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Speaker 1: You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver
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Speaker 1: Michael Bumpus, powered by Seahawks dot Com.
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Speaker 2: Now here's your host, NASA Chobe.
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Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of Hawk Talk, the Seahawks getting
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Speaker 1: ready to travel across the country to take on the
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Michael Bumpus, you lose Week one, sweet two,
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Speaker 1: We've come about that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Wednesday. Move forward.
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Speaker 1: Once you get to Wednesday, you put the week Thursday.
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Speaker 1: Now we're getting ready for this game. So I'm excited, bump.
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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of cool things the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: have going that we talked about in the recap pod
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Speaker 1: of where this team can go, what they can get to,
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Speaker 1: get on track, get to one another, because that's what
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Speaker 1: we look for every week, and we're gonna jump right
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Speaker 1: into it. Waste no more time because those Pittsburgh Steelers
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Speaker 1: are what's on tap?
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Speaker 2: What's on tap one?
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Speaker 1: And oh type for first place in the AFC North.
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Speaker 1: Bump They had a who else want to know? Bengals
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Speaker 1: won right, Yes, in a really ugly games getting to
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Speaker 1: Cleveland rownds. Yeah, so yeah, they're they're yeah, they're tired.
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Speaker 1: So but the Steelers and the Jets had it was
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Speaker 1: a football game. It was I was not expected to
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Speaker 1: see that. It was honestly kind of a revenge game
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Speaker 1: for both quarterbacks. Aaron Rodgers going back to play New
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Speaker 1: York justin Fields, obviously playing his former team in Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Speaker 1: Rogers made his infamous return to MetLife Stadium, and he
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Speaker 1: turned back the clock.
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Speaker 3: It sure did.
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Speaker 2: I was.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think Rogers was done by any means, but
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Speaker 1: I didn't expect him to look as good as he
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Speaker 1: did through all four touchdown passes in the second half,
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Speaker 1: including two in a span of fifty seconds, helping the
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Speaker 1: Steelers pull out a thirty four to thirty two victory.
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Speaker 1: Rogers said after the game, I was happy to beat
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Speaker 1: everybody associated with the Jets, Rogers said. When asked if
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Speaker 1: he was pleased to be Glenn, he said, I gave
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Speaker 1: as much as I could do that team. I didn't
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Speaker 1: have any hard feelings about it not working out. It
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Speaker 1: didn't maybe appreciate the way it went down in the end,
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Speaker 1: but that's in the past. But man, I was happy
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Speaker 1: to beat everyone associated with it.
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Speaker 3: So shitty. He talked about your mom, who likes the Jets, your.
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Speaker 4: Grandma, anybody you like the Jets, He's done with you.
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Speaker 4: But the game started off with five shakes, scoring drives,
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Speaker 4: and scoring drives on seven of nine in the first
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Speaker 4: half possessions.
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Speaker 3: That means they were lighting up the scoreboard. That was
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Speaker 3: fun to watch.
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Speaker 4: We're doing the pregame show and I'm looking behind me,
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Speaker 4: and every time I look, Breeze Hall's going crazy or
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Speaker 4: there's a score going on.
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Speaker 3: So it was exciting.
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Speaker 4: In the third quarter of the Jet jumped out to
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Speaker 4: a twenty six to seventeen league Rogers and the Steelers
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Speaker 4: we responding with a nine plays sixty eight yard drive
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Speaker 4: ending with a touchdown to Jalen Warren. Got the run
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Speaker 4: game going there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, Jalen Warren.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about him a lot because they've completely
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Speaker 1: changed the running back room and Warren he's a really
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Speaker 1: cool story. So I like what we saw from him.
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Speaker 1: But man, that game got into it afterwards, justin fields.
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Speaker 1: He came down with a twelve play sixty seven yard drive,
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Speaker 1: capping out with a one year touchdown. He made the
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Speaker 1: score thirty two thirty one back to back punts. The
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Speaker 1: Steelers would take the lead for good with a Chris
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Speaker 1: Boswell sixty yard field goal, Tang sixty yards, And I
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Speaker 1: love what Tomlin said after the game. He said, Man,
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Speaker 1: I can't say enough about the boss. Our kicker is
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Speaker 1: a serial killer in the nicest way possible. Yeah, if
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Speaker 1: you can do that, Yeah, I guess I'll take it
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Speaker 1: as but Toman calls me, SERI, I'll take it. Rogers
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Speaker 1: finish today twenty two to thirty, two hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: four yards, four touchdown, zero interceptions. Former Seahawk DK Metcalf,
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Speaker 1: who we will also talk about, lead the Steelers with
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Speaker 1: four receptions in eighty three yards justin fields sixteen to
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Speaker 1: twenty two two eighteen, one touchdown and Brees Hall ran
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Speaker 1: for over one hundred yards and Garrett had the one
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Speaker 1: touchdown on ninety five yard and seven receptions.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was nice to see DK.
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Speaker 4: Watch the film on this guy and he's getting that
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Speaker 4: yacked that yard after the catch and throw a screen
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Speaker 4: to him. He turns it up field for twenty five,
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Speaker 4: a little hitch to him, turns it outside for another thirty.
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Speaker 3: He looks good at that offense.
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Speaker 4: And I think the way they approached the DK experiment
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Speaker 4: was good. To drop this first pass going across the middle.
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Speaker 4: But you know, you gotta you gotta stay with DK
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Speaker 4: because he's gonna make big plays, so good for them,
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Speaker 4: Good for DK.
