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Hawk Talk With Michael Bumpus - Week 12 Preview · 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 Puppas left to right,
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Speaker 1: Julius Jones were single setback Matt pump Fecks looking at
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Speaker 1: the 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 catching the
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Speaker 1: end zone. Our ten yard touchdown reception for Puppus and
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Speaker 1: the kid out of Washington State has found himself a
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Speaker 1: place on this team. Powered by Seahawks dot Com. What's so, folks,
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Speaker 1: This is Michael Bumpus and you're listening to Hawk Talk
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Speaker 1: to Preview edition Week twelve. I'm here with my producer,
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Speaker 1: Nasa Choby. The Hawks go down to Pea and they're
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Speaker 1: gonna take on the Eagles. But before we get into it,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna check up on these injuries. Thanks Michael, before
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Speaker 1: we get an injury. Some big news coming out of
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Speaker 1: vMac this week was tight and Ed Dixon was added
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Speaker 1: to the fifty three man roster. Dix insman on IR
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Speaker 1: this whole season as he was recovering from knee surgery
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Speaker 1: in training camp, so that should definitely help the thin
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Speaker 1: tight end room. Let's make room and the roster though,
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Speaker 1: the seatt did have the way of nickel corner Jamar Taylor,
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Speaker 1: which opened things up for Ugle Maddy to get some
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Speaker 1: playing time at nickel. As far as other injuries go,
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Speaker 1: Luke Wilson's been battling a hamstring injury. It's gonna be
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Speaker 1: difficult for him to go on Sunday. Head coach Pete
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Speaker 1: Carroll spoke to that, as well as Tyler Lockett status
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Speaker 1: this week, Lucas is the one that we're gonna have
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Speaker 1: to watch. Um, of course we're watching Tyler. But Tyler's
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Speaker 1: really on the upswing now. Um, it's a couple of
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Speaker 1: tough days, you know, before we got out of California.
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Speaker 1: But he's feeling way better and expects to do some work.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna catch some balls after practice with Russ and
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Speaker 1: and uh start getting ready to go. I do. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he thinks that too. All right, Michael, Let's get into
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Speaker 1: the Week twelve opponent. Like you said, the Seaffs are
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Speaker 1: going down to Philly to take on the Eagles, and
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Speaker 1: the Eagles dropped a nail biter tight game to the
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Speaker 1: Patriots last week sounded like this, and they break from
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Speaker 1: a huddle with Sunu, Watson and Edelman to the right.
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Speaker 1: Door set a tight split short side left white to
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Speaker 1: the rider. Brandy office ed him in motions into the
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Speaker 1: backfield and then motions out to the right and Brady
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Speaker 1: throws into much later, Ediman is looking at throw under
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Speaker 1: pressure to the end. Zoe for Dorset, I strike for
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Speaker 1: a Patriots touchdown. Razzle dazzle baby, you get see from
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Speaker 1: a pair perfect call by McDaniels. The execution of Brady
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Speaker 1: just to take a slight step up to make sure
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Speaker 1: Edelman off the return motion is wide enough and behind him.
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Speaker 1: He quickly gets in the ball and Edelman throws a
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Speaker 1: dirt the door set dragon left the right. Two razzle
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Speaker 1: dazzles so far in this play for fifteen yard golden
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Speaker 1: flash from the former Kent State quarterback, his first touchdown
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Speaker 1: pass since the two fourteen AFC Divisional Round playoff win
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Speaker 1: over Baltimore, and the Patriots will keep the offense on
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Speaker 1: the field to go for two. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: from Philip door set a career high fifth touchdown reception
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Speaker 1: this year. He was wide open in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the end zone. Three receivers left. Now it's getting the
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Speaker 1: motions right. White in the backfield for the pattles they
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Speaker 1: look for two. They've taken the lead in Philadelphia with
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Speaker 1: a fourth straight score. Pitt shark merchant by him. They
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Speaker 1: had off the white jump cut rights for two. All right,
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Speaker 1: the Patriots add to their leads. So they have taken
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Speaker 1: a seventeen ten advantage in a third quarter here in Philly.
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Speaker 1: I feel better that was the game winning score. Hit
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Speaker 1: him with a little razzle dazzle, Michael. Would you see
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Speaker 1: from that Eagle Patriots game last week? Razzle dazzle? I
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Speaker 1: definitely saw that. And I also saw two teams are
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Speaker 1: struggling to really move the football. For the first time
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Speaker 1: tom Brady's paid a play a full game. Someone else
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Speaker 1: on the team led them in touchdown passes. That sounds
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Speaker 1: like a fake stat right there. Now, Yeah, when is
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady? First of all, the fact that is Tom
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Speaker 1: Brady didn't throw a touchdown pass? And when is that?
