: only sacked thirteen times in the fifteen games he played
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  Speaker 1: last year. So obviously something is not going in their
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  Speaker 1: favor up front. I know a lot of the national
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  Speaker 1: narratives that they're not playing well upfront. Protections have been
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  Speaker 1: an issue, and Ben isn't playing as good as he
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  Speaker 1: has in the past, completing sixty three percent of his passes,
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  Speaker 1: six carries for nine yards on the season. So that
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  Speaker 1: tells you the mobility, right. Yeah. So the thing about
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  Speaker 1: me bump that I'm curious about. So last year he
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  Speaker 1: led the Stealers tough with twelve and four rec They
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  Speaker 1: opened the year eleven and oh there's guns blaze and
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  Speaker 1: everything was going good. They end up winning a division title,
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  Speaker 1: even though they slipped down the stretch. And there's been
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of whispers starting last year about Ben Roethlisberger.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: How much does he have less than the tank? What
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: you know, there's I know there's contract disputes. He ended
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: up taking less money going in this season, but the
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: whispers have gotten louder. There's been some poor play last year.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: He still did have thirty three touchdowns and ten interceptions,
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: but it's been a struggle. What first of all, I
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: guess number one, what have you seen from him specifically?
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: And do you think this will be the last year
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: that Ben sits up for the Steelers? What they hollering now?
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: I ain't know? Whispers? No more people are hollering about
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger. And I think this is is last season.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I really do. And all right, I mentioned I was
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: one of the guys who thought that Ben was gonna
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: be Okay, thirty three touchdowns last year, ten interceptions. You'll
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: take that from any starter any year, honestly. But something
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: has changed this year, and it's crazy what an offseason
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: will do. Mike Thomas has done a great job of
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: standing by him, letting people know this is our quarterback.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ride with him as long as he wants
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: to play. But you just look at his play like
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: he can't throw the ball down and feel like he
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: used to. He was never really mobile, but he was
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: mobile enough right to get outside the pocket. He's a big,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: strong dude. He doesn't even look strong anymore. And it
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: hurts when I talk about guys like Ben Roethlisberger, Tom Brady, Juwbers,
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: because these are the guys we grew up on, right,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: these are the guys that we love seeing play. So
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: it hurts for me to see him play the way
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: he is right now. But I think it's done, man,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: And what what's next is where do you go from here?
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: You don't go Kyle Rudolph, You don't go Dwayne Haskins.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskin might be a band aid for a year
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: or whatnot, but I don't think they're gonna be bad
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: enough to have a high draft pick to get into
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: the quarterback either. So that's why this team is in
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: a tough place. Yeah, no, that's hard. I mean that's
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: the other thing too. When people were asking, you know,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: I think it was after they're they're lost to Green
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Bass there. They've lost three in a one and three
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: in the year, and I think Tom Olins asked about
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger and he's like, are you kidding me? Of course,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Ben's our quarterback. And it's kind of one of those
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: things where it's like, I'm, you know, without saying it,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: what else you want us to do? I really think
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: one of the other quarterbacks is a better chance to win.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: That's not true if Ben is not playing the level
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: that he's been capable that he was playing out earlier
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: in his career, even a couple of years ago. So
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: that's that's obvious. But I mean he's their best option.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: And here's the thing. While you know, I said whispers,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: you said people are hollower, and now people are yelling.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: While that's true, he can't take this man lightly. Man,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: you can't, especially with how the Seahawks have performed defensively,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: at least statistically. He can still throw the ball. Still,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: he'll still if there were places to be made, he
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: will take them. So this is But with that being said,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: this is a huge game for the Seahawks and it's
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of potential for them to really bounce back.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: You know, I mentioned earlier. You know, they're not doing
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: well in the defensive categories. Through five games, the Seahawks
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: are in the same position as they were in twenty twenty,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: actually a tiny bit worse, meaning throw on a historic pace,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: giving up the most yards in NFL history, that kind
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: of thing. We obviously know what happened to the end
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: of last year the last eight games. They turned around
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: and they became one of the best defenses in the
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: National Football League and fix all that stuff, and I
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: have faith that the Seahawks can get there. They just
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: have to. It has to start somewhere, right, you know,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Paul Moore us always talking about breaking the season up
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: into quarters. The seventeen game kind of messed all that up.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: But the same kind of thought process last year. The
