1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: A strange game yesterday, you know, honestly, Hugh, and welcome in. 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us to this softies out today and tomorrow. 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 1: He'll be back on Wednesday. To be honest, I thought 4 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,039 Speaker 1: that this was going to be a game where we 5 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: had forty five to fifty five minutes of angst. I 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 1: just felt like, you know, I thought the Seahawks would win, 7 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:21,480 Speaker 1: of course, but going into the game, I like the 8 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,080 Speaker 1: I liked the Falcons plus the points. 9 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 2: I was like, this just kind of. 10 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: Seems to me like a lower scoring game where the 11 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 1: defense shows up but maybe the offense doesn't because that 12 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: Atlanta team is pretty good on that side of the ball. 13 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,559 Speaker 1: And at halftime I was like, damn, this looks like 14 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 1: the game I thought. But then sometimes one play can 15 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 1: just completely change a game because my level of concern 16 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: at halftime versus my level of concern ten seconds after 17 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: halftime when our new guy Shaheed took it all the 18 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: way for the touchdown. At that point, I was like, 19 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 1: I don't even know if the Hawks need to score 20 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: any more points to win this game. I thought thirteen 21 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: might be enough against the offense I saw in Atlanta, 22 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 1: and it turned out to be the case. And good 23 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 1: on the Hawks for just turning in on in the 24 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: last thirty minutes that football game. Your thoughts from thirty 25 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: thousand feet on what you saw. 26 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think where there was concern is, first of all, 27 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 3: you look at Atlanta. They have a good offensive line, 28 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 3: and I thought that they did a good job of 29 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 3: moving the line of scrimmage. I thought that the defensive line, 30 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,479 Speaker 3: for all of the accolades they had been given last week, 31 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 3: I thought that they played as poorly as they had 32 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 3: since Tampa Bay. And you've got Bijon Robinson, to my eye, 33 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 3: in many ways I could argue is the best running 34 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:49,440 Speaker 3: back in the NFL and specializing in that outside outside zone, 35 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,480 Speaker 3: and so behind a good line, and with him there 36 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 3: was a potential concern. And then you know Kirk Cousins, 37 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 3: Yeah he's aging and what have you. But you know, 38 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,760 Speaker 3: you alway think, okay, is he gonna put the clock 39 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 3: back and and have one of those big games. Hell, 40 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,920 Speaker 3: he's beat the Seahawks before with lesser teams, and and 41 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 3: so that was probably concern. And then of course, the 42 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 3: the defense of Atlanta and their their propensity to rush 43 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 3: and maybe present some of the similar type of challenges 44 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 3: that Seattle had failed against the Vikings. I think that 45 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:26,239 Speaker 3: was it. But yeah, you're right, Rashid Shihat. I mean, 46 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 3: if you know that that was a breathaking return and 47 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:31,920 Speaker 3: that's what you. 48 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 1: Got him for right there, and what he did on 49 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: offense in the second half. 50 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 3: Uh yeah, and you know that return. I mean, Mike 51 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 3: Morris deserves a shout out and Nick Caller up. They 52 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:46,640 Speaker 3: had a double team at the point of attack and 53 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 3: then Bobo, you know, had the most critical block. He 54 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 3: started to lose it and he chose not to hold, 55 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,640 Speaker 3: which is really difficult, and so she head had to 56 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 3: break a little bit of an a tackle there. That 57 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,639 Speaker 3: was Bobo's man. But you know, you're always thinking, you know, 58 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 3: I love it when the announcers say no flax as 59 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 3: a guy, you know, ten yards from the end zone, 60 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 3: you're play by play. 61 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: Because usually that's all your long confern on all long returns. 62 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: It almost seems like it's a fifty to fifty proposition 63 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:18,800 Speaker 1: that it's coming back when you get lost return. 64 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 3: But man, he has got a beautiful stride and he 65 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,519 Speaker 3: can go, and I mean it's just he's so smooth 66 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 3: in his in his upper body, so relaxed and I mean, 67 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,600 Speaker 3: that is just some some real heat that they're dealing 68 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 3: with when he gets in the open field. So it 69 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 3: was fine good to see that that manifest both in 70 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 3: the kickoff return and on offense. 71 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 2: Well, let's take this game, you know, kind of chronologically. 72 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 1: I know we started right in the middle with the 73 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: with the kickoff return, but that why I felt that 74 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: was the play that end of the game. Let's take 75 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 1: it back to the beginning because talk about Atlanta's defensive 76 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: front against the Hawks offensive line and what was causing 77 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: problems and why, like who was causing problems on the 78 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 1: Hawks offensive line, because it just it seemed like a 79 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: sieve earlier early in the game, and that Sam was 80 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: just under duress far too many times. 