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Lions In Our Den · Hawk Talk

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver
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Speaker 1: Michael Bumpus. After ten yard line, second and eight, three
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Speaker 1: wide receivers now in motion as Bumpas left to right,
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Speaker 1: Julius Jones a single setback Matt Pumpfecks looking at the
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Speaker 1: goal line, he throws it into the end zone. Touchdown,
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Speaker 1: Saint Hawks. It's Michael Bumpas with a diving catch in
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Speaker 1: the end zone. Our ten yard touchdown reception for Pumpas
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Speaker 1: and the kid out of Washington State has found himself
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Speaker 1: a place on this team powered by Seahawks dot Com.
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Speaker 1: The Hawk Talk Preview Edition, Week seven team, the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: take on the two twelve and one destroy Lions. Nasa Choby,
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Speaker 1: what's on tap? What's on tap? These Lions are on tap?
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Speaker 1: Bump And as he mentioned, two twelve and one obviously
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Speaker 1: not a great record. That Troy Lions have had a
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Speaker 1: really tough season this year, much like the Seahawks. But
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Speaker 1: things can be worse, Seattle fans, trust me, they are
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Speaker 1: and they are worse. In Detroit, the Lions began the
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Speaker 1: season losing their first eight games than they tied. The
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Speaker 1: Steelers lost two more before they were able to taste
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Speaker 1: their first victory. They beat the Vikings twenty nine to
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Speaker 1: twenty seven, then turned around two weeks later and smacked
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals. So they're playing better football as of late.
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Speaker 1: They've won two of their last four. However, last week
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Speaker 1: they felled to the Falcons twenty to sixteen in painful fashion.
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Speaker 1: The Lines were without their starting quarterback Jared Goff, who
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Speaker 1: was placed on the reserve COVID list. So insert Tim Boyle,
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Speaker 1: who has made his second career start. Raiser hand if
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Speaker 1: you've heard of him, I cannot raise my hand. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Tim actually did a pretty good job. It was a
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Speaker 1: close battle throughout the game came down to the final seconds.
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Speaker 1: The Falcons were up twenty to sixteen with two nineteen
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Speaker 1: remaining in the game with the football then on third
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Speaker 1: and seven, Matt Ryan found Russell Cage for a four
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Speaker 1: yard game Unfortunately, and inexplicably fumbled the football, gave the
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Speaker 1: Lines great field position. Late in the game. The Lions
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Speaker 1: would drive down to the Falcons nine yard line before
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Speaker 1: Boyle was intercepted at the one yard line with thirty
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Speaker 1: three seconds remaining in the game to seal the fate
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Speaker 1: for the Lions. Boyle finished the game twenty four of
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Speaker 1: thirty four for one hundred and eighty seven yards, one
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Speaker 1: touchdown in one interception. Jamal Williams led all rushlers with
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Speaker 1: seventy seven yards on nineteen carries. Aman Ross Saint Brown
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Speaker 1: really had a pretty good day nine receptions in ninety
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Speaker 1: one yards in one touchdown. So Bump, we know the
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Speaker 1: records aren't great for this head to head matchup between
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Speaker 1: the Hawks and the Lions. What are you seeing in
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Speaker 1: the head to head Beyond the records? You look at
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Speaker 1: the numbers, nass the Lions have a better offense on
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Speaker 1: paper than the Seattle Seahawks, except when it comes to
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Speaker 1: points per game. Every other category Lions got them be
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Speaker 1: total right doffense lines twenty third Hawks, twenty nine, rush
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Speaker 1: offense Lions sixteenth Hawks or twentieth. Pass offense Lions are
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Speaker 1: twenty fourth in the Hawks are twenty eighth. Like I mentioned,
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Speaker 1: only category offensively the Hawks have them is points per game.
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Speaker 1: Hawks are averaging twenty the Lions are averaging seventeen. When
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Speaker 1: you go over to the defense, total defense on paper
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Speaker 1: a better defense. Lions ran twenty seven, Hawks thirty first.
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Speaker 1: Against the run. The Hawks ranked sixteenth, the Lions are
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Speaker 1: twenty seventh. Past defensive lines of twenty fourth, the Hawks
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Speaker 1: are thirty first. Then, when it comes to giving up points,
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Speaker 1: the Hawks are tied for seventh allowing twenty points per
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Speaker 1: game and the Lions are twenty fifth allowing twenty five
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Speaker 1: points per game. Time of possession, there's been a struggle
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Speaker 1: for this team. The Lions average twenty nine minutes of possession,
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Speaker 1: the Hawks around twenty four interceptions. Lions got nine, the
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Speaker 1: Hawks have eight. So you look at these guys on paper,
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Speaker 1: it should be a pretty good matchup. You see the
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Speaker 1: teams that the Lions have beaten. They beat the Minnesota Vikings.