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Speaker 3: But now it's time to get active.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, we're gonna talk about DK as well.
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Speaker 1: That matchup's gonna really fun because our guys have played
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Speaker 1: a lot of football against DK over the year, so
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun. Look him at the head matchup
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Speaker 1: me and you're gonna talk about this a lot. It's
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Speaker 1: really hard to glean a ton from the head to
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Speaker 1: head matchup this early on in the season, just for
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Speaker 1: one game, but will take a look anyway. Offensively, the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks came in at twenty ninth through one week at
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Speaker 1: two hundred thirty yards in the first game eighty four
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Speaker 1: yards rushing That was twentieth. Pass offense one hundred and
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Speaker 1: forty six yards is twenty fifth, and points per game
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Speaker 1: thirteen tied for twenty fourth. Obviously not the numbers you're
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Speaker 1: hoping to see. That'll happen you score thirteen points on
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Speaker 1: the flip side of the Steelers twenty first in total
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Speaker 1: offense with two hundred and seventy one yards fifty to
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Speaker 1: twenty ninth in rushing only fifty three yards against those
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Speaker 1: Jets two hundred and eighteen yards passing. That's eleventh of
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Speaker 1: the NFL, and thirty four points. That was third in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. Obviously, Steelers scored more points, had more possessions,
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Speaker 1: had more plays in that first game. This is not
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Speaker 1: indicative I mentioned it. We're just going through the numbers
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Speaker 1: as they were in that first game. But I expect
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Speaker 1: every single one of those numbers for the Seahawks to
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Speaker 1: take a little uptick.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it take a little bump, a little bump.
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Speaker 4: But let's talk about the defense of total yards giving up.
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Speaker 4: The Hawks were twenty fifth, gave up three hundred and
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Speaker 4: eighty four yards against the forty nine Ers rush defense
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Speaker 4: one hundred and nineteen yards given up. That puts him
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Speaker 4: at twenty first. Pass defense two sixty five given him up.
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Speaker 4: That gives them the spot of twenty six. On the
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Speaker 4: other side, you got the Steelers the twenty seventh when
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Speaker 4: it comes to total offense, twenty eighth against the rush
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Speaker 4: and twentieth against the pass, and twenty eighth when it
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Speaker 4: comes to give up points. Thirty two points will do
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Speaker 4: that to you. Hawks had an interception, two interceptions, Steelers
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Speaker 4: had none. Hawks had what one sack, and the Steelers
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Speaker 4: had won as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, Julian Love got that sack off of Blitz almost.
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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously one sack is what it was. But
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks pressured brought perty more than he's ever had
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Speaker 1: in his career fifty seven percent of the time. So
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks front seven was getting home. Now, they just
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Speaker 1: got to get the sacks. They got the pressure. I
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Speaker 1: believe Trent Williams gave up the most pressure he's allowed
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Speaker 1: as a forty nine er, which is a lot, because
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Speaker 1: I say he's one of the best in the league.
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Speaker 2: So Seahwks are doing it up front.
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Speaker 1: We'll see if they can make change in those sack numbers.
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Speaker 1: But the Seahawks have played the Steelers a couple times
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Speaker 1: over the last few years.
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Speaker 2: Let's know that history. No, your history steels with the all.
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Speaker 1: Time series eleven to ten in our one to zero
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Speaker 1: in the postseason. Obviously, we we'll talk about that nonsense.
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Speaker 1: Last time these two matched up, though, it was a
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Speaker 1: rough day for the office of the Seahawks. I was
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Speaker 1: Week seventeen, if you remember, in the twenty twenty three season.
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Speaker 1: At the time, the Seahawks were control of their own destiny,
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Speaker 1: but needed to win their last two games to get
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Speaker 1: into the playoffs. But if you remember Bump, that was
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Speaker 1: the time the Seahawks were really struggling stop in the run.
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Speaker 1: They allowed two hundred and two yards on the ground,
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Speaker 1: gave up four hundred and sixty eight yards of total offense,
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Speaker 1: and that year that was the sixth straight opponent who
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Speaker 1: ran for at least one hundred and thirty five yards.
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Speaker 2: It was tough.
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Speaker 1: Naji Hears one hundred and twenty seven yards and twenty
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Speaker 1: seven carries, two touchdowns. Jalen Warren, who will see had
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Speaker 1: seventy five yards on thirteen carries and one touchdown. DK
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Speaker 1: Metcalf led the way with one hundred and six yards
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Speaker 1: on five receptions. It was a bad day, but thankfully
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Speaker 1: that feels like such a distant memory with the guys
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Speaker 1: on this football team. And I would be willing to
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Speaker 1: bet my house in my mortgage at the Seahawks will
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Speaker 1: not give up two hundred two yards on the ground
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Speaker 1: and four hundred and sixty eight yards to little offense.
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Speaker 4: I feel that confident about it. Hey, text wifey now,
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Speaker 4: let her know what you just did.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sign for that. No, but that was history.
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Speaker 1: That was That was, like I said, a tough day
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Speaker 1: against the Steelers. The last two games have been brough ones.
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Speaker 1: Back in twenty one. You remember Sunday Night Football. Last
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Speaker 1: time we were in Pittsburgh went to overtime. T J
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Speaker 1: Watt won that game on a strip sack. So obviously
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Speaker 1: hoping the Seahawks can turn back the clock to a
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Speaker 1: little better time down there in Pittsburgh. But let's check
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Speaker 1: in on the rest of the NFC West. What's the
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Speaker 1: word and.
