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Hawk Talk - Recapping Week 16: Seahawks vs. Rams · 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. After ten yard line, second to day three
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Speaker 1: wide receivers now in motion as Bumpas left to right,
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Speaker 1: Julius Jones, a single setback Matt Pumpecks looking at the
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Speaker 1: goal line, he throws it into the endshone touchdown Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: It's Michael Bumpas with a diving catching the end zone.
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Speaker 1: Our ten yard touchdown reception for Bumpas and the kid
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Speaker 1: out of Washington State has found himself a place on
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Speaker 1: this team. Powered by Seahawks dot Com. You are listening
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Speaker 1: to Hawk Talk Recap edition on Michael Bumpas along with
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Speaker 1: Nassa Choby. The Seahawks beat the Rams twenty to nine,
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Speaker 1: and they clinched the division first time since twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 1: And like always, let's jump into the trenches with Ray Roberts.
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Speaker 1: It's time to go inside the trenches with former Seahawk
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Speaker 1: Ray Roberts. Big Ray Hogs get it done. They clinched
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Speaker 1: the division, something we haven't seen in a few years.
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Speaker 1: It's your overall thoughts of that game last night. You know,
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Speaker 1: it was just kind of good to see, like good
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Speaker 1: complimentary football. You know. The offense wasn't, you know, tearing
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Speaker 1: it up, but they were making progress and keeping themselves
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Speaker 1: in the game, and the defense was just doing what
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Speaker 1: they've been doing over the last five or six weeks. Man,
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Speaker 1: they just been playing really good football, like top ten
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Speaker 1: level football, keeping the Rams out of the end zone,
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Speaker 1: help making them settle for three field goals before the halftime,
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Speaker 1: and then pretty much shutting them down in the second half.
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Speaker 1: So I thought I felt really good about how they've
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Speaker 1: won the last two weeks. It seems like they had
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Speaker 1: a formula and a plan going in. May not have
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Speaker 1: been the prettiest football, but it was victory football. Victory football.
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Speaker 1: Can't complain with that. Chris Carson, Man, he had nineteen
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Speaker 1: touches for seventy nine yards. What'd you see out of him?
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Speaker 1: Do you think that they are utilizing him the right way?
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Speaker 1: I believe he averaged around fifteen touches before that. I'm
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Speaker 1: just thoughts about Chris Carson. Yeah, I think, you know,
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Speaker 1: they've done a remarkable job since he's come back and
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Speaker 1: keeping him affective. So like, yeah, like you know, I
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Speaker 1: would love to see it. I'm sure the fans would
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Speaker 1: love to see him get up to like twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: two carries a game and maybe break the century mark,
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Speaker 1: you know, a couple of times. But I think they
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Speaker 1: were kind of managing his caseload just so that he
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Speaker 1: could get to the playoffs, so he can remain healthy,
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Speaker 1: so he can remain effective, and they've done an excellent job.
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Speaker 1: Before he got hurt, he was averaging about thirteen to
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Speaker 1: fourteen carries for about sixty five yards, and that's pretty
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Speaker 1: much where they keep him for every game. And so
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Speaker 1: this game be average over four yards to carry. He
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Speaker 1: can't ask some more than that when they call on him.
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Speaker 1: He's been productive, and I think they're just waiting to
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Speaker 1: really unleash more of that running game once they get
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Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Yeah, I'm with you. I think we're
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Speaker 1: just really seeing what Chris Carson can really do. I
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Speaker 1: want them to get back to what twenty eighteen, twenty
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Speaker 1: nineteen when he was getting a bunch of touches. So
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Speaker 1: I'm with you there. Ram. So there's a possibility that
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Speaker 1: the hard may play the Rams again in the first
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Speaker 1: round if that does happen, is there anything they need
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Speaker 1: to change about their game plan? I would say they
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Speaker 1: probably should lean on the running game. That's a little
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Speaker 1: bit more the Rams. You know, coming into that game,
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Speaker 1: I think they were giving up like maybe three point
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Speaker 1: eight yards to carry, but that's close to the four yards,
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Speaker 1: and it is the three yards. So I think, you know,
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Speaker 1: leaning on the running game, whether it's keeping Chris to
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Speaker 1: that to that same number, or incorporating hide and penny
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Speaker 1: a little bit more to get the running game going.