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Speaker 1: Hawks didn't do that, and they beat their Zuna Cardinals.
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Speaker 1: Hawks haven't done that either. So you know, you look
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Speaker 1: at the numbers, you look at the records the team
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Speaker 1: they've beaten. It should be a good game. You never know.
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Speaker 1: End of the season, two teams with nothing to lose.
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Speaker 1: Let's get to know their history. No, your history, Well,
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Speaker 1: these two teams have not played ton all time. The
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Speaker 1: Seahawks lead the all time series ten to five with
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Speaker 1: a one and oh record. In the postseason. Last meeting
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Speaker 1: between these two teams, the Seahawks beat the Lions twenty
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Speaker 1: eight to fourteen in Week eight of the twenty eighteen season. Now,
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Speaker 1: this was a really efficient day for the offense in
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Speaker 1: terms of the Seahawks. After a scoreless first quarter, the
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Speaker 1: second quarter of the Seawks just went off with twenty
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Speaker 1: one straight points, taking a twenty one to seven lead
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Speaker 1: into a half. Never really looked back after that. Russell
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Speaker 1: Wilson was an efficient fourteen of seventeen for two hundred
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Speaker 1: and forty eight yards in three tuddies. Chris Carson Man,
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Speaker 1: I miss seeing Chris. He had a tough day on
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Speaker 1: the ground, just running the ball hard, twenty five carries,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and five yards in one touchdown. And then
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Speaker 1: our guy Demo swag Man miss that dude. I'm shocked
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Speaker 1: that he's not tended up somewhere. Man, miss your Dimo
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Speaker 1: if you're out there. But Demo had a great day
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Speaker 1: that game, four receptions and ninety seven yards one touchdown ed.
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Speaker 1: Dixon and Tyler Lockett also added touchdowns. On the other
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Speaker 1: side for the Lions. They were led by a guy
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Speaker 1: named Quandre Diggs. He led the Lions with eight goals
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Speaker 1: in one TfL and every time I think about the
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Speaker 1: Lions I during the holiday season. We should be thankful.
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Speaker 1: I thank them for allowing the Seahawks to get Quandre
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Speaker 1: Diggs for a fifth round pick. That man is a
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Speaker 1: pro bowler, should be an All Pro. That was one
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Speaker 1: of the better steals all time in the Snyder era,
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Speaker 1: especially as of late so Detroit. Thank you for Quandre Diggs.
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Speaker 1: But let's get back into the NFC West. What's the
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Speaker 1: word and the Seahawks where the NFC West champs? Again?
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Speaker 1: What's the word in the West? On Hawk talk? Let's
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Speaker 1: look at this division. The Los Angeles Rams are going
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Speaker 1: on a run right now. They are now eleven and
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Speaker 1: four on top of the division. Right underneath them, you
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Speaker 1: have the airs of the Cardinals, who have been struggling
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Speaker 1: a bit. They are ten and five. The inconsistent San
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Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers are eight and seven. And you
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Speaker 1: know where we are five and ten at the bottom
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Speaker 1: of this thing. Now, last week the Rams played the Vikings.
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Speaker 1: The Rams continued their winning streak, this time taking down
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Speaker 1: the Vikings for the fourth consecutive win. They won by
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Speaker 1: a score thirty to twenty three. But we're in control
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Speaker 1: most of the game. The game changed in the third
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Speaker 1: quarter when Brandon Powell returned to plump sixty one yards
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Speaker 1: to the house, extending the Rams lead to ten. You know,
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Speaker 1: I love me some pump returns. Now, this was a
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Speaker 1: huge play because it helped the Rams erase Matthew Stafford's
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Speaker 1: turnover day. He was twenty one to thirty seven, one
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Speaker 1: hundred ninety seven yards, one touchdown, but three interceptions. It
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Speaker 1: seems he throws interceptions and bunches. It's not one or two.