81 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 3: And most of that was coming from Charles Cross. He 82 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 3: was just getting beat. I mean, I was surprised that 83 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 3: the Falcons didn't, you know, after the Viking game, and 84 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 3: we've heard this term for years when you see your 85 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 3: team perform poorly in some area, say, okay, is that 86 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 3: now a blueprint that everybody's gonna follow? Well, it might 87 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 3: be if a team is inclined, you know, to run 88 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 3: similar schemes. You're not going to just reinvent yourself in 89 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,520 Speaker 3: one week because the Seahawks had a hard time with Minnesota. 90 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 3: But but I think Charles Cross was really getting pushed 91 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 3: back by you know a number of different defensive vans, 92 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 3: and early on in the first quarter, I think he 93 00:04:57,200 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 3: was the primary culprit causing uh problems for Seattle. Now 94 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 3: they you know, but they they lined up and and 95 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 3: they didn't do a lot of disguising the Falcons. I mean, 96 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 3: when they lined up in a too high structure, they 97 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 3: were just going to show you, hey, we're playing uh, 98 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:16,479 Speaker 3: you know, a four deep three under zone or maybe 99 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 3: rolling uh. And then when they played man and man, 100 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 3: it was pretty obvious. So there wasn't a lot of 101 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 3: of uh uh, you know, misdirection defensively from Atlanta, just 102 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 3: a couple of occasions where they were just beating Seattle physically. 103 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 3: I don't think they were fooled. I think they were 104 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 3: just beat physically. 105 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: And then Sam Darnald again we saw some of the 106 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: things that have concerned us in the past with Donald Rear, 107 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,719 Speaker 1: their ugly head in the in the first half and 108 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: I and the word that just keeps coming back to 109 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: me is rattled. 110 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:48,840 Speaker 2: Sam. 111 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: It seems like he gets rattled pretty easily. When the 112 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: pressure comes up, he seems he seems frantic when he's 113 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: in there. There's so many I think of a guy 114 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 1: like Drew Brees for example. And Drew Brees, I just 115 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: picture him in my mind's eye when he dropped back 116 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: to pass, it almost had he had this inate ability, 117 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: almost like he's got the force or something, and the 118 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:11,400 Speaker 1: pocket would collapse around him, and it almost could seem 119 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: like he could close his eyes and just take one 120 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: step to the left or one step to the right, 121 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: or one step up or one. 122 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 2: Step back, and he would be clear. He would like 123 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 2: clear himself. 124 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: And when I watched Sam, it seems like he drops 125 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: back and the pocket starts collapsing, and he just kind 126 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:28,799 Speaker 1: of goes into this I don't know what the freak 127 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 1: out mode, like he's just he's just moving all around, 128 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,280 Speaker 1: He's going this way in that when he doesn't really 129 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 1: know he doesn't have that feeling. Is that Is that 130 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: a fair criticism in what you're seeing with Sam Well? 131 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 3: First of all, regarding Drew Brees, Now I'm gonna relate 132 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 3: his story. I guess in a court of law this 133 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 3: is hearsay. But Trent Dilfer and I were discussing Drew Brees, 134 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 3: and what Dilford told me that he had had a 135 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 3: conversation with Breeze. So so I'm one person removed from 136 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 3: the actual source. And what Breeze told Dilfer is that 137 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 3: he told the franchise, hey, listen, we got you gotta 138 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 3: protect the middle of the offensive line. For me, I 139 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 3: don't care if the tackles aren't great. I can step 140 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 3: up into the pocket, but please guard the middle. And 141 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 3: if you go back and look, during those times, the 142 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 3: Saints were all you know, they draft, they traded for 143 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 3: Max Hunger. They always had guards that were at or 144 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 3: near the best guards in the league, in part because 145 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 3: Breeze had conveyed what he needs. And and so, uh, 146 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 3: I think here's Seattle. Now you know the weakness on that. 147 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 3: You know, certainly right guard and and center you get 148 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:46,520 Speaker 3: that interior pressure. Now, darnold, look, he's you know, he's 149 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 3: a big dude. You know, is he the most graceful 150 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:51,560 Speaker 3: looking athlete? No, I think I think some of that 151 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 3: is what you're talking about. You know, he tries to 152 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 3: find holes. You know, I think he does a pretty 153 00:07:57,360 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 3: good job of navigating the pocket. 