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Recapping Super Bowl LX & Looking Ahead To The Offseason | Hawk Talk Podcast · 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, powered by Seahawks dot Com. Now here's your host.
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  Speaker 1: Na's a chopee.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome into another edition of Hawk Talk Your Seattle Seahawks
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  Speaker 2: super Bowl sixty Yeah champions Bump, Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Second time in team history.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a little while me Bump haven't been able
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  Speaker 2: to get together, but you know we had to chop
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  Speaker 2: it out for this one last time.
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks win the Super Bowl and Bump.
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  Speaker 2: The last couple of weeks to me have just been naught,
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  Speaker 2: super blur, going from when we were sitting here after
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  Speaker 2: Fantasy Championship game, to Super Bowl Week, to everything that
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  Speaker 2: went into that, going to Levi Stadium, home of the
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  Speaker 2: forty nine ers, taking that thing on their field, all
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  Speaker 2: everything that went into it.
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  Speaker 3: What was your favorite part of Super Bowl Week? Man,
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  Speaker 3: it was a lot. I was down there for about
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  Speaker 3: a full week, you know what I mean, even did
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  Speaker 3: my show on Monday, the falling Monday from there. But
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  Speaker 3: I would say, man, my favorite thing about it is
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  Speaker 3: honestly just being with the squad, being with you Big Ray, Paul, Dave,
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  Speaker 3: b walt Ravee and oh see, I mean everybody, all
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  Speaker 3: the people that we see on a daily because we
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  Speaker 3: know what the grind is like for us, and we
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  Speaker 3: just got to be there and witness it. And we knew,
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  Speaker 3: we knew they were gonna win this ball game. We
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  Speaker 3: knew we were gonna win it. It was just how
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  Speaker 3: are they gonna win it? And when we're gonna be
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  Speaker 3: able to celebrate? So I just being with y'all and
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  Speaker 3: just watching the cocksit triple Zeros and watching these do celebrate. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Man, So real experience honestly for me because it's been
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  Speaker 2: what it's been ten years since I've worked for the
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  Speaker 2: team and for it to come through the way it
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  Speaker 2: did in this moment in that stadium. Man, unreal. The
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  Speaker 2: week was crazy. They're asking the players to do a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things from the league standpoint. They got to
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  Speaker 2: do an hour long media session Monday through Thursday. Everything
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  Speaker 2: going on. But one of the things I'll take away
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  Speaker 2: is each and every day when we were out there
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  Speaker 2: and being around the team, staying at the team hotel,
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  Speaker 2: it was like any other week. Honest to god, it
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  Speaker 2: was like any other week we ever had. Guys were
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  Speaker 2: there slat boxing, doing all the same things they normally do,
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  Speaker 2: or shadow boxing, and they were so loose. I saw
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  Speaker 2: the Patriots kind of look coming to that week and
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  Speaker 2: it was just that's their team. But I just looking
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  Speaker 2: at us, I was like, oh my goodness. And every
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  Speaker 2: time I saw the d line, I'm like, this might
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  Speaker 2: get ugly, Bump, this.
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  Speaker 1: Could get ugly. But it was did get ugly for them.
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  Speaker 2: And then Bump being a part of the paray too,
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  Speaker 2: was once in a lifetime experience. Very blessed that the
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks allowed us the broadcast scene to be on one
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  Speaker 2: of those military vehicles.
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  Speaker 1: Bump and it was Seattle came through.
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen that many people in my life ever,
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  Speaker 3: ever in my life.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: I was fun. Twelve showed up. It was the longest
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  Speaker 3: but quickest, like hour and a half ride, yeah, I've
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  Speaker 3: had because when you're in it, it feels like it's
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  Speaker 3: happening in slow motion, but then when it's done, it's like, dang.
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  Speaker 3: I was quick, you know, because you don't want to end.
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  Speaker 3: The celebration was just fun. Man.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that was once in a lifetime. That's kind of
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  Speaker 2: really what it sank in for me. From my work perspective,
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  Speaker 2: it was kind of checked out, like we got to
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  Speaker 2: sit there and enjoy it. So it was a dope thing.
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  Speaker 4: Again.
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks Super Bowl sixty champions. But let's get into kind
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  Speaker 2: of what had happened. You know what happened, but a
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  Speaker 2: little bit behind the numbers.