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Speaker 3: The Seahawks or the NFC West champs?
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Speaker 2: Again, what's the word in the West? On Hawk talk?
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Speaker 3: What's the word? Hawks?
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Speaker 4: At the bottom of the division. But it's only one week,
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Speaker 4: all right? Niners one obviously, Cardinals won and the Rams won.
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Speaker 4: The season obviously just started in the standings being nothing
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Speaker 4: after week one. With that being said, it was about
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Speaker 4: as bad as a week as there can be. The
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Speaker 4: Hawks lost a game within the division to the Niners
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Speaker 4: and then the Cardinals and Rams were also winners. Let's
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Speaker 4: talk about the Texas and the Rams. Low scoring game
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Speaker 4: this one Nas. The game was a low scoring battle
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Speaker 4: that was ugly at times with the scoring happening with
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Speaker 4: Davis Allen touchdown with twelve twenty eight left in the
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Speaker 4: third quarter that made the score fourteen to nine. The
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Speaker 4: rest of the game possessions will go as follows. Interception, hunt, hunt, punt, hunt, humble, fumble.
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Speaker 4: Not an exciting game if you're looking for scores there,
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Speaker 4: nass No.
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Speaker 1: I mean when the last score in the games with
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Speaker 1: twelve twenty eight left in the third quarter, that's tough.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, granted, I'm a former defensive guy. I like
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Speaker 1: defense so to a point, right, But c J Stroud
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Speaker 1: it was a close game though. With game on the line,
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Speaker 1: he went eight plays fifty seven yards, get some right
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Speaker 1: there up on the doorstep of the red zone, but
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Speaker 1: unfortunately dier ungab Walle fumble the football. Nate Ladman punched
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Speaker 1: it out, securing the victory for the Rams. Matthew Stafford,
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Speaker 1: he encouraged his Hall of Fame resume, honestly, joining the
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Speaker 1: sixth sixty thousand yards passing club finished the day twenty
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Speaker 1: one to twenty nine, two hundred and forty five yards
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Speaker 1: in one touchdown, tenth person only to reach sixty thousand yards.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. We've talked about this a lot about
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Speaker 1: Matthew Safford. Back and forth they say the Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame or is he not? I think we both kind
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Speaker 1: of leaned towards yes, given the Super Bowl that he won.
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Speaker 1: But increasing that resume, Kyle Williams on the ground, he
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Speaker 1: had sixty six yards on eighteen carries and a touchdown.
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Speaker 1: And Pookinakuh who went crazy ten receptions, one hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirty yards. But did you see him come back to
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Speaker 1: the game after he got his helmet knocked off? He
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Speaker 1: had that big gash in his head.
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Speaker 3: I didn't see that.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Yeah, no, he was a savage for that.
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Speaker 2: Came right back.
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Speaker 1: He had blood running all down, got stitches, came back
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Speaker 1: and still got after the Houston Texans on fulp side
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Speaker 1: CD Stroud nineteen to twenty seven, one eighty eight, zero touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: one interception, the Rams taking on the Titans on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the next matchup, you have the Cardinals at the Saints.
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Speaker 4: The Cardinals went down to New Orleans and held on
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Speaker 4: for a close twenty to thirteen win and ruined the
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Speaker 4: debut of New Saints head coach Kellen Moore. You know,
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Speaker 4: you know it's gonna be tough for the Saints. Man
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Speaker 4: Kellen Moore, God, bless your heart. Get those guys. Roster
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Speaker 4: Tosser e man, he's doing his thing down by a touchdown.
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Speaker 4: The Saints got the ball back with a minute forty
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Speaker 4: nine left in the game. Spencer Raler led them down
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Speaker 4: the field to the Cardinals twenty four yard line, but
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Speaker 4: after four incomplete passes, the Cardinals turned the ball over
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Speaker 4: on downs and that was the end of the game.
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Speaker 4: The Saints tight end Drawn Johnson had both hands on
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Speaker 4: a potential tying catch of the goal line in the
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Speaker 4: final seconds, but safeties Booda Baker and Jalen Thompson knocked
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Speaker 4: that thing out.
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Speaker 3: That was a.
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Speaker 4: Beautifully placed ball too. Yeah yeah, So you put it
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Speaker 4: right where only his guy can get it. Gave himself
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Speaker 4: an opportunity, couldn't get it done. That's a tough one.
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Speaker 4: Kyler Murray finished the day twenty one to twenty nine
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Speaker 4: for one to sixty three and two touchdowns. Marvin Harrison
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Speaker 4: Junior had five for seventy one in a touchdown.
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Speaker 3: Spencer was twenty seven for forty seven.
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Speaker 4: It's gonna be twenty seven for forty six two fourteen
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Speaker 4: zero touchdowns, zero interceptions and Kamar had fifty seven total
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Speaker 4: yards in one touchdown. The Cardinals host the Panthers next week,
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Speaker 4: and the Saints host the forty nine ers.
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Speaker 1: So the Cardinals great road, right, we'll call it like
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Speaker 1: what it was, but the Saints said every opportunity. I
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Speaker 1: actually thought Spencer Radler played okay. You know, I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of people have made their feelings known about
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Speaker 1: Spencer Radler just from his Netflix show like ten years ago,
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Speaker 1: and I think he's still paying for that unfortunately.
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Speaker 2: But no, he played well. The Cardinals.
