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Hawk Talk Talks Again · 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.
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  Speaker 2: right flass to Michael Bumpers, who bounces off a one
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  Speaker 3: Matt Pumpfak's looking at.
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  Speaker 2: The gold line.
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  Speaker 3: He throws it into the m zone. Touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Say Hawks, it's Michael Bumpas with a diving catching the
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  Speaker 2: end zone. A ten yard touchdown reception for Bumpus, and
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  Speaker 2: the kid out of Washington State has found himself a
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  Speaker 2: place on this team.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's your host, Nasa Jovie.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back. Hawk Talk is back.
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  Speaker 4: I know we've been gone for a long time, but
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  Speaker 4: we're officially back here for the twenty twenty three season.
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  Speaker 4: You know, my guy, Michael Bumpus, you hear every day
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  Speaker 4: on Bump and Stacy Show on seven ten Seattle Sports
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  Speaker 4: is back with me this year. You're not gonna miss
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  Speaker 4: a beat with us this year. We're gonna give you
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  Speaker 4: cover all things Seahawks every week, twice a week.
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  Speaker 3: Getting you ready bomb.
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  Speaker 4: This preseason has been has been fun, but Honestly, this
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  Speaker 4: what we've be waiting for. I've been waiting for the
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  Speaker 4: kickoff to get this season going so we can talk
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  Speaker 4: about some real football bump.
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  Speaker 3: Are you excited?
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  Speaker 5: First off? Hello, good sir, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 3: What's up?
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  Speaker 5: We've had got this thing? Yeah, I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 6: This has been one of the most anticipated seasons in
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  Speaker 6: a while. I think last year we were anticipating this
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  Speaker 6: season for other reasons, right, who's going to be the quarterback?
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  Speaker 6: Russell's gone defensive coordinator. Now is like, okay, we have
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  Speaker 6: a quarterback. There was some talent that was drafted last year.
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  Speaker 6: Now you're building. Expectations are a bit different and higher
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  Speaker 6: this year. So yeah, I'm ready to go.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we talked all through the preseason kind of
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  Speaker 4: you know what a difference a year makes, because you
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  Speaker 4: mentioned this time last year was all the questions everyone
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  Speaker 4: and all the national media. Everyone was like, this is
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  Speaker 4: the worst quarterback competition.
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  Speaker 3: In the world.
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  Speaker 4: This and that Pete and John don't know what they're
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  Speaker 4: talking about. Blah blah blah blah blah. Obviously, we know
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  Speaker 4: the Seahawks proved differently. Obviously, you know, Pete and John
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  Speaker 4: know exactly what they're doing. Have this roster constructed in
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  Speaker 4: a way where they can make some noises here, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm really excited and we'll kind of jump into this roster.
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  Speaker 4: Not a whole lot of huge surprise, is honestly, Bump,
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  Speaker 4: just going through the first stop. Obviously, quarterbacks, you got
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  Speaker 4: Geno Smith and Drew Locke running back Canine, Kenneth Walker
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  Speaker 4: the third, Zach Charbonnet who's a draft pick out of
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  Speaker 4: the second round. Really excited about him out of UCLA,
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  Speaker 4: DJ Dallas and Kenny McIntosh out of Utah wide out.
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  Speaker 4: You know who you got, It's Lockett, It's Metcalf JSN
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  Speaker 4: the first rounder.
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna make a lot of noise.
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  Speaker 4: Jake Bobo was kind of a surprise for some not
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  Speaker 4: for my guy Bump, who's been on the Bubo bandwagon
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  Speaker 4: from the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: And Cody Thompson. So Bump.
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  Speaker 4: Just looking at those skill positions up front, man, it's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of firepower, a lot of depth, and a
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  Speaker 4: lot of guys that can.
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  Speaker 3: Make some noise in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel good about the skill position. Sharbonnet was
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  Speaker 5: a great pick up.
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  Speaker 6: Kenny McIntosh still haven't really seen what he can do
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  Speaker 6: with pads on. We saw him in training camp looking great.
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  Speaker 6: And then the receiver room, Yes, Jackson Smith and Jig
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  Speaker 6: was going to be out there. Jake Bubbo slides on
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  Speaker 6: the squad, and then Cody Thompson.
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  Speaker 5: We've heard his name a lot. The tight end spot.
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  Speaker 6: We can say the same thing, right Uncle Will Dissley,
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  Speaker 6: nol Fan, Kobe Parkinson. No change is there. We knew
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  Speaker 6: that was going to go down with this offensive line.
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  Speaker 6: There's been a few additions, usual suspects. Charles Cross, Damien Lewis,
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  Speaker 6: Evan Brown comes over from the Detroit Lions, got Phil
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  Speaker 6: Haynes stepping up, Abe Lucas, then you draft Olu and
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  Speaker 6: Anthony Bradford, Curry and Forsyth and Ben Brown are still there,
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  Speaker 6: but we expect the first five to be out there.
