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Super Bowl LX Recap: How The Seahawks Dismantled The Patriots From Start To Finish · Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome to the inside the Birds Super Bowl Recap.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Moscher. I have been previewing, as you know,
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: every game all week or every NFL weekend, from the
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: kickoff to all throughout the playoffs, and I figured it
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: would be a good way to end the year with
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: a recap of the Super Bowl. I was not able
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: to do it instantly after the game. I had a
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: lot of things going on, including my daughters's birthdays, but
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: I did want to put a bow here on the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl won by the Seahawks twenty nine to thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Was it a great Super Bowl?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Was it fun and exciting? Not really, But that's not
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  Speaker 1: here or there. The Seahawks win twenty nine to thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: an absolutely dominant performance on defense, and they win their
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: first Super Bowl since twenty thirteen. The reality is the
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: game was over very very early. You could see that
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: while both teams started off with good defensive pressure, Seattle's
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: defensive pressure was not only good and effective, but it
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  Speaker 1: confused the Patriots and they really did not know how
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  Speaker 1: to adjust. And that's on Josh McDaniels. That's on Drake
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  Speaker 1: May you know, it's just basically you give credit to Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: What they did was they came out and threw a
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  Speaker 1: couple of second level blitzes early on at Drake May who, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he's been banged up. He's been banged up. We talked
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: about this. He's been taking a lot of hits. His
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: offensive line is not that great. We'll get to that
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  Speaker 1: in a second. He's a young quarterback in his second
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  Speaker 1: year going up against you know, an in credit a
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  Speaker 1: very very good defense, and they did some things differently,
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: which you do in the Super Bowl. You get two
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  Speaker 1: weeks to prepare. You know, you have to show. You
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: always see trick plays. Didn't see as many this time,
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  Speaker 1: but the Super Bowl is always known for, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one team, if not both, really pulling something out that
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  Speaker 1: was special for that game that hasn't been seen before
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  Speaker 1: or done much. And of course that's what Seattle did.
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  Speaker 1: They came out with a couple of blitzes, got a
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  Speaker 1: few free rides, few hits on the quarterback. The left
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  Speaker 1: tackle for the Patriots is an issue. He's been an
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  Speaker 1: issue throughout the playoffs. They did win fourteen games in
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  Speaker 1: the regular season with him. But I would say that
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: this is something I mentioned in the Super Bowl preview
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots deserve all the credit they get. And I
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  Speaker 1: know Mike Vrabel won Coach of the Year and Drake
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  Speaker 1: May had a fantastic year finished runner up MVP. They
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  Speaker 1: played a very, very week schedule, all right. They were
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  Speaker 1: the number two seed in the AFC. That doesn't mean
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: they were the second best team in the AFC. It
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  Speaker 1: just meant they had the second best record. We all
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  Speaker 1: know that every team plays different schedules, all right, So
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots were a vastly improved team. Drake May was
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  Speaker 1: a vastly improved player, but he still did a couple
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  Speaker 1: of things throughout the year and even in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: that were warning signs. He holds onto the ball too long.
