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Been Here Before · 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: Playfake, go to roll right, dumps it off into the
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Speaker 2: right flass to Michael Bumpers, who bounces off of one tackler,
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Speaker 2: gets inside the forty down of the thirty five yard line.
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Speaker 1: Powered by Seahawks dot Com.
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Speaker 2: Matt pumpfake's looking at the goal line, he throws it
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Speaker 2: into the m zone.
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Speaker 1: Touchdown, Say Hawks, it's Michael Bumpas with a diving catching
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Speaker 1: the end zone.
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Speaker 2: A ten yard touchdown reception for Bumpus and the kid
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Speaker 2: out of Washington State has found himself a place on
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Speaker 2: this team.
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Speaker 1: Now here's your host, Nasa Chovie.
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Speaker 3: The formula is simple. Seahawks gotta win, Green Bay's gotta lose,
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Speaker 3: and the Seahawks we be back in the playoffs for
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Speaker 3: the second consecutive year. Welcome into another edition of Hawk
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Speaker 3: Talk as the Seahawks getting ready to take on the
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Speaker 3: Arizona Cardinals, hoping to rebound from a tough loss at
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Speaker 3: home to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Like I said, the formula
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Speaker 3: is very simple, but this is a team in the
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Speaker 3: Arizona Cardinals, that is no joke, playing a really good
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Speaker 3: football the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 4: So let's waste no more time. Let's get right into it.
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Speaker 4: What's on tap?
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Speaker 1: What's on tap?
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Speaker 3: Don't be filled by the record, Bump, four and twelve,
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Speaker 3: last place in the NFC West. But these guys were
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Speaker 3: playing some decent ball who won two of their last
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Speaker 3: four games. Things started off brutal for him, man, I
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Speaker 3: mean they started off two and ten with a lot
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Speaker 3: of brutal.
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Speaker 4: Loss in there.
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Speaker 3: They did beat the Cowboys one of those games, and
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Speaker 3: then Kyler Murray eventually came back. But they they beat
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Speaker 3: the Steelers team Sehawks just lost too. They lost to
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Speaker 3: the forty nine Ers somewhat competitively. They lost to the Bears,
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Speaker 3: who were hoping the Bears can be solved this week,
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Speaker 3: and they went down to Philly and beat the Eagles. So, Bump,
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Speaker 3: tell me about what's going on in Arizona. Jonathan Gannon
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Speaker 3: looked like he's trying to turn things around there. And
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Speaker 3: after that two and ten start.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, Cardinals went down to the Eagles and they
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Speaker 5: looked like it was going to be a route in
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Speaker 5: the first half man for the home team. Eagles led
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Speaker 5: twenty one to six at halftime, but Kyler Murray and
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Speaker 5: the Cardinals man they would not go down easy. The
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Speaker 5: Cardinals score touchdowns on all four of their second half possessions,
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Speaker 5: including the game winning seventh place seventy yard drive any
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Speaker 5: with a James Connor running touchdown from two yards out.
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Speaker 6: Connor's plays we go football right now.
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Speaker 5: Kyler was He was a fishing twenty one to thirty one,
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Speaker 5: three touchdowns, one interception. Connor ran for one hundred and
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Speaker 5: twenty eight yards on twenty six carries in one touchdown.
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Speaker 5: He had one receiving touchdowns well and Greg dortche Man.
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Speaker 5: He led all receivers with eighty two yards and seven receptions.
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Speaker 5: On the other side, the Eagles, Jalen Hurst was eighteen
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Speaker 5: to twenty three for one sixty seven and three touchdowns,
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Speaker 5: one interception. His interception on the last play of the
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Speaker 5: game on a hell Mary attempt. It was picked off
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Speaker 5: by our former safety Joey Blum.
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Speaker 6: Thigobs. Virginia A. J.
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Speaker 5: Brown had a quiet day fifty three yards and four
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Speaker 5: receptions and the Eagles have now lost four of their
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Speaker 5: last five. They are slipping towards the end of the season,
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Speaker 5: and gave the Cardinals some.
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Speaker 6: Liquid courage.
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Speaker 5: I want to say, back in our day, we would
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Speaker 5: call it, but it's it's called football courage.
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Speaker 6: They playing some good ball, man. This is a good
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Speaker 6: football team right now.
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Speaker 4: It is a good football team right now. And just
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Speaker 4: one thing on the Eagles.
