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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. Now here's your host,
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Speaker 1: NASA Choby. Welcome to another edition of Hawk Talk the
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Speaker 1: Sea Hoss getting ready to take on the Atlanta Falcons
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Speaker 1: from Atlanta this weekend. He's Michael Bumpings some NASA Choby
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Speaker 1: ready to get you ready for Thursday night, atl shouty.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get it jumped off right away because we've
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Speaker 1: got some good news. Bump Yeah, some good news, a
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Speaker 1: little injury update. We've got people returning to practice. Julian Love,
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Speaker 1: Jared Reed, Driek, we Young have all been designated for
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Speaker 1: a return to practice, which is great news. That doesn't
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Speaker 1: necessarily mean they're gonna play this weekend, but we're getting
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Speaker 1: a lot closer. Those are three guys that are mainstays
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Speaker 1: on this football team, bump. But I'm excited for what
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Speaker 1: Jay Love can bring when he's ready to go.
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Speaker 2: Man, Jay Love, We've when we started the season, the
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Speaker 2: dB room was thick, it was deep, and then slowly
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Speaker 2: guys started to drop. Man, it started it felt like
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Speaker 2: it started with Jay Love. So to have him back
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Speaker 2: and congratulating him being nominated for the Walter Payton Award.
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Speaker 1: I saw that video. That was cool. So not only
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Speaker 1: are you getting a ball or back, of getting a
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Speaker 1: good person back too. Julian loves the stand up dude.
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Speaker 1: He's the type of guy. I mean, he's a great father,
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Speaker 1: great person in his locker room, so all deserved. Hopefully
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Speaker 1: he can win the whole thing. But now him on
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Speaker 1: the football field, it's crazy. He's missed nine games, Bump, Yes,
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Speaker 1: that's insane. I mean, now you add him back to
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Speaker 1: this dB room, things you get dangerous. So definitely excited
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Speaker 1: about that. We'll watch the Status of the Week goes
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Speaker 1: on to see if we'll make it back this week
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Speaker 1: or we'll be the weeks to come. But it's good
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Speaker 1: to know that his return is on the horizon. Let's
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Speaker 1: jump right into one talking about those Atlanta Falcons. What's
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Speaker 1: on tap? What's on tap? Atlanta Falcons Bump four and eight,
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Speaker 1: third place in the NFC South, only behind the Saints.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say last, but I forgot about them Saints.
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Speaker 1: Say them Aints when you look at this right team, Bump.
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Speaker 1: You got lost to the Buccaneers, lost to the Panthers,
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Speaker 1: lost to the forty nine Ers, Dolphins, Patriots, Colts, Panthers,
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Speaker 1: and Jets. After starting three and two, the Falcons have
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Speaker 1: lost six of their last seven games. You only win
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Speaker 1: coming in that stretch was against the two and ten
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Speaker 1: Saints two weeks ago. The Falcons quarterback Michael Pennix. Obviously
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Speaker 1: everyone out here knows former UW Husky you stand out
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Speaker 1: knee injury cost him the season. Kirk Cousins got his
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Speaker 1: job back and he's been okay, one to one record
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Speaker 1: since Penix has been hurt bump. But this past weekend
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Speaker 1: they lost a heartbreaker to the Jets.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that's a Whenever you lose to the Jets,
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Speaker 2: that's always a tough one. Let's just get to the
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Speaker 2: fourth quarter with this one. The Falcons took a twenty
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Speaker 2: four to seventeen lead after an a play seventy four
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Speaker 2: yard drive ending with a nine yard touchdown reception by
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Speaker 2: David Seals. The Jets bounced back with the fifteen play
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Speaker 2: sixty five yard drive with a ten yard touchdown run
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Speaker 2: from Tyrod Taylor, who's still hanging around his league. Good
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Speaker 2: for you, man, that tied it up at twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and oh man, this is one of the Falcons
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Speaker 1: probably thought they have both teams. They would trade three
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Speaker 1: straight punts. On the final drive, the Jets take advantage
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Speaker 1: a good field position. Then on they had to go
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Speaker 1: nineteen yards kick the game winning field goal for Nick Folk,
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Speaker 1: a fifty six yard game winner. Crazy thing about this
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Speaker 1: he was teammates with coach Glenn Yeah, that's how long
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Speaker 1: this man has been in the league.
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Speaker 2: Nick Folk played soccer against each other growing up in California.
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Speaker 1: Nuts man. Can't believe he's still playing doing his thing. Man.
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Speaker 1: But in that game, obviously the Falcon's going to lose
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Speaker 1: this game. But Kirk Cousins, he was twenty one to
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Speaker 1: thirty three, two hundred and thirty four yards, one touchdown,
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Speaker 1: zero interceptions. Cousins did set a couple records though. He
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Speaker 1: has now two hundred ninety one career touchdown passes, passing
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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Johnny Unitis for seventeenth all time. Also
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Speaker 1: in that game, Bejon Robinson. He's bond dude. We're talking
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Speaker 1: a lot about him. Twenty three carries, one hundred and
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Speaker 1: forty two yards one touchdown, also had fifty one yards
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Speaker 1: on five receptions. He's an absolute dual threat. I kill
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Speaker 1: you there Kyle Pitt seven receptions eighty two yards and
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Speaker 1: for the Jets, Tyro Taylor ten of thirty three yikes
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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy two yards, one touchdown. Prestall did
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Speaker 1: his thing. Jets find a way to win. But the
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Speaker 1: Falcons bump. We were going to talk a lot about this.
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Speaker 1: I look at this team. I even look at the numbers.