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Speaker 1: And then and then obviously they need to show up
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Speaker 1: the pass protection. They got beat. At least the first
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Speaker 1: three sacks for the Rams came off of line twist
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Speaker 1: and and it was just not a matter of them
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Speaker 1: being really good at it. It was the Seahawks really
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Speaker 1: been their technique about it wasn't very good. And so
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Speaker 1: I think if they tighten that up, they can help
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Speaker 1: themselves out. Uh. And then and then there was a
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Speaker 1: couple of times where they the Rams schemed Aaron Donald
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Speaker 1: to be one on one against the rookie or against
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Speaker 1: Simmons who's a part time starter. So they won some
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Speaker 1: of those matches. But I think if they are a
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Speaker 1: little bit more physical the run game, and then I
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Speaker 1: would approach the passion game the same way they did.
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Speaker 1: They threw some body blows and then they sew a
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Speaker 1: couple of deep balls. They connected with demo and I
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Speaker 1: think that's the way to go about it against this
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Speaker 1: particular team. Yeah, I'm with you. I really liked the
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Speaker 1: patience of the offense. Yes, Russell Wilson was sacked five times,
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Speaker 1: but it never felt like they were forcing anything. I
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Speaker 1: feel like they're really patient. So yeah, body blows and
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Speaker 1: then Boone go for that chin, make them drop. Let's
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Speaker 1: talk about this defense, man. We talked about this defense
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Speaker 1: first five weeks, Ray worst defensive history. Everybody fire Kid Norton,
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Speaker 1: What are we doing now? This defense is one of
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Speaker 1: the best in the league. Has this been the biggest
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Speaker 1: turnaround you've ever seen? Absolutely? I mean every week we
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Speaker 1: were trying to just I remember Paul Moria was just
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to get them from Ben
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Speaker 1: d last football, the last defense, you know, in the league.
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Speaker 1: And so it was like, we can get to thirty,
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Speaker 1: We'll be all right, people leave it alone. And they've
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Speaker 1: really elevated past And I said this last night too,
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Speaker 1: and we said it before. So when they had that
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Speaker 1: account of ability meetings and you know, Mike, we've played
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Speaker 1: a lot of football from high school, college in NFL.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of meetings like that that go on,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of times they add up to nothing.
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Speaker 1: And but this one you can hear it in all
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Speaker 1: the press, the postgame press conferences. All the defensive defensive
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Speaker 1: players talk about it, and they talk about the outcomes
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Speaker 1: of it, and they talk about the things that go
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Speaker 1: on in it and the and the trust that it creates,
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Speaker 1: and you know, like, I know, it's easy to play
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Speaker 1: where you can trust if you're a receiver, you know
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Speaker 1: you can trust a quarterback and put the ball where
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Speaker 1: it's supposed to be. You're gonna run, You're gonna be
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Speaker 1: running free. If you're the quarterback, you know the receiver's
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Speaker 1: gonna be where it's supposed to be. You're gonna let
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Speaker 1: the ball fly. And so it's just it's the same
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Speaker 1: thing with this defense. They all talk about, Hey, I
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Speaker 1: know I can do my job at the best that
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Speaker 1: I can with the full speed because I know the
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Speaker 1: dude beside me it's going to be doing the same thing.
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Speaker 1: And that says a lot. And I think that that
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Speaker 1: may be why this defense really made the jump, Because
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Speaker 1: if you're the one dude, they ain't getting a job done,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna stand out like a sore thumb. And so
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Speaker 1: everybody's holding them so uh to that accountability standard. And
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Speaker 1: then they're also trusting each other. Yeah, no, no one
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Speaker 1: wants to be that guy to go. Well, so, now,
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Speaker 1: where where does this team go from here? Right? What
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Speaker 1: is the true potential of this team as they get
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Speaker 1: ready for the playoffs? You know, I think if the
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Speaker 1: defense just keeps playing like the defense plays. Uh. You know,
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Speaker 1: they've done a really good job all season long. Even
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Speaker 1: when they're at the bottom of the barrel, they were
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Speaker 1: still closers. You know that the very first game of
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Speaker 1: the season, you know, they shut out they made a
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Speaker 1: goal line stop, you know, and they've done that all
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Speaker 1: year long. It's the watching football team. They came up
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Speaker 1: with two sacks at the end of the game. You know,
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Speaker 1: in this game, they came up with the big first
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Speaker 1: and inches on the goal line and they came up
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Speaker 1: with four stops. And so that part of that game
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Speaker 1: has always been there all year. It's just all that
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Speaker 1: between the forty stuff that has gotten better, and so
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Speaker 1: they just can maintain that. And then with the offense,
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Speaker 1: I really feel that that uh, that Russell's going to
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Speaker 1: break out of this. I don't want to call it
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Speaker 1: the flump. It's to been a more conservative play calling
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Speaker 1: an offense. But I think we're going to get back
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Speaker 1: to more dynamics throwing the ball, and it's going to
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Speaker 1: open up the offense even more because the run game
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Speaker 1: has been solid all year long when they when they've
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Speaker 1: turned to it, and so it's about time now to
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Speaker 1: kind of unleash a little bit more of the passing
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Speaker 1: game and be a little bit more explosive in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Is the super Bowl or bust at this point? Big Ray?