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  Speaker 3: See what had happened was what had happened at first
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  Speaker 3: was what had happened was.
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  Speaker 2: On Hawk Talk obviously, like I said, but at this point,
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  Speaker 2: y'all know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: A couple weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks went down there, dominating defense, physical, run game. They
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  Speaker 2: got contributions from everybody on the field.
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  Speaker 3: Bump.
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  Speaker 2: Here are a couple things that stuck out to me immediately.
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  Speaker 2: For one, this defensive unit had fifty four tackles, six sacks,
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  Speaker 2: eight TFLs, eleven quarterback hits, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery,
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  Speaker 2: two interceptions, one was returned for a touchdown. This was
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  Speaker 2: a dominating defense. We knew the dark sid would show up,
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  Speaker 2: and they did in a big way in Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they did. Man, nice seeing Chinna get that of
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  Speaker 3: that pick six to two. Man, he's been through a
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  Speaker 3: lot here, man, with injury and all that stuff. So
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  Speaker 3: that was good. Defense was on point. They had six sacks,
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  Speaker 3: they led to two turnovers and set the offense up
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  Speaker 3: for fourteen point seattles. Defense hit the ball carried behind
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  Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage on fifty three percent of design
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  Speaker 3: rushes according to next Gen, while generating fifty two point
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  Speaker 3: eight percent pressure. Ray Pages drive chart from Super Bowl sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: Not impressive, laughable.
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  Speaker 2: I mean after that first drive where they had twenty
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  Speaker 2: eight yards, but the next I mean, my goodness, four
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  Speaker 2: plays six yards, punt, three plays five yards, punt, three
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  Speaker 2: plays minus two punt, six plays, ten yard punt, one
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  Speaker 2: yard and a half three yards seven three plays seven yards, punt,
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  Speaker 2: three plays nine yards, punt, three plays, six punt. I
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  Speaker 2: mean this on and on fumble interception. It was a
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  Speaker 2: beat down. I'm low key, though I'm a little I was.
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  Speaker 2: I was bummed that it ended the way it did
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  Speaker 2: because they were so dominant. They could have had one
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  Speaker 2: of the most not one of it would have been
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  Speaker 2: the most dominant performance ever in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh. Yeah, they got some cheap ones at the end.
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  Speaker 3: Big up to Hollands. Holland's made a big play going
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  Speaker 3: across the middle and the scored a touchdown. We get that,
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  Speaker 3: but then that last drive or second to last drive,
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  Speaker 3: that sixty five yards they put together. You're playing cover
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  Speaker 3: four quarters. You're not trying to You're not sending anybody.
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  Speaker 3: It was just let's just make them cash the ball
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  Speaker 3: in bounds and run the clock. So yeah, a little cheap,
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  Speaker 3: but it's all good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And just like overall though, you go, look at
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  Speaker 2: this team won seventeen games, bump, are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 2: Postseason included franchise racker for both regular season wins. In
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  Speaker 2: the season, Seahawks also set a franchise record for eight
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  Speaker 2: road wins fifteen and two.
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  Speaker 1: Under coach mc McDonald.
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  Speaker 3: That is lose in a row.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to think, bump back to the days when
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  Speaker 2: you were playing.
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  Speaker 3: Why you bring me into this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, come along with.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, man, it's we used to go on the road
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  Speaker 3: and just know we about to lose. It is a
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  Speaker 3: different squad. They got ten consecutive wins to close the
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  Speaker 3: season out. Well, I don't remember these guys losing. I
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  Speaker 3: mean I remember because I look at the schedule. I
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  Speaker 3: know when it happened, But I don't feel like it
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  Speaker 3: feels like they haven't loss in such a long time.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: The Seahws became the first Super Bowl champion to go
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  Speaker 3: throughout the entire postseason without a turnover. Outscored its opponent
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  Speaker 3: one o four to forty six, recording nine sacks and
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  Speaker 3: half plus four turnover differential. I like the turnover deal
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  Speaker 3: because that was the knock on Sam, right, he's got
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  Speaker 3: to turn the football over?