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Speaker 3: They made a change at defensive coordinator, our guy Seanna
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Speaker 3: Sai who was out in Seattle for a year, and
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Speaker 3: they switch up to play calling duties to Matt Patricia
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Speaker 3: and then they still gave up thirty five points. Right,
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Speaker 3: I'm just saying. I'm just saying it. I don't think
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Speaker 3: it's a sign. I just want to throw that out there,
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Speaker 3: you know what I mean. But no, these Cardinals, man, Bump,
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Speaker 3: they are playing really well. And when you look at
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Speaker 3: this head to head comparison, they do some things. There's
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Speaker 3: a lot of similarities between the teams and where they
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Speaker 3: rank offensively and defensively. But what jumps out to me,
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Speaker 3: Bump right now for the Cardinals is they can run
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Speaker 3: the rock. They're six in the NFL rushing, averaging one
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Speaker 3: hundred and thirty four yards per game. The Seahawks are
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Speaker 3: twenty ninth in the NFL, averaging just ninety yards per game.
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Speaker 3: So that's definitely think we're going to keep an eye
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Speaker 3: on terms of overall offense, the Cardinals are twenty fourth
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Speaker 3: in the league, averaging three hundred and fifteen yards per game.
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Speaker 3: The Seahawks are twentieth, averaging three hundred and twenty two
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Speaker 3: yards per game.
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Speaker 4: When it comes to passing offenses.
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Speaker 3: With the Cardinals struggle at they are twenty ninth in
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Speaker 3: the league, averaging one hundred and eighty yards per game.
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Speaker 3: The Seahawks, minds, you're a little bit more middle of
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Speaker 3: the pack. They are fourteenth in the league, averaging two
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Speaker 3: hundred and thirty two yards per game. When it comes
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Speaker 3: to points per game on offense, Seahawks averaging twenty one points.
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Speaker 3: That's tied for seventeenth in the league, and the Cardinals
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Speaker 3: just behind them at nineteen point four per game. That's
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Speaker 3: good for twenty fourth in the league. So very similar Offensively,
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Speaker 3: the Seahawks a little bit better in most categories, But
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Speaker 3: what really jumps out is how they are able to
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Speaker 3: run the rocks. We'll definitely get into their running game
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Speaker 3: and James Connor a little bit later, but that's what
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Speaker 3: scares me number one about these Cardinals.
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Speaker 4: Bump yeah.
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Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 5: Defensively, we're in the same boat twenty seventh overall for
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Speaker 5: the Seahawks, twenty sixth overall for the Cardinals. Rush defensive
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Speaker 5: Hawks are thirtieth, Cardinals are thirty second. Pass defense, the
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Speaker 5: Hawks are nineteenth, The Cardinals are thirteenth.
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Speaker 6: Points allowed per game.
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Speaker 5: The Hawks are twenty fourth and the Cardinals are thirty first.
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Speaker 5: Time of possession is about the same twenty six minutes
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Speaker 5: per game to twenty eight for the Cardinals.
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Speaker 6: Look at sacks thirty eight times.
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Speaker 5: Gino Smith has been Andrew Throwd doing there and the
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Speaker 5: Cardinals qbs have been sacked forty one times.
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Speaker 6: But the Hawks get after the quarterback a bit more.
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Speaker 5: They got forty six sacks, so they're thirty three and
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Speaker 5: both have eleven interceptions a piece, So on paper, teams
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Speaker 5: are about the same. Which right man, Kyler Murray is back.
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Speaker 5: James Connor had a good game, so you guess the
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Speaker 5: things to do.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the Cardinals.
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Speaker 3: If you think for a second the Seahawks are overlooking
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Speaker 3: the team, you're crazy because they're not only playing good football.
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Speaker 3: But the Seahawks are in a position where it doesn't
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Speaker 3: matter what your records say. It's all about winning the game.
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Speaker 3: So that's what they got to focus on coming into
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Speaker 3: this weekend. But these teams, being in the same division,
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Speaker 3: have a lot of history.
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Speaker 4: Let's learn about it.
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Speaker 1: No your history.
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Speaker 3: Seahawks lead the all time series twenty six to twenty
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Speaker 3: two in one and have won five of their last
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Speaker 3: six meetings.
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Speaker 4: Last game this year.
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Speaker 3: Earlier this year in Week seven, the Seahawks beat the
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Speaker 3: Cardinals twenty to ten at lowin Field. This game with
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Speaker 3: felt like the Seahawks were control from start to finish
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Speaker 3: despite how close the score was. Didn't really feel like
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Speaker 3: the Cardinals really had an opportunity to win this game.
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Speaker 3: This was when dk Metcalf missed his first game of
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Speaker 3: his career, but the young'ins stepped up to help him out.