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  Speaker 1: Second year player, he's going to do that. He's a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous athlete, so he's able to get himself out of
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  Speaker 1: some pressures. But I thought he waited too long. You know,
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: he took early hits. His offensive line didn't Helton. I
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  Speaker 1: thought there were times that maybe he should drop back,
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  Speaker 1: see it if it's not their run, because he did
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: that in the snowstorm against Denver. He's done it at
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  Speaker 1: times throughout the year. But really, the advanced metrics on
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  Speaker 1: him say that he holds on to the ball as
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  Speaker 1: long as any quarterback in the league, and to his detriment,
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  Speaker 1: he took sacks because of it. And in the playoffs,
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: when you're facing the best of the best, that stuff
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  Speaker 1: can come back to haunt you. And the same thing
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  Speaker 1: with the left tackle. He was able to survive all
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: year long despite the fact that you know, his quarterback
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  Speaker 1: took some hits. This quarterback bailed him out by using
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  Speaker 1: athletic plays. But Campbell's knock on him coming out of
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  Speaker 1: LSU was that he is a short armed tackle and
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  Speaker 1: some people felt he would really struggle at tackle and
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  Speaker 1: you'd have to play him at guard. And after watching
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  Speaker 1: the game, I'm not so sure that isn't correct. I
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  Speaker 1: know people may have felt he may have felt validated
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  Speaker 1: by going getting throughout the year and Patriots getting the
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  Speaker 1: number two seed and having a good year in him
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  Speaker 1: starting at left tackle. But when he faces edge defenders
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  Speaker 1: who are long armed and stout, you know, like the
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  Speaker 1: guys from the Texans who gave him issues in the
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  Speaker 1: second round. You know, obviously in the championship game, the
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  Speaker 1: guys from the Broncos gave him issues. He faces these
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  Speaker 1: long armed guys who can get there hands into his
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  Speaker 1: chest before he can. He was walked back into Drake
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  Speaker 1: May's lap at least three or four times in the
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  Speaker 1: first quarter alone. He really struggled, and he had May
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  Speaker 1: under duress, and then with the Seahawks blitzing on top
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  Speaker 1: of that early, it just threw New England's offense into
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  Speaker 1: total dysfunction and May did not look good. He had
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  Speaker 1: a terrible Super Bowl. You know, we'll see if he
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  Speaker 1: learns from it and he can get back At two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and ninety five yards. Looks good on the stat sheet,
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  Speaker 1: but you guys all saw it. Even the sixty three
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  Speaker 1: percent completion percentage not that great. His passer rating really
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  Speaker 1: tells the story. At seventy nine point one, six sacts,
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  Speaker 1: two interceptions. Now it's gonna be said. I think that
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  Speaker 1: Drake May. The moment was too big for Drake May.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about that. He didn't play well, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not like he had five or six sects in
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  Speaker 1: the pocket all the time and he just made poor throws.
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  Speaker 1: He was under dress, he was hit hard, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: find good times to run when he should have. But
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  Speaker 1: he didn't look like to me a deer in the headlights.
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  Speaker 1: He looked to me like a guy whose internal clock
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  Speaker 1: was sped up because of the defensive pressure. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: sped up because of perceived pressure. He wasn't in the
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  Speaker 1: pocket getting antsy and jittery when nothing was there, or
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  Speaker 1: just because the pocket was closing around him. He was
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  Speaker 1: getting hit. He's getting hit a lot. He's getting hit
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  Speaker 1: often by a good team. The best defense in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL was playing like the best defense in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know that it was that he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: ready for the that the moment was too big for him.
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  Speaker 1: I just think as a second year quarterback, he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: seen any everything. He's on a huge stage for the
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  Speaker 1: first time. His offensive line is letting him down, and
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  Speaker 1: his his internal clock is sped up to the point
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  Speaker 1: where he had about three or four passes that weren't terrible.
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  Speaker 1: They were either right off an outstretched hand. There were
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  Speaker 1: a couple that were dropped, and then he had a
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  Speaker 1: bunch that were thrown behind because his internal clock was
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  Speaker 1: sped up, and that just led up led to a
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  Speaker 1: dysfunctional offense. And you know he bears the proNT of
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  Speaker 1: that for sure. He didn't play good. I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to sit here and tell you that Drake may played
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  Speaker 1: a good game where it wasn't bad. He was bad.
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  Speaker 1: The numbers are bad. The interception he threw after the
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  Speaker 1: touchdown to Hollins, when it looked like maybe they were
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: starting to get some rhythm. He gets that nice touchdown, Hollands,
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  Speaker 1: great catch in the fourth quarter. All of a sudden,
• 7:42
  Speaker 1: it's nineteen seven, they get the ball back, and then
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: he tries to throw the deep over to Hollins. Again.