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  Speaker 6: Got some young tackles in their second year, Evan Brown
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  Speaker 6: getting in the mix. Everyone else that we've seen and
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  Speaker 6: heard before, d line, Dre Jones the biggest acquisition from
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  Speaker 6: this team in the Pete Carroll and John Schneider era
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  Speaker 6: during the offseason. Jay Reid is back, Mario Everards, excuse me, Edwards,
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  Speaker 6: Mike Morris, Miles Adam, my guy fan favorite, smoothest voice
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  Speaker 6: in the game, and Cam Young haven't really seen much
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  Speaker 6: out of him yet, but he's gonna He's gonna contribute.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I really like how the Seahawks look up
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  Speaker 4: front on both sides of the ball. You mentioned Jerraymond Jones,
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  Speaker 4: Jared Reed, Mario Edwards, the biggest acquisitions we've had, because
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  Speaker 4: you know, the D line is completely different FM last year,
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  Speaker 4: no more Alwoods, no Shelby Harris, no l. J. Collier,
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  Speaker 4: none of those guys in poona Ford. Guys did some
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  Speaker 4: good things for the Seahawks. But I'm really excited about
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  Speaker 4: Dramane Jones and j Reed. Jay Reid coming back to
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  Speaker 4: the Seahawks. We know what he did the first time around.
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  Speaker 4: He's been at Stopson, Green Bay, Kansas City. Really excited
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  Speaker 4: about what Jay Reid's going to bring. And I think
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  Speaker 4: this team's going to get a lot better on the
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  Speaker 4: defensive line, especially stopping the run, which we will get
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  Speaker 4: into a little bit later. Linebacker fifty four is back
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  Speaker 4: in the Seahawks uniform. All's right with the world obviously there.
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  Speaker 4: Jordan Brooks back from his ACL injury. One of the
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  Speaker 4: craziest recoveries I've ever seen ever. The fact that he
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  Speaker 4: tears his acl and in January and is going to
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  Speaker 4: start Week one, I mean, bump, that is outrageous. Devin
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  Speaker 4: Bush comes over from the Steelers. You're going to see
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  Speaker 4: him out there a lot, John radagaan Nick Blore, and
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  Speaker 4: then on the outside Shennon Wosu, Darryl Taylor, Boyer, Derek Hall,
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  Speaker 4: Tyreek Smith really excited about Derek Hall coming from Auburn.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna be a guy who can make a lot
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  Speaker 4: of noise this year.
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  Speaker 3: And then also Tyreek.
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  Speaker 4: Smith didn't see him at all last year at Ohio
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  Speaker 4: State kind of essentially red shirted with a medical injury
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  Speaker 4: last year. But he made a lot of plays in
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  Speaker 4: the preseason obviously, Boya and Chenna speaks for itself in DT.
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  Speaker 4: So at linebacker, we're gonna make a lot of plays
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  Speaker 4: and a lot of noise.
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  Speaker 6: Bump, Yeah, man, I'm looking for an uptick. Chenna got
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  Speaker 6: his money. He's gonna go out there and back it
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  Speaker 6: up in ball out. DT's gonna, I think take another step.
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  Speaker 6: Boye Mafe is one of those guys who I think
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  Speaker 6: gets enough gets attention, but not enough attention. Man, his
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  Speaker 6: growth is gonna be great as well. I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: the corners man. We got Reek Woland, the pro bowler.
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  Speaker 6: He will be back. Had a little minor surgery during
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  Speaker 6: the offseason. He's good to go. Trey Brown has been
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  Speaker 6: listed as a starter. They've been waiting for this dude
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  Speaker 6: to really get his time to shine for a long time.
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  Speaker 6: Now he's gonna get it. Mike Jackson are underdog hero.
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  Speaker 6: Love what he brings to the table. Devin Witherspoon hasn't
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  Speaker 6: practiced much, sounds like he's full go this week.
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  Speaker 5: Will see how much he plays.
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  Speaker 6: Kobe Bryant, the versatile guy out there corner safety Nickel
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  Speaker 6: doesn't matter, he can do it all. And then we
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  Speaker 6: have Kyu Blue Kelly as well. Safety spot. You bring
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  Speaker 6: over Julian Love to kind of fill a void in
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  Speaker 6: Jamal Adams absence. He's not gonna play this week. You
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  Speaker 6: draft Jered Reid. He makes the ball club. Love to
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  Speaker 6: see that. And then the og Quandre Diggs, the most
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  Speaker 6: reliable guy you got in that secondary. We're saying a
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  Speaker 6: lot of the same names and I think that's good,
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  Speaker 6: but we're also sprinkling in some new new over there too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Devin Witherspoon, We're obviously excited to see him. He's fifth
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  Speaker 4: overall picking the draft, and he's a guy that can play.
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  Speaker 3: We know he can play.
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  Speaker 4: We haven't seen a ton of them just because of
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  Speaker 4: injuries and whatnot, but great sight to him back out
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  Speaker 4: at practice. Kobe Bryant, super versatile, had him playing safety
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  Speaker 4: in the preseason. We know he can play nickel, we
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  Speaker 4: know he could play outside. Quandre Diggs and Jamal you
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  Speaker 4: don't really need to say nothing about them. If they're
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  Speaker 4: both on the field, they can ball out. Get Julian
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  Speaker 4: Love from the Giant. So there's so much depth. The
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  Speaker 4: secondary might be the best unit on the team, which
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  Speaker 4: is hard to say considering we look at the receivers
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  Speaker 4: and some of the running backs on the squad. So bump,
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  Speaker 4: this team is deep obviously if you go specialists, my
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  Speaker 4: guy Michael Dixon still back there, Jason Myers kicking the
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  Speaker 4: field goals, and long snapper Chrystal.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out to Brian Walters if you're.
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  Speaker 4: Listening, because he's all about Crystal and long snapper battles
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  Speaker 4: throughout the preseason. That was so bump. I think if
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  Speaker 4: looking at all the roster. Of all the names, who
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  Speaker 4: do you think is poisons to have a breakout.