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Speaker 3: JSN and Jake Bobo each had four receptions. Jsn had
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Speaker 3: sixty three yards in a touchdown. Bobo had sixty one
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Speaker 3: yards in a touchdown. He also had that crazy good
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Speaker 3: touchdown in the back corner of the end zone on
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Speaker 3: the right hand side on the Seahawks sideline. That was
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Speaker 3: one of the better catches in the league this year
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Speaker 3: and that was kind of the peak of Bubbo Mania
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Speaker 3: this year. So shout out Jake Bobo. Go to his website,
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Speaker 3: get his T shirts, so little shame was plugged for you, Jake.
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Speaker 6: There you go.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, the Hawks were up fourteen to ten at
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Speaker 3: halftime and then shut the Cardinals out in second half.
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Speaker 3: Seahawks had some good drives but sawed out in the
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Speaker 3: red zone only out of two field goals to hold
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Speaker 3: on for the twenty to ten victory. Ken Walker had
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Speaker 3: his best game the season. Rushed for one hundred and
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Speaker 3: five yards with twenty six carries. That is shockingly his
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Speaker 3: only one hundred yard game of the season. And if
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Speaker 3: you would have told me in week eighteen that we'd
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Speaker 3: be saying that, I would have told you, your liar.
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Speaker 3: But it is what it is, So I'm hoping we'll
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Speaker 3: see more of that from ken this weekend. And defensively,
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Speaker 3: Jordan Brooks probably had his best game in the season.
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Speaker 3: He was flying around the day nine tackles, half a sack,
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Speaker 3: three TFLs, one passes defended, one QB hit. And then
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Speaker 3: at quarterback, Kyler Murray did not play in that game.
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Speaker 3: Joshua Dobbs, who's now in the Vikings, was the starter
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Speaker 3: at quarterback. He was nineteen thirty three win forty six,
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Speaker 3: also had forty three yards in seven on seven carries
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Speaker 3: and that one long touchdown, So this will be a
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Speaker 3: little bit different matchup the Viker accuse me. The Cardinals
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Speaker 3: were playing a lot more confidence, different quarterbacks, So we'll
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Speaker 3: see what happens. But before we get there, let's check
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Speaker 3: out what happened in the rest of the vision.
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Speaker 4: What's the word?
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Speaker 2: What side the Seahawks or the NFC West champs?
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Speaker 4: Again, what's the word in the West? On HOWK talk?
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Speaker 5: Niners at the top of the division at twelve and four.
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Speaker 5: The Rams are nine to seven, Hawks.
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Speaker 6: Eight and eight, and the Cardinals are four and twelve.
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Speaker 5: The Niners have clenched the NFC West as well as
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Speaker 5: the number one seed in the NFC, so they'll get
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Speaker 5: a first round five. The Rams have also clenched the
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Speaker 5: second wild card spot the number six seed in the NFC.
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Speaker 6: But the Hawks are so live.
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Speaker 5: They can clinch the number seven seed and the final
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Speaker 5: spot with a win over the Cardinals and a loss
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Speaker 5: by the Packers. But let's look at the forty nine
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Speaker 5: ers in the Commanders last week, Man the forty Niners
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Speaker 5: got back on track Sunday.
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Speaker 6: They took down the Commanders.
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Speaker 5: The Niners got touchdown catches from Deebo, Samuel Brandon Ay
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Speaker 5: and a Russian touchdown from Elijah Mitchell Purdy, who's coming
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Speaker 5: off a horrible game where he threw foeig interceptions. It
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Speaker 5: was a humbling loss to Baltimore. He was twenty two
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Speaker 5: to twenty eight, two thirty and two touchdowns. He's back
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Speaker 5: on track with those two hundred and thirty yards now
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Speaker 5: two hundred and eighty on the season. Rock Perty. He
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Speaker 5: didn't break Joe Montana's record. He didn't bring Colin Kaepernick,
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Speaker 5: Alex Smith. No, he broke Jeff Garcia single season franchise
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Speaker 5: wreck a four thousand to seventy eight yards set in
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Speaker 5: two thousand.
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Speaker 6: That is crazy to me, big upster brock Purty.
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Speaker 5: But I thought Joe Montana, maybe Kaepernick, Alex Smith, several
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Speaker 5: other quarterbacks who could have held that record. But oh,
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Speaker 5: Jeff Garcia, man, he was actually a good quarterback in
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Speaker 5: this league. Chris McCaffrey had ninety one skimming yards before
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Speaker 5: leaving a game with a calf injury, so we expect
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Speaker 5: him to probably sit this week for the Niners. The
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Speaker 5: Commanders tried to make it interesting though, trailing by just
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Speaker 5: three a half time, but were shut out in the
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Speaker 5: second half as they fail by score of twenty seven
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Speaker 5: to ten. The Commanders have now lost seven games in
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Speaker 5: a row and might now be in line for the
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Speaker 5: number two pick in the draft next year. Something tells
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Speaker 5: me be En of Me is going to want to
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Speaker 5: get himself a quarterback.