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  Speaker 1: I forget who he was trying to throw the deep
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  Speaker 1: over to, but it was nowhere near the receiver and
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  Speaker 1: then it was picked off and that was basically Cyanara
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: as Julian Love, the former Giant, picked it off. That
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  Speaker 1: was Cyanora for the seat for the Patriots. That was
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  Speaker 1: a bad throw. That throat in itself looked like the
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  Speaker 1: throw of a guy who maybe was crumbling in the moment.
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  Speaker 1: But again, that was the fourth quarter. It was nineteen seven.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like, you know, that's a twelve point game.
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  Speaker 1: They had generated a little bit of offense on their
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  Speaker 1: drive before a nice thirty five yard touchdown. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like this guy was throwing picks left and right. I
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  Speaker 1: mean when he fumbled it's because he was hit hard,
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  Speaker 1: which he did twice. This was a masterclass by Seattle's defense.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, they faced a team that, let's be honest,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say. I think it's fair
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  Speaker 1: to say the Patriots shouldn't have been in the Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned this last show. This is not back their
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  Speaker 1: second guessing. I mentioned that they kind of got lot,
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: you know. I mean, they faced Jared's did him in
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  Speaker 1: the AFC Championship. I think if bo Nicks were playing
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  Speaker 1: that game, that the Broncos would have had a much better
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  Speaker 1: chance of winning the game. I mean Stidham really made
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  Speaker 1: some terrible talk about the moment being too big. That
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  Speaker 1: was an example. I mean he's throwing balls with both
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  Speaker 1: of his hands like touch passes and just making bad decisions.
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  Speaker 1: And of course the snowstorm that came and that that
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton made a bad didn't made a bad decision
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  Speaker 1: and not take the three on the second after they
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: scored the touchdown the next drive. So I think the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots in that regard got a little lucky. And then
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  Speaker 1: even in the AFC Divisional round, they played a Texas
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  Speaker 1: team that didn't have Nico Collins, that's their best player.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the Patriots were the second best team
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  Speaker 1: in the AAC. I actually think or the best team,
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  Speaker 1: I should say. I think the Broncos were better. And
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: maybe if the Texans had Nico Collins, things would have
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  Speaker 1: been a little bit different in that game. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but listen, they were there. I'm not trying to take
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  Speaker 1: credit away from him. I'm just trying to say this
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  Speaker 1: was the Super Bowl, was the NFC Championship between the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks and the Rams. Those were the two best teams
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. You want to tell me the Broncos maybe, okay,
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  Speaker 1: top three, but I don't think the Patriots were a
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  Speaker 1: top three team in the NFL. They give him a
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  Speaker 1: lot of credit. They won a bunch of games, they
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  Speaker 1: survived all year long on Drake May evolving into one
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  Speaker 1: of the better deep ball throwers in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: But when you came down to having to face the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks and they're great defense and your best weapon, you
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  Speaker 1: knew they were going to take the run game out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you just know the Seahawks are not going
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  Speaker 1: to get beat by Ramandre Stevenson or Trevieran Henderson and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't, so you knew that Drake May was going
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: to have to play like an MVP candidate. And honestly,
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: when you know Steph Diggs is your best player and
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  Speaker 1: your second second best player in the receiving corps, who
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: I mean is it is Pop Douglas. I mean mac
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: collins was their leader in receiving yards, and I think
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: that's a problem when thirty one year old mc collins
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  Speaker 1: is your leading receiver. So I just don't think the
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  Speaker 1: Patriots had enough firepower, and especially when they didn't have
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  Speaker 1: the protection that they needed to give Drake May time
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  Speaker 1: to find those guys, but they have a good foundation.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: Will be tough for them to get back. Yeah, it'll
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: be tough, obviously. You know, the Bills are going to
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: rebuild and retool a little bit and try to get
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen a little more help. And it's been a
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: rare It was a rare season for the AFC where
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: you didn't have Lamar Jackson or Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see, you know, obviously, Mike Vrabel's a good coach.