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Seahawks are horrific in the first quarter, second quarter, there
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: is improvement, but they weren't right there. Third and fourth,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: as Pete Carroll preachers can't win the game the first quarter.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: They finished really strong and they started to get things corrected.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Now they have a huge opportunity to do that this week.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: You know, Ben, They're struggling to protect Ben Roethlisberger. He's
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: not getting the ball down field as much, so they
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: need to find a way to get after him number one. Defensively,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: straight up, they need to pressure Ben Roethlisberger. The man
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: will be a statue. He is not running anywhere. He's
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: easier to bring down. The used to be because he
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: is a big guy. So he wasn't easy due to
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: sack just because of his stature. But he's not that
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: same guy anymore. So you're gonna need to get pressure
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: upfront and then in the back end. You know, it's
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: been it's been a thing. It's the middle of the field, bump,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: it's the middle of the field. And we'll talk about
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: this a little bit more in some of the matches.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: But the Seahawks need to execute better in that phase
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: of the game. But like I said, they have a
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: huge opportunity to get after an aging QB in a
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: struggling offense. Improvement needs to happen on all phases of
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the game and on defense should be a number one priority.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Get after Ben. That's their quarterback. You know who our
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: quarterback is, Genos man Gino no geo ge No, you're
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the twelves. Last Thursday, let's go. G Twells got behind him.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Man Twells were chatting his name, and they kind of
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: did it at the wrong time because you're on offense.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: You want it, you want to be quiet there. But
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I appreciate their excitement. They're like, look, man, we're gonna
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: get behind our dude. What did Gino do? That goes
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: on at ten play ninety eight yard drive and with
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a touchdown too. DK metcalf against the Rams last Thursday. Now,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the last time someone not named Russell Wilson started a
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: game at QB for the Seahawks was January first, twenty twelve,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: rest in piece to VARs Jackson, who played that whole
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: season on a torn peck. Man So Gino man Gino
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: spent he hasn't He hasn't been a regular start in
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the NFL since twenty four. Team spent four years with
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the Jets, one year with the Giants, one year with
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the Charges before joining the Seahawks in twenty twenty season.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Last Thursday, like I mentioned he threw his first start
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: sounds since Week twelve or twenty seventeen. His career stats
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: five hundred and thirty seven for nine hundred twenty eight
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: six thousand, three hundred forty six yards, thirty touchdowns, thirty
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: seven interceptions, one hundred and fifty two carries, six hundred
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: and eighty two yards and seven touchdowns. Now, I don't
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: need Gino to be perfect. I don't need him to
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: throw for three hundred and fifty yards and four touchdowns. No,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: and you can't expect that from Geno. Gino's a pro.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: He's been in this league, He's been in some battles.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be okay. I was just talking to my
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: boys the other day. I go, man, what we need
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: from Gino? One hundred and fifty two hundred and one
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: or two touchdowns, nothing too crazy. Hopefully thirty two is healthy,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: ready to go. You hand the full ball all off.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: But if there's every time for a defense to help
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: this offense out, it has to be this week because
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: you have Geno coming in as a backup. Now, he's
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: a backup for a reason, but he's still a good backup.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: We saw that last week. The guy knows the offense,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: He's comfortable. He cain't shook out there, Oh, no question
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: about it. It was We talked about it on the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: podcast after the game. It's unbelievable the resiliency showed and
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: just the poise to come into the game, backed up
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: on your two yard line with a game of time,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: needing to drive the whole way to score touchdown, and
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: and he does it. He just looks smooth, calm, collected,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: took what the defense gave him, stepped up in the pocket,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: rolled out to his right. Was flawless, and he loved
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: what we saw there. And they're going against you know,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a Steelers defense, as we mentioned earlier's kind of middle
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: of the pack. They're sixteenth in total defense, nineteenth thinks
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: a pass nine thing gets a runs pretty good tenth
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: in points per game. But if they do have a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: couple of big name guys bump and that is t J.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Watt and Minka Fitzpatrick. First of all, t J. Watt
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: has emerged as one of the best players in the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: National Football League, doesn't matter offense, defense, pef scenes, whatever.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: He's a three time Pro Bowl over the last three years,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: two times first team All Pro in twenty nineteen and
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Had a career high in sacks in twenty
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: twenty with fifteen, and so far this year he picked
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: up right where he left off. Five sacks, fourteen tackles,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: ten QB hits. You need to know where this man's