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Speaker 4: I think so and everyone I mean, it's crazy though.
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Speaker 3: When the Seahawks played them, whatever week that was, and
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Speaker 3: it was week ten or something, everyone was talking about
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Speaker 3: how good Sam how it had been, and how they
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Speaker 3: found something. They found a diamond in the rough. He's
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Speaker 3: going to be the next QB of his team. And
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Speaker 3: man went rains and poors in this league and things
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Speaker 3: have gone south for mister Sam Howell elsewhere in the division.
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Speaker 4: The Rams and the Giants.
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Speaker 3: This one was a frustrating watch as we were kind
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Speaker 3: of falling along in the press box on Sunday. The
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Speaker 3: Rams Punch are taking to the playoffs in dramatic fashion
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Speaker 3: against those Giants. It was a back and forth matchup
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Speaker 3: all afternoon. The things really got interesting in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 3: Rams were out twenty six to nineteen. They punt a
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Speaker 3: gunner Olozowitski don't know how to say his name, Sorry
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Speaker 3: about that. He took it ninety four yards to the
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Speaker 3: house for a touchdown, one of improbable punt returns bump.
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Speaker 3: We don't see that in the league very often this year,
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Speaker 3: so for it to happen in that clutch moment, but
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Speaker 3: instead of kicking the extra point, everyone just wants to
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Speaker 3: go for two. Trendy thing right now, I guess taking
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Speaker 3: a page out of Dan Campbell's book.
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Speaker 4: They went for two.
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Speaker 3: Conversion failed when Tyrod Taylor couldn't connect with a wide
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Speaker 3: open Saquon Bottle.
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Speaker 4: It was short armed it. It's like a.
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Speaker 3: Pitcher who has the yips trying to throw the first
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Speaker 3: base short armed it. And then another one where it's
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Speaker 3: like if that was a receiver, I'd say you we
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Speaker 3: have to catch that. But when you're throwing a running
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Speaker 3: back out the backfield, just get it to him.
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Speaker 4: Come on, ty Rod.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, they didn't get it, but the game wasn't over
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Speaker 3: because the Giants would force upunt, get the ball back,
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Speaker 3: they would drive down.
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Speaker 4: Mason Crosby would miss.
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Speaker 3: The game winning fifty four yard field goal, and the
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Speaker 3: Rams would win and clinch the sixth seed in the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: Stafford twenty four to thirty four, three seventeen, one touchdown,
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Speaker 3: two picks. Kyron Williams Man, he just continues to dominate.
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Speaker 3: He had eighty seven yards with three touchdowns and Pugnacua
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Speaker 3: five reception, one hudred and eighteen yards. Well, a lot
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Speaker 3: of teams regret that they passed on him going in
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Speaker 3: the fifth round. He's gonna set He's on pace to
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Speaker 3: break the rookie record, I think this weekend. So he's
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Speaker 3: doing his thing. So that's what's going on in the league.
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Speaker 3: But what matters this week, Bump, is what the Seahawks
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Speaker 3: got to do. They got to take care of business
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Speaker 3: first and foremost down in Arizona.
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Speaker 7: Man ups, Man up, Hawk talk.
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Speaker 5: All right, first matchup, Gotta look at the quarterback spot.
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Speaker 6: Kyler Murray.
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Speaker 5: He tours acl in week fourteen and return to action
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Speaker 5: on November fourth. He excuse me, week fourteen of last year.
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Speaker 5: That'd be crazy if he made a return this year.
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Speaker 5: But return on November twelfth against the Falcons. Man three
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Speaker 5: hundred and thirty five days. My man was out and
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Speaker 5: now Kyler Murray may deserves some credit for how he's
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Speaker 5: handled this season. He got a lot of negative press.
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Speaker 5: It was his attitude. The film study clause leadership. He
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Speaker 5: seems like that time off really helped him, and he
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Speaker 5: looks healthy immensely.
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Speaker 6: He looks like he's in a good place.
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Speaker 5: He did what he did, He did what he could
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Speaker 5: to get healthy, and the way he did it, I
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Speaker 5: think it's kind of changed the way that we look
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Speaker 5: at this guy. But he had to learn the new system.
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Speaker 5: There's a new offensive courting over there. He got Drew Petsing.
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I'm saying his name, Ridrew Petsing.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna call it.
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Speaker 6: We'll call it good. Okay. Now he hasn't been pairing
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Speaker 6: it up.
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Speaker 5: But last week he played pretty good against Philadelphia. Like
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Speaker 5: we mentioned, he led them to a second half comeback.
