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Speaker 1: You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver

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Speaker 1: Michael Bumpus.

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Speaker 2: Playfake going to roll ride, dumps.

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Speaker 3: It off into the right flat to Michael Bumpers, who

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Speaker 3: bounces off of one tackler cats inside the forty down

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Speaker 3: of the forty five yard.

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Speaker 2: Line powered by seahawks dot Com.

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Speaker 3: Matt Pumpfake's looking to the gold line.

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Speaker 2: He throws it into the m zone.

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Speaker 3: Touchdown, Say Hawks, it's Michael Bumpas with a diving catching

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Speaker 3: the end zone.

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Speaker 4: A ten yard.

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Speaker 3: Touchdown reception for Bumpers, and the kid out of Washington

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Speaker 3: State has found himself.

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Speaker 4: A place on this team.

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Speaker 2: Now here's your host, Nasa Chobie.

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Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of Hawk Talk. We are broadcasting

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Speaker 1: from the Seahawks Podcast Studio, presented by Sony, the official

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Speaker 1: partner of the Seattle Seahawks. Bump And Unfortunately, we were

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Speaker 1: hoping to still be working this week, getting ready for

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Speaker 1: a playoff game at Lumenfield against those Vikings. Unfortunately the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks are not playing in the postseason.

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Speaker 5: You still working, I ain't working. You still whim you're

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Speaker 5: still some work being?

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Speaker 4: Then? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Sure, I see you know, I guess buddy, like we're good,

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Speaker 1: but no, twenty twenty four was a wild ride, right.

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Speaker 2: A lot of things happened this time.

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Speaker 1: Last January, Seahawks moved on from legendary head coach Pe

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Speaker 1: Carol after a fourteen year run of success. Then they

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Speaker 1: hired Mike McDonald and began a new air in Seattle. Now,

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Speaker 1: like we said, the Seahawks didn't make this playoffs, but

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Speaker 1: you can't say this year was any success. Let's just

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Speaker 1: look at some of the highlights under first year under

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Speaker 1: coach McDonald ten and seven record. Anytime you get to

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Speaker 1: double digit wins, that's a big thing. Mike McDonald passed

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Speaker 1: Chuck Knox and Mike Homgrian for the most wins by

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Speaker 1: a first year Seahawks head coach with ten. The Seahawks

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Speaker 1: achieved their fourteenth double digit win season in franchise history,

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Speaker 1: first since twenty twenty and the Seahawks tied the best

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Speaker 1: road record in franchise history at seven to one in

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Speaker 1: the longest road winning streak at six games.

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Speaker 4: Bump.

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Speaker 1: But what stood out to me the most about anything

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Speaker 1: about this team was how they improved on defense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, defense was on point.

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Speaker 5: It started off kind of shaky, not shaky, but it

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Speaker 5: just didn't have the pop that we thought it was

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Speaker 5: going to have. But they went from thirty first against

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Speaker 5: the run long one hundred and thirty eight yards per

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Speaker 5: game in twenty twenty three to sixteenth allowing one hundred

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Speaker 5: and twenty yards per game in twenty twenty four, and

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Speaker 5: once Ernest and Tyree's night took over, it just felt different.

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Speaker 4: Man. It felt like a top ten defense. Those dudes

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Speaker 4: were on point.

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Speaker 5: And then they went from twenty first and the pass

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Speaker 5: defense allowing two hundred twenty three yards in twenty twenty

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Speaker 5: three to eleventh allowing two hundred and eleven yards per game.

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Speaker 5: Big ups to that d line. You know it starts there.

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Speaker 5: But then the back end was good. Jay Love had

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Speaker 5: himself a good season. Witherspoon statistically isn't gonna wow you,

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Speaker 5: but you watched the games.

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Speaker 4: He was everywhere, and then Reek had his moments as well.

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Speaker 5: And then they went from thirtieth in total defense allowing

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Speaker 4: It was improved. That's why Mike McDonald's brought here.

