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Speaker 1: This is the huddle, the handoff, inside.

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Speaker 2: The sermony, He's gonna go touchdown SIA Hawks.

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Speaker 3: Exclusively on Seattle Sports on seven ten, Seattle Sports on YouTube,

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Speaker 3: and the Seattle Sports App with hosts Michael Bumpus, Stacy.

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Speaker 4: Rosk, and Deeve Wyman.

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Speaker 3: Time to go inside the Huddle, hoddle Dead.

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Speaker 5: You are listening to the Huddle with Dave Woyman, Michael Bumpus,

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Speaker 5: and Stacy Ross. We are going to talk about a

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Speaker 5: big win over the Saints and then preview a big

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Speaker 5: game against the Arizona Cardinals. Quick turnaround here, Let's quickly

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Speaker 5: start with New Orleans, everything we saw at LUMAN against

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Speaker 5: that team, and then we'll get to the Cardinals. First,

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Speaker 5: Wyman forty four points, most points scored by the Seahawks

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Speaker 5: in two years.

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Speaker 6: What impressed you most about this one?

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Speaker 7: Special teams? Just the focus there by Jay Harbaugh. He's

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Speaker 7: done a great job. And you know, I think I

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Speaker 7: came from the era of Rusty Tillman where he just

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Speaker 7: made it a thing. A lot of teams they just

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Speaker 7: kind of go through and you know, okay, let's put

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Speaker 7: some backups here. They put a lot of time and

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Speaker 7: effort and focus into special teams, and you saw that

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Speaker 7: the other day, so I love seeing that part of it.

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Speaker 7: You know, we had the big return by Derek Young

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Speaker 7: for sixty yards, and of course the record breaking punt

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Speaker 7: return by Horton.

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Speaker 4: It was just fantastic. You get a block punt.

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Speaker 7: I remember Rusty used to tell us that, you know,

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Speaker 7: there's like a ninety percent chance that you win a

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Speaker 7: game if you block a punt, and so you just

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Speaker 7: saw clearly that they were dialed in in.

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Speaker 4: That phase of the game.

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Speaker 5: Again, they dropped forty four points on the Saints, however,

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Speaker 5: they were more than a touchdown favorite. You're playing in

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Speaker 5: your house. The Saints are zeroing too, even though they

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Speaker 5: beat them by more teams than the forty nine Ers

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Speaker 5: and Cardinals combined. I think there were some people leaving going, ah,

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Speaker 5: what is a win over the Saints teach you? But

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Speaker 5: a win over any NFL team can teach you.

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Speaker 8: Those people are crazy.

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Speaker 6: So what did you learn?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: I learned that this team can be explosive. I love

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Speaker 9: special teams too. Wouldn't be in the NFL but our

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Speaker 9: special teams, So thank you for that. But no, I

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Speaker 9: was the offense at one point. It was what seven minutes,

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Speaker 8: One points on the board.

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Speaker 9: Sam Donald was efficient fourteen of eighteen has the second

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Speaker 9: highest QB rating in franchise history.

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Speaker 8: And then it was like twenty minute.

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Speaker 9: Possessions to seven minutes and yet you're blowing this team out.

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Speaker 9: So you were efficient. So my man talked about specials.

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Speaker 9: I like the offense, and then we'll sprinkle in the

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Speaker 9: defense too, because you had two interceptions there as well.

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Speaker 9: Second week in a row where you pick off the quarterback.

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Speaker 9: Excuse me, Kendricks had a pick for the second week

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Speaker 9: in a row. It was all three phases, but me

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Speaker 9: being an offensive guy, I got to tip my cap

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Speaker 9: to Sam Donald.

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Speaker 4: He was efficient.

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Speaker 5: And the third week in a row that you've held

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Speaker 5: do it against Arizona, I don't know. We're gonna get

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Speaker 5: to Sam Donald and then the defense this time with

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Speaker 5: a look ahead to Arizona for Thursday night football. I'll

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Speaker 5: start with a bump for Sam Donald. Wyman, if you

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Speaker 5: So first what I'll say about Sam Donald is he

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Speaker 5: has done a great job for this team through three weeks.

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Speaker 5: I'm a little surprised that we've talked about so much

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Speaker 5: change at quarterbacks, so little about Donald so far. Are

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Speaker 5: we waiting for a breakout game? What can he do

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Speaker 10: Don't worry about a breakout game.

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Speaker 9: I think he just needs to have the type of

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Speaker 9: when targeted. Nineteen eighteen out of nineteen targets have been

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Speaker 9: So I expect that to continue because they are going

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Speaker 9: That will influence the linebackers. So I think the pitcher

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Speaker 9: will still be clear for Sam Donald this week. When

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Speaker 9: do run the football. Even last week they only rush

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Speaker 9: for eighty something yards. I said, the run game still

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Speaker 6: Field, Wyman. What have you seen from Donald?

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Speaker 7: Well, I just he's incredibly tough mentally, emotionally and physically.

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Speaker 4: He'll he'll take some shots.

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Speaker 7: He took some in the chops against the Steelers and

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Speaker 7: got somebody, you know, right in his grill and he's

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Speaker 7: able to deliver the pass. And yeah, I love what

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Speaker 7: we're seeing. And like you said, he's not putting up

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Speaker 7: huge numbers, but he's running this offense really effectively. And

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Speaker 7: you start to see, like in the first game against

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Speaker 7: Now they're starting to get to play action, and you know,

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Speaker 7: you're finding guys wide open, Like in Pittsburgh with Arroyo,

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Speaker 7: I mean he was just so wide open that he

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Speaker 7: there's so many places to go. So you're seeing a

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Speaker 7: and you know they're they're getting to the players, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 7: the plays that make this offense go.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, I didn't really.

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Speaker 5: See that in the Let's talk about what's making this

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Speaker 5: defense go again. They've held opponents to seventeen points or

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Speaker 5: there's a couple people out there, quite a few who

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Speaker 5: aren't that impressed with that offense. Well, okay, what about

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Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers and DK Metcalf and all the hype for

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Speaker 5: McCaffrey and brock perty and we'd one held them to seventeen?

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Speaker 5: Made those two offenses mostly ineffective. I know one of

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Speaker 6: What are you seeing?

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Speaker 7: Well, first of all, I think everything starts up front.

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Speaker 7: Did a football one on one thing that you can

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Speaker 7: find now and I called it feats of strength? And

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Speaker 7: Kamara has killed the Seahawks over the last three times.

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Speaker 7: He was averaging like one hundred and eighty yards all purpose.

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Speaker 7: He had fifty six total yards. So I think it

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Speaker 4: He's a physical player.

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Speaker 7: And Darien Kendrick another guy who you know he wants

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Speaker 4: PBUs into ants.

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Speaker 7: But he's got two interceptions, man, So yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 7: I just whoever you plug in.

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Speaker 4: Ty Okada had a good day. He was the leading tackler, So.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, the system is working on the back end, and

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Speaker 7: then up front it's just mayhem. I mean, you can't

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Speaker 7: Derek Hall. He plays with so much aggression pulling guards

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Speaker 7: hate him because he just kills them. So, yeah, the

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Speaker 7: physicality to me is really coming through. But then you know,

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Speaker 7: it's just you love a defense where you just plug

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Speaker 5: Bump, you're a former receiver, do you watch this defense

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Speaker 5: sometimes and just think like, man, how would you do this?

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Speaker 6: How would I write?

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Speaker 5: Because you've been oc before, you're probably thinking from the

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Speaker 5: Does it become kind of difficult? Is what Mike McDonald's

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Speaker 9: It's really I wouldn't even say it's a lot of

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Speaker 9: just being dominant on the defensive line. So when you're

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Speaker 9: exotic with these blitz I mean there's still blitzing only

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Speaker 5: A question you've got for Thursday night, same question as

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Speaker 8: Question Thursday night on can you do it again?

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Speaker 9: You want to see it done week after week after week.

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Speaker 9: Teams with identities have an identity because they do it

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Speaker 9: all the time. And it's two weeks ago football that

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Speaker 9: we've seen. So I want to see the offense be efficient.

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Speaker 8: Can you do it?

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Speaker 9: And can the defense continue just to mess things up

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Speaker 6: What about you?

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Speaker 7: I'm curious how long it's going to take people to

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Speaker 7: trust Sam Darnald, and I would like to see him,

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Speaker 7: you know, continue to develop. I've just been very impressed by,

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Speaker 7: like I said, more than anything, just his poise and

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Speaker 7: the way he's running the offense because he's had some

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Speaker 4: He's gotten hit and he is uh.

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Speaker 7: I think he's proving that he is the guy that

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Speaker 7: he's probably gonna, you know, face scrutiny of the and

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Speaker 7: I don't know how long it's going to take for

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Speaker 7: trust him right now.

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Speaker 4: I love what I've seen from him.

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Speaker 7: And uh and again just the u the emotional toughness.

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Speaker 7: You know a lot of times you get down when

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Speaker 7: I mean, there's been some chaos in the in the offense,

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Speaker 6: What are you watching out for with Arizona? Whyman?

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Speaker 3: This this is the huddle every Thursday from noon to

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Speaker 8: All right, this is the huddle. I'm joined now by

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Speaker 8: I would assume I know you already turned the page

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Speaker 10: Got to visit what happened with the Saints.

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Speaker 9: The person thing I thought about when I knew it

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Speaker 4: What was that?

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Speaker 8: But well as the inspiration that someone suggested you just

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Speaker 10: What have you learned about Sam so far? Three weeks in?

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Speaker 10: So what's a short week life for you?

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Speaker 8: How does a primetime ball I feel like Thursday nights.

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Speaker 8: So yeah, how'd you take the Apple Cup this week?

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Speaker 12: is probably this is going to be the place for me.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: It's all about preparing your body, preparing your mind too.

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Speaker 11: Man.

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Speaker 9: I try to watch film as if I'm playing. Yeah,

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Speaker 9: I guess the Arizona Cardinals. What's your prep like as

447
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Speaker 9: far as outside of the facility and just getting your

448
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Speaker 9: your mental right.

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Speaker 12: I mean I definitely have, you know, the time I

450
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Speaker 12: take away from football, you know, just kind of like

451
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Speaker 12: relax and reset a little bit, but I always keep

452
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Speaker 12: it fresh in my mind. You know, I do watch

453
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Speaker 12: a lot of film, watch a lot of different players

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Speaker 12: across the league and how they approach how they approach

455
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Speaker 12: the game, and different techniques and tendencies. Then, you know,

456
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Speaker 12: just trying to see the defense as a whole rather

457
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Speaker 12: than just look at individual players.

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Speaker 10: You know who was a lineman used to watch growing up?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 12: Well, I mean obviously I'm biased here to watch Walter,

461
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Speaker 12: you know, just being a Seahawks fan. I don't know,

462
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Speaker 12: I didn't really start watching like offensive linemen like that

463
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Speaker 12: until I really got to college, just because you know,

464
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Speaker 12: it was such a it became like a science to play,

465
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Speaker 12: you know, rather than just in high school and you're

466
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Speaker 12: just kind of playing just to play. Yeah, but no,

467
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Speaker 12: I watched I mean I knew about Trent Williams. I

468
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Speaker 12: knew about Lane Johnson. You know, I knew about a

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Speaker 12: lot of the great linemen that have been in the

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Speaker 12: leaf for a while. I knew about Jason Peters. You know,

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Speaker 12: I watched guys like that you know, and just had

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Speaker 12: to look at what they do. You know, I still do,

473
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Speaker 12: you know, because you're never really done learning.

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Speaker 9: So yeah, last one I got for you. You've probably

475
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Speaker 9: asked this question a thousand times. But the linemen are

476
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Speaker 9: typically the closest group on a football team because really,

477
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Speaker 9: y'all don't get the love you deserve when they are

478
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Speaker 9: talking about just probably because of penalty or or whatnot.

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Speaker 10: I just described this room and just the characters in it,

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Speaker 10: I guess.

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Speaker 11: And it's great.

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Speaker 12: I mean, we have a we have a room that

483
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Speaker 12: like everybody seems to you know, like each other, which

484
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Speaker 12: is a big deal. It doesn't happen in every room. Yeah,

485
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Speaker 12: we enjoy being around each other. People are cool. The

486
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Speaker 12: rookies are great. We have a good group of rooks

487
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Speaker 12: and you know, like I said, I mean we're kind

488
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Speaker 12: of young. I think, you know, don't have like a

489
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Speaker 12: super old o line room. But everybody's just kind of

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Speaker 12: cool with each other, which is a nice thing.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, all right, he's our tackle, Abe Lucas Man appreciates you,

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Speaker 8: no problem.

