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Speaker 1: like announcement right now. This is big Ray tenth round

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Speaker 1: what ninety one drive, ninety two drives. He was here

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Speaker 1: two rookies and Kobe Bryant and uh Terik Willing are

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Speaker 1: playing good football. But all of you guys in that

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Speaker 1: room are ballers. Like, so what is right at this point?

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Speaker 1: What is your role in that? And then, uh what

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Speaker 1: do you see in these two rookie defensive backs. Uh?

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Speaker 1: You know, I just you know, as a guy being

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Speaker 1: in the league for some years, you know, I just

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Speaker 1: try to be a you know, uh the best the

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Speaker 1: best team that I can to those guys, you know,

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Speaker 1: Uh I was, you know, I had guys like Joe

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Speaker 1: Head and Mike Mitchell and William Gabe when I was

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Speaker 1: a young a younger guy. You know, they kind of like,

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Speaker 1: you know, gave me, you know, tools, you know, as

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Speaker 1: when I was a young guy to make it make

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Speaker 1: my way through you know, forty years, you know, and

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Speaker 1: I just you know, I try to be a great teammate.

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Speaker 1: You know, like how the how do how those guys were?

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Speaker 1: But those two guys, they know, they've been a lot

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Speaker 1: of plays and I see them, you know, having a

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Speaker 1: good career. You know, they just keep keep doing they're

447
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Speaker 1: doing and you know, standing the pay book. Hey already,

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Speaker 1: I'm from California, and you know there's uh a few

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Speaker 1: states who want to claim they produced the best football players.

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Speaker 1: But I look at Florida. I can't even from bro

451
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Speaker 1: like Florida. Florida puts them out like hey, I'm a man,

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Speaker 1: I mean, don't you can't just just stomp on Cali

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Speaker 1: like that? But what what is it about Florida that

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Speaker 1: that allowed you guys to put these dudes out year

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Speaker 1: in and year out? What is it? Man? Just you know,

456
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Speaker 1: just the you know, the competition, you know, the weather,

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Speaker 1: you know, it just breathe that it just breathe those athletes,

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Speaker 1: you know, and uh, it's just been going over so

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Speaker 1: many years, you know, and uh, you know, I'm just

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Speaker 1: proud to be from me. You know what I'm from.

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Speaker 1: You don't even be able to do what I could do,

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Speaker 1: what I can do, you know, but you know, most

463
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Speaker 1: definitely the best state of football, you know, and show

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Speaker 1: me safe. All right, I'm gonna show some love for Sean.

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Speaker 1: But you mentioned the weather because that humidity is something else, right,

466
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Speaker 1: that that air is hugging you out there. Um you

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Speaker 1: out here in the Northwest now or it's a it's

468
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Speaker 1: a bit thinner, you know, and it's a bit colder.

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Speaker 1: Obviously you spent some time in Chicago. How does that

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Speaker 1: affect you your play or do you feel like it

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Speaker 1: don't matter where you're at, You're gonna line them up

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Speaker 1: and knock them down, you know, they don't It don't

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Speaker 1: really matter, you know. Uh, definitely been well most all

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Speaker 1: of my career. I've been up north to go from

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh to Chicago. You know, I'm just looking forward to

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Speaker 1: you know the weather. The weather changed right now is great.

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Speaker 1: So I'm good right now. Hey already when when you're

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Speaker 1: not on the field, Uh, what are some of the

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Speaker 1: things that you do in your free time that's that's

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Speaker 1: not football related? Uh? You know, I got I got

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Speaker 1: two younger boys, A j and Saint eight and five.

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Speaker 1: You know, I spent most of the time with them,

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Speaker 1: you know, and uh, you know my wife Ella, you know,

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Speaker 1: and um, I gotta I have a mental part around

485
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Speaker 1: Miami dream. You know, that's what I busted doing off season,

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Speaker 1: you know, spend time with with something youth out there

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Speaker 1: and Miami had played sports and stuff like that, and

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Speaker 1: I just bought it. Now I'm a I'm all sports

489
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Speaker 1: all the way, pretty much. I feel it. You you

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Speaker 1: got your boys in sports right now. What they're playing?

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Speaker 1: Uh so my older girl, but both of them playing

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Speaker 1: football and track. You know. My oldest boy he, uh,

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Speaker 1: you're doing pretty good in both of those. He plays

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Speaker 1: for Air Academy out here. Uh he that's a pretty

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Speaker 1: uh familiar obvious. Seattle is a familiar team under well

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Speaker 1: Bumpus would be that the guy that that knows all

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Speaker 1: of all those teams. But uh, but no, when you

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Speaker 1: what do you see that's different about you know, like

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Speaker 1: a lot of players come here or they start here

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Speaker 1: and they leave and come back and they say, man,

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Speaker 1: like this, the organization is different. The way it's running

502
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Speaker 1: is different. Pete Carroll his rhythm is different. What is

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Speaker 1: it that is it? Is it? Really? Is that really true?

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Speaker 1: And if so, what is it that makes it different? Uh?

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Speaker 1: It's true. You know the difference that I feel it

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Speaker 1: is that people a good job of like uh just

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Speaker 1: he's making just man, guys, B you know, B you

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Speaker 1: you know, and uh and creating a good coach of

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Speaker 1: you know, positive vibes. You know. The first thing I

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Speaker 1: can't first meeting I had with Seattle the coaches in

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Speaker 1: the back of the room, is going crazy to make

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Speaker 1: a noise, you know, suring on you know, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? And then just just catch on to

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Speaker 1: you and you become a part of that energy, and

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Speaker 1: then that energy is just keep the building going. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's just just positive vibes throughout the whole building, you know.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, P take taking too care of

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Speaker 1: you guys. Know we're health wises, you know, just a

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Speaker 1: great spot. You know. It's like that too, Hey, LARTI,

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Speaker 1: I alright, look at this defense and obviously you look

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Speaker 1: at the numbers and you say, Okay, they're giving up

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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of yards. But I look

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Speaker 1: at the defense and I say, yeah, a lot of yards,

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Speaker 1: but they're close to shutting a lot of this stuff down. Um,

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Speaker 1: do you feel the same way? And why do you

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Speaker 1: feel that way? Uh? Because there's a bunch of playmakers

527
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Speaker 1: all the way across the board. You know, guys, show

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Speaker 1: they can make plays. You know, you know, we know

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Speaker 1: we can make a lot of plays. And like I said,

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Speaker 1: just all about being a sitting root the whole game

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Speaker 1: and we'll be up to, you know, be the keeping

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Speaker 1: that we know we could do. All right already already, man,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you taking time out of your day. You guys,

534
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Speaker 1: keep preparing and do your thing. Man, look forward to

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Speaker 1: see you on Sunday and almost definitely appreciate it. Appreciate me,

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Speaker 1: all right, no problem. Come join us here at Hawks

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go around the NFL. We're sitting here at

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Speaker 1: Bebby Squares Center Court on Michael Bomas. That's Ray Roberts.

