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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpus,

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Speaker 1: and Stacy Ross. It is a two hour Seahawks show. Yes,

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Speaker 1: a lot of it is going to be a preview

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Speaker 1: and a look ahead. We're also going to talk to

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Speaker 1: some of your favorite Seahawks voices. We've got analysts. We've

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Speaker 1: also got Ryan Neil and Charles Cross joining us. But first, guys,

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Speaker 1: let's start with a look back recapping the Seahawks win

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Speaker 1: over the Cardinals. And we gotta start defensively, right, you

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Speaker 1: don't let an opponent into the end zone. You won defensively.

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Speaker 1: That's a great day. Yeah, that's huge, and you know,

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Speaker 1: only three hundred little over three hundred yards, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I did a good job. Took the ball away a

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Speaker 1: little bit, I thought. You know, there was a couple

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Speaker 1: of plays and one in particular Brian Monet where he

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Speaker 1: just marched the center into the backfield, tripped up the

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Speaker 1: running back for a tackle for loss. We haven't really

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Speaker 1: seen that from from our d line. That it's it's

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Speaker 1: not like they don't have the ability to do it.

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Speaker 1: It's just that they've been unsure and you know they've

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Speaker 1: not been and you can't aggressive football. If you're you're

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Speaker 1: not entirely sure of what you're doing defensively, and I

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Speaker 1: felt like they kind of figured that out. And we've

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Speaker 1: been saying that for a few weeks. They'll figure it out,

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Speaker 1: they'll start playing together, and I think they finally did so. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of good performances on the

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Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. Defense, six sacks from six

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Speaker 1: different players. If you take away Kyler Murray's forty two

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Speaker 1: two yards. You did give up a play over thirty yards,

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Speaker 1: and Cardinals didn't have one until that week. When they

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Speaker 1: did that, I started getting a bit nervous, but then

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Speaker 1: we shook it off. I was nervous. You got another

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Speaker 1: great performance from two rookies defensively, Kobe Bryan with a

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Speaker 1: forest phone, Will Trek Wolden with his fourth interception in

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Speaker 1: a row. So they checked off a lot of boxes.

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Speaker 1: And I loved the energy that I saw on that

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Speaker 1: it was exotic, I guess is what they call it.

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Speaker 1: It was. It was fun to watch. Now, the issue

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Speaker 1: hasn't been Trek Woolen. So I do want to talk

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Speaker 1: about what was kind of corrected in this one, but

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Speaker 1: let's start with what still looked good, that being Tarreq Wollen.

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Speaker 1: Like he said, bump, He's got four interceptions in his

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Speaker 1: many games. One more interception he ties a rookie record

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Speaker 1: with Earl Thomas, two more he sets a new rookie record.

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Speaker 1: He's been exceptional. Did you guys see this coming? And

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Speaker 1: what does he do so well? Well? I thought it

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Speaker 1: bottle of wine or hing. But yeah, it's a I

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Speaker 1: didn't see it necessarily coming. I thought it was interesting

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Speaker 1: because you know, we've seen guys like Harold Simon. He

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Speaker 1: just didn't work out for him. But for this to

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Speaker 1: you know, I would compare it to maybe twenty eleven.

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Speaker 1: it's it's a little bit of a shock. I would

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Speaker 1: She interviewed him after the game during the broadcast the

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Speaker 1: you know, Richard Sherman and people like that, and he goes,

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Speaker 1: I just want to be Tarrek first, he said, shoot,

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Speaker 1: Because you have the bat, you're back to the ball.

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Speaker 1: both learned to to. And the one there was a

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Speaker 1: is what's not been working right. So let's figure out

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Speaker 1: what went right in this one. Later for Hawks Live,

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Speaker 1: you guys are talking to boy A Mofe. You know,

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Speaker 1: but about specifically the guys up front and the run

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Speaker 1: defense was better in this one. They got six sacks

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Speaker 1: Arizona was banged up, the offensive line wasn't healthy. You're

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Speaker 1: we all know that Arizona corners, they're liable to blow

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Speaker 1: So what I saw, man, I saw a lot more slats.

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Speaker 1: First of all, thank you very much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: boar and baby, because every time you get one, you're

424
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Speaker 1: just grateful. So I mean, you know, I ain't you know,

425
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Speaker 1: I just I don't plan those celebrations. It's just whatever

426
00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:47,520
Speaker 1: I'm feeling at the time, that's just what comes out.

427
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Speaker 1: So suggestion, make sure you swaddle it and like get

428
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Speaker 1: like a Gatorade talent. I'm like, I might get a

429
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Speaker 1: whole baby bottling everything. I mean, you know, we gotta

430
00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,360
Speaker 1: take care of that bag. Yeah, for sure. So that's

431
00:18:57,359 --> 00:18:59,280
Speaker 1: all I'm gonna do with it, man, hold it tight. Yeah.

432
00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:01,720
Speaker 1: So last week, you guys you got shut down the

433
00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,760
Speaker 1: explosive plays. That's kind of been the Achilles Hill, right,

434
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Speaker 1: this big plays guys in position. That first drive Kyler

435
00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,040
Speaker 1: breaks went off for forty two, but then you guys

436
00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,480
Speaker 1: buckle down and hold them to a field goal. When

437
00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,080
Speaker 1: you look at this Chargers offense, they got some guys

438
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Speaker 1: over there as well. What are the challenges that they present? Well,

439
00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:20,680
Speaker 1: you know what, man, First of all, they got a

440
00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:22,679
Speaker 1: great kid at their quarterback spot. I mean we all

441
00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,320
Speaker 1: seen him. He can make all the throws, he can

442
00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:26,160
Speaker 1: do it on two feet, one foot, whatever the case

443
00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,720
Speaker 1: may be. I mean even watching film seeing him throw

444
00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,080
Speaker 1: like a freaking forty yard bomb running away from somebody

445
00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:32,640
Speaker 1: trying to sack him, and I mean he's just literally

446
00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,879
Speaker 1: just and it's like a dime. So you know, they

447
00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,440
Speaker 1: got a real athletic group around them, the skill positions

448
00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:39,000
Speaker 1: that you know, some of the best you can get.

449
00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,040
Speaker 1: So I think this week is gonna be a dope

450
00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:42,840
Speaker 1: challenge for us on the back end and just all around,

451
00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:44,399
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And playing a team like this,

452
00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:46,639
Speaker 1: it's all about execution and making the plays when they

453
00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:48,720
Speaker 1: come your way. And one thing the quarterback will do

454
00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:49,960
Speaker 1: is he's gonna give you a shot, you know what

455
00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,399
Speaker 1: I mean. He trust his guys that much, and we

456
00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:54,160
Speaker 1: trust our guys to go out there and make those plays.

457
00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:55,679
Speaker 1: So it's just all about making the plays when they

458
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Speaker 1: come to you all shouldn't Eckler is supposed to be like,

459
00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,960
Speaker 1: pound for pound, the strongest in the NFL. No heah,

460
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,560
Speaker 1: tell us about God, you have one hundred and seventy

461
00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,040
Speaker 1: three yards a couple of games ago. Yeah, he's a

462
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Speaker 1: first of all. Shot to him, I think he's a

463
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Speaker 1: D two kid, D two guy um coming in making it.

464
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Speaker 1: That's just that's dope. I mean I resonate with that

465
00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:15,960
Speaker 1: all day. You know, undrafted kid coming out of a

466
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Speaker 1: D one double A. So that's dope. But yeah, definitely

467
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Speaker 1: power Pine. One of the strongest people outn't seen on

468
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Speaker 1: the plane of Earth. I mean, dude is I mean

469
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,960
Speaker 1: little dude, but super explosive, super dog on strong. So

470
00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:29,080
Speaker 1: it's one of those games when you when you when

471
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Speaker 1: you go go hit a guy like that, bring something

472
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,199
Speaker 1: with you, you know what I mean, You better bring

473
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Speaker 1: something with you because if you don't, he's gonna keep

474
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Speaker 1: on rolling. And he's a he's a fighter for sure.