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Speaker 5: It was a big week for special teams against the

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Speaker 5: Saints and coming up next, Bump talks with someone who

495
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Speaker 5: made some big plays.

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Speaker 6: Chaz Surratt joins the huddle.

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Speaker 3: This This is the huddle every Thursday from noon to two.

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Speaker 8: On Seattle Sports.

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Speaker 14: Tory Horton, the rookie, is deep for the Seahawks. He

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Speaker 14: stands just inside his own twenty. I saw Proger during

501
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Speaker 14: warm ups and he had a couple of rain makers.

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Speaker 14: And here's one. This is a long, high spiral. Horton

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Speaker 14: back at his own five, gets one block, gets.

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Speaker 2: Two blocks, turns up field, cut some running room, acrost

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Speaker 2: the thirty thirty five, Who may go forty one o'clock

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Speaker 2: commit field forty thirty twenty fifty ten far mister Horton, touchdown,

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Speaker 2: Sayhawks unbelievable blows great run by the rookie ninety five

508
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Speaker 2: yards and the Seahawks take a thirteen nothing lead over

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Speaker 2: the Saints.

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Speaker 9: Well, so this is the huddle word and joined now

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Speaker 9: by Chaz. Sir rap man, how you doing today?

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Speaker 11: I'm good?

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Speaker 10: How you doing good man?

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Speaker 8: Good beautiful hitting on the pump return.

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Speaker 10: I'm sure.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Your dms were getting lit up after that big play

518
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Speaker 8: was at like, oh yeah.

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Speaker 11: For sure.

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Speaker 8: A lot of dms, A lot of a lot of

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Speaker 8: stuff on Twitter, instagramm A that a lot of friends

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Speaker 8: text to me, So it was a good deal.

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Speaker 10: That's what sucker.

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Speaker 8: He went to North Carolina.

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Speaker 10: Man, you were a quarterback.

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Speaker 9: Mostly quarterbacks make the transition and they're like receivers or

527
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Speaker 9: something like that. I've never met someone who made the

528
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Speaker 9: transition from QB to a linebacker.

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Speaker 10: What was that like?

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Speaker 8: It was weird at first, but you know, I had

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Speaker 8: faith in my athleticism, the coach on the defensive of

532
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Speaker 8: the ball, able to make that switch and keep going,

533
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Speaker 8: continue to get better every day, and you ended up,

534
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Speaker 8: you know, still in the league, still playing. So I

535
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Speaker 8: thought it was a good move for me in my career.

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Speaker 9: And your brother was a wide out at Wake Forest

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Speaker 9: and you guys were both in the twenty twenty one Drive.

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Speaker 10: Did you guys prepare together?

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Speaker 11: Yeah? We trained in Florida together. Yes, sir.

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Speaker 10: How'd you like it down there in Florida? I loved that.

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Speaker 11: It was a good time. We're just training.

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Speaker 8: I was lucky to have a guy in the same

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Speaker 8: position as me, and it was my brother, so we

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Speaker 8: didn't go to college together. So being able to train

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Speaker 8: with him the whole time and kind of just go

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Speaker 8: back and forth every day in the whole process and

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Speaker 8: have somebody right there was you know cool.

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Speaker 9: This is your first time in the Northwest. Have you

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Speaker 9: familiar with this area?

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Speaker 8: No, not at all. It is my first time. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: it's been it's been great so far. I love the area.

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Speaker 8: Uh yeah, I've never been in Seattle before too.

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Speaker 10: You're from Denver, North Carolina?

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Speaker 15: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: What's what's life like out in North Caroline? Kagilaki is

557
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Speaker 8: what makes called It's a small town where I'm from,

558
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Speaker 8: small town, football town. There's some lakes, some beaches, closed

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Speaker 8: by some Hollys. You kind of get everything down there.

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Speaker 8: So yeah, I enjoyed out there. You are outdoors kind

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Speaker 8: of guy a little bit, Yeah, I would say so, yes.

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Speaker 9: Sir, Yeah, yes, sir. So Yeah, the summertime was probably nice.

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Speaker 9: Woo you getting experienced the summertime out here?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Have you?

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Speaker 10: I have not knows gonna treat you good?

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Speaker 14: Yeah?

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: What do you were looking forward to this week against

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Speaker 9: the Cardinals on prime time?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: Just looking forward to Thursday night games, a short week.

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Speaker 8: They have a good, good team. I think we do

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Speaker 8: as well, so it would be a good game. Looking

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Speaker 8: forward to the game planning this week and getting everything

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Speaker 8: in and going out there and playing hard and trying

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Speaker 8: to get another win. Man, you're almost close to playing

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Speaker 8: your brother. I saw he was on the practice squad

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Speaker 8: for the Cardinals' what's he up to now? He's actually

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Speaker 8: doing real estate now out in Nashville. Yeah, so he

580
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Speaker 8: hung it up. He's in Uh, he's doing real estate

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Speaker 8: out there in Nashville, selling house and stuff like that.

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Speaker 8: So he's doing well. What was what was film?

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Speaker 16: Like?

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Speaker 9: Is NASA and I we do the post game show

585
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Speaker 9: and whenever there's a big play, we're like, man, I

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Speaker 9: know they're gonna be hype watching film during specialties?

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Speaker 10: Mean what was that like?

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Speaker 15: Oh?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, they was.

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Speaker 8: You know they showed in the TV room yesterday and

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Speaker 8: everybody was like building up the hit on the on

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Speaker 8: the screen as we're watching film. He was like slow

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Speaker 8: slow mowing it and then they just went crazy and

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Speaker 8: you almost had a scooping cool. I know, I know

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Speaker 8: I should have. Guy, I got too excited. Man, I

596
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Speaker 8: was I saw the end zone right there. You know,

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Speaker 8: you know I see people in that situation before, Like

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Speaker 8: how do you not get it? But you know a

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Speaker 8: lot of a lot of stuff going into it, So yeah, man,

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Speaker 8: that would have been great.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's so I was a pump return when I play,

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Speaker 9: and I tell people, man, like you feel the heat

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Speaker 9: of people just running at you exactly?

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Speaker 8: I had your back man. I was like, man, I

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Speaker 8: don't know what it's like. There's a lot of pressure,

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Speaker 8: I don't know who's around you, nothing, so and I'm

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Speaker 8: trying to get in the zone. So I think that

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Speaker 8: was it for sure, Yes, sir? What do you like

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Speaker 8: most about this defense? Just the multiple things we do?

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Speaker 8: I think coach McDonald does a great uh a job

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Speaker 8: switching given the quarterbacks and the offenses, different looks, getting

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Speaker 8: guys in the right positions to go out there and

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Speaker 8: do what they do best. And I think we just

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Speaker 8: got a great front, great back end, so you know,

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Speaker 8: it all ties together and makes it really efficient. And

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Speaker 8: we play really aggressive and violent, So I think we

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Speaker 8: have a great defense, yes, sir.

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Speaker 9: Man Ernie Jones is what twenty four to twenty five,

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Speaker 9: but he feels like he's like thirty five years old

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Speaker 9: the way he carries him.

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Speaker 10: So what was he like in the mean room?

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Speaker 13: Yeah?

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Speaker 11: I've known Ernest.

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Speaker 8: We actually trained together in Florida, so I've known Ernest

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Speaker 8: for a long time, kind of watching his career from Afar,

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Speaker 8: So when I got here, he was one of the

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Speaker 8: first ones I texted to when I was coming down,

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Speaker 8: and you know, it was cool seeing him again. I

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Speaker 8: haven't I've played him over the years, but haven't been

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Speaker 8: you know, with him in person in a long time.

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Speaker 8: So Ernest has been playing gray. He's one of the

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Speaker 8: leaders on our defense and the way he's able to

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Speaker 8: make plays for our defense and you know, get everything

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Speaker 8: set up. We have a lot in the like operation

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Speaker 8: on our defense. So now Ernest is doing a great

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Speaker 8: job for us.

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Speaker 9: Right now, what's it like having a defensive coordinator with

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Speaker 9: an English accent?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, no, it kind of threw me off at first,

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Speaker 8: but no, Ad is a great coach. He gets this

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Speaker 8: all ready to go, really prepares as well. So looking

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Speaker 8: forward to you know, the rest of the year and

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Speaker 8: what he has played for us. But it kind of

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Speaker 8: did threw me off. I never I didn't expect that

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Speaker 8: at first, but it's all good. So you didn't know

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Speaker 8: coming in and he had an accent.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I was like, oh, what kind of accent?

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Speaker 11: Yeah exactly, that's what.

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Speaker 10: So, well, man, you gotta get to meetings. We appreciate

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Speaker 10: your time, man, I appreciate.

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Speaker 11: It all right, thank you.

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Speaker 5: I love the idea of Chaz having no idea that

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Speaker 5: Ad and Dirty was Brittany. Can you imagine just having

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Speaker 5: no clue and then it takes you a split second.

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Speaker 6: You got to hear him talk for a couple of

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Speaker 6: minutes before you're like, what you know?

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Speaker 4: You know what's weird? Is uh? I have I have

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Speaker 4: a hard time with the heavy English accent.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: When we went to England, uh with the Seahawks, there

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Speaker 7: was a couple of times with a waitress where I

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Speaker 7: had to.

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Speaker 4: Just tap out. I'm like, what's that again? I'm sorry?

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Speaker 6: What I will say?

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Speaker 5: When I watched Love Island UK, I have to put

666
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Speaker 5: on subtitles sometimes the Essex accents get me. They're my favorite,

667
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Speaker 5: but I have to have subtitles. Yeah, I wonder if

668
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Speaker 5: they do that.

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Speaker 8: The key blinders, the Irish accent, I think were they Irish?

670
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Speaker 4: Yeah that's Irish. Yeah. Moyer was all over that and

671
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Speaker 4: he's telling me you got to watch this, and I'm like.

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Speaker 7: I can't. I can't hear, I can't, I can't understand.

673
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Speaker 7: So you got to go with the titles? Yeah?

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Speaker 10: Sure?

675
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Speaker 6: Oh God, real.

676
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Speaker 8: Quick in the fact for you.

677
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Speaker 10: Me and Jalen Miller have the same birthday you do.

678
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Speaker 4: That's awesome.

679
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Speaker 10: Same birthday.

680
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Speaker 6: I feel like there's a lot of I have no

681
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Speaker 6: way to prove this.

682
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Speaker 5: I feel like there's a lot of fall birthdays on

683
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Speaker 5: this roster slash in professional sports, because I never find

684
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Speaker 5: athletes that have my birthday. Ever, it's always it's always September, November, December.

685
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Speaker 5: This conversation got off the rails. I was gonna ask

686
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 5: you guys about the NFC West, but I think this

687
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 5: was more important. Frankly, not only do I know Jalen

688
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 5: Milro's birthday, but you Jalen and Taylor Swift will have

689
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Speaker 5: the same birthday.

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Speaker 10: Birthday?

691
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Speaker 4: Oh nice.

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Speaker 12: Yeah.

693
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Speaker 4: I played with a guy in Denver who was born

694
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Speaker 4: on the exact same day, March thirty first, nineteen sixty four,

695
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Speaker 4: Dave Diaz and Fante.

696
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Speaker 5: He was a Have you considered that you guys might

697
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Speaker 5: be twins, like separated at birth?

698
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Speaker 4: I don't think we look like he was an offensive lineman.

699
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, you never had like a picture ripped in half

700
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Speaker 5: that you were like put together.

701
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Speaker 6: Oh my god, we're related?

702
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Speaker 4: Surprisingly?

703
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Speaker 5: No, all right, Well, obviously, ahead of every single week,

704
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Speaker 5: we want to be able to hear from Sam Darnold,

705
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Speaker 5: So that's going to come up at one. We're going

706
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 5: to be able to hear from Cooper Cup an opponent preview.

707
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Speaker 5: That's all coming up an hour two before we get

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Speaker 5: to any of that. Very quick turnaround already talking about

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Speaker 5: Thursday Night football with the Voice of the Seahawks, Steve Rabel.

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Speaker 3: That's next, Back to the Huddle only on the home

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Speaker 3: of the Seahawks, Seattle Sports.

