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Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl Pick: Maye vs. Darnold, Seattle D, Pats X-factors | Richard Sherman NFL · The Richard Sherman Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: end of the line. The Super Bowl preview between the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots, the game that
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  Speaker 1: we've all been waiting for. And I know you Seattle
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  Speaker 1: twelve's have been waiting for this for far too long.
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  Speaker 1: It's revenge time, a revenge tour. I know New England,
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  Speaker 1: y'all feel good. You're like Drake May MVP, Canaday MVP MVP. Nah,
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  Speaker 1: It's it's over, whit. This is ending this week, well
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  Speaker 1: next week on Sunday. And I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I
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  Speaker 1: know we got to wait to get through the whole preview,
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  Speaker 1: but y'all know how I feel about this one. I'm
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  Speaker 1: incredibly biased, but the biasness is rooted in fact, in structure.
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  Speaker 1: This team is good, Mitchell, they aren't great.
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  Speaker 2: They've earned the right to be here, Richard, and you
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  Speaker 2: called it from the onset of this season. This Seattle
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks team has shocked a lot of people, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if they necessarily shocked you. And kudos to you,
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  Speaker 2: my friend, Kudos to you. You said the energy in
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  Speaker 2: that building was different in training camp. And here we
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  Speaker 2: are on the brink of Super Bowl Week and the
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  Speaker 2: Seattle Seahawks are in Santa Clara ready to strap them up.
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  Speaker 1: Richard.
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  Speaker 2: There's gonna be a lot of storylines going into this game,
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  Speaker 2: but I think the biggest one is how well Seattle's
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  Speaker 2: defense can contain Drake may Listen. I know the guy's young.
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  Speaker 2: I know he's you know, he's come onto the scene
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  Speaker 2: here pretty darn quick, and he's taken the lead by storm.
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  Speaker 2: Whether or not he wins the MVP this year, which
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he will, but he's he's earned the
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  Speaker 2: right to be in that discussion. He's elevated this new
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  Speaker 2: England Patriots team from the depths of this league. And
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  Speaker 2: credit to him and Mike Vrabel, Richard, I know you're
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  Speaker 2: high on the Seattle Seahawks defense. But what challenges do
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  Speaker 2: you see Drake May presenting to the Seattle Seahawk Juggernaut defense.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we can get into it. Drake May presents a
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  Speaker 1: plethora of issues for the Seattle Seahawks. He's mobile, he's
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  Speaker 1: got one hundred and forty one yards on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: had sixty six against the Denver Broncos. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: had sixty five against the Denver Broncos, sixty six in
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  Speaker 1: the wild card matchup against the Chargers, and those were
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  Speaker 1: pivotal plays, critical plays when things broke down. He used
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  Speaker 1: his legs and really flipped the field in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of those situations. So the Seattle Seahawks are going to
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  Speaker 1: have to be wary of that. This is a fast,
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  Speaker 1: swarming d So I know that Mike McDonald is gonna
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  Speaker 1: try to get him to speed up his clock. There's
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  Speaker 1: a reason Mike McDonald has had so much success against
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  Speaker 1: these young young quarterbacks. Against quarterbacks under twenty three years old,
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald is six to zero. The quarterbacks have thrown
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  Speaker 1: one touchdown and they've thrown eight intersection sceptions and been
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  Speaker 1: sacked twenty two times. His looks are complex. They just
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  Speaker 1: make your pause just long enough to diagnose, Hey, is
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  Speaker 1: it what I thought it was or is it something else?
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  Speaker 1: He does a fantastic job manipulating the eyes, manipulating what
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  Speaker 1: you expect to see. But Josh McDaniels is gonna do
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  Speaker 1: a good job trying to prepare him for some of
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  Speaker 1: these looks. But again, this is a young quarterback who's
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  Speaker 1: played at a really high level. But in this playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: you got to give him a lot of credit. He's
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  Speaker 1: gone through some of the toughest defenses you're gonna see
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  Speaker 1: in this National Football League. He struggled against the Chargers
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  Speaker 1: in that game, especially early on. That game was three
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  Speaker 1: to six for a long time, and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: things start snowballing. Houston Texans gave him all he could handle,
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  Speaker 1: and of course everybody knows how CJ. Stroud struggled in
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  Speaker 1: that game, a lot of turnovers, the game got out
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  Speaker 1: of hand. Drake May made the plays necessary first team
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  Speaker 1: to win. And then you get to the Denver game.
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  Speaker 1: He only had eighty six yards pass and he almost
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  Speaker 1: ran for as many yards as he passed for in
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  Speaker 1: that game, and we all know the elements were an issue,
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  Speaker 1: the snow and all that, but there's not a huge,
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  Speaker 1: like big time go to receiver in this game for
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  Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. Now, Stefan Diggs is a household name,
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  Speaker 1: a guy who has had a lot of success in
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  Speaker 1: this league, who can get you a first down when
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  Speaker 1: you needed. Kayshawn Booty made a huge play in that
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  Speaker 1: Houston Texans game against one of the best corners in
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  Speaker 1: the National Football League, First team All Pro Derek Stingley,
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  Speaker 1: went up top one handed in the end zone. Showed Hey,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of circumstances, regardless of the elements. I'm a big
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  Speaker 1: time player. And his draft stock fell because of some
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  Speaker 1: off the field issues, some things that don't need to
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  Speaker 1: be talked about. But he's showing that he can be
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  Speaker 1: a big time factor in this league and I think
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  Speaker 1: he's their best receiver and there's no question about that.
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  Speaker 1: But again, this game that Mike McDonald employs, you don't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily need a guy in that way. The pressure will
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  Speaker 1: get them, the looks will get them. But they have
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  Speaker 1: great corners at Tarik wooland if you look at Tarik
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  Speaker 1: wooland Josh Joe and Devin Witherspoon, those three corners have
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  Speaker 1: allowed I think the least yards per catch and per
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  Speaker 1: reception in the National Football League. Uh, And they're all
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  Speaker 1: on the field, and Mike McDonald keeps them all on
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  Speaker 1: the field. At the same time. You already know Nick
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  Speaker 1: Emmon Wore's gonna factor into his game. He may be
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  Speaker 1: garden Booty. He may be garden Trevion Hendrickson, he may
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  Speaker 1: be garden Ormandre Stevenson, he may be gardening Hunter Henry.
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  Speaker 1: He could be anywhere. He may be blitzing. He may
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  Speaker 1: be at de tackle. You never know where you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: find Nick min Warr. It's like where's Waldough, Like where
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  Speaker 1: you find him? The action usually will be though Mitchell.
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  Speaker 1: But I think I just I assume that Drake may
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  Speaker 1: will struggle in this game. Not that he won't be
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  Speaker 1: he not that he won't be accurate, not that he
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  Speaker 1: won't be effective, but I expect him to struggle. He
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  Speaker 1: struggled in a lot of these games, especially early on.
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  Speaker 1: But this the difference between these guys and the other
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  Speaker 1: guys is this defensive line will come in waves. There's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of guys rotating in there. They're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna get tired and This offensive line has already
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  Speaker 1: allowed him to be sacked fifteen times. In these playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: He got sacked five times each game, and he's been
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  Speaker 1: beaten up. He's questionable in this game. Obviously he's gonna play.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's questionable. Everybody would have que next to their name
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  Speaker 1: is playing. But there's a reason he's beat up. It's
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  Speaker 1: because of this offensive line. And I know Mike McDonald
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  Speaker 1: will make it hard for him again in this game.
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  Speaker 1: They run the ball pretty well, but this is the
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  Speaker 1: number one team against a run in the Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: They're not gonna allow them to run the ball. They're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make Drake May beat them. And he is he
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  Speaker 1: gonna have enough time to operate in the way he
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  Speaker 1: wants to. Is he gonna be able to take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of the matchups? I know the pitcher are like, look
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  Speaker 1: what Stafford did? I think in this game, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: see the difference between Matthew Stafford and your young Drake
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  Speaker 1: May not that Drake May won't eventually get to where
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  Speaker 1: Stafford is, but he does not see the game as
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  Speaker 1: well as Matthew Stafford does. I'm sorry Patriots fans if
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  Speaker 1: that's news to you, But that's gonna be news. I
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  Speaker 1: know you want the young kid to be MVP, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he's gonna have an MVP in his future.
