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Speaker 1: to this week's edition of the Seahawks Insider Podcast as

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Speaker 1: we get you ready for the Seahawks playoff game against

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. I am Jen Mueller, sideline reporter for

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Speaker 1: your Seattle Seahawks, joined every week by John Boyle from

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Speaker 1: Seahawks dot Com. John, are we ready for the playoffs?

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Speaker 1: Ready as we're ever gonna be? Right? Ready to rock? Sure?

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Speaker 1: Maybe there's a song about that. There is. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to spare everybody though, from actually singing that song. What

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Speaker 1: I think we should give people though as we go

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs, And John, this is something that you

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Speaker 1: and I have talked about, and our producer Nassev talked about.

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Speaker 1: You know, for all that you want to pick apart

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Speaker 1: But if you just step back for a minute, it's

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Speaker 1: Twenty teams are home, they're done for the year. The

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Speaker 1: Seahawks have won ten games or more five straight years.

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Speaker 1: They've been to the playoffs, obviously all five of those years,

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Speaker 1: now they've done it five in a row. So that's

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Speaker 1: of the playoff. Seattle has won nine consecutive home playoff games.

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Speaker 1: I would love to see them stretch that streak this week,

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Speaker 1: which means in the next week that would be great.

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Speaker 1: That's a nice round. NU. Yeah, ten in a row,

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Speaker 1: and then next week we could come in and talk

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Speaker 1: about for we can talk about Atlanta. Let's not get

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Speaker 1: ahead of ourselves though. As we leave you this week,

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Speaker 1: make sure that you listen to the game Saturday evening

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Speaker 1: on the Seahawks Radio Network and check out everything John

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Speaker 1: has to offer on seahawks dot com, and one way

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Speaker 1: or the other, we'll be back with you next week