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Speaker 1: You know what we talked about that last week when
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Speaker 1: we're talking about, you know, is it failure or disappointment?
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Speaker 1: And I think, uh, just looking at some of the
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Speaker 1: teams they have to play and the opportunities that how
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Speaker 1: they match up with the other teams he had as
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Speaker 1: tough teams like you know, have to he had to
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Speaker 1: go through Green Bay or or or New Orleans or whatever.
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Speaker 1: But I feel like we can. We can with the
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Speaker 1: way the defense is planning and the weapons we have
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Speaker 1: on offense, we have a chance to win any game.
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Speaker 1: And so for me, I've changed my opinion from from
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Speaker 1: a failure or disappointment to like, Yeah, I want to
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Speaker 1: see them get to the super Bowl. It would be
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Speaker 1: a failure if they don't. To me, all right, you
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Speaker 1: heard it. Here we go on to Tampa. Let's get
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Speaker 1: ready for this run right now, Big Ray, appreciate your time.
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Speaker 1: All right, brother, all right, all right, well let's get
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Speaker 1: right in to it. Let's bring getting nasid Choby, and
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Speaker 1: let's talk about what had happened. See what had happened
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Speaker 1: at first, what had happened was I'm hard. Got is good.
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Speaker 1: God is good. You know, I don't want to be
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Speaker 1: too happy because I don't want people to say, you know,
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Speaker 1: he's dramatical. He hasn't been there before. You damn right,
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Speaker 1: I haven't been there before, so damn it. It feels good.
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Speaker 1: It feels great Godly. We came out victorious, and man,
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Speaker 1: what a what a hard fought battle. You heard the
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Speaker 1: man bumped. It feels good. Division champs, first time. She's
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Let's go. I feel he Jamal, I'm so
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Speaker 1: fired up this morning. It feels good. People in Seattle.
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Speaker 1: We've won a lot of football games out here, so
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Speaker 1: we take things for granted. Never taking a vision title
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Speaker 1: for granted, never take going to the playoffs for granted. Uh,
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Speaker 1: it's so I'm so hyped this morning, man. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we handle business like we're supposed to. Capsule another division title.
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Speaker 1: Twenty sixteen feels like centuries ago. We had to hang
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Speaker 1: another banner in louman Field and at the vMac. And
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Speaker 1: I love it, man, because the Seahawks have everything they
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Speaker 1: want in front of him. They're for sure gonna host
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Speaker 1: a playoff game next week, and they sell have an
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Speaker 1: outside chance of being the three seed or two seed,
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Speaker 1: one seed. So it feels good, Bump, it feels good.
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Speaker 1: It feels good, and I just like the way they
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Speaker 1: did it. Man. They did not allow the Rams into
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Speaker 1: the end zone. Golf only through for two hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirty four yards, one interception, and they just got after man.
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Speaker 1: Then they really handled the play action boot. I was
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Speaker 1: really happy with how they handled that because that's what
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Speaker 1: the Rams want to do. They want to run you
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Speaker 1: play action boot. Put the linebackers in a bum. Those
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Speaker 1: LB's played well in the past game. That second level
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Speaker 1: is always compromisible when it comes to the boot. They
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Speaker 1: handled that. They made this Rams team a very good
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Speaker 1: Rams team, good offense, good defense, look like an ok team.
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Speaker 1: And this is coming from a defense that was on
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Speaker 1: pace to be the worst defense of all time. Of
10:03
Speaker 1: all time, NFL has been around for very long time,
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Speaker 1: but all the time, so the turnaround is crazy. They
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Speaker 1: dominated a good football team. They got some style points
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Speaker 1: on this one. I know we talk about all style
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Speaker 1: points don't matter, but when they present themselves, I'll take it.
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Speaker 1: They got some style points this week. Well, no question
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Speaker 1: about it, because every last month and a half people
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Speaker 1: been talking about, oh, well, they did it against the Jets,
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Speaker 1: they did it against the Giants, they did it against
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Speaker 1: this team. Well, no, the Rams. You know, for as
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Speaker 1: good as they can be with potential, they have good
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Speaker 1: football players and that was a great team defense of effort.
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Speaker 1: Even before GoF got hurt, we shut them down. We
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Speaker 1: didn't allow them to do anything that they wanted to do.