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Speaker 1: It's like, look, if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: do a big That's what Stafford does on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Sony Michelle let all ball carriers with one hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirty one yards on twenty seven carries, and then Cooper
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Speaker 1: cup slight day for him, ten catches, one hundred and
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Speaker 1: nine yards, not the major, And just like that, after
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Speaker 1: little outside helping us the Seahawks, the Rams are chasing
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Speaker 1: the Packers and the Cowboys for the top seed in
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Speaker 1: the NFC. That hurts, Yeah, I know I had to
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Speaker 1: throw that in there. Just got a little outside help
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Speaker 1: last week. I'm not gonna we don't need to rehab
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Speaker 1: ah some old stuff that was two weeks ago. It's
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Speaker 1: in the past. I know you can tell I'm obviously
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Speaker 1: not over that pass interference call and the one of
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Speaker 1: Bless Austin. But anyway, I digress. The Cardinals took on
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Speaker 1: the Colts, and part of the reason the Rams were
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Speaker 1: back in good position is because the Cardinals have just
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Speaker 1: been peruded the last couple of weeks. Man dropped three
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Speaker 1: consecutive games to the Rams, Lions, and Colts. This was
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Speaker 1: especially disappointing for the Cardinals given what the Colts were
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Speaker 1: dealing when going into this game. Man, they were missing
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Speaker 1: All Pro linebacker Darius Slender and that dude is a baller.
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Speaker 1: They're missing four starting offensive linemen and still found a
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Speaker 1: way to go down to Arizona, into the Red Sea
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Speaker 1: they call it, and beat the Cardinals. So the Cardinals
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Speaker 1: are struggling, Man. They are ten and five now. They
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Speaker 1: failed to clinch a playoff spot for the third straight week,
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Speaker 1: three and five since starting the season seven and zero.
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray solid kind of a weird day, like decent
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Speaker 1: stat wise too, for two and forty five yards in
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Speaker 1: a touchdown. Also ran for seventy four yards, but Arizona
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Speaker 1: was just sloppy. Matt Prador missed two field goals, including
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Speaker 1: a go ahead try early in the fourth quarter. You
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Speaker 1: also miss an extra point. Other than Kyler, I mean,
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Speaker 1: no one else really balled out except Chase Edmonds. Really
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Speaker 1: only other productive guy for them offensively sixteen carries fifty
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Speaker 1: six yards a touchdown, also eight receptions seventy one yards. Defensively, Buddha,
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Speaker 1: he did have a day twelve tackles, one sack, two
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Speaker 1: two QB hits. He always finds a way to fill
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Speaker 1: up the stat sheet. And then Carson wentz Man, he
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Speaker 1: put the game out of reach when he found Desmond
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Speaker 1: Peyton in the back of the end zone. Really nice
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Speaker 1: played by him on a fourteen yard touchdown, making the
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Speaker 1: score twenty two to thirteen, and the fourth Colts would
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Speaker 1: eventually win by a score of twenty two to sixteen.
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Speaker 1: So the Cardinals, who are going to get into the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: even if they lose out, they're still going to get
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Speaker 1: in with ten wins. But they are limping in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: They're not playing good football. I'm telling you right now,
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Speaker 1: I will be shocked if they win a game in
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah, the way they look offensively, defensively, they
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Speaker 1: don't look like the team that came out hot. Things
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Speaker 1: have changed for the Cardinals. Let's go to the forty
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Speaker 1: nine ers. They played the Titans on Thursday Night football,
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Speaker 1: blew a ten point lead and lost twenty to seventeen.
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Speaker 1: It was a good game though. Ryan Tannehill threw for
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Speaker 1: forty yards in the first half of finished with two
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Speaker 1: hundred and nine and a touchdown to Aj Brown. Aj
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Speaker 1: had a day. He was bawling. It was back from injury.