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Speaker 5: Voice of the Seahawks, Steve Rabel joining us now rapes.

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Speaker 5: This one was a pretty easy watch. I gotta say,

714
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Speaker 5: I know that the game's never over until the final whistle,

715
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Speaker 5: but about ten minutes in I felt pretty comfortable with

716
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,480
Speaker 5: where the score was. Most points I can remember being

717
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 5: scored in a minute. How surprised were you by that start?

718
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Speaker 17: Oh well, I mean just wildly surprised. Maybe I shouldn't be,

719
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Speaker 17: but because it's been kind of a point of emphasis

720
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Speaker 17: from micing company get off to a faster start until

721
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Speaker 17: the game against Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh, we hadn't scored on

722
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Speaker 17: our opening drive, and I don't know, going back to

723
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Speaker 17: last season sometime, I mean it was it's crazy, maybe

724
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Speaker 17: even longer than that. So yeah, getting off to the

725
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Speaker 17: good start, and big plays that help you get off

726
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Speaker 17: to a big start, you know, a punt return for

727
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Speaker 17: a touchdown, a block, you know, those are the kinds

728
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Speaker 17: of things that fire up the entire team. And so

729
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Speaker 17: it was terrific to see.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and during those big plays, you had some idiot

731
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Speaker 7: next to you that was grunting and screaming and yelling that.

732
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Speaker 7: That was very prominent in the broadcast. But no, I mean,

733
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Speaker 7: do you remember Ray, it's like a special team type

734
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Speaker 7: of game like that. I mean, I was talking earlier

735
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Speaker 7: about how Rusty Tillman, you know, he used to make

736
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Speaker 7: it special and I remember seeing Fred Young blow people

737
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Speaker 7: up on kickoffs. But that was that was quite the display.

738
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Speaker 7: And just you know, you can tell that Jay Harbaugh

739
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Speaker 7: really has these guys dialed.

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Speaker 4: In as far as special teams go.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, well that question, Dave, And no, I don't recall

742
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Speaker 17: one that excuse me, had that many big plays on

743
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 17: special teams and that cool co ordinated an effort. I mean,

744
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Speaker 17: it was it was terrific. I did remember. I didn't

745
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Speaker 17: remember the exact date, but I remembered Tyler Lockett in

746
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Speaker 17: one of the first times that he touched the ball

747
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Speaker 17: for the Seahawks as a rookie taking it back, you know,

748
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 17: big punt return. And I remember that being a huge moment,

749
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Speaker 17: mostly because it was Tyler. You know, obviously he was

750
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Speaker 17: an asset to the team, but just because it was

751
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 17: he's such a great guy and he became such an

752
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Speaker 17: institution here. But no, I don't remember that. And and

753
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Speaker 17: again being fully one third of what we do, uh

754
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:38,520
Speaker 17: in football every game, offense, defense, special teams. I think

755
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Speaker 17: it was just a perfect way to get things going.

756
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Speaker 9: Raves, How have you seen this offense grow over three weeks.

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Speaker 13: Well, we've seen him run.

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Speaker 17: We've seen him successfully run the ball as they did

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Speaker 17: in Pittsburgh. And when the Saints, you know, they went

760
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Speaker 17: to hell bench to take the run away the other day,

761
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Speaker 17: I mean they had safeties up there they you know,

762
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 17: Dave mentioned it during the broadcast. Inside linebackers on run

763
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Speaker 17: blitzes and just end up hitting guys in the backfield

764
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Speaker 17: before they could even get going. And so what do

765
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Speaker 17: you do You respond to that by doing them what

766
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 17: you have to do, and that is throw the football,

767
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Speaker 17: and we did that with great success. Sam Darnold was

768
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Speaker 17: just had a terrific game. At halftime, when he was

769
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Speaker 17: perfect one fifty eight point three quarterback rating. So I

770
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Speaker 17: think what I've seen out of this offense is the ability,

771
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Speaker 17: as Clint Kubiak said earlier in the year, we're going

772
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Speaker 17: to run the ball, but we don't always. We're not

773
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Speaker 17: always going to win every game because we run the ball,

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Speaker 17: and so you have to be able to score other ways.

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Speaker 17: And they proved that again. If it needed proving, they

776
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Speaker 17: proved it again the other day. So I think it

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Speaker 17: shows that well rounded on offense, we know we can

778
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Speaker 17: run the ball, We've got a really good sense of

779
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Speaker 17: being able to pass the ball. And now you just

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Speaker 17: you know, as as might keep saying, you keep sacking things.

781
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Speaker 17: Now you keep working on those things that you need

782
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Speaker 17: to work on. How do we deal with that kind

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Speaker 17: of defense that we saw out of the Saints early

784
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Speaker 17: on so that we can run the ball more effectively.

785
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Speaker 5: We knew heading into this season Raves that the defense

786
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 5: would be not just a point of emphasis, but a

787
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Speaker 5: point of strength for Seattle. That being said, seventeen points

788
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Speaker 5: are fewer for their first three games is still really

789
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Speaker 5: really impressive. What's maybe caught your eye the most with

790
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Speaker 5: this defense in particular, I think.

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Speaker 17: To play well, gosh face, it's difficult to say. As

792
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Speaker 17: soon as I say one group and then you think

793
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Speaker 17: of another. I didn't even get to mention it, but

794
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 17: I thought of another. But everything in football, and as

795
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 17: a wide receiver it pains me to say this, but

796
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 17: everything in football starts up front. The big guys on

797
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 17: the d line, the big guys in the offensive line.

798
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Speaker 17: They set the tone. So if as in the case

799
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Speaker 17: of the Saints game, if you're able to do what

800
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Speaker 17: you want to do to not only pressure the quarterback,

801
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 17: but try to contain him, shut down running lanes for

802
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 17: a guy like Alvin Kamara, who's a terrific running back,

803
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Speaker 17: and you can do it with the four guys up

804
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Speaker 17: front that you have. What a benefit? That is, What

805
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 17: a blessing. And then that gives you the opportunity to

806
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 17: do some different things in the secondary, force a young

807
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 17: quarterback into making some decisions that might not be the

808
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 17: right ones. And then as soon as I say the

809
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Speaker 17: defensive front, then I look at the secondary and say,

810
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 17: look at the depths that they have. You know, the

811
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 17: three guys that would be three fifths of their starting

812
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 17: secondary were missing the other day and it's almost like

813
00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 17: they didn't miss a beat, and you just put in

814
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 17: guys and they coach him up, they get them ready

815
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Speaker 17: to play. They're physically skilled. Other teams thought they couldn't

816
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 17: play anymore for whatever reason. They found a home here

817
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 17: and they're very successful at it. They're encouraged I think,

818
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 17: greatly by Mike McDonald on how to be the best

819
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 17: player they can be. So both of those groups, and

820
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Speaker 17: then as soon as I say that, those inside back

821
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 17: and edge rushers are really important too, So overall the

822
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 17: whole defense is just playing great.

823
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Speaker 7: Hey, Rabes, we were talking about Sam Darnold and what's

824
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Speaker 7: kind of stood out to you about just his leadership.

825
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 7: I was talking about his toughness, and you know, in

826
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 7: Pittsburgh we saw him get get hit pretty pretty hard

827
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 7: a couple of times. But he just seems very unfazed.

828
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Speaker 7: And it's not like he's not putting up good numbers.

829
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Speaker 7: I mean, he's seventy percent completion percentage. He's got a

830
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 7: couple of picks, but he's not thrown for you know,

831
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 7: three four hundred yards a game. But what has impressed

832
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 7: you about Sam Darnald so far?

833
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Speaker 17: Well, and as much as we'd like to see him

834
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 17: get those kind of numbers. Frankly, that's a good thing

835
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 17: that he's not having to throw for three or four

836
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 17: hundred yards a game. That means there's more balance to

837
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 17: our offense. That means we're running the ball better. Those

838
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 17: are all the kinds of things that I know. Klint

839
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 17: Kubiak is the offensive coordinator and Sam as a quarterback.

840
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 17: They want to see that be able to run the football,

841
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,479
Speaker 17: throw when you want to throw, not be forced into

842
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 17: it by the in many cases, and Sam, yeah, you

843
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 17: mentioned it. We use it as one of our keys

844
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 17: to the game on Sunday. And that is not only

845
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 17: his accuracy. He's been so spot on in finding open

846
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 17: receivers and if they're not open or not very open,

847
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 17: still being able to thread that needle. He threw some

848
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 17: passes the last couple of weeks, like in between two

849
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 17: or three defenders that were sprinting to get there and

850
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 17: it was just on a zip line into whoever. The

851
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 17: touchdown catch by JFN sticks out to me right now,

852
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 17: and then the one he threw later in the game

853
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 17: over the top three receivers are defenders are on JSN

854
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 17: and he drops it literally right in the bucket, the

855
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 17: absolute perfect pass. So he's just amazingly accurate. And then

856
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 17: add to that his toughness, gets knocked on his butt,

857
00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 17: gets right back up again, gets them back in the huddle.

858
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,919
Speaker 17: Let's call the next play. You know what it's as

859
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 17: you look around the league and you see all these

860
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 17: young quarterbacks who struggle their first couple of years, it's

861
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 17: understandable why he struggled in New York and how far

862
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 17: he's come in those years becoming the kind of quarterback

863
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 17: that he is, just by the fact that he's seen

864
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 17: so much more, he's learned so much more, and he's

865
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 17: got a system that really works for him.

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Speaker 8: Raves.

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Speaker 9: Look, you look across the league and there's a there's

868
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 9: a two back system going there. You hardly have just

869
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 9: the single back anymore. Like the Derrick Henry's are a

870
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 9: dying breed. How important is it that the Hawks do

871
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 9: get Zach sharpa day back so he can't come, but

872
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 9: we can walk.

873
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 10: Her this week?

874
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 17: Well, and you know, George Halani I thought did a

875
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 17: nice job in helping carry the freight the other day.

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00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 17: You know, the Seahawks didn't run for a lot of yards,

877
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 17: but what they did do when they had to run,

878
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 17: when they let me put it this way, when they

879
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 17: wanted to run in the last quarter and just wind

880
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 17: that clock down and get that game over with. Now,

881
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Speaker 17: granted the Saints will probably get a tired and be

882
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Speaker 17: tipped off and c wanted to go home, but still

883
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Speaker 17: they were able to run the ball the Seahawks or

884
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Speaker 17: you know, of their own accord and Holani did a

885
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 17: lot of the carrying of the mail at that point.

886
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 17: But yeah, Sharps is a different kind of guy too.

887
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 17: I mean between he and and Ken Walker, the third

888
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,720
Speaker 17: they they just really compliment each other very well. Uh

889
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 17: both are good receivers. Charbon's terrific in the backfield, having

890
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,280
Speaker 17: to pick up as a personal protector of the quarterback

891
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 17: and blocking situations. He's another one of those one cut

892
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 17: and go guys who you love to watch stretch the

893
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 17: defense and then cut back against the grain and he

894
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 17: just he seems to find that crease. So they're both good,

895
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Speaker 17: and you're gonna need at least two and maybe more.

896
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Speaker 17: I think one of them. Maybe it was Clint Kubiak

897
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Speaker 17: who said this last week, I want to have two guys,

898
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 17: like you said, gone to the days of that that

899
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,919
Speaker 17: single ball carrier that puts everybody on his shoulders. It's

900
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 17: just it's just too difficult. It's too tough a game

901
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 17: these days to be able to do that. So I

902
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 17: think having having both those guys out there and letting

903
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 17: sharbon Ay get well, don't bring him back too soon.

904
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Speaker 17: Let him get well. He'd love him back for the

905
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 17: game on Thursday, but if he's not, that gives him

906
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Speaker 17: even more time than to get ready for the Tampa Baby.

907
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Speaker 5: Seahawks taken on the Cardinals on the road for Thursday

908
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Speaker 5: Night football.

909
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 6: He's the voice of the Seahawks.

910
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 7: Steve Rabel, Thanks Rabes, Thanks thanks.

911
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,319
Speaker 5: We got a lot of questions for Sam Donald, and

912
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Speaker 5: so do other reporters here. He's going to be in

913
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Speaker 5: the spotlight in primetime on Thursday, and you can hear

914
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Speaker 5: from Seattle's quarterback next.

