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Hawk Talk - Recapping Week 11: Seahawks vs. Cardinals · Hawk Talk

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver
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Speaker 1: Michael Bumpus at the ten yard line. Second to D
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Speaker 1: eight three wide receivers now in motion has Bumpas left
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Speaker 1: to right, Julius Jones with single setback Matt Pupfeck's looking
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Speaker 1: at 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 Puppas 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. You
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Speaker 1: are listening to Hawk Talk Recap edition with Michael Bumpas
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Speaker 1: along with Nasa Choby. Does Seahawks beat the Cardinals twenty
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Speaker 1: eight to twenty one and get some revenge? And like
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Speaker 1: we always do, let's go into the trenches with Ray
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Speaker 1: Robinson talk about it. It's time to go inside the
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Speaker 1: trenches with former Seahawk Ray Roberts. Big Ray, Good morning man,
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Speaker 1: How you doing. I'm hanging in that big dog. How
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Speaker 1: are you feeling? Hey? All is well over here. The
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Speaker 1: Hawks get it done, like I mentioned, twenty eight to
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Speaker 1: twenty one and the very first thing I had to
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Speaker 1: ask you before the game. A little birdie told us
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Speaker 1: that Damian Lewis might be playing center. The rookie goes
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Speaker 1: out there, stumbles at first. I believe he had what
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Speaker 1: a fumble he got be and he had a penalty.
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Speaker 1: Other than that, did he settle down? Did he get going?
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Speaker 1: What you see out of the youngster? You know, for
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Speaker 1: what he was being asked to do, a lot of
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Speaker 1: those things were to be expected. I thought it was
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Speaker 1: a little unfair for them to run a pass play
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Speaker 1: on his very first snap. I thought they should have
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Speaker 1: maybe given him a chance to just fire off the
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Speaker 1: ball a little bit, just to kind of get his
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Speaker 1: seat wet. But after that, I think he settled down
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Speaker 1: and he played pretty good. The one thing I like
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Speaker 1: about Damian Lewis is that, you know, in the press
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Speaker 1: conference after the game, he said that he told the
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Speaker 1: coach that he will do whatever he has to do,
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Speaker 1: And to me, that means to do this just a
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Speaker 1: football player. It doesn't matter where you put him. He's
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Speaker 1: tending to figure it out, gone to figure out a
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Speaker 1: way to be successful in it. As a game went on,
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Speaker 1: and he looked a little bit more comfortable with it,
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Speaker 1: and you have to also consider that when you're playing
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Speaker 1: in that position. He's never had to do a double
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Speaker 1: team with Mikey Potty. He's never had to do a
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Speaker 1: double team with Jamarco Jones, you know, so like it's
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Speaker 1: even just the people around him made it was a
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Speaker 1: little bit uncomfortable. But I thought he played pretty good.
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Speaker 1: This is a good game to put him there. They
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Speaker 1: had a lot of injuries on the defensive line, so
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Speaker 1: maybe not as talented of a player that he was
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Speaker 1: playing against. And I think he settled into what they
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Speaker 1: were asking him to do and he did a good job. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm with you, Ray. People think that you can just
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Speaker 1: switch positions on that offensive line and it's all gravy.
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Speaker 1: Now there's some adjustments that needs to be made. I
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Speaker 1: was happy the young man got it done. Now, all year,
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Speaker 1: you've been asking this football team to really implement the run,
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Speaker 1: not to just be run heavy, but to have purpose.
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Speaker 1: I believe is what you said. With your run. We
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Speaker 1: saw that last night were Carlos hide. I think as
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Speaker 1: a team they rushed for one hundred sick five yards.
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Speaker 1: How did you feel about the balance that we saw
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Speaker 1: last night? You know, I loved it because, uh it
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Speaker 1: looked like a like it looked like one game plan,
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Speaker 1: and I think that was the word I kept I've
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Speaker 1: been using this. They needed to marry the run game
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Speaker 1: to the passing game. And so it didn't really matter
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Speaker 1: to me if they dropped back and through it forty
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Speaker 1: times and only ran it twenty times, as long as
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Speaker 1: those twenty runs were part of an offensive game plan
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Speaker 1: and not like they, oh, well, maybe we should run
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Speaker 1: it right here. So it really felt like a really
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Speaker 1: cohesive game plan. And so then it just so happened
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Speaker 1: that you had a veteran running back back there, a
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Speaker 1: guy that's more north and south uh and can and
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Speaker 1: can turn a five yard game into eight or nine
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Speaker 1: or ten yard game or two yard game into a
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Speaker 1: five yard game. Uh. And so he was able to
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Speaker 1: find the creases that the offensive line was creating and
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Speaker 1: and get and finding that space and getting those yards.
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Speaker 1: So I was really pleased with the way he looks.
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Speaker 1: He looks fresh, He looked u quick and and and agile.
