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Recapping Week 3: Seahawks at Commanders | Hawk Talk Podcast · Hawk Talk

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver
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  Speaker 1: Michael Bumpus.
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  Speaker 2: Powered by Seahawks.com. Now, here's your host, NASA Chobi.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of Hawk Talk. The Seahawks lose
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  Speaker 1: to the Commanders on the road. Bump, that's a weird
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  Speaker 1: thing to say.
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  Speaker 3: It is weird. It's been a while.
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  Speaker 1: First time since November 16th of 2025, the Seahawks finally
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  Speaker 1: lost a game. Ends a franchise record. 12 consecutive wins.
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  Speaker 1: Just the third road loss of Mike McDonald's career, which
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  Speaker 1: is crazy as a head coach with the Seahawks. He
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  Speaker 1: improves or goes down to 16-3. It was just the
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  Speaker 1: fourth time in the last 13 games the Seahawks allowed
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  Speaker 1: more than 20 points. They also finally allowed play more
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  Speaker 1: than 20 yards. Things that you know are going to happen, honestly, though,
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  Speaker 1: but for me, while it's upsetting, it's a game I
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  Speaker 1: feel like the Seahawks could have won, it just goes
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  Speaker 1: to show you how lucky and how spoiled we have
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  Speaker 1: been as people who cover this team, follow this team,
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  Speaker 1: the run that they've been on and how dominant they've
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  Speaker 1: been that it's taken this long to suffer the feeling
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  Speaker 1: of a loss again.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, they came out hot. You know what I
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  Speaker 4: compare it to when I golf? and I start with, like,
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  Speaker 4: three pars, I know I'm a bogey. So it's going
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  Speaker 4: to happen. So that's the way I looked at it.
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  Speaker 4: I said, all right, you got a quick little bogey,
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  Speaker 4: and we can make it up next week with a birdie. But, no,
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  Speaker 4: the Commanders play good football. You got to tip your cap.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling people all the time, like, these are pros.
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  Speaker 4: And when I started really looking at the names on
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  Speaker 4: that defensive line, too, I go, yeah, I know that guy.
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  Speaker 4: I know that guy as well.
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  Speaker 2: First rounder there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So, no, the Commanders, they played well and took advantage
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  Speaker 4: of some mistakes that the Hawks made.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean, there's no, definitely the Seahawks could
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  Speaker 1: have done things differently with their commanders. They get paid
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  Speaker 1: to do it too. Dan Quinn's a great coach. Their
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  Speaker 1: offensive staff did things the right way. Marcus Mariota made plays.
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  Speaker 1: So let's jump right into it with what had happened.
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  Speaker 4: See, what had happened was, what had happened at first was,
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  Speaker 4: what had happened was, on Hawk Talk.
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  Speaker 1: First half, really most of the game did not go
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  Speaker 1: the way the Seahawks wanted it to. Both teams trade
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  Speaker 1: punts on their opening drives. Then disaster strikes at Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: Jadarian Price fumbled the football. Commanders was finding the end
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  Speaker 1: zone next when Marcus Mariota connected Rashad White with a
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  Speaker 1: six-yard touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: That made the score 7-0. Bum, it's a little early.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to press the panic button on Price
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  Speaker 1: fumbling the football. It's unfortunate it's happened two weeks in
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  Speaker 1: a row. I know people are asking Sam and Coach, like,
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  Speaker 1: what do you tell him? No one is more hard
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  Speaker 1: on themselves when they fumble the football than them. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to be just fine. It's unfortunate it cost Seahawks points,
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  Speaker 1: but I wouldn't. I wouldn't worry too much about it
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  Speaker 1: long term. No, I think you can't ignore it. Like
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  Speaker 1: it's a thing that happened, but he's a football player.
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  Speaker 1: He's a running back. He's going to tote the rock.
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  Speaker 1: So just do your high and tight drills. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: RB coach is going to be with him, but I
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  Speaker 1: am ready to panic at him with you. But then
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  Speaker 1: after two punts, the Seahawks will finally get on the board.