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Speaker 1: Some of these numbers are bad. They should not be
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Speaker 1: four and eight. They shouldn't.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of talent over there, man, a lot
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Speaker 2: of talent, but you gotta put it all together. You
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Speaker 2: can have all the talent in the world, but you
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Speaker 2: gotta be consistent. Let's look at these guys. When it
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Speaker 2: comes to head to head matchup. By the numbers, the
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Speaker 2: Hawks the ninth rank offense, eighteens running the rock, ninth
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Speaker 2: passing it, and third when it comes to scoring average
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Speaker 2: in twenty nine point two. The Falcons seventeenth overall offense,
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Speaker 2: ninth running the football, eighteenth throwing that thing, and twenty six.
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Speaker 2: When it comes to points per game, they are scoring
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Speaker 2: twenty point three.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they have a tough time getting the end zone.
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Speaker 1: That's their huge thing. I mean, they're obviously they're doing okay.
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Speaker 1: They're middle of the pack other stats twenty six, though
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Speaker 1: in points not good. Who got. In defensive numbers, the
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Speaker 1: Seahawks are up to six in the NFL and yards
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Speaker 1: per game two hundred and eighty nine, second best rush
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Speaker 1: defense in the NFL, only allowing eighty eight yards per game,
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Speaker 1: eleventh allowing two hundred passing yards, and third in points
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Speaker 1: allowed per game at just eighteen. The Falcons their fifteenth
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Speaker 1: overall total defense, twenty fifth when it comes to stop
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Speaker 1: in the run, eighth when it comes to stop in
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Speaker 1: the pass, in seventeenth. In points per game interception, Seahawks
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Speaker 1: have thirteen, the Falcons have nine. And again they they
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Speaker 1: bring pressure again that they're you just look at them
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Speaker 1: and you go, man four and eight. Still can't get
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Speaker 1: off that. But it is what it is, National Football League.
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Speaker 1: Who's just starting quarterback, you still got to produce.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's about holdstoking to a boil today. And I'm like,
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Speaker 2: it's just about connecting the dots. That you can connect
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Speaker 2: three dots and skip the fourth one. Now you're starting
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Speaker 2: all over again. That's what I see when I feel
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Speaker 2: when I watched this team play, is that they just
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Speaker 2: can't put enough drives together in defensive stops together.
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Speaker 1: Team can't get right. Is that where saying get right
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Speaker 1: with talent? Lots of talent. Man, We'll see if Rahee
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Speaker 1: Morrison get things going over there. But let's take a
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Speaker 1: look at these two teams. Know the history, no your history.
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Speaker 1: Seahawks lea the all time series thirteen to nine, thirteen
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Speaker 1: and seven in the regular season, oh and two in
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Speaker 1: the postseason. Most recently, these teams played last year in October.
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Speaker 1: Seahawks snapped the three game losing streak at the time,
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Speaker 1: beat the Falcons thirty four to fourteen. Hawks jumped out
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Speaker 1: to a ten point lead. Ken Walker had a big touchdown.
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Speaker 1: Dk Metcalf had a big touchdown before the half. You
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Speaker 1: have seventeen to seven. Drake London had a pretty good
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Speaker 1: game against Seahawks. He made a three point game, then
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Speaker 1: ken Walker in the second half he had a seventeen
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Speaker 1: yard touchdown, and then boy Mafe had a strip sack.
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Speaker 1: Derek All picks up, runs it back for touchdown. Seahawks
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Speaker 1: get the job done. And cool thing about that game
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Speaker 1: is al was Kobe Bryant's first real start at safety.
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Speaker 1: Remember Shawn Jenkins was the start to begin the season,
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Speaker 1: he took over Josh job so I got some play
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Speaker 1: time in that game as well, which is pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: Jason also had a thirty five yard past the DK
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Speaker 1: metcalfe and if you remember that, I do. We're decad
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Speaker 1: to go up and get it at the end of that.
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Speaker 1: But uh yeah, interesting game there and when you look
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Speaker 1: back at it. Kirk Cousins for the Falcons twenty four
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Speaker 1: to two thirty two, one touchdown, two interceptions, b Jean
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Speaker 1: Robinson one hundred three yards and twenty one carries. He
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Speaker 1: rushed for one hundred yards. The Seahawks gave up one
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Speaker 1: hundred yards the following week last year against Buffalo, and
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Speaker 1: then since then they have not allowed a one hundred yard
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Speaker 1: rush that one, So hoping the Seahawks have a similar
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Speaker 1: experience down in Atlanta again taking over Mercedes Benz Stadium. Bump.
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Speaker 1: But let's flip it back to what's going on in
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Speaker 1: the division. What's the word the Seahawks or the NFC
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Speaker 1: West Champs again, what's the word in the west On
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Speaker 1: Hawk talk? All Right, it's all tied up at the top.
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Speaker 2: You get the Rams at ninety three, the Hawks at
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Speaker 2: nine and three, nine ers nine and four won't go
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Speaker 2: away and the Cardinals three n nine. The Rams in
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Speaker 2: the Seahawks are tied at nine and three at the
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Speaker 2: top of the NBC West for the best record in
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Speaker 2: the NFC. The Chicago Bears had the number one seed
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Speaker 2: at the moment because of their conference record.
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Speaker 1: The Rams at the tie breaker over the Seattle Seahalfs
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Speaker 1: because of that head to head win. But we all
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Speaker 1: know that rematch is coming up Thursday night.
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Speaker 2: Take care of this swim, but Thursday Night football on
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Speaker 2: the sixteenth, that's see me week sixteen. It's coming up.