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  Speaker 2: When is he gonna do it? He took care to rock,
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  Speaker 2: no question about it. I mean, he got to write
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  Speaker 2: his story. He got to finish the story, which I
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  Speaker 2: love for Sam. Obviously we're talking about him and what
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  Speaker 2: he did in that Super Bowl game. But just coach
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  Speaker 2: McDonald know, as far throwing love, I mean, the most
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  Speaker 2: wins by a head coach under the age of forty
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  Speaker 2: in a season including playoffs in NFL history with seventeen,
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  Speaker 2: ty Jim Harborugh Steve Merricci for the most wins by
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  Speaker 2: a head coach in the first two seasons with twenty seven,
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  Speaker 2: and became the ninth head coach to win the Super
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  Speaker 2: Bowl within the first two seeds since third youngest head
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  Speaker 2: coach to winning Super Bowl. So coach Mike, I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to the bar is set so high, but
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  Speaker 2: man for him, to do what they were able to
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  Speaker 2: do in two years is unreal.
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  Speaker 3: It is, man, it's uh like you said, he said
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  Speaker 3: the bar high, and I'm I would say, let's see
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  Speaker 3: what he does next, but let's just let's just chill
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  Speaker 3: and enjoy this right right, right a bit. The Seahawk
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl sixty wins at an all time media record,
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  Speaker 3: as one hundred and thirty seven point eight million viewers
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  Speaker 3: watched in the second quarter of making it the highest
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  Speaker 3: peak viewership in US TV history. The game average about
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  Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty four point nine million viewers on NBC, Peacock, Telemundo,
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  Speaker 3: NBC Sports Digital, and NFL Plus based on official Live
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  Speaker 3: plus D same day Nielsen Big all any any metrics
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  Speaker 3: to measure this thing. There were setting records, man, and
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  Speaker 3: that was that's cool because you know a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people say that this all, this Super Bowl is going
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  Speaker 3: to be boring you or this and that why you
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  Speaker 3: like defense was wrong, responding with defense offense sales. But
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  Speaker 3: defense wins championships. We saw that.
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  Speaker 2: No, absolutely, I think that's I just love it because
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  Speaker 2: that many people got to see what me and you
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  Speaker 2: seen all season. Going back to training Campboachias throughout the year,
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  Speaker 2: they got to see what this team was about, and
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  Speaker 2: they showed up in the biggest moment under the lights,
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  Speaker 2: didn't matter at Levi Stadium, got that thing done. We've
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  Speaker 2: learned a lot about this team, Bump, But what do
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  Speaker 2: you think stood out the most to you when you
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  Speaker 2: look back at this season as a whole. What's the
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  Speaker 2: number one thing you think that's set out to you?
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  Speaker 2: If you had to choose one.
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  Speaker 3: One, that's a tough one, man, because you can go offense,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we can go there, But I think I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna stick with the defense man that this is the
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  Speaker 3: most dominant defense I've covered with my own eyes. Right. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you've worked for the Hawks for eight years, do college football,
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  Speaker 3: but just the cohesiveness of this defense and the explosiveness
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  Speaker 3: is crazy, and you don't really appreciate it until it's
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  Speaker 3: all said and done. Like in the moment you get it,
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  Speaker 3: you look at the numbers, you see the players and
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  Speaker 3: all that stuff, and you're saying, all right, this defense
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  Speaker 3: is pretty good. But when it's all said and done,
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  Speaker 3: you sit back and you look at just the work. Right,
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  Speaker 3: you step back from the painting about ten feet you know,
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  Speaker 3: I went to a museum. When I was out in
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco, Mike Bennett invited us to a museum. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, my my brain don't work that way. All
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  Speaker 3: that looks cool, Yeah, but with the Seahawks defense, my
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  Speaker 3: eyes work that way. I take ten steps back. I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking at the painting and I'm like, that thing is beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: This defense was great.
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  Speaker 2: There's just so many pieces, so many individual performances, so
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  Speaker 2: many guys that stepped up throughout the year. To me,
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  Speaker 2: But again, it's the idea that Coach McDonald's able to
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  Speaker 2: come in here with a message, with the way they
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  Speaker 2: want things to get done, and for all those guys
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  Speaker 2: to buy in a lot of people make a big
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  Speaker 2: deal about whether you're here or not for OTA's in
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  Speaker 2: the summer program. And I think you can still win
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  Speaker 2: without going to for that matter, that doesn't exclude you.
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  Speaker 2: But I think the fact that all these guys are
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  Speaker 2: in here, bought in together starting in April of last year,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think there's a chance in hell that they
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  Speaker 2: win the Super Bowl without that from start to finish.