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Speaker 1: And then I'm telling you this offensive one wants to
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Speaker 1: run the football. And I think that that they This
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Speaker 1: was a statement game for them, not just to the
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Speaker 1: fans of Seattle, but to the to the coaching staff
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Speaker 1: of Seattle that we can do this. Put someone back there,
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Speaker 1: give us an opportunity to get into a rhythm running
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Speaker 1: the ball, and we can You know, not that you
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Speaker 1: can pick any guy off the street to put back there,
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Speaker 1: but if you have a quality like I really feel
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Speaker 1: like if DJ Dallas had had to play last night,
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Speaker 1: with the way the offensive line was blocking, he would
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Speaker 1: have been close to some of the same production because
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Speaker 1: it would have been it would have been hard to
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Speaker 1: miss the holes that were there. Yeah, I agree that
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Speaker 1: offensive line seemed like they had some pepp in the
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Speaker 1: steff firing off the football, Dwayne Brown doing what he does,
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Speaker 1: dominating guys as well. Now, Russell Wilson, he's been getting
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Speaker 1: some heat over the last few weeks, been turning the
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Speaker 1: football over. He seemed to make better decisions last night,
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Speaker 1: tuck the ball and ran. I believe he had ten
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Speaker 1: carries last night for about sixty yards. What did you
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Speaker 1: see out of Russell Wilson? Did you like his decision making? It?
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Speaker 1: Is this the type of game you feel like the
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Speaker 1: Hawks need from him? Yeah? I think so, because you know,
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Speaker 1: we talked before the game about there was just this
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Speaker 1: idea that they were simplifying the game for Russell. And
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Speaker 1: Russell was a really smart, smart guy, and he knows
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Speaker 1: this offense as well as anybody. So it wasn't a
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Speaker 1: matter of Russell not being able to process what the
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Speaker 1: defense was doing or what they were trying to get
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Speaker 1: done on the offense. I think, like I said before,
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Speaker 1: I think it was a clarification of what are our
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Speaker 1: desired outcomes. A desired outcomes or to move the ball,
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Speaker 1: you know, advanced the ball down to field, score points,
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Speaker 1: win the game. It wasn't to throw fifty touchdowns or
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Speaker 1: get MVP votes or let Russ do whatever people want
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Speaker 1: him to do in the kitchen. It was to get
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Speaker 1: move the ball down to field, score touchdowns and win
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Speaker 1: the football game. And so if you look at how
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Speaker 1: Russell was some role in the game, it's still his offense.
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Speaker 1: You know, there was a he mentioned in his press conference,
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Speaker 1: checking out of past plays and getting getting to run
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Speaker 1: plays that were favorable and those types of things. So
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Speaker 1: Russell has still been able to do his thing. Just
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Speaker 1: how he gets to doing those things may look a
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Speaker 1: little different. So I was really pleased with it. When
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Speaker 1: I was driving home last night, Uh, you know, I
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Speaker 1: was listening to some old Motown music and uh, and
6:23
Speaker 1: there were some songs I think I posted on that.
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Speaker 1: One was called I Miss You and the other one
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Speaker 1: was called the Undisputed Truth. And so I think that
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Speaker 1: last night, Uh, them returning to that old school type
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Speaker 1: of football that they've always played was is the formula
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Speaker 1: that they need. And then when you go into the game,
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Speaker 1: you need Russell to pass for four hundred yards. He
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Speaker 1: can still do that. But this is the foundation of
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Speaker 1: what this team is. This is the character of what
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Speaker 1: this team is. This is the soul of what Pete
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Speaker 1: Carroll brings to this organization. So it was good. It
6:55
Speaker 1: was good for them to revisit that, to kind of
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Speaker 1: calm themselves down and get them recentered. Yeah, I agree
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Speaker 1: with you. It's nice to just to see them win
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Speaker 1: in a variety of ways. Right, You don't just have
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Speaker 1: to win one way, and during the football season, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna be asked to win a bunch of different ways.
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Speaker 1: So I'm with you, Ray, this is old school Benches.
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson right here in twenty three or twenty eight,
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Speaker 1: two touchdowns, nothing overwhelming, but he got it done. So
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Speaker 1: now we showed the offense some love. We gotta go
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Speaker 1: over to this defense. Guys are not guys. Fans have
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Speaker 1: been yelling, oh, get rid of kid Norn. They don't
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Speaker 1: know what they're doing. One we taught everybody to calm down.
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Speaker 1: He is a professional. Pizzas professional. They're gonna go and
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Speaker 1: figure some things out. They were able to hold one
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Speaker 1: of the if not the best rushing offense to fifty
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Speaker 1: seven yards rushing. Kyler Murray had fifteen yards rushing and
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Speaker 1: no touchdowns. Previously this he had scored with his feet
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Speaker 1: and his arm in five consecutive games. What you see
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Speaker 1: out of this defense to really slow these guys down, Well,
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Speaker 1: what the first thing you saw was some help right
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Speaker 1: along the the defensive line. Uh, you know, getting getting
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Speaker 1: some of those guys healthy, Green and Mayoa back on
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Speaker 1: the on the field. Uh. And then they look like
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Speaker 1: they just played with more purpose. You know. I think
8:12
Speaker 1: you know in the press conference, it was a scene
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Speaker 1: throughout the press conference, this idea that there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of new pieces here that don't really know the culture
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Speaker 1: of this team because they weren't able to go through
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Speaker 1: those preseason games. They weren't able to go through those
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Speaker 1: those tough two of their practices and things like that
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Speaker 1: when they get to really get acclimated to what the
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Speaker 1: culture is here, and that may be it may sound
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Speaker 1: like a little uh, you know not it may sound
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Speaker 1: a little fruity, I guess as the word I can
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Speaker 1: come up with, because every team has a culture, so
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Speaker 1: to speak, but here it really is part of how
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Speaker 1: they play, how they think, how they go about it.