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  Speaker 3: Season this year?
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  Speaker 6: Man, I look at this and I got to start
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  Speaker 6: at the old line. A breakout season just means we're
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  Speaker 6: not calling their name a lot, right, So that's what
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  Speaker 6: I want to see on that offensive line. I think
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  Speaker 6: that eventually we'll see some of Anthony Bradford in Oulu
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  Speaker 6: and if they're able to contribute, I think that's gonna
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  Speaker 6: help that offensive line because we know there's always a
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  Speaker 6: big rotation over there. Breakout season, I know I want
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  Speaker 6: to see it from Daryl Taylor nine and a half
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  Speaker 6: last year. I think you can call last year a
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  Speaker 6: breakout season, but I want to see him kind of
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  Speaker 6: building what he did last year. And then Julian Love again,
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  Speaker 6: he's a veteran. He was a captain over there with
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  Speaker 6: the Giants. We know that he's versatile, but we haven't
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  Speaker 6: seen him in a Seahawk jersey. Those are some names
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  Speaker 6: that I'm looking at. And then of course, you know
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  Speaker 6: receiver for Jake Bobbo. Man, I've been talking about Jake
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  Speaker 6: Bobo since Man since he was undrafted, you know what
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  Speaker 6: I mean. So Jake Bobo for the show I got
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  Speaker 6: to throw him in there. Man who you like, oh hey,
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  Speaker 6: and you kick it around with more Bobo.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's been he's kind of been like a
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  Speaker 4: phenomenon that's taken storm because usually you have a a
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  Speaker 4: guy that you fall in love with in the preseason,
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  Speaker 4: but then he kind of drifts off into oblivion. He
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  Speaker 4: maybe makes a squad, maybe he doesn't, maybe he's practice squad.
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  Speaker 4: But Bubbo's gonna be on the roster and Bubble's gonna play.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm excited to see what he can do out there.
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  Speaker 4: You know, for me, honestly, it's it's all over the board.
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  Speaker 4: But I really think offensively, Jackson Smith and Jake buzz
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  Speaker 4: is gonna add a different level to this offense. You know,
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  Speaker 4: for years, I feel like the Seahawks have been searching
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  Speaker 4: for a third receiver option. Well, they drafted at number one,
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  Speaker 4: who's gonna play like a number three. So he's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be causing fits for defenses. And then defensively, I'm really
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  Speaker 4: excited about Jay Reed and Draymond Jones. I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: think they're gonna change this defensive line. On defensive the
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks can be a top fifteen run stopping team. If
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  Speaker 4: even if they're fifteen seventeen, just not thirty, This team's
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  Speaker 4: gonna win four more games just on that alone. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited to see these guys. I think there's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of good that can come from this roster. But
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  Speaker 4: they are having an opponent that we're very familiar with.
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  Speaker 4: This is actually gonna be the fiftieth regular season meeting
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  Speaker 4: with this team.
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  Speaker 3: What's on tap? What's on tap? You love to at them?
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  Speaker 4: The Los Angeles Rams coming in from last year a
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  Speaker 4: wild year for them last year, Bump, They've finished.
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  Speaker 3: Five and twelve, third place in the NFC West.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, they came into last season, you know, the defending champs,
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  Speaker 4: you know, went through, had a great season, win the
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl, Matthew Stafford, Cooper Cup, Odell Beckham, Junior, Aaron Donald,
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  Speaker 4: all the star power, and then last year, well, father
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  Speaker 4: time got him injury. Stafford gets hurt, Cup gets hurt,
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  Speaker 4: Donald gets hurt, and the season just falls.
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  Speaker 3: Apart early on. And they didn't look good at all
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  Speaker 3: last year.
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  Speaker 4: They still played the Seahawks twice, both times last year
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  Speaker 4: took a game winning drive in the first one. So
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  Speaker 4: it's just they're interesting, though, Bump, I mean, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of other guys are not on the squad anymore, and
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  Speaker 4: we're not.
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  Speaker 3: Really sure about Cooper Cup.
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  Speaker 4: But I feel like the Rams always play the Hawks tough,
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  Speaker 4: and with Matthew Stafford healthy, they're always something you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: have to contend with Sean mcvagh and all that. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, how do you think they can bounce back
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  Speaker 4: from last year? And you think this is kind of
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  Speaker 4: a rebuild slash retool, I don't know all you want
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  Speaker 4: to call it, but it's just another transition year for them.
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  Speaker 6: They transitioning. I don't know what they're gonna call the transition,
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  Speaker 6: but it's definitely a transition going on. Man, Lots of
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  Speaker 6: names are gone, Jayalen Ramsey ain't here no more, Lennon
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  Speaker 6: Floyd isn't isn't there anymore. But you're right, they always
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  Speaker 6: play the Seahawks top. So I'm gonna rattle off some
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  Speaker 6: numbers but they don't really matter. But I'm gonna let
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  Speaker 6: you know what they were last year and then you
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  Speaker 6: do what you want with that. Offensively, the rounds were
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  Speaker 6: thirty second overall. How many teams are in the NFL's.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty two thirty two?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, So the worst offense in the league, which is
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  Speaker 6: crazy to say. With McVeigh, Matthew Stafford and Cup the
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  Speaker 6: guys were banged up. They were twenty seventh when it
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  Speaker 6: comes to running the rock, twenty seventh when it comes
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  Speaker 6: to passing it, in twenty seventh when it comes to
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  Speaker 6: points per game. On the other side, the Hawks were
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  Speaker 6: thirteenth ranked overall, eighteenth running the rock, eleventh when throwing
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  Speaker 6: that thing, and then ninth in points per game, averaging
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  Speaker 6: twenty three point nine. I can almost guarantee you these
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  Speaker 6: offensive numbers for the Rams will not be that at
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  Speaker 6: the end of the season this year. But that lets
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  Speaker 6: you know just the type of trials and tribulations they
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  Speaker 6: were going through last year.
