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Chuck & Buck 2-9 Hour 4: MMQB with Mike Holmgren and Hugh Millen · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Morning Quarterback with Mike Holgrin and Hugh Millin.
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  Speaker 3: Here's chucking bun nine o'clock hour. Champions.
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  Speaker 2: You feel like a champ.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody feels like a champion. You know, all the players
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  Speaker 4: and the coaches, in the front office and the ownership.
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  Speaker 4: They yeah, they won the Super Bowl. They feel you know,
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  Speaker 4: they're champions. But I think everybody listening what a performance
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  Speaker 4: by the twelves, the whole season, the whole postseason. Everybody
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  Speaker 4: waking up this morning and say, Adolada champion. So good morning,
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  Speaker 4: it's our nine o'clock hour. We are Monday morning quarterbacking
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  Speaker 4: here today Hugh Millan of course with us and joining
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  Speaker 4: us now on the program. Former Seahawks head coach Mike
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  Speaker 4: Holgrin here in studio. Good to see a coach. Happy
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  Speaker 4: super bowling to you. Yeah, how about that. I'm good
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  Speaker 4: to see you guys too.
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  Speaker 5: And you know what the feeling I had, You know,
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  Speaker 5: it's so exciting, been there experienced how how you feel
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  Speaker 5: after winning one? And then the next day the next
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  Speaker 5: day For me, I'm not saying, Mike, we're not wired
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  Speaker 5: the same way, but the next day I kind of
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  Speaker 5: just had to take a breath and sit down and
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  Speaker 5: just yeah, it's been it's been quite a season. And uh,
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  Speaker 5: bless his heart. I mean the Seahawks yesterday they dominated
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  Speaker 5: it that game. Yeah, they dominated the game. It wasn't
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  Speaker 5: just one of those games where you're on your pins
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  Speaker 5: and needles. No, No, they had it from the beginning.
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  Speaker 4: Do you work so hard on the project of winning
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  Speaker 4: a Super Bowl that you really don't. I mean the path,
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  Speaker 4: you don't enjoy the path. And then I mean because
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  Speaker 4: Mike McDonald looked awestruck last night after it was all
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  Speaker 4: over with, he just stood there and he looked up
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  Speaker 4: around him and tried to soak it all land, which.
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  Speaker 3: I would advise everybody to do in.
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  Speaker 6: That situation your first time around.
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  Speaker 3: But it looked to him like, oh my gosh, I
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  Speaker 3: did this.
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  Speaker 4: Mike McDonald lit Mike McDonald from Centennial High.
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  Speaker 3: I pulled this off.
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  Speaker 4: Did you have a similar experience to that that you
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  Speaker 4: get so bogged down in the hard work, in the
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  Speaker 4: climbing the rungs of the ladder that and till you
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  Speaker 4: win the Super Bowl you don't even realize what you've done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I exactly.
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  Speaker 5: I remember distinctly when we won the one in New Orleans,
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  Speaker 5: excuse me with Green Bay. And then I went into
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  Speaker 5: my at the locker room in the in the dome,
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  Speaker 5: they have the player's locker room, and then you had
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  Speaker 5: a smaller room that was mine, just just a one locker.
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  Speaker 5: That's where the head coach was. The assistant coaches are
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  Speaker 5: right in the room next door. So I come off
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  Speaker 5: the field and you know, first time in my whole life,
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  Speaker 5: I've been carried up on somebody's shoulders because I'm big
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  Speaker 5: and so. But they did it. Go in there and
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  Speaker 5: here I Ron Wolf, Bob Harlan, and the president of
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  Speaker 5: the packers. All these guys are in my locker room.
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  Speaker 5: They're just jumping around in this little space and I go,
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  Speaker 5: oh if we're shaking hand, patting each other on the back.
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  Speaker 5: And then all of a sudden it hit me. I said,
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  Speaker 5: could you guys leave?
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  Speaker 2: Wow?
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  Speaker 5: I said, could you leave the room please? And they
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  Speaker 5: looked at me, like, what's wrong with you? What do
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  Speaker 5: you what are you doing? I said, I just need
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  Speaker 5: a moment by myself. Yeah, And and they left, thank you,
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  Speaker 5: And you know, I settled prayer and then just just
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  Speaker 5: kind of settled just a little bit because it is
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  Speaker 5: a it's a remarkable feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, that's a great story.
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  Speaker 6: That's a great story. Mike, amplify what settled means? Like,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if you can tell more? Maybe that's obvious,
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  Speaker 6: but is there anything more you can say?
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  Speaker 2: What you think?
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  Speaker 6: Was it about your family? About how you started as
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  Speaker 6: a high school coach in San Francisco area, Like, like,
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  Speaker 6: what do you mean settled in that moment. That had
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  Speaker 6: to be a really impactful moment of your life.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you think about those things you you
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  Speaker 5: do certainly my family, you know.