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Speaker 1: So you heard dun laugh talking about the positivity that's here, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, him celebrating with his his coach, h his
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Speaker 1: his you a nation, the excitement that he's gotten, him
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Speaker 1: sharing you know, uh plan to the fans that are
9:05
Speaker 1: not there, like all those types of things. You heard
9:08
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner talk about it like he wished that the
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Speaker 1: twelves were there so that the new guys could feel
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Speaker 1: what's that's like? You know. So I think more guys,
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Speaker 1: more of these new pieces, are starting to understand the
9:20
Speaker 1: not just the game plan, but just the philosophy of
9:23
Speaker 1: how they approach football here and what the culture in
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Speaker 1: the locker room is. And then then I think that
9:29
Speaker 1: starts to show up on the field. I mean, there's
9:31
Speaker 1: a there's a lot of new people. Even with the
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Speaker 1: injuries in the secondary, all the different guys that were
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Speaker 1: playing dudes that haven't been in this in this program
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Speaker 1: very long. Uh. It takes time to kind of you know,
9:42
Speaker 1: for the thing of Carlos dune Lass for for eleven years,
9:45
Speaker 1: he's in this basically losing uh program, and then he
9:49
Speaker 1: comes here and he's going like you have to question
9:52
Speaker 1: some of the positivity because you go like, man, like
9:54
Speaker 1: where I came from, this just wasn't flying, So it's
9:56
Speaker 1: kind of hard to receive that. But now I think
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Speaker 1: he sees how j anyone and uh, how genuine that is. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And now he's bought into it. So you saw the
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Speaker 1: excitement in this press Concy dude does the best press
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Speaker 1: conferences ever. But h but I think that's a big
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Speaker 1: part of the turnaround on the defense. I'm with you, Ray,
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Speaker 1: they're bought in and I'm bought into everything you say
10:17
Speaker 1: is you'd be spending that knowledge big home. Yeah, I
10:19
Speaker 1: appreciate you taking your time out of your day. Excuse
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Speaker 1: me your morning. How it going, man, Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's early. It felt like we've just walked out
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Speaker 1: of the stadium ten minutes ago. But uh, it's a
10:32
Speaker 1: good feeling. Uh to go into the the to the
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Speaker 1: saintsgiving week, Uh, feeling good about the Seahawks. The Seahawks
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Speaker 1: that are feeling good about how they played and where
10:40
Speaker 1: they're headed, and then the and then the home stretch
10:43
Speaker 1: of games are very favorable, favorable for them, So everyone
10:47
Speaker 1: has to be feeling a little bit better eating some
10:49
Speaker 1: of that uh that turkey. Uh next week. I'm with you,
10:55
Speaker 1: all right, Ray, I talked to you. Yeah, piece out
10:59
Speaker 1: all right. You know what, I'm not even gonna Let's
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Speaker 1: not even play no games. Let's bring NASA Choby in
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Speaker 1: and what had happened and let's holl at them see
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Speaker 1: what had happened. At first what had happened was un talking.
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Speaker 1: What had happened was is victory Friday here at the vMac,
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks takedown the Cardinals twenty eight, twenty one and bump.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, man, it feels good. It
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Speaker 1: feels we're so spoiled down here. It feels like it's been,
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Speaker 1: you know, three months since we had a victory out here. Man.
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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm jacked all fired up. Ray got me going.
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Speaker 1: The Seahawks get back to doing we talk about all
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Speaker 1: the time, and it's owning the NFC West. This is
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Speaker 1: the biggest win of the season, no question about it.
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Speaker 1: If they would have lost last night, it would have
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Speaker 1: really been difficult for them to get back in the division. Ray,
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Speaker 1: So it's a huge win to beat the Cardinals at home.
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Speaker 1: And the other thing, bump is the Seahawks got back
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Speaker 1: to what's been so successful over the entirety of the
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Speaker 1: Pete Carroll era, and that's a quality run game paired
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Speaker 1: with the defense that made plays, got off the field,
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Speaker 1: came down with big stops and that's just winning foot ball.