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  Speaker 5: Super Bowl champs.
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  Speaker 6: So the worst offense in the league, We've never seen
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  Speaker 6: it before. Something tells me they'll be better.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard to think they couldn't be, man. I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 4: if Stafford just out there playing, and even if Cooper
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  Speaker 4: Cup plays half the games, it'll be different.
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  Speaker 3: Though.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's not the same roster, not the same firepower.
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  Speaker 4: But Sean McVay is too good of a coach to
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  Speaker 4: falter like that again. And you know, they were okay
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  Speaker 4: defensively despite all the injuries they had. Like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 4: it's the nineteenth and total defense thirteenth to geinst the run,
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  Speaker 4: twenty first against the pass, So they took some decent
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  Speaker 4: things defensively. It'll be interesting to see what happens this year.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, these head to head numbers will definitely
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  Speaker 4: mean more in about a month or so, get some
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  Speaker 4: real bases off it. But from the Seahawks standpoint, just
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  Speaker 4: looking at head to head total defense, there are twenty
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  Speaker 4: six thirtieth against the run, thirteenth to against the pass,
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  Speaker 4: in twenty fifth in points per game. Obviously, all numbers
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  Speaker 4: a Pete Carroll coach team does not want to be in,
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  Speaker 4: and they're definitely going to look to improve those numbers
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  Speaker 4: this year. But yeah, lock and change in a year,
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  Speaker 4: and I feel like we have two teams kind of
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  Speaker 4: going in a different direction.
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  Speaker 3: But we will see.
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  Speaker 4: But we mentioned I kind of touched on a little
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  Speaker 4: bit alluding to this matchup with the Rams. This is
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  Speaker 4: a fiftieth regular season matchup coming ahead, so let's know.
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  Speaker 3: The history, no your history.
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  Speaker 4: The Seahawks lead that all time series twenty seven to
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  Speaker 4: twenty two. The Rams do have a two to zero
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  Speaker 4: lead in the postseason. Last time these two teams met,
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  Speaker 4: the Seahawks kept their playoff chances alive beating the Rams
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  Speaker 4: in a thriller nineteen to sixteen and overtime in Week seventeen.
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  Speaker 5: Bump.
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  Speaker 3: That game was stressful. We had to win to get in.
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  Speaker 4: We also needed the Lions to beat the Packers at
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  Speaker 4: Green Bay, something that no one ever thought could actually happen.
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  Speaker 4: But before the Seahawks even get to that Sunday night game,
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  Speaker 4: they had to win themselves. It was a slow game,
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  Speaker 4: you know, only two touchdowns score by both teams. The
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks were trailing at the half. Tyler Lockett makes it
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  Speaker 4: a tie game. Going down the stretch, the Seahawks feel
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  Speaker 4: like they have it. Jason Myers goes out to kick
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  Speaker 4: a field goal. He's been completely sure handed money all
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  Speaker 4: season long.
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  Speaker 3: Things it off the uprights.
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  Speaker 4: Seahawks go down or go into overtime, and then go
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  Speaker 4: three and now in the first possession. So I remember,
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  Speaker 4: we're down there in the Ring of Honor, getting ready
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  Speaker 4: for postgame show, and it's not looking good. Man Pitt
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  Speaker 4: and the stomach we're concerned. Well, thank god for Quandre Diggs.
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  Speaker 4: Quandre Digs comes over, makes a great interception on that
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  Speaker 4: first drive, points the ball at Bobby Wagner, who was
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  Speaker 4: playing for the wrong team at the time. Seahawks marks
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  Speaker 4: down the field, kick a field goal, win the game,
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  Speaker 4: get to the postseason. So definitely want to see more
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  Speaker 4: of that because the Rams had won a lot of
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  Speaker 4: this matchup in recent years. So it's good to see
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  Speaker 4: the Seahawks get a clean sweep. Well, as we keep
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: moving along, we're gonna show you what's going on. What's
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: the word in the West.
• 13:50
  Speaker 5: And the Seahawks or the NFC West Champs again.
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: What's the word in the West?
• 13:56
  Speaker 5: On Hawk talk a right, Well, we haven't played a game. Yes,
• 14:01
  Speaker 5: we're gonna tell you what was the word in the West.
• 14:03
  Speaker 6: And twenty twenty two, San Fran won the division thirteen
• 14:07
  Speaker 6: wins and four losses.
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: The Seahawks the surprise team in the division.
• 14:10
  Speaker 6: Honestly, when ninety eight made the playoffs, we talked about
• 14:13
  Speaker 6: the roums. They struggle last year they were five and
• 14:15
  Speaker 6: twelve and then the Cardinals were four and thirteen.
• 14:19
  Speaker 5: The Hawks made it back to the playoffs in twenty
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: twenty two.
• 14:22
  Speaker 6: Man, they make it to the playoffs under peat Caroll
• 14:24
  Speaker 6: ten out of thirteen seasons.