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Speaker 1: That's next right here on Hawk Slid. Time for us

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Speaker 1: to go around the NFL. Do it? And you know what,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go around the NFL. Ray, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: start with Ron Rivera and the commanders. Now we're talking

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Speaker 1: about quarterback play and why some are better than the others.

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Speaker 1: Here's what he has to say. Why do you think

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Speaker 1: the in the division or father had at this point quarterback?

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Speaker 1: The truth is that this is a quarterback driven lake

552
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Speaker 1: and if you look at the teams that have been

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Speaker 1: able to sustain success, they've been able to build it

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Speaker 1: around a specific quarterback. Man is he calling this quarterback out? Now?

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00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is over there. He had a decent year

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Speaker 1: at Indie the year prior, but now he's over there

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Speaker 1: with the commanders and he seems to be struggling a

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Speaker 1: little bit. If you are, I'm gonna put your your

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00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 1: your head coach cap on right now. Would you call

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Speaker 1: your quarterback out like that? And if you are doing that,

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Speaker 1: what does that mean? Well? I think that's a tough

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Speaker 1: as a leader. Unless you're like really trying to send

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Speaker 1: a message. You may begin call out like you know,

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Speaker 1: the position group or something. The quarterback is tough because

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Speaker 1: it's ususally just that one dude, this plan. And so

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Speaker 1: he may have been trying to send a message, but

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Speaker 1: from what I've seen, and the way and the way

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Speaker 1: they played, I can't say that Carson Wentz is the

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Speaker 1: reason that they're losing. You know, their defense isn't well,

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Speaker 1: it's not playing up to par. The offense, you know,

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Speaker 1: other than McLaren, they don't have any any other receivers

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Speaker 1: that are kind of making plays. I think that's a

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Speaker 1: tough thing to do. When I played in Detroit, Bobby

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Speaker 1: Ross called us out, like called different dudes out by

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Speaker 1: name by name after a game, and it didn't go

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Speaker 1: over well. Sometimes when you have a conversation with a

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Speaker 1: player and be like, hey, like, you know, like I

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Speaker 1: made I don't know if you're gonna tell them you're

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Speaker 1: gonna say things, but you have a tough conversation, so

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Speaker 1: you kind of anticipate they might say something about the

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Speaker 1: quarterback player, the defensive line play or whatever. But when

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Speaker 1: it just kind of comes out like that, that's a

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Speaker 1: tough one. That's a tough one to take that could.

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Speaker 1: I know, he apologized or he kind of backpedaled a

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Speaker 1: little bit on it, but that's gonna be a tough

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Speaker 1: one for Carson wants to overcome. I think that's tough.

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Speaker 1: And right now it's twelve to seven, the commanders are Rev.

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00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:50,479
Speaker 1: Carson wentz Is twelve or twenty two ninety nine yards,

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00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: no touchdowns, no interceptions. Buddy also has three sacks. So

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Speaker 1: now let's move on to Davante Adams. If you saw

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Speaker 1: the video, Diy Adams here, raise your hen All right,

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00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 1: so we got some people who know what's going on.

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Speaker 1: Davante Adams. Tough game for the Raiders. I could break

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Speaker 1: down the play and what happened at the end of

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Speaker 1: the game more specifically, but I'm not going to do that.

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Speaker 1: In the end of the day, he ran into Hunter

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Speaker 1: Renfro or Hunter Renfro ran into him and they didn't

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Speaker 1: complete the pass. He's walking into the tunnel, there is

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Speaker 1: a photographer that crosses his face. He pushes him down

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Speaker 1: on the ground. And now that guy is suing. That

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Speaker 1: young man is suing. I should say he's a college student. Um,

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Speaker 1: what's your assessment of that whole situation? I think give

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Speaker 1: you what I think. First. I think that one, I

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Speaker 1: understand the emotion behind the moment and knowing is perfect,

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Speaker 1: but he didn't deserve to get pushed. But I also

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Speaker 1: think the guy that got pushed is okay. What are

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on man? Yeah, I don't know. It's a

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Speaker 1: It's a tough one, man, because both you know that

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Speaker 1: guy's you know, doing his job too, and you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's a rookie to the stadium and doesn't know

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Speaker 1: to you know, just stay out of the path of

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Speaker 1: the players. And then I think a guy like Davante

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Speaker 1: Adams or any guy that's running off the field, you

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Speaker 1: gotta be able to control your emotions a little bit,

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Speaker 1: like I was a dude that after a bad game.

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Speaker 1: I mean I've had to. I've taken a taxi home

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Speaker 1: before and just told my wife just go home because

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Speaker 1: because I get in the car and you ask me

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Speaker 1: a crazy question, I might jump out the cars. I

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Speaker 1: don't because I just so just upset. But uh, and

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Speaker 1: so you gotta be able to control that. Now, the

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Speaker 1: fouling the you know, a assault charge and stuff. Uh,

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Speaker 1: that's a little far, you know, I think you know,

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Speaker 1: DeVante Adams tried to apologize right away. Uh, and then

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Speaker 1: and then the guy fouled charges. But that's kind of

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Speaker 1: the culture of our country now, you know, everyone's trying

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Speaker 1: to either counsel somebody or get paid off someone and

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Speaker 1: something like that. So it's unfortunate that it happened, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know that it needed to elevate to the

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Speaker 1: point that he was a charge with any kind of sault. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's unfortunate, and um, it makes sense because, like you said,

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Speaker 1: the world we live in right now, like people are

633
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Speaker 1: gonna look for an edge whenever they can get it.

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Speaker 1: So all right, and now let's let's move on to

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Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. Matt rule is gone. He's had what

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Speaker 1: several years to try to get it them. You bring

637
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:08,959
Speaker 1: over Baker Mayfield, He's not getting it them. It's unfortunate

638
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 1: because a coach is fired because the quarterback I guess

639
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: that he wanted isn't doing what he's supposed to do.

640
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: But it makes sense. The coach is always the first

641
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: one to go. But on the flip side, he's walking

642
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: away with forty million. He might have set in that

643
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: office and been like, oh man, this is unfortunate. I apologize,

644
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: but he walks out that door and he's taking forty

645
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: mil in his back pocket. Well, I'm originally from North Carolina,

646
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: and so I grew up in Nashville, North Carolina, and

647
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: so I kind of try to watch that team and

648
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: I know what the what the environment is like around

649
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 1: that team, and he came in, Matt Rule came in

650
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 1: and says offensive, dude, and the offense just has not

651
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 1: done anything since he's been there. And so I think

652
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield is probably just the last straw on the

653
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: pile that made everything happen. And I'll be honest with you,

654
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: I was a Baker Mayfield fan, like the dude that

655
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: figured it out on every level, and I figured it

656
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: would take him a little bit, but he'd figured out

657
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: on this level. He just just hasn't done it. He's

658
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: just not that dude. And so then that was just

659
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: the I guess that distraw that broke to the Camel's back,

660
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: you know, is that because Ben back there, Like I

661
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: went back there even when at the end of um

662
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: of shoot, what's the quarterback? You used to be there?