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  Speaker 2: To have all those guys, the DeMarcus Lowrence of the world,
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  Speaker 2: Leonard Williams, all these people who've done it on a
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  Speaker 2: big level, Ernest Jones, Cooper Cup, Super Bowl champions, to
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  Speaker 2: do it on this level together and for everyone to
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  Speaker 2: be bought in the entire season. I think that the
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  Speaker 2: results showed out and it's cool to see what when
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  Speaker 2: you have a vision and it comes to life.
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  Speaker 1: When it can actually happen and just two short years,
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  Speaker 1: so pretty damn cool.
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  Speaker 2: But let's get into it from Super Bowl sixty specifically,
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  Speaker 2: if I could speak, let's get into some playmakers.
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  Speaker 4: Talk.
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  Speaker 1: Playmakers told him what time holy he was the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl MVP.
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  Speaker 2: Ken Walker twenty seven carries one hundred and thirty five yards,
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  Speaker 2: two receptions of twenty six yards, first running back to
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  Speaker 2: win that award in twenty eight years. Bump and I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to talk about the future or anything like that. Yeah, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 2: seeing again, we want to talk about looking at this
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  Speaker 2: whole thing, taking ten steps back. We talked at nauseum
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  Speaker 2: about the Seahawks run game from last year, this year,
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  Speaker 2: even in.
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  Speaker 1: The beginning of this year.
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  Speaker 2: There are times where people are like, man, ken Walker
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't be here, the Seahawks should trade him. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if he can work in this system. Blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 2: and then it was back and forth. One week of
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  Speaker 2: sharp ning, one week was Ken Walker. After all that
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  Speaker 2: happened to finish the season the way those guys did,
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  Speaker 2: and for Ken to do it in that game.
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  Speaker 3: So happy for the guy. Yeah, man, he had a
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  Speaker 3: I mean it was only right that he finished the
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  Speaker 3: season way that he did because in the playoffs and
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  Speaker 3: then a couple of games three games before the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: he was finding his stride. He was finding his groove, man,
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  Speaker 3: And the run of the year, right, I don't care
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  Speaker 3: about the other longest runs of the year by other players.
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  Speaker 3: When he broke the ankles of that Rams linebacker in
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  Speaker 3: the A game, that's when I said to myself, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: he's feeling there right now. You don't make that move
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  Speaker 3: if you're not feeling yourself in and understanding what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: So yes, the run game took this offense to another
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  Speaker 3: level and it helped this man ball out. Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 3: was nineteen to thirty eight and two yards in one
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  Speaker 3: touchdown in the Super Bowl. He made some big plays,
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  Speaker 3: he avoided some sacks. My favorite, my favorite player of him,
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't even the pass is when he took it.
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  Speaker 3: He ran it. Made a guy miss picked up the
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  Speaker 3: first downs, like be responsible with the football man. So
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  Speaker 3: he did a lot of good stuff. Man, if he
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  Speaker 3: makes two throws to jaysm Man, we're probably talking about
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  Speaker 3: him being the MVP. Jason was wide open over room
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. But he's tied Brett fav and Patrick
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  Speaker 3: Mahomes for fourth place for the most wins and consecutive
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  Speaker 3: seasons including playoffs with thirty one. He became the fourth
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  Speaker 3: quarterback ever to win the Super Bowl in his first
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  Speaker 3: season with the team and over three playoff games with
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  Speaker 3: Sam andya three ozho, you have joined to twenty four
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  Speaker 3: passing years, five touchdowns, zero interceptions, passerani at one to
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  Speaker 3: four point two. Sam, talk yo stuff, you did that.
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  Speaker 3: Monkey's off your back. Happy for that, dude, No love.
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  Speaker 2: He got to go to Disneyland, got to do all
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  Speaker 2: the things after. He is just such a better man
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  Speaker 2: than I am, because there's no way I could be
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  Speaker 2: that noble Still, at least by the Super Bowl celebration,
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  Speaker 2: I've been like, all right, I'm gonna start calling people
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  Speaker 2: out by name you didn't know. But Sam, that's just
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  Speaker 2: who he is, and that's why the Seahows are there,
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  Speaker 2: so I love it for that man. And then Cooper
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  Speaker 2: Cup six reception sixty one yards led the seahawkstin receiving,
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  Speaker 2: became the first player in the NFL history lead two
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  Speaker 2: franchises in receiving yards in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that part was cool.