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  Speaker 1: McDaniel's a good coordinator may made strides, but you know,
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: they really need a little bit more help on the
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: offensive line, and they need a little more help in
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: the past game especially. I like what I saw from Henderson.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: Trevion Henderson is a rookie running back. He'll continue to improve.
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  Speaker 1: Defense looked very good. You know, that's the thing that
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: gets lost in this is that, you know, what would
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  Speaker 1: the score have been. It was twelve to nothing at halftime,
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  Speaker 1: what would the score have been if the Patriots didn't
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: have Christian Gonzalez, who you know broke batted away one
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: pass deep down the field. I don't know if that
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: one would have definitely been caught, but it was a
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: hell of a job for him batting the ball away.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: The second one was in the end zone covering Smith
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: and Jigba, and I got a good feeling that would
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: have been caught if he didn't bat it away. So
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: you might have had a situation where at that point
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  Speaker 1: it became, you know, sixteen nothing instead of uh, let's
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: see twelve nothing, right, it could have been sixteen nothing,
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: and then you know you're you have even more points
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: there going forward, and your your offense is in a rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: The Seahawks were just dominant. They they had a They
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  Speaker 1: were better than not only the Patriots offense, but they
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: were even better than the Patriots defense, and the Patriots
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: defense was pretty good. Sam Darnold got into a rhythm
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: in the second half, you know, obviously led him on
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: four field goal drives. To start off with the touchdown
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  Speaker 1: to Barner was a really well scripted play. Action from
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  Speaker 1: under center got Barner completely free in the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: Good pass. That's a Clint Kubiak special right there. A
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  Speaker 1: little I think it was split flow arrangement with the
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  Speaker 1: tight end who's crossing the line of scrimmage, takes gets
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: everybody shifting and then the next thing you know, the
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: tight ends running in the opposite direction, he's open. You
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: see that with McVeigh offenses, and look the Eagles fans,
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: you're hoping to see that with the Sean Mannion offense.
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  Speaker 1: Some under center, some motion, some play action, and some
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  Speaker 1: easy defined reads for the quarterback to get the ball
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  Speaker 1: to his targets. And that was a really nice play.
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  Speaker 1: Was it a great pass? It didn't have to be.
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  Speaker 1: It was fine, But it was really the play call
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  Speaker 1: and the situation that set that up. And then when
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  Speaker 1: they went up nineteen to nothing, like I said it was,
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  Speaker 1: it looked over. Patriots get the touchdown and make it
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seven. But then right away, even after a Seahawks
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: three and out, Patriots get the ball back. May throws
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: the interception and then from then it's Cyanara no good.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: You know, the Patriots don't have it from there. Obviously.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big, big accomplished from Mike McDonald in his
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: second year as the Seahawks head coach. He has put
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: together a brilliant defense that doesn't have a guy who
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: is a star caliber player like a Micah Parsons or
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: a you know, a Trey Hendricks, and someone's gonna get
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: you twelve to fifteen sacks right a year. He doesn't
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: have that kind of player, but he has so many
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: good players in the secondary and a lot of really good,
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: long athletic players up front. If you didn't know much
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: about Darrek Hall, he clearly won that matchup against Campbell.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: All right, NUOSU. Good player has been a good player
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: in the league for a couple of years. Mafe comes
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: in off the bench. Jaron reed Dexter Lawrence who called
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: a shot. Tank Lawrence said, I'm sorry, DeMarcus Lawrence, said,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence. DeMarcus Lawrence called his shot. He left the
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Cowboys signed with Seahawks. He made a controversial mark that said,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: I loved my time in Dallas, but I knew I
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: couldn't win the Super Bowl there. At the time, Micah
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Parsons criticized him because Parsons was still with the Cowboys.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Other Cowboys criticized them. Well, what guess what, he was right.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: He still had Joe left in the tank, no pun intended,
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  Speaker 1: and he goes to Seattle, does a great job amazingly.