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Speaker 1: You know, we've all been talking about let Russ blank,
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Speaker 1: let Russ blank, all this stuff, this and that. While
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Speaker 1: we can still do that because Russell Wilson, in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: still the best player in football. He can still do
12:12
Speaker 1: all those things. You need to have some support. And
12:15
Speaker 1: the team look completely different last night, something we haven't
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Speaker 1: seen all year, because they were able to have a
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Speaker 1: successful run game and it definitely helped compliment Russell Wilson
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Speaker 1: all that long. Yeah, successful run game one hundred and
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Speaker 1: ninety seven yards, and then they held the Arizona Cardinals
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Speaker 1: to under sixty yards rushing, which is crazy. When you
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Speaker 1: have Murray Dre Edmond's back there. The way they've been performing,
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Speaker 1: you would hope that they just hover around one hundred yards,
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Speaker 1: but under sixty yards is great. The time of possession,
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Speaker 1: Jim Miller last night really brought this to our attention.
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Speaker 1: Thirty five minutes of twenty four. That means that your
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Speaker 1: offense is working the ball down the field slowly. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't that really explosive offense that we're used to see him.
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Speaker 1: There were some explosive plays, but I'm okay with this
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Speaker 1: style of football, they're gonna be games like this. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna have to win ball games this way to keep
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Speaker 1: explosive offices off the field. When we're talking about the
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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals, I liked the play calling early in the game.
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Speaker 1: In one series, we saw a scream, an audible quads,
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Speaker 1: a rollout, quick game. They covered it all. When it
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Speaker 1: came to their offense, it seemed they checked every box
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Speaker 1: they needed to check. Oh, for sure, Russell and Shott
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Speaker 1: he had it going. Last night on the preview podcast,
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Speaker 1: I mentioned I wanted to see them get back to
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Speaker 1: other teams having to deal with us, other teams having
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Speaker 1: to adjust to us instead of being the other way around,
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Speaker 1: and that was the thing. Russell took everything that was
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Speaker 1: given to him when they brought pressure. He got the
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Speaker 1: hot route, he got the ball out, he dumped it
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Speaker 1: off a couple of times with hide or Dallas or
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Speaker 1: the tight ends, and everything we did, like you said,
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Speaker 1: we were creative. I feel like for the very different
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Speaker 1: from the second half last time he plays at Cardinals
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Speaker 1: is they were reacting to us. We had everything going,
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Speaker 1: everything was working. There was rhythm, there was good, long
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Speaker 1: sustained drives, which is you love to see. And defensively,
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Speaker 1: Kylin Murray finished the game with a season low fifteen
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Speaker 1: rush yards. The cards are one eight one over the
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Speaker 1: last two seasons when Murray is held under thirty yards
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Speaker 1: and how did they do that? Contain, contain and wrap
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Speaker 1: him up. It seemed like there was a play that
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Speaker 1: just signified everything that this defense needed to be Last night,
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Speaker 1: kJ Right is one on one with Kyler Murray. Doesn't
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Speaker 1: take the babe, keep someone his inside shoulder, allows his
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Speaker 1: help to work for him. That lets me know that
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Speaker 1: they came with a game plan and these guys were
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Speaker 1: able to execute it. It's tough to keep a man
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Speaker 1: like Kyler Murray under fifteen yards rushing. That's ridiculous. No,
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Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. And you talk about the total defensive number
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Speaker 1: for the Seahawks, Like we mentioned, the Seahawks have been
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Speaker 1: taking a lot of heat all season long, and they
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Speaker 1: have given up all yards and a lot of points.
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Speaker 1: Well against Arizona, it might not seem like a lot,
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Speaker 1: but this was their season love. They only gave up
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Speaker 1: three hundred and fourteen yards and that's their season love
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Speaker 1: by a lot, and only allowed twenty one points for
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Speaker 1: the first time all the year. So they had it going.
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Speaker 1: So I think for everyone that has been throwing shade
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Speaker 1: that Ken Norton has been throwing shade that everyone on defense,
15:02
Speaker 1: y'all need to back up and give some credit to
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Speaker 1: where credit is due, because once again the defense belt
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Speaker 1: off of what we saw in the second half against
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Speaker 1: the Rams, took that into this game, which is the
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Speaker 1: first time we've seen them go from game to game,
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Speaker 1: and they definitely you know, they brought their lunch pin
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Speaker 1: and they went to work. Man, they went to work.
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Speaker 1: And now they are back on top of the division,
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Speaker 1: sitting at first place. Will set up and the three
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Speaker 1: will wait until Monday to see what the Rams do.
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Speaker 1: But for now it belongs to the Hawks that's getting
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Speaker 1: too Playmakers, playmakers, all right, play make us Russell Wilson
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Speaker 1: number three, the quarterback, number three on the jersey, number
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Speaker 1: one in your hearts, efficient twenty three for twenty eight,
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Speaker 1: one hundred ninety seven yards in two touchdowns. Most importantly,
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Speaker 1: zero turnovers, bump and last last Monday, it really hurt
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Speaker 1: my heart. And it was the first time all season
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Speaker 1: that I left Russell off. Playmakers last week, Dang yeah,
16:04
Speaker 1: it was the first time in the last time in
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Speaker 1: the history of this podcast, because my guy was coming out,
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Speaker 1: he was falling, took with the defense gave him, always
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Speaker 1: got us into the correct play. Wilson earned his ninety
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Speaker 1: third career win as a starter. He passes Peyton mannings
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Speaker 1: ninety two for the most by any QB in his
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Speaker 1: first nine seasons in NFL history. Now he also joins
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Speaker 1: bred Farr Drew Brees as the only quarterbacks in NFL
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Speaker 1: history with thirty plus passing touchdowns in four consecutive seasons.