663
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold, No where, Carolin am cam Newton. Sorry, I

664
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: don't know how I forgot that went back there and

665
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: he wasn't even playing, and and that dude. People can

666
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: say what they want to say about him, but he

667
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: had galvanized that whole region, so parts of North Tina,

668
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: parts of South Carolina, and when you go back there,

669
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: now US it's just so much. It's like the little

670
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 1: Charlie Brown character that has a cloud walking over him.

671
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: That's how the Panthers organization feels right now. It does

672
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: feel that way. What's unfortunates who as they have one

673
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: of the most versatile players in the game on that

674
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: roster and when he's healthy. Right, and we all know

675
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: the running back position, it ain't for long while. If

676
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: you are a an elite running back, you got maybe

677
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: five six years in this league. The best ones go

678
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 1: balt eight to ten years. It's hard to see. So

679
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: let's talk about these records in the NFL. Man, I

680
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: look at the Philadelphia Eagles. I don't know what's the thing.

681
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: They barely be there is on the Cardinals last week,

682
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: but they are undefeated. When you look at that team,

683
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: I see Jalen Hurts, I see A J. Brown, I

684
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: see DeVante Smith, I see Miles Sanders. I look at

685
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: this team and I say, all right, this is a

686
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,600
Speaker 1: complete team. Defensively their top five, offensively their top five.

687
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,320
Speaker 1: They cause a lot of turnovers. What are your thoughts

688
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: on the Philadelphia Eagles. Well, the thing to me, I

689
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: think if you just look at their rosters, probably one

690
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: of the better rostership from a personnels point of view

691
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: an entire league. And I think they played very good,

692
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: complimentary football. The defense has been good for years and

693
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: it's just been a while for the offense to catch up.

694
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,720
Speaker 1: And then Jalen Hurts was always like, man, is he

695
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: gonna be that missing piece? Is he gonna be able

696
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: to elevate his game to a place that can compliment

697
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: those other pieces that you just named on offense? And

698
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,479
Speaker 1: to I don't know, maybe to a lot of people's surprise,

699
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: but maybe not his just because he's kind of a

700
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: dude that kind of gets in and grinds and does

701
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: what he has to do. I think they're a very

702
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:14,479
Speaker 1: solid football team. Obviously not gonna go undefeated or whatever,

703
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 1: but I think they're a team to be content to

704
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: contend with. Yeah, they may have squeaked one by on Arizona,

705
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,720
Speaker 1: but man, that happens. You're not gonna beat everybody about

706
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: fourteen points. And but the thing that I like is

707
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: their foundation is firm. Right. They have a good offensive

708
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: line to have a good front seven. They can get

709
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: after the quarterback with just four dudes, so then they

710
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: can play more guys in coverage and Slay is a

711
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: very good man to man cover guy. So I think

712
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 1: it's a very solid team. Now what are they what

713
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 1: I picked him to win the Super Bowl? I don't know,

714
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 1: but I think they can get They can make it

715
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,919
Speaker 1: really interesting down the stretch. What's crazy about the NFC East.

716
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: You got Philly five and Old Cowboys four and one,

717
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: the Giants four and one, and then you got the

718
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: Commanders at one and four. That's the most suspect division

719
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: and I've ever seen with teams that are doing well,

720
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: you're still waiting on to see if Dak Prescott comes back.

721
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: You're stay waiting on to see if Danny Dimes continues

722
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: this thing over there with the Giants. But let's go

723
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:15,760
Speaker 1: over to the NFC West. This is an interesting division

724
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: in itself. Everyone's two and three rams Cardinal Seahawks except

725
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: for the forty nine is with the best defense in

726
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: the league. They're at three and two. It's bad as

727
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: this defense has played for the Seattle Seahawks. They are

728
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: still in the mix. They gonna win this weekend. They

729
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: can bump up to number two in the NFC West. Yeah,

730
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: you know when you when you start in NCUBA basketball

731
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,439
Speaker 1: and and the tournament starts and they go like, oh man,

732
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: this is this one team coming into the tournament nobody

733
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: wants to play. Yeah, I think if Seattle's defense even

734
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: improves four or five spots from where they are, they

735
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: become that team because no one expected that out of him.

736
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: No one expected this offense to work the way it

737
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: has worked, with a like a career backup basically and

738
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: Gino Smith, two rookie Towns underside center, you know, running

739
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: back that they're coming into the season that had maybe

740
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: just shown it, you know, shown himself for the last

741
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: five games last year. All this new defensive players and

742
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: this personnel and change. If the defense can improve their

743
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: spot four or five spots, they become one of those

744
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: teams that you do not want to play. And even

745
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: if even if they're not any position to get to

746
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: the playoffs, if you're a playoff team that needs that win,

747
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tough out spoiler. Absolutely, That's that's

748
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: what this team is right now. And I look at

749
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: this division and it makes sense that the Niners are

750
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: up top because they have the best defense. You look

751
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: at the Los Angeles Rams, Stafford is gonna turn the

752
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: ball over if you put any type of pressure on them.

753
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: You don't know what you're gonna get out of the

754
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. Then you look at the Seahawks, You're like, Okay,

755
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 1: if you get into a shootout, you have a chance

756
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: to win. When I look at this division, it's the

757
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: most up in the air that I feel like it's

758
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: been in a long time, because going into the season,

759
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: you're thinking, okay, all right, forty nineties, all right, the Rams,

760
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 1: But it's still off of grass right now, Ray, Yeah,

761
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: it is. And I have a feeling that the forty

762
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 1: nine ers were kind of raised to the top the Rams,

763
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 1: like they're just in their offense is just in this array.

764
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: The offensive line isn't very good, and Stafford is throwing

765
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: the ball all over the place and getting sacked, and

766
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: so I'm not really sure they're gonna come out of that.

767
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,239
Speaker 1: But there's something about the forty nine ers that make

768
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: me feel like they're gonna kind of find their balance

769
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: and then kind of rise to the top, and then

770
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 1: the Sea Offs will have a chance if the defense

771
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,879
Speaker 1: is better to kind of have that rivalry going again

772
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 1: for the top of the division. You know, football is

773
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: all about balance. Life, It's all about balance. It's all

774
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 1: about balance. Okay, when we retire, we're gonna talk to

775
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: Ken Walker right here in person. That's next right here

776
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: on Hawks Lit. I got my guy Ray Roberts. You know,

777
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: he got some beautiful fans right here in front of us.