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Speaker 5: I saw the team put up twenty nine points, four touchdowns,
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Speaker 5: two hundred and seventy yards, one hundred and thirty seven rushing,
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Speaker 5: one hundred and thirty three passing, and nineteen first downs
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Speaker 5: on its final four drives. Murray looked good man second half.
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Speaker 5: He was thirteen or fourteen when it comes to throwing
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Speaker 5: the football for one hundred thirty three three touchdowns. He
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Speaker 5: looked good. So we're hoping that that does not continue
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Speaker 5: this weekend. But so far, on the season, He's completing
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Speaker 5: sixty four percent of his passes fifteen hundred and thirty
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Speaker 5: seven yards, nine touchdowns, and five interceptions. He's been sacked
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Speaker 5: seventeen times. Interesting enough, Joshua Dawson Kyler Murray have very
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Speaker 5: similar stats. In eight games, Dobbs had one more than Murray.
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Speaker 5: Dobbs was sixty two percent completion rate, fifteen hundred and
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Speaker 5: sixty nine yards, eight touchdowns and five interceptions, sacked seventeen times.
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Speaker 5: Murray did not play against the Hawks in Week seven,
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Speaker 5: so you know. The Hawks are twenty seventh overall. Defensively,
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Speaker 5: they're nineteenth against the pass. They've allowed at least three
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Speaker 5: out of twenty yards in five of their last six games.
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Speaker 5: I don't expect Kyler Murray to throw the ball all
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Speaker 5: over the yard. He doesn't have one receiver with a
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Speaker 5: one hundred yard game this year. He does have a
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Speaker 5: tight end with two though, so I expect him to
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Speaker 5: get McBride involved.
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Speaker 6: But he's still working out some kinks.
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Speaker 5: He played some good football last week, completely eighty percent
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Speaker 5: of his passes against Philly, but he's still working on
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Speaker 5: some stuff.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's the best he's looked this year.
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Speaker 3: And you said it, he loses his head coach who's
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Speaker 3: calling the plays. You have a new offensive coordinator in
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Speaker 3: your GM, a whole new system, so he's still figuring
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Speaker 3: it out. Mind you also coming back from an injury,
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Speaker 3: hoping his knee holds up. All these kind of things.
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Speaker 3: So last week it was the first week kind of
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Speaker 3: really got to see him. Looks like the Kyler Murray
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Speaker 3: of old. But slip it over to our quarterback, Gino
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Speaker 3: Smith taking on these Cardinals defense. Gino, I think, in
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Speaker 3: my opinion, like I said on the other podcast, coming
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Speaker 3: off one of the best games of the year, he
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Speaker 3: went twenty three or thirty three, essentially seventy percent for
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Speaker 3: two hundred ninety yards, one touchdown and no interceptions. He
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Speaker 3: had a cuburating of one oh six, and I thought
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Speaker 3: he just moved so well in the pocket. I thought,
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Speaker 3: for all the nonsense out there that people think, the
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Speaker 3: narratives that they've decided about Geno because they didn't think
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Speaker 3: he was going to start or whatever, that he's not agile,
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Speaker 3: that he's not a good enough athlete, nonsense, nonsense.
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Speaker 4: Anyone that's making t J.
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Speaker 3: Watt fall on the ground and dive all over the
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Speaker 3: place is a good athlete, good pocket presidence. Gina put
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Speaker 3: that on full display last week and also another cool
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Speaker 3: thing in twenty five year old scramble. And he's really
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Speaker 3: cut down on the big mistakes. Obviously, he did have
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Speaker 3: the fumble against the Steelers, but that was from behind.
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Speaker 4: That's a sack. Really nothing you can do about that.
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Speaker 3: But in terms of interceptions, he's only had two interceptions
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Speaker 3: in his last six starts and now just needs forty
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Speaker 3: completions to pass Rick Meyer for fifth place on Seattle's
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Speaker 3: all times completion list with a fifteen after just two seasons. Now,
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Speaker 3: the first game against Arizona, he was eighteen and twenty
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Speaker 3: four two nineteen, two touchdowns in one interception, was sacked
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Speaker 3: twice and then cubuating of one thirteen, so he was solid.
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Speaker 3: He was pretty efficient. Just had the one turnover onto
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Speaker 3: miscommunication Bump. I want to say it was the Cardinals
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Speaker 3: sideline to Jake Bobo. I think they're a miscommunication on
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Speaker 3: the route. So yeah, he played a okay game and
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Speaker 3: hopefully you can kind of replicate some of that on
16:11
Speaker 3: the year. He's a sixty five percent passer three four
16:15
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty five yards eighteen touchdowns, nine interceptions. Now,
16:18
Speaker 3: on defense, this is a good match for the Seahawks.