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  Speaker 4: Nine plays, 90 yard drive ending with a touchdown pass
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  Speaker 4: at JSM that tied the score at seven.
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  Speaker 3: Then both teams will punt on the next two drives.
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  Speaker 4: Then the Commanders will put together another solid drive going
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  Speaker 4: eight plays, 60 yards, anywhere to touchdown to Traylon Brooks.
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  Speaker 4: I really liked him coming out of college. It was
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  Speaker 4: nice to see him kind of get out of Tennessee
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  Speaker 4: and try to do his thing. That made the score 14-7.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, then Seahawks would respond with a drive of their own,
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  Speaker 1: 12 plays, 78 yards. But that drive would fizzle out.
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  Speaker 1: Turned out to be a really big play knowing how
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks lost. They get down to the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: They're unable to convert down there. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: asking why didn't they do the barnyard, why didn't they
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  Speaker 1: do this. Sometimes it doesn't work out. It didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: Could they have kicked a field goal? I like the
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  Speaker 1: aggressiveness there. I like that the Seahawks went for it.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't work out for them, unfortunately, so they don't
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  Speaker 1: get points there. Both teams, though, would get field goals
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  Speaker 1: before the end of the half, and the Seahawks would
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  Speaker 1: go to halftime trailing 17-10.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, 17-10.
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  Speaker 4: You're not feeling great, but you're not feeling bad either.
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  Speaker 4: You feel like things are going to turn around. Then
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  Speaker 4: after forcing a three and out to start the second half,
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  Speaker 4: the Seahawks had another really unlucky play as Sam Darnold's
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  Speaker 4: pass hit at D.
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  Speaker 3: Lyman's helmet, and it was intercepted.
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  Speaker 4: They turned that into seven points as Marcus Mariota connected
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  Speaker 4: to a Terry McLaurin for a 30-yard touchdown. That made
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  Speaker 4: the score 24-10. Then the Seahawks would answer with a
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  Speaker 4: 60-yard drive in with a touchdown to Eric Saubert. That
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  Speaker 4: made it 24-17.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're right back in the game. That Terry
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  Speaker 1: McLaurin play you talked about, Job just kind of missed
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  Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 2: He gets back. He's in trail technique.
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  Speaker 1: Underthrown balls, back shoulder, those are really hard to defend,
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  Speaker 1: especially with a player like that.
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  Speaker 3: In trail technique, that's dang near impossible to defend.
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  Speaker 2: It's impossible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. You're 1,000% right, and you didn't make
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  Speaker 1: the play. It is what it is. But anyway, the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks bring it to within a score. Both teams would
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  Speaker 1: trade punts, and the Seahawks do another great drive. 80 yards,
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  Speaker 1: seven plays with yet another touchdown to who? Jackson Smith
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  Speaker 1: and Jigwell. We're going to break that down a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later. He's in an unreal run. I mean, best
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  Speaker 1: receiver in football, though. Game was tied at 24.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the Commanders added a field goal on the next drive,
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  Speaker 4: so they win it by three. Then disaster would strike
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  Speaker 4: again for the Seahawks. Sam Browner was picked off by Kane. Medrano,
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  Speaker 4: and he ran it back for a 50-yard pick-six. That
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  Speaker 4: was his first game, I believe, too, that Medrano got in.
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  Speaker 4: That made the score 33-24, but an unsportsmanlike penalty backed
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  Speaker 4: up the extra point, which the Commanders missed, so that
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  Speaker 4: helped us out in the end.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just an unfortunate play. Sam, I wish he had
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  Speaker 1: that play back. They made a good play, too. I
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  Speaker 1: think I listened to one of their post-game press conferences,
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  Speaker 1: and they said, hey, they got us on that a
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  Speaker 1: couple times earlier in the game, going back to that
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  Speaker 1: check down. He missed a couple tackles beforehand. So they
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  Speaker 1: knew they were going to go back to it. Some
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  Speaker 1: pressure there. That happens. But this, honestly, if I take
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  Speaker 1: anything away from the game, and maybe this is because
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  Speaker 1: I'm a glass half full guy, this was one of
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  Speaker 1: the most impressive series in drives you might ever see.