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  Speaker 2: You guys know the story.
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  Speaker 5: Kathy didn't see any of my games for the last
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  Speaker 5: seventeen years because she cared so much. She'd get sick.
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  Speaker 5: And so she'd see everybody come onto the field, cheer, everybody,
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  Speaker 5: meet the people were in our box, and then she'd
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  Speaker 5: leave the stadium wow, and walk around Pioneer Square or
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  Speaker 5: walk around Green Bay, go to the theater, be the
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  Speaker 5: only one in the theater. And then she tried to
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  Speaker 5: do the same thing in New Orleans and of course
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  Speaker 5: the Super Well, you can't leave the stadium. So she
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  Speaker 5: walked around with the hot dog guys in the in
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  Speaker 5: the in the in the Yeah, and so I looked
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  Speaker 5: for her. They said, she's there.
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  Speaker 3: And so she's had fifteen hot dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah she's she's waving the hot dog at me, you know,
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  Speaker 2: nice going.
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  Speaker 6: She had a couple of pimples by the still recognized.
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  Speaker 5: So know what, but you I think, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 5: calling the game and I'm you're you're in the game,
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  Speaker 5: and you're My blood pressure is probably high. My heart's beating,
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  Speaker 5: and it just physically I just had to kind of
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  Speaker 5: just okay, think about your family, like you said, think
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  Speaker 5: about I didn't think about the journey too much. Then
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  Speaker 5: I thought about how happy I was for the players yea.
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  Speaker 5: And then once once I got myself together, I went
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  Speaker 5: into the locker room and did you do your thing?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 2: But it's it's something coach.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, obviously, the journey has so many little steps
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  Speaker 7: and pieces along the way for you, and you're the
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  Speaker 7: head coach and you're the play caller and you're directing
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  Speaker 7: off it that it's probably hard to keep a look
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  Speaker 7: at the from the thirty thousand foot view. But when
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  Speaker 7: you watch this team from the outside and you no
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  Speaker 7: longer have all of the responsibilities of running an organization,
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  Speaker 7: does it look to you somebody that's been there and
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  Speaker 7: done that, Like this thing went exactly the way that
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  Speaker 7: he had planned. As far as Mike McDonald, he didn't
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  Speaker 7: get lost in the shuffle, even while he was, you know,
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  Speaker 7: having to go through all the step by step stuff.
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  Speaker 7: Just I mean, did it look to you? Because to me,
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  Speaker 7: it just kind of culminated last night, and that's the
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  Speaker 7: blueprint that he had set out. Now, everybody has a
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  Speaker 7: good blueprint, they just it's hard to stick to it sometimes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, excuse me, Buck, You're right, exactly right. I
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  Speaker 5: think that Mike is wired that way, I think, And
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  Speaker 5: so his plan very bright, and he knows defense and
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  Speaker 5: he loves it, and he's a good leader for his
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  Speaker 5: staff and getting the players to connect. They talk about
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  Speaker 5: that all the time. So I think, yeah, he set
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  Speaker 5: out a blueprint in the beginning, and it pretty much
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  Speaker 5: went that way, you know, even when they weren't running
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  Speaker 5: the ball very well, even when they might have a
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  Speaker 5: stumble like they had against the Rams when Sam threw
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  Speaker 5: the four interceptions. But I think his personality is one
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  Speaker 5: where he sticks with the plan and he re emphasizes
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  Speaker 5: that with his players, and they respond to that. They
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  Speaker 5: have responded to that to the point where that game yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I thought it'd be relatively low scoring, and
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  Speaker 5: I had it twenty four to ten, you know, but
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  Speaker 5: it was kind of that kind of game. And no,
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  Speaker 5: he's set the table and he stayed with it all
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  Speaker 5: season long. And now his big challenge, the big challenge
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  Speaker 5: will be who's the next offensive Courdiat.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: Mike Holmgren is with us, You Millan is with us.
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  Speaker 4: We haven't even talked about Sam Darnold with Hugh yet,
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  Speaker 4: So we're going to get to the quarterback in a moment.
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  Speaker 4: But I think this game and the analysis of this
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  Speaker 4: game has to start on the defensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they held the Patriots to seventy eight yards
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  Speaker 4: of offense through three quarters, it was twelve to nothing
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the third quarter, ends up being
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  Speaker 4: twenty nine to thirteen. I mean, you were an offensive mind,
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  Speaker 4: offensive minded head coach, and yet in order to be
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  Speaker 4: great at offense, you've got to be able to recognize
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  Speaker 4: great defense because you got to solve it. Could you
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  Speaker 4: have solved Mike McDonald's defense the way it's going right now?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what would have been the what would have
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  Speaker 4: been the difficulties and going up against this thing that
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  Speaker 4: just if you give him two weeks, he's just shredding everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, and yeah, that's how the game played out. However,
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  Speaker 5: I was disappointed. I would be disappointed in how New
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  Speaker 5: England handled it on offense. Clearly their plan that they
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  Speaker 5: had it wasn't working. It just wasn't working. He didn't
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  Speaker 5: have enough time to throw most of the time. And listen,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not taking anything away from the Hawks, because they
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  Speaker 5: really did have a defensive plan that was very difficult.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm going to say, okay, but I'm gonna I'm
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to attack this thing and get some things going.