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  Speaker 1: It's not gonna be this year. I'd be very surprised
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  Speaker 1: if they gave it to him this year. I'd be
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  Speaker 1: very disappointing because of the season that Matthew Stafford has had.
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  Speaker 1: But if you want to see the clear difference between
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford and Drake May, you will watch how they
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  Speaker 1: play these two games. You just watch Matthew Stafford play
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  Speaker 1: a phenomenal game against the Seattle Seahawks. I mean twice
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  Speaker 1: in the last what month, played really great games. One
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  Speaker 1: time he had. Last game he had three seventy four.
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  Speaker 1: I think in the game before that he had four
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  Speaker 1: to fifty seven. That does not happen often against the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks defense. Now you're gonna get to watch your
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  Speaker 1: your pride and joy Drake May against the same defense
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  Speaker 1: in great conditions. They're gonna be in Santa Clara, California.
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  Speaker 1: It's not gonna be snow, it's not gonna be rain,
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  Speaker 1: it's not gonna be win, it's not gonna be elements,
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  Speaker 1: And you're going against a really great defense, and you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna see it's easier said than done throwing the football
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  Speaker 1: against his defense. But I know Josh McDaniels and Mike
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  Speaker 1: Rabel will have a great plan for him. Can they
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  Speaker 1: execute We shall see. On the flip side of that,
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  Speaker 1: what can this Patriots defense do? They do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things well. They do a lot of things well.
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  Speaker 1: They play a lot of men coverage in the back end.
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  Speaker 1: When they play zone, they do a great job of
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  Speaker 1: disguising it. They got a big time playmaker and Marcus Jones,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's in a special teams, pump return game, kick
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  Speaker 1: return game, whatever it is, if he gets his hands
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  Speaker 1: on the football with the interception, he had a pick
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  Speaker 1: six against the Houston Texans. Where is the best athlete
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  Speaker 1: on the field, And there's no question, there's no debate
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  Speaker 1: about that. And then you you talk about Christian Gonzalez,
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  Speaker 1: who I think is the best player on that defense.
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  Speaker 1: And then Carlton Davis, a guy who plays the game
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  Speaker 1: at a very high level and a very underrated player
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  Speaker 1: in this defense. I believe he had two interceptions in
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  Speaker 1: the game against two interceptions in a game against Houston
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  Speaker 1: that were critical plays and one of them was on
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  Speaker 1: a short route. He just plays the game the right way.
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  Speaker 1: He's where he's supposed to be. He's a perfect hand
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  Speaker 1: and glove fit for this game and what Mike Rabels
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  Speaker 1: wants to do. But it's it's Milton Williams and Christian
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  Speaker 1: Barmore that are the lynch pins in this defense. If
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  Speaker 1: you cannot move them, you will not run the ball
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  Speaker 1: against this team. And then you got clay Von Chase on,
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  Speaker 1: a guy who who you know, was a high round
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  Speaker 1: draft pick, a very high draft pick who didn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: work out, and I think it was Jacksonville. But he
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  Speaker 1: comes here and he just fits with Mike Rabel's It's
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  Speaker 1: like it's symbiosis. These guys fit what they're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: He shows his players a lot of love and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of respect, and there's so much, so much care
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  Speaker 1: in that building. You could see the respect and love
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  Speaker 1: that he has for his players and how inspiring that
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  Speaker 1: is to them. Those guys go out there and push
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  Speaker 1: it to the limits, get everything they can out for
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  Speaker 1: their coach. And I feel like the same way for
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  Speaker 1: the seatle the Seahawks. But I just feel like the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks are the better team in this game. I
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  Speaker 1: do believe. I don't. There's no accident that in the
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  Speaker 1: New England Patriots are here. They're here because they have
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  Speaker 1: earned it. They now did they run into fortuitive circumstances
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  Speaker 1: in some respects, no question about it. But hey, you
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  Speaker 1: play who's in front of you. Hey they could they
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  Speaker 1: have beaten bow Knicks maybe, but they barely beat Jared Stidham,
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  Speaker 1: So could that have gone different if bo Nicks plays? Maybe?
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  Speaker 1: But who cares if if was a fifth you know
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  Speaker 1: the rest. They have to compete against Sam Donald, who's
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  Speaker 1: playing some of the best football of his life. He
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  Speaker 1: played against the Rams, and that was the opponent. I
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  Speaker 1: think most skeptics and critics would have said, hey, that's
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  Speaker 1: the team he doesn't want to see. If the Rams
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  Speaker 1: would have lost Chicago and Sam Donald would have would
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  Speaker 1: have played a great game against Chicago, everybody had been like,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, he got lucky the Rams didn't show up.
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  Speaker 1: But he got lucky the Rams didn't win. But the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he had to go against the MVP of
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  Speaker 1: the league this year, which I'm assuming in Matthew Stafford,
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  Speaker 1: and Matthew played a fantastic game go against Chris Shula,
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  Speaker 1: who he struggled against not only in the in the
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  Speaker 1: game in LA this season, but last season in the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs where he was sacked nine times and pretty much
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  Speaker 1: rode his ticket out of Minnesota because of that game,
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  Speaker 1: because they said he could not handle the pressure. So
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  Speaker 1: to be forced to face that team in an NFC
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  Speaker 1: championship game with the season on the line and to
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  Speaker 1: play at the level and standard that he played at
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  Speaker 1: for him to compete, be accurate and deliver it with
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  Speaker 1: the football. Threw for over three hundred yards, hitting Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: Smith and Jig, but he gave the ball to everybody
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  Speaker 1: who needed I started the game off with a bomb
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  Speaker 1: to Rashid Shahit Rashid Schaheit's first go route. I think
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  Speaker 1: they've thrown to him since since he's gotten here, and
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  Speaker 1: it was it was a completion early in the game.
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  Speaker 1: They got the look that they wanted. He put it
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  Speaker 1: up for his guy to make a play. Rashid Shaheed
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  Speaker 1: ran under it. Huge play in the ball game, and
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  Speaker 1: that was early on, letting him know, hey, it's not
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  Speaker 1: that kind of game. It's not gonna be. Then I
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  Speaker 1: think they're gonna do the same thing in this game
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  Speaker 1: with the New England Patriots. They're gonna set the tone
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  Speaker 1: early and say, hey, we know you guys are excited.
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  Speaker 1: We know what you think of this quarterback and you think,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, we can rattle him. I think he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: go out there and show him it's a different guy.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that kind of day.
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  Speaker 2: This resurgence from Sam Darnald, It's gonna be a conversation
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  Speaker 2: all week. You know, he finally has found his footing
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  Speaker 2: in Seattle. I mean, he had a heck of a
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  Speaker 2: season last year with Minnesota. Obviously they made a mistake
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  Speaker 2: in letting him go. Is it safe to say that
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  Speaker 2: Sam Darnold has proven that he is a legitimate franchise
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  Speaker 2: quarterback in the NFL with his showing this season with
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  Speaker 2: the Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. I think the simple answer is yes, Sam Donald
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  Speaker 1: is proven he's a franchise quarterback. He's also proven that
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  Speaker 1: sometimes circumstances matter. I can't say sometimes circumstances matter all
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  Speaker 1: the time. And what would have happened if he was
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  Speaker 1: put in better in a better position early on in
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  Speaker 1: his career with one of the he's offensive coordinators who
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  Speaker 1: do develop schemes and quarterbacks better than others. Would he
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  Speaker 1: have had success earlier if he was surrounded by a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more talent early in his career, could things
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  Speaker 1: have gone differently? I believe so. But I love the
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  Speaker 1: attitude and approach that Sam Darnold has with these things.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, hey, I don't I don't have a bad
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  Speaker 1: word to say about the Jets. I don't have a
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  Speaker 1: bad word to say about the Carolina Panthers any of
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  Speaker 1: those teams. Regardless of how things went, it was all
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  Speaker 1: part of my journey, all part of the things that
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  Speaker 1: got me to the position i'm in to have the
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  Speaker 1: success I'm having, And it's a blessing and I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that for him, I love that for his family.