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Speaker 2: But now the Hawks control their own destiny. All they
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Speaker 2: gotta do is win. Thanks to the Panthers last week
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Speaker 2: beating the Rams, all the Hawks have to do is win.
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Speaker 1: No, you love it. That's probably gonna be one of
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Speaker 1: the biggest games of the season, assuming the Seahawks continue
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Speaker 1: to take care of business Man and the Panthers. It's
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Speaker 1: hard to get a read on these this team, man,
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Speaker 1: they are They've canals over there, a lot of former
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Speaker 1: Seahawks employees down there and there, and they're figuring it out.
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Speaker 1: They're kind of up and down. They're kind of a
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Speaker 1: roller coaster season. The Rams six game win streak throw
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Speaker 1: was snapped on the road against Carolina. Bryce Young, though
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Speaker 1: love like Bryce Young as a human being. I see him
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Speaker 1: have success, especially after all the struggles he had early
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Speaker 1: in his career. Fifteen to twenty two hunder six yards,
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Speaker 1: three touchdowns, two of those were on fourth downs, and
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Speaker 1: Bryce Young became the youngest player in NFL history. He
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Speaker 1: now has eleven game winning drives in the fourth quarter overtime.
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Speaker 1: That's wow, sneaky eleven passing Josh Allen. In that game,
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Speaker 1: trailing twenty eight twenty four, Young led the Panthers on
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Speaker 1: a six place sixty five yard drive, ending with a
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Speaker 1: forty three yard touchdown to McMillan on a fourth and two.
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Speaker 1: Take a thirty one to twenty four lead Panthers defense,
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Speaker 1: they would seal the deal sack fumble on Matthew Stafford.
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Speaker 1: They would get into a fourth down conversion or third
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Speaker 1: down conversion and win the game thirty one twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Panthers the intercepted Stafford twice, which has been incredibly hard
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Speaker 1: to do. This year, the thirty seven year old had
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Speaker 1: an NFL record twenty eight straight touchdown passed without interception,
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Speaker 1: and former seak Mike Jack. Shout out Mike Jack return
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Speaker 1: one of those for a touchdown Stafford. He finished the
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Speaker 1: day eighteen of twenty eight two forty three, two touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: two interceptions Blake Koram and Kyron Williams. They combined one
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Speaker 1: hundred fifty three yar and two touchdowns. Hooka had an
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Speaker 1: insane catch. Yeah did. He did only finish the day
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Speaker 1: with seventy two yard six reception. That catch was nuts.
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Speaker 1: Huge loss for the Rams. Again, I'm hoping it's going
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Speaker 1: to be a game changer for the Seahawks moving forward.
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Speaker 1: The Rams will play the Cardinals on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, biggest Panthers, appreciate you in your service to the
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Speaker 2: NFC West. Let's talk about the forty nine Ers and
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Speaker 2: the Browns. The forty nine Ers, like I said, aren't
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Speaker 2: going away. They just win. They won three out of
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Speaker 2: four of their last games, including the twenty eight It
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Speaker 2: was twenty six to eight win over the Cleveland Browns.
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Speaker 2: The Browns did lead, it was eight to seven, but
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Speaker 2: San Francisco scored the next nineteen points, coasting to a victory.
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Speaker 2: The biggest highlight of this game was rock Perty's two
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Speaker 2: yard touchdown where he hit the Dougie. I didn't think
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Speaker 2: he had that in him. Oh man, I don't think
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Speaker 2: he had that in him. Rock Perdy, I judged you.
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Speaker 2: I judge the book by his cover. I apologize. Apparently
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Speaker 2: he promised his teammates he would have more fun and
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Speaker 2: celebrated if he scored. He saw Kittle's reaction, he couldn't
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Speaker 2: believe it, and he made good on that promise.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, he was like, he was surprised to say
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Speaker 1: he was really good. Prize that guy is the white
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Speaker 1: guy with a little motion. He said, I texted my
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Speaker 1: buddy's ACTE's worse for the forty nine ers, and I
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Speaker 1: was like, Bro, that surprised me because it was clean.
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Speaker 1: It was clean. I was in college of twenty ten. Yes,
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Speaker 1: now it was clean.
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Speaker 2: Party was sixteen and twenty nine, one seventy eighty one touchdown.
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Speaker 2: Christian McCaffey has seventy four total yards on twenty four
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Speaker 2: touches in a touchdown. Kittle let all receivers with sixty
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Speaker 2: seven yards and four receptions. On the other side, Shoulder Sanders,
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Speaker 2: he was all right. Sixteen and twenty five, one forty
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Speaker 2: nine one touchdown. The Browns had two crucial mistakes on
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Speaker 2: special teams that gave him a long pump return and
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Speaker 2: they muffed the plump. On the bright side, for the Browns,
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Speaker 2: Miles Garrett still balling nineteen sacks of the season. He
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Speaker 2: needs four more to pass Michael strahanm with twenty two
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Speaker 2: and a half and tj for the all time single
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Speaker 2: season record.
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Speaker 1: That's going to happen. Yeah, I mean, he said, I
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Speaker 1: think three games this year, at least three or four.
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Speaker 1: We had three sacks in that game. Yeah, mm hmm.
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Speaker 1: I mean, hey, if your Miles Garrett, just get yours, man,
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Speaker 1: get yours. It's all you can do. Yeah, that's a
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Speaker 1: tough situation down there. But the Niners again, they're right there.