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: line up at all time because he will absolutely wreck
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: a game faster than anyone in this league. Yeah, that
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: last name means something, right, that last thing want me
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and some now, Minca Fitzpatrick. Something about those dang Bama boys, man,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: you line them up anywhere in this league, They're gonna
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: make plays. In four years, he has two hundred and
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: sixty six tackles. Talk about Menca Fitzpatrick. He has eleven interceptions,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: four touchdowns, three force fumbles, three fumble recoveries, five tackles
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: for loss. Twenty twenty one. So far, he's leading the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: team with thirty eight tackles and one tackle for loss.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: You have to know where this man is. If you
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: check out my weekly film session, I broke down Minca
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick and it was a simple play, nast. He's in
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: a soft zone. He's lined up over the tight end
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: like most strong safeties do. The Titan just runs like
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: a sixty eight yard route and he just lies downhill
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: makes his tackle. Now, to most people, you're like, oh yeah,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: he's supposed to do that downhill, make it a tackle.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: It's open field, that Titan's bigger than him, and it
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: was just a play recognition, like he knows exactly what
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: he's looking at. He's a savvy football player, no question
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: about it. And he doesn't have any interceptions or any
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: takeaways so far this year, but over in four years
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: he's taking the football away. That's a lot of interceptions
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: for a strong safety type player. So he's another guy
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that you know, kind of makes the secondary go. He's
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: a leader back there, and they're gonna Gino Smith's gonna
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: need to know where he is at all times. Those
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: two guys are the ones that you don't want to have.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: If we're hearing their names all day long, it's gonna
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: be a rough day for Gino Smith in that offense.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: As we mentioned, we need to get thirty two the ball.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Thirty two I'm assuming, you know, assuming he gets back
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and is playing, you know, he needs probably get twenty carries.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: You need Alex Collins to me and I change up
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the running game without question. You know it's been talked
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: about all through this year, right, the Sehawks need to
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: be able to run the ball when they need to.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: That's why you run the ball. So when you need
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: to win a game, you need to take some time
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: off the clock. You need to give your defense rest.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: You need to be able to run the damn ball. Right, Yep.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: If there's any a week, if there's ever been a
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: week ever, yeah, it's this week right now. I would
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: love to see Chris Carson im twenty carries over one
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: hundred yards. It's so unbelievable me that he has not
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: gone over ae hundred yards in twenty nineteen. Yeah, that's insane.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, we know he was injured for most of
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: year last year and we were throwing the ball a
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: lot more as an offense. But Chris Carson is so talented.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: He's in such good shape. I'm hoping that neck is
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: all right. I'm hoping he can show some of that burst.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: We've seen it. We saw it in half in against
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the Colts, we saw it for a half against the Vikings,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: so it's there. So hopefully the boys can help out
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: running the football. Now. Talk about another running back bump,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Naji Harris man against I wrote down, I wrote, Naji
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Harris versus Steels Fronds seven. I think i'man to say
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Nagy Harris versus the Seahawks front seven. This rookie man
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: he got seventy eight carries three hundred and seven yards,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: two touchdowns, twenty eight receptions one hundred ninety eight yards
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: and one touchdown, come off his best game as a
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: pro against Broncos. Like I mentioned, twenty two carries one
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty two yards. And right now, they're not
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: good at running to football, so last week was the
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: first time they'd really show them they can actually do that.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: They're only averaging seventy three yards per game, which is
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: pretty low ranking in the NFL. That's actually thirty first.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: So that being said, though, they kind of got into
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: a groove and he kind of was just sparked to
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: this offense last week. Bum yeah, Naji man again, another
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Bama boy doing it, Sam, And you see the potential
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: in Naji hairs like you see it, you know it
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: just sometimes it takes a few weeks to get guys going,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and I think that's what we're seeing so far so
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: this year through five games that like you mentioned, they
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: just aren't getting it done. Um, I think how they're
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: gonna use Naji or how I would do it at
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: our of them one, you gotta do what we want
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the Hawks do was give him the ball early, early, early, early,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: get downhill and really tested to see all defensive line.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I really expect him to do that, especially with an
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: aging quarterback and Ben Roethlisberger, and then that should open
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: things up. I'm giving you guys still just scouting report.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I don't do that. You guys just turn the ball