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  Speaker 1: And we might not talk about it a lot ever
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  Speaker 1: again because the Seahawks lost the game. But in that situation,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's kind of thinking, okay, the game is over. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold, hold on a second. Give me a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Because they go down five plays, 68 yards, ending with
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Cupp's first touchdown of the season. That made the
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  Speaker 1: score 33-31. But here's the drive chart. 18-yard pass to Jason.
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  Speaker 1: 11-yard pass to Jason. 15-yard pass to Jason. 17-yard pass
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  Speaker 1: to Torrey Horton. 7-yard touchdown to Cooper Cupp. They go
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  Speaker 1: down in a minute or so. And it was just
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  Speaker 1: impressive because it just shows you that Sam Darnold is unfazed.
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  Speaker 1: Bad plays are going to happen. He bounced right back.
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  Speaker 1: And that whole time, just throwing dots.
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  Speaker 2: They know.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to stop Jason. It might not look like it,
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  Speaker 1: but defenses are trying to stop this man. Even when
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  Speaker 1: they knew he was getting the ball, they couldn't stop it.
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  Speaker 1: I was just really impressed with how the Seahawks answered
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  Speaker 1: in that moment. I love Sam Darnold in that moment.
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  Speaker 4: And then I was also thinking the type of shape
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  Speaker 4: that Jason is in, you know what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 4: come on, 18 yards, 11, 15, you're running back to
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  Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage. People take that for granted. He,
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  Speaker 4: and he didn't look tired.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, he never looks like he's
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  Speaker 2: out of breath ever.
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  Speaker 3: Never looked tired, man. I was super impressive.
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  Speaker 4: So, um, Yeah, so the Seahawks kicked off to the
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  Speaker 4: Commanders with 2-51 remaining in the game with all three
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  Speaker 4: timeouts and the two-minute warning.
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  Speaker 3: So we're feeling good about this situation, right?
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  Speaker 4: At this point, I think everyone watching expected the Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: to get a stop, get the ball back on offense,
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  Speaker 4: and go win the game. There was no doubt in
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  Speaker 4: my mind that the Hawks were going to do exactly that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean, especially with this defense, where they've been,
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  Speaker 1: even without, you know, Ty Okada back there, even without
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  Speaker 1: Julian Love, who's playing an all-pro level, those are huge
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  Speaker 1: misses or, you know, gaps on the defense but they
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  Speaker 1: are still playing well enough you think unfortunately in the
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  Speaker 1: commanders two really good plays there's a third and eight.
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  Speaker 2: I believe and then um a third and nine and
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  Speaker 2: then a.
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  Speaker 1: Third and seven looks like mariotta audibles to a run
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  Speaker 1: play drake thomas almost looked like he might have got
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  Speaker 1: held but he didn't get outside they get the first
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  Speaker 1: down then they go back to his university of oregon
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  Speaker 1: days a little rpo zone read action and he kept
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  Speaker 1: the ball he hadn't kept it all day demarcus orange
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  Speaker 1: talked about that he not kept it once throughout the
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  Speaker 1: game saves it for that last play, and I think
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  Speaker 1: they talked about it.
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  Speaker 2: That's just great coaching. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Like, obviously, I think the Seahawks get a stop there.
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  Speaker 1: They're getting the ball back. Maybe DeMarcus Lawrence is playing
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  Speaker 1: a little extra aggressive in that moment.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And Commanders, you got to tip your cap on that
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  Speaker 2: one and say you made a hell of a play.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, man. That goes back to just basic football.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes making the play is not making the play, and
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  Speaker 4: you can't knock a man for trying to make a
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  Speaker 4: play at the same time. So you live and you learn, man,
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  Speaker 4: and that will be it. They put the game away,
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  Speaker 4: and the backup quarterback, But the Commanders got her done.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the crazy thing is, too, the Seahawks outgained the
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  Speaker 1: Commanders 437 to 258. Seahawks had 28 first downs. They
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  Speaker 1: had 17. Three turnovers led to 21 points. That's the
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  Speaker 1: game bump, in my opinion. That's what it was. Definitely
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  Speaker 1: a game Seahawks could have won, like I said. But
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  Speaker 1: it's the international football. That's how things happen. You're not
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  Speaker 1: going to get them all bumped. But what's the biggest
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  Speaker 1: takeaway you had? What did you learn from this game?