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Speaker 1: I mean not since back to maybe two thousand and three,
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Speaker 1: early on in his career when he still had that
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Speaker 1: like game manager role. But yeah, that's wild. Yeah. I
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Speaker 1: also saw Carson Wentz was twenty forty two and fourteen yards,
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Speaker 1: only one touchdown, but was sacked five times. And I
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Speaker 1: think with the Hawks coming into town, this is the
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Speaker 1: type of game that we need. Our defensive line had
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Speaker 1: their best game of the season last week against the
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Speaker 1: forty nine ers a Monday night football. It's time to
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Speaker 1: get after this guy. But I just saw a grinder.
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Speaker 1: I didn't see a very impressive game offensively or defensively
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Speaker 1: for both teams, and I think the Eagles are prime
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Speaker 1: for another loss when the Hawks go down to PA
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Speaker 1: and get this thing done. It was bad for the
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Speaker 1: Eagles down the stretch. The Patriots limited Eagles to three
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Speaker 1: point eight six yards per play and help them scoreless
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Speaker 1: on the last ten possessions of the game, last time possession.
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Speaker 1: That has to be frustrating. And then you look at
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Speaker 1: that receiving core Anglars averaging eight point nine yards per
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Speaker 1: reception per reception that ranks ninety first out of ninety
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Speaker 1: seven receivers who are eligible for that, and you gotta
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Speaker 1: have twenty five targets to be eligible. That has to
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Speaker 1: be frustrating for that Philadelphia offense. Yeah, we'll get into
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Speaker 1: that in a little bit, but they're just not in
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Speaker 1: terms of the receiving corps there, it's not really getting
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Speaker 1: it done. Building off that Aguilar's averaging five point one
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Speaker 1: yards per target and that ranks ninety second in the league,
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Speaker 1: and that's that's just hard to think because it's the
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Speaker 1: team that recently want a Super Bowl. It feels like
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Speaker 1: yesterday they want a super Bowl. But since then they
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Speaker 1: they've been average. They've been fifteen in thirteen since winning
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Speaker 1: that Super Bowl for the last two years, and that
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Speaker 1: just goes to show man, it is hard to win
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Speaker 1: football games in this league. It is hard to win
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Speaker 1: football games. So when you are eight and two, you
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Speaker 1: are grateful. So now we're gonna move on to the
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Speaker 1: key matchups. The first matchup we have to look at
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Speaker 1: as Carson Wentz versus Seahawks front seven. Wentz has two thousand,
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Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy four yards, sixteen touchdowns and just
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Speaker 1: four interceptions. He's not playing lights out, but he's not
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Speaker 1: a bad quarterback at all. He's still a guy that
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Speaker 1: you have to respect and don't forget. If he has
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Speaker 1: some space, he can run the ball as well. Wentz
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Speaker 1: has been sacked twenty five times on the season. That's
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Speaker 1: bad for them. I think that's good for the Seattle Seahawks. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so Wentz is gonna He's gonna take care of the football.
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Speaker 1: Just four interceptions is a great stat and like you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: he does have some wiggles, so he's not going to
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Speaker 1: be a statue back there. But they're susceptible giving up sacks.
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Speaker 1: And I think if the front seven builds off of
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Speaker 1: what they did against San Francisco, I mean, Clowney was
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Speaker 1: an absolute monster. Jay Reid came along poona four. You
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Speaker 1: got to see him, Chakeem Griffin, so people were there,
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Speaker 1: and I think this is a perfect timing for those
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Speaker 1: Hawks against that Carson, Wentz knows Eagles offense, perfect time,
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Speaker 1: stay aggressive with that front seven. The next matchup, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna look at Chris Carson versus Eagles front seven. The
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Speaker 1: Seahawks are facing another stout run defense. The Eagles are
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Speaker 1: fourth best against the run in the NFL, allowing only
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Speaker 1: eighty six yards. So last time we played a team
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Speaker 1: of dad caliber. The last two weeks, I believe the
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Speaker 1: Niners and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Hawks rush for
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Speaker 1: over one hundred plus yards both times, So I feel
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Speaker 1: like the Hawks are capable of playing a grinder football
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Speaker 1: and still moving the rock and getting over a hundred
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Speaker 1: yards per game. And you gotta love how they're playing
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Speaker 1: because we know we run run the ball. That's what
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Speaker 1: we do. We do run the ball. We can run
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Speaker 1: it against anybody, but we're keeping teams on their toes.