16:20
Speaker 3: The Cardinals have struggled. They're twenty six overall on defense,
16:24
Speaker 3: last against the run, thirteenth to get the pass, so
16:26
Speaker 3: they're decent there, but thirty first in points allowed. They're
16:29
Speaker 3: twenty eighth in sacks, so they're not really getting at
16:31
Speaker 3: the pressure on the quarterback and they're dead last and
16:33
Speaker 3: QB it's at fifty nine. So that should bode well
16:35
Speaker 3: for Gino. Smanth and I'm hoping you can kind of
16:37
Speaker 3: take advantage.
16:39
Speaker 6: Yeah, Man, Gina's been solid all year.
16:41
Speaker 5: Right, numbers aren't what they were last year, but man,
16:44
Speaker 5: he's been keeping these guys in a game. Let's talk
16:47
Speaker 5: about the pass catches for the Cardinals. You've got Trade McBride,
16:49
Speaker 5: Michael Wilson, and Roundell More. They're not the most explosive team.
16:54
Speaker 6: Through the air.
16:54
Speaker 5: These Arizona Cardinals are twenty ninth averaging one hundred eighty
16:58
Speaker 5: yards per game, but they're tied in a Mcbrie.
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Speaker 6: Man, he's been having a good season.
17:02
Speaker 5: He leads a team with seventy eight receptions and seven
17:05
Speaker 5: hundred and ninety one yards. Those seventy eight receptions are
17:08
Speaker 5: franchise single single record by a tight end, easily surpassing
17:12
Speaker 5: the previous mark of fifty six. He has joined Hall
17:15
Speaker 5: of Famer Jackie Smith as the only tight end in
17:18
Speaker 5: franchise history with seven hundred receiving yards this season. Him
17:22
Speaker 5: and Sam Laporta two best rookie tight ends in the league.
17:24
Speaker 5: Right now, He's seventh in the NFL among tight ends
17:27
Speaker 5: and yards. In the first matchup against the Hawks, he
17:30
Speaker 5: had three receptions for twenty nine yards. Now Marquis Brown,
17:34
Speaker 5: he was a number one receiver coming into the season,
17:36
Speaker 5: was placed on IR a couple of weeks ago.
17:38
Speaker 6: Hasn't had the best season.
17:39
Speaker 5: Fifty one receptions, one hundred targets, five hundred and seventy
17:42
Speaker 5: four yards in four touchdowns. But next in line is
17:44
Speaker 5: the route runner. Not the fastest guy, but Michael Wilson
17:47
Speaker 5: will run some routes. Thirty two receptions, the kid out
17:49
Speaker 5: of Stanford, four hundred and seventy yards in three touchdowns.
17:52
Speaker 5: He's had three receptions for twenty six yards. Or he
17:54
Speaker 5: had three receptions for twenty six yards in their first matchup.
17:57
Speaker 6: And then we got Rondell Moore.
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Speaker 5: He has thirty six receptions three hundred and twenty one
18:01
Speaker 5: yards in one touchdown, two receptions for two yards in
18:05
Speaker 5: the first matchup, and I want to say he was
18:07
Speaker 5: the recipient of a big hit from Devin Withers. Yep, yeah,
18:12
Speaker 5: I remember that lit him up. Now, the lack of
18:17
Speaker 5: production might be associated with the quarterbacks that they've had.
18:20
Speaker 5: They have three quarterbacks over there. They are not the
18:23
Speaker 5: Cleveland Browns. We're going to just plug any quarterback in and
18:26
Speaker 5: you'll be good to go. They got some things working
18:28
Speaker 5: against them now. The Hawks are nineteenth against the pass.
18:32
Speaker 5: They have seventy five passes defending on the season. That's
18:34
Speaker 5: twelfth in the NFL, and Devin Witherspoon is fifth in
18:37
Speaker 5: the NFL with sixteen passes defended. I like this matchup
18:40
Speaker 5: with their pass catchers and our guys in the secondary.
18:44
Speaker 3: No question about it. And it was good to see
18:45
Speaker 3: Withers from back out there. He's brings so much energy
18:47
Speaker 3: to this defense and he's fifty the NFL passes defended,
18:50
Speaker 3: missing three games, so that just kind of shows you
18:54
Speaker 3: the impact he's had. And it was good to see
18:56
Speaker 3: him knock the rust off a little bit against Pittsburgh.
18:58
Speaker 3: But I expect him to have a big game in
19:00
Speaker 3: the season finale. Regular season finale. Then let's look at
19:03
Speaker 3: the running game Ken Walker Zach Sharburning taking on this
19:05
Speaker 3: Cardinals front seven, and I was just I'll make it
19:08
Speaker 3: really easy for you guys.