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Speaker 5: Improved his defense, the team as a whole, but specifically

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it felt like for a while the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: and Mike McDonald's talked about the standard is the standard.

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Speaker 1: When the Seahaws are getting back to that, it'd been

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Speaker 1: So they're on their way. But like any football season

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Speaker 1: at any level, there's going to be changes. Whether you're

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Speaker 1: same for the Seahawks. On Monday, the Seahawks has had

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Speaker 1: to part ways with offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb after one season.

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Speaker 1: Coach McDonald met with the media on Tuesday, talking about

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Speaker 1: this season in twenty twenty four, but he is optimistic

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we've had a great I mean, obviously what happened

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Speaker 6: just really optimistic, fired up for what's ahead of us,

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Speaker 6: where the direction our team's going. I think, yeah, obviously

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Speaker 6: really man just excited about what's to come and working

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Speaker 6: through like what the off season is going to look like,

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Speaker 6: making some tweaks, how do we evolve all those things

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Speaker 6: that all that stuff's ahead of us, how we build

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Speaker 1: Work now that it's been a couple of days. As

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Speaker 1: coach said, how excited he is about where this team

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Speaker 1: can go. What stood out to team you the most

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Speaker 1: this season, Well, we touched on the defense.

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Speaker 5: I think that was huge, And what stood out to

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Speaker 5: me is that Mike McDonald isn't afraid to make the

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Speaker 5: tough decision. You cut two linebackers, one who played every

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Speaker 5: and then end of the season you let go Grub

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Speaker 5: just wasn't a good fit. What stood out to me

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Speaker 5: is that there is an energy about this team right

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Speaker 4: Of pass over roll over to next year.

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Speaker 5: And him being a thirty seven year old head coach,

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Speaker 5: he did know what he didn't know he was in

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Speaker 5: then for Michigan. He's an experienced coach. But to be

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Speaker 4: So he is a head coach.

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Speaker 5: I think that's the question when you hire young guys,

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Speaker 4: And my man did a good job.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when you look back at his season, at no

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Speaker 1: point did you feel like the moment was too big. Ever,

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Speaker 2: So that was cool to see.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's been different coaches throughout the league, different

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Speaker 1: also excited about bump guys like Jason. We're going to

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Speaker 1: you look at it, there's a lot of good players

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Speaker 1: on this offense. There's a lot of good people on

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Speaker 1: person who's going to be that next offensive coordinator, here's

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Speaker 1: a coach Mike McDonald's looking for in that position.

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Speaker 6: I think it's a heck of a job. I mean,

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Speaker 6: it starts with the organization. I mean, all the things

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Speaker 6: we got great players, man, I mean we've got a

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Speaker 6: great young core, and I think I mean, shoot, I

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Speaker 2: I think it's the best job.

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Speaker 1: Out there now. Assuming everything is status quo. Everyone who's

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Speaker 1: If you were going to take, like, let's say, Michael

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Speaker 1: Bump is gonna be the next offensive quarter why would

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Speaker 1: this be so intriguing for you?

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Speaker 5: It would be intriguing because of the personnel. One you

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Speaker 5: look at Geno Smith. Okay, I understand fifteen interceptions. I

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Speaker 5: b Walt did and really get specific. You realize half

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Speaker 5: down and he's jitterering all that stuff. Gino don't do that.

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Speaker 5: He is the most composed guy I see in the pocket.

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Speaker 5: So it starts with your quarterback. I like Geno personnel.