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Speaker 1: They're one, they're only trailing, and the Seahawks one loss
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Speaker 1: and lost column. So we'll see what happens. They're not
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Speaker 1: going away, and I'll spare you the details of the
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Speaker 1: Cardinals of bucks Man. Cardinals are competitive. They lost twenty
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Speaker 1: seventeen and they're now three to nine on the season,
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Speaker 1: officially eliminated from playoff contention. But Cardinals, if you're listening,
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Speaker 1: your job is not done. You play the Rams twice, okay, contribute,
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Speaker 1: y'all can't go anywhere, so help us out contribute. That's
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Pull your part. Let's flip things back
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Speaker 1: to these Atlanta Falcons who were playing on Sunday. Time
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Speaker 1: to man up. Hey, who you got, who you got?
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Speaker 1: You know what time it is? Man up? Man up, brother,
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Speaker 1: Man up, man up. On Hawk Talk, we always start
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Speaker 1: with the quarterbacks, and that's gonna be no different this week.
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Speaker 1: Looking at Kirk Cousins taking on this Seahawks defense, and
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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins man, he's been on a hell of a journey. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's an interesting one too because he's had some really
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Speaker 1: good moments in this league. Obviously, he's thrown for over
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Speaker 1: forty thousand yards in this league, two hundred ninety one touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: four Pro Bowl selections. He started as RG three's backup
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Speaker 1: in Washington, worked his way up, did really well in Washington.
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Speaker 1: People for get that he was one of the first
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Speaker 1: people have a fully guaranteed contract when he signed with Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: which was earth shattering. It's happening a lot more now,
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Speaker 1: but at the time, huge deal in Minnesota. Six strong seasons,
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Speaker 1: three Pro Bowls, a couple of Playoff appearances, and you know,
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Speaker 1: he did his thing. He gets hurt. They make a decision.
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Speaker 1: They go with JJ McCarthy. He signs a huge deal
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Speaker 1: with the Falcons. He's probably sitting pretty a movie. Good,
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Speaker 1: everything's good, more guaranteed money. Then they draft Michael Penix. Like, okay,
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Speaker 1: that feels kind of weird, and he just didn't play
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Speaker 1: great last year. He started the season cool. Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: first five games he was swags surfing. Everything was good
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Speaker 1: down in Atlanta. But then you know, fourteen games he got benched.
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Speaker 1: Through the year, he was three zero three for four
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Speaker 1: to fifty three three and eight yards, eighteen touchdowns. But
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Speaker 1: what got him was taking care of the rock sixteen interceptions.
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Speaker 1: Was led the National Football League. He was matched for
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Speaker 1: Michael Penix. Penis finished the season insert this year, Penicks
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Speaker 1: gets hurt. Now Cousins has a chance to get his
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Speaker 1: job back and really just to show the I think
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Speaker 1: the rest of the league that he can still play
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Speaker 1: if he can catch on for another job. So far
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Speaker 1: this year, sixty nine to one away, sixty three completion
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Speaker 1: per six and eighty three yards, three touchdowns, one interception,
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Speaker 1: and he channel the Kirk Cousins of old. That's one
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Speaker 1: thing that we're gonna look at here. Regardless, bump, He's
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Speaker 1: not gonna look like Mac Brostner. Nah, he's not. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna play a legitimate quarterback yet this weekend, Kirk. When
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Speaker 1: he when he's on point, take care of the football,
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Speaker 1: he can still play. So it'll be interesting see how
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Speaker 1: the Seahoff defense matches up.
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Speaker 2: He's a streaky player, man, he's and that's all they
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Speaker 2: need right now, just for him to go on a
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Speaker 2: little run.
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Speaker 1: So let's stop that.
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Speaker 2: I was talking about our quarterback, Sam Donald in the
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Speaker 2: offense didn't have their best day, but they did enough, right,
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Speaker 2: did enough to get that deb Donald was sixteen. E's
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Speaker 2: give me four to twenty six one twenty eight, zero touchdowns,
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Speaker 2: zero interceptions.
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Speaker 1: I like that one, and the Vikers will blitz it
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Speaker 1: man blitzing.
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Speaker 2: According to the next next Gen Stats, Donald was blitzed
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Speaker 2: on a career high sixty three percent of his dropbacks.
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Speaker 2: He also faced quick pressure on twenty three percent of
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Speaker 2: his drawbacks. We knew this was going down, We knew
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Speaker 2: this was going to happen. But you got a nice
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Speaker 2: little stat for us up there too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah No, And the thing about the thing about uh
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Speaker 1: about darn is what he's able to do and how
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Speaker 1: he's able to figure things out. What I love is
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Speaker 1: that he's still one of the best in the National
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Speaker 1: Football League, which is crazy because he look at him,
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Speaker 1: seventh in passing yards, still number one in yards per
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Speaker 1: past to ten, number one in yards per completion, seventh
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Speaker 1: and pass the rating ninth in QBR sixty completion percentage.
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Speaker 1: And this is even after the game that he had
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Speaker 1: against the Vikings, which wasn't up to his standard in
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Speaker 1: terms of throwing the rock and all that thing. So
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Speaker 1: he's still doing his thing, which I love to see.
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Speaker 1: But he the other thing too. Got a shout though.
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Speaker 1: Line Yep, even though they're giving up four sacks, there
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Speaker 1: are still number two in the NFL, only giving up
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Speaker 1: fifteen sacks this entire season.
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Speaker 2: Okay, let's call big the bigs out there. I see you,
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Speaker 2: I see you. All right, let's go to Beijon Robinson.