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  Speaker 5: It might you might change what you're doing. You're not
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  Speaker 5: throwing the ball on the seventeen yard routes down the
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  Speaker 5: field because you don't have time. Okay, I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 5: first downs running the ball and completing six yard passes.
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  Speaker 5: That's how I'm going to do. Get the ball out
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  Speaker 5: of his hand, and you know. Okay, so they tackle
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  Speaker 5: the guy right away, but I got first downs and
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  Speaker 5: I moving the ball right you know, and you didn't
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  Speaker 5: see any of that. Now, having said that, their pressure
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  Speaker 5: with four guys allowed them to you know, they might
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  Speaker 5: not get there in time, but there's a lot of
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  Speaker 5: stuff going on in front. And for a young quarterback,
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  Speaker 5: I think he was affected by that. I understand that
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  Speaker 5: he hasn't played a lot of football in the NFL.
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  Speaker 5: So you play a game like that, and then what's
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  Speaker 5: behind the four guys are a lot of athletes, a
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  Speaker 5: lot of speed, a lot of toughness, length, oh golly sakes, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and then you get well.
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  Speaker 3: In men Uri.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you have quite a group back there and love
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  Speaker 5: the safeties. They're all very active and so that Mike
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  Speaker 5: can do a lot of things back there, and including
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  Speaker 5: blitzing from the from the secondary.
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  Speaker 2: So it was.
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  Speaker 5: Hard on me, but I would say, don't don't go
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  Speaker 5: back there and try and throw the eighteen yard turn
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  Speaker 5: in or whatever it's. You don't have time. And they
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  Speaker 5: got a lot of guys back there and their defense.
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  Speaker 5: The de HA said, a great job, Mike.
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  Speaker 6: I think the matchup, if you can call it, Mike
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  Speaker 6: McDon donald the defensive play caller against Josh McDaniels, the
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  Speaker 6: Patriots offensive play caller, was obviously just game set match in.
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  Speaker 3: A decisive way.
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  Speaker 6: The Patriots fifty three dropbacks, they only used play action
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  Speaker 6: six times, so that eleven percent rate, where they had
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  Speaker 6: been twenty four percent for the season. They they only
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  Speaker 6: put him out of the pocket on a boot one
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  Speaker 6: time out of the entire game that you know, whereas
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  Speaker 6: like Sam Donald had five. There was one screen pass
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  Speaker 6: they called the entire game and it was with twelve
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  Speaker 6: seconds remaining in the game. You know, there was just
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  Speaker 6: somehow Mike McDonald got into McDaniel, who has six Super
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  Speaker 6: Bowl rings, he got in his head seemingly, and you.
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  Speaker 8: Know, with.
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  Speaker 6: After three quarters of twelve nothing and Patriots on a
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  Speaker 6: pace to have one hundred and four totally yards for
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  Speaker 6: the game, like this was really a trouncing. What's were
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  Speaker 6: some thoughts that you had in terms of that matchup.
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  Speaker 6: I know you've kind of touched on them, but but
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  Speaker 6: that that was startling to me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that was and that was the game. Now think
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  Speaker 5: of it, Hugh and you guys bucking Jock. They you're
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  Speaker 5: head twelve to nothing. If I'm the other team, I'm
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  Speaker 5: still in this game. I can get a touchdown and
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  Speaker 5: then it's twelve, you know, And but then you had
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  Speaker 5: the feeling. I had the feeling twelve to nothing, they're
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  Speaker 5: gonna they don't need anymore they don't need any more points.
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  Speaker 5: And that's that was my point. I was disappointed on
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  Speaker 5: how the how they ran their offense. Now having said that, guys,
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  Speaker 5: their offensive line is not very good. And number fifty
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  Speaker 5: eight their left guard. I was watching him, poor guy.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he looked like he looked like I had
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  Speaker 5: in high school. I had one guy he weighs two
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  Speaker 5: hundred and fifty pounds and he you know, he was
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  Speaker 5: a big, heavy guy and we had him at garden tackle.
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  Speaker 5: He just prayed he didn't get hurt in the game
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  Speaker 5: and stuff like that. That's what it reminded me of,
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  Speaker 5: you know, because they just got steamrolled over there, and
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  Speaker 5: as I started feeling, and then they helped try and
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  Speaker 5: help each other and then all of a sudden, here
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  Speaker 5: comes a blitz from the secondary. So no, I you know,
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  Speaker 5: the other thing I looked at is that they scored
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  Speaker 5: seventeen points on turnovers the Hawks. Yeah, they only scored
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  Speaker 5: twenty nine points for the game. So that's you know,
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  Speaker 5: that's that was the game, and that typically does games,
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  Speaker 5: wins games for you, but they New England. Yeah, to
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  Speaker 5: answer your question, you yeah, I was disappointed in the
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  Speaker 5: play selection.