154 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 2: And well he did take God. 155 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: In the second half, I thought he did a great 156 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 1: job of just taking off, and I would love to 157 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 1: see more of that from Sam because it seems every 158 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: time he takes off, every time he takes off and 159 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: runs for ten or fifteen yards, I say the same 160 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:13,240 Speaker 1: thing to myself. 161 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 2: Damn, he's pretty fast. 162 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:20,679 Speaker 3: Yeah he's good wheels, Yeah, that more yeah, yeah, indeed, 163 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 3: so I wouldn't. There was a time they had a 164 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,400 Speaker 3: curl flat. You know, it was a single high beater 165 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 3: to his left and Jackson Smith and Jigbo was coming 166 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 3: wide open, and if I was grading him on that play, 167 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 3: I think he could have stepped up and then just 168 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 3: kind of kept his eyes there. I thought he overreacted 169 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 3: on that play, so I would say what you described. 170 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 3: I definitely would would have given him a minus on 171 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 3: a play. But I think for the most part, he responded. 172 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 3: Because you want to avoid two extremes. You know, it's 173 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 3: like goldilocks in the porch, not too hot, not too cold, 174 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,959 Speaker 3: your your presence in the pocket. You don't want to 175 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 3: be an iron deer on a lawn, totally incapable of 176 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 3: helping out your offensive lineman with movement. But you don't 177 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 3: want to be fluttery at every little sign of odes. 178 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 3: You know, you know, you know, I thought I heard 179 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:16,720 Speaker 3: a butterfly. Oh let me get the hell out of here, 180 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 3: you know. So it's you. You're trying to make sure 181 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 3: that you're not at either extreme. And I think for 182 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 3: the most part, when he had to move, when he 183 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 3: did move, it was because he had to move. You know, 184 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 3: I wouldn't I wouldn't say it was a glaring problem. 185 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 4: You know. 186 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:38,559 Speaker 3: I think that they just you know, and we'll get 187 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:40,559 Speaker 3: to it in a second. But I think they they 188 00:09:40,640 --> 00:09:43,479 Speaker 3: changed their plan and started getting the ball distributed. 189 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: Let's talk about that, because I'm just gonna once again 190 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: remind folks what the first half drives looked like versus 191 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: the first five drives in the second half. I mean, 192 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: the Seahawks in the first half went three plays minus 193 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: ten yards. Then they had a nice drive but couldn't 194 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 1: cap it off with a touchdo on twelve play seventy yards. 195 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: Then they threw a pick after three yard three plays, 196 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: Then they putted after three plays, and then they ended 197 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,679 Speaker 1: the half with a seven play, forty five yard forty 198 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 1: five yard drive for a field goal. 199 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 2: That's it. That's all for the first half. 200 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 1: Then, of course you've got the touchdown on the special teams, 201 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 1: But the first four drives after the touchdown on the 202 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: special teams, eight plays eighty eight yards touchdown. Six plays 203 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: twenty eight yards field goal after the pick, eight plays 204 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 1: fifty nine yards field goal. Six plays sixty excuse me, 205 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,079 Speaker 1: the field goal was the Falcons. Six play sixty yards 206 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: touchdown for Seattle. Six plays thirty five yards touchdown for Seattle. 207 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 1: So Seattle goes in the third and fourth quarter until 208 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: the game was essentially over. Touchdown, touchdown, field goal, touchdown, touchdown. 209 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 2: Let's talk about what will. 210 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: Be the number one, number two reasons behind the dramatic 211 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: improvement in the offense in the second half. 212 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,839 Speaker 3: Well, as I watched the game, I even know it 213 00:10:58,880 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 3: was texting with some friends, and I'm like, they got 214 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 3: to get Barner involved, like they got to get the 215 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 3: ball distributed around, and that was when things were really 216 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:12,760 Speaker 3: kind of sucking in. And you know, I apologies to 217 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,400 Speaker 3: the our P one listeners, you know, I had this. 218 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 3: I think it was the key to the turnaround, and 219 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 3: so I wasn't gonna withhold it from Chuck and Buck 220 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 3: this morning. So unfortunately, I'm just gonna have to repeat it, 221 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 3: and to me, the real juncture was not halftime, It 222 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,600 Speaker 3: was slightly before the line of demarcation for me was 223 00:11:34,720 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 3: prior to that last drive of the second quarter, right 224 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 3: with fifty seven seconds to go, just to refresh your memory, 225 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 3: the Falcons had just kicked the field goal, They're up 226 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 3: six to three, Seattle gets the ball, and you know, 227 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:50,199 Speaker 3: things had been a mess. In fact, how much of 228 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 3: a mess they were on a pace at that juncture 229 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 3: if you go literally down to the second in pro rate, 230 00:11:56,480 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 3: they were on a pace to throw for seventy six 231 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 3: yards from that point on. They they threw it at 232 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 3: a pace that would be a four hundred and eleven 233 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:13,600 Speaker 3: yard passing day, not offense, just passing. So they really 234 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 3: changed what they did. 235 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:17,079 Speaker 1: But tempo kind of helped in that second quarter too. 236 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: Sometimes we saw that with the Russell Wilson Seahawks, where. 