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Speaker 1: I feel like the last couple of weeks we've been
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Speaker 1: in a good rhythm offensively. When the Bucks game we started,
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Speaker 1: we set it up throwing early on. We set up
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Speaker 1: the run by passing and we can do both. So
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Speaker 1: I think I think Chris Carson is poised to have
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Speaker 1: another big day. Like mentioned, the last time the Seahalls
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Speaker 1: face the top tier rushing defense, it was the Tampa
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Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers and they ran for one hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: five yards. The secret is out Hawks wouldn't run the
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Speaker 1: football and be stubborn doing it. And I don't blame
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Speaker 1: him because it has been working for him thus far.
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Speaker 1: Next matchup the Eagles receiving corps versus a Seahawks secondary
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Speaker 1: tight end. Zach Ertz is definitely the top receiver for
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Speaker 1: the Eagles. He has fifty five receptions six hundred twenty
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Speaker 1: one yards, but only two receiving touchdowns. Definitely, like you said,
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Speaker 1: their top target. A guy that's a good tie end,
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Speaker 1: has good hands, he'll beat you in the seam, he'll
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Speaker 1: get north south. But but the problem is he hasn't
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Speaker 1: been a red zone target this year and that's and
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Speaker 1: that's really kind of hurt the Eagles receiving core. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's not a receiver, but he's their top target. And
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Speaker 1: then you go down the line. Jeffrey has thirty four receptions,
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Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty three yards and three touchdowns. Aguilar,
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Speaker 1: who we mentioned a little bit ago, thirty six receptions,
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Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty two yards and three touchdowns. They're
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Speaker 1: they're not world beaters in that receiving corps. It's just
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Speaker 1: not This isn't the production production that you would foresee
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Speaker 1: with Wentz being back there. So that lets you know
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Speaker 1: there's some protection problems going on, and you look at
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Speaker 1: the film. Maybe guys are sloring down a little bit
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Speaker 1: on the outside, and you lose to Sean Jackson for
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Speaker 1: the rest of ye with a rib injury. I believe
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Speaker 1: it was um that has to hurt your team a bit,
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Speaker 1: and there's some change is going on over there. The
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Speaker 1: next match of the Eagle starting rat tackle versus Clowney
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Speaker 1: ONSA Jefferson and Griffin. Lane Johnson starting tackle, probably the
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Speaker 1: best offensive lineman, then leave to leave the game versus
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Speaker 1: the Wings after being treated for concussion. It's always tough
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Speaker 1: to replace a guy of that caliber on your line, Oh,
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Speaker 1: especially at that position that is such an important position
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Speaker 1: at the right tackle spot. And head coach Doug Peterson
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Speaker 1: stepped to the podium kind of give us an update
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Speaker 1: about what we can expect from Lane Johnson this week.
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Speaker 1: He came out after that touchdown drive. I don't know
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Speaker 1: specifically what the play was, but it was after that
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Speaker 1: drive that he came to the sideline and we checked
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Speaker 1: him and had to put him in the protocol. Is
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Speaker 1: in the protocol? Well, it's still it's still early, so
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Speaker 1: it's it's I guess stage one of the five stage program. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so stage one. I know it's kind of hard to
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Speaker 1: maybe comoctify it, but how much of the offensive struggles
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Speaker 1: after he went out were because he was out? I
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Speaker 1: mean it affected the run game a little bit. Um
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Speaker 1: from the standpoint of you know, him and Brandon working together,
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Speaker 1: you know, and getting those reps during the week. Um,
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Speaker 1: still got a lot of confidence. Obviously in Big V
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Speaker 1: he filled in there. Um, but that you know, it's
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Speaker 1: it's a loss. I mean you're talking about a you know,
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Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl caliber you know, right tackle, and he
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Speaker 1: and Brandon together do some great things and so, um,
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Speaker 1: it affects you a little bit. Um, you know, with
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Speaker 1: the running game, and he thought about getting Dillard reps
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Speaker 1: on that side, you know, going into the game. Obviously
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Speaker 1: he was you know, JP status during the week. Obviously
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Speaker 1: he was still working at left tackle. Um. But moving forward,
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Speaker 1: if if you know, again, depending on Lane's lane status
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Speaker 1: at the end of the week, UM, the plan would
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Speaker 1: be to to to work Dillard a little bit at
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Speaker 1: right tackle if he cannot go. Mike Coup Andre Diller
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Speaker 1: is a start. You know, here's an if I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: show any love to the Eagles, it'd be with that
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Speaker 1: guy the end of the day. We still want Clowney
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Speaker 1: to get after him. It's gonna be tough for that
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Speaker 1: guy to come in. He's all he's usually played on
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Speaker 1: the left side. Gonna asal Pay on the right side.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how difficult that is, but you would
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Speaker 1: have to think there's gonna be some type of adjustment
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Speaker 1: going on. Yeah, and regardless who they put out there,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna it's not gonna be their Pro Bowl cowboy
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Speaker 1: right tackle and Lane Johnson so coming off the game
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Speaker 1: that they just watch it. If I'm in Philadelphia and
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Speaker 1: I'm watching film and you just saw what Clowney just did,
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Speaker 1: You saw Reid's doing, He's all of them. She Keem
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Speaker 1: Griffin getting in there, it's gonna be it's gonna be wild.