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Speaker 2: He's the best running back in the game to me. Now,
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Speaker 2: the yards might not be there stick out over nine
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Speaker 2: hundred and five hundred receive him, but the way he
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Speaker 2: moves is crazy. This guy is a baller, so pay
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Speaker 2: attention to him. He was the first round pick eighth
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Speaker 2: overall out of Texas in twenty twenty three. He was
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Speaker 2: All American over there. Since entering the NFL, he's shown
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Speaker 2: that he belongs man. As a rookie, he rush for
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Speaker 2: nine seventy six four touchdowns, also had for eighty seven
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Speaker 2: receiving on fifty eight receptions and four four touchdowns. Twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four was a real breakout man. He this season
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Speaker 2: he landed his first Pro Bowl. He finished the season
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Speaker 2: with fourteen hundred and fifty six yards on three h
15:20
Speaker 2: four carres. He also had four hundred and thirty one
15:22
Speaker 2: receiving yards on sixty one receptions in one touchdown. This season,
15:27
Speaker 2: he picked up right where he left off. He does
15:30
Speaker 2: it all so far this year. Nine ninety five on
15:32
Speaker 2: the ground, fifty four receptions for five to ninety four
15:35
Speaker 2: and two touchdowns.
15:36
Speaker 1: He's he's a special one. Yeah, you mentioned it. I
15:39
Speaker 1: think really we've we've this is probably the third time
15:42
Speaker 1: actually we've talked about this. Obviously Alvin and with the Saints,
15:45
Speaker 1: McCaffrey are going to see again and now him talking
15:47
Speaker 1: about duel threat that can really hurt you with both
15:50
Speaker 1: team leading rusher, second leading receiver on the team. His
15:52
Speaker 1: nine hundred ninety five rushing yards rank fifth in the NFL.
15:55
Speaker 1: His five hundred and ninety four receiving yards ranked second
15:58
Speaker 1: in the league among running backs only Taryon Christian McCaffrey,
16:01
Speaker 1: who's doing other crazy Worldleague things. He has a much
16:04
Speaker 1: better roster and in Week thirteen he became just a
16:06
Speaker 1: second player in NFL history at least fifty five receptions,
16:09
Speaker 1: one four hundred and fifty scrimming yards in each of
16:12
Speaker 1: his first three seasons, joining la Danian Tomplinson. He leads
16:15
Speaker 1: the NFL in scrimming yards per game at one thirty
16:17
Speaker 1: two point four. This is the key to the game
16:20
Speaker 1: for me, But yep, stopping him because he can hurt
16:23
Speaker 1: you and I think he can really kill you in
16:25
Speaker 1: the past game. So it'll be interesting how the second
16:27
Speaker 1: level of those linebackers, how they shift and pick him up.
16:29
Speaker 1: But if there's one thing that's really shaking right now
16:31
Speaker 1: with the Falcons, it's be John Robinson for sure. Bijon
16:34
Speaker 1: is their guy.
16:35
Speaker 2: They're gonna try to give him twenty five thirty touches.
16:38
Speaker 1: As they shift to be irresponsible, not to be responsible.
16:41
Speaker 2: Ill to talk about albur running backs and got Ken
16:43
Speaker 2: Walker and Zach Starviney the duo K nine and Zach
16:45
Speaker 2: Stravinae comebined for over one hundred and eight yards on
16:48
Speaker 2: twenty seven carries in one touchdown last week against the Vikings.
16:51
Speaker 2: Kim Walker had a run of at least ten yards
16:54
Speaker 2: in eleven of the past twelve games this season. He
16:57
Speaker 2: also has seven games where he's run for at least
17:00
Speaker 2: ninety year. Has a run for these nineteen yards, He's
17:03
Speaker 2: gonna quietly go for a thousand yards.
17:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, quietly go for a thousand yards.
17:06
Speaker 2: So far, he's that seven hundred and thirty three, four
17:08
Speaker 2: touchdowns and twenty receptions for one seventy five. It's it's
17:13
Speaker 2: impressive what he's doing because he's doing it quietly, and
17:16
Speaker 2: I don't think he's really getting the respect that he
17:18
Speaker 2: probably deserves.
17:20
Speaker 1: No. I think everyone looks at it and they see
17:22
Speaker 1: some of the numbers in the narrative kind of like
17:24
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are running the ball, but they're struggling a
17:26
Speaker 1: thousand yards. Yes, they're seventeen games in the season now,
17:29
Speaker 1: but it's still he's only done it one other time. Yeah,
17:32
Speaker 1: So it's not something to scoff at, you know, And
17:34
Speaker 1: that's it's cool to see that he's on pace for that.
17:37
Speaker 1: His teammate along with him, Zach Sharbonney. He's been getting
17:40
Speaker 1: done in the red zone. He's got eight rushing touchdowns
17:42
Speaker 1: at six in the NFL, four hundred and thirty seven yards,
17:44
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five carries Sehkster eighteenth in the NFL,
17:47
Speaker 1: and rushing averaging one sixteen Falcons defensive bump. They're struggling
17:51
Speaker 1: little bit. They're twenty fifth line one hundred and thirty
17:53
Speaker 1: one yards per game. So it'll be interesting to see
17:55
Speaker 1: if the Seahawks can can get this part of the
17:57
Speaker 1: game going. And it's more about for me, can they
18:00
Speaker 1: have the really big explosive the forty yard running the
18:03
Speaker 1: fifty yard. We've seen a couple where Ken is like
18:05
Speaker 1: a shoe string away from making a really breaking one out,
18:08
Speaker 1: So hoping he can get one of those this week
18:10
Speaker 1: to kind of up those rushing numbers.