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Speaker 1: Even with the struggles he had the last few weeks,
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Speaker 1: he is still breaking records. But zero turnovers, that's huge
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Speaker 1: with a defense that is struggling but getting better because
16:40
Speaker 1: they are getting better. I saw a lot of good
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Speaker 1: things last night. I hope okay, yep. I was gonna
16:44
Speaker 1: mention the guy, but you got him on our playmaker,
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Speaker 1: so I'll save that comment for later. But a defense
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Speaker 1: that has been struggling but getting better, you have to
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Speaker 1: protect the ball. Ball security, job security, russelling going nowhere.
16:55
Speaker 1: He could have thrown three picks this week. But it's
16:58
Speaker 1: nice to see the most bounsible man on this football
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Speaker 1: team be responsible with the football. Okay, another playmaker, Carlos
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Speaker 1: Hide fourteen carry, seventy nine yards, one touchdown, two receptions
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Speaker 1: for sixteen yards. First game back since Week six, and
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Speaker 1: he looks healthy. There was a burst. He was seeing
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Speaker 1: the gaps in the line and he was filling the
17:19
Speaker 1: flow of that offensive line. He brought a downhill running
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Speaker 1: style that we've missed in this offensive past few weeks. No, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: and that's no disrespect to Alice Collins, Travis Homer or
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Speaker 1: any of those guys, but Carlos Hide, definitely. You saw
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Speaker 1: something different in the game last night. You saw him
17:34
Speaker 1: run over Patrick Peterson, you saw him running over guys
17:36
Speaker 1: in the secondary. You saw him finding ways to get
17:39
Speaker 1: the extra yards that we just haven't seen the last
17:41
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, so you loved to see from Carlos side,
17:43
Speaker 1: and it just kind of speaks to what we talked
17:45
Speaker 1: about balance. We're talked about balance a ton in the
17:47
Speaker 1: prem postgame show, and this was just a second time
17:50
Speaker 1: all season where the Seahawks had more runs and passes. Obviously,
17:53
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson had about ten scrambles for forty two yards,
17:56
Speaker 1: but I'll loop that all in because they had balance,
17:58
Speaker 1: and a lot of that was because Carlos Hyde was
18:00
Speaker 1: successful running the football. Hyde was successful, and Tyler Lockett
18:04
Speaker 1: did what he does. Nine receptions, sixty seven yards and
18:07
Speaker 1: one touchdown. Now that doesn't seem like much, but now
18:10
Speaker 1: Lockett joined Jerry Rice as the only players in the
18:13
Speaker 1: Super Bowl era with twenty plus receptions, two hundred and
18:15
Speaker 1: fifty yards and four reception touchdowns verse a single opponent
18:19
Speaker 1: in a season. That just means two things. One, dudes
18:23
Speaker 1: a og. He's a veteran now Tyler Locke is getting
18:25
Speaker 1: up there. And two, he just knows how to play
18:28
Speaker 1: against the Cardinals. There's something about the Cardinals. There have
18:30
Speaker 1: been battles over the past few years between the Hawks
18:32
Speaker 1: and the Cardinals, and one constant has been mister Tyler
18:36
Speaker 1: Lockett Well and also too. Let's throw some love to
18:40
Speaker 1: Seahawk legend Jerry Rice. I wanted to throw that out
18:43
Speaker 1: there for people for two thousand and four. I saw
18:46
Speaker 1: some highlights on twitter ys and I will throw it
18:48
Speaker 1: back Thursday. Just throw that out there to another former
18:50
Speaker 1: Seahawk great, Jerry Rice. Two receivers getting it done. That
18:55
Speaker 1: just sounds hilarious. Seahawk legend, Jerry Rice, I feel you, baby.
18:58
Speaker 1: That's old school Jerry. That's one rolls ballhead, and you
19:01
Speaker 1: know I feel it all right. Carlos Dunlap. In the
19:04
Speaker 1: rest of the D line Needson leve but Carlos Dunlap
19:07
Speaker 1: four tackles, two sacks, two tackles, flaws, three quarterback hits.
19:11
Speaker 1: Now the whole D line had three sacks, seven quarterback
19:13
Speaker 1: hits and LJ forces safety and had a sack as well.
19:17
Speaker 1: You are getting a return in your investment immediately. With
19:21
Speaker 1: Carlos Dunlap. It looks like he's getting into better shape
19:24
Speaker 1: and he's understanding the language on that they speak on
19:27
Speaker 1: their defense. He's making plays and that number that he
19:31
Speaker 1: wears a starter and grow on me too. Hey, if
19:33
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't care what you do. If you've
19:35
Speaker 1: been in the backfield making play sack for lost QB hits, No,
19:37
Speaker 1: you love to see you mentioned return on investment. I
19:40
Speaker 1: mean that's immediately a lot of times guys go to
19:42
Speaker 1: a new team like, well, give him a second. He's
19:43
Speaker 1: got to learn the scheme, he's got to learn the defense.