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: over and don't get Nagi going make us look good.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's that's what you do. Now. Naji Haris,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: like I said, come off his best game to see
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: if he can back it up. All right? Another matchup
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Chase Claypool and Deontay Johnson verse Sidney Jones in d
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: J Reid. Chase Claypool man honestly one of my favorite
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: personalities in the NFL. Too man. He's all over TikTok
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: and Instagram, making funny memes and all that stuff. This
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: guy's twenty receptions during the forty one yards one touchdown. Now.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Claypool was the Steeler's second leading receiver in twenty twenty
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: with sixty two receptions, eight hundred and seventy three yards
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and nine touchdowns. Deontay Johnson in twenty twenty one twenty
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: five receptions, three hundred and five yards, three touchdowns. Johnson
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: left the Steelers in receiving in twenty twenty with eighty
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: eight receptions nine hundred twenty three yards with seven touchdowns. Now,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: typically they have a three headed monster with this receiving corps,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: but like we mentioned, Juju spend Shooter will not play,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: most likely out for the whole season with a dis
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: okay to shoulder. They needed some surgery. Now, Juju had
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: excuse me with his whole career so far had three
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: hundred twenty three yards receptions, three eight hundred and fifty
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: five yards and twenty six touchdowns in sixty three games played.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Were five years and it was huge on third down.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Never wish a man to be hurt. But because Juju
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: was hurt like takes some pressure off of his defense
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and takes away a big third down threat for Ben Roethlisberger,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: No question about it. Man. I mean listening to Mike
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: tom Head coach Mcammon for the Steelers talk about missing
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Smith Schuster and then he said, of course there's nothing
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: you can replace a guy like that, a talent like
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: that that really helped his ball club over the last
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: five years become a fan favorite down there. But he
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: said it's going to give an opportunity for other guys
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: to show up. He mentioned Claypool, he mentioned Johnson. There's
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: other guys that are gonna step up, and they have playmakers,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: so there's without question they're gonna be there now as
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: a secondary, the Seahawks were still gonna have their handsful
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: of those guys that just mentioned. And I'm still waiting
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: for DJ Reid or Sidney Jones get the first takeaway
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: of the season right. I went in bold hot take
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: whatever day it was last time on the preview podcast
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: saying I really thought that they were going to get one.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I was wrong, but I still have that faith. I
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: feel like it's coming right. DJ Reid has done that
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, showed he can take the ball right.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Sidney Jones, when healthy, he has been a good football
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: player in this league. You dub standout shout you dub
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: would have been a first round pick of Edian Bloud
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: his achilles. So they have playmaking ability and Sidney Jones
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: has been in an adjustment process. I guess right, because
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: he wasn't here to start, He wasn't through camp, he
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: didn't do all the mini camp stuff. He hasn't been
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: in this system forever. And the crazy thing bump, listen
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: to this man starting camp this year, the Seahawks had
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: ten cornerbacks. Now they only have three remaining on the
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: roster here in Week six, DJ Reid, Gavin Heslop and
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the Trey Brown, who the Seahawks drafted as a rookie. Now,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: with that being said, that means that we are bidding
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: farewell the Trey Flowers. I know we've got a lot
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: of heat out here, but Trey Flowers is an absolute
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: stand up dude, one of the best players and people
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: you will ever work with. And I've had the pleasure
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of talking to Trey and he's helped us out with
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: tons of interviews over the years since he's been here.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Has been nothing but class, always done what he was
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: asked to do, played some really good football at times
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: for the Seahawks. So a lot of love for Trey Flowers.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: He was event meant a lot to this organization. So
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: good luck to wherever he ends up. Tough, tough deal, there.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: But with that being said, so you know, I brought
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: that up because I'm kind of transition back into the
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: adjustment period, right, So I think Sidney Jones is fine
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: taking that step. And we have guys in there, bless
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Austin who we acquire John Reeds. Some of those guys
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  Speaker 1: are gonna push, try to get in the game. But
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: it's time bump for this back seven. And that's everybody,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: not just the corners, not to save these the linebackers.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody to figure out a way to take away the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the field, right, take away some of this
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: underneath stuff. Keep destroying the deeps and I gosh, I
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: know it's there, and they've got to put the puzzle
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: pieces there. It's a second quarter of the season. I
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: really want to see this back seven come together and
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: just make some place. Quandrie Diggs are taking them ball away,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: have that spread out to the rest of the team.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Jamal Adams, get some sacks that you're handing the ball,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: just lodge a football force fumble because you can live