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Speaker 3: This This is the Huddle every Thursday from noon to Tue,

916
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Speaker 3: presented by hung the Services and Specific Laughing Supply.

917
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 5: You are listening to the Huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpus,

918
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 5: and Stacy Ross. Anytime you preview a game, you got

919
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 5: to talk about the quarterback. So let's hear from the

920
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Speaker 5: quarterback himself, Sam Darnold speaking with reporters now Man, it's.

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Speaker 16: Great to see you guys on a Tuesday. Another great

922
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 16: challenge for us this week. Man, just a lot of

923
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 16: respect for coach Gannon and the way that you know,

924
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 16: he's got his entire team going right now. You know,

925
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 16: that defense is rolling. They always always presented, you know,

926
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 16: issues for an offense. Just all the different looks that

927
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Speaker 16: they can give, and you know what they do in

928
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:16,240
Speaker 16: the back end disguising coverages and you know the guys

929
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Speaker 16: that they have rushing the passer. You know, the the

930
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 16: linebackers that they have. I mean, they're they're a really

931
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 16: solid group. You know, they're tough to prepare for, but

932
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Speaker 16: we're excited for the challenge on a short week.

933
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Speaker 11: The defense.

934
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Speaker 18: When you were a rookie, you prepared for an eleven

935
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:32,320
Speaker 18: year veteran Kalays Campbell.

936
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine you're still seeing.

937
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 11: Him this years later?

938
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Speaker 4: Yeah?

939
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Speaker 16: Man, uh kalais is you know, uh, just the way

940
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Speaker 16: that he's you know, first of all, the way that

941
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Speaker 16: he's been able to take care of his body throughout

942
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Speaker 16: the years. You know, I have a lot of respect

943
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Speaker 16: for him and doing that. You know, just what what

944
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,720
Speaker 16: he's able to do on a football field, uh Is

945
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Speaker 16: is pretty incredible and especially in what year is at

946
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Speaker 16: eighteen now for him something like that, he's you know,

947
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Speaker 16: he he's continuing to play at such a high level.

948
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Speaker 4: So a lot of respect for.

949
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Speaker 19: Him and has back was saying this morning that he

950
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Speaker 19: actually looked forward to these Thursday games because it forced,

951
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 19: you know, teams very simplify what they're going to do

952
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 19: on defense in the game planning.

953
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Speaker 16: Curious your thoughts as a quarterback, Yeah, yeah, I mean, shoot,

954
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Speaker 16: I don't know if that's going to slow them down.

955
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Speaker 16: You know, like I said before, you know, coach coach

956
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 16: Gannon and just all those guys on that staff, you

957
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 16: know a ton of respect for them and what they

958
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 16: can do and again for you know, that defense to

959
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 16: be able to you know, do what they do and

960
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Speaker 16: and you know, be able to play various defenses, pressuring

961
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 16: pressuring the quarterback the way that they do and and

962
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 16: mixing it up the way that they do. Again, it's

963
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Speaker 16: it's it's impressive stuff. And you know, uh, we're just

964
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Speaker 16: going to prepare and do the best that we can

965
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Speaker 16: to put ourselves in a good position on on Thursday night.

966
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Speaker 20: How do you see this offense grow? Basically from week

967
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 20: one to week three, I mean, a lot of the

968
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Speaker 20: numbers look a lot better than the last couple of

969
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Speaker 20: weeks that they did.

970
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Speaker 4: That first week.

971
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Speaker 16: Yeah, I think I think it's just continuing to know

972
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Speaker 16: each other and to learn each other in the system

973
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Speaker 16: and you know, watch the tape, you know, be able

974
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Speaker 16: to you know, okay, learn from Sunday. What do we

975
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Speaker 16: do you know on Monday, to get better from it

976
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Speaker 16: and continuing that process with each other. I think that's

977
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Speaker 16: the biggest thing in communicating. The more that we communicate

978
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Speaker 16: with each other, the more that we talk to the

979
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Speaker 16: coaches about what we're seeing on the field and you know,

980
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Speaker 16: how we can just clean things up as a group.

981
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 16: You know, it's only going to continue to help us

982
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Speaker 16: in the future. And we're going to continue to do that.

983
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Speaker 18: The run game numbers aren't where you guys want them

984
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Speaker 18: yet just in terms of the success, but how important

985
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Speaker 18: is for everything you want to do offensively just the

986
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,000
Speaker 18: commitment you've shown and getting those carries.

987
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Speaker 16: Yeah, it's you know, it's huge to be able to

988
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 16: run the football on the system. You know, we want

989
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 16: to continue to be better and we will be you know,

990
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 16: we're going to continue to you know, and that's on

991
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Speaker 16: me as well being able to make the right checks

992
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,359
Speaker 16: and get us in the right play. But we're going

993
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,399
Speaker 16: to continue to get better and learn and learn from

994
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Speaker 16: you know, what we've been doing in the run game.

995
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Speaker 19: A lot of times offenses try to get the run

996
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 19: game going so it portions the defense to bring an

997
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 19: extra defender down and makes the passing game better. You

998
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 19: guys haven't had the strongest run defense, but because you're

999
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Speaker 19: doing twelve and twenty one, you're getting a lot of

1000
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Speaker 19: stacked boxes and the passing game is going well. So

1001
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 19: do you need an effective run game to have an

1002
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 19: effective pass game or how do you see those two

1003
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Speaker 19: things kind of playing.

1004
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Speaker 11: Off each other.

1005
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Speaker 16: Yeah, it's again, I think that's a great point.

1006
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Speaker 4: You know.

1007
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Speaker 16: You you know, sometimes the run game isn't gonna flourish

1008
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Speaker 16: because you know, you are stacking the box, and when

1009
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Speaker 16: they do play shell coverage and they want to give

1010
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 16: us a lighter box, maybe you know, some of those

1011
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 16: runs are going to be able to pop. So again,

1012
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Speaker 16: it's just such a balancing act with you know, football

1013
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 16: in general. Right, It's like, if you want to try

1014
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 16: to load the box and stop the run, you know

1015
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 16: that that might be an opportunity to throw the ball.

1016
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 16: So you know, that's a great point. And uh yeah, what.

1017
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Speaker 15: If he knows crazy able how he handles himself.

1018
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 10: Great, he's great man.

1019
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 4: He uh, he shows a lot of poise.

1020
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Speaker 16: I will say out on the field during during game day,

1021
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 16: just the way that he communicates, you know, it's uh,

1022
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Speaker 16: you know, I remember in the Pittsburgh game, you know,

1023
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 16: in that loud stadium on third down, you know, me

1024
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Speaker 16: being able to go up to the line and make

1025
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 16: a certain call and him coming up to me like, hey,

1026
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,200
Speaker 16: you know I got the call, but some of the

1027
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Speaker 16: guys didn't. You know, Let's let's try to, you know,

1028
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,560
Speaker 16: somehow be able to clear that up and make it

1029
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 16: a little bit better.

1030
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Speaker 4: Like those are the Those are.

1031
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Speaker 16: The kind of conversations that help the team grow and

1032
00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:26,959
Speaker 16: become more.

1033
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 4: Efficient as a whole.

1034
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Speaker 16: So he's he's been doing a great job of communicating,

1035
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Speaker 16: especially as a rookie. You don't see that much out

1036
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 16: of rookies, and he is uh, you know, I'm not

1037
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Speaker 16: gonna say he's wise beyond his years, but Gray is

1038
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 16: is definitely a smart football player and he's just going

1039
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 16: to continue to get better.

1040
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 19: Did you ever find out what he said to Brian

1041
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 19: Brozy to get him to get the head butt. Usually

1042
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 19: don't get the rookies drawing those penalties.

1043
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 16: No, I you know, I've heard I didn't hear what

1044
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 16: he said there. I've heard him say a couple of

1045
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 16: things to some guys, and you know, I I admire

1046
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 16: the trash talk. I think Gray is uh you know, uh,

1047
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 16: he's smart with it. Uh you know, he's not gonna

1048
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 16: say anything that crosses the line, but he is h

1049
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 16: he's a good trash talk I will say.

1050
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Speaker 20: The ability you have throwing to your left, if you

1051
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 20: if you kind of always had that, or how much do.

1052
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Speaker 11: You kind of work on improving that.

1053
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 16: I just work on it, you know, I think I

1054
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 16: think I said it after the game, but I just,

1055
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 16: you know, work on it a ton during the off

1056
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Speaker 16: season OTA's training camp, and you know, even during the season,

1057
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Speaker 16: you know, I try to get as much as many

1058
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Speaker 16: reps full speed to the left as you can because

1059
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Speaker 16: sometimes in practice, you know, uh, you want to jog

1060
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Speaker 16: or maybe not run full speed, and I think getting

1061
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,279
Speaker 16: those full speed reps to be able to you know,

1062
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Speaker 16: throw on the run, whether it's throw into someone in

1063
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Speaker 16: front of you or maybe even behind you. So just

1064
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:41,680
Speaker 16: getting all the reps, all the different reps that can

1065
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 16: come up in a game is the biggest thing for me.

1066
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Speaker 21: Before you signed here, I imagine you had heard things

1067
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Speaker 21: about Seattle, Mike McDonald's maybe ask some people before you

1068
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 21: signed how much of that stuff that you were curious

1069
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,879
Speaker 21: about or that you heard has proven accurate during your

1070
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 21: time here.

1071
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Speaker 14: Yeah.

1072
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Speaker 16: I think I think one the bigger things that I've

1073
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Speaker 16: realized is the locker room.

1074
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:05,399
Speaker 4: You know, I've a lot of.

1075
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Speaker 16: Guys you know, around the league who have been in

1076
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,600
Speaker 16: Seattle talk about the locker room being you know, very

1077
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 16: energetic and and having really good dudes. And you know

1078
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 16: that's a credit again to coach coach McDonald and and obviously,

1079
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Speaker 16: uh you know, John for for getting the right guys

1080
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Speaker 16: in the locker room. But it's, uh, you know, the

1081
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 16: energy that everybody brings on a daily basis is infectious

1082
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 16: and you know that's only going to continue to to

1083
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 16: grow as we continue to learn each other and grow

1084
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 16: as a team. So it's, uh, it's very exciting to

1085
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 16: be a part of this team. And uh, you know,

1086
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Speaker 16: kind of those things that people are saying that people

1087
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Speaker 16: have said about Seattle are you know, I'm seeing why

1088
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Speaker 16: people say that.

1089
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Speaker 11: Were some of the guys whose energy is infectious.

1090
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:51,240
Speaker 16: I gotta you know, Kobe, Kobe Bryant's got some good energy,

1091
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Speaker 16: Kenneth Walker, you know, just just to name of just

1092
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 16: the name of couple.

1093
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Speaker 11: Sam is.

1094
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Speaker 18: Even when the run game hasn't really been working the

1095
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Speaker 18: way you have wanted it.

1096
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Speaker 7: To, have you seen the commitment to it open up

1097
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 7: things like you.

1098
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 4: Deeper shots and whatnot.

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00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,440
Speaker 16: Down with you, Yeah, I think you know, it comes

1100
00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 16: back to to the point made you know about kind

1101
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 16: of you know, certain getting certain boxes versus different looks.

1102
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 16: You know, if you're if you're stacking the box and

1103
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 16: you know we got a run called like we're gonna

1104
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 16: be able to target it and do things that we

1105
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 16: want to do in the run game, but again that

1106
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,240
Speaker 16: that presents opportunities to be able to throw the football.

1107
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 16: So you know, it's uh, yeah, I think I think

1108
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 16: that's just kind of the point is understanding, you know,

1109
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 16: what what we need to do to target the run

1110
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 16: game and you know, single high defenses, and then when

1111
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 16: teams want to put a want to put a shell

1112
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 16: on top of it, like we're going to have opportunities

1113
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:45,400
Speaker 16: to be able to throw the football even in those looks.

1114
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 4: But we when we do get those looks.

1115
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 16: And we have a run called, I think being able

1116
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 16: to take advantage of those is going to be crucial

1117
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 16: for us.

1118
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:54,720
Speaker 15: What do you think a wide.

1119
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 19: Receiver needs to be capable of or demonstrate to be

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Speaker 19: considered a number one?

1121
00:46:59,680 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 8: Uh?

1122
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 16: I feel like, you know, that's kind of on the media, uh,

1124
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 16: to kind of put labels on guys and understanding what

1125
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 16: who's a number one receiver? But you know, in my opinion,

1126
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 16: I think we have you know, three, four, you know five.