19:09
Speaker 4: Man. The Seahawks about six and oh when they.
19:13
Speaker 3: Rush for one hundred yards and games easy two and
19:15
Speaker 3: eight when they don't. So I'm hoping their prayers will
19:19
Speaker 3: be answered come Sunday. Arizona is the worst team in
19:21
Speaker 3: the NFL stopping the run, allowing one hundred and forty
19:24
Speaker 3: three yards per game. Unfortunately, the Seahawks were twenty ninth
19:27
Speaker 3: in the NFL, averaging just ninety yards per game. So
19:30
Speaker 3: something's got to give, right last you know, Ken Walker
19:34
Speaker 3: had ten carries fifty three yards in a touchdown.
19:36
Speaker 4: He did do some good things in that game.
19:39
Speaker 3: Is kind of battling a shoulder injury, so hopefully this
19:41
Speaker 3: will be a full go and get a lot of opportunities.
19:43
Speaker 4: Zach Sharburning only had two carries for two yards.
19:46
Speaker 3: So the thing about Walker too, I mentioned earlier, it
19:49
Speaker 3: was his only one hundred yard rushing game this season.
19:51
Speaker 3: Twenty six carries one hundred and five yards in the
19:53
Speaker 3: first matchup, He's got eight hundred and twenty seven yards
19:56
Speaker 3: and eight touchdowns on the season. Sharbonney has got four
20:00
Speaker 3: under and thirty yards in one touchdown. This is a
20:02
Speaker 3: matchup to me, run the rock, run the rock and
20:04
Speaker 3: physically get after him the one hundred and forty second
20:07
Speaker 3: or they give up one hundred and forty yrds per game.
20:09
Speaker 3: They're dead last in the NFL. Come out and run
20:12
Speaker 3: the football, and I'm honest, I don't even care if
20:15
Speaker 3: there's a possession in there where we ran the ball
20:17
Speaker 3: three times and punting, that's okay. That's how much I
20:21
Speaker 3: want them to try to establish this run and get
20:23
Speaker 3: after them because dominate time of possession, take care of
20:27
Speaker 3: what you can. I think that's a matchup where Ken
20:29
Speaker 3: Walker and Zach sharpern I can have a big day.
20:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, we need him to have a big day. You
20:33
Speaker 5: need our running back to ball out. You need this
20:36
Speaker 5: running back to not do what he's been doing. I'm
20:39
Speaker 5: talking about their guy, James Connor. He missed four games.
20:43
Speaker 5: He's still only one hundred and ten yards away from
20:45
Speaker 5: his first one thousand yard season ever in his career,
20:50
Speaker 5: which is scary to me. I feel like he already
20:52
Speaker 5: had one or two, But I guess not. My man's
20:54
Speaker 5: doing his thing. He had his best performance of the
20:57
Speaker 5: season last week against the Cardinals. He had a bug
20:59
Speaker 5: twenty eight on the ground in a touchdown. He also
21:02
Speaker 5: had a five yard reception. He returned to the lineup
21:06
Speaker 5: against the Atlanta Falcons week ten after missing games being
21:09
Speaker 5: on the ir.
21:10
Speaker 6: Because of injury.
21:12
Speaker 5: Since his return, he's been balling five hundred and twenty
21:14
Speaker 5: six yards four touchdowns on eleven excuse me, one hundred
21:18
Speaker 5: and thirteen carries, averaging four point seven per clip, including
21:23
Speaker 5: sixteen ten plus yard runs. The Cardinals are fourth in
21:27
Speaker 5: the league when it comes to breaking tackles in a rush.
21:31
Speaker 5: Here's the thing about last week, we questioned the defense
21:34
Speaker 5: in their tackling. Guess who's number one when it comes
21:36
Speaker 5: to breaking tackles.
21:37
Speaker 4: On a rush? Is it James Connor?
21:40
Speaker 5: It's the Pittsburgh Steelers are number one, So against the best,
21:44
Speaker 5: can get it done. Now, the Cardinals are fourth when
21:46
Speaker 5: it comes to breaking tackles, so hopefully they learn from that.
21:49
Speaker 6: All right, you saw the best.
21:50
Speaker 5: Now get after these dudes, and it starts with up
21:53
Speaker 5: with James Connor. Man we mentioned as a team, they're
21:55
Speaker 5: six in the NFL when it comes to running the rock,
21:58
Speaker 5: putting up one hundred.
21:59
Speaker 6: And thirty four four yards per game.
22:01
Speaker 5: So the thing that the Hawks are struggled with as
22:03
Speaker 5: of late, they're going to be tested with.