19:45
Speaker 1: He's got to get used to guys. No, Carlos came
19:47
Speaker 1: in there. He got a sacking media in that first game.
19:49
Speaker 1: He's getting QB hit. So you love to see what
19:51
Speaker 1: that's doing, and I think that's going to continue to
19:52
Speaker 1: free other guys up. LJ. Collier love to see it.
19:55
Speaker 1: He's another guy that's gone. People have been super hard on.
19:57
Speaker 1: You're gonna be in the first round pick. He had
19:59
Speaker 1: his probably the career game, best game of his career
20:01
Speaker 1: last night. So I gotta love it from LJ and
20:04
Speaker 1: the whole the whole defensive line. I mean, we've gotten
20:06
Speaker 1: a ton of sacks last three weeks, so they're finally
20:09
Speaker 1: they're starting to turn the tide and get to playing
20:11
Speaker 1: that style of football that we're accustomed to seeing and
20:14
Speaker 1: we hope to see moving forward. The rest of the
20:15
Speaker 1: year now, just like y'all needed to get off at
20:18
Speaker 1: kid Norn's back, get off of Trade Flowers back. Man,
20:22
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of this dude. Man, Let's go. Tray
20:24
Speaker 1: three tackle, three tackles. Was manned up with d Hop
20:28
Speaker 1: the whole night. D Hop had five receptions for fifty
20:31
Speaker 1: one yards, and late in the game, Trey Flowers was
20:34
Speaker 1: on that hip that last drive to the Arizona Cardinals side.
20:38
Speaker 1: I just focused on Tray. I'm like, let's go, what's
20:40
Speaker 1: he gonna do. Is he gonna play off? He's he
20:42
Speaker 1: gonna flip them hips and turn he goes. Nah, man,
20:44
Speaker 1: I'm lined up, man up eyes on their hips. Best
20:47
Speaker 1: receiver in the game. What you got? Great game for
20:50
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers. Oh love it. Love the game from Tray Flowers.
20:53
Speaker 1: First of all, in that situation he was he was
20:55
Speaker 1: on an island by himself. There was no safety at
20:57
Speaker 1: the top, there was none of that. It was one
20:59
Speaker 1: on one game on the line. You need to come
21:01
Speaker 1: up with a big play. And Trey, yes, he had
21:03
Speaker 1: a miss tackle one point in the game. He gave
21:05
Speaker 1: up a couple of little things here and there. But
21:07
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is the best receiver in football, the only
21:10
Speaker 1: a lout. Five receptions for fifty one yards is an
21:12
Speaker 1: unbelievable job. And honestly, with how we played in the
21:16
Speaker 1: secondary times, I think to help the defensive line, okay,
21:19
Speaker 1: guys on guys and making Colin Murray come off his
21:21
Speaker 1: first and second read and then you can get sacks offense.
21:23
Speaker 1: So Trey Flowers, he's taking a ton of heat. Trey
21:26
Speaker 1: Flowers is a good football player. He's earned everything he's
21:29
Speaker 1: getting right now, and I love to see it because
21:32
Speaker 1: his confidence is just getting better and better at the
21:34
Speaker 1: right time. She kill Griffin's probably gonna come back. Other
21:36
Speaker 1: guys are getting healthy, so things are gonna keep keep rolling,
21:38
Speaker 1: and I'm keeping in that secondary. DJ reid second week
21:42
Speaker 1: in roll, leading the team tackles eleven tackles, one tackle
21:44
Speaker 1: for loss. Same thing with DJ Reid Man, I mean
21:47
Speaker 1: you talk about a return on investment. We knew when
21:49
Speaker 1: we picked him up, he was heard, he had the
21:50
Speaker 1: torn pack, came back just in time to face his
21:53
Speaker 1: old team, the nine Ers. Gets to pick right off
21:54
Speaker 1: the bat. Now it is helping us in the return game.
21:56
Speaker 1: He's showing some explosiveness. DJ reads another great pick up
22:00
Speaker 1: and you love to see him doing things to help
22:03
Speaker 1: this football team. When we get more healthy at cornerback,
22:05
Speaker 1: you're just gonna show them were gonna have so much
22:06
Speaker 1: depth and it's gonna be hard for guys to get
22:08
Speaker 1: on the field. And he'd love to see that. It's
22:10
Speaker 1: gonna be hard for guys to get on the field.
22:12
Speaker 1: One Shock and Dunbar get healthy, DJ Reeve and Trey
22:15
Speaker 1: will be two of the guys fighting for playing time.
22:17
Speaker 1: But where DJ might have solidified himself as in the
22:20
Speaker 1: return game and he has a football in his hands
22:23
Speaker 1: on those kid returns, it looks like he's one block
22:25
Speaker 1: away from breaking him. He already had a big return?
22:27
Speaker 1: Was that against Buffalo? And he had that? Are the
22:29
Speaker 1: Rams get that big return against Rams? Something he's showing
22:32
Speaker 1: him he is adding value to this team. The last
22:35
Speaker 1: guy we're gonna talk about, we got that big Ray
22:37
Speaker 1: touched on. Damian Lewis started his first game at center.