18:12
Speaker 2: Then all right, now they got a couple guys over there,
18:14
Speaker 2: Drake London, were still trying to hear if he's going
18:16
Speaker 2: to play or not. It feels and looks doubtful for
18:20
Speaker 2: the Atlanta Falcons, and you also have him and Kyle Pitt,
18:22
Speaker 2: So Drake London. I actually I called one of his
18:26
Speaker 2: games when he was in college against see against Colorado,
18:30
Speaker 2: I believe, and he just he went nuts.
18:32
Speaker 1: Man.
18:33
Speaker 2: He's in his fourth season and he just gets better
18:35
Speaker 2: and better every single year. He had eight hundred and
18:38
Speaker 2: sixty six yards receiving in twenty twenty two, nine to
18:41
Speaker 2: five and twenty three, and had a career year in
18:43
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. Last year he had one hundred receptions
18:45
Speaker 2: for twelve hundred yards nine touchdowns.
18:47
Speaker 1: All of those were career highs.
18:49
Speaker 2: This season, London still having a great years on pace
18:51
Speaker 2: have another one thousand yard season despite missing the past
18:53
Speaker 2: two games. So far this year, sixty catches, eight ten
18:57
Speaker 2: and six touchdowns.
18:58
Speaker 1: It's eight ten, ranks ninth in the NFL. Yeah, he's
19:01
Speaker 1: top ten player. He'd be higher on the list he
19:02
Speaker 1: had missed those two games. Ye, Rahie Morris, you mentioned
19:05
Speaker 1: it kind of day to day. I think he's it's
19:07
Speaker 1: hard to speculate. We'll see if he's out there. If
19:09
Speaker 1: he's out there, he's definitely enemy number one in terms
19:11
Speaker 1: of the receiving corps. And then another guy, I want
19:13
Speaker 1: to look at Bump talking about pass catchers, he's his
19:16
Speaker 1: tight end Kyle Pitts number eight for the Falcons, first
19:18
Speaker 1: round pick, fourth overall twenty twenty one draft as rookie,
19:22
Speaker 1: sixty eight receptions over one thousand yards, one touchdown, goes
19:25
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl. Since then, the numbers haven't been
19:29
Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say I haven't been great. The numbers
19:32
Speaker 1: have not been to where people's expectations are. Because if
19:35
Speaker 1: you have a season with six hundred plus receiving yards
19:37
Speaker 1: as a tight end in National Football League, that's good.
19:40
Speaker 1: But when you're drafted fourth overall and they saw what
19:42
Speaker 1: he did at Florida, I don't. I feel like he's
19:43
Speaker 1: never hit expectations. Every time you listen to people from Atlanta,
19:47
Speaker 1: whoever it is, they're not really sure what to make
19:49
Speaker 1: of him. Are they gonna what are they gonna do
19:52
Speaker 1: with him moving forward? What is this future with the team.
19:54
Speaker 1: We'll see about that. With London out, though he kind
19:56
Speaker 1: of pick up the slack a little bit against the Falcons.
19:59
Speaker 1: He had a two receiving yards on seven receptions. I
20:02
Speaker 1: was a high for this season. So it'll be interesting
20:04
Speaker 1: to see him went back. Try to watch as much
20:06
Speaker 1: film because you look at him, it almost feels I'm
20:09
Speaker 1: not going to call him Jimmy Grahant, but more of
20:10
Speaker 1: a tight end that's a receiver. Yet he still puts
20:13
Speaker 1: his hand in the ground. He's still mixing it up there.
20:14
Speaker 1: But he's definitely a playmaker. He can't hurt you if
20:17
Speaker 1: you allow him to. We just haven't seen that. But again,
20:20
Speaker 1: tight ends, I feel like if there has been a
20:22
Speaker 1: weakness in the Seahawks defense, tight ends have been able
20:24
Speaker 1: to leak out get some leaky yards. So Kyle Pitts
20:27
Speaker 1: has definitely wanted to be watching out for. Put your
20:29
Speaker 1: hands on him. Put your hands on them.
20:31
Speaker 2: All right, Let's talk about our receivers, Jayson, Cooper, Cup
20:34
Speaker 2: and Rashid Shaheed. Jason continues to be the best any game.
20:37
Speaker 2: But you know, he had his first game where he
20:40
Speaker 2: didn't have at least seventy nine yards, So you can
20:42
Speaker 2: look at that and make what you want is.
20:45
Speaker 1: He's still the guy. He can still be a never
20:46
Speaker 1: one receiver in this league. But I'm still the guy. Okay.
20:50
Speaker 2: When I watched the game, it wasn't like they were
20:53
Speaker 2: double teaming jaysn safety was over. He's getting a bit
20:57
Speaker 2: more attention as he should. It was more about the
21:01
Speaker 2: pressure they were bringing it and that allowed Jason or
21:04
Speaker 2: didn't allow his routes to develop. So that's that's what
21:06
Speaker 2: I saw, So I wonder if we'll see some of that.
21:10
Speaker 2: So but despite the choir before and Jameson, he still
21:13
Speaker 2: passed Corn Robinson for tenth placed on the saoffs all
21:15
Speaker 2: time receptions list with two forty five. He also passed
21:18
Speaker 2: Joy Galloway for second place for most received yards in
21:20
Speaker 2: the players first three seasons with three thousand and ninety four.
21:25
Speaker 2: Jaysim he was already said single season receiving yards record
21:28
Speaker 2: with thirteen hundred and thirty six, he'd beat DK Metcalf.
21:31
Speaker 2: He said the career high with seven receiving touchdowns, and
21:35
Speaker 2: he also has eight one hundred yard games this season.