1127
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 16: I think most of our guys you know, can be

1128
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 16: really good receivers in this league. They are really good

1129
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 16: receivers in this league. And so I'm just going to

1130
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 16: continue to do my job to get the ball in

1131
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 16: their hands and let them, you know, be able to

1132
00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 16: gain yards after the catch.

1133
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:31,439
Speaker 18: Not everyone's gonna get a ton of targets every week,

1134
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 18: just the way the games go.

1135
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: But what's what are some things Cooper Cup.

1136
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:35,840
Speaker 12: Does even a day where he doesn't have big.

1137
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 4: Numbers that really help you guys?

1138
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:39,840
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think you know the thing about Coop is

1139
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 16: he's just going to have a great attitude all the time.

1140
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:44,800
Speaker 4: And I think, you know, it.

1141
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:46,959
Speaker 16: It is a little thing that a lot of people

1142
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 16: don't notice, but it goes a long way, you know.

1143
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 16: Just you know, no matter what kind of day he has,

1144
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 16: you know, catching the football, he's always going to have

1145
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 16: a great attitude and and you know on run plays,

1146
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 16: he's going to do his job every single time.

1147
00:47:57,640 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 10: Guys can count on that.

1148
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 16: And just the like I said, just the attitude that

1149
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 16: he brings and the energy that he brings to an

1150
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 16: entire offense is you know, invaluable.

1151
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 8: You'll talk about it.

1152
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,359
Speaker 4: You know, sometimes needed to get to a better play

1153
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 4: at the line.

1154
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 11: Screamers.

1155
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 2: Do you typically have is there like typically one alternative

1156
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 2: baked into clinton play call.

1157
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 4: Or do you have the option to audible to multicipation.

1158
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 4: It's a it varies.

1159
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 16: It varies based on certain calls and certain looks that

1160
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,680
Speaker 16: we get. But we like to keep the defense on

1161
00:48:28,719 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 16: their toes. Thank you appreciate it, guys.

1162
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Speaker 5: Darnold mentioned Cooper Cup in his interview, and we get

1163
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Speaker 5: to hear from the veteran receiver next from Seahawks headquarters.

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Speaker 3: Back to the huddle only on the home of the Seahawks,

1165
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Speaker 3: Seattle Sports.

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Speaker 5: Two days away from Thursday night, football wide receiver Cooper

1167
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Speaker 5: cup is speaking with the quarters at Seahawks Headquarters.

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Speaker 6: Let's take a listen.

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Speaker 18: What's the biggest challenge of getting ready for a Thursday game?

1170
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 18: Is it just cramming everything in? Is it the physical?

1171
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 18: What do you think is hard?

1172
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:57,919
Speaker 22: Yeah, it's probably a little bit of a mix of both,

1173
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 22: and I a lot of it is contingent on you know,

1174
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 22: what Sunday looks like. And I think offensively, guys that

1175
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 22: came out decently, a few injuries and things like that,

1176
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 22: or you know whatever guys. But yeah, I think there's

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00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 22: probably a little bit of about battle on both sides.

1178
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 22: Feel bad for the coaches, obviously they're not getting much sleep,

1179
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 22: but you know, for for players to make man, how

1180
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,319
Speaker 22: much can you take care of your body? How much

1181
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 22: can you make sure you're getting turned over and ready

1182
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 22: to go and just being able to be locked in.

1183
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 22: You know, it's kind of those things where you you're

1184
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 22: used to like a Monday Tuesday kind of let down.

1185
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:37,560
Speaker 22: You know, they refocus back in for the push Wednesday

1186
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 22: to Sunday. You kind of have to just keep it

1187
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 22: going for an extended period of time when you go

1188
00:49:43,239 --> 00:49:45,200
Speaker 22: into these Stursday games.

1189
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Speaker 19: When you're looking at other receivers, Uh, what do you

1190
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 19: what things do you stand out to you? And you're

1191
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 19: evaluating what are the things that you look for and

1192
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:52,240
Speaker 19: other receivers.

1193
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 15: I think there's a lot. I mean there's like.

1194
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 22: I mean, everyone plays a position differently. It's an art form,

1195
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:05,760
Speaker 22: you know, and so seeing guys use all these different tools,

1196
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 22: and I mean the position changes and grows as guys

1197
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 22: come in and and do things in certain ways, like man,

1198
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 22: that's that's a great way to run this route, a

1199
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 22: great way to do it. And then trying to grab

1200
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 22: some stuff that works for you. I think that's the

1201
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 22: thing I'm looking for all the time, is you know,

1202
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 22: what can I use? What are some things that make

1203
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 22: sense for me? And so like you watch Calvin Johnson,

1204
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:28,760
Speaker 22: it's like, Okay, I can't do much of that stuff,

1205
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 22: you know, like he's his own animal. But then you

1206
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 22: watch other guys that like man, there's there's tools that

1207
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:36,360
Speaker 22: you can pull from. A J Green with someone I

1208
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 22: love to watch because I thought he was a technician

1209
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 22: in terms of how he ran his routes and set

1210
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,360
Speaker 22: guys up and you know, grab little.

1211
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Speaker 15: Things from him.

1212
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 22: And you know, Larry Fitz was similar to that.

1213
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Speaker 15: But that's what I'm looking at.

1214
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,960
Speaker 22: I mean, I'm not evaluating guys like a scout would

1215
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 22: and say oh can he play this level or whatever,

1216
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,879
Speaker 22: Like I'm looking for things that can help me be better.

1217
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 19: They think about like the notion of this mythical number

1218
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 19: one receiver, Like what do you think that means to you?

1219
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 11: What makes them one a number one receiver?

1220
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 22: You just gotta be able to I think you just

1221
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 22: gotta be able to do all of it. I guess

1222
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 22: I think the best the best ones have been able

1223
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:20,840
Speaker 22: to play at every level, you know, whether it's the

1224
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:23,720
Speaker 22: short game and the intermedia and being able to get

1225
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 22: get over the top on people as well. If you

1226
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 22: can do that, I think you give yourself an opportunity

1227
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 22: to be someone that can be activated in every part

1228
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:35,959
Speaker 22: of the game plan. And I think the best one

1229
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,800
Speaker 22: is ever block as well, right Because you're like, you

1230
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 22: don't want to come off the field, the ones don't.

1231
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 22: The ones stay on the field for the majority of

1232
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 22: the game, and they'll be they'll show a willingness to

1233
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,360
Speaker 22: be involved in the run game because off of the

1234
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,359
Speaker 22: run game comes all of your play action stuff as well.

1235
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 22: So if you want to being on the play actions

1236
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 22: you gotta be in there for the run game.

1237
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 20: On the Thursday games usually you guys are playing Division

1238
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:00,040
Speaker 20: opponents and all that, who you know pretty well. Do

1239
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 20: you notice that there's a lot of different like if

1240
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 20: you play Arizona on a Sunday that it's gonna be

1241
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 20: way different what you might see on a Thursday kind

1242
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:06,440
Speaker 20: of thing because of that.

1243
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 22: Yeah, maybe some stuff there, But I think these coaches

1244
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:15,799
Speaker 22: are too good. They're too dialed in, and they're too

1245
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 22: impervious to lack of sleep. It seems like to be

1246
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 22: like they're going to find a way to get in

1247
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:24,800
Speaker 22: what they want to what they want to do, and

1248
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 22: there might be a few things that maybe they carry

1249
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:29,399
Speaker 22: over a few more things game plan wise from the

1250
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 22: week before and trying to like defensive coordinators, like, man,

1251
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 22: these are some pressures maybe you might see and but

1252
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 22: I mean historically it's like, man, you go and do

1253
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 22: it expecting that they're going to bring their best stuff.

1254
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 22: And that's just kind of what it seems like this

1255
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 22: league is.

1256
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:47,399
Speaker 15: Guys are just too good. Coaches too good.

1257
00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 22: Yeah, I have to just prepare that way on a

1258
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:52,839
Speaker 22: short weekend and deal with it.

1259
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 18: Have you seen this offensive grow from you know, start

1260
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 18: of the season Week one, or maybe it wasn't as

1261
00:52:58,000 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 18: smooth as you wanted to what you've been able to

1262
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 18: the last two games.

1263
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 22: Yeah, well, I mean, I think the big part of

1264
00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 22: it is just execution. You know, it's our own stuff

1265
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 22: as players, being able to grasp the concepts and be

1266
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 22: able to get just more and more reps at it

1267
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 22: against different looks and being able to have answers, being

1268
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:17,280
Speaker 22: able to adapt and move and things aren't the picture

1269
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:18,959
Speaker 22: that we thought we were gonna get, and being able

1270
00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 22: to have an answer for it as players and be

1271
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 22: able to make it come alive. And there's still so much,

1272
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 22: there's still so much that we can do better. I mean,

1273
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 22: even this last game, and you know, whatever the scoreboard says,

1274
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 22: whatever it does, but you know, play by play, like man,

1275
00:53:33,080 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 22: there's a lot to improve on, a lot that we

1276
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 22: can do better, and a lot that's left on the table.

1277
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 15: And so you know, we've taken that approach and it's

1278
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 15: going to.

1279
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 22: Continue to get better as we kind of go through

1280
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 22: the year and stack these reps agains different looks, and

1281
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 22: it should just be something that we just continue to

1282
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 22: get better and better at.

1283
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:51,799
Speaker 11: Do you think you and Jackson are getting better at working.

1284
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 15: Off one another.

1285
00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 22: Yeah, I think there's I think that's something that I

1286
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,359
Speaker 22: think all the guys mean. It's like how much can

1287
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 22: we play for each other? And there's and and there's

1288
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 22: there's part of it is also understanding when that comes

1289
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 22: to life. You know, you have a concept up and

1290
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 22: it's like, hey, everyone's running their route to win, and

1291
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 22: then there's there's like a very small amount of times

1292
00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 22: where it's like, yeah, you're running your route to win,

1293
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:19,719
Speaker 22: but you're also running a route to get someone else open.

1294
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:22,359
Speaker 22: You're understanding when that comes up, because it's not all

1295
00:54:22,360 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 22: the time. It's like when you can't just be trying

1296
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 22: to get someone open when you're the throw, you know,

1297
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 22: and understanding when that when that needs to be active,

1298
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 22: when those little nuanced when those little things can come

1299
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 22: to life. And I think everyone's kind of learning that

1300
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 22: and figuring that out and also understanding Sam, what are

1301
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 22: the things that Sam wants to see? How does he

1302
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,879
Speaker 22: see the offense going and and his progressions and things

1303
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 22: like that, because you can work really hard to get

1304
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 22: someone open, but you know Sam's looking the other way,

1305
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 22: you know, and so understanding the timing of that, we're

1306
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:53,479
Speaker 22: getting there and I think it's gonna sound that scame

1307
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 22: to continue to get better.

1308
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 19: You guys have the most explosive passing offense the NFL

1309
00:54:58,520 --> 00:54:58,919
Speaker 19: so far.

1310
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 11: How why why is that working?

1311
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 22: Guys have made plays when it's come up. We've also

1312
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 22: been able to you know, Clint's done a good job

1313
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 22: activating plays against some coverages that allow the ball to

1314
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:15,319
Speaker 22: go over the top. We've had some opportunities where we're

1315
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:19,560
Speaker 22: you know, activing underneath throws and being able.

1316
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:20,800
Speaker 15: To run for explosives.

1317
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 22: There's there's a mixture of both those things, and I

1318
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 22: think it comes back to just guys playing fast, decisive

1319
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 22: and you know, I certainly being able to have some

1320
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 22: where you have times where I man the run game

1321
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:35,239
Speaker 22: where we're trying to get it going, trying to get

1322
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 22: it going. But Clint's commitment to that and saying, hey,

1323
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 22: we're going to continue to run the ball even if

1324
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 22: it's not feeling explosive right now helps often up all

1325
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 22: the other stuff that we've got going on as well.

1326
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 22: And yeah, I think that I think it's just guys

1327
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:51,359
Speaker 22: making most of those opportunities when they come up.

1328
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 18: What do you see them from the Cardinals defense when

1329
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:53,800
Speaker 18: you put on tape.

1330
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 22: You know, it's really really, you know, similar to what

1331
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 22: it's been like.

1332
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 15: You know that defense.