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Speaker 1: They get a road victory, and it'll be interesting to
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Speaker 1: see about the forty nine ers. Obviously we know what
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Speaker 1: happened in their game against the Seahawks, but they're banged
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Speaker 1: up both. Purty looks like he's at for a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks. Jennings is dealing with some stuff Kittle on
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Speaker 1: the IR and again, I think when you look at
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Speaker 1: that game, obviously you're not hoping for injuries. But I
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Speaker 1: think we look at it you saying this is a physical,
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Speaker 1: physical football team, right right. The forty nine Ers came
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Speaker 1: out of there with a victory, but limping around after
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Speaker 1: the game, it's just showing that, like between both those teams.
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Speaker 1: That's a physical matchup. That's how those games are played,
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Speaker 1: and that's kind of the toll you play playing in
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Speaker 1: the NFC West.
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Speaker 2: But we will turn.
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Speaker 1: Our attention back to those Steelers. Manu hey, who you got.
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Speaker 3: Who you got?
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Speaker 2: You know what time it is?
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Speaker 3: Man up, man up, brother, man up, man up.
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Speaker 2: On Hawk Talk like we always do. We started with
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Speaker 2: the quarterbacks, Aaron Rodgers.
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Speaker 1: We briefly talked about get go on the Seahawks defense
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Speaker 1: from twenty five to twenty twenty two. Aaron Rodgers put
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Speaker 1: together a Hall of Fame career with the Packers. There's
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Speaker 1: no doubt about that. He made the Pro Bowl ten times,
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Speaker 1: four time MVP, four time All Pro, Super Bowl Champ,
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP. His stats, he's thrown for just as
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Speaker 1: just with the Packers five thousand and one for seven thousand,
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Speaker 1: six hundred and sixty fifty nine thousand and fifty five yards,
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Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy five touchdowns, one hundred and five interceptions,
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Speaker 1: and a record of one forty seven, seventy five and
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Speaker 1: one in the regular season. So that's a Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame career resume right there.
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Speaker 3: See that on paper is kind of crazy. Yes, that's
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Speaker 3: kind of crazy.
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Speaker 1: However you feel about him personally, he is a Hall
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Speaker 1: of Fame quarterback, yes, sure, but obviously since he's left
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Speaker 1: Green Bay has not always been greener. On the other side,
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Speaker 1: he's definitely struggled. Four snaps in to the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: three season, BLEU's achilles done whole year. Everything Jets leading
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Speaker 1: up to that twenty twenty three is gone came back
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Speaker 1: last season. When you look at the numbers, they're not
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Speaker 1: as bad as you would think, given the team was
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Speaker 1: five and twelve. He was three sixty eight for five
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Speaker 1: to eighty four, three eight and ninety seven yards, twenty
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Speaker 1: eight touchdowns, eleven interceptions, but was sacked forty different times.
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Speaker 1: His Steelers ab we mentioned he turned back the clock,
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Speaker 1: going twenty two to thirty two forty four four touchdowns
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Speaker 1: to one interception, shows like he's got some stuff in tank.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough challenge for the Seahawks, but the
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Speaker 1: Jets were able to sack Rogers four times, so I'm
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Speaker 1: hoping the Seahawks can build off of that. I mentioned
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Speaker 1: it earlier. The Seahawks defense got after brock party prussuring
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Speaker 1: him fifty seven percent of time. That was the most
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Speaker 1: he had ever been pressured. And so I'm I'm looking forward.
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Speaker 1: I'm optimistic to what the Seahawks can do to bring
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Speaker 1: pressure against Aaron Rodgers, because you're gonna need to because
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Speaker 1: if you give him time back during the pocket, he
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Speaker 1: can dice you up and make you look bad. And honestly,
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Speaker 1: the snap counts another thing. Man, He's the best in
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Speaker 1: the game at drawing people outside. So Aaron Rodgers can
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Speaker 1: still play and he will definitely be a challenge for
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Speaker 1: these Seahawks.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Man, he can still throw that thing. He can work
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Speaker 4: from the pocket. He's got good eyes, he knows the game,
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Speaker 4: so get after him. Create some pressure. Let's talk about
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Speaker 4: an our quarterback, Sam Donald against the Steelers defense. Sam
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Speaker 4: Darnald made his much anticipated debut for the Seahawks first
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Speaker 4: the forty nine Ers. He was an efficient sixteen to
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Speaker 4: twenty three that's sixty nine percent for one fifty and
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Speaker 4: a QB rating of eighty seven point two. He did
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Speaker 4: not throw any touchdowns, but he also took care of
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Speaker 4: the football with no interceptions. Heklach might be down and
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Speaker 4: said this about Sam Donald's performance. I thought he played fast.
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Speaker 4: I thought he played decisive, took care of the ball.
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Speaker 4: He put us in a lot of great positions, but unfortunately,
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Speaker 4: let's go close it out. He's talking about that fumble
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Speaker 4: at the end of the game where he got some pressure,
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Speaker 4: was looking for K nine in the flat.
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Speaker 3: Just not able to do it.
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Speaker 4: The Seahawks only ran fifty plays against the forty nine
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Speaker 4: ers and we're three of ten on third downs. That's
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Speaker 4: not gonna get her done. Three or ten on third downs.
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Speaker 4: He got to be able to keep these drives going.
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Speaker 4: They were not able to do it. So it'll be
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Speaker 4: interesting to see what Sam Donald does against these guys
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Speaker 4: when he gets more opportunity, more plays, and this be
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Speaker 4: this decisive guy that we saw last week, and he
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Speaker 4: should be okay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think if you don't come up in third
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Speaker 1: and long situations, staying on the field, it's a lot.