778
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: Right now. We're joined by K nine. That's what they

779
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: call you, K nine, K Doug. Let's go baby. This

780
00:37:55,600 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: guy had a sixty nine yard touchdown last week. More touchdown.

781
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,959
Speaker 1: It was beautiful and you know what I thought, Man,

782
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,040
Speaker 1: I'm watching you do that, and I go, man, this

783
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: first touch for Michigan State was seventy you know, he

784
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: missed it. He missed it by by one yard, and

785
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,439
Speaker 1: it sounds like um Gino went up to the line

786
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and kind of audible into that thing when

787
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: you hear the audible and you know you're getting the rock.

788
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: What are you thinking? Um? Pretty much as lock in.

789
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: You know, I know I got to read my keys, um.

790
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 1: But with that touchdown, you know, my offensive line and

791
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: the wide receiver has made it much easier for me.

792
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: You know, if you see the cutback, it's a big

793
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: hole right there. So those guys work hard, and I

794
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 1: feel like they need a lot of the credit for

795
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: that too. The show. He sometimes a lot of a

796
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: lot of guys or when you hear running back say

797
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: I have to read my keys, like and so as

798
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: a casual fan, you're like, well, what are they reading

799
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: the offensive line, the defensive line, the linebackers, So give

800
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: us just an example of what those keys are, right, So,

801
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 1: um with the mid zone, that was the play we

802
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 1: ran u. You know, we read from the m man

803
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage. He got a lot that

804
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: goes into it. So like your footwork, it matters. And

805
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,080
Speaker 1: then so like with that, you read the defensive and

806
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,919
Speaker 1: so from him, then you go to sea be gay

807
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: and a gap. So it's like a whole process you

808
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: got to go through. And that's just one run. So

809
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,720
Speaker 1: like you got a lot of different runs with different reads.

810
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: There's nothing like a zone. Man. I played running back

811
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 1: a little bit in high school. It's more of a receiver.

812
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 1: But the zone allows you to kind of do your thing.

813
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: So now there's you were going to be the starter

814
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 1: back there at RB get a Blukes got Charles Cross.

815
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: Y'all are like a text the thread talking about a

816
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: second over. Let's go RICKI is doing a thing Nahum,

817
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: those guys have done great, you know since week one,

818
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: you know, even in camp. You know, those guys have

819
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 1: been doing great, and you know they work real hard

820
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 1: in practice and now they compete. So I love being

821
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: able to see those guys work as hard as they have,

822
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: but also you know, be rookies, so it's like cool

823
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: to see. Yeah, So what what is it that you

824
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:49,760
Speaker 1: are either have learned or you are you're learning about

825
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: being first of all, an NFL player and it's secondly

826
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: been a running back in the NFL. Right, so first

827
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,800
Speaker 1: off with that man a pro like in the league.

828
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: It's like that's what I had to learn this be

829
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 1: a pro. You know, so I had to learn to

830
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 1: take care of my body more, eat better, you know,

831
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 1: eating hard, I mean eating better. It's like the hardest part.

832
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: But like you know, you got to learn how to

833
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: eat better. You know, Sleeping that was pretty hard too,

834
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: because like I love playing a game, so like I

835
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: used to always be up there on the game. Like

836
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: after I got a routine, and it's like really getting

837
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: a routine and take care of your body. So like

838
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: once I got the routine, it became much more easier

839
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: for me. And what was the second question, what as

840
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 1: a as a running back? What have you learned? Yeah,

841
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: just be more precise. You know, I can't like because

842
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: it holds close up much faster too. You know, the

843
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: speed of the game change a little bit because a

844
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: little faster. So um, pretty much being more more precise

845
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 1: and also knowing that these defenders are super smart. Broy.

846
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,919
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're talking about eating better and sleeping better

847
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: because my first maybe month in the league got a

848
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,319
Speaker 1: like crap and I did not sleep at all. Think

849
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: I'm on my my college, my college tip, and I

850
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 1: used to stay up playing two K cod and Tiger

851
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: Woods golf. So what are your games? What do you?

852
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: I play so many games it don't make sense. Like

853
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 1: so I played two K Mad and Call of Duty,

854
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: but I also played different games like a lot of

855
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,439
Speaker 1: people don't know about. It's like Elden Ring. You got

856
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: Ghost of Sushima, Like it's a lot of Samurai games

857
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: or a lot of games like it's like adventure games

858
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: like world you call them open open world like type

859
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 1: of play. Yet all right, well, y'all can have all

860
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: the video games. I was offensive linement, so I got

861
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: to eat a lot. So if I was up late.

862
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: I was up late eating. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

863
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 1: So when you when you look at the Seattle Seahawks

864
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:33,160
Speaker 1: offense and Rashaw Penny is out. You know Rashaw, you

865
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: guys kind of run similar, but he's a bigger body

866
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: type dude. So what is it that what is the

867
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 1: dynamic that you're bringing to the to the offense that

868
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: that not made it better than Penny, but just different

869
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: than right. Yeah, I feel like I'm more of a shifty,

870
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: shifty your back then Penny, you know. But he's a

871
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 1: great like I'm not. So yeah, yeah, a great back bro.

872
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: And I love having him with me, But I feel

873
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:56,399
Speaker 1: like our differences, uh, the shifting shiftiness. With me, he's

874
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,439
Speaker 1: like more of a downhill runner and big guy. He can,

875
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: you know, truck people. But I feel like I'm more

876
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: of a shifty runner than Penny is. So I remember

877
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: seeing your eight yard run against the forty nine ers

878
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 1: and I saw something. I'm like, Okay, I see what

879
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: he's doing. And then i see the Jets suite against

880
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,720
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons and I'm like, all right, this slowing

881
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: down for him, like he's learning I'm gonna get wide.

882
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna getting north, north and south every week? Do

883
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 1: you feel like you're seeing the defensive bit more slowing

884
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: down for you? Like, how do you feel when you

885
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: when you get the rocker? Yeah, definitely. You know when

886
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: even when I first came here for my favorite first

887
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: run in practice and we had pads on and like

888
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: it was a duel and I ran to like the

889
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: perfect hole and I second guessed myself and stopped. So

890
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: like it was a lot of thinking like going on

891
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: when I first got here. But like as the time

892
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: goes on, especially now, like during week to week, I

893
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: feel like I get much better, you know, even learning

894
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: from Penny. He used to tell me about like like

895
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: I said, be more precise, Like tell me be more

896
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: precise about my keys and hitting the hole and never

897
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: second guess myself. So like just having guys like him,

898
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,439
Speaker 1: and you know we got home and other older guys

899
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 1: in the room, that's a big help for me. Well,

900
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:05,399
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like flex for myself right here. X So

901
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: bump Us and myself and Paul Mori were hosting a

902
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: draft party for the Seahawks and the your pick came

903
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: up and we're sitting in this green room. If you

904
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: want to call it that, and I said, man, they're

905
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: drafting Kenneth Walker right here. And both of these guys

906
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,760
Speaker 1: were like, oh, no, I think they're gonna go receiver

907
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: or I don't know, it's defensive back because I'm like, nah,

908
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: says defense of them. Yeah. I was like, no, this

909
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: dude is like a Pete Carroll type of dude. Man,

910
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: I promise you this is where they're going. So I'm

911
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: excited that you got here because I called the picks. Uh.