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: That's exactly what they do for the Rams.
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: You win the Super Bowl right going into the season,
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: you're feeling good, but things fall apart. They finished going
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: five and twelve and had a bunch of injuries. As
• 14:37
  Speaker 6: far as Arizona wasn't anything really good from start to finish,
• 14:40
  Speaker 6: they were all bad. There were fourteen excuse me, four
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: and thirteen, and that was a year they moved from
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: Cliff Kingsbury. At the end of the season, it was like,
• 14:48
  Speaker 6: all right, this is this ain't working something ay right?
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: I think from the outside looking in, we felt like
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: something wasn't right over there and everything was exposed Kyler
• 14:57
  Speaker 6: more he tears his acl he's on the pup list.
• 15:00
  Speaker 6: There was a lot going on in this league. You
• 15:03
  Speaker 6: got the fall of Arizona. They've never really been great,
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: but they always have talent.
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: They do nothing.
• 15:07
  Speaker 6: You got the Super Bowl champions looking really bad. You
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: got the Niners doing nine of things over the past
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: few years. But the surprise team was our Seattle Seahawks.
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: Interesting year in the West last year, now.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no question.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: I mean you mentioned Arizona usually was a kind of
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: a thorn in the Seahawks side. But you know, now,
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: they don't have DeAndre Hopkins, they don't have JJ Watt,
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: they don't have AJ Green. They traded Isaiah Simmons for
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: like a seventh round pick.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: He's a first rounder.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, so yeah, and they got a new coach
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: who you know, wait and see. I'm not in a
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: pass judgment. I know a lot of people are poking
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: fun and some of the videos are putting out some
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: of his opening press conferences.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: I'll wait. I'll wait until they play game before I
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: say anything there.
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: But I'll do it, I know. But I could be wrong.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: He's not pumping you up. You didn't get pumped up
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: by those videos.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: There's no fire in my gut ness.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, bro, it definitely didn't. Didn't set the world on
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: fire there. You're not gonna win the media. But they
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: had a tough year. So interesting to see where they're at,
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: especially with Kaler Murrays starting on the on the pup
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: and Colt McCoy's out of there, you know what I mean.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: So it's gonna be a very different roster from Arizona.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: We mentioned the rams we're gonna get in a lot
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: of those matchups. Moving forward, but they're a different team.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: And then bump, you got the San Francisco forty nine Ers,
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: sang Niners man the team Seahawk fans love to hate.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: They won the division last year, beat the Seahawks three times,
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Vancy Nantasy championship game, and before any Niner fans jump
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: on and you know, beat their chest.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Look at the last decade. Please y'all got us three
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: times last year.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: But please look at the numbers, because do yourself a
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: favor and go to Pro Footballreverence dot com. Look at
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: the head to head to match up. It is not favorable.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: I just want to put that out there. Becau second,
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: I already feel my forty nine fans you should put
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: it up reaching out there talking noise. But no, I
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: mean they're a good football team. I'd be lying if
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: I didn't tell you that they have probably the best
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: roster in the NFC top to bottom. I mean, they
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: got dudes, They got guys who can play. But the
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: thing that bump, the biggest question mark for me is
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: the quarter though the Trey Lance era, it's done. They
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: traded him to Dallas. It never really got started. Jimmy
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: g He's in Vegas now, Rock Party was mister irrelevant,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: and even last year I gave him credit because I
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: feel like mister Relevan's kind of a dumb thing.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: He got drafted.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: He's a good player, but it was such a small
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: sample size bump. I feel like we're kind of ready
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: to crown him and at the most important position in football.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: I don't care if you have the best rosster in football.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: If he doesn't play like he should play, they're not
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: gonna go as far as they want. Again, they're one
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: of the best teams in the NFL, hands down, but
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: I do think if the Seahawks are improved defensively, I
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: feel like they closed that gap and if Rock Party
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: isn't that guy, the Niners are gonna have a lot
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: more season than they think.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: Here's the thing.
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: Nine games we saw Rock Party, nine really good games.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: He had the best nine games that we've seen out
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: of a rookie in NFL history in some categories. Okay,
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: you got to come back and prove that, just like
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: people were saying, you don't have to come back and
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: prove this year that he's a Pro Bowl and tight
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: quarterback broadcasts to do that. I think he's okay. I
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: think he'll be fine. But I think you said it perfectly.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: If this Seahawks team is better against the run and
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: can corral quarterbacks, we will be just fine. A side note,
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: Nick Bosa ain't going nowhere. He just signed a five year,
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: one hundred and seventy million dollar deal, so we still.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: Got to deal with him. That's all good. We got
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: lineman for that. We've been drafting good.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: It's all good. Charles Cross and Abe Lucas, they're good
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: to go.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: But dang, I'm not gonna watch you. I was hoping
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: that he found h moved on a greater pastures in
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: the AFC, AFC, go get your money's what that's what
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: eighteen and a half sacks gets him. Okay, let's get
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: back into these rams and look at the matchups.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Man up, man up on Hawk Talk.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Starting off with the quarterbacks like we usually do, Matthew
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Stafford taking on this Seahawks defense, and Matthew Stafford We've
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: alluded to it throughout the podcast today.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: He's got a.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Tough year in twenty twenty two, playing in only nine
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: games as he dealt with a concussion. Then he had
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: a spinal cord contusion which caused numbness in the leg
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: shut him down for the final two months of the season,
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: but a lot of the struggles were out of his control.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: You know, in those nine games he played, he was
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: two of six for three zero three two th eighty
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: seven yards ten touchdowns, but he did have eight interceptions.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: In Bump, this man was sacked twenty nine times in
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: nine games. Yeah, for context, for context, the Super Bowl year,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: he was sacked thirty times that whole season.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Didn't this gracious?