475
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Speaker 1: We'll take that every week, right, I mean, you're always good.

476
00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,480
Speaker 1: You got just freaks, oh yeah, everywhere around the NFL,

477
00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:43,080
Speaker 1: across the league. But hey, if you out there, you

478
00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:44,720
Speaker 1: were freak too, So you better make something happen, you

479
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,920
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So go, hey, buckle, let's go.

480
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Speaker 1: That's the right way to look at it. You were

481
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Speaker 1: kind enough to join us after practice. We're gonna let

482
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Speaker 1: you go eat, relax, get some snacks prepared for this game.

483
00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,000
Speaker 1: And let's hope that we're seeing that interception celebration. Man,

484
00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:02,439
Speaker 1: I need it. I'm overdue. Yea, he is Seahawks safety

485
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,359
Speaker 1: Ryan Neil. Ryan, thank you so much for taking the time.

486
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Speaker 1: All right, guys, coming up next, Charles Cross going to

487
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Speaker 1: join us. Don't go anywhere. This is the huddle. You

488
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Speaker 1: are listening to the huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpe,

489
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Speaker 1: Stacy Rosston. Right now, Charles Cross, Charles, you are one

490
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Speaker 1: part of a really exciting rookie class. Um. Here's the problem, though,

491
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Speaker 1: I don't want to put you on the spot right

492
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,480
Speaker 1: this is rude. I'm the host, you're the guest. Turck

493
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Speaker 1: wol and FOREI interceptions. Why don't you have any interceptions? Charles?

494
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 1: It's probably because I don't play defense. It's very disappointing.

495
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,960
Speaker 1: I'm very disappointing. Think. I just think. I just think,

496
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Speaker 1: you know, if if you were trying just a little harder,

497
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Speaker 1: you could get one of those interceptions. No, you are

498
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:40,200
Speaker 1: having an exceptional start and block to anybody. Oh that's

499
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,320
Speaker 1: a great point. It's trick wol and having to go

500
00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:45,800
Speaker 1: out there stopping this Charger's defensive line. I didn't think so.

501
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 1: Uh you will, though, tell us a bit about what

502
00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 1: you see from the Chargers. Oh, what a great defensive group.

503
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,440
Speaker 1: They got some vs on the on the D line. UM,

504
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,320
Speaker 1: really do some good players. So it's gonna be a great,

505
00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,400
Speaker 1: great taste for this um in the whole group. I'm

506
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Speaker 1: excited for the matchup. So the first time I spoke

507
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,240
Speaker 1: to was hawkslive in Bellevue, and I believe was it

508
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:10,520
Speaker 1: before his first game? Before your first game? Uh so

509
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 1: now you're six games in, how's the body feeling? You

510
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 1: got a routine, you all settled down? Now, what's it

511
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,960
Speaker 1: like being six games deep in the NFL season? Um? Yeah,

512
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Speaker 1: I got into my routine. I feel like I really

513
00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,800
Speaker 1: got in my routine. Like the third week, just just

514
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 1: being a normal week. Um, take care of my body,

515
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 1: hot to code to song, give him a sizes. I'm

516
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,280
Speaker 1: just trying to stay on top of it hundred percent

517
00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 1: of the snaps. Man. Every every game, what's uh? I

518
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: mean every week you're gonna face a really good player.

519
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Speaker 1: Who's Who's somebody that that kind of stands out? Or

520
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Speaker 1: are you one of those guys that there a lot

521
00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:44,920
Speaker 1: of people look at the opponent and go, oh, that's

522
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Speaker 1: number sixty three. I don't. I don't you know, say

523
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Speaker 1: his name or anything. Do you personalize your opponent or

524
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,520
Speaker 1: do you just look at him as just a number? Um,

525
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say. I feel like I do a little

526
00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:01,119
Speaker 1: bit of both because everyone plays differently. But at the

527
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:02,320
Speaker 1: end of the guy, he's a person. At the end

528
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 1: of the day, he's a person like I got good

529
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Speaker 1: job done. Um, And this was just my main focus. Yeah,

530
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Speaker 1: anybody in particular standout so far that you're like, yeah,

531
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Speaker 1: that was you know, like Cameron Jordan. I know in

532
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,360
Speaker 1: New Orleans that guys like number two on the list

533
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 1: of active players. It's first sacks go and stuff like that.

534
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:22,040
Speaker 1: Any anybody individually standout. Um. So when we played the science,

535
00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 1: he really landed up on the right side of the

536
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Speaker 1: most the most. So I didn't actually get or any

537
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Speaker 1: risk against him. Okay, well, it's the league, so it's

538
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 1: like every week like oh, come, oh, come with my

539
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,120
Speaker 1: a game. Yeah, I'm just trying to be the best

540
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Speaker 1: I can be. Ye, what's been Uh, what's been kind

541
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Speaker 1: of a tougher transition and then what's been kind of

542
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:41,479
Speaker 1: like a pleasant surprise where you're like, Oh, I've got

543
00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:43,560
Speaker 1: I've got this. I've been better at this than I thought,

544
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 1: just adjusting to the speed of the game. I feel

545
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,560
Speaker 1: like we I've gotten better and better at it. Yes,

546
00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,280
Speaker 1: you just feeling more comfortable and comfortable. It's unfortunate, but

547
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,040
Speaker 1: shot Penny goes down. But then King Walker steps in.

548
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 1: He has a good game last week. Um now, so

549
00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 1: now you got two rookie tackles, and you got a

550
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,399
Speaker 1: rookie running back back there. You got two rookies on

551
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 1: defense playing. Do y'all ever just link up some times

552
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,639
Speaker 1: to be like, man, it's it's the new way. If

553
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: we're doing this, man, we gotta help take this team

554
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 1: to the next level. Oh, I feel like I feel

555
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 1: I already understood putting the position to take advantage of

556
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 1: the opportunity and you just gotta take advantage of it.

557
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,200
Speaker 1: You guys hang out rookie class. Oh, I'll go home

558
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 1: all the phrase I'm tired, you know, I just go home,

559
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 1: get ready for the next day. You know, I just

560
00:24:30,119 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 1: ran into a guy that was drafted in nineteen eighty seven.

561
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: That was a year I was drafted anyway, Lois Clark,

562
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Speaker 1: who works for the Chargers, And there's a bomb there. Man.

563
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,240
Speaker 1: You know, you know, thirty five years later, you know,

564
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: we're just talking about old times and everything. So I

565
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: know there's time for that later. But but it's pretty cool.

566
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Speaker 1: You know that you're going to remember these guys for

567
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,239
Speaker 1: you know, the rest of your career and the rest

568
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 1: of your life, because this is really a good group

569
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Speaker 1: of guys. This is the best group of uh, you know,

570
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 1: draft choices that we've had here for a long time.

571
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: Does the offensive line is gonna ask kind of related

572
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: to this line of conversation. Do you guys hang out

573
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,680
Speaker 1: a lot go to dinners together? Do you Is there

574
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:08,640
Speaker 1: one or two people you're you're a little more close

575
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 1: with so as far as awesome, we spend a lot

576
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 1: of time together because like this our group, we have

577
00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: a good bun in chemistry within our group. This offense

578
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,439
Speaker 1: has exceeded expectations. Everyone pretty much assumed that the defense

579
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: will care of the offense. But this offense has has

580
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 1: been going. Man, what's the chemistry like out there within

581
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,399
Speaker 1: that offensive line and just the offense in general. When

582
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: you guys going on these ten play eleven play drive

583
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,480
Speaker 1: and score and touchdowns, I'm just communicating. I just everyone

584
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 1: being on the same page or working toward the same goal.