22:41
Speaker 1: First game ever, never snapped. I'm sure he's a center,
22:44
Speaker 1: so he probably messed around snapping with his boys or whatnot,
22:47
Speaker 1: But to do it for the first time in the
22:49
Speaker 1: NFL is huge. Posting was banged up. Kyler Fuller got
22:53
Speaker 1: banged up. They say, what are we gonna do? Dame
22:56
Speaker 1: said immediately after the game, they went to him and
22:58
Speaker 1: told him to start preparing him. Who play center? Center
23:01
Speaker 1: is the quarterback on the offensive line. All centers should
23:04
Speaker 1: just have that sea on their journey. Yes, their captains
23:07
Speaker 1: out there, they should just have to see on their jersey.
23:09
Speaker 1: They're responsible for a lot. The young men struggled early,
23:12
Speaker 1: balanced back again adding value to this football team. And
23:15
Speaker 1: you love it too, like he didn't get discouraged. Yeah,
23:17
Speaker 1: that's tough. As Ray mentioned it. First play of the
23:19
Speaker 1: game is a pass play, and of course the defensive
23:21
Speaker 1: line knows you're a first time playing center. They know
23:24
Speaker 1: you're not used to that, so they're gonna rush you
23:25
Speaker 1: super hard. He gives up a sack, had a low snap,
23:28
Speaker 1: but after that he just played. He just balled out, man.
23:30
Speaker 1: And people underestimate how difficult it is to move positions
23:33
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, different combo blocks calling step out.
23:36
Speaker 1: So he loved to see the rookie step up because
23:38
Speaker 1: he's been huge for the Seahawks. And another thing along
23:40
Speaker 1: those same lines, I love the depth on this offensive
23:43
Speaker 1: line because they're down Jordan Simmons, who's played for Mikey
23:45
Speaker 1: Potty a lot this year. So Jamarco Jones stepped in
23:47
Speaker 1: there with Damian Lewis moving over the center, and we
23:50
Speaker 1: didn't skip a beat. So big ups the entire offensive line,
23:53
Speaker 1: old line, getner done. All right, let's move along. We
23:56
Speaker 1: are going to the coach's corner. We're gonna break down
23:59
Speaker 1: the touch down passed between Russell Wilson and mister Dk Metcalf.
24:05
Speaker 1: Play fake. Russ is gonna roll to the right side, stops, look,
24:08
Speaker 1: steps up in the pocket. Now he's gonna scramble. Now
24:10
Speaker 1: he's gonna throw to the end zone. He's got a
24:11
Speaker 1: man touchdown, Sayhawks, Dk Metcalf playmate by Russell Wilson scrambling
24:19
Speaker 1: out of the pocket to his right side, and Metcalf
24:22
Speaker 1: comes all the way across the back of the end zone,
24:24
Speaker 1: out running Patrick Peterson and the blow was absolutely perfect.
24:29
Speaker 1: The Seahawks on their opening drive go up six nil.
24:33
Speaker 1: Now this is what happened here, Nasa Shoby. Okay, okay,
24:37
Speaker 1: little rollout, little rollout. DK starts on the left side
24:40
Speaker 1: of the field. It looks like he's doing that deep
24:42
Speaker 1: cross back to the corner that they love to do.
24:45
Speaker 1: A little double move. When it comes to the rollout,
24:47
Speaker 1: what happens is Russell Wilson feels pressure. He steps up
24:51
Speaker 1: inside the pocket. As soon as Russell Wilson stats up,
24:54
Speaker 1: he's not in the pockets outside the pocket, but he
24:56
Speaker 1: steps up to avoid his sack. As soon as he
24:58
Speaker 1: steps up, he starts to roll out to right. DK
25:01
Speaker 1: immediately snaps back to a crossing pattern and russ As
25:05
Speaker 1: fires a football in a place where only DK can
25:08
Speaker 1: get it. You cannot guard DK from five seconds, six seconds,
25:11
Speaker 1: It's just almost impossible. If Russell has time and they're
25:14
Speaker 1: able to do all this creative backyard football stuff, plays
25:18
Speaker 1: like this is going to happen. This is a signature
25:20
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. Play right here, no question. This is what
25:22
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson does. He makes something happen, gets to a
25:25
Speaker 1: second read, and then just improvises. But from the defensive
25:28
Speaker 1: backs side of things, brudda Baker, He's watched film. He
25:31
Speaker 1: recognizes that crosser. He's like, okay, I've seen this before.
25:34
Speaker 1: I'm super aggressive him a fly down, him flies downhill.
25:38
Speaker 1: But as soon as Russell Wilson steps up, as he mentioned,
25:41
Speaker 1: outside the pocket, DK puts his foot in the ground,
25:43
Speaker 1: snaps his head around and then kind of just buckles
25:45
Speaker 1: Brude Baker. At that point, he's just in trail mode,
25:47
Speaker 1: and that's a place you never want to be as
25:49
Speaker 1: a defensive back because you're wobbly, you're just trying to
25:51
Speaker 1: react in DK metcalf is too big and too fast.