22:05
Speaker 6: So we'll see how they do.
22:06
Speaker 5: Man, it's going to be an interesting gang a game
22:10
Speaker 5: that's going.
22:10
Speaker 6: To be intense.
22:11
Speaker 5: I wish it was at home so I could fill
22:12
Speaker 5: the crowd going nuts, but they're on the road, and
22:16
Speaker 5: you know, let's see if they can tap into some magic.
22:18
Speaker 6: It is.
22:18
Speaker 5: Get back to fundamental ball, man, fundamental ball. I think
22:21
Speaker 5: they'll be okay, just be consistent.
22:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, and let's be real, man, the Seahawks fans have
22:25
Speaker 3: taken over that stadium a million times every time we
22:28
Speaker 3: go down there.
22:29
Speaker 6: Now.
22:29
Speaker 3: Have some bad things happen in that stadium, Oh yeah,
22:32
Speaker 3: that's for sure. But we usually win most of the
22:34
Speaker 3: games down there against Arizona, So hopefully we can channel
22:37
Speaker 3: some of that.
22:38
Speaker 4: We know the twelves we'll be rocking down there.
22:40
Speaker 3: But well, and the podcast telling you, guys, how does
22:43
Speaker 3: Gus get this done?
22:44
Speaker 4: Path of victory.
22:47
Speaker 2: After forty five waits for the stat, Michael Dixon puts
22:50
Speaker 2: it down, that kick is away.
22:52
Speaker 4: If that kick.
22:53
Speaker 7: Is good, good, say off.
22:55
Speaker 1: When it's good. It's a path to victory. On Hawk Talk, well.
23:01
Speaker 4: I open the podcast talking about it. It's simple. It
23:03
Speaker 4: is do or die for the Seahawks. It is win
23:05
Speaker 4: or go home.
23:06
Speaker 3: The Seahawks need to hit the field in at State
23:09
Speaker 3: Farm Stadium with a sense of urgency. Man you want
23:11
Speaker 3: to avoid as football players, it doesn't matter what level
23:14
Speaker 3: you play at, if you played in high school, college,
23:16
Speaker 3: Division one, two three, NAIA, pros AF, XFL, whatever it is.
23:22
Speaker 3: At the end of the season, everyone knows about lock
23:24
Speaker 3: or clean out day, gear return, bad day. That's the
23:28
Speaker 3: worst day of any football team, any football season, because
23:32
Speaker 3: everyone knows when a football season ends, that group of
23:34
Speaker 3: guys will never be in the same place ever again
23:37
Speaker 3: at the same time. So there's some heaviness to what
23:40
Speaker 3: that day means. And let's not have it be on Monday. Okay,
23:45
Speaker 3: let's go. How do you do that bump by shutting
23:48
Speaker 3: down the run? James Connor, Okay, two hundred two yards
23:52
Speaker 3: last weekends at Pittsburgh Seelers is not what this team's about.
23:54
Speaker 3: They're much better than that. I think they're gonna show
23:56
Speaker 3: that on Sunday. So this game is gonna be one
23:58
Speaker 3: and lost up front, So stop the yep and again
24:03
Speaker 3: you said it earlier. Rush for one hundred yards. You
24:05
Speaker 3: are six and er.
24:06
Speaker 5: Let's get that done between Ken Walker and Zach Sharp,
24:08
Speaker 5: and you know, throw in a little Gino too. Man
24:10
Speaker 5: had a twenty five yard round last week. And look
24:12
Speaker 5: at all young and stuff. And then you got to
24:15
Speaker 5: contain the most explosive player they got us Kyler Murray.
24:17
Speaker 5: He's a good athlete, but he's coming off kN the injury.
24:20
Speaker 5: Let's and I wish it ain't bad on him. I'm
24:22
Speaker 5: just saying that, just contain him and take the ball away.
24:27
Speaker 5: Hawks are five and zero when they win the turnover battle,
24:30
Speaker 5: and now you just pray the Justin Fields and the
24:33
Speaker 5: Bears get it done.
24:34
Speaker 6: You handle your.
24:35
Speaker 5: Business, Bears handle their business. Oh, playoffs, simple simple. I've
24:40
Speaker 5: always been a big Justin Fields fan for him, always, always, always.
24:46
Speaker 5: I watched the Netflix special with him back in Weevend
24:49
Speaker 5: high school. It's called like QUB one QB one.
24:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've been We've been knowing Justin Fields for a minute.
24:56
Speaker 3: So that's gonna do it for us to Seahawks gotta
24:58
Speaker 3: win to get into the playoffs. He's some help from
25:00
Speaker 3: the Bears to beat the Packers. This has been Hawk Talk.
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