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  Speaker 6: You know, Mike, I kind of think it's fun to rank,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I'll rank just about anything. I'll rank Christmas
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  Speaker 6: music and Thanksgiving, you know, food and and this, and
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  Speaker 6: so in my own mind, perhaps other Seahawk fans mind,
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  Speaker 6: I'm at the point where I'm kind of a little
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  Speaker 6: bit eager to compare Mike McDonald to Pete Carroll defensively,
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  Speaker 6: and I'll tell you. I'll just tell you the conclusion
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  Speaker 6: I have. I think Pete Carroll was phenomenal. But you
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  Speaker 6: put a pistol to my temple. I'm saying that Mike
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  Speaker 6: McDonald is smarter. I think he's smarter in football. I
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  Speaker 6: think he runs a more complicated offense. I think he
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  Speaker 6: teaches it better. I think Pete Carroll had slightly better
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  Speaker 6: players during the heyday of the Lesion of Boom. We'll see,
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  Speaker 6: we'll see if these other guys develop, and maybe we
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  Speaker 6: can revise that thought. But I'm just I'll just say it, real,
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  Speaker 6: bluntly and flatly. I think Mike McDonald's a better defensive
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  Speaker 6: than Pete Carroll. Do you have a reaction to that opinion.
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  Speaker 5: I think I'm gonna stay away from that one because
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  Speaker 5: I like stuffing more than candy dams.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I got it, I got it, all right,
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  Speaker 6: I understand it.
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  Speaker 3: I understand it all right.
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  Speaker 7: Well, would you compare just the units by chance? I mean,
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  Speaker 7: when you compare Legion of Boom and the Dark Side,
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  Speaker 7: I mean that both of them dominating carried their teams
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  Speaker 7: to Super Bowl victories. I mean there's similarities and yet
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  Speaker 7: there's differences. How do you compare those two, right?
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  Speaker 5: I know, I think I think they had a different
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  Speaker 5: style of athlete the style of defense the legion of Boom.
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  Speaker 5: I think athletic. I can't say athletically because these guys
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  Speaker 5: are really fast and they tackled, they're tough, but they they.
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  Speaker 2: Don't have that.
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  Speaker 5: They don't have I guess the quote unquote all stars
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  Speaker 5: at positions like that that group did. And getting back
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  Speaker 5: to Hughes point, I didn't poke fun at it, but
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  Speaker 5: I think Pete. Pete didn't call the defenses, you know, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: guys do that. So if you're the if you're the
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  Speaker 5: head coach and you're you've chosen to call the defenses
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  Speaker 5: or call the offenses, then you hand the ball to
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  Speaker 5: your coordinator the other guy, the defensive coordinator or the
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  Speaker 5: offensive coordinator, and let him roll and try not to
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  Speaker 5: interfere with him. Now, of course, if you're the head coach,
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  Speaker 5: you have say over everything, and you've kind of you know,
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  Speaker 5: But I never walked into the defensive room.
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  Speaker 2: Never I talked to the coach. I never went in there, and.
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  Speaker 5: I think it pet did a little of that back
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  Speaker 5: and forth and so I think there's a difference there
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  Speaker 5: on how both those guys great coaches, but how they
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  Speaker 5: approach their profession.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to save Sam for our next segment so
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  Speaker 4: we can talk about the quarterback with both coach and Hugh,
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  Speaker 4: since we haven't done a lot of that here in
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  Speaker 4: the last hour and a half. But I at least
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  Speaker 4: got to get before we close this segment your thoughts,
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  Speaker 4: because I don't want to run out of time on
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  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl MVP Ken Walker. He's been a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of a mystery to us. So we've all, I think,
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  Speaker 4: on this show seen the talent I was. I think
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  Speaker 4: I predicted like a fifteen hundred yard season in his
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  Speaker 4: second year. He's just hasn't achieved those statistical milestones since
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  Speaker 4: he's been here. Why from what you can tell that
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  Speaker 4: he suddenly become that back when the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: Started this year because Sharbonne got hurt. Walker had twenty
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  Speaker 5: seven carries yesterday and then that in my day, that
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  Speaker 5: was about right, John, Alexander ca care the ball. You
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  Speaker 5: hand him the ball, That's what you do, and so
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  Speaker 5: your numbers are going to be better. And I think
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  Speaker 5: a bat gets better as the game goes along the
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  Speaker 5: more he carries the ball. And you saw it yesterday
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  Speaker 5: and you've seen it in the playoffs, and I think
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: that's the number one thing. His style now, his style,
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: you know, when he starts left and then jumps all
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: the way to the right. Sometimes it doesn't work, you know,
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: and you lose a yard. But a lot of times
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: he broke contain. That's the other thing about New England.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: They've got a great defense. He broke contain a couple
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: times because there was no one out, There was no
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: one forcing him back into the middle, and so but
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: he can do that because he's fast and he can
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: do that. I was very I met him. I've talked
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: to him a few times. I really like the young
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: man and it'll be interesting to see what they do
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: contractually with them. But I was happy for him yesterday
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: and I he was my We had a family vote
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  Speaker 5: in MVP, so I voted for.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Him before the game, or during the game or after
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: the game.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, all.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: Right, well let's go ahead, let's let's take a break.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: We'll come back on the other side. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 8: But you know, I was just spending more time with
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: Sam on all these interviews. It's like Sam doesn't care
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: about the obstacle. Like everyone's made a narrative of this
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: guy of like everyone is. They have tried to put
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: a story and a label on who he is as
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: a person who has a quarter He does not care. Okay,
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: he just is the same guy everyday.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Since he shows up. He's so steadfast, he's a.