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  Speaker 3: I learned that Sam Darnold is one of the best
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  Speaker 3: quarterbacks in the game. Legit. I know people are going
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  Speaker 3: to look at those interceptions. One, fluke. The other one, hey,
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  Speaker 3: made a mistake.
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  Speaker 4: But the way that Sam Darnold played, the throws that
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  Speaker 4: he made, if you go back and watch the All-22,
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  Speaker 4: I'm so confident in Sam Darnold right now.
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  Speaker 3: I was impressed.
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  Speaker 4: It's crazy. It didn't impress me more than the Thursday night,
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  Speaker 4: of course. That was awesome.
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  Speaker 3: But this is right up there with me, or with it.
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  Speaker 4: It's just the composure that he had and to come
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  Speaker 4: back from throwing that interception, go down the field and
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  Speaker 4: get her done.
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  Speaker 3: Sam.
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  Speaker 4: If he ain't in top 10 right now, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know what else he's got to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, then you're just not watching the tape if you
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  Speaker 1: feel that way. And what I love, too, about that
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  Speaker 1: bump is, like, again, he's unfazed in those moments. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the leader of the football team. That's what you
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  Speaker 1: want to see from that. And I just love how
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  Speaker 1: the team rallied around him. And you're 1,000% right. I
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  Speaker 1: think Sam is playing at elite level. And people forget
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  Speaker 1: that was essentially his first game.
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  Speaker 2: First game.
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  Speaker 1: Did not play in the preseason. Played five snaps against
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots. Like, people understand, since the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he went out there and did what he did.
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  Speaker 1: To your point, I love what we saw from Sam Darnold,
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  Speaker 1: which is a great segue into Playmakers.
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  Speaker 3: Touchdown, Seahawks! Playmakers.
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  Speaker 2: Show them what time it is! Holy catfish!
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  Speaker 1: Well, where are we going to start? Of course, Sam Darnold, 31-45,
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  Speaker 1: 379 bump. That's a career-high in passing yards. Four touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: two picks, sacked zero times. But like we just mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that was him doing his thing on
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  Speaker 1: his feet, avoiding touchdowns. Almost felt like guaranteed sacks when
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  Speaker 1: he was dead to rights, doing his thing. QB rating
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  Speaker 1: of 105.7. And like I just said, really his first
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  Speaker 1: game of the year. So big ups to Sam Darnold.
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  Speaker 1: He would tell you he could play better, but he's
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  Speaker 1: playing at.
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  Speaker 2: A high level.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure is, man.
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  Speaker 4: And because he's playing at a high level, this guy's
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  Speaker 4: playing at a high level. Jackson Smith and Jigba. Ten receptions, 128-14.
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  Speaker 4: 14 targets, two touchdowns. And he also threw the ball
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  Speaker 4: one for one, 14 yards. Listen, and that wasn't easy
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  Speaker 4: to throw.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: He had defender right in his face. First, he faked
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  Speaker 4: like he was throwing down the field and then had
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  Speaker 4: to go lateral. Defenders there threw it, got hit.
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  Speaker 3: And still delivered. So, yeah, I'm gassing him up. I
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  Speaker 3: don't care.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, so let's get back to the run that he's having.
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  Speaker 4: Jackson Smith and Jigba has had 120 receiving yards and
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  Speaker 4: at least one receiving TD in each of his team's
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  Speaker 4: first three games. The only other player to accomplish that
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  Speaker 4: in NFL history, Jerry. I ain't got to say his
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  Speaker 4: last name.
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  Speaker 5: Jerry.