25:54
Speaker 1: He looks back at the quarterback and just to see
25:57
Speaker 1: his fate as a DK catches it in the corner
25:59
Speaker 1: of the end zone. So you just love to see it.
26:01
Speaker 1: And Buddha Baker is a good player. But you're not
26:03
Speaker 1: gonna cover DK back out for six seconds, especially after
26:05
Speaker 1: you jump his initial move. No, not gonna be able
26:08
Speaker 1: to do it now. But this was This is the
26:10
Speaker 1: play where highlighting for coaches corner, but also want to
26:12
Speaker 1: point album DK was in his bag. I saw two
26:15
Speaker 1: different releases, creativity and his routes. Man he's grinding during offseason.
26:21
Speaker 1: Whoever he's working with, Man, they must be really getting
26:23
Speaker 1: it done. I love seeing DK evolved as a route runner,
26:28
Speaker 1: and this is a great example of this. The chemistry
26:30
Speaker 1: that him and this guy Russell Wilson had. Now's a
26:34
Speaker 1: choby greatest formation in football. Let's get it. Here comes
26:40
Speaker 1: the Seahawk offense onto the field and the Vikings defense
26:43
Speaker 1: trudging out there knowing that one kneel down and the
26:48
Speaker 1: Seahawks are gonna wind the clock down and win this one.
26:51
Speaker 1: It's the victory formation on Hawk talk. Been too long
26:56
Speaker 1: since we've seen the greatest formation in football. Love to
26:58
Speaker 1: see Russell Wilson getting that victory formation. Man. The Seahawks
27:03
Speaker 1: showed some tremendous balance balance on offense. Man. They're able
27:05
Speaker 1: to run the ball, throw the ball effectively. They took
27:08
Speaker 1: everything the defense was giving them and always gotten the
27:11
Speaker 1: right play. I love to see them make changes because
27:14
Speaker 1: everyone said, hey, did we can find the blueprint? All
27:17
Speaker 1: the talking heads, everyone's talking, did we find the blueprint?
27:19
Speaker 1: I'm beating the Seattle team. We got to do pressure.
27:21
Speaker 1: If we can show them this look and do this,
27:23
Speaker 1: it's gonna get fuse dressed. Wilson, he's gonna throw a turnover.
27:25
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. They came back out there, they went
27:28
Speaker 1: to work, They got in the film room, they did
27:30
Speaker 1: everything they needed to do. Were incredibly prepared. Came with
27:33
Speaker 1: some sauce for Arizona with all the different plays, all
27:36
Speaker 1: the different formations and things that they did, so I
27:37
Speaker 1: love to see them and jest and show that they
27:40
Speaker 1: can react. They get coached to. We have a hard
27:42
Speaker 1: work and coaching stap busting. You know, they're bump every day.
27:44
Speaker 1: So it's great to see that in the offense's ball out.
27:47
Speaker 1: And it was great to see the Carlos's do the thing.
27:50
Speaker 1: Carlos hide on offense, Carlos done lapbone, defense, return investments.
27:55
Speaker 1: These are new guys to this organization. Always nice to
27:59
Speaker 1: get them done. And the Seahawks didn't lose the turnover battle.
28:04
Speaker 1: Now they didn't cause any turnovers, but they didn't lose
28:07
Speaker 1: the turnover battle. That's what it's all about. If you
28:10
Speaker 1: win the turnover a battle with this team, you typically
28:12
Speaker 1: win the ball game. That's exactly what they did. They
28:15
Speaker 1: played against the number one offense in the league. As
28:17
Speaker 1: far as yardage, Ye held them to twenty one points.
28:19
Speaker 1: That's the season low. Held Cola Murray to under what
28:22
Speaker 1: fifteen yards rushing, which is amazing to me because he
28:25
Speaker 1: can get fifteen yards rushing yards rushing on a single
28:28
Speaker 1: play at any moment he can he can bust out
28:30
Speaker 1: a fifteen yard ram. I love where this defense is
28:33
Speaker 1: headed and they're getting healthy during a stretch, or they
28:37
Speaker 1: got a chance to put some wins together. Man, Oh,
28:39
Speaker 1: no question about it. This is this couldn't be a
28:41
Speaker 1: better time. Coach Pete Carroll mentioned in his post kame
28:43
Speaker 1: press conference that we're gonna see kill Griffin again, We're
28:45
Speaker 1: gonna see Chris Carson again, and slowly but surely, these
28:49
Speaker 1: guys are getting healthy at the right time. It's kind
28:51
Speaker 1: of the opposite last season. So we can get everyone back,
28:53
Speaker 1: we can really string together some wins. And that's the thing, man,
28:56
Speaker 1: They married all three phases of the game without questioning
28:59
Speaker 1: the complete game and season. Offense is playing well, defense
29:02
Speaker 1: is playing well. Special teams was playing well. So you
29:05
Speaker 1: love to see that because it's the first time we've
29:06
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29:33
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29:36
Speaker 1: We got some time watch some other teams play this weekend.
29:39
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29:42
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