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  Speaker 1: He's obviously been raised right. But I think this is
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  Speaker 1: a lesson in a in a real a message to
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  Speaker 1: general managers out there that hey, offensive staffs matter, quarterback
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  Speaker 1: development matters. You're not getting always getting sometimes you're getting clay,
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  Speaker 1: you're not getting a finished product. And I think sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they get lazy and say, hey, we're getting a number
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  Speaker 1: one pick, We're gonna have a guy. We don't need
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  Speaker 1: to coach him. We just need to put a playbook
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  Speaker 1: in front of him and let him work. No, like,
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  Speaker 1: there has to be work on both sides. There still
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  Speaker 1: has to be coaching and teaching, and I think sometimes
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  Speaker 1: teams get lazy in that respect, and that's why you
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: have the same teams over and over that have success
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  Speaker 1: in this league. You look at the Rams and whoever McVeigh,
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  Speaker 1: Shanahan tree, whatever falls off that tree. Quarterbacks go there
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  Speaker 1: to have success. You talk about Kevin O'Connell, the quarterback Whisper.
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  Speaker 1: Quarterbacks go there, they develop, they have success other places.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like they're going to school. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: quarterback school and they're learning, Hey, this is how you
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  Speaker 1: become a great NFL quarterback. This is the progression you
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  Speaker 1: go through. This is and once you give them a
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  Speaker 1: steady foundation, people can grow and build off of that.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes when your foundation is saying, it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: build off of it. So I think Sam Darnold is
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  Speaker 1: right where he needs to be. I think he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a franchise quarterback for the Seattle Sea for
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  Speaker 1: a very long time. And this is the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful partnership for both sides.
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  Speaker 2: And to that point, Richard credit to Clint Kubiak and
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  Speaker 2: the job he's been able to do. I think the
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  Speaker 2: issue with a lot of coaches. You know, some coaches
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  Speaker 2: are stubborn and they want certain guys to fit in
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  Speaker 2: their scheme. Clint Kubiak has done an exceptional job of
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  Speaker 2: seeing the players that he has from a personnel standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: in building his offense around that. I'm assuming he's in
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  Speaker 2: line to get this Raiders job. That's what the rumors
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  Speaker 2: are and he has certainly earned it. That being said,
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  Speaker 2: the pieces that are in play here are the likes
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  Speaker 2: of Jackson Smith and Jigba, and credit to John Schneider
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  Speaker 2: for realizing that they have the guy in house that
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  Speaker 2: can take them to the next level. They moved off
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  Speaker 2: to DK Metcalf and they put all attention on JSN.
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  Speaker 2: They brought in a vet to help him in, Cooper Cupp,
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  Speaker 2: who has thrived in this offseason as well. He's bringing
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  Speaker 2: that veteran experience. He's won a Super Bowl. Richard JSN,
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  Speaker 2: this is really his first rodeo. And I know when
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  Speaker 2: you were young and twenty thirteen came around, you guys
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  Speaker 2: going to that Super Bowl. Talk to me about you know,
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  Speaker 2: the nerves that are are there any nerves for a
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: guy like him? He seems so poised. What's different about
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: this game for a young player.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: I can't speak for every player because every player is
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: different and unique. But you've, this is an old saying,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: act like you've been there before, and you're nervous before.
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  Speaker 1: Every great player I know is nervous before every game
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: they play because the expectation and the standard for yourself
• 16:32
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• 16:36
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• 16:47
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• 16:51
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• 16:56
  Speaker 1: that pass there, And sometimes you can't get it. And
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: then there are other times where you run into a
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: game where you felt like, hey, I achieved the goals
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: that I came into this game with. I fought my
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: butt off, it didn't go exactly how I wanted it. To,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: but it's fine. I think he's gonna be when you
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: get to this point in the season, you're not walking
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: to the super Bowl and trying to make stuff up.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: He knows what he's done. He has a tremendous amount
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: of confidence built in himself, and that confidence is built
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: off of the work ethic and the foundation that he
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: said it's not luck. Every game he showed up in
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: a big way and executed and helped this team get
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: to this position. So I don't think he's nervous. I
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: think his teammates believe in him. Obviously, his quarterback believes
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: in him because he's earned this right. That's the difference
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: between what people going in you're nervous and you're like, hey,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: am I gonna do well? Yes, I'm gonna do well
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: because I earned this right to do well. I practice hard,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I do things the right way. I put the work in.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: It's not luck that I've gotten here. It's consistency, it's dedication,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: and that's why it's gonna work out. This is this
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: has been already written, Mitchell. It's already written. Sometimes you
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: put the work in and everything works out, and sometimes
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: people throw the ball at the one yard land it
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: doesn't work out, but hopefully, oh there, Richard, the hopefully
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: you know, outside of something crazy like that happening, and
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: it works out.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Listen, you already broke down this Patriots roster. They've got
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: a slew of cornerbacks they can throw at JSN, one
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: being Christian Gonzalez, and you touched on this guy was
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: a stud coming out of Oregon. Obviously battled a few
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: injury issues early in his career, but now he's kind
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: of found his level as well. He had a huge
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: pick against Denver to seal that game. What do you
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: make of his game? And how do you go into
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: this game knowing you're going to be matched up against
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: one of the premier wide receivers in this in this league,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: in JSN.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I don't think it bothers him. I don't. I don't
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: think they think that way. I don't think Clink Kubiak
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: thinks that way. It's very very difficul to isolate and
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: lock in on Jackson Smith and Jig, but he's and
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: if they do, if they say, hey, this is gonna
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: be a game, we're gonna follow you with Christian Gonzalez,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: understand this. Clint Kubiak is gonna put him in the blender,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: bring him to the locker room, send him to the backfield.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna be everywhere with him. He's gonna
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be in positions he's unfamiliar with. And once
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: you can get a corner and positions you're unfamiliar with,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: you start to force them to get involved in a
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: run game. Hey, motion Jackson Smith and Jigba into the backfield.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Now run the football. Now, Christian Zales, figure out which
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: gap you got? Figure out what's your run responsibility? Hey
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: motion him into the backfield. You got him, Christian Zales. Perfect.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Now let's snap it and win the ball snapped? Which way?