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  Speaker 4: JSN is one of two players in NFL history to
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  Speaker 4: have 400 plus receiving yards and six plus touchdowns in
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  Speaker 4: the first three games of a season.
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  Speaker 3: The other player, Marvin. I ain't got to say his
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  Speaker 3: last name. Marvin.
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  Speaker 4: That's who my man is rocking with right now. Incredible
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  Speaker 4: season so far.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's honestly, every minute of the day, more
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  Speaker 1: stats about Jason come up about what list he's on.
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  Speaker 1: We could go for hours about what he's doing. So, yes,
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  Speaker 1: he's in another world right now. And the thing we mentioned, low-key,
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  Speaker 1: no one talks about the shape that he's in. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: look like he's ever tired. The way he, even.
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  Speaker 2: Down to the way he celebrates, he's not in somebody's face.
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  Speaker 2: He does it differently.
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  Speaker 1: Like, Jason is a special dude, and it would frustrate
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  Speaker 1: the hell out of me follows the defensive back trying
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  Speaker 1: to cover that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it's almost impossible you just gotta hope he makes
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  Speaker 3: a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly and then cooper cup i really love seeing this
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  Speaker 1: four receptions 46 yards a touchdown not crazy you know
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  Speaker 1: stats out there but it's good to see him get
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  Speaker 1: in the end zone do his thing he got held
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  Speaker 1: a bunch that they just didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Call sorry i'm still out there anyway good good work coop.
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  Speaker 4: Aj had his best game of the season five receptions
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  Speaker 4: for 69 yards a 32 yard scamper run after the
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  Speaker 4: catch he had and then Leo, man. Three tackles, two TFLs,
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  Speaker 4: one sack. I believe he has a sack in every
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  Speaker 4: game now. Three quarterback hits. Leo doing his thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll power rush you, then he'll swim you.
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  Speaker 1: Even when things aren't going the Seahawks way, 99 is
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  Speaker 1: going to find a way to keep making plays. And
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  Speaker 1: then Derek Hall, shout out to him. Four tackles, one TFL,
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  Speaker 1: one sack, two quarterback hits. It's not often you see
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks giving up points in the 30s. It just
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  Speaker 1: does not happen very often. Obviously, there's a pick six
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  Speaker 1: in there and some turnovers that contributed to that, but
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  Speaker 1: It was what it was. Bump, what did you see
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  Speaker 1: from the receiving core again? A little bit more diverse
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  Speaker 1: in the receptions this week.
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  Speaker 4: This is the most diversified it's been all year. You
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  Speaker 4: got JSM with 128 and two touchdowns. Barnum with 69.
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  Speaker 4: Torrey Horton, glad to see that young man out there.
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  Speaker 4: He had three for 48. George Helani had five for 48.
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  Speaker 4: Cup had four for 46. Brady had a big one,
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  Speaker 4: one for 20. Rasheed Shaheed had two for 14. Eric Sabat,
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  Speaker 4: one for 13. And Jadarian Price, one for seven. Lots
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  Speaker 4: of different names on this list.
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  Speaker 3: I'd love to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, shout out Eric Saubert getting in the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: He's one of the dudes that if everyone knows this
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  Speaker 1: man on every team, does the dirty work, is in
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  Speaker 1: there blocking every play. So love to see Saubert getting
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  Speaker 1: in the end zone. That'll take us to our plays
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  Speaker 1: of the game. This first one, we're looking at Sam
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  Speaker 1: Darnold finding Jason for an 11-yard touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: Four-man rush by Washington. The look to throw inside.
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  Speaker 5: It's caught.
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  Speaker 3: It's a touchdown.
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  Speaker 5: Seahawks. JSN says, throw a flag on me. I'll show you.
• 13:08
  Speaker 5: I'll catch an 11-yard dart from Sam Darnall. He does
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  Speaker 5: under the goalpost. Seattle is a point away from tying
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  Speaker 5: it up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we got two receivers to the left. That's
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: Arroyo in the slot with JSN outside. You got a
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: receiver up top. You got Rasheed Shaheed and then a
• 13:24
  Speaker 4: tight end attached to the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 3: And Sam Darnold is in shotgun.