237 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,520 Speaker 3: Their offense was doing you're gonna you're gonna go, and 238 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 3: you're gonna go hurry up for sure, you know, and 239 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,160 Speaker 3: get under a minute. Right. But but prior to that 240 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:34,319 Speaker 3: drive in Jigba had been fifty five percent of the 241 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 3: targets and seventy percent of the passing yards up to 242 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:42,320 Speaker 3: that point. From that point on the target, the target 243 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 3: percentage goes falls from fifty five percent to Jason just 244 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 3: to just twenty one percent, and the yards fall from 245 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,560 Speaker 3: seventy percent to just thirty one percent. So so here 246 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 3: we have this massive burst of passing prowess right to 247 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,040 Speaker 3: the tune of at a pace for four hundred and 248 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 3: eleven yards for a sixty minute game, and we had 249 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 3: a drastic reduction in the amount of targeting JSN. Let's 250 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,959 Speaker 3: get the ball around. In fact, the very first now 251 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 3: the first offensive sequence was was the kickoff return. But 252 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 3: when Seattle got the ball back their first pass of 253 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 3: the third quarter, which is often an indicator of what 254 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 3: they want to do. What you know, you said, hey, 255 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 3: within our game plan, we like this play. They went 256 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 3: out and they they ran to the They put Jackson 257 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 3: Smith and Jigma to the left as the single receiver 258 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 3: X receiver. 259 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 5: And. 260 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 3: The the Falcons rolled the coverage to that side, to 261 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:51,559 Speaker 3: the trip side to Sam Darnold's right. They had three 262 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 3: receivers and they ran what's called a three man levels 263 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 3: concept where you got the innermost guy runs fiveive yards 264 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 3: and in, and then the middle guy runs ten to 265 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 3: twelve yards and in and then the widest guy close 266 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 3: to the sideline also runs a five yard So you 267 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 3: got two guys running five yard in and the middle 268 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 3: guy running an eleven yard in. Okay, that's a level 269 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:17,319 Speaker 3: Peyton manning through for ten thousand yards on various level structures. 270 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 3: I was on a team that on that one we 271 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 3: would call ohio because it sounds like low high low. 272 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 3: The first one's low, the second one's high, and then 273 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 3: and then we had another one who was Idaho, which 274 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 3: the first guy is high, the deepest one, and then 275 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 3: the next two or low gotchach. So there's different ways 276 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 3: of doing three man level. So if you're following with me, 277 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,800 Speaker 3: they run ohio on the first pass, which is again 278 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 3: is an indicator of what they were thinking at halftime. 279 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:47,080 Speaker 3: You know who is the middle guy running the twelve 280 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 3: yard in. 281 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: Boots, Robbietes boots, Robbie oots, Robbie oots. 282 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 3: They put him in the slot, and I guarantee you 283 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 3: you could run that play a thousand times. Sam Darnold 284 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 3: ain't throwing no freaking twelve yard dig to rob No. 285 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 3: But what they wanted to do is just say, hey, 286 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 3: how are you going to adjust to this formation? And 287 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 3: and how are you going to cover? And then it 288 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 3: was a night because of the distributor, Like what number 289 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 3: forty's gonna run a twelve yard in? Like all of 290 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 3: a sudden, now we get barner on on the five 291 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 3: yard in. It's the easiest completion. Sam Darnold could have 292 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 3: completed that pass when he was in fourth grade. But 293 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 3: it was it was all made by just just little 294 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 3: tiny tweaks. This is what what uh you know? Off 295 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,160 Speaker 3: offensive coordinators? Did you know they say, hey, we got 296 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:37,160 Speaker 3: Ohio in And I'm not saying they call it ohio. 297 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 3: But since I've explained the terminology, we'll stick with that 298 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 3: terminology for for the moment. But we're gonna put our 299 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 3: fullback is not not the five yard that might have 300 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 3: made us. He's running the twelve yard on the middle. 