1333
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,759
Speaker 22: Uh, You've got Buddha who's kind of you know, he's

1334
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 22: gonna fly around. You've got matches energy, if not exceed it,

1335
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 22: and he's got the you know, Janet Thompson's there, have

1336
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 22: been with him, been with those guys that have been there

1337
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 22: for a while and playing off each other and both

1338
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 22: king body that same thing that the kind of relentless

1339
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 22: mindset to be around the ball, play physical. I think

1340
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:23,279
Speaker 22: they've got a couple of linebackers that can run really

1341
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 22: well and running hit diagnosed things. And you know, obviously

1342
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:31,919
Speaker 22: spent some time watching that front. That's I think been

1343
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 22: improved quite a bit. And those guys are getting after

1344
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 22: getting after the setting edges and getting after things up front.

1345
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:43,279
Speaker 22: So I don't know, it's just been a it's it's

1346
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:45,120
Speaker 22: a thing. It's a real similar thing to what we've

1347
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 22: seen in the last few years. And I think the

1348
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 22: coordinator there is done a good job of mixing a

1349
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 22: few different things. And you're used to seeing about three

1350
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 22: safety rover set. It's kind of been a different structure

1351
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,359
Speaker 22: than you've seen in the league for a while, but

1352
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 22: that's kind of is still a part of their identity

1353
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 22: and but mixed seeing some other things as well. So

1354
00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:05,000
Speaker 22: they present a great challenge man, because of how they

1355
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 22: how they insert safeties into the run fits and things

1356
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:10,560
Speaker 22: like that, which makes it up makes it fun for

1357
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:12,839
Speaker 22: receivers and offensive linemen to try to make sure we're

1358
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:15,040
Speaker 22: targeting things right away when when.

1359
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 21: A quarterback is good at offscript or like secondary plays

1360
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 21: like Sam has been through fo which has the healthed

1361
00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 21: the offense.

1362
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,919
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's that's huge. You obviously want to limit those.

1363
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:26,560
Speaker 22: You don't want Sam having to deal with free runners

1364
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 22: and stuff like that.

1365
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:28,840
Speaker 15: But those are gonna happen too.

1366
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 22: I mean, those guys on the other side of the

1367
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 22: ball get paid to play this game at a high

1368
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 22: level too, and so you know those are things are

1369
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 22: gonna happen. And Sam's doen a great job of being

1370
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:38,920
Speaker 22: able to escape, and I think you know, it's a

1371
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 22: good great reminder for us at receiver, like, Man, you

1372
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 22: gotta keep playing through the down because Sam's gonna extend

1373
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:47,760
Speaker 22: plays and those become those become big time plays for us.

1374
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 22: And we've done a great job creating explosives off of

1375
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 22: those that same in the same vein. So we got

1376
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 22: to continue to continue to work that, continue to practice

1377
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:59,440
Speaker 22: it as well, because it is something that does take

1378
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 22: practice be able to play, you know, extending plays like that.

1379
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:06,640
Speaker 22: But and Sam's been doing an awesome job with that. Mason

1380
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 22: big plays for us last few last few weeks.

1381
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Speaker 5: Let's learn more about Thursday's opponent, the Arizona Cardinals with

1382
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 5: the ESPN's Josh weinfist Next.

1383
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Speaker 3: Back to the huddle only on the home of the Seahawks,

1384
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Speaker 3: Seattle Sports.

1385
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 5: Let's learn a bit more about this week's opponent with

1386
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 5: the ESPN's Josh Weinfz here to talk about the Arizona Cardinals. Josh,

1387
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 5: I always have the hardest time pinning down exactly what

1388
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 5: to expect from the Cardinals.

1389
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 6: Sometimes I look and I.

1390
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 5: Go, well, there's some really intriguing talent here, and then

1391
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 5: sometimes they run into bad luck or there's just other

1392
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 5: controversy going on. What were your own expectations for the

1393
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 5: Cardinals entering the season?

1394
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 13: You know, I thought this was going to be a

1395
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 13: team that was going to hang his head on his

1396
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 13: defense for a while, simply because they revamped the front seven,

1397
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 13: they improved the pass rush, they got stronger against the run,

1398
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 13: and that part's kind of held up. Right. This defense

1399
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:05,479
Speaker 13: has been really good this year. I had questions about

1400
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 13: the offense, and those kinds of the questions that are

1401
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 13: coming to fruition, right. Like, I thought this team could

1402
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 13: be good enough to go to the playoffs based on

1403
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:16,600
Speaker 13: the defense, and I figured once the offense kind of

1404
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 13: got clicking that it would, with help from their schedule,

1405
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 13: kind of win enough games to kind of control their

1406
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 13: own destiny. But through three games, I don't know that's

1407
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 13: still going to be the case. This team has struggled

1408
00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 13: to really kind of put it all together offensively. The

1409
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:36,440
Speaker 13: defense has been carrying them, but they are a couple

1410
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,320
Speaker 13: of tweaks away, and I just don't know if this

1411
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 13: team can make those tweaks. I don't even want to

1412
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 13: say in time at all this season.

1413
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 7: Hey, Josh went pretty heavy defense in the draft. Who's

1414
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:54,959
Speaker 7: been the best rookie so far this year?

1415
00:59:56,880 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 13: That's a hard question because the first round pick, Walter

1416
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 13: Nolan isn't playing because of an injury. Jrdan Birch, outside

1417
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 13: linebacker from Oregon. He's been He's looked okay. They really

1418
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 13: haven't had kind of a star rookie. Yet we thought

1419
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 13: it was gonna be Will Johnson, the cornerback, second round

1420
01:00:12,800 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 13: pick out of Michigan, but he hurt his grind in

1421
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 13: week two, so he's been playing in week three. No

1422
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 13: one's really trying to stood out, right, Guys have been injured,

1423
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 13: Guys have been going up and down to it and

1424
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 13: kind of writing that roller fills for the rookie year.

1425
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,920
Speaker 13: So no one's really stood out from the rookie class.

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Speaker 9: Yet, Hey, what do you expect out of out of Benson?

1427
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Speaker 9: With with Connor going down, he's going to get the nod?

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Speaker 8: What do you see?

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Speaker 13: I think it's going to be. It's very interesting because

1430
01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 13: Benson is a liberally in some ways, a younger version

1431
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 13: of James Connor, very the downhill runner. Not as powerful,

1432
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:52,520
Speaker 13: but quicker, a little more elusive than Connor. So there

1433
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 13: are things that Tray Benson can do that James Connor

1434
01:00:55,400 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 13: cannot do, and there are things that Connor can do

1435
01:00:57,640 --> 01:01:00,640
Speaker 13: that Benson cannot do. But he's improved as a catcher,

1436
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 13: as a receiver, he's you know, he really worked on

1437
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 13: it this offseason. The one thing with Benson, though, if

1438
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 13: you give him a hole and he can kind of

1439
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:10,000
Speaker 13: hit that after burner. He's very hard to bring down

1440
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 13: because of the combination of his size and speed. He's

1441
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 13: a challenge in that in that second and third level.

1442
01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:19,480
Speaker 13: So if the Cardinals can get him going and get

1443
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 13: him through the line of scrim which was a big

1444
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:25,280
Speaker 13: problem Sunday against the Niners, then he could be a factor.

1445
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:27,880
Speaker 13: But that he needs to get through, and he's not

1446
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:29,680
Speaker 13: one of those like like James Connor. You can give

1447
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:31,840
Speaker 13: him the ball, He'll just bulldoze his way through the

1448
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 13: first two three yards and find a hole after that.

1449
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 13: That's not Trade Benson's game, right, and it needs to be.

1450
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:38,480
Speaker 13: It needs to be. It needs to be a little

1451
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 13: bit better at that, and the offensive line needs to

1452
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:43,080
Speaker 13: block some make some hole for him a little bit

1453
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:46,360
Speaker 13: better than they happened in the past, so he can.

1454
01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:48,480
Speaker 13: I think he can carry the load. It's gonna probably be.

1455
01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 13: He'll probably get the majority of the stamps, followed by

1456
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:53,960
Speaker 13: Mark de Marcado, Bam Knight. We'll probably see little bit

1457
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 13: of Michael Michael Carter come up and he'll be active,

1458
01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 13: but I think, you know, we'll see a little bit

1459
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:03,440
Speaker 13: of committee, but mostly it'll be be handled by Benson.

1460
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 6: I'd love to talk about the past game a bit.

1461
01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 6: Marvin Harrison Junior.

1462
01:02:07,680 --> 01:02:10,480
Speaker 5: I remember being like an odds on favorite for offensive

1463
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 5: Rookie of the Year, and I think people were thinking

1464
01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:14,760
Speaker 5: back to, oh my god, remember that deep shot to

1465
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 5: DeAndre Hopkins. Now Kyler Murray can you know, show off

1466
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 5: his arm a bit with Harrison Junior? And it doesn't

1467
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 5: sound like it's been the connection that maybe Cardinals fans

1468
01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 5: were hoping it could be, at least not consistently. What's

1469
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 5: kept it from being that, Yeah, that might.

1470
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Speaker 13: Be the understatement of the century. Actually it's it's it's

1471
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:36,919
Speaker 13: been a struggle, right. These guys have not been able

1472
01:02:36,920 --> 01:02:39,120
Speaker 13: to figure this out. They weren't on the same page

1473
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:41,480
Speaker 13: last season. All we heard all seasons that they're fine,

1474
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:45,040
Speaker 13: they're finally worked on all off season. They their timing

1475
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 13: is good, their relationships good on and off the field,

1476
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 13: but there's just there's something missing still. They move Harrison

1477
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 13: more on the slot than last year. He was kind

1478
01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 13: of ex guy, that guy out out wide all last

1479
01:02:57,360 --> 01:02:59,880
Speaker 13: season and he's just not getting the ball And he

1480
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 13: had a couple of chances last week and he couldn't

1481
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 13: come down with it. And it's the Jonathan Gann has

1482
01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 13: been very blunt so far, and he's basically said, in

1483
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 13: order for this offense to be elite, the ball has

1484
01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 13: to go through Marvin Harrison Jr. And when the ball

1485
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 13: is not going through him, this offense is an elite

1486
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 13: and it's not very good, quite frankly. And they know

1487
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 13: that because when he's struggling, the defense can key in

1488
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 13: on the run and trade Benson I'm Tredy McBride and

1489
01:03:25,760 --> 01:03:27,919
Speaker 13: it kind of takes away the entire offense right there.

1490
01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:30,440
Speaker 13: So we don't really know the answer just yet. We're

1491
01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:31,960
Speaker 13: still trying to figure it out. I think they're still

1492
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 13: trying to figure it out. But there's just Kyler is

1493
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 13: He's quick to go away from him if he's covered.

1494
01:03:38,200 --> 01:03:40,920
Speaker 13: I think he sees how defenses are playing him and

1495
01:03:40,920 --> 01:03:45,000
Speaker 13: they're they're they're trying to to take Marvin Harrison Junior

1496
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:46,440
Speaker 13: out of the game plan and they're doing a good

1497
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:47,200
Speaker 13: job so far.

1498
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 4: Josh, how is Kyler Murray?

1499
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 7: Just is there anything different about him in his seventh

1500
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:57,760
Speaker 7: year that that you've noticed and just you know, throughout

1501
01:03:57,880 --> 01:04:00,840
Speaker 7: camp and his leadership and things like that, How has

1502
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:03,720
Speaker 7: has anything changed? Has he has he come back and

1503
01:04:04,200 --> 01:04:07,640
Speaker 7: you know, surprised you with something in year seven.

1504
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 13: I think he's you know, I think and this just

1505
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 13: comes with time and age, but I think he's more mature, right,

1506
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 13: we can and we can see that the way he leads,

1507
01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 13: the way he talks, the way he plays, we're seeing

1508
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 13: we're seeing more mature Kyler Murray and his decision making

1509
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:27,800
Speaker 13: is more mature. The one thing they really stressed and

1510
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:31,000
Speaker 13: saw season was take the checkdown, take the easy pass.