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Speaker 1: I think I think Clowney. I mean, he had ten
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Speaker 1: QB pressures last week. He had he could had shoot,
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Speaker 1: you could have had five sacks last week. He was
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Speaker 1: completely disruptive. He probably should have forced at least four
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Speaker 1: or five different holding penalties that weren't called. He's an
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Speaker 1: absolute monster, and that is gonna be a rough task
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Speaker 1: for anyone, especially a young rookie, to step in there
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Speaker 1: and look across and you see Jadeveon Clowney, you see
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Speaker 1: jar Reid. Good luck. Time for the D line to
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Speaker 1: prove it. Let's go, baby, get or done. So now
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do something that most analysts do and we
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Speaker 1: probably shouldn't do. We do it anyway. We're gonna look
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Speaker 1: into the playoff picture as of now, there's a way
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Speaker 1: to really look playoff picture in the NFC. You got
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Speaker 1: the division leaders to forty nine ers at nine and one.
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Speaker 1: We know who they lost to the Packers at eight
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Speaker 1: and two, SAT. SAT eight and two, and then those
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Speaker 1: Cowboys sneaking in there at six and four. It that's
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Speaker 1: almost disrespectful, right. I don't like seeing that down there.
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Speaker 1: The wild cards right now are the Seattle Seahawks and
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Speaker 1: the Vikings. We were talking earlier man beginning of the weekend.
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Speaker 1: It looked like things were gonna change for the Hawks
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Speaker 1: a little bit, but didn't work out as far as wins.
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Speaker 1: My goodness. The Vikings were down twenty to zero. I
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Speaker 1: think in the last five or so years teams in
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Speaker 1: the NFL were zero in ninety nine been down twenty
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Speaker 1: and a half time. They obviously find a way to
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Speaker 1: come back and win. And the forty nine ers man.
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Speaker 1: The forty nine ers down sixteen nothing, and the Cardinals,
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Speaker 1: who played them tough the first time, looked like they're
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Speaker 1: gonna get after them, just couldn't quite finish down the stretch.
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Speaker 1: The Seahawks wanted a little help, they didn't get it.
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Speaker 1: But it's all good because the Seahawks still control there
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Speaker 1: on death seeing who they play. All they gotta do
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Speaker 1: is win out and beat the Niners in Ay all
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Speaker 1: as well. Still in a hunt. Are the Rams, the Panthers,
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Speaker 1: the Bears, and then you go below there the Lions
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Speaker 1: of Cardinals and Falcons. We'll see what they do, but
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Speaker 1: so are the Hawks. Are doing what they're supposed to do,
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Speaker 1: just keep winning ball games, and someone else at the
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Speaker 1: top I field is going to take an l eventually.
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Speaker 1: On their schedule, the Hawks still are going to Philly,
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Speaker 1: Vikings are coming here. They're going to LA to play
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Speaker 1: the Rams. They're going to Carolina to play the Panthers,
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Speaker 1: then Cardinals at Niners at home to wrap it up.
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Speaker 1: If there's any game that gives you some kind of
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Speaker 1: concern their nass, which one would it be? Oh, there's
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Speaker 1: a couple. I mean, I like that we're playing the
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Speaker 1: Vikings at home. They're a good football team, but the
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Speaker 1: factor that we're playing them at home. I know we've
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Speaker 1: lost two games earlier this year, but that's Tentry Links
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Speaker 1: is still a tough place to play. Really, the last two.