301 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 3: The most complex. You know, you got to read, hey, 302 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 3: do you if there's an overhanging defender, do you take 303 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 3: an outside release or inside release? And why? Like you 304 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 3: got to have an understand of now Jackson Smith and 305 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 3: Jigbob would tell you why, right, But Robbie Uta, he's 306 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 3: just gonna run down and hang a left, you know 307 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 3: at the buick exactly like you're playing in the street 308 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 3: like so so did any event really cool adjustments getting 309 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 3: away from JSN. But then paradoxically JSN uh when they 310 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 3: got to manned a man instead of rolling coverage in 311 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 3: his own when they got to mand a man and 312 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 3: the way the Falcons were pressing, pressing is a man 313 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 3: and man term z right back to eleven. Then he 314 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 3: he he had an inbreaking route. He takes an inside 315 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 3: release in breaking routes, he got he got the leverage 316 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 3: and you know, uh, and then you know, good night, 317 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 3: thirty yarder and then a twenty eight yarder for the touchdown. 318 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 3: Bam bam. So he was he was still featured, but 319 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 3: it was because the Seattle was moving the ball around 320 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 3: to others and then oh yeah, now we can get 321 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 3: the single coverage to uh to JSN and get. 322 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 2: The touchdown here breed love mellon joe us. 323 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: Until about five point thirty tonight, we got a lot 324 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 1: to get to. And at four o'clock, Representative Adam Smith 325 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 1: is going to talk a little college football, in fact 326 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,679 Speaker 1: the Score Act, and is what is going on with that? 327 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 1: Will we have a score Act voted upon in Congress 328 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: for college football to help give it some organization. 329 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,880 Speaker 2: But more Seahawks. Talk with you right around the corner 330 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:22,959 Speaker 2: on ninety three point three KJRFM. 331 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:27,680 Speaker 5: From the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio. Now 332 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:31,119 Speaker 5: back to Softie and Dick on your home for the Huskies, 333 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,520 Speaker 5: Kraken and the twelfth Man Sports Radio ninety three point 334 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 5: three kJ R. 335 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 3: F fifty. 336 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: Last week and if blocked another special teams played Nicky man. 337 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 4: Lorie with a rejection third and three because it's deflected, 338 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 4: and even Horrie off the deflection from his chest. 339 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 2: With the interception. 340 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 1: Heard on draft weekend was the word freak to describe 341 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: Nicki man Worri And my goodness, I thought this guy 342 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,159 Speaker 1: would take a little bit to actually acclimate himself to 343 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:18,200 Speaker 1: the NFL, and instead he is just, you know, three 344 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: months into his pro football career, is looking like a 345 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:25,520 Speaker 1: pro bowler, Hugh, and on every level. I mean, yeah, 346 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 1: PFF didn't great him as great in the secondary and coverage, 347 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:35,639 Speaker 1: but that blocked field goal. And I know nothing about 348 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,439 Speaker 1: special teams and I'll throw it over to you, former holder, 349 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: And in all the special teams meetings, you know, he've 350 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: been in a thousand special teams meeting. Is that obviously 351 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:48,640 Speaker 1: it's an athletic skill. It's a trait to be able 352 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:50,640 Speaker 1: to get around the edge like that. And I heard 353 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 1: you mentioned this morning that that's usually like a cornerback 354 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: and not a guy the size of Nicky man Worri 355 00:18:55,320 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 1: that's turned in the corner like that. But to get 356 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:00,440 Speaker 1: your hand out there, is that a skill or did 357 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 1: he just get lucky where his hand was placed, because 358 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 1: it just seems to me how you could possibly time 359 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,639 Speaker 1: and block a field goal with one hand like that 360 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:10,960 Speaker 1: without the element of luck. 361 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:11,879 Speaker 2: I don't know, man. 362 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,159 Speaker 3: Yeah, they try and work on the timing of that. 363 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:17,280 Speaker 3: And sometimes you'll have a you know, a volleyball or 364 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,920 Speaker 3: onto a rope or a tether ball or something, and 365 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,840 Speaker 3: and they just practice, Okay, this is the time if 366 00:19:23,080 --> 00:19:25,159 Speaker 3: you're going to get the block, this is when you're 367 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 3: gonna have to leave your feet. But as you said, 368 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 3: when with him as the outside guy, now you run 369 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 3: out of blockers that wing, his responsibility is to protect 370 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,639 Speaker 3: his inside gap and even worry is coming out of 371 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 3: his outside gap. So so the way I've always seen 372 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 3: it coached is that you want to have a wide 373 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 3: base if you're blocking, if you're the falcon who's on 374 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 3: the wing, there and you want to be able to 375 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:51,120 Speaker 3: be strongly punched with your inside hand. That's the that's 376 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 3: the one you have to defend the most. But if 377 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 3: your leg is is out there, you make the corner 378 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 3: have to go around your outside leg or even jump 379 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 3: a over your knee and you can kind of you 380 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 3: give him less of a punch with your outside arm. 381 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 3: The most critical gap is your inside the inside gap, 382 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,720 Speaker 3: and I think Julian Love had a blocked field goal 383 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 3: going through the inside gap earlier in the season on 384 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 3: the wing. In fact, I'm serving I can't remember what team, 385 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:26,800 Speaker 3: but now even worried to have him as the outside guy, which, 386 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,719 Speaker 3: as you said, always a corner almost always a cornerback 387 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 3: because they're the ones who have that kind of elite 388 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 3: change of direction. So you're springing around the edge, but 389 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,920 Speaker 3: then you have to make a turn at full speed. 