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  Speaker 2: His leadership, his everything about Cooper Cup that was not
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  Speaker 2: in the box score and the numbers beeen the box
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  Speaker 2: scar could he played with the offensive player of the
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  Speaker 2: year and Jason and he bought out all year.
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  Speaker 1: I just love the leadership we brought.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about some of the intangibles when we get
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  Speaker 2: into our film breakdown here in a second, but.
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  Speaker 1: Love what we saw from Cooper Cup.
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  Speaker 2: Felt like he was discarded from the Rams after a phenomenal,
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  Speaker 2: potentially all fame career. There comes to Seattle first year,
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  Speaker 2: gets it done.
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  Speaker 1: Love to see it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a common presence out there. It's super calm, right,
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  Speaker 3: nothing never rattled. And we're going to talk about him
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  Speaker 3: being calm and out rattled here in a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: AJ Barner Ford reception fifty four yards, one touchdown. The
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  Speaker 3: touchdown almost never happened, right, Cooper Cup heard the play
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  Speaker 3: differently or wrong in the huddle and he runs the
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  Speaker 3: wrong route. Had to adjust last minute. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: break that play down. But AJ has stepped into his
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  Speaker 3: own man. He has one probably the biggest personality on
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  Speaker 3: this team. If you don't know about AJ, yeah, just
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  Speaker 3: google him. Watch him at the parade. My man has
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  Speaker 3: this confidence about him that I think this team needs,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he could be one of the best
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  Speaker 3: tight ends in the game. Now we're just gonna get unlocked.
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  Speaker 3: You got a new tight end. Excuse me. Oh see
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  Speaker 3: here Flurry who was a tight ends guy. Maybe he
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  Speaker 3: can unlock him as well. But Aj, it's been fun
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  Speaker 3: watching him really embrace his role in this team. He
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  Speaker 3: does a dirty work. He's a good blocker, he got hands,
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  Speaker 3: he can catch the rock, and he's like kind of
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  Speaker 3: the mouthpiece on offense too. He will talk to you
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  Speaker 3: and let you know what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's kind of heart and soul. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: love what we saw obviously, his celebration in the parade.
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  Speaker 2: He's got his fur cut up there, his barnyard, the
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  Speaker 2: run and his dance afterwards. All the things that we
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  Speaker 2: saw from AJ. And he's just a dog And I
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: didn't see it coming. I knew he was a good
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: football player, but to get to where he's at, he's
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: going to be, as you said, one of the best
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: tight ends in the game for a long time. Love
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: what we saw from aj Barner been defensively. Derek Hall
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: two sacks, two tackles, two TFLs, two quarterback hits, a
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: force fumble. He could have been the MVP if things
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: flipped a little bit differently. He played that well. Byer
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: Murphy two tackles, two sacks, two TFLs, two QB hits.
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: This dark side defense at front seven was relentless, and.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: This dude could have been MVP himself. And Spoon four tackles,
• 13:56
  Speaker 3: one sack, one TfL, three quarterback hits. He was everywhere.
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: Tendawels got to pass defending one QB hit, an interception,
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: return to the house baby forty forty five yards. And
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: then Ernest Jones Man. Ernest is the youngest old man
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: I've ever been in my life. His soul is of
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: a forty five year OWD, but his body is of
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: a twenty six year old. He had eleven tackles, ten solo,
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: one TfL. Ernest with his second ring, I.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: Mean so many guys played roles on this team to
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: get them where they got to winning the Super Bowl,
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: and Bump. We're gonna get into our new offensive coordinator
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: a couple of other things before we get out of this podcast.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: But we could not leave you hanging here.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: One last film breakdown of some of the biggest plays
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: from Super Bowl six. He will start with Sam Darnold
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: finding a J Barner for that sixteen yard touchdown.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: Alani in the backfield.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Now play fake to him. Sam stops little strokes.
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: Gott a man wide open touchdown. Shay Hawks and his
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: ay Jay Barner. He could not wait to get out
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: of that hotel talk to him yesterday. He said, I
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: gotta go somebody, HEYJ, how about catching a touchdown too?