912
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: And then but then secondly, there's a story about even

913
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:38,919
Speaker 1: them trying to get in touch with you during the draft.

914
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 1: Can you walk us through that? Yeah. So I always

915
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: have my phone on Do Not a Stair, Like I

916
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,399
Speaker 1: always have it on the not staff. So the day

917
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: of the draft, even the first night and the second night,

918
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,720
Speaker 1: like like the night I got drafted. Um, we worked

919
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: on like my agent was there, my mom, my dad,

920
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 1: Like I turned off Do Not a Stair, but I

921
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: turned my phone up and everything. Then I'm like getting

922
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: them to call me to make sure it's working. So

923
00:43:58,600 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: they called me like five or six times, and they

924
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: worked every time. So the time come like for me

925
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 1: to get drafted, and I'm like checking my phone keep

926
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:06,879
Speaker 1: checking it. Then I check it again, it's like five

927
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 1: miss calls. I'm like, bro, what I've been sitting here

928
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: the whole time. I had it on a charge and everything.

929
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:14,399
Speaker 1: So then I'm calling back and then it's like going

930
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: straight to the voicemail, going straight to voicemail. And then

931
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:18,919
Speaker 1: I call him again and I guess the front desk

932
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 1: pickup and then they like, um, yeah, who Like they

933
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,839
Speaker 1: asked me, yeah, like, they asked me who I am?

934
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: And I'm like, UM, can't walk you just calling me

935
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, Like I didn't know who it was.

936
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm ken't walking this. You just called me.

937
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: She knew who you were? No, they didn't know. They

938
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: was like, uh no, we don't know who you are.

939
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: If we can't take you to the to the um,

940
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,879
Speaker 1: I guess they couldn't flip like the call or whatever.

941
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: So I'm like, dang, I gotta hang up again. Try

942
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: to call back. Same thing happened. So finally the call

943
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 1: goes through and I'm able to answer, and then that's

944
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: when I got on the phone him. So it was

945
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: like a whole little it was crazy. So what are

946
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 1: you feeling in that moment? Are you thinking, okay, I'm

947
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: about hold on first, I'll let me Rhyn. Did you

948
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: look at the area code and say, okay, this is

949
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: probably a two h six area code that that popped up. Yeah. Yeah,

950
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: So I I didn't even pisa no, like I'm trying

951
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 1: to just he was like five, none of that, Like

952
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: I see my myself miscalls. I'm like, well, I gotta

953
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:09,840
Speaker 1: call back. But it was a complete surprise when you

954
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: heard okay Seattle seas Yeah, super like because you know

955
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,399
Speaker 1: what to come out. You talk to all these different teams, right,

956
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 1: So I talked to Seattle. Obviously, I talked to him

957
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:20,879
Speaker 1: and then we had a zoom call. But that was it,

958
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: like I never visited or anything. And then um after that,

959
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,200
Speaker 1: like we never talked and then like being able to

960
00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: get a call from them. It was like crazy because

961
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,439
Speaker 1: I was so shocked and surprise, what's up? That's cool.

962
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: So you said that you that you and the big rookies,

963
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,640
Speaker 1: the big tackles that you know, you guys like Michael

964
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: saying setting it up, all rookies are going to be

965
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: starters h this week. But what what have you seen

966
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:45,840
Speaker 1: in them? You talked about a little bit, but what

967
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: have you seen in them that has allowed them to

968
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: be to have the success they've had, especially Big eight. Yeah,

969
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,000
Speaker 1: I believe it's their confidence, Bro, the way they approached

970
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,000
Speaker 1: the game. You know, they come in working hard every day,

971
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: not just on the field but also in the you

972
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: know when we in the meetings and everything always locked in.

973
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: So like, I believe their confidence is a big thing.

974
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: And I talked to him all the time and they

975
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: don't talk much, but like they're real confident, but they're

976
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: real cool too, so I feel like, uh, I don't know,

977
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: they're just making a great impact on the team. Absolutely.

978
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 1: Last one we got for you, what was that moment,

979
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:17,919
Speaker 1: like with the family, sharing that moment, knowing that you've

980
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: worked so hard to get here since you were a

981
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,760
Speaker 1: little kid. I'm sure this was a dream of yours

982
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: and to share that with them and then to have

983
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: a sixty nine yard touchdown this year, what's that moment? Yeah,

984
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: it's a blessing for real, you know, like you said,

985
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: like since the kid you grew up and he dream

986
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: of those moments. Like even in high school college I

987
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: used to always like tell my close teammates something like, Bro,

988
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:41,839
Speaker 1: I won't know what to do if like I make

989
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 1: it to the league, It's just crazy. And then like

990
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: after the run and scoring, it was like a dream

991
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:48,840
Speaker 1: of me. And it was so surreal because it was

992
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: like my first NFL touchdown. Like, bro, that's did you

993
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: playing that celebration? Dropped down to your knees and fresh,

994
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: That's like been a thing that I've always done, you know,

995
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 1: always give you know, Gloria guy. So like, um, I'm

996
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 1: just thankful to being a position I am in today.

997
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:05,919
Speaker 1: All Right, y'all give it up one time for Ken

998
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: Walking a third thank you? All Right. When we return,

999
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: we're gonna go inside the film where we're gonna break down.

1000
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: Gino Smith touchdown to Tyler Locket, Ken Walker sixty nine

1001
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: yard touchdown. Awesome. Taysom Hill breaks off at six yard

1002
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: touchdown that's coming up next right here on Hawks lot.

1003
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,399
Speaker 1: All right, So now we're gonna go into the film room,

1004
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: yes sir, and break this thing down. The first player

1005
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: we're gonna break down, Gino Smith finds Tyler Lockett fourth

1006
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: seventy excuse me, thirty five yard touchdown or so second

1007
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 1: down in six fourteen seconds to play here in a

1008
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: half again slots the both sides. Smith from the shotgun

1009
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 1: Dallas beside him in the backfield. The Saints the three

1010
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: down line and they only rush three. Gino steps up

1011
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:46,800
Speaker 1: in the pocket, gonna let it fly down the middle,

1012
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: got locking touchdown, Shayhawks, Are you kidding me? Holy catfish?

1013
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 1: Want to perfect throw behind the deepot two safeties deep

1014
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: order box deep, and gen Smith lays a perfect pass

1015
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: under the crossbar to Tyler Lockett for six. What a player.

1016
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: Here's the thing right here. Whenever you hear Steve very

1017
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: will say, holy catfish, you know something just went down.