21:38
Speaker 2: He leads the NFL, and yards he leads the NFL.
21:40
Speaker 2: Yards per game he leads the NFL, and fifteen yards
21:44
Speaker 2: per touch He's tied for fourth when it comes to
21:47
Speaker 2: yards per reception.
21:48
Speaker 1: He's just doing his thing. And here's a cool other
21:51
Speaker 1: thing I saw from next Gen stats. Despite not catching
21:53
Speaker 1: a single downfield pass last week, Jayson's nine hundred and
21:56
Speaker 1: sixty one yards on such throws this season are still
21:59
Speaker 1: three hun and twenty four yards more than the next
22:02
Speaker 1: closest player I'm on now, So he is still obviously
22:05
Speaker 1: that guy, and I'm interested. I'm I'm expecting calling it
22:09
Speaker 1: out right now. He's going for one hundred and fifty
22:11
Speaker 1: this week. He gonna have another huge game. I'm telling
22:13
Speaker 1: you that right now. They got some good corners over there,
22:15
Speaker 1: but they are not seeing a guy of Jason's caliber.
22:17
Speaker 1: So we'll see there. Cooper Cup a great interview he
22:20
Speaker 1: was on with the huddle with you guys are today.
22:22
Speaker 1: I love Cooper, love what he brings to this team
22:24
Speaker 1: as a leader in the locker room and on the field.
22:26
Speaker 1: He can still play. He's got thirty four receptions, four
22:28
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty eight yards, one touchdown. He's quietly doing
22:31
Speaker 1: like you said, what you thought he was gonna do.
22:33
Speaker 1: H have fifty to sixty receptions over seven hundred yards.
22:36
Speaker 1: A couple more touchdowns I think are on the way.
22:37
Speaker 1: So love to see that. And Rashid Shaheed slowly they're
22:41
Speaker 1: trying to get him acerry here or reception there. We
22:43
Speaker 1: haven't broken it yet. I'm excited to see it. We're
22:45
Speaker 1: seeing the explosiveness from Shiheed on punt returns, bump but
22:49
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting to see that gotcha moment where he
22:51
Speaker 1: goes fifty yards of the house because it's in his game.
22:53
Speaker 1: I'm hoping we get to see it very soon. You
22:55
Speaker 1: can see he's close.
22:57
Speaker 2: He's one block away, you know, one fall step away
22:59
Speaker 2: from making that happen. So, yeah, we got you. You
23:02
Speaker 2: are a right baby. Be patient, all right, Last one out.
23:05
Speaker 2: We got the Falcons front seven versus everybody. This is
23:07
Speaker 2: a good front seven. You know, one thing struggling. One
23:11
Speaker 2: thing they're not struggling with is getting after the Dan quarterback.
23:14
Speaker 2: They bliss the second most in the league right now,
23:16
Speaker 2: behind Minnesota, the third in the league. When it comes
23:18
Speaker 2: to sacks with forty one, you got one, two, three,
23:22
Speaker 2: four or five guys with over at least three and
23:24
Speaker 2: a half sacks. You got two guys with five sacks,
23:26
Speaker 2: one with six. This defensive line can't get after it.
23:30
Speaker 1: No question about it. And that's the thing. Damage up front,
23:32
Speaker 1: they're consistent. They have fifteen players bump or at least
23:35
Speaker 1: half sack. Only Denver and the Seahawks with seventeen, who
23:38
Speaker 1: have more. So that just shows you, you know, it's linebackers,
23:41
Speaker 1: it's corners, it's safeties. The two rookies you mentioned, Walker
23:43
Speaker 1: and Pierce Junior, who they drafted this year, both have
23:46
Speaker 1: five sacks. Both have at least four plus TFLs. So
23:49
Speaker 1: there you look. When you look at the front seven,
23:50
Speaker 1: they're doing damage. You got. And then Ellis is a
23:53
Speaker 1: tackle machine eighty two tackles, three and a half sacks,
23:55
Speaker 1: so it'll be interesting to see. And then but the
23:58
Speaker 1: Seahawks office line. I brought up detection a little bit earlier.
24:01
Speaker 1: This is a cool stat about Grey's Abel. Again, next
24:03
Speaker 1: gen stats coming through with this. Grey's Abel has allowed
24:06
Speaker 1: the fifth lowest pressure rate at four point seven percent
24:08
Speaker 1: of any left guard with two hundred plus pass blocks
24:11
Speaker 1: and is one of just three players to not allow
24:15
Speaker 1: a sack. Let's go, Let's go.
24:18
Speaker 2: I mean, I knew who's gonna be good, but I
24:20
Speaker 2: know it's gonna be that good off top, right off top. No.
24:22
Speaker 1: I love what we're seeing there, obviously, and last week
24:25
Speaker 1: wasn't a technique thing. Bump you get attest to that,
24:27
Speaker 1: the sacks that were giving up, it'll be interest see
24:29
Speaker 1: how they bounce back. You know, obviously, the Falcons are
24:32
Speaker 1: not what the Vikings do. Different coordinators or not Flores
24:36
Speaker 1: approaches the game a different way, but it'll be interesting
24:38
Speaker 1: to see how the pressure deal dialed up and how
24:41
Speaker 1: the Seahawks can bat it because it's a copycat league, right.
24:43
Speaker 1: I think Mike o'donald talked about that throughout the week.
24:45
Speaker 1: In a copycat league, bump, if you if something successful
24:49
Speaker 1: or something's not successful, teams are gonna try that every
24:51
Speaker 1: wee can see it again and stop it.