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: He does from sixteen out his fourth Hey J. Barner
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: on a perfect pass.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Darnold.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: We have seen him throw that before everybody comes to
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: the left side. Barner leaks out into the right side.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: Four catches, fifty four yards now and a touchdown.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: All right, So typically I leave this thing off, but
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: you got some inside on this, so you go ahead
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: and do your thing with this one.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Okay. So Cooper cup was sitting in this exact chair.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: He joined the New Heights podcast right after the Seahawks
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: won the Super Bowl, and he had a little bit
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: of intel on this play.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: It looks like a normal play. It worked.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: AJ Barner runs a little corner touchdown, but apparently there's
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: an issue with the wristband. The formation was backwards for
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: what the play call was. So that's why Shaheed and
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Cooper Cup start on the same side. Chaheat has some
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: motion to the other side and on the fly, you
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: want to talk about presence of mind, Cooper Cup saw
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: that Aj barn was gonna run a route right into him.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: On the fly, he changed it up. He went from
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: running a backside basic to a post in order to
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: not run straight into Aj Barner cleans it up. Mind you,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: jsn's on the sideline and concussion protocol that might have
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: played a role into all this, but.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Bump your receiver to clean that up on the fly.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: It's unreal. That is unreal presence of mind from number
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: ten Cooper Cup.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: It's impressive, man, because route concepts are all about spacing,
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: and he felt the spacing was off all right, So
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: I know in his mind he goes, I know what
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Aj is gonna do. I'm just gonna take my guy
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: the complete other direction to make sure he's good to go.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: What I like about this concept right here too. I
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: saw the Rams do it as well. Like typically when
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: you motion your tight end, you want to get him
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: outside the furthest guy in the line of scrimmage. They
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: got these guys releasing up that seed gap now because
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: there's a tight end there. I saw the Rams do it.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: I also saw the Niners do it as well. This
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: is stresses out of defense. It looks like these guys
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: are in like a cover three. I want to say,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: maybe manneda backside zone on one side, but it just
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: confuses the defense. You see a back or flow with
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: the running back notices as the plays and he's trying
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: to drop back into the flap and it's just too late. Man.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: So what's crazy too is the scissors concept. And my
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: option is exactly what those two did, like one over
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: the top, one underneath. So when you said, why sissors,
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: like what my offense, we would call what they did
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: scissors anyway, But no, man, this is this is players
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: making the coaches right. And sometimes you're gonna have to
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: need players to make you right. You're gonna call them wrong.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Play something's gonna be jacked up. Count on your vest
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: to make you right. That's what happened here.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Well, you know this more than anyone in an NFL playbook.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: How easy it would it be to accidentally tag one
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: extra thing or the wrong thing or back order or
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: someone comes out. He doesn't usually run it from this side,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: just a presence of mind. I love it from that.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: And you mentioned AJ Barner just getting through the mess,
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: because a lot of times too, you get caught up,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: you get grabbed, you get tripped up, you don't get
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: to where you're supposed to go. Great protection as well,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Sam had late pressure, got some makes a great player,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: stays in there, flings it down to AJ Barner for
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: a touchdown in the Super Bowl. All right, the next
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: player we're gonna look at this is Drake Meghan hit
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: by Devin Witherspoon, popping in a new chennan Nuosu running
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: it back for a touchdown.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: First and ten at the Seattle forty four.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Here comes the blitz.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: May Hennessy tries to throw ball, comes out going the
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: other way with it turning up field.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: It's Chennadeo suit.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: And he scores touchdown Sahawks, but Seahawks defense.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: They have done it again.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Drake May tried to throw, he gets hammered. Nuosu comes
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: up with the ball. He was my pick for defensive
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: MVP in this game, and he takes that ball the distance.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Man. I love this. This is this is where Leo
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: comes into play, and no one really notices it right here,
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: all right. So Leo's lined up in that that one
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: tech in between the center and your guard, and he's
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: just landing across the formation, right, He's gonna slant across
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: the center's face. He's gonna pull that guard with him,
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: all right. So what that does is it allows one
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: on one matchups. You have Jenna and Woldsu rushing off
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: the edge. He's gonna take care of the tackle, and