1018
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: He said, Holy catfish, and I'm gonna let you know

1019
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: what went down. So here's the four man. You get

1020
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,359
Speaker 1: a two by two set means two receivers to the right,

1021
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 1: two receivers to the left. Tyler Lockett is the number

1022
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: one receiver. That means he's the furthest receiver to the outside,

1023
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,439
Speaker 1: to the right of Geno Smith. And what he does

1024
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: he inside releases the corner. All right. Once he inside release,

1025
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: his focus is now on the safety. The corner who's

1026
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,200
Speaker 1: trailing him says, look, I got help over the top,

1027
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: so I don't have to sprint, I don't have to

1028
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:47,840
Speaker 1: run and stay on this guy's hip. I know that

1029
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:50,160
Speaker 1: I have helped over the top with the safety. As

1030
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: soon as Tyler Locket gets inside and he has the

1031
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:56,560
Speaker 1: corner beat, his attention is on the safety now. So

1032
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: what he does to widening him out he leans he

1033
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: no boom whence he nods that safety winds out to

1034
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: the right. It opens up the middle of the field.

1035
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 1: And what Gino Smith does, he drops a dime over

1036
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:13,240
Speaker 1: the top. This is what Tyler Lockett does now, Folks,

1037
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:16,760
Speaker 1: I wore number sixteen, not like him. If you warmed

1038
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: it up for I warmed it up, I said lately

1039
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,920
Speaker 1: is way about six six seven years. Yeah, and you're

1040
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: gonna have this. It was coming, you know it was coming.

1041
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: But man, it's impressive impressives to see this guy continue

1042
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: to get open and move defenders the way he does

1043
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 1: righty Well, not only that, you know, uh, he does

1044
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: a very good job this year too, like just being

1045
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 1: a leader too. Like there's something about him I think

1046
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: being on the field that brings calm to the offense

1047
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 1: as well. So not only was he a great route

1048
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: runner there, but then also the concentration to catch the ball.

1049
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 1: And then if I would like to bring some attention

1050
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: back to the to the offensive line, because if in

1051
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: this formation, Gino is in the shotgun, so he's probably

1052
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 1: like five or six yards from the center, and then

1053
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: he drops back another five yards and then the pocket,

1054
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: which is what the quarterback sits in. So the tackles

1055
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 1: are responsible for the width of the pocket. The guards

1056
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,400
Speaker 1: and the center are responsible for the depth of the pocket.

1057
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,800
Speaker 1: So this pocket is so deep and it's so wide

1058
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: that Gino's able to step up about five or six

1059
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 1: yards to really put some mustard on this throw and

1060
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: then really get some touch on it. So it really

1061
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: does start, even though it ended with a beautiful dime,

1062
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 1: it starts with the big uglies up front. Bro, what

1063
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 1: position to heat play? Offensive line? It starts, it ends

1064
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 1: with the offensive line. Okay, this next play ken Walker's

1065
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:39,839
Speaker 1: sixty nine yard touchdown Walker the single setback a tight

1066
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 1: slot on the right side is Estridge and Locket. Gino

1067
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: now walks over to talk to them, comes back to

1068
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: the work center, talks to Medcalf. Now goes under center

1069
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: on second down in short turns hands to Walker, got

1070
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:55,759
Speaker 1: a little running room, brek three forty good fail. He

1071
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:59,919
Speaker 1: is gonna go forty thirty twenty. Look at the rocky

1072
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: shuts down, Sayhawks, Jen Walker the third. He's been booping

1073
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: around in there all afternoon. Finally find a gap and

1074
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: he is gone sixty nine yards on a touchdown. Scamper

1075
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: and the Seahawks have tied this up at thirty one apiece.

1076
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: Sixty nine yard touchdown from Ken Walker. I got the

1077
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 1: old line og up here. Break it down for me,

1078
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: Ray well A. It's a single back formation and h

1079
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: and it's gonna It's actually the play that we talked

1080
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:33,839
Speaker 1: to him about. He was trying to explain while he's

1081
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: up here, but it's his own player. Split zone, a

1082
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: mid zone, you can call it to the left, So

1083
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: the play starts out to the left. He's reading that

1084
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: defensive end, so the defensive end is kind of up

1085
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: the field, but the soft spot is in the middle,

1086
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: over the guard and in the center, and so then

1087
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: he cuts it back to his right. And the cool

1088
00:51:50,520 --> 00:51:53,800
Speaker 1: thing about what creates big running plays, or two things.

1089
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: One is that you cut the defense, so you create

1090
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: a lane the defense. So if you are able to

1091
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: see this, there's a lane between Abe Lucas and then

1092
00:52:02,080 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: the tight end and the two receivers on the backside,

1093
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: and that is the backside lane that he found. And

1094
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: the cool thing about that is that Tyler Lockett actually

1095
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:13,880
Speaker 1: his block is the key to this whole thing. He

1096
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 1: seals off. I think that that might even be a

1097
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,919
Speaker 1: safety or linebacker there, which really allows him to kind

1098
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: of open up his stride and get into that sixty

1099
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 1: nine yard touchdown. So in order for the running game

1100
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,480
Speaker 1: to work, it is a total team effort. The running

1101
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 1: back has to have the vision, the offensive line has

1102
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,320
Speaker 1: to have the push, and then the receivers down field

1103
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: have to do their part when they're not catching the

1104
00:52:34,160 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: ball and at least get in the way of defenders.

1105
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,479
Speaker 1: And that's how the run ended up being a sixty

1106
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:40,359
Speaker 1: nine yard touchdown. All right. So he showed the old

1107
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,799
Speaker 1: lines some love when it came to that past play.

1108
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 1: Thank you for showing the receivers from love when it

1109
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,799
Speaker 1: comes to this lord, man, it doesn't work without it's

1110
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: all a team effort, man. And one of my favorite

1111
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: runs are the zone. Right. I love the zone because

1112
00:52:54,200 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 1: you got combo blocks. You reach here, get into the linebackers,

1113
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,280
Speaker 1: receivers have to get in the way of that second

1114
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: level you get to that third level. We didn't mention

1115
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: d Eskridge getting just enough As a receiver, you just

1116
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: have to get just enough. Like he doesn't have to

1117
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 1: be a pancake block. It's not to dominate. You're just

1118
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 1: getting the way and let the running bag do his steam.

1119
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 1: This is a perfect example of everything coming together all right.

1120
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 1: This next way, we gotta Taysom Hill sixty yard touchdown.

1121
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: Still the game. Two tight ends in the game as well.

1122
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill, he's gonna go left side and he's gonna

1123
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:26,839
Speaker 1: pick up the first down and he's gonna go all

1124
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 1: the way for a touchdown. He is down inside the thirty.