1511
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 13: You know, don't force it. You don't need to be

1512
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:34,720
Speaker 13: the hero all the time, throw it away, hold if

1513
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:37,320
Speaker 13: you're gonna get stacked like stuff like that. And he's

1514
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:40,880
Speaker 13: adhering to that. He's really doing it. So we're seeing

1515
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:46,800
Speaker 13: the growth, but it's not translating to productivity. And whether

1516
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:50,600
Speaker 13: that's Marvin Harrison's fault, the defense is fault, Kyler's fault,

1517
01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:52,400
Speaker 13: like it might be a little bit of all of it,

1518
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 13: but we're just not seeing him take that step in

1519
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:58,600
Speaker 13: terms of you know, throwing for three hundred yards a

1520
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:01,080
Speaker 13: game and then you knowrunning for one hundred yards a game.

1521
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 13: We're not seeing that. We're just seeing kind of this

1522
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:08,240
Speaker 13: growth as a person, but this team needs to see

1523
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 13: more growth in an offense.

1524
01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 9: Vegas has the Cardinals as one point favorite favorites.

1525
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 8: In this game. That surprised me a little bit. I

1526
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:20,760
Speaker 8: understand them being at home. Were you surprised or are

1527
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 8: you surprised by that or do you feel like that's appropriate?

1528
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 13: That's the first I'm hearing that, So I guess it's

1529
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:31,880
Speaker 13: a home field advantage. I mean one point in the NFL.

1530
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:33,840
Speaker 13: I mean, it doesn't really matter, right, Like, I just

1531
01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:39,840
Speaker 13: feel like that their defense is really good. I think

1532
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 13: that's kind of probably where that sits, between the defense

1533
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 13: and being at home. I think that that's kind of

1534
01:05:45,080 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 13: maybe that's what that's what Vegas is thinking, But I

1535
01:05:50,720 --> 01:05:53,080
Speaker 13: don't know, like the way they have not to be

1536
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 13: able to close out a game there, right, the offense

1537
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:56,080
Speaker 13: has not been able to really be like we're going

1538
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 13: to dominate the four minute drill, we're gonna hold onto

1539
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:00,080
Speaker 13: the football, we're gonna get the necessary first down to

1540
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 13: milk the clock. And that could be an issue this week,

1541
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 13: especially if this offense cannot get going early. And you know, Seattle,

1542
01:06:06,680 --> 01:06:11,400
Speaker 13: the way they dominated Kyler Murray last season has lingered

1543
01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 13: in the locker room, right, guys that are still talked

1544
01:06:13,120 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 13: about it. It's still an issue. It's come up a

1545
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:17,480
Speaker 13: few times already in the course of the year without

1546
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:20,880
Speaker 13: even before this week, so so teams, so the players

1547
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,920
Speaker 13: know what's at stake, and they also know, like as

1548
01:06:23,960 --> 01:06:25,680
Speaker 13: much as they don't want to talk about it, Like

1549
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:28,480
Speaker 13: if they lose this game, your own two in the division,

1550
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 13: you you know, you're two and two for the season.

1551
01:06:31,040 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 13: That's a big swing, right, So at one point I

1552
01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 13: don't know. But this's tice me a little bit.

1553
01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:38,760
Speaker 16: Uh.

1554
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:41,080
Speaker 5: He's ESPN's Josh winef It's kind enough to join us

1555
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 5: for an opponent preview here so we can learn a

1556
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:44,920
Speaker 5: bit more about the Cardinals ahead of prime time face

1557
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:46,160
Speaker 5: off between these two teams.

1558
01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:46,840
Speaker 6: Thanks Josh, we.

1559
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:48,720
Speaker 1: Appreciate it absolutely.

1560
01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:49,360
Speaker 13: Thanks for having me.

1561
01:06:49,760 --> 01:06:51,919
Speaker 5: Have a good one. Well, those are our questions about

1562
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,800
Speaker 5: the Cardinals for Josh. Let's go over our lingering questions

1563
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:56,440
Speaker 5: about the Seahawks next with John Boyle.

1564
01:06:57,160 --> 01:07:00,240
Speaker 3: Back to the huddle only on the home of the Seahawks,

1565
01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:01,520
Speaker 3: Seattle Sports.

1566
01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 5: John Boyle joining us right now. Take a quick look

1567
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:08,400
Speaker 5: back at the Saints, but obviously at Thursday night football

1568
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 5: game to preview, and then we're gonna wrap up with

1569
01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:14,520
Speaker 5: some predictions for this game. But first, quickly New Orleans

1570
01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:17,240
Speaker 5: Saints Seattle scores forty four points, their most and I

1571
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 5: think two years. I think immediately my thought is, oh,

1572
01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:23,000
Speaker 5: they won because of special teams and that's why they won.

1573
01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:25,480
Speaker 5: But I think upon further review, I'm left thinking about

1574
01:07:25,520 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 5: the defense.

1575
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:26,680
Speaker 6: What about you?

1576
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:29,320
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean they to me, they won in all

1577
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:31,200
Speaker 18: three phases, which is what you have to do in

1578
01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:34,160
Speaker 18: the NFL to blow a team out. They you know,

1579
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 18: as you mentioned, their defense pretty much had the Saints

1580
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:39,440
Speaker 18: stifled all game. They had a couple of drives, but

1581
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 18: it you know, it was a pretty dominant effort really

1582
01:07:41,680 --> 01:07:44,600
Speaker 18: all three phases against The offense goes seven straight possessions

1583
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,720
Speaker 18: scoring before eventually turning the offense.

1584
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:48,320
Speaker 1: Over to Drew Locke.

1585
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:50,959
Speaker 18: But it is, yeah, I mean, just pretty thorough team

1586
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 18: effort all around.

1587
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 7: I got a chance to talk to Jay Harbaugh a

1588
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 7: couple of times, and you know, he doesn't remind me

1589
01:07:57,680 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 7: of his dad really from.

1590
01:07:59,080 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 4: What I've seen.

1591
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 7: But what's what's the dynamic thing about him?

1592
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:07,440
Speaker 4: Because special teams, yeah, have been fantastic.

1593
01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:09,360
Speaker 18: I mean, one point I like that Mike McDonald made

1594
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:10,760
Speaker 18: when he was asked, I was like, this, the guy

1595
01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:13,240
Speaker 18: that's coached like all over football, like in terms of

1596
01:08:13,720 --> 01:08:15,880
Speaker 18: not different locations, although he has coaching for at least

1597
01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:18,599
Speaker 18: but different position groups, different sides of the ball, which

1598
01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:21,320
Speaker 18: really pays off in special teams because you're kind of

1599
01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:24,440
Speaker 18: coaching everything. In special teams, you gotta have tackling, blocking,

1600
01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:28,280
Speaker 18: you know, dynamic playmakers. It's in your coaching most of

1601
01:08:28,320 --> 01:08:30,040
Speaker 18: the roster. I mean, most guys on a team are

1602
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 18: playing special teams. So that experience he's had coaching different

1603
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:34,320
Speaker 18: position groups I.

1604
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:35,600
Speaker 1: Think really helps him be good at that.

1605
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:37,639
Speaker 18: And then obviously, you know, you come up in football

1606
01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:39,519
Speaker 18: the way he did, with your dad and your uncle

1607
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 18: being who they are, you're gonna pick up all knowledge.

1608
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:42,559
Speaker 1: All the way.

1609
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 10: Do you ever see augear every day? Most tastes? Yes,

1610
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:49,719
Speaker 10: you know, I don't think I've at the airport.

1611
01:08:49,760 --> 01:08:50,040
Speaker 4: That's it.

1612
01:08:50,280 --> 01:08:52,640
Speaker 18: You know they give you free clothes. Yeah, it's just

1613
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 18: kind of easy. Why would you wear It's just easier.

1614
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:58,200
Speaker 18: What percentage of your wardrobe is freezing?

1615
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:00,400
Speaker 1: Getting off topic here, I do?

1616
01:09:00,520 --> 01:09:02,480
Speaker 6: I mean earlier we were talking about birthdays.

1617
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:05,320
Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean, if we're gonna get off topic, let's

1618
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:06,000
Speaker 18: talk about Kaler.

1619
01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:06,799
Speaker 1: All MVPs.

1620
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 6: The rest of the ten minutes Aaron Judge isn't doing

1621
01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:12,599
Speaker 6: I'll go in on that.

1622
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:16,679
Speaker 9: Do you do you feel like this offense misses DK,

1623
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:19,000
Speaker 9: like three games they know DK.

1624
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:20,040
Speaker 10: How are you feeling about it?

1625
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:22,479
Speaker 18: I mean, look, every team would love a guy who's

1626
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 18: that big in that fast, But it's not really about

1627
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:27,360
Speaker 18: like I don't really love the like, oh Cooper Couvery

1628
01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:29,400
Speaker 18: plays DK Metcalf or whatever, like that's not really what

1629
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 18: they were doing. It was an overall long term roster

1630
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:34,920
Speaker 18: decision of contract stuff, and a guy's going to be

1631
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:37,920
Speaker 18: traded and then you pivot and you go at other receivers.

1632
01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 18: But I mean, the last two games Week one offense

1633
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 18: wasn't great. I think that was just sort of them

1634
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:45,320
Speaker 18: finding their way a little bit and also facing a

1635
01:09:45,400 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 18: darn good opponent. But I with what this offense wants

1636
01:09:48,520 --> 01:09:51,080
Speaker 18: to be. I think they have plenty of firepower with

1637
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:52,880
Speaker 18: who they have. I mean, they've been moving the ball

1638
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:56,040
Speaker 18: really well passing game in particular these last two weeks,

1639
01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 18: and Jackson Smith and Jigwill looks legitimately like one of

1640
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 18: the best receivers in the NFL right now. So yeah,

1641
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:03,920
Speaker 18: I mean, look what every team love a six two

1642
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,519
Speaker 18: hundred and thirty pound receiver who runs a four to three. Sure,

1643
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 18: but are they getting by pretty well with what they have?

1644
01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: I think?

1645
01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 6: So, are you expecting a low scoring game?

1646
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:14,519
Speaker 5: We were just joined by Josh Weinfuss of ESPN, who

1647
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:16,839
Speaker 5: kind of had a lot of praise for the Arizona

1648
01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:19,960
Speaker 5: Cardinals defense. Seattle's defense has held opponents to seventeen or

1649
01:10:19,960 --> 01:10:20,920
Speaker 5: few or for three straight.

1650
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:22,280
Speaker 6: Is that what you're expecting.

1651
01:10:22,439 --> 01:10:24,280
Speaker 18: I mean, you look at kind of the strength of

1652
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:26,559
Speaker 18: these teams and what they've done this season. Yes, but

1653
01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:29,559
Speaker 18: then you look at Thursday night in Arizona and chaos,

1654
01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 18: so I don't know.

1655
01:10:30,600 --> 01:10:33,040
Speaker 1: I mean, weird games have happened down there.

1656
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:35,880
Speaker 18: So if the numbers and the talent on these teams

1657
01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:37,880
Speaker 18: says it should be a low scoring, defensive.

1658
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:39,479
Speaker 1: Game, then it's probably gonna be like thirty five to thirty.

1659
01:10:39,520 --> 01:10:41,960
Speaker 18: So I don't know, but yeah, I mean, both these

1660
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:44,799
Speaker 18: teams have some weapons, so you can't just assume low scoring.

1661
01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 18: But when again, you look at what the Cardinals, both

1662
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:48,679
Speaker 18: these teams.

1663
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:49,840
Speaker 1: Have been very hard to run on this year.

1664
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:52,599
Speaker 18: They're both holding opponents well under four yards of carry,

1665
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 18: and you know it's hard to move the ball when

1666
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:55,080
Speaker 18: you can't run it.

1667
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 7: I saw Josh jo being interviewed in the Polst game,

1668
01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:02,519
Speaker 7: and he just continually shows up, and I mean, he's

1669
01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 7: been amazing. Just tell us about what what you've seen

1670
01:11:06,439 --> 01:11:09,040
Speaker 7: from him. It doesn't look like maybe he maybe not

1671
01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:09,840
Speaker 7: a media guy.

1672
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:12,720
Speaker 18: No, I mean, I don't think he's been necessarily like

1673
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:15,280
Speaker 18: a guy looking for the spotlight and being up there.

1674
01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:17,400
Speaker 18: But you know he's he's willing, he'll do it when

1675
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:19,600
Speaker 18: they ask him, and he's very nice about it. But

1676
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:22,639
Speaker 18: he uh yeah, I mean Mike McDonald loves to bring

1677
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:26,320
Speaker 18: him up as a story that really you can relate

1678
01:11:26,320 --> 01:11:28,720
Speaker 18: to everyone on the team, especially when they preach this

1679
01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:31,600
Speaker 18: you know, seventy man roster idea of hey, you know,

1680
01:11:31,600 --> 01:11:32,880
Speaker 18: you can be on the practice squad and you're an

1681
01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:34,559
Speaker 18: important part of the team. And that's where Josh Job

1682
01:11:34,720 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 18: was at this time last year. It was that Atlanta game.