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  Speaker 1: I think they I read his wife was something like
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: thirty six weeks pregnant and she was at the game there.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Good for him that he was able to play in
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: the game, and I don't believe his wife went into labor.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I'm and warrior the safety very good, kind of the
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: centerpiece to everything they do. And good for former Eagle
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Josh job who. Let's be real, he got away with
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: punching Steph Diggs there and some unnecessary rough I mean
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: they didn't even throw a flag. He not only hit
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: him late, but then he punched him in a scrum.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: Not great for Josh Job there, but a good game.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: He'll make a nice payday in free agency. In general,
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: most of these Seahawks I believe will be back. I
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: don't think they have a ton of free agents. Byron Murphy,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: their first round pick is really good. So the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: will certainly be a team that is in contention next year.
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  Speaker 1: Now they have to deal with the same thing that
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the Eagles just dealt with and losing their offensive coordinator.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: The Eagles won the Super Bowl, they lost Kellen Moore
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: to the New Orleans Saints head coaching job. Now the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks will lose Clint Kubiak to the Raiders. Good luck
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: to Clint Kubiak there, he'll become their head coach, and
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: now the Seahawks have to find the right guy. And
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: this is a big deal because the Seahawks, the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 1: they were, they were at ten and seventeen in two.
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  Speaker 1: They're a good team, but they weren't a great team,
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  Speaker 1: all right, And then they made the really bold decision.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing they did was they hired Clint Kubiak.
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  Speaker 1: That well, the first thing Mike McDonald did was fire
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Grubb, his offensive coordinator, who came from University of Washington.
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  Speaker 1: He was there and put together that offense that was
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: so explosive with Pennix, with Roma Dunes, Jail McMillan, all
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  Speaker 1: those guys from Washington who had a great you know,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: they went to the National Championship Game, lost to Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: But Ryan Grubb didn't farewell in his first year in
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: the NFL, and so Mike McDonald made the difficult decision
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  Speaker 1: to part ways with him. Hired Clint Kubiak. Totally changed
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: the offense. When you hire Clint Kubiak, you're getting a
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Shanahan style of offense. And so the next thing they
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: did was get a better fit for that system. So
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: they trade Gino Smith to the Raiders, and then they
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: signed Sam Donald in free agency. Donald just comes off
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: a great year playing for Kevin O'Connell with the Vikings,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: and so you see some similarity there. O'Connell runs. You know,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: O'Connell's from the same McVeigh Shanahan style. Tree. Kubiak, who
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: at one point also coached in Minnesota offensive coordinator, takes
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: over the offense. He has the right fit because Sam
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: had played in a similar offense the year before, and
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: that sentence the Seahawks becoming a much more efficient offensive team.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Not an explosive one. Jackson, Smith and Jigba is explosive,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: but in general you wouldn't call it a very prolific
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: explosive offense outside of the three to four big shots
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: you would get from down under center play action per
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: game from Donald to Smith and Jigba who and by
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the way, him coming back into the game, he had
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: a tough game, he laughed, got checked for concussion, had
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: ten targets, only caught four passes. You know, the Patriots
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: did a good job. Again, Gonzales did a really good
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: job on Smith and Jigba, but they moved Smith and
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Jigba around. Kopp came through with a really nice game
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: six for sixty one, had a huge third down catch,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and he's contributed a lot of big third down catches. Now,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald said something to the effect of Cooper Cup
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: should be a first ball, should be a Hall of Famer, Folks,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup is not a Hall of Famer. He has
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: had two years where he's been a thousand yard receiver. Okay,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I know he had the great year. I can't even
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: remember three or four years ago with the Rams where
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: he had the triple Crown. Okay, yards, receptions, touchdowns, all that.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: He was Super Bowl MVP. He was a great player
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: with the Rams. Okay, he had a great year. He's
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: also been banged up so much that he's not been
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the great player that he once was. He's a good player,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: he's an important player. But to say a guy with
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: two thousand yard seasons in six or seven years as
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer, I mean, I get it, you're
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: in the U four fouria of winning a Super Bowl.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Everything is great, but that was kind of a ridiculous statement.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I don't think Cooper Cup is going to be a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. And Walker, you know, was the Super