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Speaker 1: You know, how do you improve third down? You're better
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Speaker 1: in first and second. Now, I think that's that's the
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Speaker 1: main thing. Last year, the Steelers were twelfth in total defense,
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Speaker 1: twenty fifth against the pass. Last week against the Jets
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Speaker 1: out three hundred niney four yards two hundred and twelve
15:23
Speaker 1: through the air. Now, I mentioned Jalen Warren who the
15:27
Speaker 1: Steelers have a complete remake of their running back room.
15:30
Speaker 1: Warren has been on the team. This is going to
15:32
Speaker 1: his fourth season, but the Steelers did say goodbye to
15:34
Speaker 1: Najie Harris, who was a former first round pick at Alabama.
15:37
Speaker 1: They're starting running back. He had four straight seasons with
15:40
Speaker 1: a thousand yards for them, so he was incredibly productive.
15:43
Speaker 1: But the Steelers decided they were going to commit to
15:45
Speaker 1: Warren and who signed a two year extension with a
15:47
Speaker 1: team coming out of training camp. Really cool thing. I
15:50
Speaker 1: played small college football, so I always love different stories
15:53
Speaker 1: and where Warren has come from. To go from junior
15:55
Speaker 1: college in Utah where he was the NJCA National Offensive
15:59
Speaker 1: Player of the Year. Then he transfers to Utah State
16:01
Speaker 1: where he played for two seasons before transciting to Oklahoma State.
16:05
Speaker 1: We're he had twelve one hundred yards eleven touchdowns as
16:07
Speaker 1: a fifty year senior, signs with the Steers as undrafted
16:10
Speaker 1: free agent, and then now obviously here is getting an
16:12
Speaker 1: extension and is the guy in Pittsburgh. So definitely a
16:15
Speaker 1: cool story. You root for him there, but he's a
16:18
Speaker 1: good football player, bump. He is someone that the Seahawks
16:20
Speaker 1: are definitely gonna need to contain. I think defensively, the
16:23
Speaker 1: Seahawks did a good job against probably one of the
16:25
Speaker 1: best running backs in the league last week with Christian McCaffrey.
16:28
Speaker 1: McCaffrey didn't he had some plays obviously with McCaffrey's tough
16:31
Speaker 1: because he's receiving and running the football, so he's kind
16:33
Speaker 1: of a total package in terms of trying to stop him.
16:36
Speaker 1: But Warren is a guy that you know, given what
16:39
Speaker 1: the Seahaws did against McCaffrey and the Niners, holding him
16:42
Speaker 1: a three point six yards per carry, I'm hoping that
16:44
Speaker 1: they that can continue this week because he's a good
16:46
Speaker 1: football player.
16:47
Speaker 4: He's a big boy man at Warren Warrener is a
16:49
Speaker 4: big running back, So wrap him up, get him down
16:51
Speaker 4: to the ground.
16:51
Speaker 3: Let's talk about our running backs.
16:53
Speaker 4: You know, the running game was gonna be an emphasis
16:55
Speaker 4: for the squad this year, but the Hawks rush for
16:58
Speaker 4: eighty four yards on twenty six carres. You I wanted
17:00
Speaker 4: to see more out of that, but it's all good.
17:02
Speaker 4: They can improve, but there was some balance to the
17:04
Speaker 4: game as well. Sharbonnet had twelve carries for forty seven
17:07
Speaker 4: yards and the touchdown Walker had ten carries for twenty yards.
17:10
Speaker 3: You expect these guys to perform a bit better.
17:12
Speaker 4: I think once they get the flow of this offense,
17:15
Speaker 4: offensive lineman play a little better. Combined with the vision,
17:17
Speaker 4: they should be okay. In twenty twenty four, Walker rush
17:20
Speaker 4: for one hundred and fifty three carries, five hundred and
17:23
Speaker 4: seventy three yards and seven touchdowns.
17:25
Speaker 3: He did miss a few games.
17:26
Speaker 4: Sharbonne had one hundred and thirty five carries for five
17:29
Speaker 4: sixty nine and eight touchdowns. So I'm hoping the Seahogs
17:33
Speaker 4: will really find their run game against the Steelers. They
17:35
Speaker 4: struggled a bunch against the Jets last week. They allowed
17:38
Speaker 4: one hundred and eighty two rushing yards on thirty nine
17:40
Speaker 4: Carris given a four point seven per carry. Breise Hall
17:44
Speaker 4: had one hundred and seven yards on nineteen carries. We're
17:46
Speaker 4: hoping Walker and Sharvion name have similar success.
17:49
Speaker 2: Yeah.
17:50
Speaker 1: I mean that's a lot of yards, and you wouldn't
17:52
Speaker 1: think that because I think we were talking about this.
17:54
Speaker 1: I think this was on the Insiders podcast earlier. But
17:56
Speaker 1: when you think Steelers, you associate them with defense. Mike Tomlin,
17:59
Speaker 1: you think defense when you think Steelers, you don't think
18:01
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty two yards on the ground, and
18:04
Speaker 1: that's I think this could be a perfect storm for
18:06
Speaker 1: the Seahawks get their run game on track because we
18:08
Speaker 1: know that's what Glinn Kubiak wants to do. We know
18:10
Speaker 1: what this team wants to do, and they're built for it.