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Speaker 5: You still have DK, one of the most explosive receivers

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Speaker 5: So I think it's because of the personnel that's established

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Speaker 5: I look at this job, and you can run whatever

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Speaker 5: I know what type of offense Mike McDonald wants to run.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And the cool thing about it too is you got

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Speaker 1: to remember this staff came in late last year. Mc

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Speaker 1: so it's almost February, so they got a late start

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Speaker 1: hiring the staff doing all that stuff, and he's worried

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Speaker 1: Not even you know they didn't go to the combine

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Speaker 1: things like that. So now that coaching staff, whoever is

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Speaker 1: Another year of him and Josh Schneider learned how to

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Speaker 1: work together and they you talk about the relationship, it

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Speaker 1: seems great. So I think they're miles ahead. Obviously, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you want to be in the playoffs right now, but

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Speaker 1: they get a head start to this offseason figuring out

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Speaker 1: who they want to be here, how they're gonna get

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Speaker 1: it done, and they can really focus on the football

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Speaker 1: part of things and get things going. That being said, Bump,

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Speaker 1: what type of person do you think is going to

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Speaker 1: be in here when you come to the offensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: and offense? What meshes well with the personnel the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: have here in the style you think Mike McDonald wants

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Speaker 1: to play.

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Speaker 4: You got to be a teacher.

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Speaker 5: I met with Mike McDonald's so of you right we're

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Speaker 5: in the building, and he is big on being a teacher,

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Speaker 5: and that's what coaches are. Essentially. You're the professor. Yea,

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Speaker 5: Jay and sim Man. I was hoping he broke that record,

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Speaker 5: You got Tyler Lockett. We'll see what happens with him

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Speaker 5: He was still that force man. He was still the

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Speaker 4: Essentially, we know what he can do. Man.

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Speaker 5: You don't find Tyler Lockett in the NFL, and then

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Speaker 4: They had.

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Speaker 5: Robertson Harris. But you know what, I go, I go,

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Speaker 5: that's fitting. You know what that is fitting? Keep your

440
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Speaker 5: chip on your shoulder, being all pro and make these

441
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Speaker 5: dudes recognize how impactful you are in a game. I

442
00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,760
Speaker 5: was saying this earlier in the season, like he's blowing

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Speaker 5: stuff up. You might not see the sacks early got

444
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Speaker 5: going late, you might not see the sacks, but he

445
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Speaker 5: is blowing stuff up.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 5: Just a massive human being and an athletic human being.

448
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Speaker 5: When I saw him take that pick ninety two yards

449
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Speaker 5: and saw the forum and saw the knees get up,

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Speaker 5: I go, yeah, my man played running back when he

451
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Speaker 5: was a kid back in the day. Just super athletic,

452
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Speaker 5: good dude. And I don't know if he is a captain.

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Speaker 5: I know they rotated captains this year, but if they

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Speaker 5: had a captain on defense, he would be one of

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Speaker 5: them for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it. And also disrespect Espniard kidding me.

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Speaker 1: He played for both New York teams. Crazy, he's done it.

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Speaker 4: Crazy.

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Speaker 5: Come on, that's bad. I'm yelling at the TV byself.

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Speaker 1: Come on, man, anyway, Leo, absolute style level we saw

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Speaker 1: from this year.

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Speaker 4: Julian Love consistent.

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Speaker 5: He got paid the soft season and he like the

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Speaker 5: performed like he got paid this AFT season. One hundred

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Speaker 5: and nine tackles, three TFLs, twelve passes the A, three intercessions,

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Speaker 5: two forced fumbles, one funnel recovery, and one block kick.

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Speaker 5: He tied for the team lead and interceptions. Posted a

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Speaker 5: third consecutive one hundred tackles season. Julian Love one is

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Speaker 5: a professional. It's hard time to get up on the

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Speaker 5: podium after loss and answer these questions and then do

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Speaker 5: it after a win and give love to everybody else.

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Speaker 5: Met the man before, and he's just he shows up

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Speaker 5: to work. He is a true professional man. When you

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Speaker 5: think of a safety who can be relied upon and

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Speaker 5: can be a leader, it's Julian Love. And he didn't

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Speaker 5: miss many tackles. Of course, guys missed tackles. This the

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Speaker 5: NFL is going to happen, but he did not miss

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Speaker 5: many tackles. Super reliable on the back end.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I loved you and love He does everything the

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Speaker 1: team asks for him from a media standpoint, talking to

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Speaker 1: the media, doing all the interviews, and then on the field,

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Speaker 1: he was a difference maker. He was making splash plays

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Speaker 1: TFLs keeping guys in front of doing all that thing.