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: with some of the stuff you're giving up over the
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: middle if you're taking them ball away, if you're making
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: big plays. So one or the other has to happen.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: They need to figure out how to eliminate the middle
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: of the field, which is kind of been hurting the team,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: or figure out a way to take the ball away.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: And once they do one of those things, I'm telling you, man,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: things are gonna take off for this defense. They're gonna
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: take off, take the ball away, takeaways. Good things happen
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: when you do that. Now, let's figure out how they're
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: gonna do that and talk about the path to victory.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: At the forty five waits for the staff, Michael Vickson
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  Speaker 1: puts it down. That kick is away, and that kick
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: is good. It's good. It's a path to victory. On
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Hawk Talk, we've been talking about it, man, just where
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: we're just saying starts on defense. Man, the Seahawks can't
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: give up these huge numbers we've seen so far this season.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Every player on defense need to step up. Do their
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: job on each is given play, get lined up, execute
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: your assignment, get to the football. This defensive unit and
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: is so talented. There's way too many impressive players, you know,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: all pro type, Pro Bowl talent on this fans with
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: our coaching staff is unbelievably talented as well. They have
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the personnel and the people that do it. It's just
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: a matter of executing that on Sunday. They gotta get
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: after Big Bim Man. We know he is not a
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: mobile quarterback. Gotta get after him, man. And I feel
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: bad talking about Big Ben like that because I like
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to do. But ma'am, get him on his butt, sit
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: him down. He will sack thirteen times all of last year.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: He's been sacked eleven times this year. That means that
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: something's not right in the past. Protection. Make that guy
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: have to move, make him after step up Darryl Taylor
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: and he like one or two out of you this week. Baby,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: let's go absolutely. I would love to see Darrell Taylor
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the first time he mentioned him. He's got four sacks
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: in the year. He's about middle of the pack. I
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: think the leader in the NFL has seven sweets right there.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: It's a consistent pass rush. Would love to see him
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: getting after him. Man. Gino Smith Man making his first
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: starts in twenty seventeen. This game can't turn into a shootout.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying I don't think Gino smith can
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: put up big numbers, because I know he's capable of
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: that without question, especially with DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, Chris Carson,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Gerald Everts coming back. We know he can do those things,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: but that's not the recipe for the Seahawks to win.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: You know, he's he's there's faith in Geno Smith. He's
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: been in Chane Waldron system since day once, since he's
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: been here. But this needs to be a game where
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks sustained drives. This needs to be game where
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: you play field position when you need to. This needs
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: to be a game where you don't turn the ball over.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: This needs to be a game where you when you
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: get in the third quarter, you don't go punt punt punt.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: You possess the football. You go on long drives. And
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: that'll help with Chris Carson running the football. But this
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: can't be a shooted. I think if I think, if
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks keep the Steelers under under twenty five points,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: they're absolutely gonna win this football game. I'm wiching, I'm wiching. Also,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: how do you help Gino not get into a shoot
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: all you kind of mentioned it. Man, run the football,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: give it to Ris Carson, give him twenty yards, then
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: give him some Alice Collins, I mean Alice Salins did
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: a good job last week. But I think we see
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: that he's best with Chris Carson right because they're running
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: styles are so different. Chris Carson's downhill, Alice Collins is
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: gonna make you miss and to be better on third downs.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Can't have zero points in the third quarter, which has
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: happened in every game except versus San Francisco. Get back
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: to three and three, all right, These guys have an
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: opportunity here heading into the bye week. You get a win,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: you get guys healthy. You got two weeks to prepare
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: for the next opponent. Thinks that simple man. Let's get
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: it done. We told you how we're gonna get it done.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: How the Seahawks that, for that matter, are gonna get
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: it done. Get back to three and three this week. Reminder,
• 33:26
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• 33:32
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• 33:37
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• 33:41
  Speaker 1: It's been a long time without Seahawks football. We're ready
• 33:43
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• 33:46
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• 33:52
  Speaker 1: But Michael Bump is, Robert Turbin, Ray Roberts, and Paul Moore.
• 33:56
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• 33:58
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• 34:01
  Speaker 1: was Hawk Talk preview Week six. Seahawks are traveling to
• 34:04
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• 34:07
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• 34:10
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• 34:12
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