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Did which way did he go? Did he go left
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: or did he go right? Can you see past the
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: line of scrimmags? So I don't think they'll play that
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: game with him, especially as much as Clint Kubiak motions
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and jig But it'd be a difficult matchup
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: to say, Hey, we're gonna be man and man coverage,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and if they can give Sam those kind of identifiers,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: you're gonna allow him to shred this defense. And so
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I don't think they'll play that game. Maybe they will.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe they just say, hey, Christian Zalez, he can do
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: it from anywhere, he can guard him from anywhere, and
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: we feel comfortable with it. And if he if he
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: stops him, and he has success and as an incredible player,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and you tip your cap off to him. But that's
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: a tough position to be in all game long to say, hey,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: we're gonna follow him, and I'm going to have to
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: navigate all these things. It was just like the play
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: against the Rams where Kyen Williams sprung free and everybody
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: was like, what happened on that play? What happened to
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the linebacker? And it was obvious Pook and the cool
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: came and picked off the linebacker on that play and
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: freed up Kyern Williams. Because it's difficult to play man
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: coverage when you can do that as an offensive player,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: if you can run guys bodies into somebody and then
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: run the guy he's supposed to be covering the opposite way,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: it's very difficult to cover that. And so if you
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: have Christian Gonzalez in those situations, you run into too
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: many scenarios where your best players being put in compromised positions.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: And I don't think the Patriots are going to play
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: that game. I know Mike Brabel's smart enough to understand
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: that that's what the takes is.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: You talked about it, and we've seen a little bit
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: of it this offseason or this postseason. Rather, the Seahawks
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: love lining JSN up in the backfield, and I know
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: it's given defenses fits. It seems like they're targeting him
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: every single time they line him up in the backfield.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I don't want you to give all the secrets away,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: but Richard, if you're the Patriots, how are you game
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: planning in those scenarios? What do you think would be
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: most successful in terms of you know, you're checking at
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: the line, your hand signals in the backfield. How do
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: you think they're going to address JSN lining up in
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: the backfield.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough because schematically, if you just take
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the play, the corner route that he ran for a touchdown,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: it's a play that Kyle Shanahan ran against US when
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: he was in Atlanta with a running back, and it's
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: a seven cut the scissors out of the backfield, and
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: there's really no answer for it outside of your linebacker
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: knowing the play and then pretty much racing the receiver
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: there to the corner of the end zone, because schematically,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: every defender did their job on that play. Hey, the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: post route goes, the cornerback drives it to the safety
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: and they close that gap and they sandwich the post route.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: And then number two, if he comes off and runs
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: that out, he'll hold a nickel. And then when the
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: running back comes out, you're not expecting a seven cut.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: He's the linebacker's responsible for that. He's gonna attach to
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the hip of that guy, and if he runs a
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: seven cut, it's just a bad matchup for you. So
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: it's not really like, hey, we're gonna check this because
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: he's in the backfield, because you can't necessarily bastardize your
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: entire defense for one guy, especially when he's in the backfield.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: That's the last person you're expecting a vertical threat from,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: which is why it works so well against that defense.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: So again, a man coverage is probably the only way
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: you can deal with that. If they're running that consistently
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: and they're not running it a ton, they're not running
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: it enough for you to say, hey, we're gonna spend
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: all our time game planning for this one play, Because
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: then you run into situations that you're not prepared for
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the things that they they run most commonly, there's gonna
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: be a few wrinkles in this game that the New
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: England Patriots are gonna have to that they're gonna see
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that they're that they haven't seen all season. And if
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: you play too shallow, you play too concerned about Jackson
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Smith and Jigba, and you leave uh Rashid Shaheed one
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: on one. Even if it's Marcus Jones, that's a tough matchup.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: That's a tough matchup. He has the entire field and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: he has four two speed. So even with Marcus Jones,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: who probably can match him stride for stride, it's still
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: a difficult matchup to play. And so it's it's a
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a give and take kind of situation
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: with the New England Patriots. Uh they're gonna have that.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: They're gonna obviously do everything they can to take Jackson
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Smith and Jigba away, but you gotta be cautious because
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the scheme is still very difficult to manage and other
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: guys can get open.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the running backs. Richard Ramandre Stevenson has
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: had a resurgence this year. He has had fumbling issues
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: in the past, and he seemed to be able to
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: hold onto the rock this year. And then they drafted
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: the rookie Trevion Henderson. They've got a two headed monster there.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: What do you do as the Seattle Seahawks to contain
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: these guys. We've already talked about the importance of Drake
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: may And and his legs on the ground, but to
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: set the tone, they're gonna have to run the rock
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: with Remandre and Trayveon. How do you think the Seattle
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Seahawks are going to approach these guys?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: The Patriots run some duo. They run a lot of duo,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: which is a double team on the two d tackles
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and then they move up to the linebackers. But the
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: problem is running against the Seattle Seahawks is Byron Murphy
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and Leonard Williams do a fantastic job against those double teams.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Especially Byron Murphy. He does a great job splitting those
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: double teams and that kills those plays. That's the reason
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers run game was dead,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: especially in Santa Clara. In that game, in the last
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: game for the one seed. He was blowing those plays up.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: And it's not even always him making the tackle, it's
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: him freeing up the linebacker and not allowing the offensive
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: lineman to move him out of his spot, and that
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: kills those plays. So I think they're gonna have a
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: tough time. This is a reason the Seattle Seahawks are
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: number one rush defense in the National Football League. Sure,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Ramandre Stevenson has been fantastic. Trevion Henderson has been a
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: big play machine for this team, but there's a reason
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: he hasn't played as many steps because he's been vulnerable
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: in pass protection and he's made some mistakes there. And
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I'm sure if the if Mike McDonald sees him, sees
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: him in the ball game expressed, expect an exotic pressure
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: to force him into a tough situation because he has
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: handled it well this season. Those are the things, the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: little chess matches, the small matchups within a game that
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: really determine these things. And Remandre is better in the
• 25:53
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• 25:56
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• 25:58
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• 26:02
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  Speaker 1: I think he's been fantastic. He's been everything they could
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  Speaker 1: And John Snyder needs to be commended and deserves a
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  Speaker 1: lot of credit for what's happening. And he's had tremendous
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  Speaker 1: draft classes. The heat trade mid season was a masterfull
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  Speaker 1: trade and really has had a huge impact on this
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  Speaker 1: to flourish is his ability to pivot. And we can
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• 31:43
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• 31:45
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• 31:48
  Speaker 1: was like, Hey, this doesn't work for me. I appreciate you.
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• 32:12
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• 32:15
  Speaker 1: wanted out. He didn't feel good about this. He wanted
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: more money. They stood pat and said, hey, we're not
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: giving you more money. If you want to be traded,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: we'll try to We'll try to acquiesce to your needs
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: and your desires. And they traded him to the Raiders,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: to Pete Carroll for what they got, and then they
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: picked up Sam Donald. And even I question, it's changed
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: at a at a critical point, at a critical position.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: And again what happened and how the season ended last
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: year for Sam Donald, there were a lot of questions
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: about how he can handle pressure, could he handle the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks offensive line was not great the year before.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: They had a lot of issues. They have since secured throws.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Gray Zabel has had a phenomenal rookie season you talk
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• 32:59
  Speaker 1: of all the rookies in the National Football League. But
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: you don't just talk about offensive lineman a lot both
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: culturally within the building and how he talks, the swagger,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the confidence he brings, the relationship. I mean, you talk
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: about the respect Leonard Williams has for him, and and
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: and that that conversation on the sideline where he tells
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Leonard Williams to attack the beat gap and Leonard Williams
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: goes out there and gets a sack. I think maybe
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: a driver too later. And you talk about listening to
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: a rookie tell a veteran who's been in the league
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: eleven years or so, Hey, do this, and I think
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: it'll work out, and he goes and it and it
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: works out in the playoffs. Uh, for that matter, there's
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: been so many changes like that. And then move on
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: to dk Metcalf and Tyler Lockett being able to move
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: away from those guys. That's that's a tough decision for
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: a head coach. DK Metcalf was the number one receiver
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: at the time, and sure with everything JSN has done
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: this season, you could say, oh man, it was a
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: great decision, But did anybody know that at the time,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: you're getting rid of a proven receiver, a proven go
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: to receiver for you. And I think those decisions are
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: the ones that have helped enhance the culture and even
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: culturally within the building. There's so many things where he's
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: been laser focused on trying to get things right, tweaking
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: the system just enough to Hey, what guys there. Stephen
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Hauska is in there with doctor Gervais and having conversations
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: with the head coach, just making sure the culture and
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the knobs are turned just the right way to get
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: guys where they're supposed to be, to push the guys
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: but not push them too far. And I think his
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: awareness and his humility with all of these things are
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: what are allowing him to have a great amount of
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: success in the National Football League as a head coach
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: because players respect that he's being honest, he's being transparent,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: he's being human. But he's also taking care of his
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: guys and putting them in great positions, and you can
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: only respect that.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: On the other side of the ball, Mike v Abel,
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, we talked about this guy a ton this season.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: He certainly deserves to be in that conversation for Coach