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Speaker 1: And this is speaks out good this defense has. Everyone
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Speaker 1: wanted to fire Norton, everyone wanted to blow this stuff up,
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Speaker 1: but the Seahawks had faith. And you heard Jamal talk
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Speaker 1: about it. He said, I think we have the best
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Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. I love that confidence because it
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Speaker 1: doesn't you know, at the end of the day, stats
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Speaker 1: are great, but they don't matter. It matters about how
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Speaker 1: you're playing at the end of the year and when
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Speaker 1: you play teams. And right now the Seahawks defense is
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Speaker 1: playing great football. Rams only scored nine points. Jared Goff,
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Speaker 1: we finally made him look like Jared Goff okay through
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Speaker 1: for two and thirty four yards, no touchdowns through a
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Speaker 1: pick and God help me have no clue what the
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Speaker 1: decision making us on that play. Even Quandre's postcame prest
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Speaker 1: conference is like, you tell me I was sold. When
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Speaker 1: I was in a high school quarterback you never thought
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Speaker 1: about laid across the middle, and Quandre Dix was the
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Speaker 1: only person who could have caught that football. So it
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Speaker 1: was good to see though, you know, because Goff has
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Speaker 1: had a lot of success to them, the Seahawks, and
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Speaker 1: it was good to see them come out there and
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Speaker 1: do exactly what they're supposed to do, what we expected
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Speaker 1: them to do. And now we're division champs, Division chaps.
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Speaker 1: I like how they use DK too. DK early in
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Speaker 1: the game was in the slot. Now the Rams arazone team,
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Speaker 1: so we're looking at that matchup. Oh Ramsey verse DK,
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Speaker 1: We'll see what happened. So when it presented himself I
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Speaker 1: think DK did okay. I believe he had two catches
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Speaker 1: against Ramsey, but for the most part, they were moving
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Speaker 1: DK around, start him in the slot, and motioned him
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Speaker 1: to this side. They're trying to get matchups, and that
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Speaker 1: just shows the evolution and DK and that Shoddy really
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Speaker 1: had a plan and say, look, we're not gonna feed
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Speaker 1: into this number one receiver versus number one corner. Let's
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Speaker 1: see what happens if it happens to line him that way,
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Speaker 1: lines up that way, but we're gonna play an hour
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Speaker 1: style of football. Move this man around and get him
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Speaker 1: the ball in different areas of the field. So I
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Speaker 1: really like that. And then Chris Carson nineteen touches seventy
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Speaker 1: nine yards. I mean, this guy does a dirty work.
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Speaker 1: He gets to two or three yards, He's falling forward.
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Speaker 1: Every time a man tries to tackle him. It looks violent.
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Speaker 1: It looked like it hurts. And that's what I like
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Speaker 1: from Carson. He wears you down. If you are going
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Speaker 1: to tackle thirty two, you better hit him low because
12:35
Speaker 1: if you hit him high, you're gonna be sore in
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Speaker 1: the morning, Oh, no question about it. If you're if
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Speaker 1: you're a defensive back, linebacker and Chris Carson gets his
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Speaker 1: shoulders square and he's coming towards you. That is a
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Speaker 1: bad place to be, man, You're looking around, anyone can
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Speaker 1: Help's he gonna jump over me, He's gonna run me over?
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Speaker 1: What's he gonna do? And yes, I would love Chris
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Speaker 1: Carson get a couple more carries. But I love how
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Speaker 1: they're playing because everything flowed together. And what I also
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Speaker 1: love is David Moore. That huge catch by David Moore
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Speaker 1: deemotors to make that catch. I mean that jump started
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Speaker 1: the game offensively. Up until that point, they hadn't done anything.
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Speaker 1: It was a third down. They get a large scoring drive,
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Speaker 1: and it just shows that everyone on this team can
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Speaker 1: step up when they're called upon. Box score wasn't pretty,
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Speaker 1: but it was the exact drag him out, grind it out,
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Speaker 1: knock him out up box l knock him out type game.
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Speaker 1: So I love what I saw, and like I said,
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Speaker 1: Division champs, And now we gotta take on those forty
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Speaker 1: nine ers and let's see what happens. Alright, Division champs.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about these playmakers, playmakers, all right? Russell Wilson
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Speaker 1: Playmaker twenty for thirty two twenty twenty five yards, one touchdown,
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Speaker 1: three carries for nine yards and a touchdown. What I
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Speaker 1: liked about Russell Wilson. Yes, he was sacked five times. Yes,
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Speaker 1: you could say they started off slow. There was a
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Speaker 1: three now to start the game. They won on the
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Speaker 1: five play drive for twelve yards. Wasn't pretty to start,
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Speaker 1: but he wasn't forcing it. He goes, look, if we
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Speaker 1: got to grind this thing out, if we have to
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Speaker 1: control the tempo and slow it down and give him
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Speaker 1: a slow death, That's exactly what I'm gonna do. And
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Speaker 1: I like that. Best championship football. Guys who want to
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Speaker 1: be Brett Farve gun slingers tossing that thing without a care.