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Speaker 1: So Julian love big ups number twenty for a huge year.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to him and his family. I know he's

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Speaker 1: got a young one at home, so doing his thing there.

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Speaker 1: Then Ernest Joe another you're talking about acquisitions, another guy

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Speaker 1: that was complete game changer. The Seahawks are nowhere near

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Speaker 1: ten wins if Ernest Jones is not on this football team.

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Speaker 1: He comes to Seahawks in week eight and then since

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Speaker 1: week eight he had ninety four tackles, half a SAG,

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Speaker 1: one TfL, two passes have been into one ie one

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Speaker 1: force fumble.

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?

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Speaker 5: Ernest Jones brought this light, this toughness to a defense.

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Speaker 5: You had it on the D line with Leo, but

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Speaker 5: you needed it on that second level and Ernest brought him.

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Speaker 5: And I like how he's affecting the young man next

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Speaker 5: to him too, Tyres nine. I mean, it's such a

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Speaker 5: blessing to have Ernest Jones leath away who's still young,

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Speaker 5: what is like twenty four to twenty five years old,

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Speaker 5: young dude. Yeah, and then you got Tyre s Nyde

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Speaker 5: to the right of them.

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Speaker 4: To the left. However, they line up. But it's bigger

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Speaker 4: than just Ernest.

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Speaker 5: It's the effect he had on the defense of the

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Speaker 5: mentorship that he has with Tyres Knight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, goodness, gracious, he was just that stabling force.

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Speaker 1: The Seahawks were giving up one hundred and fifty yards

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Speaker 1: a game. It was like back to back to back

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Speaker 1: to back weeks. He comes in there, resets it. The

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Speaker 1: first time he actually has a full week of practice

513
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Speaker 1: was that first Rams game. Now is the first time

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Speaker 1: the defense started playing well big you know, obviously got

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Speaker 1: attribute a lot of that to Ernest Jones, So love

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Speaker 1: what he did there. And then another one bump. I'll

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Speaker 1: go with Devin Witherspoon. You talked about it earlier. If

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Speaker 1: this isn't a great statistical season, I would sign up

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Speaker 1: for this every single year. Ninety eight tackles, one sacks,

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Speaker 1: six TFLs, nine passes, defend in one force fumble. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he didn't have the big splash interception or anything like that,

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Speaker 1: but he was voted to the Pro Bowl for the

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Speaker 1: second consecutive year.

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Speaker 2: And his energy and motor is just unmatched.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the way this guy plays, he's NonStop bump

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Speaker 1: Like you can't teach what he does on a football field.

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Speaker 1: You talk about I think, case in point, the interception

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Speaker 1: Kobe's interception, what he was able to do. Think it's

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Speaker 1: a run, spin out, pressure, Kyler Williams or Kyler murrayscuse me,

530
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Speaker 1: the fastest dude at quarterback in this league, and then run.

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Speaker 1: I mean everything that he was able to do this year.

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Speaker 1: Devin Witherspoon is a cornerstone for this defense. At his stature,

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Speaker 1: was still able to play in every single game this year.

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Speaker 1: He's a difference maker. I love to see what we're

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Speaker 1: seeing from him.

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Speaker 5: Play him at corner, get him at nickel, he'd be

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Speaker 5: in the box trying to mix it up as well.

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Speaker 5: He he's probably listed at a buck eighty five. He's

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Speaker 5: probably a buck seventy five. Yeah, but he plays like

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Speaker 5: he's two h five out there. The energy, the passion,

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Speaker 5: the talk. You need guys like him out there, and

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Speaker 5: it's he's slowly becoming the leader already and it's only

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Speaker 5: a second year in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: That's fine.