585
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: Gino just seems like he's totally in command too. I mean,

586
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Speaker 1: you know, we take a couple of the audibles that

587
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Speaker 1: he's getting. It seems like you guys, yeah, especially Gino,

588
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: talk tell us a little bit about him and what

589
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,439
Speaker 1: you've seen from his leadership this year. Gino has been

590
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: a great leader, not just for the offense, but for

591
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Speaker 1: the whole team. Um, he's done a job he extreamly

592
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: will getting everyone in the right position to be successful. Um. Yeah,

593
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: he's been. He's just doing great, amazing. Yeah, how about

594
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 1: your family, if you had the family coming to the

595
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: games at all, it's anybody come out to Seattle yet. Yeah,

596
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: so they came out the first game, that's a good

597
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: one for them to go to. Yeah, I think they

598
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 1: came to I don't think without the game they canceled.

599
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: But your your family's back at maybe Atlanta. Yeah, that's

600
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,720
Speaker 1: a long trip. It's like a four or five hour flight.

601
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you miss most from home? Outside

602
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: of just family? Obviously? Food? What about what about the

603
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: foot foot food? Do you miss most? You haven't been

604
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 1: able to find here? So in the South, like you

605
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: can go to the gas station you find like good

606
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: barbecue or like good cheat. Yeah, it's kind of hard

607
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 1: final here, but you know, I'll make it work. Don't

608
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 1: buy barbecue or food at at a gas station, not here,

609
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,879
Speaker 1: not here, not here. But I was gonna say, I

610
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 1: hear that about the South that yeah, you can get

611
00:26:56,640 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: it pretty much everywhere. There's a uh, what's it called

612
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: Chef's Table that they have a barbecue edition. And I did.

613
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 1: I'm not from the South, and I didn't realize the

614
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: culture of like being the the pit master, like how

615
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: intense that was, and the actual like barbecue culture it

616
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 1: was from Texas. It's different which place has the best barbecue.

617
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: If you're going like you're probably gonna defend Mississippi. But

618
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: if you have to admit a place outside of Mississippi.

619
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to say six. This is a close si. Yeah.

620
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:32,679
Speaker 1: All right, So Ryman gave you a list of Mexican restaurants.

621
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Speaker 1: My two cents, I'm gonna say, find a Mexican food trucks.

622
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: Food trucks. That's kind of like I would say, it's

623
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Speaker 1: the equivalent of finding like the good gas station. You

624
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, You can find a good food truck.

625
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 1: Go ahead and mess with the food. More of a

626
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:50,639
Speaker 1: statement than a question. Ahead, David, Yeah, what do you do?

627
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: You have any time to do anything off the off

628
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: the field? Do you? Uh? Are? You said you're tired?

629
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Speaker 1: You go home and I hear you on that. Do

630
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 1: you play video games? You watch movies? You gotta show

631
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 1: that you watch? Yeah, so I do play video games,

632
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Speaker 1: So I watch movies sometimes. So I like to go

633
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: out to eat sometimes. Yeah. Any suggestions for people movies?

634
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: You watched, video games you really like? Oh? So I

635
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 1: played two k Okay Mad and that was probably my

636
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 1: top two. I play a little car, dude, I don't

637
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:23,760
Speaker 1: still trying to get into it. Um, movies, So I've

638
00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: been watching the Top Top Gun Maverick. Yeah. Um. Actually

639
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: Austin had told me about the movie to watch it,

640
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:35,159
Speaker 1: so I've just been watching it. Um, I'm catching up

641
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: on the Creed because another Creed about to come out.

642
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: Ye yeah, it's really it. And like basketball seams starting up,

643
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: so I watch a few basketball games there. Now. Then

644
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: you got a team. I don't have a favorite team.

645
00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: I just like watching the game. Yeah, any players are Well,

646
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: you're a Lakers fan, so it's different. But if some

647
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: of your favorite players went somewhere, like if Kobe ever

648
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: played for whoever, would you have watched them? Of course?

649
00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: Of course any players you follow where you're like, Okay,

650
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 1: I'll watch the Sea or Braun final year, by the way,

651
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: but like someone else goes. I do like watching Lebron play.

652
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: I like watching Job Morunt, yes exceptional. I like watching Kawhi,

653
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 1: Leonard um Man, sell Me, David Booker, yea, some good guys. Man. Well,

654
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: look there's gonna be some good schedules, regular seasons, finally back.

655
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: Hopefully you find some downtime in between this big game

656
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: you got coming up to enjoy it and kick back

657
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: and relax a little bit. You've had a great start

658
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 1: to the season, man, all right, he is Charles Truss,

659
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: Charles Thank you so much for joining us. We really

660
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Coming up next, you guys on the huddle,

661
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: we are gonna hear from Gino Smith at the podium.

662
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere you are listening to the huddle, Let's

663
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: go here from Gino Smith at the podium. When you

664
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,320
Speaker 1: work back in, look some of the third downs from

665
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: the arizon A game. What did you see? Yeah, just

666
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,600
Speaker 1: looking at the third downs from Arizona, UM, you know,

667
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, a couple of plays we

668
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: just didn't execute the best. Uh. Some of those plays

669
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: obviously were like, you know, we're third down in the

670
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: red zone, you know, trying to score with the defense

671
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: backed up, you know, so they're basically giving us the

672
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: field goal. So you know, there's there's some different situations

673
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: in there, and obviously we're trying to score, you know,

674
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 1: and trying to you know, convert every single third down. UM,

675
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: and some of those things were execution things that we

676
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,040
Speaker 1: can do better, things that I can do better, and so,

677
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 1: you know, really just looking forward to cleaning those up.

678
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 1: The number of explosive plays by this team is among

679
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 1: the best in the NFL. What's gone into that? D

680
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: think I think obviously starts with great great play calling,

681
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: great you know scheming, and great plays by Shane, and

682
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 1: then just overall execution, starting with the protection, communications, starting

683
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: with Austin and going out to everyone else. Receivers getting open,

684
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: tight ends getting open me using my legs at times. Backs.

685
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,520
Speaker 1: We have some explosive runs as well, And so mainly

686
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: I just say it's a collective group thing. Everyone's pitching

687
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: in and and then having explosive players. We have a

688
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: bunch of those in getting those plays versus relying on

689
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: those plays during the course of the game. Yeah, that's

690
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: a great question. I think, Um, you know, it comes

691
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: you know, twofold man. Sometimes, Um, you have to rely

692
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: on them in order to win the game. And sometimes

693
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: they're pressing you, and um, they're not giving you the

694
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 1: underneath stuff, and so you have to go, you know,

695
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 1: take your shots. Other times, you know, it just happens

696
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: during the game and you're not necessarily trying to force it.

697
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: But they're giving you opportunities and looks and sometimes those

698
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: things happen. So for the most part, it just comes

699
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: down to taking what they give you. I think, like

700
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: I said, we have explosive players and that's allowed us

701
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,880
Speaker 1: to be explosive. He liked playing for the Chargers. Yes,

702
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: I did. Yes, if you having you were there when

703
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: the stadium was Yeah, that was cool, man, it was cool.