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Bowl MVP. He did an excellent job. Didn't score a touchdown,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: but you know, ran the ball really efficiently and really
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: well one hundred and thirty five rushing yards against again,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a Patriots defense that was really good, played really well
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: for the most part, held you know, held the Seahawks
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: to four field goals in the first half, as the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Seahawks moved the ball but just couldn't get that, you know,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: they just they couldn't get the ball into the end
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: zone in the first half because the Patriots did a
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: good job themselves of pressuring up the a gaps. Seattle's
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: interior offensive line is not good. The center in the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: right guard are both ranked low and PFF's pass blocking grades.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: And when you operate mainly or a lot out of
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: under center play action, those are slow developing plays. Your
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: quarterback has to take the ball, turn his back to
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the defense, fake the handoff, turn around, set his feet,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and throw. It's an effective play when you get the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: defense to bite on play action, but it's not always
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: an effective play when you're facing a defense that's gonna
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: blitz and bring more players than you can block, because
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: as soon as you turn around, as soon as you're
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the quarterback and you fake the handoff and you turn around,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: you got a guy running through the a gap in
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: your face. It's tough. And you saw Darnold made some
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: really nice throws early on the first second quarter under
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: duress while he was getting hit, threaded a couple windows
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: and that's why they were able to get those four
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: field goals. But a lot of times he was also
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: making throws that were off the mark because his internal
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: clock was sped up too. He's trying to get the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: ball out. He made a few throws that should have
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: been picked. And we already mentioned the two throws that
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Gonzalez got his hands on. So wasn't a great day
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: for quarterbacks. Two good defenses going up against it. Now,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you might hear that this Seahawks defense that they call
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the dark Side is up there with the greatest Super
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Bowl defenses ever. I've already heard that leading a Boom Ravens,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and I'm just not there, Listen, I am not there.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: This was a very good defense. They were the best
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: defense in the NFL. It was a defensive year. But
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I just can't put them in the elite company. You know,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I wasn't old. I wasn't old enough to see the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Steel Curtain Steelers. Okay, they won a bunch of Super Bowls,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: they had a bunch of Hall of Famers. So I've
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: never watched the Steel Curtain outside of some foot old footage.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna guess that this Seahawks defense probably isn't
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: on par with them. I think the you know, the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Lawrence Taylor Giants that just crushed the Broncos in the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl and then upset the Bills in the infamous
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Scott Norwood Wide Ride game. That was a really, really
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: good defense as well. You have the of course, the
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: two thousand Ravens defense, the Legion of Boom. Yeah, I'm
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: not sure I can put this Seattle Seahawks defense in
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: that echelon. Maybe if they win a couple more Super Bowls,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: we'll look back on this one differently. But I think
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: this is a very good defense. But you have to
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: also look at the other side of the field. You know,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the Patriots were not very good offensively. Again, you know,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: it was a down year for offense in the NFL.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Whenever the Seahawks had to play the Rams, they won
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the games, but they gave up a lot of points.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I mean they were given up There were hemorrhaging points
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: against the Rams and quickly too. So I can't really
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: sit here and say this Seattle Seahawks defense is one
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: of the greatest of all times. In the Divisional round,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I mean they played a forty nine ers team that
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: had nothing, That had nothing, I mean George Kittle was
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: lost against the Eagles in the wild card round. No receivers.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: I mean they had Christian McCaffrey. That's just about it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: So I can't until they shut down in a big
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: playoff game or a Super Bowl game, one of the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: big quarterbacks, whether it's a Mahomes or whether it's Josh Allen,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: you know, something like that, even if they have to
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: face Hurts and the Eagles or something like that, they're
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: just you know, I can't. Yes, they beat Stafford, but
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: they give up a lot of points to Stafford. Yes
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: they won the Super Bowl in dominant fashion, but I
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: cannot put them up there with the great great all
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: time defenses.