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: Great teammate, the teammates, his teammates love him, always done.
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: Since he's walked in the doors. Has been a tremendous
• 19:15
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  Speaker 2: Who is the same guy every day.
• 19:19
  Speaker 8: And that's who he is, and that's how we need
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: to talk about him moving forward.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: That's why they get along so well. They do not care.
• 19:29
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  Speaker 4: George Carlson tweets saying the four things he wants to
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  Speaker 4: have happened this year is We've already got two super Bowl,
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• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Well, that would be something, wouldn't.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: That be something? And they're all very very possible. Coaching
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: very possible. Yeah, all right, well let's talk Sam Darnald.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: We have not talked a lot of Sam Donald here
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: in our two hours of Monday morning quarterback, so I
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: just open up the floor to both of you. We'll
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: start with you, coach. I mean, he wasn't the most accurate.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: He was also harassed quite a bit, just like Drake May.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: But in the end he's a super Bowl champion. What
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: did you think of Sam's performance last night.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: I thought he'd played exactly the way I thought he
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: would play, you know, And I've been in his corner
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: corner of the whole season, and he strikes I don't
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: I've never met him, I don't know him, but when
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: I watch him play, he strikes me. He's very, very analytical.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: He is everything Mike McDonald's said in the lead up
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: that you know he doesn't he just going to be
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: the leader. He's going to be help everybody on the
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: team win the game and do my best to do that.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: He doesn't have to do everything, as he has said
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: many times, and so I couldn't be happier for the
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: young man. He has been through a fair amount of
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: stuff in his career in the league, and unfortunately people
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: do dwell on those things, and they did it a
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: little bit this year even well, we got to wait.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: But now, you know, it'd be interesting to see what
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: happens now because he was the quarterback of the Super
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Bowl winning team and had a lot to do with
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: them getting there and winning the game. He had a
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: lot to do with that. But now will the comment
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: be can he do it again? You know you know
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: what probably I mean, you go you can never win.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: So how do you handle that? He handles it the
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: way he handles it. Hey, I do my job. I
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: care about my teammates, I care about my coach. I'm
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: gonna do my job here.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: What do you think of Sam last night?
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: Well, I would say, first of all, not every Super
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: Bowl winning quarterback paints a Rembrandt right and just in
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: you know, since two thousand, the list of quarterbacks who
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: have won a Super Bowl with a passer rating in
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: the seventies or worse. It's not just Brad Johnson. Do
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: you know these names? Pat Mahomes, Tom Brady Peyton, Manning,
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Ben Roethlisberger, all winning quarterbacks and in that game had
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: a passer rating in the seventies or worse. Sam Darnold
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: was seventy five yesterday. Mahomes has also had a different
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: Super Bowl one hundred and eighty two passing yards. So sometimes, Mike, right,
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: you just have to play the game for how it's
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: playing out. He knew he had a defense that was
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: playing well. And by the way the NFL stated portal
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: they have Drake May had fourteen quarterback pressures. Sam Donold
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: had fifteen. That's the same number as Pat Mahomes had
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: in the Super Bowl last year by that metric, and
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: the Chiefs were getting killed. Through three quarters, Mahomes had
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: a fifty five passer rating. So I think what Donald
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: did is he managed the game how it needed to
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: be managed. He didn't have any turnovers. How about the
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: irony there, Donald and the Seahawks first Super Bowl winning
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: team to not have a turnover through the entire playoffs.