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: of the Year. And let's look at this. I know
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: you don't think the Patriots are gonna win the super Bowl.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Reality is, Mike Vrabels won a couple of Super Bowls
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: and now he's fighting for that that first one as
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: a coach. You know, what type of impact do you
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: think his personal Super Bowl experience as a player can
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: have on this team, especially a team that has young
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: players and key positions.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: It definitely matters. His experience definitely matters. It'll be it'll
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: be a huge factor. And just the way he relates
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: to his players, I mean he does not it's it's
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: he really blurs that line between player coach relationship and
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: you can see it. Even when there's conflict on the sideline,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: he's right in the middle of it. And usually when
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: you see that with coaches, you're like, oh man, this
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: is getting rough. Mike Raveel doesn't shy away from it,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: doesn't doesn't make a big deal out of it. He
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: looks guys in the eye says, hey, I got you
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: like a cool that was on me, or hey you
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: got to be better than that. It has grown men
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: and super outfits. You can recognize a doll can recognize
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: a big dog. Mitchell, you can recognize a big dog.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I saw him, Christian Barmore, go at it. What game
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: was that was the Texans? It was it was one
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: of the games they were on the side. They were drawing,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: and I think they were winning in the game. But
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: it didn't matter. He was he was perturbed about something.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: And Frabel Usually coaches are like, hey, man, I don't
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: want to get like, get the security, like deal with him.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Frable didn't shy away from that. He said, get out
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: of my way. I talked to him like, hey, what's up, Like,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: let's let's figure this out right now. I don't care
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: if it's in the public, I don't care. You can
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: get mad, you can get all this, but let's get
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: to the bottom of this. And I think that's the
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: difference between coaches that are former players and coaches that
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: are not form players. And these are two different guys
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald not necessarily a former player, great football coach
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: and Frabel former player, great football coach. It's two different
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: ways to skin a cat. But you can see there
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: per each person's personality within their team. You can see
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Mike Rabel and the way his players are responding to him,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: players that have not played as well as they are
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: playing for him for other teams, Guys that are going
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: out there and putting their bodies on the line, putting
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: their health and their well being on the line for
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: this coach and this team, and they're buying into what
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: he's saying because they know that he has the same
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: love and respect for him for them as they do
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: for him. And I think there's no calculating, there's no
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: measuring that. And I think that's a big reason why
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: they are where they are and they're gonna have a
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: lot of success long term. And again that's another reason
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: we don't know what the heck y'all doing in Tennessee.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: But don't get me started.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: It worked out for Robert Salah at least Richard got
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: you gotta at least enjoy that a little bit. But
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: I'm with you, Yeah, I enjoy that. I'm with you.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: And we got to look at this too. I mean,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: this is a rematch of sorts. I know it's a
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: what shoot, thirteen years later, but Josh McDaniel was OC
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: back then. Richard, Josh McDaniel was the OC back then,
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: and you had to go against his offense. Do you
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: see any similarities here as you as you've been watching
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: the Patriots offense, you see any similarities to when you
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: played them? I know Tom was at the helm, but
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: there's gotta be some at least play calls that are
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: pretty pretty what's the word phil it in for me.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Richard familiar? There you go. They they run what they run,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: and they he does a great job, just like New
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: England papers always have. They used to be so multiple
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: that every game would regardless of what scheme they're playing,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: it's it sometimes will look like an entirely new playbook.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: You they'd be running gap scheme run game against the
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Broncos and then they're running outside zone against the Colts
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: and you're like, h so, which one do you do?
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: And it's really based on the defense that they're getting.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: So that's changed. And Rabel spoke to that. He's like, Hey,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I want to just get familiarity, especially on the defensive
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: side of the ball. We're not going to go and
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: switch the scheme. I want to get guys in position,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: do things they do well that's similar to what we
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: did in Seattle, and just let them play football. Sure
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: won't make the adjustment sure, we'll understand the weaknesses of
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: what we're doing. But I mean, some people live in
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the whole world of a jack of all trades, but
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: a master of none. And some would say a jack
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: of some is still better than a master of just one.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if I how I feel about that.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: I think if you master, if you do what you
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: do well. We've had a lot of successful with that.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: We won super Bowls, we got to another super Bowl,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: could have got to a third super Bowl. Story for
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: a different day, But I think there's something to that.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: But I think McDaniel is going to look at and
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: study this scheme. He's gonna study what the Rams had
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: success with. He's gonna look in his playbook and say, hey,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: we have that play we have dagger. Can we put
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: dagger in wee we're pushing the safeties up and running
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: that dagger across? Hey? Can we go post corner? Could
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: we go dig reverse and show Hey, when those corners
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: are biting on that dig, bounce back outside and there's
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: an opening there. Can we check the football down? Hey, Drake,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: may don't be greedy, don't be too aggressive, don't be
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: too impatient. Pushing the ball down the field. Sometimes we
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: can just let them back up, and that's what's was
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: something Tom Brady was fantastic at. Hey defense is backing up.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Give it to Amindrius defense and that's seven yards. Let's
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: keep moving the ball down the field. We don't have to.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: We can be death by a thousand cuts if that's
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: what it takes. But a lot of times young guys
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: get impatient. So I think, I think I've seen similarities.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: But how he's gonna attack the Seattle Seahawks defense is
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: different than how they would attack our defense is they're
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: running too high. For the most part, we were a
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: cover three team predominantly. They do run some cover three.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: They can live in it at times first and second
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: down where they're stacking the box and guys are down there.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: But a lot of his complicated exotic pressures and things
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: like that come from too high, and he's able to
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: stop the run in a too high defense. So I
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: think the way Mike McDaniel is going to try to
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: attack him is the same way Sean McVay had success.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: And I think Mike did a good job of closing
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: some of those holes and shoring up some of those
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: defensive matchups. But we'll see that's the chess game. You know,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: what the Seahawks do well is what they do. Drake
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: May has been proficient down the field as a passer
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: this season, not as much in the playoffs. He's he's
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: hit him down the field throws, but he was much
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: better during the regular season. That's kind of slowed down,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: and you can blame some of the weather for that,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: but I would expect him to try to go back
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: to that this week.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Richard, this defense, they're gonna have their hands full. They're
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: going to see an opponent they have not seen before.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: That being said, there's already a conversation. You know, it's
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: only going to pick up throughout the week that this team,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: this defense is starting to draw comparisons of your team,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: the Legion of Boom. Do you see any similarities between
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: these defenses?
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Not a ton, you know, and other than them having
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: a Seattle Seahawks jersey on different different styles, different teams schematically,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: both great defenses in their own rights, fly around, they're hitting,
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: playing with a lot of energy, a lot of depth
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: on the defensive line. You're talking about Byron Murphy being
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: a POTENTI could have been an All Pro this season
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: and he's rotating in off the bench behind guys that
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: are fantastic. You got a guy DeMarcus Lawrence in his
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: twelfth season, getting going to his first Super Bowl and
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: has had as much of an impact on his team
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: as anyone. Ernest Jones, a guy who was who has
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: traded to multiple teams, a cast off from the Rams,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: and Rams said, hey, we don't want him. He's two
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: injury prone or his knee may not be good enough.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: And he's come to the Seattle Seahawks mid season last
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: year and become a household name and a star. Wars
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: in the middle of that defense, making big plays in
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: the past game, in the run game. The only interception
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: that the Seattle Seahawks got in the playoffs this year
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: was him against Brock Perdy this year and in the
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: divisional round, and he's been fantastic. Then you go in
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the back end, you got Julian Love and those guys.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: So you got Devin Witherspoon, who was an All Pro
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: this year. This year, you got Rik Wooland, who had
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: the big mistake last week but has overall fantastic this season,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: especially the second half of the season. I think he's
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: gonna play fantastic and have a huge factor in this game.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: So it's different. It's different. I think we had more
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: household names. We probably had a few more all pros
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: on our team, a lot of bigger personalities. They don't
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: necessarily have the personalities, but they have the talent and
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: their numbers speak for themselves. I expect them to win
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: this game. I expect them to be sound. Those guys
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: are running and hitting, and again the name you're gonna
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: hear New England Patriots fans get prepared for it, Nick
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: m and Warri. That's a name you will hear a
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: lot in this league. I expect him to be in
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: the defensive Player of the Year conversation for a number
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: of years to come, unless they're trying to ignore Seattle,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: which they're not gonna be able to after this game.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Richard, you said it, Arretie. You had a lot of
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: prominent voices and leaders in your locker room. I mean
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: between yourself obviously, Cam Earl, might be Cliff, you know, kJ, Bobby,
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: you know. The list goes on and on and on,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: and here we see, you know, John Schneider go out
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: and pluck the Marcus Lawrence from the Dallas Cowboys who
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: said rather emphatically that he's going to Seattle to win
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: a Super Bowl. Who do you think has stepped up
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: in similar role that you guys had with these leaders
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: on your defense?