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: And you know because of that, the Rams did have
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: the most starting lineup combinations on the offensive line in
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: the NFL last year and gave up fifty nine sacks
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: as a team, So there was a lot going on there. Also,
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Cooper Cup, their best offensive weapon, the best receiver in
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: the game, hands down, twenty twenty one sent all those records.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: You know, he only played nine games. And Cupp is
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: still dealing with the Hanscring injury. He went out to
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: see a specialist early this week. He's been listed a
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: day to day. We'll wait and see on him again.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Cooper Cup never wished the injury on anybody, the pride
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: of Eastern Washington. You're a baller me and Bump are
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: big fans of you. But if you want to come
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: back in week two, we're cool with it.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: We good with that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: You know what the Rams season reminds me of whenever
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: I'm on a course and I shoot a birdie, I
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: know the next howe is gonna be all bad.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: They went eagle.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: They went eagle one year, and the next year they
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: win Triple bogey Man. You know how the game go.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: That's what I see with the Rams. That's why I
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: believe there's no way they're gonna repeat what they did
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: last year. Too many balls are They're a good coach.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: We gotta be ready to go. Matthew Stafford's gonna be healthy.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Let's talk about our quarterback, Gino smith Man. Now, Gino
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: had one of the best seasons in the history of
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: the Seahawks. He what in five hundred and seventy two
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: attempts to at three hundred and ninety nine completions forty
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: two hundred yards, completed sixty nine point seven to six
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: percent of his passes, almost in that seventy percent mark
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: that we've been chasing ever since Russell was here. He
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: became the third QBING franchise history to throw for thirty touchdowns,
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: the only quarterback in the NFC to throw for thirty
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: touchdowns now at that sixty nine percent completion rate, best
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: in the NFL. He also he was eighth and passing
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: yards fourth and touchdowns fifth and passer rating and six
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: in QBR at sixty one point one. No denying that
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: this man balled out last year, and he oh side
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: note sixty eight carrics for three out of six six
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: yards in a touchdown.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: He can get busy a little bit too.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: He's not sure your run first type of quarterback, but
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: if there's grass in front of him, he'll be ready
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: to go. We expect him to improve on that number,
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: especially because you got an O line group that added
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: some pieces. Your tackles are coming back. You have a
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: running back room that has more talent. You got Ken Walkers,
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: Zach Sharpenney will talk about these guys. And then you
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: add a receiver who's your number three receiver, who has
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: the ability to be a number one receiver. The Rams
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: were twenty first against the pass last year, allowing twenty
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: to twenty six yards per game. So let's get after
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: you all have to see Jayalen Rams ain't got to
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: worry about dk Jalen going at it in in personal
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: fouls and all that stuff, weaking his focus on the game.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: But Gino Smith is going to have a good year.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: I believe in I believe in his approach. I'm excited
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: to see him.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: He's not a fluke man. I mean it's straight up
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: a guy is confident as him and does what he
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: does after not playing for as long as he did.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: That doesn't happen by accident. That doesn't happen week after week.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: You don't throw for almost seventy percent completion percentage by accident.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: I mean that doesn't. You can you can. Maybe you
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: might have a ton of touchdowns, but you could have
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: don Jameis Winston. You might have thirty five touchdowns, but
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: thirty five interceptions. That wasn't Gino. I definitely think he's
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: gonna repeat and have a great year. You mentioned the
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: running backs, Ken Walker, you know, looking at this matchup
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: with the Rams front seven, walk Ed won hell of
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: a rookie season as much of these guys did. He
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: joined Kurt Warners the second rookie in franchise history to
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: rush over over one thousand yards, second in franchise history
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: with five hundred dard rushing games. His nine touchdowns lit
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: all rookies second in the NFL in runs of twenty
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: yards or more with ten. He only cheriled Nick Chubb.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: And he did all that and only eleven starts in
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: fifteen games played, ran for over a thousand yards nine touchdown.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Should have got Rookie of the Year. I know I'm biased.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: It could have been him, It should have been Reek.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: He unfortunately went to the two dudes on the Jets,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: the team that we beat at the end of the year.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: But no, no MNFL. Those guys are baller two. Garrett Wilson,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: you're a good player, sas okay.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Blah blah blah whatever.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: I'm just putting on for my guy, ken Walker because
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: I thought he should have got offensive Rookie in the year. Now,
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: what's gonna be cool about this season is you're gonna
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: pair Ken Walker or Zach Sharbonne second round pick, great
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: player out.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: I played under Chip Kelly.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: And I'm really interested toe how those those Carris are
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: getting get divvied up. You know, ken Walker is a
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: volume guy. I feel like he needs at least fifteen
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: or so. But sharber Day runs aggressive man. He runs aggressively.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: He can catch the rock out of the backfield. He
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: can do a lot of things, so he'll definitely be
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: pushing Ken for snaps. So I'm really excited to see that.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: And one cool stat I found ou as I was
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: going through some of the statbucks.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Here is the Rams last year.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: You know, they a lot of things went wrong, but
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: they're actually pretty good against the run. They only gave
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: up two hundred yard rushers all of last season, Austin
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Eckler and the other Ken Walker, Ken Walker the third.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: So and here's the other thing, bump is Bobby Wagner
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: is playing on the right team this year.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: So that's a guy you don't got to worry about.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: You said you don't got to worry.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: About Leonard Floyd, don't get worried about none of them,
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: which is great, but bum but I think there is
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: one dude that the Seahawks do you have.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: To worry about. Who's that?