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Speaker 5: Derek Hall loves seeing the growth of this dude. He

546
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Speaker 5: used to be a one trick pony. Now he got

547
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Speaker 5: like three Foux tricks down. He's doing his thing, thirty

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Speaker 5: seven tackles, eight sacks, six TfL's, two force fumbles, one

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Speaker 5: fumble return for a touchdown, and took a second year jump.

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Speaker 5: Very similar to our guy boy Mafe. Derek Hall is

551
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Speaker 5: a guy who plays with like force.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: I think of like just the most powerful thing in

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Speaker 5: this world to me, and the scarce thing is the ocean,

555
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Speaker 5: right the waves, the force that it plays with. That's

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Speaker 5: what I see when I see Derek Hall. He plays

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Speaker 5: with just the force of waves, man, and he's getting confident.

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Speaker 5: Like I said, he used to a bullrush. Now he's

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Speaker 5: got some hand movement. He took a huge jump this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. He's strong, He's a physical dude.

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Speaker 1: That's the dude that we thought were getting from Auburn. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it takes a while you come to the league.

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Speaker 1: You're kind of figuring things out. He took that step

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Speaker 1: and just kind of played a role between him and

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Speaker 1: Jay Reid and Leo what that defense can do. So

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Speaker 1: I love what we saw from him. And then Kobe

567
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Speaker 1: Bryant loved the story from Kobe comes in as a corner,

568
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Speaker 1: moves inside to the slot, has a great year, forces

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Speaker 1: four fumbles, doing his thing there. And then second year

570
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Speaker 1: they draft Evan Witherspoon, he kind of loses the spot,

571
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Speaker 1: doesn't pout, doesn't do anything they asked him to change

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Speaker 1: his safety another position, twitches he do because everything he's

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Speaker 1: asked to him comes in this year, took his opportunity,

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Speaker 1: was kind of in some nickel packages and personnel early on.

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Speaker 1: Then Rashawn Jenkins went down and he took that job

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Speaker 1: and did not give it back. Seventy three tackles, three interceptions,

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Speaker 1: six passes defended, one force fumble, one sixty nine yard

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Speaker 1: pick six did that well starting just eleven games. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, took over for Jenkin's spot, and I just

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Speaker 1: love his journey and what he was able to do.

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Speaker 2: And Kobe's dog.

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Speaker 1: He's one of the one of the really good dudes

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Speaker 1: in the locker room again, another guy that will always

584
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Speaker 1: speak to the media, win, lose, draw. Kobe's that dude.

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Speaker 1: We could spend time talking about so many guys in

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Speaker 1: our locker room. Those are who we spot shot out tonight.

587
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Speaker 1: So a lot of cool players, a lot of good

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Speaker 1: guys that can figure ways out next year to really

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Speaker 1: cont contribute help this football team. So I'm excited about

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Speaker 4: Bump.

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Speaker 2: We gotta look at the rest of the offseason, what

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Speaker 2: it's going to look like. What's on tap? What's on tap?

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Speaker 1: So coming up, we got the NFL Combine that's February

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Speaker 1: twenty fourth to March third. Free agency gets going on

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Speaker 1: March twelfth. Everything kind of it gets while there offseason

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Speaker 1: program with teams that have returning head coaches. So the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks here in Seattle April twenty first, that's when the

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Speaker 1: players have kind of come back and they can start

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Speaker 1: doing activities. Then you have the NFL Draft April twenty

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Speaker 1: fourth to the twenty six, and then rookie Minicamp is

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Speaker 1: typically you know, either the first or second week of May.

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Speaker 1: Then you got the schedule release OTA's mandatory mini camp,

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Speaker 1: and then we're back here at training camp. It feels

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Speaker 1: like a lot bump, but we'll be back here very shortly.