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Speaker 1: Eleven passes, one hundred forty nine yards. He's on injury reserve,
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Speaker 1: had an eighteen yard touchdown catch. They gave Tennessee a
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Speaker 1: seventeen to ten lead early in the fourth. Jimmy g
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Speaker 1: in the forty nine Ers would answer. They go on
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Speaker 1: to eight, played ninety five yard drive inning with the
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Speaker 1: Brandon i You touchdown, tying the score at seventeen. Then
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Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill would take the Titans on a game winning
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Speaker 1: drive with the forty four yard field goal from Ryan
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Speaker 1: butlock Jimmy g on the day he was twenty six
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Speaker 1: to thirty five three twenty two, one touchdown, but had
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Speaker 1: two costly interception and interceptions. And then Diebo does what
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Speaker 1: he does, heavy lifting for the guy for the team
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Speaker 1: nine receptions one hundred and fifty nine yards thirty two
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Speaker 1: yards rushing on five carries. Diebo might be top five
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Speaker 1: most versatile players of the league right now. You know,
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Speaker 1: when you you know set up position groups. You know
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Speaker 1: when you get recruited, people get recruited as an athlete. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to start adding that for more guys
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Speaker 1: like Deebo Samuel come around in the NFL, they say,
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Speaker 1: what's your position? Athlete? I do everything. I can throw it,
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Speaker 1: I can run it, I can do everything. Shoot, he
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Speaker 1: could probably play dB Tebo Samuel is just an athlete,
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Speaker 1: pure and simple, and he's still somehow one of the
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Speaker 1: most underrated guys in the National Football League. I have
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Speaker 1: no idea where the forty nine ers will be without him.
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Speaker 1: If we want to take a look at these playoffs standings,
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Speaker 1: I'll just breeze through this. Packers one seed to twelve
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Speaker 1: and three, Cowboys eleven and four, Rams eleven and four,
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Speaker 1: Bucks eleven and four, Cardinals ten and five, forty nine
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Speaker 1: Ors eight and seven, Eagles eight and seven currently holding
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Speaker 1: down the final playoffs spot. And I'll just say this,
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Speaker 1: get off my chest. It's so painful knowing how many
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Speaker 1: games the Seahawks could have won this season, and to
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Speaker 1: see if they would just even with all that, if
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Speaker 1: they would have just took care of business the last
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Speaker 1: two weeks, they'd be one game out. I have a
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Speaker 1: feeling the Eagles are gonna choke down the stretch the value.
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Speaker 1: The Vikings are familing, the Falcons are seven and eight,
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Speaker 1: The Saints are going downhill, Washington's going downhill. Things are
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Speaker 1: starting to set up the right way for the Seahawks. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: whether you don't win and take care of business on
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Speaker 1: your own front, it doesn't matter. The playoffs are not
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Speaker 1: in reach. So let's turn it back into this matchup
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Speaker 1: with the Detroit Lions. Man up, Who is this man up?
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Speaker 1: On Hawk Talk? All right, all right, let's start at
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Speaker 1: the quarterback position. Good news for the Lions. Jared Golf
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Speaker 1: is bag after being on the cold reserved list. Tim
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Speaker 1: Boyle was there in his absence, made his second career
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Speaker 1: start four the Lions against the Falcons win twenty four
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Speaker 1: or thirty four, one hundred and eighty seven yards and
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Speaker 1: one touchdown, but through a costly interception late in the game.
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Speaker 1: Golf has been inconsistent this season. He's played well, but
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Speaker 1: then he struggled at time. Do you look at his
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Speaker 1: numbers his three eleven for four sixty four three thousand yards,
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Speaker 1: seventeen touchdowns, eight interceptions, and it's completing sixty seven percent
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Speaker 1: his passes. The common thing when talking about Jared Goff
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Speaker 1: centers around the success he had with McVay. Under mcvayh
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Speaker 1: Jared Goff was forty two and twenty that's not including
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Without McVeigh he is two seventeen in one. Now,
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Speaker 1: there are some factors that are involved there. The rams
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Speaker 1: were really good from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty, and
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Speaker 1: as a rookie without McVeagh, golf was owing seven. So
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Speaker 1: there's no denying mcveah has had an effect on the
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Speaker 1: play of Jared Goff. In nine regular season games against
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Speaker 1: the Seahoufs, Jared Goff is two hundred and two for
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Speaker 1: three twenty four twenty four hundred and six yards, eight
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Speaker 1: touchdowns and nine interceptions. He's been sacked seventeen times and
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Speaker 1: fumbled twice. In the playoff game last year, he went
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Speaker 1: nine of nineteen, one fifty five and one touchdown and
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Speaker 1: he came off the bench. He wasn't he supposed to
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Speaker 1: play that game, but he came off the bench, we'd
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Speaker 1: have a thumb injury or something like that. Ended up
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Speaker 1: having a good day. The Seahouks had the thirty first,
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Speaker 1: our thirty first, and total defense given up three hundred
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Speaker 1: and eighty five yards per game. They're thirty first against
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Speaker 1: the past, allowing two seventy per game, and fell to
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Speaker 1: seven than the NFL and points allowed at twenty point four.