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: Count Week eighteen against the forty nine ers, and he
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: hasn't had a turnover. And yeah, he missed, you know,
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: he missed a couple of long shots to Shaheed. I
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: think his biggest miss was that missing that post to
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: Mike to JSN right before halftime. I mean, beautiful design
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: to play right Hash get him isolated as the X.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Everybody's pushing over the to the boundary, wide open area
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: to hit hit the touchdown. He threw it behind him.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: I'm sure that's the one that he'll he'll kick him
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: the most. He got lucky there. Gonzalez could have had
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: the intercession, but he's been unlucky throughout the season. I
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: just thought, you know, how he managed the pocket, how
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: he managed the pressure, his awareness of how his defense
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: was playing. He had a winning performance, won't be the best.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: But you know a lot of other guys have played
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: it that way and put Super Bowl rings on their
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: fingers too.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: And that's such a good point. And when you said
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: how the game was going, you you know, in the
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: third quarter, after the field goal that made it twelve
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: to nothing, Okay, I'm looking at it, New England three
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: and out, Hawks three and out, New England three and out,
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: Hawks three and out. So and then it went that
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: way until until until they had the fumble recovered the fumble,
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: that was the way. So it seemed to me, like,
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: I don't know this for a fact, but it seemed
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: to me like Clinton was saying, or Mike was saying,
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: we're head twelve to nothing. If we don't do if
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: we don't make a mistake here, yeah, the game's over.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: And then then it was kind of called that way
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: until the turnovers.
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: Mike, I'm curious your take on this thought. Today, for
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: the first time in his life, Sam Donald's gonna wake
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: up and he's gonna look in the mirror and he's
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: gonna see a Super Bowl champion staring back at him
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: for the first day ever. When he walks through the building.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: Everybody can talk about the confidence that everybody has. Hey,
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: we got his back, you know, fu if you don't
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: support him, all of that is really meaningful. But now,
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: for the first time, when Sam Donald walks through that building,
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: every teammate who lays eyes on him, every coach who
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: lays eyes on him, the Secretary's everybody in the building
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: knows he can deliver a world championship, and they can
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: talk about how they knew he could. But now he's
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: done it, and what to what extent might we see
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: a twenty eight year old Sam Donald with all of
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: that physical all that physical skill, and now what he's acquired.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: I mean, I hope this is a springboard. Mike, is
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: that a realistic thought?
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: What?
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: What?
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: What's your thought in that area about how this could
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: change Sam Donald.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I think it is a realistic thought.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: I think he's although his personality is won I think
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: that he'll balance things, you know. And my experience with
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: that exact thing happening was when we got Steve Young
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: and with the forty nine ers, Joe Montana was there.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Steve came in. I had coached him in college. I
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: knew him, okay, and then but it was Joe's team,
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: Joe won Super Bowl. Steve was the backup. He came
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: in and played some, Okay, Then Joe leaves goes and
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Steve becomes the quarterback. And if you remember that, Mike
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: chant I left, Mike Shannan comes in, Steve's the quarterback,
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: they win the Super Bowl, and the first thing he
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: said at at his press conference, he goes, I got
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: the monkey off my back. Yeah you remember that, Ye,
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: he said, I got the monkey off my back. And
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: then he went on to become the Hall of Fame.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: He went on from there to play a lot more
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: and play great, be a.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame quarterback.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: So I don't care what personality the quarterback has, and
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: I had a bunch of different ones that if you
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: get in a position like you said, and look in
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: the mirror, and you can say, we won the Super
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Bowl and I was a quarterback. You know he's smiling
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: into that mirror. You just know it. You can't help it. Yeah,
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: because it's a special thing that not everyone can do.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: How much sweeter is it when there's people that maybe
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: are counting out, or if you're coming off of failure
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: in any way, shape or form. Right, But last season
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: didn't go the way you wanted, or you didn't win
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: the big game, or whatever it is. When you finally do,
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: how much sweeter does it taste?
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: I think it's I think it's really it heals a
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: lot of wounds, in my opinion. You know, it's and
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: I would say the same thing for coaches, quite honestly,
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: you go in there, I think Marv Levy, you know,
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: Buffalo lost four Super Bowls. If he ever won, you know,
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: think what how he would feel if he got to
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: the fifth one and won it. So it's and you know,
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: it's it's sweet to answer your question, Booky. You know
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: you've you've struggled, and his struggle, his path to get there,
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: that doesn't that's that's something that is really something. So
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: I couldn't be happier for him.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: As you pointed out, the pressure was pretty much the same.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: I mean Sam was facing just as much pressure as
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Drake May but obviously had a lot more success early.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Drake patted the stat line in the fourth quarter, but
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: the game pretty much over at that point. They're about
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: equivalent athletes. May is considered probably the better athlete, and
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: yet how key was Sam's escapability? I mean they're faced
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: on the same amount of pressure, but Sam kept slipping
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: out and still completing passes where May was just falling
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: in a heap beneath some Seahawk defensive tackle.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think what you saw, if you're going to
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: compare the two in the game, you saw experience versus youth.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: That's one thing. But you have to give Sam credit
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: for his ability. He gets out of jams. He's pretty
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: good at that. Yeah, And he gets out of jams
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: where ducks or he gets moved, and then he's aware
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: to get rid of the ball if he doesn't have it.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: Excuse me if he doesn't have anything. I think Drake
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: May yesterday. You know, Drake May is gonna be fine.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: He's gonna be fine. But yesterday he held onto the
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: ball when he should have thrown it away. It happened
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: a few times because he had the ball. You would
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: know this, and I don't know this, but it seemed
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: like he had the ball, holding in the ball and
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: I'm going to throw it, throw it, get rid of it,
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden sack like he was
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: holding it a long time. So, but Sam has that ability,
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: and that comes with experience.