1125
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,919
Speaker 1: He's being chased willing can he catch him? Pulling, tries

1126
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:33,839
Speaker 1: to knock up all out of his hands. Hill gets

1127
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: him for a touchdown. Oh, he giveth and he taketh away.

1128
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: The Seahawks have a huge run by Walker, and they

1129
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 1: turn right around and give up a big run to

1130
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill, a sixty yarder as he goes off the

1131
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 1: left side, and the Seahawks are still having a tough

1132
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: time figuring out how to stop Taysom Hill. And now

1133
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 1: the Saints are gonna go for two. Was they have

1134
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: taken a five point thirty seven thirty two or another

1135
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 1: run played something who you saw here right, Well, the

1136
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 1: thing that I see here is that actually in this game,

1137
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:12,399
Speaker 1: it happened twice when they when they ran to play

1138
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: like this, the side they were running to for the

1139
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: for the Seahawks actually slammed it into the play, which

1140
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: then makes the corner shorter. Actually, and especially if you

1141
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: can't get back there to make to create some damage.

1142
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 1: And then uh, Jordan Brooks, uh if he this is

1143
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: when you say this game is a game of inches.

1144
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 1: There's a pulling or a leading fullback up into the hole.

1145
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: And if he puts his helmet on this guy's outside

1146
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: shoulder versus his inside shoulder, Yeah, he slows that down

1147
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: enough that probably Ryan Neil is gonna catch it from

1148
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: from the back side. He's gonna catch up the tasting

1149
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: hill from the back side, and then it'll put Quandre

1150
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 1: Diggs in a better position to come over top to

1151
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: kind of close that gap. Because when you're running to

1152
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: the outside, you're trying to turn everything back to the inside.

1153
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: And in this situation, Terek Woolin came up, tried to

1154
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:04,840
Speaker 1: turn it back into Jordan Brooks, and then Jordan Brooks

1155
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: wasn't able to turn it back to the other back guys,

1156
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 1: and it created a big hole for Tason Hill to

1157
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:11,399
Speaker 1: get on his horse and get to the end zone.

1158
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:14,840
Speaker 1: Big Ray, you describe this thing beautifully, and all I

1159
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 1: see as you are describing this are just little missus. Yes, right,

1160
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: you don't get it on the right shoulder. Unfortunate call.

1161
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:28,239
Speaker 1: You're slatting the other way. You got Quandre trying to

1162
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: fill a gap. He doesn't make a play. And I

1163
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 1: think that that's kind of in the Achilles Hill when

1164
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 1: it comes to this defense, is that you're almost there, right,

1165
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 1: It's not like you're so far off. What are you're

1166
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 1: doing is like, yeah, I can understand what's going on here,

1167
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 1: But technique wise, you have to be dang near perfect

1168
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 1: to eliminate these big plays absolutely. And and you know,

1169
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:50,399
Speaker 1: people will look at that play in that run and say, well,

1170
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 1: the defense sucks or the players suck, or you need

1171
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: new players or what have you. And really it's a

1172
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: matter of maybe six to twelve inches is what made

1173
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:02,319
Speaker 1: the whole difference in that play. And so when we

1174
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: listen to ARTI earlier and he was talking about guys

1175
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: getting really comfortable in the defense and really understanding the

1176
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: defense and internalizing the defense, so that then they can

1177
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: just play free. They're not trying to think through their

1178
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,399
Speaker 1: assignments and get and then you get to where you're

1179
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 1: going and maybe a little tentative or you're not sure,

1180
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:19,880
Speaker 1: but when you're able to play free and internalize what

1181
00:56:19,920 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 1: you're doing, then you end up making the right moves

1182
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: with those six inches. You know it really, it really

1183
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 1: is a game of inches. And because I'm telling you,

1184
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:31,240
Speaker 1: like if if he had taken if if Jordan Brooks

1185
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:33,839
Speaker 1: had taken his left shoulder and went through the left

1186
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: shoulder of the poller, that ball would have bounced back inside.

1187
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: And that's where all the defensive the bad guys are.

1188
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:41,840
Speaker 1: As we say, all the bad guys, it's all about inches.

1189
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:44,359
Speaker 1: That is real. Okay. That was Geno Smith finding Tyler

1190
00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: locking for a thirty five yard touchdown, Ken Walker sixty

1191
00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 1: nine yard touchdown, and Taysom Hill breaks one off for sixty.

1192
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:53,280
Speaker 1: When we return, it is time to talk. That talk.

1193
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,359
Speaker 1: We'll talk about where Shod Penny to Reek Woolen and

1194
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: Bruce Irvin. That is next right here on hawk slide.

1195
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,600
Speaker 1: Rad does want to point out that, um, that music

1196
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:05,120
Speaker 1: that you just heard that is classic football, and he

1197
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:09,879
Speaker 1: gets me going every time, man, like all the Monday

1198
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,879
Speaker 1: night football across time. The music is I used to play.

1199
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: You know, you play pick up, get tackled, like everyone's

1200
00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:17,280
Speaker 1: just on the field and you just throw the football

1201
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:19,320
Speaker 1: up ever catches kill the carres what we called it.

1202
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 1: What we called it pick up and get tackled. To anytime,

1203
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: anytime I would, I know, yeah, I ain't going in

1204
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: two not going there, guys, but I would. When I

1205
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: would pick the football up, that music would play in

1206
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: my head. And then dude, nobody could tackle me. Nobody, nobody.

1207
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 1: I was like, yo, yo, big you know what ain't

1208
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 1: nobody tackling you? Well, just a little you know. I

1209
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 1: wasn't running back until eighth grade. He was also the

1210
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: biggest dude out there. I had skills, bump, what are

1211
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: you talking? You didn't have skills? Kicked that thing to

1212
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: the sideline. It was done gone. One of my shoes

1213
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: came off, and I felt like it was like turboy.

1214
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: It made me fast, so I would be like, hey,

1215
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: that shoe came off, They're not gonna get problem was

1216
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 1: at every time I score. My dad bought me a

1217
00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: foot long hot dog. So then I ate myself. Let

1218
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:11,200
Speaker 1: me put the weight on there and now you were

1219
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:16,240
Speaker 1: the tenth pick on the offensive line. So thank you

1220
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:20,920
Speaker 1: Papa Roberts for making who he is today. But let's

1221
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: talk about these these Arizona Cardinals. Man, there's such a

1222
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: volatile team. You're like, you don't know what you're gonna

1223
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,920
Speaker 1: get from these guys. You got Kylin Murray, who is

1224
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: clearly one of the most talented quarterbacks in the league.

1225
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 1: Not one of the best quarterbacks, one of the most talented.

1226
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: And then you look at the running back situation. They

1227
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 1: have three running backs down last week, Greg, Right, So

1228
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 1: if there's anything that's looking in the seahawks favor is

1229
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: that the running back situation might be suspect because the

1230
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: Hawks are last in the NFL against the run. Yeah,

1231
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:56,160
Speaker 1: and the thing that they can't do in this game

1232
00:58:56,400 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 1: is allow whoever they put in the backfield to beat them.