24:53
Speaker 2: Yep, you go see it again, and it's already in
24:55
Speaker 2: their DNA of blitz a lot anyway, So now they
24:57
Speaker 2: might mix it up a little bit and take some
24:59
Speaker 2: pressures from it to Flores over there.
25:02
Speaker 1: I got fake the sea. You're gonna figure it out,
25:03
Speaker 1: and we're gonna tell you how they're gonna get that
25:04
Speaker 1: big job done. In path to victory, after forty five
25:09
Speaker 1: waits for the staff, Michael Dixon puts it down. That
25:12
Speaker 1: kick is away, and that kick is gone. Good day
25:16
Speaker 1: of twin Bit's gun.
25:17
Speaker 2: It's a path to victory.
25:19
Speaker 1: On Hawk Talk, coach McDonald said earlier this season, the
25:23
Speaker 1: players have earned the right to expect to win, bump
25:27
Speaker 1: all the work they did start in the offseason program
25:29
Speaker 1: until now I'm gonna adopt that saying a little bit
25:32
Speaker 1: put my own spin on it. Because of what they've
25:34
Speaker 1: done and what I've seen from them since OTAs, since
25:37
Speaker 1: Qui Franklins. Is because my mac has had the job,
25:39
Speaker 1: they've earned the expectation from guys like me and you
25:44
Speaker 1: that they're gonna get the job done against a four
25:45
Speaker 1: and eight team. Yeah, because we can expect that because
25:48
Speaker 1: of what our eyes have seen and they put in
25:50
Speaker 1: the work. They're a better football team. And I think
25:52
Speaker 1: we're gonna see that. And this game is gonna start
25:54
Speaker 1: up front. Bump Sam Donald, Seahawks offense owner heavy pressure.
25:56
Speaker 1: We're just talking about that against the Falcons. I expect
25:59
Speaker 1: more of the same on set. They're gonna keep Darnold
26:01
Speaker 1: clean and give him time.
26:02
Speaker 2: In the pocket, and if he gets time, maybe he'll
26:05
Speaker 2: allow Jayson to keep chasing that record. Calvin Johnson, Man,
26:09
Speaker 2: he needs a big game to kind of keep on
26:10
Speaker 2: pace with them. We also need them to keep improving
26:13
Speaker 2: with this run game of the foul because they're twenty
26:14
Speaker 2: fifth in the NFL. And rush defense. Let's get ken
26:17
Speaker 2: Walker going early and offensively. Man Kirk Cousins, this naked
26:21
Speaker 2: hectic for him. The thing about this defense is you
26:23
Speaker 2: don't have to bring pressure to get pressure, right. They
26:26
Speaker 2: do things a bit differently over there, So yeah, you're
26:29
Speaker 2: not playing that rookie like you were playing last week.
26:31
Speaker 2: This is a pro so get after him and Kirk Cousins.
26:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's not He's not someone who's gonna He's
26:36
Speaker 1: not gonna be a cam Ward in the sense of
26:38
Speaker 1: getting out of the pocket. Kirk Cousins is not moved
26:40
Speaker 1: like that, which is a scary thing going against this
26:42
Speaker 1: defensive front. So we'll see that happens. But you gotta
26:44
Speaker 1: play well, gotta show up and contain b John Robinson.
26:47
Speaker 1: We talked about this from the jump. He is the
26:49
Speaker 1: best player on the field for them. I think without question,
26:52
Speaker 1: he can hurt you in a lot of different ways.
26:53
Speaker 1: You gotta be a sure tackler. You gotta break down
26:55
Speaker 1: eleven hats to the football, which you're seeing a lot
26:57
Speaker 1: this year. So I'm not as worried there. But he's
26:59
Speaker 1: the guy that you has to be stopped, sir. Then
27:02
Speaker 1: what else they got Eliminate Drake Lennon. Who's Drake gonna play?
27:04
Speaker 1: Drake Drake plays, Eliminate him.
27:06
Speaker 2: Drake is a tempo type of receiver, he's not Blazer,
27:11
Speaker 2: he's not gonna beat you with speed, but he is
27:13
Speaker 2: a route runner. He knows how to move you. And
27:15
Speaker 2: then Kyle Pitts, he's kind of like that matchup type of.
27:17
Speaker 1: Guy, right, you know.
27:19
Speaker 2: But we have the most versatile defensive player I think
27:22
Speaker 2: in the league right now in Nick Worri.
27:25
Speaker 1: So hey, win those match ups, man, let's go get it. Yeah,
27:28
Speaker 1: this is another game again. The Seahawk should take care
27:30
Speaker 1: of business. They're the favorite because of what they've earned,
27:33
Speaker 1: and I'm really excited. Obviously we're not me and you
27:36
Speaker 1: can look past it. This team is not big game
27:38
Speaker 1: against the Falcons this weekend. You do that, things get
27:41
Speaker 1: really interesting. Starts to get fun. Old Looming Field got
27:44
Speaker 1: the rams of Thursday Night Panthers forty nine ers. The
27:48
Speaker 1: Seahawks team is building some special We're gonna take you
27:50
Speaker 1: along this entire ride. Hopefully it ends down there in
27:53
Speaker 1: that place. Yeah, Claire, Santa Claire, we'll see. That's just
27:57
Speaker 1: me and you booked my hotel? Would be good? Have
27:59
Speaker 1: you good? Okay? Can I can I room with you?
28:02
Speaker 1: He's Michael Bumbs, some nast job. We hopefully we're talking
28:04
Speaker 1: to you guys on Monday about a Sea Hawks victory.
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