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: you have Ernest Jones blitzing up the B gap. He's
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: gonna take care of the running back. If they were
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: to do this, if they were to do this correctly, right,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: if if that guard didn't lose or didn't have so
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: much attention on on Leo, he would have slaid. He
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: would have helped out over there and would have clogged
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: up the blitzing lane that Witherspoon has going up the
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: sea gap. So it's just you're overwhelming, right, you're pulling
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: guys with you with Leonard, and then you're overwhelming the
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: left side when it comes to numbers. So Ernest Jones
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: takes care of the running back, which she didn't, takes
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: care of the tackle. You got Leo who pulls the
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: guard and the center with them. Now, Spoon just being
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: the little firecracker that he is, gets to the quarterback,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: hits him as he throws. China has a gift. Congratulations,
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: you scored a touchdown on the Super Bowl.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, every you want to talk about overwhelming one side
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: because mom, they have enough guys to block this. Yeah,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: Seahawks bring five, they have six in protection. I love
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Witherspoon when you blitz from depth like that. And just
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: to look at the timing, I mean one two boom
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: and he's running full speed now and obviously running back
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: takes certain stones like you said, but they just overwhelmed
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: that that gap and it's a wrap and honestly, Chenna
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: a great rush.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: But as as a non skill.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Guy, I mean, I get technically he's a linebacker in
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: that system, but someone's normally handed in the ground. Yeah,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: pretty athletic play because you know if you got brick hands,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: that ball pops up, you bat it around, maybe eventually
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: catch it, you fall down. But for him to make
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: it in stride, it was such a clean play bump
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: from our broadcast booth me and you didn't even know
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: it was intercepting.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: No, that was a fumble.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Looked like a fumble because of whatever happened, And honestly,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: that could have also tilted the MVP vote. If that
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: goes down as a forced fumble for Witherspoon, that might
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: change what the voting was. But anyway, hell will play
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: and it's teach tape. That's how you blitz, that's how
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: you hit the arm. Everyone did what they're supposed to do.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: You overwhelm it. And Coach McDonald talked about after the
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: game a lot of times it looked to the naked
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: eye like those were all the same blitzes.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: They weren't.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: He said he only called a couple those more than once,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: so they were just again exotic. Both guards eventually on
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: that play didn't block anybody.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: For the most of the game they didn't know who
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: was rushing where to protect. And that's coach McDonald the genius.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: As we've always known him to be getting it done
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl. Love to see that. But we
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: do have some news where we have had some news recently.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks do have a new offensive coordinator. What's on tap?
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: What's on tap? Clint Kubiak. Shout out to Clint Kubiak.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: He did his thing one year in Seattle, had a
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: hell of an offense, one of the best ones in
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: team history, helped the Seahawks win a Super Bowl. Now
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: he's down there coaching the Las Vegas Raiders, so best
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: of luck to him there. Entering Brian Fleury, he comes
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: from San Francisco, where he held the title of run
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: game coordinator as well as tight ends coach. Flury has
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: an overlap though with Kubiak, because he coached with Kubiak
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: as well as Sam Donald in San Francisco. Or Tink
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: will be huge. You'd imagine you're gonna try to do
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: some of those same things.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Fleury.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: A little background on him, former quarterback from University of
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Maryland in Townsend. Began his coaching career as a grat
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: assistant at Maryland and three after a decade in the
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: college ranks, he began his NFL coaching Career's quality control
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: with the Bills twenty thirteen, and he brings a diverse background,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: having coach linebackers outside linebackers with the Browns before cooming
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: in defensive quality control and then switching the offense.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: But doing that in a National Football League is unreal
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: to me.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great, and I think that's probably what gave
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: him the edge over the other candidates. Honestly, it's like, look,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I know defense, I played defense, I coached defense, and
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: now I'm over here on the offensive side. I can
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: tell my guys exactly what the defense is trying to do,
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: what they're trying to take away. I think offensive coaches
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: can do it too, but a bit different when you've
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: coached on that side of the football. And he's a
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: run game coordinator. We know Mike wants to run the football,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: and he worked with the tight ends. We know Mike
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: wants to get the tight ends involved. So it was like,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: at first, I was like, who is this guy, Brian Flurry?