704
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: Uh you know the Spanos family and you know mister

705
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,600
Speaker 1: Chillsco and the gym, all those guys. Man, they welcome

706
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: me in for the short time house there. Uh was

707
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: actually tennis rookie year and uh, you know a bunch

708
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: of the guys are still on the team. But I

709
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. It was a real good organization. Do you

710
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: know Kenneth Walker, how do you see him embracing his opportunity,

711
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: Like if you can, I like you when your first

712
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: song coming to camp. And now that he's a starter, Yeah,

713
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 1: kennetha is u. He's continuing to grow. Man. Um, young

714
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: man's got all the ability in the world. Um. He

715
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: works hard, he studies, he does all the things the

716
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: right way. He wants. He's a sponge. He wants to

717
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: be really good and um, you know, I just expect

718
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: him to continue to grow and blossom. Man, he's out

719
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: there just you know, doing some amazing things on the field.

720
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: He's hard to tackle, he's sad, he's strong. Um, he

721
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: brings a lot to the game, and so we're going

722
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: to continue to get him going, and I think he'll

723
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: help us out. Your head when you see him make

724
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: that jump cut in front of you and get out

725
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: to the wing on that run last week and now

726
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: it's an oh crap, I gotta block somebody. Yeah, it's fine, man.

727
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just finishing, finishing the boot action, you know,

728
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 1: just doing my part, trying to pull somebody out of there,

729
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: and he bounces it, and you know, I become his

730
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: lead blocker. That's you know, it's kind of its team ball,

731
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: you know, all eleven playing for one another and with

732
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: each other. So it's pretty cool. I mean I didn't

733
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 1: really get much of a block, but I at least

734
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: got in the way, you know for a photo back. Yeah,

735
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: just state just getting the way, but try to try

736
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: not to put your paths on anybody. The direct snap

737
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: to him is it was that just a great play

738
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,440
Speaker 1: call based on what the defense was giving you or

739
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: is there something about his skill set that makes that

740
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: work too? Yeah, it's it starts with starts with the

741
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: play calling. Shame came up with that during the week.

742
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: We said they would present some challenging looks up front.

743
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: And that's one. You know, you got all guys, all

744
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: eight guys up. You don't know who's blessing, who's coming,

745
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: who's dropping out. But the good thing about it is

746
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: that when you just snap it to Kim Walker and

747
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,800
Speaker 1: you got guys pulling out, guys coming on the edge. Um,

748
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: you know, he runs up in there, he gets you know,

749
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: seventeen eighteen yards and it makes the decordinated think twice

750
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: about you know, getting into that package. If you think

751
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: it an acting job that you didn't, then I was

752
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: all right, you know, b minus you know, I could

753
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: probably do a little better, but it was all right.

754
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: You know, I think I got the job done. So

755
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 1: that's all that really matters. During the commentary on the

756
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: team meeting on that one on direction, uh not much,

757
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: not much. I don't think you know, guys were sold

758
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: really with my acting job. It was more so they

759
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: were they're blown away about what Kim was doing, his

760
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: running ability and you know, making guy's myths more so

761
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: than what I was doing back there. What do you

762
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: expect from their defense? Oh, you know, they have a

763
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: really good defense. Um, you know, I expect them to

764
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: be physical. They got great guys up front Khalil mack Um,

765
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: Sebastian Joseph Day who we've seen with the rams Um.

766
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: You know, they got a bunch of guys up front.

767
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: Obviously Joey's out, but they still have capable guys. Their

768
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: linebackers are young and fast, they fly around, they hit.

769
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: You got Darren James and the back back end who's

770
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: a really good, really good safety, one of the better

771
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,319
Speaker 1: safeties in the league, jac Jackson who they just signed over,

772
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: one of the better corners, a guy who's really you know,

773
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: known for taking away the ball, gets a lot of

774
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: interceptions and things like that. So they got guys all over.

775
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: It's gonna be another challenge. Uh, And I think we're

776
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: up to the challenge. You know, we just got to

777
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: be on our game, come out playing fast and playing together.

778
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,399
Speaker 1: When the team runs as much of a certain cover,

779
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 1: like they looks like they run a ton of man coverage.

780
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: When a team does that, is it common at all

781
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 1: for them to totally change their stripes or do they

782
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: they typically stick with that? Oh? I mean, they can

783
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: do whatever they want. You know, it's it's up to them.

784
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 1: It's up to the coordinator and how they scheme. You know,

785
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: we can't say what they're gonna do exactly once the

786
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,439
Speaker 1: game starts. I'll let you know when the game starts

787
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: what they're doing. But on film, they do play a

788
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: ton of Man. Teams who have played Man haven't done

789
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: that to us so far, but you never know. I mean,

790
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: they can like their guys, their matchups and go out

791
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: there and play Man every play or can come with

792
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: a totally new scheme and do something different than we've

793
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: seen and it's really up to us communicating and just

794
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,360
Speaker 1: being on the same page and doing the right thing

795
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: out there. Just a testament of DK and Tyler's talents

796
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: that teams that play a lot of Man. I think

797
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,240
Speaker 1: it's all our talents man, not just DK and Tyler.

798
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: But you know, you got you got no a fan,

799
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 1: you got you know, Marquis, you got d. I mean,

800
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,400
Speaker 1: all those guys are good out there. And you know,

801
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:43,360
Speaker 1: when you put guys in one on one situations, you

802
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 1: can only double one or two guys and then the

803
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:47,800
Speaker 1: rest of the guys and basically and cover zero. So

804
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: I think, um, you know, I don't know what they're

805
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: going to do until the game starts, but they do

806
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: play a ton of Man, and you know, they also

807
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: play a ton of zone, so we just have to

808
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: go out there and assess what they're doing and make

809
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 1: place team that really stayed with Man throughout. I would say,

810
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: you know, they mixed it in Detroit. Wasn't Man on

811
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: every single down, but they mixed it and they probably

812
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: played it more so than any other team has played us.

813
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, we can expect Man in certain situations,

814
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: you know, because they kind of have to. But you know,

815
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: they'll they'll they'll mix it in. They mix coverages and

816
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: and and try and do their best job to you know,

817
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 1: keep us, keep our you know, keep us confusing, not

818
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: let them know what what not let us know what

819
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 1: they're doing. He was talking about D's development just kind

820
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:33,759
Speaker 1: of near too. He's starting to get a lot uncomfortable.

821
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: What have you seen out of him, you know, this season?

822
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: But even in the last couple of weeks. Yeah, Man,

823
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: D and I have been studying together. Man, I've been

824
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: talking to D like every day. Man, I think what

825
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: he's doing and how he's coming along. It's so tremendous

826
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,200
Speaker 1: because he's got all the physical, physical tools, all the

827
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,440
Speaker 1: talent in the world. He can make all the plays

828
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: um and mentally, he's the game's slowing down for him,

829
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: and you can see when the balls in his hands,

830
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 1: he's dyna dynamic. Uh. And as the game continues to

831
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: slow down, he's gonna play that much faster and be

832
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: that much better. Having worked with Tyler Lockett now for

833
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 1: a couple of years, why do you think he's so

834
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: effective and finding a way to get open as often

835
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: as he does? You know what I think, man, I

836
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: mean for a real estate agent. You know, guys are

837
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: probably underestimating him. Man, he's one of the best. He's

838
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: one of the better receivers that getting separations I've been around.

839
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,200
Speaker 1: He's fast, he's probably faster than people think. He's savvy,

840
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: he knows the coverages, he knows how to get open,

841
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: win and get open. And he's got great hands, you know, great,

842
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,280
Speaker 1: great concentration catch his balls, you know, crazy passes, tracks

843
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: the balls as well as any anybody I've ever seen. So,

844
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: and he's just a great human being, you know, all around,

845
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 1: just a great guy. So Tyler is definitely one of

846
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: my favorite teammates. And you know, he just does a

847
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: great job every single week. You know, all right, what

848
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 1: we like so much from the Seahawks against the Cardinals,

849
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: and what do they need to do to get a

850
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 1: win against the LA Chargers. Let's ask Loafa to Tupoo.