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Speaker 1: That's how you lose ball games. Russell was responsible. He
14:23
Speaker 1: might have missed a couple guys here and there when
14:25
Speaker 1: it comes to throws, or maybe not seeing him down
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Speaker 1: the field, but I never felt like he was out
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Speaker 1: of control. I always felt like when it came down
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Speaker 1: to it, he was gonna make a play to win
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Speaker 1: a ball game, no question about it. And you mentioned
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Speaker 1: it when you talked to Pete this morning, when he
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Speaker 1: spoke to Aaron Andrews at halftime, and how communo is
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Speaker 1: in confident he was, and then you'll come on the
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Speaker 1: other side Sean McVeigh wasn't feeling that way. But you guys,
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Speaker 1: remember it was a six sixth ball game. So that
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Speaker 1: just goes to show you the faith that he had
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Speaker 1: number three in the faith that McVeigh had in number sixteen.
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Speaker 1: Because you look late in the game, it's third and
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Speaker 1: long and they say it's hand this ball off once
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Speaker 1: to kick a field goals to get some points on
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Speaker 1: the part because earlier in the game they thought they
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Speaker 1: were gonna have some points. And Golf does a pick
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Speaker 1: earlier in the game, they have a first down, Golf
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Speaker 1: slides a yard short. So Pete has confidence in Russell
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Speaker 1: and all of this too. Obviously, we've watched him for
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Speaker 1: a long time and he just makes the plays he
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Speaker 1: needs to make. Even on that scramble, he's looking for
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Speaker 1: everything that's open. It's not there, not there, last second
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Speaker 1: to size running for a touchdown. So love to see
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Speaker 1: Russ balling out And I love it because he showed
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Speaker 1: the like, you know what, I don't care about the
15:24
Speaker 1: gaudy numbers or the MVP or any of that. I
15:26
Speaker 1: care about winning. That's all he's ever done. Is winning Seattle,
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Speaker 1: so I love to see it. Next guy, though, Chris Carson.
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Speaker 1: We talked about him. Sixteen gary sixty nine yards, three
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Speaker 1: catches for ten yards, and Carson is just that dude
15:38
Speaker 1: where if you talk about a boxing match, just body
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Speaker 1: blows man, just to the body, to the body, where
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Speaker 1: you're down, where you're down, where you're down, and around
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Speaker 1: ten you don't want to come out out of your
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Speaker 1: corner anymore. You're tired of getting hit. You're tired of
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Speaker 1: getting hit in the gut, you're tired of getting uppercutted.
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Speaker 1: So that's what Chris Carson did, and I love to
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Speaker 1: see the physical nature. And he's gonna be so important
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Speaker 1: to us down the stretch because last year, this time
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Speaker 1: he got hurt and God loved that Marshawn came back
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Speaker 1: and it was a great reunion and all that. But
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Speaker 1: we need thirty two and we missed him last year
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Speaker 1: and I love that he's back and this year it's
16:07
Speaker 1: gonna be different. Storry, you need thirty two to finish
16:11
Speaker 1: this run. Next playmaker dk metc have had six reception
16:14
Speaker 1: fifty nine yards, no touchdowns, but he is a couple
16:16
Speaker 1: of yards away from breaking Steve Largen's career record. Now
16:21
Speaker 1: you can look at this game and say, oh, DK
16:23
Speaker 1: had an off game. Now, man, DK, I feel like
16:25
Speaker 1: that exactly what was required to win this football game.
16:27
Speaker 1: Went across the middle, made a couple of tough catches,
16:30
Speaker 1: and just held the defense accountable. What people don't realize
16:34
Speaker 1: is when he runs a goal, he's taking two or
16:36
Speaker 1: three defenders with him. When he runs across the middle.
16:39
Speaker 1: These linebackers are filling them and passing them off, and
16:41
Speaker 1: they're concerned about him. So if he doesn't put up
16:43
Speaker 1: the big numbers, if he doesn't go for a hundred
16:45
Speaker 1: yards and a couple of touchdowns, he's opening things up
16:48
Speaker 1: for other people. And we knew going in. At least
16:50
Speaker 1: I felt like going into this game, it wasn't gonna
16:52
Speaker 1: be a blowout. No one was gonna put up thirty
16:54
Speaker 1: five forty points. Both defenses have been playing well, and
16:58
Speaker 1: both offenses have guys who can make plays, but it
17:00
Speaker 1: was gonna be a grinded out game. And you look
17:02
Speaker 1: at DK stats, that's what you see six for fifty nine,
17:05
Speaker 1: a grinded out game. And he still has an opportunity
17:08
Speaker 1: to break Steve largest record, which I would assume will
17:11
Speaker 1: he'll get that done against the forty nine ers With
17:13
Speaker 1: that question, I'm hoping it's done in the first pass.