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: And then I looked him up resume and on paper,
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: I go, yeah, that makes sense for coach mcdonaldson.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: In his introductory press conference last week, he described what
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: he wants this offense to look like.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: It looks very similar to the one that just won
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: the Super Bowl. It's more about how you play than
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: what you actually are doing Schematically. We're gonna be fast
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: and violent and aggressive in every way that we possibly
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: can put pressure on defenses, both schematically and from a
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: tempo standpoint, and just always have that type of mindset.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: But you had the chance to talk with coach right
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: after his press conference. He hopped on with you and
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Bump and Stacey Show. What were your impressures of him
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: when you talk to him.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: I liked him. Man say he's gonna be violent, Well, ball,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: he's violent. Yes, he must be violent. And he comes
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: from a family of teachers too. He says he loves
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: to teach, and I think that's the main thing. I
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: think that's one of the strengths of this coaches staff
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: in general, is that everybody here is a teacher. I
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: love that he played both sides of the football. We
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: can talk defense, we can talk offense. I'ma love that
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: he understands the box. On another level, I think that
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: I always encourage people learn as much as you can
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: about the box. If you learn the box, the game's
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: gonna just look completely different for you, and he seems
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: like a confident leader. I know people are like, well,
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: he's never done this before. All right, Well he's been
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: in San Francisco for seven years under Shanahan. He's gonna learn.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: He's been on the head said, he understands. Will there
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: be some bumps in the road. Of course, there's bumps
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: in the road for guys who've done this for a
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: decade plus. So now I'm excited, man. I think that
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: it's always nice when we can pull off from the
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: ops too, you know, Fortnight take a run game coordinated
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: to give an opportunity here. But no, he has a plan.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: He's not going to debate too far from what we
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: did last year. He is gonna make it his own.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: But I think the proof is into putting like this
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: offense works and now he just got to sprinkle his
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: own little little sauce on there. Yeah.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: No, I love continuity, like you said, establishing what we
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: have ever gotten going and when people want to talk
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: he hasn't done it before.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald wasn't a head coach before either. Yeah, two
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: years later he's a super Bowl champion.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm confident, And here's bum honestly, when that
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: all I need to know are these things. For one,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: I trust in John Schneider and Mike MacDonald. Anything that
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: they want to do, I'm gonna get on board with. Yeah,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: trust exactly. Oh and they didn't they did not miss.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: They did not miss. And beyond that, if Mike McDonald's
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: bringing you in here, three things are true.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: You love ball, you know ball, and you can teach ball.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: He talks about all the time about being a force multiplier,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: being a teacher, and that's what he cares about. So
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: if you're hired on this staff, you those three things
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: are true about you, You're gonna.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Be just fine.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Yep, it's gonna be good.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: You're gonna be just fine. Looking ahead, though, bump the
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: rest of the off season. The combine actually started today.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: It's gonna go through March second workouts do and begin
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: till Thursday. You got free agency coming out March eleventh.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Then you have to phase one of the off season.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: NFL Draft April twenty third through twenty six. Rookie Mini
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Camp usually the next weekend OTA's mandatory Mini camp mid June,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: players have time off and before you know it, back
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: in July for training camp. Which is gonna be crazy about.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: This offseason is already going by fast because this time
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: last year, the Seahaws were done for over a month.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Wow, it well over a month.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Right now, you have two weeks off, you're at the Combine.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: It's gonna go crazy and you're gonna have to start
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: camp a little bit earlier than you normally. Do you
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: know why, because you're gonna kick off the season on
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: a Thursday night. I know there's some talk about some
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: other games, but either way, you're gonna one of those
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: early games.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: So like future me, he's gonna be Damn. We're gonna
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: lose about four days of summer.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: But it's all good. The Seahawks will be playing bump
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: and I'm excited. I mean, there's obviously free agents I
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: need to be signing things you need to be done.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: But for me, because I'm not John Schneider or my no,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: I can just bask in this glory. Yeah, basking it, baby,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Come on, it's been a bump. It's been a fun year. Obviously,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: we've been doing this thing. It's the first year we've
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: been able to cover team this successful. But it's been fun.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I appreciate everyone who is listening or watch our show
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: all season long. It's been a really fun. We've had
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: an amazing time. Big shout out to production Laife Lightingting.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: He is one of the best to do it. He
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: edits his podcast every single week. He does the film breakdowns.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I appreciate him. He does Insiders, does a lot of
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: things for this Operation Bumps game preview. So shout out Lafe,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: you've been killing all season long.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: May can me look good? Brother MS Maybe some files.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Loving crispy though, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, No, anyway,
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: it's been really fun. Appreciate y'all listening. We will probably
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: join jump back in periodic throughout the off season.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Your boy's got some.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Leave, he's gonna be taking that and we'll be back
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: here getting ready for the draft. Seahawks, Super Bowl sixty champions, Lovett,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Seattle and Joy.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: We'll be with you next time.