390 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,120 Speaker 3: And the way the Seahawks are looking at it, here's 391 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:46,960 Speaker 3: a guy most corners aren't six three most corners. I mean, 392 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 3: here's a guy that had a vertical of forty three inches, 393 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 3: that is ninety ninth percentile for safeties at the combine. 394 00:20:55,119 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 3: His broad jump was one hundred and thirty eight inches, 395 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,920 Speaker 3: which is the one hundred percent, So that gives you 396 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 3: an idea of the explosion. So that quickness that he 397 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 3: has combined with the length, is he's able to stay low, 398 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 3: turn the corner and then just you know, having that wingspan, 399 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 3: his span eighty seventh percentile among safeties, all of those 400 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:22,080 Speaker 3: factors combined so that he's a credible threat to block 401 00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 3: that field goal, which he did. 402 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: Am I being a prisoner of the moment by saying, 403 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: he's one of the most versatile Seahawk defenders I've ever 404 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: seen in fifty years. And I've seen every Seahawk defender 405 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 1: basically worth his salt in my lifetime. And I mean 406 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: the first guy that came to mind was Kenny Easley. 407 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 1: He was a freak versatile defender. Cam Chancellor was a 408 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,600 Speaker 1: freak versatile defender. But I don't know if he's as 409 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: versatile as Nick Amn worry is. I Mean, it's just 410 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: am I, it just seems like this guy's the limit. 411 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,239 Speaker 1: For this guy, we might be looking at another just 412 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: multiple time all pro safety like we're. 413 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,679 Speaker 3: Used to seeing in this town. Well, Kenny Easily, you know, 414 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,960 Speaker 3: probably gets that distinction. I mean, he was a guy 415 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 3: that that kid run and hit and and he had 416 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 3: the athleticism to stay with any receivers. So so, I 417 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,160 Speaker 3: mean he's a Hall of Famer, right And Running Lot 418 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 3: said that there's one guy that he patterned his game 419 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 3: after Running a Lot has thought to be the greatest 420 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,600 Speaker 3: safety of all time. And he said the one guy 421 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 3: that he looked up to, he only cited one name, 422 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,160 Speaker 3: and it was Kenny Easily. So, but you mentioned Bam Bam. 423 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 3: I think Cam Chancer is more physical than we have 424 00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 3: seen from Emon Worriy, including the South Carolina after Seattle 425 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:38,560 Speaker 3: drafted him. I watched a lot more tape than I 426 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,840 Speaker 3: had prior to the draft, obviously, and I don't I 427 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 3: still don't see that that violence from Emon Worriy, that 428 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:50,440 Speaker 3: that certainly we saw from Cam Chancellor from a versatility standpoint, 429 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 3: Cam Chancer, I just looked it up. Earlier in the 430 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 3: year twenty thirteen, the Super Bowl year, Cam Chancellor played 431 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 3: four hundred and thirty seven snaps as the free safety, 432 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 3: the safety in the middle of the field, and then 433 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 3: another fifty three snaps as a safety on either half. 434 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 3: So and Nick Ammon Worry has only played six snaps 435 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,119 Speaker 3: of safety, one in the post, one in the so 436 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 3: Nick Ammin Worry is a box defender. Now his duties 437 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 3: may expands, you know, like right now you just say, hey, 438 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 3: we're gonna have you as the Sam linebacker. You know, 439 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,639 Speaker 3: just we call it nickel Sam. You just learned the 440 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 3: Sam linebacker spot and be great. But in that capacity, 441 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:38,399 Speaker 3: in certain coverages, they do different things for them. Well, 442 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 3: he they walk them out and he's covering the slot. 443 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 3: And what has interested in me, even going back to preseason, 444 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 3: is that sometimes it's a little bit the guy. I'll 445 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,359 Speaker 3: even I've even taken to looking up the height and 446 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 3: weight of a guy who looks small. He's He's gone 447 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 3: man to man against guys that are one hundred and 448 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,440 Speaker 3: eighty three pounds. He's gone man man against Justin Jefferson. 449 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,400 Speaker 3: He's gone man and man against tight ends. That's the versatility. 