18:12
Speaker 1: This is just they're close, right. I think this might
18:15
Speaker 1: be a good opportunity for the Seahawks to get that
18:17
Speaker 1: done this week. And we got to talk about an
18:20
Speaker 1: old friend, old friend, an old friend, Dk Metcalf for
18:25
Speaker 1: the past six seasons. When we're talking about Dk Metcalf,
18:29
Speaker 1: if his name was on one of our sheets, it's
18:30
Speaker 1: because it was notes about where he ranked in the
18:33
Speaker 1: Seahawks history, usually the fastest to whatever you want to
18:36
Speaker 1: call it. He's essentially, you know, up there in the
18:38
Speaker 1: record books only behind see large and Tyle Lockett is
18:41
Speaker 1: the fastest to do anything in this in a Seahawks uniform.
18:44
Speaker 1: He still holds a single season record for receiving yards
18:47
Speaker 1: at one three hundred three yards, which he set back
18:49
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. I think Jay Sen is gonna break
18:52
Speaker 1: that this year.
18:52
Speaker 2: Bump. So that's a hot take. We can check the
18:55
Speaker 2: tape later in the year. If I'm right on that.
18:57
Speaker 2: If I'm not, we'll just ignore it.
18:59
Speaker 1: You never said it, but Metcalf, you can't deny his
19:02
Speaker 1: success in Seattle four one hundred and thirty eight receptions,
19:05
Speaker 1: six three and twenty four yards, forty eight touchdowns, also
19:08
Speaker 1: a two time Pro bowler I think one year is
19:10
Speaker 1: also second team All Pro. And now Metcalf's got another
19:14
Speaker 1: dude throwing the ball, Aaron Rodgers in his debut four
19:16
Speaker 1: receptions for eighty three yards and just hearing stuff coming
19:19
Speaker 1: out of Pittsburgh. He's going to try to treat this
19:22
Speaker 1: like any other game. Of course, what you what else
19:24
Speaker 1: is he gonna say?
19:24
Speaker 2: What you gotta say?
19:25
Speaker 1: It's hard, of course it's gonna be hard. There's emotions
19:27
Speaker 1: in the game. This organization took a chance on DK Metcalf,
19:31
Speaker 1: everyone thought some people thought that was were reaching the
19:33
Speaker 1: second round, and obviously DK proved how good of a
19:35
Speaker 1: football player he was and how much he meant to
19:37
Speaker 1: this organization over the years. So it'll be interesting to
19:39
Speaker 1: see how that matchup goes. And then lining up alongside
19:42
Speaker 1: DK is Calvin Austin the third thirty season out of Memphis,
19:46
Speaker 1: former fourth round pick. He's coming off his best season
19:49
Speaker 1: last year. We had thirty six receptions five hundred and
19:51
Speaker 1: forty eight yards in four touchdowns five to nine hundred
19:54
Speaker 1: and sixty two pounds. But he's explosive and he's a
19:57
Speaker 1: home run threat every time he touches the football. He's
19:59
Speaker 1: dangerous the slot. They'll move him around, and he's a
20:01
Speaker 1: really good football player as well.
20:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, they got some options over there, and what
20:05
Speaker 4: they do is they hit these guys underneath. They're not
20:08
Speaker 4: throwing the football down the field very far. They're getting
20:10
Speaker 4: DK the ball quickly. Talk about Colin Austin, They're getting
20:12
Speaker 4: him the ball quickly. So they got some options over there.
20:15
Speaker 4: And Arthur Smith is doing a good job designing this
20:17
Speaker 4: offense to fit Aaron Rodgers or honestly, Aaron Rodgers just
20:21
Speaker 4: fitting into the design of Arthur Smith offense. So yeah, man,
20:25
Speaker 4: they got some options. And guys like Reek Spoon love Kobe.
20:30
Speaker 4: They practice against DK, so they know some of his habits.
20:32
Speaker 4: They can pick up all some tailtale signs and hopefully
20:35
Speaker 4: help these guys out.
20:36
Speaker 3: So we'll see how that matchup goes.
20:37
Speaker 4: Let's talk about JSN Cooper Cup against Ramsey, Darius Slay
20:41
Speaker 4: and Joey Porter Junior, the second Porter to.
20:44
Speaker 3: Play for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
20:46
Speaker 4: JSN has continued to establish himself as the number one
20:49
Speaker 4: guy in Seattle when it comes to that receiver room.
20:52
Speaker 4: And he had a good game against the forty nine ers.
20:54
Speaker 4: Nine receptions fo one hundred and twenty four yards on
20:57
Speaker 4: thirteen targets.
20:58
Speaker 3: That was his fourth one hundred yard game.
20:59
Speaker 4: If it feels like he's had more than just four
21:01
Speaker 4: of them things, But you know what, you're the stat guy.
21:04
Speaker 3: Stats don't live. It was his fourth one.
21:07
Speaker 4: His one hundred and twenty four yards were third most
21:09
Speaker 4: in the NFL through Week one. In fact, according to
21:12
Speaker 4: NFL next Gen Stats, Smith and Jabu coounted for ninety
21:15
Speaker 4: one percent of the Seahawks air yards in a game,
21:17
Speaker 4: the sixth highest air yard chair by a receiver in
21:20
Speaker 4: a game since at least twenty sixteen. So what you're
21:23
Speaker 4: saying is, whenever the ball was thrown and there was
21:25
Speaker 4: a completion and there was some yards, it was probably
21:27
Speaker 4: from Json.
21:29
Speaker 2: Yeah.