851
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: He joins us next on the huddle. This is the

852
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpe, Stacy Ross and right

853
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 1: now Lofa to Tupoo. Loaf. We are so excited to

854
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: have you, first of all. Secondly, especially excited to have

855
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: you as we recap a Seahawks win and then preview

856
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: a big opportunity against the Chargers. I'm gonna start with

857
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:14,479
Speaker 1: last week, what the defense do so well against the Cardinals? Hey,

858
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Yeah, I mean they look

859
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: great in all phases of the game, you know. I

860
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: mean even the one touchdown was on the Botch special

861
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:27,399
Speaker 1: team snap or didn't get the kickoff, but the punk

862
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: and so other than that, I was really pleased with

863
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: how he played all around turnovers. These young corners, I've

864
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: been talking about them on my own podcast for the

865
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,879
Speaker 1: last several weeks that they're just continually to stag great

866
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: performances together, and so you got to be excited what

867
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: you see, I mean from this whole draft class, you know,

868
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: getting those two guys the two starting tackles, and you

869
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: know Kenneth Walker doing what he did. There was so

870
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: much good stuff going on. And then Gino playing lights

871
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: out again lofa. Obviously the defense has had his struggles.

872
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: They gotta together against the Arizona Cardinals. How important is

873
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: it or how likely is it that they take that energy,

874
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 1: the discipline, the effort that they played against the Arizona

875
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: Cardinals and transferred over to LA against the Chargers. Oh,

876
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 1: it's huge. You gotta make progress, you know, you gotta

877
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: stack stack another great performance together, especially they essentially shut

878
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: down the Cardinals. They I think the Russian yards yet

879
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: you know Kyler others hundred yards, which it's a lot

880
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,920
Speaker 1: to a quarterback, but I think forty or fifty came

881
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,480
Speaker 1: on one run. Other than that, they did try to

882
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: run I think eighteen or twenty times with Benjamin and Ingram,

883
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: and I don't think either of them have had even

884
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: three yards you know, average for the day. So really

885
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 1: pleased with that. And then when you make them one fastest,

886
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: you know, like we always say, bump when we go

887
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 1: into the defense. You got to stop the run and

888
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: not give up the big play. And you know we

889
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: were forcing them to take shots down the field and

890
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: that's when you saw Roland come away with his fourth pick,

891
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: sixth turnover on the season. Still a few explosive plays there, Loaf,

892
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: you know where you know they're they're letting him out

893
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: of the to the outside, to the edge and things

894
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,799
Speaker 1: like that. But what did you see specifically? We were

895
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: just talking about Money the play where he takes the

896
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: center and puts him four yards deep in the backfield,

897
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 1: and it just seemed like they were more confident and

898
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: sure of what they were doing up front. Oh yeah,

899
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: they got after him up front. Um, you know Money Puna,

900
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,959
Speaker 1: you know he ragged all that center for that sack

901
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: that he got. That was huge. So um, you know,

902
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,799
Speaker 1: I think just you're playing together, the discipline and then

903
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 1: you know gap integrity which we talked about before, Dave.

904
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 1: That's huge, you know, trusting each other to make their

905
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: play and then let force the game to come to you,

906
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,839
Speaker 1: not go chasing chasing ghosts so to speak out there. So, um,

907
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: you know, love the way they all chipped in. I

908
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: think we had four or five sacks that that was huge,

909
00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: And um yeah who else that jeffer Son and you

910
00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: know Harris played well too. And we didn't even have

911
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,839
Speaker 1: Alt Woods out there. Big al Man. That's that's been

912
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: our best player so far on defense this year. Hey,

913
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, and I'm going to talk with

914
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 1: these two about it later at one thirty. But lofa

915
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: while we have you, I'm going to talk to you

916
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: about it. I'm a little nervous even after a good

917
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: performance about this defense against Justin Herbert. I mean, what's

918
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 1: going to be some keys for them? Yeah, I mean

919
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: just they really they do a great job of getting

920
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:31,080
Speaker 1: the big play, and so you know with the receivers,

921
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,359
Speaker 1: you know, Mike Williams and they know there's a couple

922
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: others that are coming to buy right now. I haven't

923
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: got to watch a ton of them. But he's got

924
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: the arm talent to go sixty seventy yards if he

925
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: wants to, so staying up top, keeping everything in front

926
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: of them, and then rallying and then just keep getting

927
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 1: these turnovers. Kobe Bryant with his third forced fumble, It's insane,

928
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: you know, just you can really you can really damage,

929
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, or swing the odds in your favorite to win.

930
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: I forget the correlation. Pete had some crazy stat to

931
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: day when we win the turnover battle. I think it

932
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: was like fifty two or fifty three in in or

933
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: fifty three and one. There might have been one loss

934
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: out of those fifty four plus matchups that that we

935
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: didn't come away with the win. So just keep getting

936
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: these turnovers by the bunches and uh and you know,

937
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: get off the field and give give Geno on that

938
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: offense some more opportunities. But yeah, I definitely got their

939
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 1: work cut out for them with with Herbert and uh

940
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:26,879
Speaker 1: and his ability. And then also I can't forget about

941
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 1: aquiler Man. He's he's pretty special. Hey, loaf, we are

942
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: excuse me both answered the seventh week of the NFL season. Um,

943
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,439
Speaker 1: what's your what's your assessment of that that LB group

944
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 1: so far? I think that, you know, yeah, they've had

945
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:42,280
Speaker 1: some struggles here and there. I think really the biggest

946
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: thing is because they can both run and hit. Man.

947
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: I love watching Barton and Brooks do that. So, uh,

948
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 1: just the communication aspect, you know, clean that up a

949
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,320
Speaker 1: little bit, whether it's you know, talking with Diggs on

950
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: the back end and making sure that um, things that

951
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: you know aren't supposed to get passed off don't get

952
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 1: passed off and we we play with the vision, I

953
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: think they'll be fine and they can clean that out.

954
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: That's a small fix, and they really did a great

955
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: job of this past week. You didn't see guys just

956
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: wide open across the middle as we've we've come to

957
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:13,799
Speaker 1: see the first five weeks. Hey, look, I did. As

958
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 1: far as taken on blocks, there's always kind of a

959
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: fine line between, you know, and it looked like the

960
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: timing was kind of off in the in the run

961
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: game especially, it seemed to me like, you know, the

962
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: the guard was getting to the linebacker about the same

963
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: time as the ball like that, the timing was just

964
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: kind of off. But you know, as far as like

965
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: when you used to play, I mean, you know, every

966
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:36,720
Speaker 1: once in a while you can go under a block

967
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,319
Speaker 1: and swim it, but for the most part, you've got

968
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,439
Speaker 1: to you've got to take blocks on and just that part,

969
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: that specific part of the run game that you've seen

970
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: with with Brooks and Barton, when he is in there,

971
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: he's he's his product or not production, but his playing

972
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: times really tailed off the last few They've gone with

973
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of dime and stuff like that.

974
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 1: But yeah, what are you seeing from from them and

975
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,879
Speaker 1: then you know when you played, what was your kind

976
00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 1: of strategy as far as taken on blockers. You know,

977
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: it's all perspective, and you know that from playing the

978
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: position day. If I watched you playing and you were

979
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: a heat teak invesselent man, I got that. I got

980
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: the whole highlight take if you guys want to see it.

981
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,760
Speaker 1: It was all these goal line hits and and shooting

982
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: the gaps and making tackles the loss. But you don't

983
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: want to take on a block if you don't have to.