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  Speaker 4: Looks like it's a four deep type situation. So we're
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: just running a double post concept, right? The thing that
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: makes this work, whenever you are in a slot and
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  Speaker 4: you're running a post, if you have a too high safety,
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: you cross the face of one. One high safety, you
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: try to go behind him. If Arroyo ran this the
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: wrong way, Jason isn't catching his football. And Sam Darnold
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  Speaker 4: is going to have to work to the right side.
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  Speaker 4: So you got a double post. Arroyo gets on the
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  Speaker 4: safety toes, crosses his face. JSN's running a post as well,
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  Speaker 4: widens at the top, puts that left foot in the ground,
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  Speaker 4: and then Sam Darnold throws another dart right where JSN
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  Speaker 4: could get it. Simple concept, but if one person doesn't
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  Speaker 4: do the right thing on this deal, JSN's not getting
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: this football.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but there's not even a lot to add because
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: it's just Chris. Sam Darnold, that's an absolute dot. Looking
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  Speaker 1: at Arroyo, goes to his next read, kind of holding
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  Speaker 1: the safeties in place there. I mean, that ball can't
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: be anywhere else. It's honestly not bad coverage. It's just
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: a better throw and a better route and all the
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: things that happen in Those two are on a different
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: level of connection right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's really special to see. It's not the
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: same way, but, like, you think of greats like Peyton
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Manning and Marvin Harrison, how they could go through their
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: whole pregame routine without talking.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I almost feel like Darnold and JSN are in that
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: kind of category because, like, hey, I know where you're
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: going to be. I'm throwing the ball most of the
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: time before JSN breaks. That's just what those two are on.
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: So I love what we're seeing there. Not a lot
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: to add there, just two guys doing their thing. Next,
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: we're going to look at Cooper Cupps' touchdown. First of
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: the season.
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  Speaker 5: Wide receiver to each side. Cooper Cup now shifts over
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  Speaker 5: to the right side.
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  Speaker 3: With Price in the backfield.
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  Speaker 2: Darnold takes the snap.
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  Speaker 5: Looks.
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  Speaker 3: Snaps off the throw.
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  Speaker 5: Easy.
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  Speaker 3: Pitch and catch. Touchdown Seahawks.
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  Speaker 5: Cooper Cup just ran a little out route to the
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: front corner of.
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  Speaker 3: The end zone.
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  Speaker 5: And the two defenders for Washington just looked at each other.
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  Speaker 5: And Sam just snapped off a quick throw. Touchdown Seahawks.
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  Speaker 3: We're within three.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we know his man because you start off with
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: three receivers to the left, Jason motions to the right,
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: he brings a guy with him. This is just the
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: effect of Jason. This is what he does to defenses.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: He confuses the heck out of people. They're so scared
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: and they react a certain way. So he goes over
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  Speaker 4: to the right side. Now he's almost in a stack
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: with Cooper Cup. He got safety help over the top,
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: got a corner on the outside and a defender on
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: the inside. So what we call, when I was growing up,
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: we called it a Cali. So it's when the DB's
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: responsibility is all contingent on what the receivers do, especially
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: when they're close in a stack like that. One guy
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: has first guy out, one guy has first guy in,
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  Speaker 4: one guy has first guy vertical. It's, you typically only
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: run this type of coverage with a veteran backfield because
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: the communication has to be on point. So what happens
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  Speaker 4: is JSN releases vertical, takes two guys with him, Cooper
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  Speaker 4: Cup runs an out, easy money, scared of 11.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean, I would be. Listen, and it,
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes it's hard when you're backed up into the
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: goal line. Things get tight down there for offenses. But
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: even for defense, because everyone will say, why don't you
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: just double them?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's not as easy as people think it is because
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: you have 10 other guys on the field. There's other
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: things that you've got to do. But, yeah, no, this
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: is just, I mean, I want to see more of this,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: and I think we're going to see more of this
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: moving forward of just guys being wide open because teams
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: are going to say, like, you know what, I'm.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Throwing my hands in the air. Jason's not going for
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: 150 and three tuts.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not doing it.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: This play, though, I just think, to your point, I
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: don't know if they communicate. It looks like the corner
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: is still trying to get over the top, almost like
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: a basketball screen. And I think JSN, on top of
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: him not getting the ball, he also makes this play
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: happen because I think he realizes he's like, okay, this
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: guy's trying to go over the top. I'm going to
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: continue to stay because he could have cut it off
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: or done whatever he's going to do. Now I'm going
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: to make sure this guy doesn't make the play, a
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: little basketball screen we talked about, and it's all she wrote.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: These guys are playing good football offensively. That's why I
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: think there's nothing to worry about bump in terms of
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: how this team is playing. and what we saw, but
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: this is weird, but we usually go to our favorite formation,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: victory formation. This is the first time we're not seeing
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: a victory formation out of the Seahawks.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Cause the clock just ran out, man.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: They're just going to let the clock wind down.