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Speaker 1: Jared Golf plays decent against the Seahawks, but this isn't
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Speaker 1: the Jared Golf of the Rams. This is the Jared
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Speaker 1: Golf with the Detroit Lions. Doesn't have too many weapons
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Speaker 1: out there. It would be really disappointed if he disappointed
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Speaker 1: if he came out and played his best game of
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Speaker 1: the year. I feel like guys tend to do that
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Speaker 1: when they're playing against the Seahawks. This hope it doesn't
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Speaker 1: happen this week, I'd hope. So. I mean, the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: already lost to you know, Taylor Heinekey, Cole McCoy, Nick
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Speaker 1: Foles last week. I'm hoping that trend does not continue.
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Speaker 1: And a crazy thing about so they gave up twenty
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Speaker 1: four points last week, just over their average, and they're
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Speaker 1: still around their average. They're still in the season giving
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Speaker 1: up twenty points per game. But clearly some other teams
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Speaker 1: have good defensive battles last week because they fell from
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Speaker 1: four to seven. But yeah, I'm hoping they can lock
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Speaker 1: up Jared Goff because he's never done a ton against
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks. He's never just gone off. He's always just
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Speaker 1: been efficient. But he will turn them all over. So
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Speaker 1: on the other side, let's look at our quarterback Russell
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Speaker 1: Wilson against this Lions front seven. Russell came out hot
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Speaker 1: in the snow last week. He looked up with DK
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Speaker 1: metcalf on that forty one yard touchdown, also had a
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Speaker 1: nice touchdown pass at Gerald. Everett finished the day with
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Speaker 1: decent numbers sixteen to twenty seven one and eighty one
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Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns. Unfortunately, we saw him miss a
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Speaker 1: couple of big throws, so I don't know how much
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Speaker 1: the weather impacted that finger and just how he played
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Speaker 1: last week, but just some uncharacteristic things we usually do
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Speaker 1: not see from him. Those are throws that he normally
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Speaker 1: makes in his sleep. So we're roping again. Bounced back
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Speaker 1: this weekend. Again, weather could be a factor again, so
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Speaker 1: we'll see. Hopefully the Seahawks learned a little bit last
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Speaker 1: week about how that's going to be if there's snow
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Speaker 1: on the ground again. On the season in twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 1: Russell's two twenty four for three forty five two thousand,
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Speaker 1: six hundred and thirty nine yards, eighteen tuddies, five interceptions,
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Speaker 1: also thirty three carries for one hundred and fifty four
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Speaker 1: yards and one touchdown. So when you look at the numbers,
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Speaker 1: those don't look bad. Eighteen touchdowns, five interceptions. It's just
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Speaker 1: we have such a high standard for us all Wilson,
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Speaker 1: and you know he was an MVP conversation last year.
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Speaker 1: We expect him to be elad at all times just
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Speaker 1: because that's how he's been for the last decade. So
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Speaker 1: when he doesn't do stuff at that level, it makes
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Speaker 1: your question. You start wondering what's going on. So overall
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Speaker 1: numbers are pretty decent. We just would hope Russell can
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Speaker 1: get back to what we know we can do, and
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Speaker 1: hopefully that starts on Sunday, especially going up against this
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Speaker 1: Detroit defense, who you know, they're near the bottom of everything.
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Speaker 1: Twenty seventh in total defense, twenty seventh against run, twenty
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Speaker 1: four against the pass twenty five in points allowed. They
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Speaker 1: don't get after the quarterback either. We only got twenty
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Speaker 1: five sacks on the season. So if there was a game,
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Speaker 1: I'm hoping it's this week. We knew the Bears actually
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Speaker 1: had a decent defense on paper. Last week, we knew
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Speaker 1: that heading into the game they actually played well. So
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Speaker 1: I'm hoping that that holds true this week. Detroy line
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Speaker 1: is not great defensively, so hoping Russell Wilson and Shane
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Speaker 1: Waldron and company can take advantage. Not great defensively, but
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Speaker 1: they do have a couple of guys who will catch
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Speaker 1: the rock form. Starting off with a monros st Brown
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Speaker 1: and tight end t J. Hawkins, and that is the
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Speaker 1: other matchup we're looking at. One of the best players
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Speaker 1: obviously is a Monross Saint Brown at USC product. He
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Speaker 1: has seventy four receptions six hundred ninety two yards in
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Speaker 1: three touchdowns. He's a dynamic player, has good hands, will
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Speaker 1: beat you in different end ways. Now you go to
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Speaker 1: tight end t J. Hockinson has been the other key
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Speaker 1: target for Jared Golf Hawkins and sixty one receptions five
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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three yards in four touchdowns. Now the
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Speaker 1: Lions passing the ball. I think it's one of their strengths. Right,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about their running backs here in a minute,
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Speaker 1: but I think with Jared Golf and then Amanse Brown
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Speaker 1: really finding himself as a professional and tight end Hackinson,
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Speaker 1: they have enough to make some place. You know, you
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Speaker 1: can't just sleep on these guys. And especially because we
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Speaker 1: have DJ Read and bless Austin who are on the
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Speaker 1: COVID list, it's kind of been a bunch of shuffling
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Speaker 1: going on in that second thirties last couple of weeks,
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Speaker 1: and we've also lost Trey Brown, Sidney Jones, John Reid.