984
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: So for instance, like you said, if that guard comes up,

985
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: there's a nose or a three technique or a tackle

986
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: replacing that gap. So now you can, you know, with

987
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 1: seeing the vision of the running back where his or

988
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 1: his shoulders turned as he turned to the sideline like

989
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 1: sprinting out, you can temple it and you could stay

990
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: inside out behind the ball because you don't want to

991
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 1: overrun it. And then you know you can find your

992
00:44:46,400 --> 00:44:49,320
Speaker 1: gap or in the next place you know, to fill space.

993
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: And that's that's really what it comes down to, is

994
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 1: timing and knowing when to take the shot. And so

995
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: I think the new scheme has probably created a little

996
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: bit of a problem for them in terms of you know,

997
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,239
Speaker 1: knowing when it time to go. But um, at the

998
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: end of the day, you know, you got to be

999
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,920
Speaker 1: a football player. So when you see you see open space,

1000
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 1: you know, go ahead and fill it and then you know,

1001
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: chase to the ball. And that's really what it comes

1002
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: down to you. But if you do have to take

1003
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,320
Speaker 1: on a block, you must use your hands. And I

1004
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: think that's the you know, the thing that I think

1005
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagner, you know, outside of maybe called banks because

1006
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: I'm talking about you know, smaller linebackers in terms of

1007
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: like two forty five or under, the guys that those

1008
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: are the two guys that I've watched film on, you know,

1009
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: repeatedly in the past, and how amazing they were at

1010
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: their hands. There was never a block they couldn't get off, uh,

1011
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: And that that was really what if if I could

1012
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: you know, tell these guys anything, man, may just go

1013
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: take check that tape out because it'll show you how

1014
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,839
Speaker 1: to stay alive in the play to at least uh

1015
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 1: less than the bleeding of a big run. But but also, uh,

1016
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: you know, Jordan, Jordan does a phenomenal job and when

1017
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: he sees the opportunity striking and shooting the gap. So

1018
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 1: I think it's come them together nicely and then they'll

1019
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: find their way in the scheme. Last week was a

1020
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: it was a great, um, you know, mark of progress,

1021
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: and so just you know, something to keep an eye

1022
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: on going forward. I'm gonna put you on the spot

1023
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: with some predictions. You don't have to get the score

1024
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: exactly right, but two interesting games given our conversation today,

1025
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: the Cardinals against the Saints tonight for Thursday Night Football,

1026
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:22,320
Speaker 1: and of course on Sunday you're going to see the

1027
00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 1: Seahawks take on the Chargers. Any predictions for the winners

1028
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: of those two contests. Let's go thanks and let's go Hawks. There.

1029
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: I like it. Yeah, I can't wait to watch the

1030
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: night's game though, you know, because yeah, I mean I

1031
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:42,719
Speaker 1: think Cardinals two and four, the Saints, they got they

1032
00:46:42,800 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: got some weapons over there, and I would venture to

1033
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 1: guess that Taysom Hill is going to be getting more

1034
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: and more carries as the season goes on, um, you know,

1035
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 1: with after what we saw he did against us, and

1036
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 1: I mean, here's such a big part of that offense.

1037
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: Back when when they had Drew Brees Bill, they you know,

1038
00:46:58,360 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: they would mix them in more. And so I was

1039
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: prize before our game that we hadn't seen more attempts

1040
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: are carries by him. Yeah, yeah, he is lofa tatupoo

1041
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 1: lofa We're so happy to have you on today ahead

1042
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,319
Speaker 1: of this game to to give us some insight into

1043
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:13,800
Speaker 1: the defense and a little bit of a preview for

1044
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,280
Speaker 1: the Chargers. And uh and yeah, go Saints, Go Hawks.

1045
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. I like I like those odds.

1046
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, love, I appreciate take care. See. Yeah,

1047
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 1: all right, he was lofa tatupoo kind enough to join

1048
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: us on the huddle. Don't go anywhere. We've got more

1049
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: voices coming your way next, starting with Steve Rabel, the

1050
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 1: Voice of the Seahawks. This is the huddle. You are

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Speaker 1: listening to the huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumps, and

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Speaker 1: Stacy Ross joining us now on the Ameral Quincasino Sports

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Speaker 1: Book Collline. It is Steve Rabel, the Voice of the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks and Raves. I gotta say, I was so pleasantly

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Speaker 1: surprised by the seahawks defensive efforts last week against the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. What they do so well well, I think

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Speaker 1: they did just about everything better than they have the

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Speaker 1: last the five weeks previous. But I think mostly it's

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Speaker 1: I mean, Pete does not come right out and say this,

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Speaker 1: but some of the players have and basically Pete is

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Speaker 1: hinted at this, and that is they just sort of

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Speaker 1: change their their ideas about those guys up front especially,

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Speaker 1: and that is, find a way to put more pressure upfront,

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Speaker 1: and if that means just having a single gap responsibility

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Speaker 1: and just taking off and making trouble upfront as a

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Speaker 1: defensive lineman and then letting your linebackers read and react

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Speaker 1: after that, whatever it was, and I think that had

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Speaker 1: a lot to do with it. Admit, there was much

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Speaker 1: better pressure by the front three and usually you know,

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Speaker 1: the front three means four and sometimes five in the

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Speaker 1: past rush for the Seahawks, So that all worked. The

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Speaker 1: increased pressure made it a little more difficult for the

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Speaker 1: receiver's down field you get a pick, you know. And

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Speaker 1: I think just by virtue of the fact Stacy that

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Speaker 1: they played better and all of that, you know, guys

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Speaker 1: are playing tough and hard and making plays defensively. Everything

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Speaker 1: just seemed to happen right for the Seattle defense last weekend.

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Speaker 1: Ray At first, I just want to say I'm disappointed

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Speaker 1: you were here live in in person last week. So

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Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna walk through the door. How about

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Speaker 1: my guy? But uh, I guess we'll make this work. Raves. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well I'm you know, I'm in a home. I got

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Speaker 1: socks I have to wash and things like that. Well,

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Speaker 1: my only complaint is I think he wore shorts in here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was disturbed. Hey, so if you can wear shorts

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Speaker 1: through October into November, then you were a true Northwesterner,

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Speaker 1: right right, Hey Raves, let's let's talk about this offense.

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Speaker 1: A couple of weeks now, they have not been as

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Speaker 1: efficient as we were used to seeing on third down.

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Speaker 1: How do they get back to their old ways? Well,

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Speaker 1: good question. Um, I think you keep doing what you're doing,

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Speaker 1: and that is you run the offense the way it's designed.

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Speaker 1: You know, hand it to to Arizona. They've been doing

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Speaker 1: it since since Dave was a pup, in fact, and

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Speaker 1: that is the way they can kind of run some

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Speaker 1: crazy stuff, sometimes unfound stuff. Load up the line of

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Speaker 1: scrimmage with eight guys and then pull five of them

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Speaker 1: back at the snap of the ball, and you got

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Speaker 1: to sort them all out right at the end. Made

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Speaker 1: it tough on those young tackles, I think a little

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Speaker 1: bit so. But you just keep doing what you're doing,

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Speaker 1: and that is having Geno read throw the football. I

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Speaker 1: think Arizona too, had some pretty good coverage schemes against

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Speaker 1: DK and Tyler opens up your your tight ends a

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Speaker 1: little bit more. Perhaps, you know, Los Angeles. I almost

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Speaker 1: said San Diego, perhaps a day. I know, I know

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Speaker 1: I've already been told I'll be excommunicated from the booth

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Speaker 1: if I do it this weekend. Yeah, they're sensitive about that,

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Speaker 1: by the way, because during the Davy broadcast in the

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Speaker 1: preseason I did with Kurt Menefee, I guess the owner

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Speaker 1: was listening to the broadcast and was like, hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I got word to knock it off and that