21:29
Speaker 1: No, I mean, coach McDonald said it can't be the
21:31
Speaker 1: Jack show. We want to spread that along. But that
21:34
Speaker 1: being said, he's performing for a reason. And coach also
21:38
Speaker 1: said those were the right place to make Sam. It's
21:40
Speaker 1: not like Sam was forcing it in there. JSN was
21:42
Speaker 1: open and he got in the football.
21:44
Speaker 2: Yep.
21:44
Speaker 4: And now we need Cooper Cup right, he didn't have
21:46
Speaker 4: a real productive day. He was on the field forty
21:48
Speaker 4: six snaps as eighty eight percent of the stats, but
21:51
Speaker 4: was only targeted three times. He drove a pass in aparence,
21:54
Speaker 4: but only had two receptions for fifteen yards.
21:57
Speaker 3: So there's a reason why that happens sometimes.
22:00
Speaker 4: Then, like you mentioned, you got your quarterback who's just
22:02
Speaker 4: going through his reeds and if you're open, you're open,
22:05
Speaker 4: and receivers we depend on a lot to get.
22:08
Speaker 3: The football right.
22:09
Speaker 4: The quarterback first snap the football, all line for tags,
22:12
Speaker 4: quarterback drops, the right covers for your route, you go
22:15
Speaker 4: through your progression, then you get the football.
22:18
Speaker 3: So I feel it's pain because I've been a receiver.
22:20
Speaker 4: I was gonna say he's ran fifty sixty routes and
22:23
Speaker 4: then touch that ball one time. So Cooper Cup, you
22:26
Speaker 4: hang in there, man, you hang in there. But they're
22:28
Speaker 4: going up against one of the best dbs of the
22:31
Speaker 4: last generation in Jalen Ramsey.
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Speaker 1: Yeah Ramsey, I mean I don't think he's a player.
22:36
Speaker 1: He wasn't necessarily in Jacksonville or in the Rams won
22:38
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, but he can still play. I think
22:40
Speaker 1: that was evident on the last play against the Jets
22:42
Speaker 1: where he kind of broke up that play with Garret
22:44
Speaker 1: Wilson there to kind of seal the deal with the
22:47
Speaker 1: essentially a game winning pass breakup. But Ramsey's a dog.
22:50
Speaker 1: His resume speaks for herself. Seven time Pro Bowler, three
22:53
Speaker 1: time first seam All Pro. His last Pro Bowl season
22:55
Speaker 1: was in twenty twenty three. Last year, he had sixty tackles,
22:58
Speaker 1: eleven pass defend and two in or seven fins, two sacks,
23:01
Speaker 1: six TFLs and four QB hits. So he's still productive. Yeah,
23:04
Speaker 1: no question about it. Then you got Darius Slay. I mean,
23:07
Speaker 1: this is a veteran secondary. Got to be the most
23:10
Speaker 1: veteran secondary in National Football League. Darius Slay adds thirteen
23:13
Speaker 1: NFL seasons and he's a six nine Pro Bowler, one
23:15
Speaker 1: time first team All Pro, Super Bowl champion in Philly.
23:18
Speaker 1: Spent his first seven years in Detroit. In the last
23:21
Speaker 1: five years in Philly before coming to Pittsburgh twenty twenty four,
23:24
Speaker 1: he had forty nine tackles thirteen passes defended, one fourth fumble,
23:27
Speaker 1: one fumble recovery in three TFLs.
23:30
Speaker 4: And then you got the youngster Joey Porter Junior, the
23:33
Speaker 4: son of longtime still a linebacker, Joey Porter.
23:36
Speaker 3: Porter was a starter from day one.
23:38
Speaker 4: He was the first pick of the second round in
23:40
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three and he's day to day with a
23:43
Speaker 4: hamstring injury, so we'll see how that works out for him.
23:46
Speaker 4: But his career stats one hundred and fourteen tackles, two interceptions,
23:49
Speaker 4: seventeen passes defendant and three TFLs. If Porter plays, this
23:53
Speaker 4: is a really talented group.
23:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a matchup still that I would I would
24:00
Speaker 1: lean on our guys is from where Jasnza and Cooper Cup.
24:03
Speaker 1: We want to talk about veteran experience against some done,
24:05
Speaker 1: but this is one of those matchups. I feel like
24:07
Speaker 1: for years, it's funny that they're on the same team.
24:09
Speaker 1: I would love to see what Steelers practice has been
24:11
Speaker 1: like because for years when we would talk about Seahawks
24:13
Speaker 1: and Rams, who are we talking about?
24:14
Speaker 2: We were talking about DK and Jyalen.
24:16
Speaker 1: Ramsey and say, hey, get your popular ready because you
24:18
Speaker 1: know those two are john and having a conversation so
24:21
Speaker 1: that that should be fun how those go. And then
24:23
Speaker 1: our last matchup, Bump, we want to flip it over
24:25
Speaker 1: to TJ.
24:26
Speaker 2: Watt. I think people are pretty familiar with that name.
24:29
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: He's been one of the best players in the NFL
24:31
Speaker 1: for a long time. Broke out of his brother's shadow
24:34
Speaker 1: a long time ago. Because he's gonna be a Hall
24:36
Speaker 1: of Famer as well. Yeah, I mean seven consecutive Pro Bowls,
24:39
Speaker 1: four time first Team All Pro, Defensive Player of the
24:42
Speaker 1: Year twenty twenty one, the second team All Pro in
24:44
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, leads the NFL Saxson's twenty seventeen.
24:47
Speaker 2: So he's been doing it for a long time.
24:50
Speaker 4: Could you imagine what their conversations are like at home,
24:52
Speaker 4: this at the dinner table, just talking about the greatness
24:55
Speaker 4: that the Watt family has over there.