17:15
Speaker 1: But like you mentioned, he takes so much attention away
17:17
Speaker 1: because you have whether it's a flat defender or a linebacker,
17:20
Speaker 1: he's worried about getting hands on DK if he's in
17:21
Speaker 1: the slot, DC's outside, the safety's worried about getting over
17:24
Speaker 1: the top. So everything he does, even if he's used
17:27
Speaker 1: a decoy, he's running people off and he's helping get
17:29
Speaker 1: other guys open. So love to see that from DK
17:32
Speaker 1: and man, honestly, you want to talk about who won
17:34
Speaker 1: the game, it's that Seahawks defense didn't give up a touchdown.
17:38
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup only sixty six yards, Reynolds sixty five, Robert
17:41
Speaker 1: Woods forty eight. Those are some dudes over there and
17:44
Speaker 1: they didn't do anything. Jaron read two sacks. I'll rob
17:46
Speaker 1: someone the sacked, Jordan Brooks state tackles, Jamal Adams state tackles.
17:50
Speaker 1: I mean, everyone on this defense was balling out, and
17:53
Speaker 1: I just love that. Forever. We're not ever gonna talk
17:57
Speaker 1: about this is the worst defense in the history the NFL.
17:59
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. Put that to bad freezing cold takes done. Okay,
18:03
Speaker 1: don we want to hear about it. This is one
18:05
Speaker 1: of the better defenses in the league and they're playing
18:07
Speaker 1: like it. So they're the key to victory on Sunday,
18:09
Speaker 1: no question about it. Yep, that Seahawks defense stepped up.
18:12
Speaker 1: You got guys like DJ Reid who had eight tackles.
18:15
Speaker 1: Diggs has six tackles and an interception. An interception that
18:19
Speaker 1: only he was gonna catch. No one else was a round.
18:21
Speaker 1: There was no Rams jersey hanging out there. Golf has
18:24
Speaker 1: made a mistake and Diggs will make you pay. kJ
18:27
Speaker 1: has seven tackles, two passes defended, and then that a
18:30
Speaker 1: goal line stand. There's something about this defense on the
18:33
Speaker 1: goal line. It's almost like they love that situation. They're
18:36
Speaker 1: they're eager to be in that situation. And you hear
18:38
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll Talkie goes, Look, we've been been preparing all
18:42
Speaker 1: year for this game, not specifically this game gets the Rams,
18:45
Speaker 1: but this championship game. Our mentality, the way we practice,
18:49
Speaker 1: the way we prepare gets our players ready for this moment,
18:53
Speaker 1: and no one's afraid of the moment. We played with
18:56
Speaker 1: guys who don't want the rock in the fourth quarter
18:57
Speaker 1: who don't want to be on the field. Who's tapping out?
18:59
Speaker 1: All Mihammy heard something. You know, some guys just tap
19:02
Speaker 1: out this defense. Whether it be a veteran, a rookie,
19:06
Speaker 1: or a guy who's a third or second year in
19:08
Speaker 1: the league, they all step up and it's fun to
19:10
Speaker 1: feel like when there is three blades of grass to defend,
19:15
Speaker 1: the Hawks put themselves in great position to do exactly that.
19:19
Speaker 1: All right, let's look at these receivers. A receiver round up.
19:22
Speaker 1: Not a super impressive day when it comes to numbers,
19:25
Speaker 1: but the receiver's got done. DK had six for fifty nine.
19:28
Speaker 1: Demo had one for forty five, the biggest catch in
19:31
Speaker 1: the game other than Hollister's touchdown. Hollister had two for
19:34
Speaker 1: seventeen in the game winning touchdown. Are the nail in
19:37
Speaker 1: the Coffin touchdown Tyler Lockett at three for forty four,
19:40
Speaker 1: Carlos had one for eighteen this league three for seventeen,
19:43
Speaker 1: Olsen one for fifteen, Carson three for tim The three
19:47
Speaker 1: tight ends got receptions this game. I think we were
19:49
Speaker 1: asking a couple of weeks ago that we'd like to
19:51
Speaker 1: see the tight ends get more involved. That's exactly what
19:53
Speaker 1: we saw, especially with Jacob Hollister selling the game with
19:58
Speaker 1: his touchdown. And speaking of Jacob Hollister siming the game
20:01
Speaker 1: with this touchdown, we're going to the coach's corner, and
20:03
Speaker 1: that's exactly the play. We're gonna break down. Russ with
20:06
Speaker 1: a shotgun snap Loo Town lays it up on the top. Hollier,
20:09
Speaker 1: he gotta cut down Shaye Hawks. I think everybody on
20:15
Speaker 1: the rams was looking for a short run and here
20:18
Speaker 1: it comes. Russ going for the throat and he finds
20:21
Speaker 1: Hollister in the back corner up the ends off for six.