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Speaker 1: I mean I I just named nass like what four
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Speaker 1: to five names in that secondary. It's hard to find
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Speaker 1: cohesiveness when you have all these movement pieces. But this
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Speaker 1: defense has found a way to allow teams to push
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Speaker 1: the ball down the field but not score a lot
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Speaker 1: of touchdowns. So hopefully this trend continues and the Seahawks
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Speaker 1: can lock down Saint Brown and t J. Hawkinson, no
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Speaker 1: question about it. Hopefully DJ Reid and blessed us and
17:10
Speaker 1: come off the COVID list. The NFL had new protocols
17:13
Speaker 1: that came out yesterday where people only have to quarantine
17:16
Speaker 1: or be on the list for five days. If they're
17:18
Speaker 1: symptom free, they can return. So hopefully that'll help get
17:21
Speaker 1: a lot of guys back for the Seahawks because their
17:23
Speaker 1: secondary is thin as you mentioned. But let's flip over
17:27
Speaker 1: the other matchup you talked about running backs. This is
17:29
Speaker 1: something they do pretty well. They got some good athletes
17:31
Speaker 1: in the backfield. Speaking of Detroit, we'll start with DeAndre Swift.
17:35
Speaker 1: He is the Lions leading rusher where one hundred and
17:37
Speaker 1: forty carries for five hundred and fifty five yards in
17:39
Speaker 1: four touchdowns. He's also got fifty six receptions for four
17:42
Speaker 1: hundred twenty nine yards and two touchdowns. However, he's not
17:45
Speaker 1: played it's Thanksgiving after injuring his shoulder. He's getting closer,
17:49
Speaker 1: so we don't know what his status is leading into
17:51
Speaker 1: this game. In my opinion, he's their best player they
17:53
Speaker 1: are definitely their offense is at their best when he's
17:56
Speaker 1: on the field. If he cannot go, Jamal Williams, he's
17:59
Speaker 1: the second team or the second leading rusher for the
18:01
Speaker 1: team one hundred twenty nine carries, five hundred and thirty
18:03
Speaker 1: six yards, two touchdowns. He missed the two previous games
18:07
Speaker 1: on the COVID list, but he came back last week
18:09
Speaker 1: against the Falcons seventy seven yards on nineteen carries, and
18:13
Speaker 1: his other running back, Craig Reynolds, is a pretty good
18:15
Speaker 1: story man. He's played in just three games this year,
18:18
Speaker 1: but in those games forty eight carries two hundred and
18:20
Speaker 1: twenty four yards. With injuries for Swift and Williams, Reynolds
18:23
Speaker 1: was called up and rushed for one hundred and twenty
18:25
Speaker 1: six yards on twenty six carries in that upset victory
18:28
Speaker 1: over the Cardinals. But man, he's had a wild journey
18:31
Speaker 1: this year. Back on August twelfth, after missing a flight
18:34
Speaker 1: and experiencing delays, he's a free running back ghost to Motown,
18:38
Speaker 1: signs with Detroit and then gets in essentially signs with
18:41
Speaker 1: him and is playing the very next day against the
18:42
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills in the preseason. He's in the huddle and
18:46
Speaker 1: he's literally introducing himself to guys on the team because
18:48
Speaker 1: they have no idea who he is. And he's playing
18:50
Speaker 1: in forty nine yards, got a touchdown off six carries.
18:53
Speaker 1: Now running his back coach Deuce Staley gave him a
18:56
Speaker 1: nickname to call him Netflix out there, not because he
18:59
Speaker 1: doesn't work. Card just wants to like chill all that.