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: With this current team, I mean you could say anybody.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: It's been by committee. I mean you've seen the leadership
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: from the young guy Nick Emman Warrior. It looked like
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: conflict on the sideline with Tarik Woolding, but that's accountability.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: And for a young guy to go up to a
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: veteran like that and say, hey, come on, we better
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: than that. We got to be better than that. It
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: just shows you the hierarchy and the way things are
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: around that team. And I think Week had a lot
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: of respect for that. He's frustrated at the moment, but
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think there was any maliciousness towards it either way.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: I think there was respect. Leonard Williams is a huge
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: defensive leader on this team. He's his tone cent, Devin
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Witherspoon tone setter on this defense. But Marcus Lawrence is
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: the engine. When you talk about a guy who plays
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: with a relentless effort every single play, he plays like
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: every game is a super Bowl. You see the force
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: fumble against brod Perty. It's a play that they've had
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: multiple times this season. He's had because of his effort.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: His effort was rewarded with turnovers, and his effort was
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: rewarded a few times when Tarik's Knight knocked the football
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: out a few times and here comes DeMarcus Lawrence picking
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: it up for multiple touchdowns on this season. So in
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: the back end, Julian Love, I think Julian Love is
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: a leader. Kobe Bryant, named after the late Great, has
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: been a phenomenal player in this league. Has been a
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: He moved from corner. He was a corner when they
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: drafted him, downed his niche at safety, got a little
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: banged up and they went with a Koudah for a
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: little while. He's back in the lineup and again he
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: just stabilizes that defense. So it's by committee. There's so
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: many leaders, but this is a defense that is just
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: really well coached, really disciplined all three levels, and they
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: cause a lot of issues because of how well they're
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: coaching and how well they tackled.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: I'm going to bring you back to twenty thirteen, Richard,
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: if you could pluck one player off the Seattle Seahawks
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: defense and have them suit up with you in that
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl?
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: Who would it be? In this Super Bowl, I'm sorry,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: in your.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl and the super Bowl you played in against
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: the Patriots. If you were to take one defensive player
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: off of this current team and have them line up
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: with you, who would it be? I mean, could you
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: imagine Nick m and Worri playing there with Cam Chancellor
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: and Earl? I mean DeMarcus Lawrence. I know you had
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: a ton of vets on the D line, but you
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: know somebody like that obviously had the two big D
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: tackles in the middle. Who do you think would benefit
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: your defense the most?
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know, And be hard to take anybody off
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: the field. I'm being honest. You're gonna take off. You
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: don't take off the Hall of Famer at Mike Linebacker,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: You're gonna take off? Take off the Super Bowl MVP
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: or kJ Wright or who are you gonna take off?
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Mike Bennet, Cliff Averril? Who are you gonna take off
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: the field? Again, That's why it's two different ends of
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: the fight. But I just don't see, you know, I
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: think they would say the same thing, you know, I
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: think they've feel comfortable with the group that they have
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: and confident in the guys that they have in their building,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: because these are the guys that they went to battle with.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: So it's hard for me to say we're getting rid
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: of anybody off that defense and getting to that same spot.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: I think sometimes it's a rhythm. Sometimes it's you're right
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: with who you came with, and these are the guys
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: they came with. These are the guys they did it
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: with and went to battle with all season long. These
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: are the guys they want to line up with when
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: when when it's for all the marbles, and I respect that.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna say we would have picked up
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: anybody off their defense, and I don't think they would
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: have picked up any off our defense. It's always easier
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: to say, you know what I mean in hindsight, because
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: you know, we've already ran our race and got it
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: and got the all pros and and you know, got
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: our accolades. These guys or are at the beginning of
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: their run, so I'm looking forward to seeing how far
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: they can take it.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: That's a very politically correct answer, Richard. I appreciate it.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: I know where you're coming from. I know exactly where
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: you're coming from, Richard, this game is going to be
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: played in Santa Clair. I know this is a spy
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: you're very familiar with. Obviously the Seattle Seahawks have played
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: their numerous times as well. It's similar to how the
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: two teams played in twenty fourteen and Super Bowl and Glendale.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Do you feel that playing in a division rivals building
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: plays at the advantage of the Seahawks in this one.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: To a degree? Yeah. I mean, I think it's familiarity.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: It's not a stadium they're unfamiliar with, it's a stadium
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: they've played in, they've had success in, And I think
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: that helped us in twenty thirteen. You know, we we
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: were going to MetLife and we beat the heck out
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: of the Giants in MetLife. We had one of our
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: best games. And to go back there confident, understanding the turf,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: understanding you've had success here. The lights are brighter, But
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, does it really matter. We could have played
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: that game on the Moon. It would have been the
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: same result. And so I think just the confidence of
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: going to somewhere that you've been and obviously there's a
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: stat going out that the team that's traveling from east
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: to west usually wins this game, not the team that's traveling.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: But if we wouldn't have thrown at the one yard line,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: that's that it'd probably be different. But again, this is
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: about as short of a trip as the Seattle Seahawks
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: could take and not be a home game in their
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: own stadium. They're wearing, They're wearing the Navy blue, the
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: all Navy blue, Mitchell, all the elements are there for
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: it to for it to just exercise these demons and
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: let's move forward. And I need it in my life.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: So yes, familiarity with the stadium, with the team, with
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the environment definitely helps their practicing at San Jose. Apparently
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: neither team wants to practice at the forty nine ers
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: facility because of this this station, this this electricity station
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: deal conspiracy. What do you What do you make of that? Richard?
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: Was that discussed at all when you were playing in
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: San Francisco.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Not that I can remember. I don't remember.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe there's some truth to it with all these injuries
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: over the last few years for San Francisco. But it's
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: wild to hear about it just out of nowhere.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: It is. It is really wild, But you know, it's
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: always something to talk about. It will be a conversation
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: this offseason. But it's a tough situation because you're not
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: moving that and you're not moving the stadium. Maybe you
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: can move the practice facility, but even then, it's a
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: tough situation when they're in the stadium that they practice
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: at the stadium and they've never yes, they have. They
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: when they were in Candlestick, they practiced in the same spot.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: So that's what Jerry Rice was saying. He was like, Hey,
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: we won two Super Bowls practicing in this same spot,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: So nobody talked about it. Then It's not like this
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: is a new facility, Mitchell. This is not like a
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: new place state they started practicing, They've had a lot
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: of success there. It only becomes a story when it
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: becomes a story. You know, when it was twenty twelve
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: and twenty eleven and they were in the Super Bowl,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: nobody was like, oh man, what about this station next
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: door to your facility. It's like, hey, maybe if you
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: had to run the ball at the one, you know,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: you would have beat the Baltimore Ravens that day. You know,
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: maybe if you don't throw at Richard Sherman for the
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: game in the NFC Championship game, you might have a
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: chance in that game. But you know, I don't think
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: it was about the substation to bring that up.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: And well, I'm glad they didn't go elsewhere with that play, Richard.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: I think things would have been a little bit different.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: It certainly certainly shaped your career early on Richard. Last
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: last episode, we were talking about you know what it's
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: like this week, you know, leading to super Bowl, the
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: bye week before Super Bowl. But now as we entered
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: the week of Super Bowl, you know, what what do
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: guys do to stay focused? I know there are a
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: lot of distractions in the host city, and you hear
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: tales from the past of them, But what did you
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: guys do in this week of the Super Bowl to
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: stay focused and locked in and remove distractions?