24:58
Speaker 3: It is dumb man.
24:59
Speaker 4: And last year he had sixty one tackles, eleven and
25:01
Speaker 4: a half sacks, twenty seven quarterback hits, four passes defended,
25:04
Speaker 4: six forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries in nineteen TFLs. Like
25:09
Speaker 4: Nick Bosam, TJ. Watt will be problem number one for
25:11
Speaker 4: the Seahawks offensive line. On Sunday, you know, I felt
25:14
Speaker 4: like there was gonna get a break after Nick Bosa
25:16
Speaker 4: just tore everything up. And then I remember that mister
25:19
Speaker 4: Watt plays on this team as well. It's another challenge,
25:23
Speaker 4: but it's almost a gift that you get Nick Bosa
25:26
Speaker 4: the first week to get you ready, right, like, remind
25:29
Speaker 4: you this is the NFL.
25:31
Speaker 3: And then you go up against wat week two.
25:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, and again I mean Nick Bosa, he did make
25:36
Speaker 1: the play at the end of the game.
25:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, But I'll.
25:37
Speaker 1: Say this, I would if you would have told me
25:40
Speaker 1: going to that game that the Niners only have one sack,
25:43
Speaker 1: I would sign up for that any day of the week.
25:45
Speaker 2: For sure, and I would sign up for it again
25:47
Speaker 2: on Sunday.
25:47
Speaker 1: If the Steelers have one sacks throughout the game, the
25:49
Speaker 1: Meins offensive line is playing well.
25:50
Speaker 2: They did their job last week.
25:52
Speaker 1: TJ had five tackles, two TFLs in one past defended.
25:55
Speaker 1: So we'll see how the Seahawks offend him. But to
25:59
Speaker 1: get a victor, get the first victory of the twenty
26:01
Speaker 1: twenty five season, we'll let you know path the victory.
26:05
Speaker 2: After forty five waits for.
26:07
Speaker 3: The staff, Michael Vickton puts it down.
26:09
Speaker 2: That kick is away.
26:10
Speaker 3: If that kick is gone, good day off win bit's gun,
26:15
Speaker 3: It's a path to victory.
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Speaker 2: On Hawk Talk, first East coach trip of the season.
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Speaker 1: The Seahawks have been great in that time slot over
26:22
Speaker 1: the years twenty seven and eleven in their last thirty
26:25
Speaker 1: eight and have been great on the road under coach McDonald.
26:28
Speaker 1: Last year, the Seahawks went seven to one, tying a
26:30
Speaker 1: franchise record. So with the win on Sunday, it will be
26:34
Speaker 1: their seventh consecutive road win, which would also set a
26:36
Speaker 1: franchise record. So the recipes there, the Seahawks know how
26:39
Speaker 1: to deal with the travel and in these games that
26:43
Speaker 1: are early, you know, ten am start on Pacific time.
26:45
Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to it.
26:46
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this, this team going across the country,
26:49
Speaker 1: getting their first win and really showing again another opportunity
26:52
Speaker 1: Mike McDonald could show this team can play a style
26:54
Speaker 1: of football that no one wants to play.
26:56
Speaker 3: Yep.
26:56
Speaker 4: But on offense, you gotta find a way to run
26:59
Speaker 4: the football. Deals gave up a buck eighty two on
27:01
Speaker 4: the ground last week. Come on, make them continue to
27:05
Speaker 4: be who they've been or who they were last week,
27:07
Speaker 4: and be better on third downs three for ten the
27:09
Speaker 4: third downs fifty percent. That's not going to be enough.
27:11
Speaker 4: You got to sustain these drives, so run the football.
27:14
Speaker 4: Be better on third.
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Speaker 1: Down, yeah, no, absolutely, And to be better on third down,
27:17
Speaker 1: you got to be better on first and second down,
27:19
Speaker 1: which I think these guys are up for the challenge.
27:20
Speaker 1: And Cooper Cup needs to be more involved. He is
27:22
Speaker 1: one of the best receivers of this generation. Three targets
27:26
Speaker 1: probably not enough, and we know all thinks, so we
27:28
Speaker 1: talked about it all the different factors of why things happen.
27:30
Speaker 1: But I really love to see him get involved early
27:33
Speaker 1: and often and defensively, keep getting after the quarterback. Front
27:36
Speaker 1: seven looked great last week. Let's just make sure we
27:38
Speaker 1: get home a little.
27:38
Speaker 4: Bit more, get after the quarterback, and get off the
27:41
Speaker 4: field on third downs. The nine ers were seven or
27:43
Speaker 4: fourteen last week when it comes to third down conversions,
27:46
Speaker 4: and keep taking the ball away. You have two interceptions,
27:48
Speaker 4: you blocked a field goal, you had a gift with
27:51
Speaker 4: a miss field goal. Just keep causing chaos and keep
27:54
Speaker 4: these guys a bit nervous.
27:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And shout out to the Seahawk special
27:58
Speaker 1: team unit. I think if any unit came out looking
28:01
Speaker 1: real clean after last week. It was a special team
28:03
Speaker 1: for coach Harbor in that unit, and the Seahawks showed
28:07
Speaker 1: a lot of good things against Fort NAIs. This is
28:09
Speaker 1: their opportunity to put it all together. Go Wan to O,
28:11
Speaker 1: get Seahawks back on track as they come back home
28:14
Speaker 1: to the Saints the following week. Reminder, you can hear
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