450 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 3: So that when he lines up out there as a quarterback, 451 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:11,000 Speaker 3: you say, I can't just say, well, they won't play 452 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 3: man and man because we got this little smurf quick 453 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,840 Speaker 3: eye in the slot. No, that Seattle Will. He's got 454 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 3: the length. He might not Aiman Warry might not be 455 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 3: as as quick as some one hundred and eighty pound dude, 456 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 3: but he's quick enough when considering how long he is 457 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 3: and so the overall coverage ability he has it Now 458 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 3: he got beat by Kyle Pitts, who's one of the 459 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 3: most athletic tight ends we've seen in the draft in 460 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 3: ten twenty years. Been a little bit of an underperformer, 461 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 3: but still an elite athlete Kyle Pitts. And on that 462 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,360 Speaker 3: corner route, it was the best throw that Kirk Cosan's 463 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,679 Speaker 3: had in the game. And it was really good coverage 464 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 3: and it took Kyle Pitts a leaping fingertip catch that 465 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 3: was man and man and he beat him. And worry, 466 00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 3: but that was still damn good coverage and it took 467 00:24:58,119 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 3: the perfect throwing Cats to beat him. 468 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 1: So I think it's pretty clear, even probably to the 469 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: most biggest Seahawks skeptic, that two thirds of this football 470 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: team is championship quality, super Bowl champions of quality. You've 471 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,880 Speaker 1: got a defense it's number two in yards per yards 472 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,880 Speaker 1: per game, points per game allowed, You've got a special 473 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:20,280 Speaker 1: teams that is number one in the NFL, and EPA 474 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: per play. 475 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 2: Let's talk about the third third of. 476 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:27,640 Speaker 1: This football team and ask you in the next segment, 477 00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 1: is it going to be the anchor that pulls this 478 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: other two teams parts down or can it booy them 479 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: enough that you can get over the top. We'll talk 480 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,280 Speaker 1: about that next on ninety three point three KJRFM from. 481 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 5: The R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio. Now back 482 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 5: to SOFTI and Dick on your Home for the Huskies, 483 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 5: Kraken and the twelfth Man Sports Radio ninety three point 484 00:25:51,880 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 5: three kJ R FM. 485 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 1: So I think bick without the soft I want to 486 00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: be back on Wednesday. Hugh Breed love Millan good enough 487 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,400 Speaker 1: to join us today and tomorrow for the show, and 488 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:12,719 Speaker 1: he as I mentioned, going to break, I is it 489 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: fair to say we have no issues that the Seahawks 490 00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 1: defense and the Seahawks special teams is super Bowl quality? 491 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 3: Is that? 492 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 2: Would that be a fair assessment. 493 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:24,359 Speaker 3: Of your mind? I would absolutely agree with that, And 494 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:30,640 Speaker 3: just to underscore that point. Since the Tampa Bay game, 495 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:34,160 Speaker 3: if you and I'm looking at all these defensive stats 496 00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 3: and correlation defensive EPA per play, the Seahawks are number 497 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 3: one in the NFL yards or excuse me, points per 498 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,800 Speaker 3: drive that has that is a point seven. If you 499 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 3: rarely see correlations over seven hundred, it is a seven 500 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 3: oh four technically a negative seven oh, four points per 501 00:26:55,760 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 3: drive Seattle's number one in the NFL. And that and 502 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 3: passer rating opponent passer rating Seattle's number two. But net 503 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 3: yards per attempt that has a six sixty six correlation, 504 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 3: very high. Seattle's number one in that. So so so yeah, 505 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:18,920 Speaker 3: not only are are you're gonna hear the the stats 506 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 3: for the entire season, but you know, you know Seattle's defense. 507 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: You know, they didn't have Nick m and Worry for 508 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay a lot of injury issues in the beginning. 509 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: They have the seven starters in the Buccaneer game. That's right, right, 510 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:36,080 Speaker 1: and so now they're healthy. They they they're young guys, 511 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,159 Speaker 1: have experienced, not just experience in the NFL, but playing together. 512 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: They're playing you know, they got you got Witherspoon playing 513 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,159 Speaker 1: more outside and less nickel. They're playing more dime in 514 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,639 Speaker 1: situations because you can bring Witherspoon inside and even Worry inside. 515 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: So they are they are now becoming the Mike McDonald's vision. 516 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 1: That's eight games. That's not like a you know, I'm 517 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: not just serry picking two or three games. I've that's 518 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 1: over the last eight games. That's where Seattle is. They 519 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: are the best defense in the NFL over the last 520 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: eight games, and they're consistent in that they perform for 521 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,639 Speaker 1: four quarters a game, just like the special teams performs 522 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: for four quarters a game. Now you come to the 523 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: offense the third third, and it's so funny because I'm 524 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: looking here, it's almost like I don't believe my eyes. Right, 525 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,679 Speaker 1: I hear the complaints about the offense. I have some 526 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:27,840 Speaker 1: complaints on my own about the offense, particularly the offensive line, 527 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,040 Speaker 1: the run game at times, Sam Darnold. And yet I 528 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,120 Speaker 1: look at points