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Speaker 1: was an accident. But man, well I just I just

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Speaker 1: think that that, you know, continue doing what you're doing

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Speaker 1: and continue to get the ball. Uh. To Ken Walker

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Speaker 1: the third, because he really has proven now even in

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Speaker 1: just this early, this early opportunity with the Seahawks as

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Speaker 1: a rookie, that he's the real deal. He can run

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Speaker 1: the football and UH and I expect to see him

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Speaker 1: run it well this weekend. What's uh, look at the

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Speaker 1: NFC West Ribs, It's it's pretty surprising, Like I thought

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Speaker 1: San Francisco was a much better team than three and three,

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Speaker 1: and then same thing with the with the Rams's uh,

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Speaker 1: what's kind of surprise? I mean, is that a surprise

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Speaker 1: to you or do you think? I mean, because it's

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Speaker 1: you look at the rest of the league, like Philly's

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Speaker 1: really good, that the Jets are actually pretty decent. So

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Speaker 1: but as far as the NFC West goes, what what's

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Speaker 1: your take? Yeah, well, and and again you know, some

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Speaker 1: of those teams, like you talked about the Jets, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you just can't continually draft high every single year and

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Speaker 1: get a lot the first round draft picks and high

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Speaker 1: first rounders and not eventually do better. So I think

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things that had them go. Plus

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Speaker 1: solom really is is a pretty darn good coach, and

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Speaker 1: he knows how to coach players and not just you know,

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Speaker 1: not just formations and tactics and that sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: As far as the West is concerned, yeah, I was

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Speaker 1: a little bit surprised about the Rams, but their offensive

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Speaker 1: line has been such a mess. Uh, you know, Wentworth

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Speaker 1: retired after the Super Bowl and they've been trying to

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Speaker 1: put the put the group together. Guys have been hurt,

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Speaker 1: they've had receiver issues so and quite frankly, Stafford hasn't

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Speaker 1: been as sharp as as he was a season ago.

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Speaker 1: And the forty nine ers, I still think, because of

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Speaker 1: their defense more than anything, is the team to kind

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Speaker 1: of beat in the NFC West. And are we as

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Speaker 1: surprise Yeah to everybody else, perhaps in the league, but

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Speaker 1: certainly not the Peat and his players. They knew what

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Speaker 1: they had and they believe in it, and I think

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Speaker 1: they believe they're only going to get better as the

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Speaker 1: season goes on. They've kept it to the NFC West,

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Speaker 1: but I want to step outside of the West. Is

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Speaker 1: am I just imagining it? Or is there more parody

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Speaker 1: in the NFL this year? And if there is, why

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Speaker 1: do you think that is? Well, it always shows up

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Speaker 1: fairly early on. I mean we're only six games in

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Speaker 1: and so you know, for the teams to really start

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Speaker 1: separating themselves, let's figure halfway or three quarters of the

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Speaker 1: way through the season. So yeah, you're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: lot of teams that are kind of at five hundred

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Speaker 1: right now, and or either a game above or a

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Speaker 1: game below. So you know, it's really tough to kind

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Speaker 1: of tell at this point. But once the season gets

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Speaker 1: going and once teams have to start dealing with injuries

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Speaker 1: on a regular basis, I mean it looks it seems

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Speaker 1: like everybody's already doing that. I know the Chargers have

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Speaker 1: their share. We certainly have our share of losing our

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Speaker 1: starting running back, losing perhaps our most dynamic defensive player.

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Speaker 1: But that just goes with the territory. Everybody's going to

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Speaker 1: have to deal with that. So yeah, I'd say, given

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Speaker 1: another three or four weeks and then let's really see

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Speaker 1: where where teams are, it'll start sorting itself out. Raves,

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Speaker 1: there's something you still need to see from the defense.

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Speaker 1: Obviously they had one good game, six sacks, six different

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Speaker 1: players in a session for his fumble, Are you still

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Speaker 1: looking to see something from this defense? Yeah, do it again,

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Speaker 1: right again. By the time, that consistency is what Pete

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Speaker 1: is looking for. He's not looking for just coming in

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Speaker 1: against the Cardinals, putting up some numbers and then and

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Speaker 1: then kind of going back to, you know, giving up

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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty yards a game on the ground.

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Speaker 1: You can't do that. And this is the kind of

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Speaker 1: offense in the Chargers with Austin Eckler. He's a break

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Speaker 1: tackle kind of guy and he'll get one hundred yards

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Speaker 1: on you before you know what happened. So they're going

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Speaker 1: to have to continue to do what they did and

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Speaker 1: improve on that bump I think every week. And that's

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Speaker 1: what the pete is in this business to do, is

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Speaker 1: get guys to improve from week to week. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's see some consistency now out of that. And again,

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Speaker 1: if they can continue this consistency up front, then that

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Speaker 1: will translate into the into the back end with I

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Speaker 1: think better coverage, more passes, defense, perhaps more interceptions we

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Speaker 1: certainly hope, and get off the field on third down

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Speaker 1: so that your offense can get out there and score

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Speaker 1: more points. Well, this is the third week Raves we

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Speaker 1: were talking about earlier with Game seven, the third time

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Speaker 1: we're we're facing a team with kicker problems and it's

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Speaker 1: just the guy and Detroit was all over the place.

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Speaker 1: We saw Amandla last week, and what in the world

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Speaker 1: has gone on? How does the kicker get hurt? Anyways? Well,

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Speaker 1: you know that's not and I guests injured himself on

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Speaker 1: his first kick, right his handspring and and kick the

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Speaker 1: rest of the game and made field goals with a

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Speaker 1: bad ammy. So you know, more power to him. You

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Speaker 1: don't like kickers just as a rule. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you could tell by his question, Well said he

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Speaker 1: pulled his hamstring. I'm like, how does he pull his

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Speaker 1: hamstring by kicking? Dave? Well, oh, there's there's a I.

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Speaker 1: And you know, these guys are more muscled than they

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Speaker 1: used to be. You know, they were just kind of

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Speaker 1: the skinny soccer players back in the day. Now they're

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Speaker 1: they're kind of football players. And Dustin Hopkins a kid

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Speaker 1: from the Chargers. You know, he's a big kid. He's

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Speaker 1: six two hun pounds, um, and it just happens day

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Speaker 1: for crying out loud, it just happens. So we knew

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Speaker 1: and me and I hope he gets well and I

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Speaker 1: hope he has a great career, you know, but I hope.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's playing this week certainly, and uh

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Speaker 1: and that's a good thing for the Seahawks, all right.

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Speaker 1: He is a voice of the Seahawks, Steve Rabel. You

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Speaker 1: can hear him on the call this weekend. He'll be

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Speaker 1: on there with Dave Wyman as well. Thanks so much, Rapes.

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Speaker 1: All right, take care? All right? Coming up next an

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Speaker 1: opponent preview. Who are the Chargers and where the keys

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Speaker 1: to win for the Seahawks. That's next. You are listening

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Speaker 1: to the huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpus, and Stacy Ross.

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Speaker 1: Now we're going to take a look ahead with an

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Speaker 1: opponent preview. This one of the Los Angeles Chargers. I've

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Speaker 1: been reminded to emphasize the story, don't get fined, don't

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Speaker 1: get in trouble. It's not San Diego anymore. Okay, what

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Speaker 1: even is San Diego? No, no, no, it's the LA Chargers.

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Speaker 1: The Chargers are a tough opponent. Now, at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the season, you would have said, you know, this

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Speaker 1: is a wildcard contender, maybe the second third best team

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Speaker 1: in the AFC West. They've got a fantastic quarterback, a

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Speaker 1: lot of offensive weapons, a good defense, but still some

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Speaker 1: question marks. So a couple things to consider with this one.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with a head coach, former defensive minded guy.