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Well, again, it's it's when you have a disciplined team.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: They don't just become disciplined the week at the Super Bowl.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: You know, you haven't heard a lot of news. You
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: haven't heard a lot of issues or distractions coming from
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks or the New England Patriots all season long.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: You know, I think there was a little bit of
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: an issue. You know, some legal issues and New England
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: for the last couple of weeks. But we don't talk
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: about legal issues. We're not lawyers in this podcast. But
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: for the most part, the Seattle Seahawks have their rules.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: They stay within the rules. Mike McDaniel, I mean, Mike
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: McDonald runs a very good program. Players have a lot
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: of respect for him. They know not to get out
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: of it. Outside of it, it's not thank goodness, it's
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: not an exciting city. It's not Las Vegas, it's not Houston,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: it's not Miami. So there are less opportunities to be
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: susceptible too in San Jose, California. Not that they're you know,
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: you can find trouble anywhere if if you look hard enough.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: But I think the week of the Super Bowl, guys understand, hey,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: this is a one week trip. This is a one
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: week trip for a lifetime of glory. And I think
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: that's the conversation a lot of these veterans are having
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: with them. A lot of the leadership you talk about.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: Leonard Williams has never been to a Super Bowl. I
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: don't know if he's ever been to a playoff game
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: before this season and had the kind of success so
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence been to a playoff, has never gone to
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: the championship game. Are moved past the divisional Julian Love,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: the same thing is true. Ernest Jones has won a
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: super Bowl with the Los Angeles Rams, but again knows
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: what it takes. I think Sam Donald locked in. These
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: guys understand that this is their moment and you will
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: use sacrifice for another week to have a lifetime of glory.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Is it worth it to you? It's going out and
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: having a few drinks on a Wednesday really worth it?
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: During the super Bowl week? Like, is that really gonna
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: take you to where you need to go? Is that
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: worth it for what you're sacrificing and what you could
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: be able to achieve if you just stay locked in?
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: And I think that's the messaging, and that was the
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: messaging for us. You just got to lock in. Now.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: There are a ton of distractions and things that are
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: different this week. When you land, there's gonna be a
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: lot of cameras, there's gonna be a lot of fanfare,
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: there's gonna be people in your face, you gotta slap hands,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: and it is different. It's not the same as every
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: other week. So you can treat it like every other week,
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: But there are certain media obligations for guys that probably
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: aren't used to being at media, doing medias, having conversations.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: So you're having those conversations. Hey, don't promise any wins,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: don't guarantee anything, don't talk about their team sucks, don't
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: give any bulletin board material. We don't need that. Just
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: say the right things. They're a great opponent, great team,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: happy to be here, looking forward to a great matchup.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: That should be everybody down the line. And that's what
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: reporters are gonna be doing at the big media day.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Every single person, all sixty nine men on the roster
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: are gonna get a mic in front of their face.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Whether they're on the big stage or just off to
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: the side, they're gonna get a conversation. If somebody gives
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: a sound bite, it doesn't matter if you're Sam Donald
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: or the guy they are just picked up a couple
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: of weeks ago. If it's coming from a Seattle Seahawks player,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: if he says, man, we feel really good about this matchup.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: I don't think they match up well with us. It
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: would be the same coming from everybody. So I think
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald and this staff is go are gonna emphasize
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: that to these players, And the same thing with Mike
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: Rabel and his staff, they're gonna emphasize, hey, let's not
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: give any bulletin board material, but hope lead the players.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: Make it fun. You get to learn about the players.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: You're going to see them on platforms like It's It's
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: it's different. It's a lot of pressure on these guys.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: That's going to be different for them. But you got
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: to stay locked in, get your routine, get your massages,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: and get back to your room.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Richard, we need you up there to give pr guidance
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: because man, oh man, I think that you going up
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: to these guys and saying, hey, I'll give you the
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: bulletin board material. Richard Sherman on the mic, It's it's
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: safe to say you would say every every wide receiver
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: on the Patriots is mediocre.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: I mean you were.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: Talking a little bit about it off air. I mean,
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: I know you'd like Keyshan Boody and Stefan Diggs and
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: to Mario Douglas, but man, those are some mediocre wide receivers.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Richard Mitchell, Mitchell, I say all the right things. Mitchell,
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: it's about great opponent, great team. I'm just you know,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: looking forward to a great matchup. Yes, yes, yes, I'm here, Yes, yes.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: I know everyone's excited. I've done I know you, I
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: know you're well equipped with knowledge in that environ, Met Richard,
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: I know everyone's anxious to hear who you're gonna pick,
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: and I feeling everyone knows who you're gonna pick. But
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: before we go onto your pick, we got some actual
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: breaking news that was just released. Here Clint Kubiak is
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: the rumors are reports are coming out he's going to
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Raiders, uh as their head coach. Do
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: you like that fit? If this holds true, Fernando Mendoz, Uh,
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: it's just like it's a rich Ashton gent.
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: It's a low quality draft, Mitchell, and it's a it's
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: a you're taking the guy that you have to take
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: because you know it's it's Wood Mendoza go in a
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: draft with with Jaydon Daniels and and and you know
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: and all those guys with with with Caleb Williams, Like,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: would he go one in that draft? Would he go one?
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: If if somebody at Drake May was in the draft,
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: if if there were other guys available, in this raft
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: would he still be in this position? And so that's
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: the thing. And then again I'm talking about a quarterback
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: who I think did a great job, has all the build,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: has all the potential. But again, in order for a
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: young quarterback to have success, it's it's offensive. And I
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: think they're getting a good offensive coach, a guy who
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: can get it put him in positions. But is there
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: enough talent around him to allow him to thrive. Sure,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: there's brought Bauers, what is Ashtroon gent he gonna be
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: in in uh Kobiak scheme. Maybe that's a great scheme
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: for him, Maybe that unlocks him and what he can do,
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: But it's just not enough information right now. Mendoza may
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: be great, but is he set up for success with
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: his team? And I think that's the part that's difficult. Now,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: if you said, hey, mendoz is going to Minnesota with
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell and Justin Jefferson and Addison and a great
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: run game and a and a defense that can get
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: the job done, then you're like, Okay, I can see
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: it happening. He just got to do his part. But
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: when you ask for a lot of a rookie quarterback.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: I think you set the expectations so hot high it's
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: hard to get there.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: Last episode, you were talking about the forty nine ers
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: vacancy at DC. You were pounding the desk for none
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: other than Jim Schwartz, and they go off and hire
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Raheem Morris as their DC. Richard, do you like this
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: fit with Raheem Morris and San Francisco?