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Speaker 1: When you see the Cardinals at three seven and one,
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't think that but they're they've kind of figured
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Speaker 1: something that Colin Murray's playing while they're playing with confidence.
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Speaker 1: They've played a ton of close games they just had, man,
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Speaker 1: it will finish. And then obviously the forty nine Ers. Man, yep,
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Speaker 1: there's one easy team on the schedule, but those two
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Speaker 1: scare me the most down the stretch because those are
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Speaker 1: probably gonna be deciding factors for what this playoff picture
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Speaker 1: turns into. And Kyla Murray takes care of the football.
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Speaker 1: That's why I appreciate about that kid. The forty nine
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Speaker 1: has remaining schedule. They got the Packers, they go to Baltimore, them,
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Speaker 1: they go to New Orleans, Falcons and Rams go down
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Speaker 1: to Cali. Then they finish it up north against the Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: Their last five or six are tough in than hours.
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that is murderous. Row. You got the
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Speaker 1: Packers coming in who are hot, the ravens Lamar Jackson,
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Speaker 1: that man other than Russell Wilson, obviously, because I still
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Speaker 1: think Russell Wilson MNP. Lamar Jackson is doing some things
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Speaker 1: I feel like I've never seen before, obviously in likes
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Speaker 1: of Michael Vicken stuff. But he is phenomenal that dude
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Speaker 1: is balling, So that's gonna be a tough game at
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Speaker 1: the Ravens. Then you got the Saints, who are two breezes.
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Speaker 1: They're still rolling, they're eight and two. Then the Falcons.
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Speaker 1: The Falcons Seaman. I'm actually happy when the Seahawks played
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Speaker 1: him because at first everyone was saying, hey, like, how
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Speaker 1: did you not blow this team out? How'd you let
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Speaker 1: them come back? They went down to New Orleans and
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Speaker 1: put a whooping on them. They went to the Panthers
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Speaker 1: put a whooping on them there. So the Falcons are
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Speaker 1: gonna be a key factor down the stretch and look
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Speaker 1: at play a little spoiler and then they'll finish out
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Speaker 1: with the Rams and the Hawks. Let's go baby, all right?
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Speaker 1: So now what is the path to victory? One? Continue
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Speaker 1: the dominance on the road. The Hawks are perfect five
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Speaker 1: and oh on this season, which is super impressive. You
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Speaker 1: would think that would be flip five and oh at
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Speaker 1: home and maybe two losses on the road, but that's
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Speaker 1: not the case. Here, build off the defensive performance against
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Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. Show that last Monday wasn't a fluke.
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Speaker 1: This is who you are now. You put it on film.
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Speaker 1: You left the world see it now, it's build off
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Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, you can get at defensively, especially You've
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Speaker 1: shown that every All year everyone was talking about the
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Speaker 1: defensive line, pastris pastros, pass us well against arguably the
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Speaker 1: team that everyone else thought was the best team in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. You show that you could do it every
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Speaker 1: single down, and on top of that, your secondary is
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Speaker 1: playing better. So I think, show it you can do
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Speaker 1: You put it on film, you show you can do it.
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Speaker 1: Let's keep it up. Keep a rolling, must play physical
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Speaker 1: on the secondary. Quandre Diggs brought the physicality we've been
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Speaker 1: missing all year. I've been waiting for this, the way
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Speaker 1: he came downhill, even the tackles that he missed. He
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Speaker 1: missed a couple of tackles, but I mean he's coming
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Speaker 1: downhill and he's he has bad intentions. He's not coming
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Speaker 1: to hug you up. He's not coming this to make
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Speaker 1: the play. He wants you to feel him. And I
14:59
Speaker 1: love the intensity this guy plays with. Yeah, he came
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Speaker 1: out like you said. It was like the first first
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Speaker 1: play he missed the tackle or first drive, and he
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Speaker 1: kind of took him a couple serious to get into it.
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Speaker 1: But once he did, I promise you every forty nine
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Speaker 1: Ers receiver was aware where Quandry Diggs was because he
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Speaker 1: put the lick on a couple of them. So, I
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Speaker 1: mean he and you just love it. I mean, Blair
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Speaker 1: brought some of that physicality, but I just love the
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Speaker 1: veteran leadership. I mean, he was a captain for the Lions.