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  Speaker 5: Not even going to bother taking that last time out.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: First time since November of 2025, the Seahawks did not
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: get a victory formation. So neither can we clock just
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: ran out. 12 game win streak is over. this game
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: started slow for the Seahawks and they're kind of playing
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: catch up for the rest of the game. They outgained
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the commanders by 179 yards held in the three of
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: 13 on third down, but just couldn't get it done.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: But yeah, man, it's, you know, it's unfortunate, but again, man,
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: you respect the opponent. You know, the one thing that
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: I loved about the post game is that no one
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: sounded like they were panicking.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Not Mike, not Ernest, not Sam. They're like, yeah, they
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: got us. All right. They got us.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: We got some things we got to fix. And I,
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: That's what he's going to do. If you turn the
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: ball over three times, you know, things are going to
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: be like that. When you only rush for 44 yards,
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: it's going to be like that. But it wasn't all bad.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Sam looked great in his return.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: He looked healthy. He was moving.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Threw for 379 and four touchdowns. And then Jason, it
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: just continues to dominate. I didn't think he'd go for
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: a buck 20 again. I thought maybe he'd get a
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: little 80, a little 70 in a touchdown. But no, man, 128,
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: two of them things, he's doing his thing.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean, and he had an uncharacteristic drop.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, two. Well, it was kind of low. You know,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I'll give him that. But, yeah, he had two.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, he's there on an unreal pace. Yeah,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: it wasn't– the game was not what you hoped for
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: as a Seahawks fan. There's obvious things to improve. You
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: mentioned it. You know, short yardage situations, running the football,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: not do great in the red zone in that standpoint.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: You know, turnovers. But they're in a good spot. This
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: team has been absolutely dominant for almost a year now.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: And it's the NFL. Things are going to happen. But
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: you mentioned how no one panicked postgame. If you're around
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: this building and you were downstairs, you would not know
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: if the Seahawks won or lost. The feeling that you
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: saw during that 12-game win streak versus today is the
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: exact same, and that's just a testament to what Coach McDonald,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: John Steyer, what everyone has built here. Seahawks are going
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: to be just fine. They're going to welcome in an
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: 0-3 Chargers team, and the Seahawks have a tough stretch
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: after that.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: You have Niners. You have Broncos. You have Chiefs.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Obviously, you're taking one game at a time, but the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Seahawks are entering a big stretch, but I think they're
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: going to get right this week against the Chargers. Everyone
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: downstairs is going to be ready to go. Veterans are
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: going to have a chip on their shoulder. What did
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Ernest say? They're going to be beating each other up
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and then they're going to be loving each
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: other up Thursday and get ready to go for the weekend.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: So we'll see what goes down. Seahawks, we'll get you.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: ready for that.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Take it on the Chargers this week as the Seahawks
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: come back to Lumen Field. Unfortunately, the Seahawks did fall
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to the Commanders over the weekend. We'll be talking about
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the Chargers on Thursday. He's Michael Bummis from Nassau Chobie.
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  Speaker 1: This has been Hawk Talk.