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I like it. There's familiarity either he was gonna
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: be there, He's gonna be with the Rams. I mean,
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: he was gonna go back to his buddies. These guys
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: are all really good friends. McVay Shanahan the floor. All
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: these guys are are a small, close knit group of friends. Obviously,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: Kyle and Raheem were together in Atlanta for a little
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: while and they've been together multiple spots. It's a good
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: fit guys. They have relationship. He has a ton of
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: respect for it. He likes to scheme that Raheem runs.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure he'll keep Gus Bradley around in the
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: same role that he's been in, just continuing to just
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: be a voice of reason, somebody they can can pass
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: ideas off with, continue to challenge the concepts, continue to
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: challenge the guys, and I think it's a good fit.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, Raheem is a great coach, is the reason
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: he was given a head coaching position. I'm disappointed that
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: Atlanta let him go. I thought he I thought he
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: had that team playing well at the end of the season.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: It just didn't work out well enough. But it is
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: what it is.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: And then finally, Richard, there's reports coming out that the
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: Sattle Seahawks are going to be sold after the Super Bowl.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's safe to say they're selling at a
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: high if they win this game. Your thoughts on this, though, Well,
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: I want to be involved in that. You guys, you
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: gotta need an extra investor. I got I got a
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: few dollars, you know, putting in on that. But yeah,
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: you know, it was part of Paul's a state sale,
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: as part of the plan going in when Jody took
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: over the team. This was always the expectation that it
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: would get sold. It was it was actually written in
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: the agreement. I think the league.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: They said the league finder five million dollars for not
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: selling it when when when it was supposed to be sold.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: The league is pretty pretty he pretty pretty adamant about that.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Because when teams sail, it ups the value invaluation of
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: the other teams. You know, other teams get a piece
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: of certain things. And I think, you know, there's gonna
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: be a lot There's been a lot of money in Seattle. Uh.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: And you talk about the companies that have come up
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: in Seattle and the companies that have been a part
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: of this, uh, this great city, the Amazon's, the Microsoft's
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: of the world. I think, you know, those kind of
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: people will be involved and at least have to throw
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: their hat in the ring to try to be a
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: part of this. But it is what it is. It's
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: part of the business football. Paul Allen was a fantastic owner.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: I think Jody did her best and did a great
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: job of just trying to continue his legacy and continue
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: what he wanted. And I think he'd be very proud
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: of the job she's done, the job John Snyder and
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: the staff have done getting them back to a Super Bowl.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: And I think, if this, if this is the end
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: of her tenure as a as an owner of the
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, and they go off with a Super Bowl
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: champion championship and a Super Bowl ring and holding the
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: trophy up. I think that's a beautiful ending to a
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: fantastic story of the Allens and their ownership of the
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks and the city and the team. Will will
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: know nothing but love, enjoy and appreciation for their time
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: owning the team, and look forward to what's new next
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: in the future.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: Richard, It's finally that time. I'm gonna ask you a
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: very simple question. Who do you think is gonna win
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl? And give me a final score. Give
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: me a final score, and I want some level of like,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: you know, flow of the game, you know, like who's
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: gonna make an impact? Give me your full little breakdown here.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: So you're looking for the Richard Sherman podcast picks, That's
• 1:01:44
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• 1:01:50
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• 1:01:54
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• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: got the New England Patriots versus the Seattle Seahawks in
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Hard Rock Bett as the Seattle Seahawks
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: as a four and a half point favorite over the
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: New England Patriots, and I got the Seahawks winning this game. Mitchell,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: you want to know how it's gonna go. Seattle Seahawks
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: are gonna win this game by running the football K nine,
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: controlling it early and often. They're gonna drive down the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: field first drive of the game, set the tone. It's
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: gonna be a mixture. They're gonna try to double js
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: in and take him out of the game, but you're
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: gonna get a little bit of Barner, some K nine,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: little bit of Cooper Cup, then a Shaheed pass. Maybe
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: you might get a little sprinkled Bobo in there. Mitchell,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: just understand, it's gonna be a little bit of everybody.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: But Sam Darnold is gonna be a magician, a technician,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: all those things, and they're gonna go down and score.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: New England's gonna get the ball. Ain't gonna feel good,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: MVP candidate in the backfield, feel really good. The young
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: kid isn't overwhelmed. He's ready for this moment. But is
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: everybody else? Are they overwhelmed by the Seattle Seahawks defensive line.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: He was sacked fifteen times? They are, Mitchell. They start
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: kind of slow. They start sluggish in a lot of
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: these games. They again start sluggish against this great Seattle
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: Seahawks defense. They punt the ball away it goes back
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: and forth. A few punts, punt, a few plays punts punt,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: you know, not three and outs, but not a lot
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: of scoring going on. You look up at halftime, Mitchell,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: it's thirteen to three. Seattle Seahawks are in the league.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: They're feeling really good about this game. They're in control.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: But New England doesn't go quietly into the night. They
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: come out after half, get the football, drive it down
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: the field, score a touchdown. Now it's ten to thirteen.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: It's the kind of dogfights you expected in the Super Bowl.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: It could go either way. But then Sam Donald shows
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: you this is a new Sam Donald, and I got
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigba and that is the way they
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: ride the rest of the second half. JSN has his way,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: has a day, Clint gets deep in his bag, and
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks walk away with a decisive victory twenty
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: four to ten over the New England Patriots in the
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Boocket. Great season for the New England Patriots
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: and Mike Rabeles rookie season, a Coach of the Year
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: type season, cementing themselves as a contender for many seasons
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: to come. With a young Super Bowl appearing quarterback, a
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: really good defense, and a really good foundation for the future.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: But the Seattle Seahawks walking away with this one is.
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  Speaker 2: The Richard Sherman podcast super Bowl Picks gonna possibly give
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  Speaker 2: an MVP winner here.
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  Speaker 1: MVP of this game. You would think, oh Man, Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: Smith and Jig. But it's got to be him, right,
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  Speaker 1: He's been fantastic. He's probably Offensive Player of the Year. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna go to Sam Donald Mentell, Sam Darnald the guy,
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  Speaker 1: and that's gonna be the exclamation point on his his
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  Speaker 1: resurgent season, his resurrection as a number three pick. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem as surprising anymore because he was the number
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  Speaker 1: three pick in a draft. It seems obvious. But this
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  Speaker 1: MVP throws him back in the conversation of elite quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: And I know everybody out there is like, he had
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  Speaker 1: twenty turnovers this season? What about the twenty turnovers? But
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  Speaker 1: winning matters in the National Football League, and this man
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  Speaker 1: has won a lot in the last two years. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta say that two different teams, twenty eight wins. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: at some point it gotta have something to do with him.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like he gets an MVP to cap
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  Speaker 1: that off, the first MVP of a quarterback in Seattle Seahawks'
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl history.
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  Speaker 2: Coast Sandar, I'm gonna join this Seattle Seahawks bandwagon with you, Richard.
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  Speaker 2: I love this team the way they're playing right now.
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  Speaker 2: They're the hotter team. I know New England's got few losses,
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  Speaker 2: but the reality is Seattle's been rolling people and they've
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  Speaker 2: been playing I think more challenging opponents along the way.
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  Speaker 2: I got Seattle winning this game. I got them covering
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  Speaker 2: the spread, and I got K nine running away with
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  Speaker 2: the MVP of this game. It sucks that the Seattle
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks lost Zach Charbone, but I think K nine is
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  Speaker 2: built for this moment right here. He's obviously an unrestricted
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  Speaker 2: free agent after the season. He's got a lot to prove.
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  Speaker 2: Not only does he have motivation to win the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: but he's got motivation he get paid next season two.
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  Speaker 2: I think he runs away with two touchdowns in this game.
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  Speaker 2: I also like JSN to find the end zone. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: on the other side of the ball, I like Hunter
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  Speaker 2: Henry Richard. I mean, this guy has been steady for
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  Speaker 2: the New England Patriots. I think he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: that veteran presidence that they need. Richard, I too think
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  Speaker 2: that the New England Patriots are going to take a
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  Speaker 2: little bit to find their footing. I got the Seattle
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks jumping out to a lead. The game inevitably gets tight,
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  Speaker 2: but I think that the Seattle Seahawks, I've scored these guys.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go thirty one to twenty final score again
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  Speaker 2: K nine Waltzon out Anna Clara with that MVP trophy
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. I like that, Miss I like it
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Heck yeah, well, Richard, we are gonna be in San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco this week. Excited to see some of the fans
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  Speaker 2: on the ground. Richard is always a pleasure sitting down
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  Speaker 2: with you every weekend and we do this. It's been
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  Speaker 2: an awesome time all year. I will let you sign
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  Speaker 2: us off, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: As always, we appreciate you guys joining us. You could
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  Speaker 1: be anywhere in the world, but you're here with us
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• 1:07:38
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• 1:07:41
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  Speaker 1: Hall of famers, but we'll see you there. Can't wait