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he had a sack. The NFL had it at
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: exactly five point zero seconds, another one at four point four.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: I think all of them were over three seconds except
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: for one at two point eight. So you're right, Mike.
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: The clock bear bears that out. But you know, I
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: think for the movement of a quarterback, Mike, it's a
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: little like when I coached youth in high school. It's
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: like goldilocks in the porche, not too hot, not too cold.
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: You don't want to be an iron deer on the
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: lawn just a statue, but you don't want to be
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: skittish and getting out of there all the time and
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: responding to pressure that really isn't there. I thought Darnold
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: had some plays yesterday like the play that does she
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: heat over the middle of the sixteen yard or where?
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: I mean, he was just getting smoked, but he stood
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: in there and he knew he was going to take
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: the hit. But he took the hit and he delivered
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: an accurate ball. The touchdown pass. You knows there's you know,
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: go back to the NFC Championship game. There's a lot
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: of times where you watch that end zone copy and
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: he's getting dusted on good passes that are caught you know.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: And and so I think that he at this point
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: in his career, Mike, he's doing a pretty good job
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: of making the porridge just the right temperature. He's not
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: moving too much nor too little. And when he stands stationary,
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: he's delivering when he knows he's gonna get hit.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's correct. And when I watched Drake
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: may play yesterday, it was like the porridges. Yes, he
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: get frozen, he gets hit the forges cold. Yeah, he
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: get frozen just a little bit. But then I'm saying,
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: how many times was he drop back right behind center?
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: That's his drop point for all the rushers in the world.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: That's where he's gonna be. Don't do get him out
• 32:48
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• 32:51
  Speaker 5: And that also builds confidence because he has a play
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: all of a sudden, he's moving around, he makes a
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: completion boom.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: That all helps.
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Seahawks world champ twenty nine to thirteen over the New
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: England Patriots, last night winners of Super Bowl sixty. This
• 33:04
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  Speaker 3: What do you got?
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  Speaker 7: How quickly after your Super Bowl victory did your mind
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: switch to, well, we need to get better at this
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  Speaker 7: and this and start preparing for the next year.
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  Speaker 2: No, you know what.
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  Speaker 5: I had kind of a routine that after after the
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  Speaker 5: last game, whether it's the super Bowl or not, but
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  Speaker 5: after the super Bowl, certainly you have that week the
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: week following the super Bowl you're dealing with your players
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  Speaker 5: you're having little exit interviews, your your coaches, and then
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  Speaker 5: I tried to take off and go to Hawaii.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, No, every year we went over there and as
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: Kathy would say, to allow me to re enter, oh yeah,
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: because you know, you know, you know it is you're
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: just you just focused and you're probably not very nice
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  Speaker 5: most of the time. And so then we we would
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  Speaker 5: go over there, and then I'd come back and then
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  Speaker 5: then I'd start hit pretty hard after about a month.
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  Speaker 4: So there's the world, and then you just lived on
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  Speaker 4: planet football for like six months a year.
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  Speaker 5: Even trying even trying to balance it a little bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you know, with the kids, and you know, as your
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  Speaker 5: kids are growing up and stuff. Yeah, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: I wind up apologize. I've wound up apologizing to them
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  Speaker 5: sometimes now that they're older. Hey I'm sorry I missed this,
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  Speaker 5: And they said, no, Dad, we loved you, we knew,
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  Speaker 5: we knew what was going on.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, huh all right, Uh here what you got
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  Speaker 3: for coach?
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  Speaker 6: Uh yeah, Mike, I'm curious your thoughts on Uh. Clearly,
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  Speaker 6: the Seahawks at the very least are going to be
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  Speaker 6: facing change their offensive coordinator and their play color is
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  Speaker 6: moving on that has the potential obviously to be a disruption.
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  Speaker 6: If Mike called you and you know, puts you in
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  Speaker 6: kind of a little consultant unofficial consultant role, and he
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  Speaker 6: said he should I hire from within? And how how
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  Speaker 6: important is that? Or if I don't have a good
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: quarterback coach in his ear? You know, maybe he's maybe
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: he knows the system, but he doesn't really know quarterbacking. Like,
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: what are the areas that are you most concerned about?