19:01
Speaker 1: But it just came because he missed a flight and
19:03
Speaker 1: is just waiting to get back on the team. So
19:05
Speaker 1: he's been a great story. So Duce Daley shout out
19:08
Speaker 1: to him. I remember watching him run back in those
19:10
Speaker 1: old Philly teams, so he was a great running back
19:12
Speaker 1: back in the day. So the running backs, essentially for
19:15
Speaker 1: the Lions, they asked some talent there. They're decent at
19:17
Speaker 1: running the football. They have several starting caliber running backs.
19:22
Speaker 1: Last week, the Seahawks hell David Montgomery to forty five
19:25
Speaker 1: yards and twenty one carries. He kind of got loose
19:27
Speaker 1: in the other ways. So it'll be a good test
19:29
Speaker 1: for the Seahawks defense. Definitely need to shut down the
19:31
Speaker 1: run against the Lions. All right, Let's look at the
19:34
Speaker 1: receiving core, dk metcal Tider, Lockett, and Nasty even through
19:38
Speaker 1: d Eskridge into the mix. These guys got to be
19:41
Speaker 1: a factor against the line secondary. In games that the
19:44
Speaker 1: Hawks have won, dk and Lockett have been a factor.
19:48
Speaker 1: In games that they lost, dk Unlockett have been non factors.
19:51
Speaker 1: Last week, combined, they had five receptions for seventy one
19:54
Speaker 1: yards and one touchdown. DK caught his first touchdown since
19:57
Speaker 1: Halloween against the jack Man, and it was held under
20:01
Speaker 1: sixty yards for the ninth time this season. Crazy On
20:05
Speaker 1: the year, DK has sixty four receptions, eight hundred forty
20:08
Speaker 1: six yards and nine touchdowns. Titler Lockett sixty five receptions,
20:12
Speaker 1: one thousand and fifty three yards and five touchdowns. Locket
20:15
Speaker 1: is five yards away from setting a career highing reception
20:17
Speaker 1: yards for a single season, and he's also two hundred
20:19
Speaker 1: fifty yards away from breaking DK's single season yards record
20:23
Speaker 1: that he set last year. It would take two huge games,
20:26
Speaker 1: but he can definitely still get it done. Defensively, Detroit
20:29
Speaker 1: is averaging against the past, ranking twenty four twenty fourth,
20:34
Speaker 1: allowing twenty forty four yards per game. Amani Araya, I
20:38
Speaker 1: say that right, Sure, let's go. I got I gotta
20:41
Speaker 1: stay right because I'm doing a film session and I'm
20:43
Speaker 1: breaking down his film. So Amani al Ruwaya is having
20:46
Speaker 1: a great season for Detroit in the secondary, fifty seven tackles,
20:49
Speaker 1: two tackles for loss, eleven passes defended, and six interceptions.
20:53
Speaker 1: We'll see what he does on Sunday. We'll see what
20:55
Speaker 1: the weather's like on Sunday too. Two snowy games in
20:57
Speaker 1: a row. Impossible. They can't do that, right, I would hope. So.
21:00
Speaker 1: I mean, when I'm standing in the radio booth, it
21:02
Speaker 1: was fine because I'm a little far back, but those
21:03
Speaker 1: windows are open. Man, it was cold. It was freezing
21:05
Speaker 1: a touchdown city. But still come see us pre game
21:08
Speaker 1: show starts at all right, bub was getting the pass
21:11
Speaker 1: to victory at the forty five, waits for the snaff.
21:17
Speaker 1: Michael Dickson puts it down. That kick is away and
21:20
Speaker 1: that kick is gun. Say I'm when it's gun. It's
21:24
Speaker 1: a pass to victory. On Hawk Talk, four quarters, bump,
21:28
Speaker 1: four quarters. The Seahawks have seldomly put together four quarters
21:32
Speaker 1: start to finish in a game and all this season,
21:34
Speaker 1: and that's what I'm asking for. I'm asking for a
21:36
Speaker 1: great effort, Not that they haven't been trying, but just
21:38
Speaker 1: be consistent through four quarters. They haven't been able to
21:42
Speaker 1: stay an effort for sixty minutes. They've had a lot
21:44
Speaker 1: of good moments, quarters, drives times. I just want to
21:47
Speaker 1: see him put it together for a full sixty minutes. Yeah,
21:51
Speaker 1: please put pressure on Jared Goff. He will throw the
21:53
Speaker 1: ball away. This is the same guy where you used
21:55
Speaker 1: to see him. Man, he will panic thought across the middle,
21:57
Speaker 1: thought up there and allow you to make plays. And
22:00
Speaker 1: let's see more calls done Lap. Why save him now?