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  Speaker 1: one and up. There have been some good teams that
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: have won a championship because of their defense that their defense, though,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: wasn't considered one of the greatest of all times. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Peyton Manning's last Super Bowl with the Broncos when
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  Speaker 1: they beat who the heck they beat the Panthers, right,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: that was a really good Broncos defense that basically took
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the job. I mean, they took the wheel. If you
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: remember that game, Peyton Manning, you know he was not
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I think his neck was starting to bother again physically.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: He was not the Peyton Manning that we all knew.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: And so what Gary Kubiak did was say, we're gonna
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: run the ball, We're gonna play very conservatively and let
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: our defense win. Von Miller was had a couple of
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: sacks and a couple of forced fumbles. He was the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: MVP of that game. That was a really good defense
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: by the Broncos. But you're not putting that Broncos defense
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: that year up with some of the legendary defenses of
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: all times. And that's where that's where I'm at here
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: with the Seahawks dark side defense, very good. We'll see
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: if they can win a few more. I just don't
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: know that they have anybody. I like Witherspoon, I like
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: im and Worry. I'm not trying to downplay them. I
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: like Murphy, their lineman. I don't know if that's to
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: me equivalent to having Role Thomas, to having Richard Sherman Chancellor.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: They had some pretty good studs up front. They had
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Michael Bennett, they had April Bobby Wagner. You know, he
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: was probably gonna go to the Hall of Fame at linebacker.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: So I just can't put this team with the legion
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: of boom yet. They're gonna have to get back to
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, if not next year soon and then
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: they're gonna have to beat some you know, a couple
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: of really really big time offenses or big time quarterbacks
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: for me to look at the dark side defense and say, yes,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: they can take their place among the echelon of the
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: great dynastic NFL defenses throughout the history of the sport.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: So that's about it. I think that we've covered it.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Congratulations to the Seahawks. You know, obviously they had a
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: wonderful season. This is not the team a lot of
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: people felt would be Super Bowl champions at the end,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: but you kind of as the season was going on,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: you could see how well that defense was playing. You
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: could see Darnold really starting to fit within the offense.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: And even though I felt that the Rams were the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: best team in football, by the last month of the season,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: you could see the Seahawks were playing excellent football and
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: it was gonna come down to those two teams most likely,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: which it did, and they were able to edge the
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Rams and get into the playoffs with the number one seed,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: and from there it was pretty much, I don't want
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: to say it was a given, but they looked like
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: they were on track to get to the Super Bowl.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: And then at that point, it just became who are
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: you gonna face. You're gonna face the Broncos, You're gonna
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: face the Patriots. Is it gonna be like the Jags
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: or the Texans one of those defensive oriented teams with
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the Bills gonna finally do it with Josh Allen. But
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I think this Seahawks team would have beaten any of
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: those teams, to be honest with you, but I do
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: believe some of the other teams might have given the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Seahawks a better game. And we will leave it at that.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: That has been the Super Bowl XL Recap. This was
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the last recap show of the twenty twenty five season.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: It's officially over, and as I told you, not only
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: am I going to do some some more stuff like
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: this in the off season, kind of going through the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: news that is in the NFL and giving you my
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: opinion on it. But Adam Kaplan and I will do
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: some NFL oriented shows as well as we you know,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: look at the NFL and how it changes this offseason,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and see who'll be ready to be back in twenty
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: twenty six to compete for the next Super Bowl, which
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: will be in California again at SOFI Stadium in Los Angeles.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: All right, everybody, thanks for watching all season long. Really
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: appreciate the feedback everything, all the audience, the views, the listens.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it all and look forward to doing it again
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: as we go along. Have a great one.