20:25
Speaker 1: The sayhof stretch their lead and they are two minutes
20:29
Speaker 1: and fifty one seconds away from being NFC West Champs.
20:33
Speaker 1: Bump as a play caller, talk to me about this
20:36
Speaker 1: route because this is one of the best things you'll
20:37
Speaker 1: see out there. It was just you want to talk
20:39
Speaker 1: about poetry. Pete mentioned it on this touchdown for Jacob Hollister.
20:43
Speaker 1: But tell me through this route, how does Jake Hollister
20:45
Speaker 1: get as open as he did and how do they
20:46
Speaker 1: execute this play? Man? This is beautiful. It's third and five.
20:50
Speaker 1: They're in a two by two formation. You gotta lock
20:53
Speaker 1: it in DK up top. You guys swaying Hollister down
20:55
Speaker 1: at the bottom. They gotta go to DK and Locker right,
20:58
Speaker 1: they gotta go DK lock it No, Pete Carol says, look,
21:01
Speaker 1: we saw the matchup that we want to see man defense.
21:04
Speaker 1: Swayne is on the outside, Hollister is inside. Now Pee said,
21:07
Speaker 1: it wasn't a pickplay, Bump. You know, we just have
21:10
Speaker 1: to They just crossed each other. We know what you're
21:12
Speaker 1: trying to accomplish here. It is a pick play. You
21:13
Speaker 1: just can't call the pickplay because NFL is always listening.
21:16
Speaker 1: So rip Freddy Sway does. He attacks the defender over
21:20
Speaker 1: a Hollister right, and he doesn't step in front of him,
21:23
Speaker 1: He doesn't get any contact with him, but he gets
21:26
Speaker 1: in his lane just enough to where he has to
21:29
Speaker 1: go underneath him and try to get over the top
21:31
Speaker 1: of Hollistrip. At that point it's a rap. Hallister does
21:34
Speaker 1: a great job of being patient and allowing Freddy swayin
21:37
Speaker 1: to work for him. He knows, look, if I can
21:39
Speaker 1: allow Freddie to get over the top of me, I
21:41
Speaker 1: give a little wiggle boom, I'm gonna get outside. And
21:44
Speaker 1: at that point you don't even have to be fast.
21:46
Speaker 1: You just gotta be quick. You gets a little three
21:48
Speaker 1: to five step burst and you're good. Russell Wilson then
21:50
Speaker 1: just drops a dime right over his charter. He high
21:53
Speaker 1: points it instead instead of landing drop into the bucket,
21:56
Speaker 1: which I liked because dbs like to make plays when
21:59
Speaker 1: you dropping in the buck beautiful throw clutch. Russell Wilson
22:03
Speaker 1: went to the number three tight end and the number
22:06
Speaker 1: four receivers side instead of going up top to his
22:09
Speaker 1: playmare because that just lets you know how much trust
22:12
Speaker 1: there is on this football team. And I love it too, because,
22:14
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, ye had DK and tied at the
22:16
Speaker 1: top of the screen. That's exactly where the Rams think
22:18
Speaker 1: they're going. And Russell doesn't even look their way. And
22:20
Speaker 1: everything's great because the other thing, too is Damian Lewis
22:23
Speaker 1: kind of gets beat and he gets I'm pretty sure
22:25
Speaker 1: that's Aaron Donald who beats him, and he's coming right
22:28
Speaker 1: near Russell Wilson, and Russell just made a great throw.
22:31
Speaker 1: He steps back, he knows the pressure is coming, and
22:34
Speaker 1: he goes off his back foot just throws a dime
22:36
Speaker 1: like you mentioned it, and everything about this plays is beautiful,
22:40
Speaker 1: like you said, Freddie Swaine Jaya Pollister. It doesn't matter
22:42
Speaker 1: if you're on the field on offense. Russell Wilson's gonna
22:45
Speaker 1: find you. And this is third down. This is the
22:46
Speaker 1: game's online because listen, if the Seahawks don't convert, they
22:50
Speaker 1: kick a field ball to one score game, the Rams
22:51
Speaker 1: are still in the ball game. So Nail and mccoffin
22:55
Speaker 1: love to see it. Bump and the Seahawks are just
22:57
Speaker 1: playing such good football right now, and I of it,
23:00
Speaker 1: which brings us to a very very very very special
23:06
Speaker 1: victory formation. Here's the best formation in football, the victory formation.