22:03
Speaker 1: I know we've done the load management thing all year.
22:05
Speaker 1: Two games, five sacks. I want to see Dunlap out there,
22:08
Speaker 1: no question about it, man, and we've dune Lamp out there.
22:10
Speaker 1: Then you stop the run, keep it and keep everything
22:13
Speaker 1: in front. Just I wanted to keep it simple. Let's
22:15
Speaker 1: quote our guy Dave Lyman. I've had coaches tell me
22:17
Speaker 1: this my whole life. Coach Stewart, coach Hummel. Alignment, assignment,
22:21
Speaker 1: key boom. Those three things get three pluses on the
22:24
Speaker 1: great sheet. You're gonna be good to go. Don't make it,
22:27
Speaker 1: don't make it crazy. Man, Stop the run, keep everything
22:29
Speaker 1: in front of you. Against his Detroit team, you should
22:31
Speaker 1: be defined on defense. Stop the run and get the
22:35
Speaker 1: run going. Rashotte Penny has proven at least the last
22:37
Speaker 1: what three games that look he can make some plays.
22:40
Speaker 1: He's playing with confidence. His interviews are different. You can
22:43
Speaker 1: just feel the confidence in him. Man. He's breaking tackles.
22:46
Speaker 1: He's not just getting these easy runs where he's bouncing outside,
22:49
Speaker 1: he's lawering his paths. He looks like a real running
22:52
Speaker 1: back right now. I want to see Rashotte get the rock.
22:55
Speaker 1: Absolutely got to see Rashade carrying that rock man. He's
22:58
Speaker 1: been crazy this last couple of weeks. Another guy I
23:00
Speaker 1: want to see making plays or guys. It's locking in
23:03
Speaker 1: DK Man all year. We've said it, we just talked
23:06
Speaker 1: about it. When we win games, those guys go off
23:08
Speaker 1: when we don't. It's not good for us. So find
23:10
Speaker 1: a way to get them involved. They can't have five
23:13
Speaker 1: receptions combined with them. And Joe Leverett I'll group him
23:15
Speaker 1: in there too, because he's been one of the bright
23:17
Speaker 1: spots offensively catching the football. So I want to see
23:19
Speaker 1: all three of those guys making plays running the football.
23:22
Speaker 1: I just want to see something good. Bumpy Canny, you
23:24
Speaker 1: know it's it's still the holiday season and there's still
23:26
Speaker 1: snow on the ground. It still feels like it. I
23:28
Speaker 1: just want to see something good happen on Sunday. Please,
23:31
Speaker 1: come on, it's been a long year. Let's send the
23:33
Speaker 1: twelves out with a great went at home. They deserve it.
23:36
Speaker 1: They've been hanging in there with you guys, Let's get
23:38
Speaker 1: or done at home, Seattle. Where can the people hear us?
23:42
Speaker 1: And all the other podcasts you got going now so
23:45
Speaker 1: they can hear us everywhere? To quote our guy Jalen Rose,
23:48
Speaker 1: give the people what they want. Seahawks Insiders with Jen
23:54
Speaker 1: Mueller and John Boyle, The Huddle with Dave Lyman, Stacey
23:57
Speaker 1: Ross and Jay Keeps. Seahawks Stories with Robert Turbin. Be
24:01
Speaker 1: on the lookout for two new episodes that just dropped
24:03
Speaker 1: with Steve Rabel Seahawks rewind Here Incident analysis right after
24:06
Speaker 1: each and every Seahawks game on Seahawks Radio Network, Catch
24:10
Speaker 1: interviews reaction from palm Oyer, Michael Bumps, Robert Turban and
24:13
Speaker 1: Ray Roberts. Bump you mentioned it. Send us out on
24:16
Speaker 1: a victory at home Seahawks needed. Let's let's go one
24:19
Speaker 1: another this week. The people won a victory. Let's get
24:22
Speaker 1: it done against the Detroit Lions at home. That was
24:25
Speaker 1: Hawk Talk Preview Week seventeen. Seahawks at home burst the
24:29
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions on Michael Bumps, he is NASA Choby talked
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Speaker 1: you guys some