per game, just flat out points per game, 529 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,600 Speaker 1: and the Seattle Seahawks are averaging twenty nine point eight 530 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 1: points per game, good for number two in the NFL. 531 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: They have the second highest scoring offense in the NFL. 532 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:48,400 Speaker 1: And yet I think Seahawk Nation, me included, are like, yeah, 533 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 1: but so, what is the level of concern over you know, 534 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,440 Speaker 1: in micro, how the first half looked offensively in this game, 535 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:02,240 Speaker 1: and macro how they have played, you know, fifteen thirty 536 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 1: forty minute stretches of football games where they just haven't 537 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 1: been able to get out of their own way and 538 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,480 Speaker 1: they usually finally figure it out. 539 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, first of all, I think, you know, points 540 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,720 Speaker 3: per game that's that's just the team. So pick six 541 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,480 Speaker 3: is by the defense. Rasis okay, So I'll go a 542 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 3: point of offense points per game, and then I think 543 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,760 Speaker 3: offense points per drive because because points can be a 544 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 3: reflection of what what obsponent's doing and you can never 545 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,959 Speaker 3: totally detach it. But you know, that's where like Seattle's 546 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 3: is number two in points per game over that span defensively, 547 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 3: but they're number one in points per drive, which is 548 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 3: really the best measure, right because if you have a 549 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 3: lot many more drives due to offensive inefficiency, a good 550 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 3: defense can be saddled with a poor offense. But I 551 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,040 Speaker 3: think I think Seattle they've got the pieces other than 552 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 3: a couple of guys on the offensive line, I think 553 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 3: it's gonna be that's going to be the real arm 554 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 3: wrestle the team is. They've got all of these if 555 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,480 Speaker 3: you think of like the scales you know in the courtroom, 556 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,800 Speaker 3: the scales of justice. Yes, you know, like you say, okay, 557 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 3: we got all these bricks of what is a quality 558 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 3: Super Bowl winning level team. There's a lot of components 559 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 3: were put in there, but and they far outweigh the negative. 560 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 3: But it doesn't work like that with the scales of justice. 561 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 3: It works more like you're only as strong as your 562 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 3: weakest length, and if number seventy five can't play, then 563 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 3: that can bog down the entire team. And I don't 564 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 3: mean that he's got a good grade. 565 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:46,360 Speaker 2: Yesterday, at least on one side of the ball. I 566 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 2: can't remember. I was run boxing. 567 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, and he had a good game against the Cardinals 568 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,240 Speaker 3: in Arizona. I mean, you know it rains in the desert, 569 00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:55,520 Speaker 3: not just not very often. 570 00:30:55,640 --> 00:31:00,400 Speaker 2: Right, Hugh loves himself some Bradford Jackson loves this. 571 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,520 Speaker 3: You're right, you know what. I'm glad you said that, 572 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,200 Speaker 3: because this is not a week a week to pick 573 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 3: good on Anthony Bradford. He he upped his his Uh. 574 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike McDonald was just speaking. 575 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 3: I know, we got to break. 576 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 4: Mike McDonald was just speaking at a press conference, and 577 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 4: he went out of his way to say that Anthony 578 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,959 Speaker 4: Bradford was the highest rated offensive lineman. 579 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 3: I think, why do you think he did that? Because 580 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:25,720 Speaker 3: he's heard no, no, take me out of it. Why 581 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 3: do you think he's done this? Sorry, yes, because he 582 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 3: knows that Anthony Bradford is is the I don't want 583 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 3: to say worst weekly the least accomplished starter on his 584 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 3: team who's been beat up, and he wants to infuse 585 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 3: that guy with some confidence. Right, Yes, that's exactly right. 586 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:47,680 Speaker 3: So even that comment is telling you what the head 587 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 3: coach thinks of the right guard. 588 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 1: That's a little indicting. You're exactly right. Three fifty three 589 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 1: ninety three point three kjf FN. We'll come back to 590 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 1: the Seahaks a little bit later on the show. We're 591 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 1: he talks some college football. Obviously, the college football world 592 00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: is just in upheaval, and as exciting as the games are, 593 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 1: as exciting as the playoffs are going to be, we 594 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:06,560 Speaker 1: can all agree that. 595 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,920 Speaker 2: It's a mess and needs to be fixed. 596 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,440 Speaker 1: And Congress may or may not be stepping in to 597 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: try to fix that. And we're going to get a 598 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,480 Speaker 1: member of Congress on represented from the ninth District. Adam 599 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: Smith is going to join us next to talk about 600 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,920 Speaker 1: the Score Act and what potentially will be or could 601 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,240 Speaker 1: be done to fix the mess, the mess that is 602 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: college football. 603 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 2: Next on ninety three point three kjerv