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Speaker 5: Right now, it's gonna crawl because we gotta watch other

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Speaker 5: teams play football, but as soon as it's over, it's

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Speaker 5: gonna happen fairly quickly. And I'm so excited to see

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Speaker 5: just how this organization progresses off of this ten and

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Speaker 5: seven season, when you were so close to making the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: You go back and you reflect on the season. There

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Speaker 5: are things that you wish they could have gotten done.

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Speaker 5: But this is what I expected, and I'm happy that

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Speaker 5: Mike MacDonald got off to the start that he did,

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Speaker 5: and now he has.

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Speaker 4: A full off season to really both this thing to

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Speaker 4: what he wants.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, between him and John SCHNI have been doing a

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Speaker 1: lot a long time. Obviously, that pairing's gonna be great,

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Speaker 1: just like it was Carol. So I'm excited what this

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Speaker 1: team can do. Unfortunately, this season, though the clock did

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Speaker 1: run out.

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Speaker 3: Knee taken by Uny, They're just gonna let the clock

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Speaker 3: wind down. I'm not even gonna bother taking that last

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Speaker 3: time out.

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Speaker 1: You talked about a bump. How this season off scene

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Speaker 1: is gonna be fine. We get to see what Mike

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Speaker 1: McDonald John Snyder can build. The biggest thing is gonna

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Speaker 1: be finding the offensive coordinator that's kind of set this

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Speaker 1: thing off and see how the rest of the offense

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Speaker 1: shakes out.

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Speaker 2: Lots of build on, lots look forward to.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I gotta find out OLC. Well, step number one,

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Speaker 5: fine the OLC and just keep building. Man, you're stacking days,

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Speaker 5: you're stacking weeks, and you're creating something special here. And

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Speaker 5: it gets me excited about next season because of just

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Speaker 5: the steps that we're taking defensively. Offensively, they still did

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Speaker 5: some great things. At one point they were a top

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Speaker 5: five passing team in the game. Gino hit some numbers,

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Speaker 5: he got paid big us to getting his incentives extra

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Speaker 5: six million. Good for you, Gino. But but yeah, it's

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Speaker 5: all about just stacking. My son, I tell him every

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Speaker 5: day second days. So so there they're gonna be second

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Speaker 5: days over here.

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Speaker 1: That's what coach McDonald preaches, that there stacking wins and

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Speaker 1: it's one performance after another. So it's exciting, you know,

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Speaker 1: and in terms of me and you, we'll be back

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Speaker 1: periodically through off season. Obviously, were gonna take a little

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Speaker 1: bit of break here, but when news breaks, we'll probably

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Speaker 1: jump back on and me. And you've been doing this

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Speaker 1: for a little while now, bump this is six you're

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Speaker 1: doing this first season on YouTube. So we appreciate all

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Speaker 1: of you guys for listening. We're not gonna be gone

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Speaker 1: for too long. We will be back. And uh, I

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Speaker 1: just want to clarify one click thing bumps about our name.

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Speaker 1: I've seen people like hawk Talk like someone else has

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Speaker 1: that name. I just wanted to be clear. Hawk Talk

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Speaker 1: is an extension of the Seahawks Postgame Show, which is

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Speaker 1: the last hour of the postgame show.

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Speaker 2: Yep, that has been going on for decades, decades, So

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Speaker 2: we copyed no one there now. I just want to

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Speaker 2: put that out there.

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Speaker 4: You guys can make assumptions off of what he just said.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, No, we're good. We're good.

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Speaker 1: There's no copying. And I'm gonna throw shade anyone else. Brian,

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Speaker 1: if you're out there, hawk logger, he's doing his thing.

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Speaker 1: All good, All good. I just want to clear that up.

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Speaker 1: Want to clear that up. Yeah, anyway, he's Michael Bumpus,

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Speaker 1: some NaSTA show. We thank you for listening all season long.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll be back next time with some good news.

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Speaker 1: Getting ready for that twenty twenty five season, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a fun ride again. Thanks for listening until next time.

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Speaker 1: This has been howked k