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Speaker 1: Quandry Diggs can play. I love what he's bringing in
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Speaker 1: that secondary. And it seems like he's always in the
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Speaker 1: right position. You know, even that pick, if he wasn't
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Speaker 1: rallying to the football, not in the right position, he
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Speaker 1: doesn't get that ball. So that is fun to see.
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Speaker 1: We must run the football. The Eagles have a great
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Speaker 1: rushing defense. However, the Hawks have proven all season they
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Speaker 1: can run the ball against anybody. It doesn't matter. If
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Speaker 1: they have to switch it up and open up with
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Speaker 1: the pass versus get the run going, then so be it.
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Speaker 1: That's why this team is so versatile, because if you
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Speaker 1: need to run the ball, you can run the football.
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Speaker 1: If you got to open it up with the pass,
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Speaker 1: you open up with the pass. You gotta first year
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Speaker 1: dude in DK Metcalf whose extenial expectations hopefully Tyler Lockett
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Speaker 1: is healthy. You bring into Josh Gordon, a Hollister comes
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Speaker 1: out of nowhere. I think this is the perfect example
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Speaker 1: of a next man up team, Like someone goes down,
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Speaker 1: the next guys up. I just love the confidence's offense
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Speaker 1: is playing with right now. Yeah, and you mention it
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter who it is, that Malik Turner making a
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Speaker 1: huge play, Is that David Moore making big plays, that
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Speaker 1: Josh Gordon is in hollistrated. Anyone who's in the game
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Speaker 1: has the playmaking ability. And now they've had all these
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Speaker 1: opportunities throughout the year where they've shown they could do it.
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Speaker 1: So now when you get in these moments late in
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Speaker 1: the season, everyone believes, you know what I mean, everybody
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Speaker 1: believes they must take care of the football. The Hawks
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Speaker 1: have put the ball on the ground more than they
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Speaker 1: ever have under Pete Carroll, which it's disappointing, but it
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Speaker 1: shows us how resilent they are as well, because they're
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Speaker 1: still finding ways to win ball games. Just don't put
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Speaker 1: your defense in tough positions, don't shorten the field, make
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Speaker 1: that offense work. Ball security, job security. Absolutely. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if anyone knows anything in this program with Pete Carroll
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Speaker 1: is protect the football. It's always all about the ball.
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Speaker 1: It's always been about It's about creating turnovers and protecting it.
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Speaker 1: The Seahawks haven't done a great job of that this year,
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Speaker 1: and they're still eight and two. So once you start
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Speaker 1: to share up all those things at sky's the limit
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Speaker 1: for that offense. Now to get Josh Gordon going, he
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Speaker 1: makes some big plays last Monday night. Gotta get him involved,
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Speaker 1: man in the way it's the average person looks at
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Speaker 1: the players that he made and say, oh, it was
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Speaker 1: just a slant, But it was the way he caught
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Speaker 1: the slant. It was all hands, it was confidence. He
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Speaker 1: gets up, he points to the first down, he drops
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Speaker 1: the ball like he looks like a veteran and a
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Speaker 1: potential superstar, or maybe a former superstar. But you see
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Speaker 1: that there's something different in Josh Gordon than there is
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Speaker 1: in any of our receivers. And that's what makes our
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Speaker 1: receiving corps special. And got your locket, your guy, your
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Speaker 1: shifty guy who does everything. You got your monsters on
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Speaker 1: the outside. You got your twinter tight end and hollister
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Speaker 1: who kind of does everything. You almost have every type
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Speaker 1: of receiver on in this receiving corps right now, Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: and you look at the two balls at Josh Gordon Cott,
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Speaker 1: they weren't just like random little you know, playing the
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Speaker 1: first cord. He caught big time third downs late in
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Speaker 1: the football game in his first game ever playing with
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Speaker 1: Russel Wilson. So I think the sky's the limit for
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Speaker 1: Josh Gordon. He can really help that receiving corps. Like
17:57
Speaker 1: you said, he's just a hand scatcher. He snatches out
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Speaker 1: of there. He's big, he's physical, So I am really
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Speaker 1: excited to see what we can get out of him
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Speaker 1: the rest of the season. I'm excited as well. I'm
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Speaker 1: excited to see what these Hawks do when they travel
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Speaker 1: to p A and take on the Philadelphia Eagles. That's it.
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Speaker 1: Michael Bump is here with my producer Nasa Cholby. Thanks
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Speaker 1: for tuning in that as Hawk Talk the Preview edition,
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Speaker 1: Week twelve. We'll catch you next time.