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Not just the Hawks, everybody in the league gotta worry
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: about this dude.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: And Aaron Donald, one of the most dominant football players
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: in our lifetime and in football history. Man, he missed
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: a lot of games last year, only played in two
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: regular season games.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Only missed two regular season before that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: Ye, Aaron Donald, Man, I only missed two regular season
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: games before last year. I was back in twenty seventeen.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: Donald played in eleven games. In twenty two. He had
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: forty nine tackles, five sacks, ten TFLs, and eleven quarterback hits.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: And guess what, still voted to the Pro Bowl because
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: my man got a resume and people know when he's healthy,
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: he is dominant as heck man. Twenty twenty two was
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: the first season he had less than ten sacks from
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: the de tackle position, from the interior lineman he gets
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: sacks is so crazy to me.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: That's why Chris Jones wants is Monday.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: That's why all these and terror lineman once they hit
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: double digit sacks are like, look, you know it's hard
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: for us, all right, We're gonna have to go get it.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: But uh, he's a man just like everybody else. He
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: has his bad snaps, he has his bad days. He's
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: not gonna be perfect, but you know you have to
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: know where he is on the football field at all times.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: Not gonna be hard to find him. Look at the
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: one tech or the three tech. He'll be right there.
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: I'm looking at Evan Brown. I'm looking at the guards
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: and I'm saying, all right, man, help out when you can.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: You get that double team on those zone plays, Let's
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: do it. Let's run trapped towards him so we can
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: kind of wash him out.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: Of these things. Easier said than done.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Not looking forward to seeing Aaron down on the football field,
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: but you respect the man and what he's done in
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: this league.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Oh no question about it. He is the start start
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: to finish your career. He's got to be, you know,
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: other than some of the guys in the Legion to Boom,
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: the best football player that I think I've ever seen, defectively.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: I mean he is. He is that good. And yeah,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: he's getting older all that to talk about retirement. I
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: was hoping he's retired. He still hasn't done that. But
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: I like where everon Brown's at, I like he's kind
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: of he's bigger than Austoin b Life, you know, I
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: feel like he's more suited for that matchup. So we
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: will definitely see flipping the other side for the running
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: backs for the Rams cam Akers against that Seahawk front seven.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: We know the Seahawks struggled to stop the run last year.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: That was the achilles heel, their thirtieth in the league,
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: giving up one hundred and fifty yards per game. That's
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: why you bring in a Draymond Jones. That's where you
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: bring in a Jaren Rey, and that's why you bring
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: back a Bobby Wagner. In fact, they're gonna play huge
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: roles in that because they're those good at football players.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: You know they fit this system. They're gonna stuff They're
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: not only are they gonna stop the run, they helped
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: get after the passer. I think it's gonna help from
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: the entire all levels of that defense. Now cam Akers
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: can play. He's kind of had an up and.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Down career with the Rams.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Twenty twenty second round pick, plays decently, misses all of
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: twenty one the regular season of the Super Bowl year
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: with an achilles injury. Comes back to the playoff run,
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: and then last year he was the starter, then randomly
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: he wasn't, then he got benched, and then he was
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: gonna get traded, then he wasn't traded, then he was
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: back in the starting lineup, and then played really well
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: at the end the year. Had three hundred yard games
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: in a row, three touchdowns, three hundred and forty five yards,
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: so he can play. He's gonna get a majority of
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: the carries, bump. But if he's going off, we're gonna
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: have a long day because Cam Akers. I'm hoping he
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: gets held to about fifty yards on twenty carries because
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: you know, they're gonna try to run the rock. They're
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: gonna see they're gonna test the Seahawfs defense see if
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: they've improved as much as we think they have. So
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: I definitely think there's gonna be big improvement there. But
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Cam Akers is a guy that cannot have a big day,
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: otherwise it might be a long one for the Seahawks.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: Here's the bad thing about Cam Akers. I drafted him
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: my fantasy football team. Here's a good news. He's sting
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: on the bench that first week. I also already did
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: he ain't gonna play against the Seahawks, and his relationship
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: with the Rams is complicated, right you mentioned up he's down,
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: he's healthy, he's not. But when he is healthy, he
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: can play some good football. So a gang tackle, get
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: to the football, do what you gotta do. Draymond Jones,
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: Jay Reed, Bobby, come on, let's go. Let let's make
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: some tackles.
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  Speaker 5: All right, we're going over to our guys.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: In my opinion, probably the second getting best receiving corps
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  Speaker 6: in this league. Only team I put in front of
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: him are the Bengals, just because we've seen it and
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: it's proven. I think by the end of this year,
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: this could be the best receiving trio in the league.
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  Speaker 6: I'm talking DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett and JS and going
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  Speaker 6: against the Rams secondary, the Rams secondary which has no
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: more Jay than Ramsey, So we're good for that. Metcalf
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  Speaker 6: in twenty twenty two to ninety receptions, one thousand and
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  Speaker 6: forty eight yards and six touchdowns. Lockett in twenty twenty
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: two eighty four receptions, his fourth consecutive thousand yard season
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  Speaker 6: in nine touchdowns. Now he became the second player in
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: franchise history to do that for consecutive thousand yards.