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  Speaker 6: The chained slash disruption the sea archs are going to
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  Speaker 6: be facing immediately.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think when you hire a coach, and when
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: I interviewed coaches and potential coaches and for the staff
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: and so on, most important thing is the vibe you
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  Speaker 5: get is is.
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  Speaker 6: He a teacher?
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Can't he communicate to the players a certain way? And
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: that's the first thing. The second thing is his knowledge
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  Speaker 5: and what kind of a system has he come from?
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: What kind of system do we still want to run?
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  Speaker 5: And I think it's important that whoever comes in is
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: has some really good feel for what they've already done
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  Speaker 5: and what they've accomplished with this team and building on it.
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  Speaker 5: That way, you're not going to get a exists the same.
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  Speaker 5: You're not going to get Clint Kubiak two, but you're
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: going to get somebody you I think you want somebody
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  Speaker 5: that understands, that studies it. I remember going into San
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: Francisco and and for the first month Bill Walsh just
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: put a ton of stuff on my on my desk
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  Speaker 5: and said, study this, watch this film, and and you learn,
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: and then and you read. Has told me the same
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: thing he did with me. He kept all the books,
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: you know, so you you you got to be a
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: teacher and you have to study. And they got to
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: the super Bowl. So I always think that's the type
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: of guy you'd look for.
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: How would you be concerned about bringing in a guy
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  Speaker 6: that wants to change the vernacular. So he's got his
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: terminology and now Sam and everybody else in the offense
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: have to has to learn that. Or would you say, no,
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: I really want to at the at the very least
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: runna uh you know, have a guy that that kind
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: of runs that system and used that same terminology.
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  Speaker 5: I would absolutely say that, you know, I understand what
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: you're saying. You know, Coach so and so, but you
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: have to learn this system at least learn the language.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't want to change the language because we
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  Speaker 5: spent a long time getting people to understand this language.
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  Speaker 4: All Right, I one last thing, and I can't even
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: believe that I'm doing this with my last question of
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl season here on the Monday morning quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: But obviously the defense is going to remember historically for
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: what they did this season, and in that game, the
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: offense got represented because Ken Walker was named the MVP.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Mike McDonald is the you know, hero of heroes. John
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Schninder one Executive of the Year.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: Credit to Jason Myers, the most productive kicking performance in
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Super Bowl history, and punter Michael Dixon, who I thought
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: was exceptional last night in more ways than just punting
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: the football. I thought that was the best game of
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: football that he has ever played in a Sea Hawk uniform.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: So I guess when I'm asking, coach, because you and
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: I kind of feel the same way about kickers and
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: punters after a game like that, would you at least
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: get to know their names afterwards and.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Not just call them you two or you know, Beavis
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  Speaker 3: and butt.
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  Speaker 2: Head or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 5: You know what, I would even go as far as this.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: I would even go and give them a little hug
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: after the game. Not much, let's not get care But
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: I did on my notes, I did say the same
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: thing those two guys. So but I have to tell
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: you one quick story. Sure can I do I have time?
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely, We'll blow off Mark James for you.
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: No, my daughter cal who's a doctor in Chicago. She
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: was the only one not at the party last night.
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: Oh and so, but she was phoning me during the game. Okay,
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: and for the first time in her life, she phoned
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: me the day before. She goes, Dad, I want to
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: place a bet. How do I do that? I said,
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: I have no idea. So apparently she placed a bet
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: and when was the points?
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: They placed two bats? When was the point spread? Which
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: she won?
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: But then she had a chance to hit a home run. Okay,
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: Walker had to score a touchdown. So she goes, she
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: gets on the phone and she goes, did you see that?
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: What was the There was no holding, there was no nothing.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: So she she goes, I said, let this be a
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: lesson to you, young lady.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: Gambling doesn't always work.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: Be careful. Referees are bad. How much could she have won?
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: I didn't want to ask her. She was she was
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: she when he ran the touchdown and she jumped up.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: She was she got the little dog and scared the
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: dog and yeah, and then all of a sudden, what
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: what happened?
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: You know, Mike, children learn what they live, and so
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: it's very clear by that story that that she has
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: heard many many times. There's no holding.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: A touchdown full time time officials.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Since they one.
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: Next time we see Jalen Sundell, I'm gonna say he
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: owes your daughter money.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: That's right, Yeah, I say how I can get that?
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: And I might see him before you do.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: They they probably will, actually, gentlemen, always a pleasure. What
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: a great year it has been, and not just because
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: we won a super Bowl, but because on Mondays we
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: get to hang out and talk football with the two
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: of you. So thank you so much again for another
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: phenomenal year.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: No, thank you, guys, I appreciate you. Let me tag along,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: I really do.
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: Yes, thank you. Echo right, it's right back at you
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: and just everybody enjoyed.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: All right, it's fun.
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: We don't get these very often.
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, soak it up.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, all right, we will talk to you tomorrow morning. Ashley,
• 41:49
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