1233
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: They have to this is a game where they have

1234
00:59:02,040 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 1: to completely shut down the running game. And then you

1235
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 1: have to know that they're gonna have a handful of

1236
00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 1: design runs for Kyler Murray, whereas his draw player what

1237
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: have you. Then he's gonna have his scrambles. So you

1238
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 1: can't allow him and and those running situations to to

1239
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:21,000
Speaker 1: beat this defense, and then you can't allow him every

1240
00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: time that he decides to scramble to keep the change moving.

1241
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 1: So you're gonna want him to do want him to

1242
00:59:25,360 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 1: shut down the run and then make him prove that

1243
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: he can throw the ball and beat you. If I

1244
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 1: think if you get to that place, I don't think

1245
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: I think they see. Also, I'm not gonna say it's

1246
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 1: gonna be a Kate walk, but it'll be an easier

1247
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 1: game if you can get to those things done. Yeah,

1248
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,920
Speaker 1: the the unscripted things are the things that worry me

1249
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: the most about the Arizona Cardinals because you can have

1250
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 1: the perfect defense for a smash concept, the perfect defense

1251
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 1: for a zone concept, but when that young man gets

1252
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 1: in the backfield and he passed the ball two or

1253
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 1: three times and he scrambles all across the yard, um,

1254
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: there's no plan for that. You just got to depend

1255
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:04,440
Speaker 1: on your eyes and depend on guys getting to the football.

1256
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:07,400
Speaker 1: So that's the X factor for me. Yeah, absolutely not.

1257
01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:09,919
Speaker 1: You know what, James, I think James Connor maybe even

1258
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: down again this week, who was their leading rusher, and

1259
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 1: then Kyler Murrage a second, I think there's another running

1260
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:17,520
Speaker 1: back that has one hundred and thirty six yards and

1261
01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: Kyler has one hundred and thirty five. So essentially he's

1262
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,640
Speaker 1: their second leading rusher, so you can't allow him to

1263
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:26,760
Speaker 1: be their leading rusher and throw the ball and effectively.

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Speaker 1: So it's going to be important for the pass rusher

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Speaker 1: to get after him, get some hits on him, get him,

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Speaker 1: get his feet happy so he's not like looking down

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Speaker 1: to feel a lot. And then and then the secondary

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Speaker 1: I think play a little bit tighter, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. I don't other than Hollywood Brown, who has

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Speaker 1: some speed, I don't think there's a they have a

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Speaker 1: receiver that can just outrun you down the field. But

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Speaker 1: so I think they can kind of squeeze the coverage

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Speaker 1: a little bit. They can make some tight, you know,

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Speaker 1: precise throws, and I think the defense will have a

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Speaker 1: chance at least. I don't want to say it's a

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01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 1: get right game, but performed better than they have in

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Speaker 1: the last few weeks. And then offensively, I'm to see

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Speaker 1: if the Hawks can continue to, like you say, at

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Speaker 1: least be a threat to run the football right. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to rush for two hundred yards, it'd be nice, right,

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Speaker 1: You want to rush for two hundred yards. But if

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01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: you can have three yard four yard games, break one

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01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 1: for fifteen twenty yards, it makes that defense have to

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Speaker 1: play the run, and then it allows Gino to do

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Speaker 1: what he's been doing, which is play action toss the

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Speaker 1: ball down the field in when the play action is working,

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Speaker 1: that means the tight ends are heavily involved in this game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think if they if they stay to their plan

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Speaker 1: man and like get targets to all the tight ends

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Speaker 1: using the running backs. Obviously the receivers get them involved

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Speaker 1: in the game. But I really do think if if

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker can have somewhere between sixty two one hundred yards,

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Speaker 1: I think the offense will be clicking because that means

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Speaker 1: that Geno is probably gonna scramble for like another fifteen

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Speaker 1: or twenty, and then DJ Dallas is probably gonna have

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Speaker 1: another ten or twelve, and so that's gonna get your

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01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 1: like to you know, over one hundred yards in the

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Speaker 1: rushing game. And if that's happening, then that means that

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Speaker 1: this offense has a chance to stay on schedule and

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Speaker 1: and they can just still use all their play action.

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01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:10,919
Speaker 1: They can still use their short routes to the tight

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01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: ends or in immediate routes to the tight ends, they

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01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 1: can take the shots down the field to DK and Tyler,

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Speaker 1: and then I think we'll see a lot of what

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01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:19,920
Speaker 1: we've seen the rest of the start of the year,

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Speaker 1: and then we have to get the offense back to

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Speaker 1: being efficient on third downs. There were one for eight,

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01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 1: one for nine on third downs before last week. They

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01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 1: were top three when it comes to third down efficiency,

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01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:32,000
Speaker 1: and we're not used to that. We used to seeing

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Speaker 1: this office as being in the bottom three when it

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Speaker 1: comes to third down. So I'd like to see that

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Speaker 1: get going to and the thing that hurt them last

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Speaker 1: week with the penalties like is and it's hard to

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Speaker 1: convert you know, third and double digits, you know, and

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Speaker 1: getting those penalties on second down. So a lot of

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Speaker 1: people think like the third down efficiency is the piece

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Speaker 1: that you have to win, but you really have to

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01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: win first down because first down sets the tone for

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Speaker 1: the for the next two downs. So you can't have

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01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: negative plays on first down, you can't have penalties on

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01:02:57,800 --> 01:02:59,680
Speaker 1: second down and then put you in those third and

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01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: long situations you because then in that situation, the defense

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01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: is that the advantage with the calls they can make

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01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: when you get to second and five or third and

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01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:10,480
Speaker 1: four and short, then you have your whole playbook at

1327
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 1: your disposal to the call plays. Otherwise it's third and ten,

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01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:16,880
Speaker 1: third and eleven, third and twenty. Just hard to find

1329
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 1: calls for that. And so I think they found themselves

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01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 1: in that situation too much last last week, and so

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Speaker 1: this week, hopefully those penalties cut down. They're most successful

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01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 1: on first down, give them a better chance to be

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Speaker 1: successful on third All right, that all sounds good. Hey,

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Speaker 1: colabatta one time from my guy Ray Robbers joining us

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. All right, Hey, special things said Darren Urban

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Speaker 1: already burns ken Walker for joining the show are on

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Speaker 1: board operator Rady Robing, onside engineer Brenner Rogers, production as

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Speaker 1: sent in the Shan kind of Putty Mister one forty five,

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Speaker 1: and our executive producer Nasaid Choby. The Seahawks Freak Show

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Speaker 1: was live this Sunday at ten am. Until next time.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Michael Pumps with Ray robertson. We'll see

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Speaker 1: you next week right here on Hawkslide