23:17
Speaker 1: That's it. Eighteen seconds left and the Seahawks start to
23:20
Speaker 1: head in the middle of the field. The Rams do
23:23
Speaker 1: the same. What a game here in Looming Field today?
23:26
Speaker 1: Two defenses help bet for leather and the Seahawks played better,
23:31
Speaker 1: the Seahawks feeding the Rams here in Seattle to win
23:35
Speaker 1: the NFC West title by a score of twenty to nine. Yes,
23:42
Speaker 1: the Hawks are they champions NFC West locked it down
23:46
Speaker 1: first time since twenty sixteen. And I love it. I
23:49
Speaker 1: love it. I want more of it. These guys are
23:50
Speaker 1: gonna go on a rundown. I'm feeling good about this
23:52
Speaker 1: football team. The Hawks host the playoff game. No matter
23:55
Speaker 1: what now, no matter what happens, the Hawks host the
23:58
Speaker 1: playoff game. I know it doesn't mean a lot because
24:00
Speaker 1: the fans aren't there, but it does mean a lot,
24:01
Speaker 1: and that means you did what you're supposed to do
24:03
Speaker 1: during the regular season to put yourself in a position
24:06
Speaker 1: to at least be comfortable when you take the field
24:10
Speaker 1: at Luminfield. I'm juiced, I'm ready to go, and they
24:13
Speaker 1: still have a chance to get the number one seed.
24:14
Speaker 1: Choby No, I love it too, because here's the thing. Man, Yes,
24:17
Speaker 1: the fans aren't there, but to not have to put
24:20
Speaker 1: extra travel this team handles traveling on the road, obviously,
24:23
Speaker 1: we know that, but to not have to worry about
24:24
Speaker 1: anything about that, to sleep at the same hotel room
24:27
Speaker 1: you always sleep that at the High and Bellevue, get
24:30
Speaker 1: to see your family and night before, and do all
24:31
Speaker 1: the things. So that's huge. To host the game at
24:34
Speaker 1: Central or excuse me, Luminfield. The Seahawks are seven and
24:37
Speaker 1: one this year at home. They did everything they did
24:39
Speaker 1: needed to do to host the playoff game. Defense proved
24:42
Speaker 1: it was not a fluke. They can shut down good offenses.
24:45
Speaker 1: They step up to the play. Love to see it.
24:47
Speaker 1: This defense is playing in championship football and the Seahawks
24:50
Speaker 1: the sky's the limit for them. This year offense didn't
24:53
Speaker 1: play their greatest game, but they played a solid game.
24:55
Speaker 1: They were better on third down. I believe they complete
24:57
Speaker 1: a forty seven percent of the third downs and they
24:59
Speaker 1: made big plays when big plays needed to be made.
25:03
Speaker 1: Hollister gets redemption last year, same end zone. Little short
25:08
Speaker 1: doesn't get in to win a division. He is the
25:10
Speaker 1: guy who puts the Rams out with that last touchdown
25:13
Speaker 1: with two minutes left in the game. That's fun to
25:16
Speaker 1: see and the Seahawks get revenge on the Rams. Man,
25:18
Speaker 1: let's be one hunting the Randoms. We're two and five
25:21
Speaker 1: are He's gonna be the Hawks two and five against
25:23
Speaker 1: Rams before this game since McVeagh has been there, it
25:26
Speaker 1: has to be nice. I know, Pete Carroll, he's gonna
25:29
Speaker 1: play take the high road and not talk anything. But
25:32
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say for you. You got him, baby, McVay,
25:36
Speaker 1: you got him, Pete. Let's go love it, man, this
25:38
Speaker 1: this team is playing great football and you love to
25:40
Speaker 1: see it at the perfect time of the year. Remember
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25:52
Speaker 1: Let's finish strongest is forty nine ers. Let's get it done.
25:55
Speaker 1: The NFL flex a munch in games, so the Seahawks
25:57
Speaker 1: are not going to know their destiny when they kicked
25:59
Speaker 1: the ball off handle business against the forty nine ers.
26:02
Speaker 1: Do what you do and we'll be at Loomingfield party
26:05
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Yes, sir, that's it for us to
26:09
Speaker 1: Seahawks beat the Rams twenty to nine and they are
26:12
Speaker 1: the NFC West Division champions. Let's keep the good times runing.
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Speaker 1: They got the forty nine ers finished strong for NASA Choby.
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Speaker 1: I'm Michael Bompcas. This is Hawk Talk. Talk to you soon.