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  Speaker 5: That's behind Hall of Famer Steve Largen.
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  Speaker 6: You know, if you don't ever mention Steve Largen as
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: one of the great receivers in the NFL, when you
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: talk to people around here, they will come after you.
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  Speaker 5: It's happened to me before I apologize Steve Largen. I
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: will never do that again.
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  Speaker 6: Lockett moved into third place on sales all time reception
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  Speaker 6: list with five hundred and thirty three receiving yards list
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  Speaker 6: with seven thousand, one hundred moves into second place on
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: this receiving touchdowns with fifty four dk Metcalf became the
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: fifth player NFL history with at least three hundred receptions
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  Speaker 6: and four thousand yards and thirty five receiving touchdowns in
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  Speaker 6: its first four seasons. Here's the company he's in. Odell
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: Beckham did that. AJ Green did that. Randy Moss did that.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: Andre Risen all ballers in this league said a single
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: season career high last year with ninety receptions, third most
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: in franchise history, and he posted his second career thousand
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: yard season and moved us into first place for the
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: most receiving yards to the players first four seasons in
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: franchise history with four two hundred and eighteen. This is
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: a guy that people were doubting at the beginning of
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: his career.
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  Speaker 3: Too.
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  Speaker 5: He can only run a post, he can only run
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: a go.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: This injury was something to be concerned about, but he
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: has done nothing but ball out and then the new
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: guy on the block, Jackson Smith and Jigbob in twenty
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: twenty two, he only played in three games nursing that hamstring.
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: Twenty twenty one ninety five receptions, sixteen hundred yards, nine touchdowns.
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  Speaker 6: We all remember his Rose Bowl performance. He was the
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: player on that field. He made it look easy. He
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: was an All American, All third team Big ten. I mean,
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: the accolades are crazy with this guy. But once you
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: put eyes on him and you see what he can do,
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: you understand why he got all these accolades and how
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: he's gonna help this football team.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: Was from the first day he went almost the entire
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: training camp without dropping a ball. That any not just like, okay,
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: from start to finish, your practice doesn't matter if it
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: was individual, seven on seven, team, whatever it was, if
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: he was targeted, he did not drop a ball. He
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: went almost the entire camp.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: And that's so.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's why I said at the beginning, man,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: I think Jayson is going to put up some ridiculous
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: numbers because he is about that life. But you know,
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: I bump, I feel like this whole team is about
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: that life.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Right now.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Okay, now, old teams about that life, let me tell
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: you how they're gonna get a win on Sunday.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: After forty five waits for the snat, Michael Dixon puts
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: it down.
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  Speaker 3: That kick is away.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: If that kick is good, say off, bitch gun, it's
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: a pens to victory on Hawk Talk Bump.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: This game is about the Seahawks, man, I think they're
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: the better football team on paper.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: I think they're the better roster.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: I think when you look at all the differences, the
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Seahawks have a better they're better team.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: It just comes down to execution.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Whether the Seahawks be able to do that on Sunday
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: with all the moving pieces, all the different stuff on there,
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: can they execute? And that starts defensively. Can you stop
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: the run? Prove you made the change you made on
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: this defensive line will have meatia results. Be physical. I
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: said it earlier. Kmakers can have a big day, man,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: I definitely they got to stop the run, be physical,
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: show people who you.
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: Are, and you have to get after the veteran, the
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: guy who's been there, who's done that. That is Matthew Stafford.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: You can't make him feel comfy in that pocket man.
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: Make them move around. He's not the most mobile. He's
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: mobile enough to get things done. But get after him.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: I need Derek Hall, I need China, I need dt
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: I need Boy. All you guys get after this dude
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: and offensively.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: Put all the talent on display. Let them see all
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: the weapons you have. You got three receivers plus a
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: who wasn't supposed to make the team who can ball out.
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: You got four running backs back there who can get
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: it done. And then my man, Gino, go be yourself,
• 32:08
  Speaker 6: don't worry about anything that's happening around you.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: And I think he's already doing that.
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: I listened to him talking these these podcasts and press conferences.
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: This is the most confident and genuine quarterback I've seen
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: put on a Seahawk uniform. And I think because he
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: has this approach, he's gonna do some great things this year, no.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Question about it.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: I think Gino, you mentioned that's like a great description
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: in Geno because when you hear him talkers like damn okay,
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: he makes you think you go damn, Like you have perspective,
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: you have depth, like I strive to be you one day.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: That's every time I hear him talk, That's what I
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: think about.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: He's been through the struggle.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Man, he knows he's been through.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: He's been through the wars, and now he's coming out
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: the other side helping the Sea out team. I'll bet
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: take care of football, run the ball, be physical, give
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: the twelve something they can be excited about. The home
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: opener kickoff weekend. Football is back in the Pacific Northwest
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: and it counts now. Reminder, guys, we are back now,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: will be with you all season. You can hear some
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: dot Com, Apple Podcast, Spotify, sit your series XM, and more. Also,
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: if you're peering around Seahawks dot com, beware for the
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl forty eight documentary looking back at that Super
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Bowl team. If you haven't seen the trailer, Door Seas
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: dot Com, wet'll get you fired up. A lot of
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: good work by the video production team on there. But
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: bump this has been fun. I'm happy to be back
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: with you. We'll be back with you next week, hopefully
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: on Monday, talking about a Seahawks victory.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: He's Michael Bumpus on Nasachobe. This has been Hawk talk.