1683
01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 18: They had a bunch of injuries. He comes up, plays

1684
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:41,920
Speaker 18: his butt off and kept playing well, and now he's

1685
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:43,720
Speaker 18: a starter for them, and there's you know, a good

1686
01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:45,840
Speaker 18: lesson there for a lot of guys. But yeah, I mean,

1687
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,760
Speaker 18: he's just been so solid. He does not get intimidated

1688
01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:51,280
Speaker 18: by the moment. He's you know he's not the biggest guy,

1689
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:54,000
Speaker 18: but he plays big. He's tough, he's physical. We'll see

1690
01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:56,599
Speaker 18: him throwing his body around. So yeah, I mean love

1691
01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:59,120
Speaker 18: what he's doing, and they love kind of using him

1692
01:11:59,120 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 18: as a story to show up guys and we're seeing

1693
01:12:00,880 --> 01:12:02,679
Speaker 18: I mean, last week they had three of their top

1694
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:05,519
Speaker 18: defensive backs were injured and that secondary played great.

1695
01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:08,800
Speaker 8: How are we feeling about the offensive line good?

1696
01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:11,280
Speaker 18: I mean, you know, they'd be the first say they

1697
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:13,160
Speaker 18: want to run the ball better, that the rushing numbers

1698
01:12:13,160 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 18: aren't great right now, but they're protecting really well. And

1699
01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 18: I just I like the combination of guys they have.

1700
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:21,000
Speaker 18: They're young. I think they're going to grow together as

1701
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:24,200
Speaker 18: a unit. I love Gray's abel what he's doing for guy.

1702
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:27,679
Speaker 18: Three weeks into his NFL career, he's playing awesome. So yeah,

1703
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,679
Speaker 18: I mean, no sacks last week, only three all season.

1704
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 18: Some of that is Darnald, he's really good to getting

1705
01:12:32,479 --> 01:12:34,240
Speaker 18: the ball out. He's made some guys missed when he's

1706
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:36,599
Speaker 18: had to. But I you know, I love the direction

1707
01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:38,920
Speaker 18: that unit's going. I think they're already ahead of where

1708
01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 18: they were last year, with a lot of room to grow.

1709
01:12:41,560 --> 01:12:45,000
Speaker 5: You mentioned or rather Dave did Josh Joe maybe not

1710
01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:47,559
Speaker 5: like big media guy, but willing to do those interviews.

1711
01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:49,160
Speaker 6: Who is a media guy? Like, who are your favorite

1712
01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:49,760
Speaker 6: guys to talk to?

1713
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:51,599
Speaker 1: Oh? Man, I mean there's so many of them.

1714
01:12:51,600 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 18: I mean the guys we had at the podium just today,

1715
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:57,479
Speaker 18: like Leo's great up there and Cooper Cup's been awesome.

1716
01:12:57,560 --> 01:12:59,519
Speaker 18: Cooper Cup's a guy that he went up there and

1717
01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:02,679
Speaker 18: talked to me for almost twenty minutes, nothing really about

1718
01:13:02,720 --> 01:13:05,920
Speaker 18: him or his play, just talking about the team, the offense,

1719
01:13:06,160 --> 01:13:08,320
Speaker 18: you know, just different, big picture of things. But yeah,

1720
01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 18: I mean, Julie loves a great one, you know, love

1721
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:13,640
Speaker 18: hearing from him. Hopefully you know, he's healthy, so we

1722
01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:16,080
Speaker 18: talked to him again soon. But yeah, it's I mean, uh,

1723
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:19,760
Speaker 18: Spoon's always fun in every walk of life, media, on

1724
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:22,080
Speaker 18: the field and everything loves Spoon. Yeah, I mean there's

1725
01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:23,880
Speaker 18: tons of good guys in there room, tons of tons

1726
01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:24,719
Speaker 18: of good media guys.

1727
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:27,559
Speaker 7: There was a story a couple of weeks ago about

1728
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 7: how Mike McDonald he was.

1729
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:32,000
Speaker 18: He was saying another big media guy, Mike McDonald's Yeah,

1730
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:33,560
Speaker 18: he loves love, doesn't.

1731
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 1: His favorite part of the jump, well he handles it. Really,

1732
01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 1: He's great.

1733
01:13:37,240 --> 01:13:39,280
Speaker 4: No, but he has he has a good little sense

1734
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:39,719
Speaker 4: of humor.

1735
01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:42,679
Speaker 1: He just likes to give himself a hard time about it. Yeah, sorry,

1736
01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 1: I didn't mean to go, but he.

1737
01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:47,799
Speaker 7: Was talking about how Ernest Jones doesn't mind him talking

1738
01:13:47,880 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 7: to him too much, and then and then he said,

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Speaker 7: sometimes when he comes to the sidelines, he looks at

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01:13:52,400 --> 01:13:55,920
Speaker 7: me like, okay, that's enough. But just that that relationship

1741
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 7: and you know how he's handling the defense right now,

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01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:02,280
Speaker 7: and just some of the communication that's going on between

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01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:03,120
Speaker 7: him and his players.

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01:14:03,280 --> 01:14:04,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's funny.

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01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 18: Mike's talked about that, like different middle linebackers are different.

1746
01:14:06,439 --> 01:14:08,000
Speaker 18: Some guys like they want the collin to shut up,

1747
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 18: and then some guys want to hear the coach talking

1748
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:12,160
Speaker 18: all the way till they cut that off. And Ernest

1749
01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:15,120
Speaker 18: definitely kind of leans to the other side of that.

1750
01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 1: And you know, it's been cool.

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01:14:16,960 --> 01:14:19,400
Speaker 18: Ever since Ernest Jones got here, he's talked about just

1752
01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:21,559
Speaker 18: how connected he feels with Mike McNall, the.

1753
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:22,680
Speaker 1: Way they see football.

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01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:26,080
Speaker 18: You know, just I think Ernest was so impressed with

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01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:29,599
Speaker 18: how well Mike mcdull just not only knows the game

1756
01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:32,280
Speaker 18: but communicates it to guys and it's you know that

1757
01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:35,840
Speaker 18: what those two have done together has really helped turn

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01:14:35,880 --> 01:14:38,120
Speaker 18: this defense around from where it was midway your last season.

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01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 9: We spoke to uh Rob Stanton today and he mentioned

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Speaker 9: that I always mess his name upon thanks enough.

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Speaker 4: I know who.

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Speaker 1: He meant our British friend.

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01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:47,200
Speaker 10: Yeah, our British friend.

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01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:49,080
Speaker 8: And he said that there might be a need for

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01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:51,880
Speaker 8: another receiver here. I disagreed with the I think they're fine.

1766
01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:52,360
Speaker 8: What do you think?

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01:14:52,560 --> 01:14:55,400
Speaker 18: I mean, Look, I really like what they have, and

1768
01:14:55,439 --> 01:14:57,080
Speaker 18: I think they can win a lot of football games

1769
01:14:57,120 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 18: what they have. But if you ask the guy who

1770
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:01,960
Speaker 18: builds this roster, John Schier, he's gonna say, yeah, we're looking,

1771
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:04,880
Speaker 18: because they are always looking at everything. It's you know,

1772
01:15:05,320 --> 01:15:08,360
Speaker 18: if you're a good general manager or you know, personnel

1773
01:15:08,400 --> 01:15:11,120
Speaker 18: guy in general, you're not saying, oh man, we got it,

1774
01:15:11,200 --> 01:15:14,080
Speaker 18: this is our perfect fifty three. Let's go on vacation

1775
01:15:14,240 --> 01:15:17,559
Speaker 18: till the draft. Like they're always working on this, and

1776
01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:20,160
Speaker 18: you know, so if they see an opportunity and the

1777
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:22,960
Speaker 18: right guys available, or if you know, unfortunately, injuries are

1778
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:25,280
Speaker 18: part of this game. If if you need some depth,

1779
01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:27,720
Speaker 18: there's definitely you know, that's something they can look at.

1780
01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:29,519
Speaker 18: But you could say that about every position of the team.

1781
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 6: You guys are gonna hate my little wrap up question.

1782
01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:35,639
Speaker 5: You can't wait, it's only been three games.

1783
01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:37,479
Speaker 6: You're gonna be so annoyed with it.

1784
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:42,559
Speaker 5: Well, I was inspired by Boiled saying we should talk

1785
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:45,479
Speaker 5: about cal Rawley. Uh, and so my mind just naturally

1786
01:15:45,479 --> 01:15:48,280
Speaker 5: went to the MVP conversation. You already know where it's going.

1787
01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:50,599
Speaker 5: You're gonna be so mad. It's after three the MVP

1788
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,960
Speaker 5: for the Seahawks. Well, through three games, who's uh, who's

1789
01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:56,720
Speaker 5: so far? Been the one where you're like, man, this

1790
01:15:56,800 --> 01:15:58,240
Speaker 5: guy's just blowing me away.

1791
01:15:58,280 --> 01:16:01,840
Speaker 6: We'll go uh boil Wyman bump.

1792
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:02,519
Speaker 4: Sure, Okay.

1793
01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:05,479
Speaker 18: I mean the easy answer is always the quarterback, because

1794
01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:10,280
Speaker 18: that's football, Like you, that guy affects the outcome of

1795
01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:11,280
Speaker 18: a team more than any other.

1796
01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:15,800
Speaker 5: I bet you're impressed by average huh no, no, yeah,

1797
01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 5: but samdh has been awesome.

1798
01:16:17,439 --> 01:16:20,760
Speaker 18: But if we're gonna say anyone else, just to not

1799
01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 18: make it as hard with or is obvious with the quarterback,

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Speaker 18: I think it's gotty JS. I mean, when you have

1801
01:16:25,960 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 18: one receiver producing like he is what he's meant to

1802
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:30,800
Speaker 18: that offense through three weeks, it's been so impressive. And

1803
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 18: I think there's tons of guys on defense you can name,

1804
01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 18: but because there's so many, I think we talk value.

1805
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:37,120
Speaker 1: Like what jays N's done stands out.

1806
01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:42,479
Speaker 7: Leonard Williams, Yeah, yeah, and then number two, uh, Jay Reid,

1807
01:16:43,160 --> 01:16:46,479
Speaker 7: Jaron Reid. Those two guys are They're the reason why

1808
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 7: they can only you know, they only have to rush

1809
01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:51,280
Speaker 7: four and yeah, just the I did a little thing

1810
01:16:51,280 --> 01:16:53,960
Speaker 7: on them called Feats of Strength where you know, both

1811
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:56,599
Speaker 7: of those guys had plays where it was just pure power,

1812
01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:57,760
Speaker 7: you know, and it.

1813
01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 4: Wasn't about a past rush move. It wasn't about you know.

1814
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 7: Knowing being savvy and knowing ball or anything like that.

1815
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 4: It was just pure violence.

1816
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:10,040
Speaker 10: Well it's j Sam, But I'm going to Darrey on Kendrick.

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Speaker 6: Oh, there you go. I like it. I like the

1818
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:13,080
Speaker 6: shout out for Darien Kendrick.

1819
01:17:13,120 --> 01:17:13,479
Speaker 3: All right.

1820
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:16,679
Speaker 5: Uh so again reminder Thursday Night Football.

1821
01:17:16,680 --> 01:17:17,519
Speaker 6: What times? Pregame?

1822
01:17:17,840 --> 01:17:21,519
Speaker 5: Uh two o'clock, two o'clock pregame obviously postgame as well,

1823
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:22,679
Speaker 5: hosted by Michael Bumpus.

1824
01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:24,040
Speaker 6: Don't forget to read Boyle's work.

1825
01:17:24,280 --> 01:17:25,680
Speaker 1: Boil on x.

1826
01:17:25,680 --> 01:17:26,599
Speaker 6: Dot com for updates.

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Speaker 5: Winman on the Call with the voice of the Seahawks

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01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 5: Steve Rabel, I'm Stacy Ross.

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01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:31,040
Speaker 6: This has been the huddle.

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01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:33,439
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