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Speaker 1: We didn't talk about this earlier when we were doing

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a look ahead. Brandon Staley goes

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Speaker 1: for it on fourth down more than any other head

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Speaker 1: coach in the NFL. So when I say this is

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Speaker 1: really going to be an all four downs battle for

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks, it will be. It's one thing to struggle

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Speaker 1: defensively on third down with a guy who's willing to

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Speaker 1: go for it in so many instances where other coaches won't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, bump, I'll start with you. Suddenly you're looking

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Speaker 1: at a challenge where you're going to have even more

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Speaker 1: opportunities here well, as tere Wollen would say, shoe, the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals went for five times last week fourth down, So

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Speaker 1: these guys should be familiar with it. And here's what

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Speaker 1: aggressive play calling can do for you. Can set you

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Speaker 1: up right, because if you're going for it on fourth down,

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Speaker 1: most of the time you're in the opponent side of

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Speaker 1: the field and you get you're getting some momentum you're

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00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 1: trying to push the ball forward. But if you don't

1259
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: get that, then it's demoralizing at a time. So we'll

1260
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 1: see how aggressive he's going to be. I've been trying

1261
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,440
Speaker 1: to figure out the charges right there, four and two seconds.

1262
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:42,919
Speaker 1: In the AFC West, they beat the Raiders, they lost

1263
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: it to Chiefs, lost it to Jaguars, BA to Houston,

1264
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 1: barely get by Cleveland, barely get by the Denver Broncos.

1265
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: We talk about all the stuff that they have on

1266
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:54,440
Speaker 1: offense and on defense, but for some point, I mean,

1267
00:58:54,480 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 1: for some reason, it's been a little shaky. But they've

1268
00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: won three games in a row. So let's see how

1269
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 1: aggressive I'm Staley is going to be. And I'm sure

1270
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: they're looking at the Seahawks, Dave and saying, this is

1271
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: a game that we can get. Yeah, And you know,

1272
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:10,440
Speaker 1: I've been very surprised by the defense because you know,

1273
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 1: Brandon Staley in a in a bad way. Because Brandon

1274
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:17,919
Speaker 1: Staley with the Rams was so good and I thought,

1275
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 1: you know, he's going to go down there take that

1276
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 1: defense there, because they had they were top three or

1277
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 1: four in every category with the RAMS, and you know

1278
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: they're eighteenth, twenty third and eighteenth and total defense twenty

1279
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 1: third against the run. Just you know, just kind of

1280
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 1: surprising to me. And you know, I was telling Bump,

1281
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: I was looking at their coaching staff and it looks

1282
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 1: like he hired a bunch of nerds because he is

1283
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:41,920
Speaker 1: kind of he's kind of one of those football nerds

1284
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:43,920
Speaker 1: I would call and I'm saying that affectionately because like

1285
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:48,560
Speaker 1: Shane Walton, you know, is that Andy Dickerson, you know, yeah,

1286
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: and and and I like that, and I like the

1287
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: way he thinks, and I like his strategy and everything.

1288
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: So but you're right bumped to point out, you know,

1289
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: I mean, Kyler Murray's he's a mass man. There's a

1290
00:59:58,760 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 1: lot of question marks in the end NFL right now.

1291
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe we say this every year, but like,

1292
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 1: who in the hell is Kyler Murray right now? What?

1293
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: You know? What? What kind of player is he? They

1294
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 1: just gave him a huge contract. You know. Russell Russell's

1295
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 1: having a tough year. Man. I was watching the second

1296
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 1: half of the game, just you know, watching the Chargers

1297
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 1: and Troy Aikman was all over Russell Wilson, you know,

1298
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 1: like he should have you know, picked up that blitz

1299
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,919
Speaker 1: and you know, thrown it away or whatever. So, yeah,

1300
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 1: there's just lots of lots of mysteries mentioned. The Jets

1301
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 1: are good, you know, like Rabel said, though it's early, yeah,

1302
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:32,600
Speaker 1: but you know this is a this is one of

1303
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 1: those teams. I looked on the on the schedule and thought, yeah,

1304
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a tough one. It's not like they

1305
01:00:37,080 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 1: have some huge home field advantage down there. But you know,

1306
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 1: I thought with Justin Herbert and Derwin James and Bosa

1307
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: and he's injured, Um, they've they've got all kinds of

1308
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 1: really good players. And you know, I mean they're four

1309
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:53,160
Speaker 1: and two, but like you said, it could easily be

1310
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 1: who have been three? Right? Um? You mentioned you know

1311
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: when we look back against the Cardinals or even weak

1312
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 1: one against the Broncos, saying who he is Russell Wilson,

1313
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:02,800
Speaker 1: who even is Kyler Murray this year? And in that

1314
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 1: being a conversation we're having at large, whether it's about quarterbacks,

1315
01:01:05,920 --> 01:01:09,040
Speaker 1: whether it's about parody, if we're looking at just the Chargers,

1316
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:11,480
Speaker 1: I feel like I know who Justin Herbert is, but

1317
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 1: I'm not always seeing it or reflected the offense as

1318
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 1: a whole in their win loss column. I'll start with you,

1319
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:21,280
Speaker 1: David in Ump. You can sound off on this too,

1320
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:23,200
Speaker 1: because I want to spend some time on this Chargers offense.

1321
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 1: What kind of player? Who is Justin Herbert? And who

1322
01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 1: is this offense? Yeah? A good question, because not a

1323
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 1: great question, but a good question. I'm glad you can

1324
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 1: clarify that. Yeah, But you know, I guess I'm disappointed.

1325
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 1: I suppose in him because I thought his rookie year,

1326
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it was pretty rough, but he finished the

1327
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 1: last four games with four wins, and you know, he

1328
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 1: ended up having eight touchdowns and only one interception, So

1329
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: I thought, hey, man, this kid, you know, he's really

1330
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 1: going to go. The other thing about him is he's

1331
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 1: a big dude that can run. You know, he's he's

1332
01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 1: pretty good running the ball. So yeah, I'd say he's

1333
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 1: a little on the disappointing side. And I don't look

1334
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: at him as being like, oh man, we're gonna have

1335
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 1: to face John Elway this weekend or anything like that.

1336
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: I just think, you know, I don't know if it's

1337
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 1: a down year. I don't know if he's gonna maybe

1338
01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 1: not be the player that I thought he would his

1339
01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 1: rookie year. Do you see a few more weaknesses than expected,

1340
01:02:17,280 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 1: or do you see a lot of weapons? I see

1341
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: a lot of weapons. And you know what's crazy, Dave,

1342
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:26,040
Speaker 1: I have the same feeling you have about Justin Herbert,

1343
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 1: like he's not the guy that we saw last year.

1344
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 1: And then I look him up, I'm like, all right,

1345
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:33,919
Speaker 1: seventeen hundred yards, ten touchdowns, three interceptions, Like he still

1346
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:36,960
Speaker 1: has good numbers, but it doesn't look the same way

1347
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 1: it did when he ended the season last year. And

1348
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:45,880
Speaker 1: a guy like him is on the verge of blowing

1349
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,000
Speaker 1: up at any minute. You know. He has that much

1350
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 1: talent and that much talent around him that he's like

1351
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:54,240
Speaker 1: a volcano that's that's ready to erupt. He's ready to go.

1352
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:57,600
Speaker 1: So you gotta respect everybody in this league, and especially

1353
01:02:57,680 --> 01:02:59,840
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert when he has all those weapons over there

1354
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,760
Speaker 1: and they protect him and they take their shots. So

1355
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: we were just talking to Ryan Neil and I agree

1356
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: completely with them, Like it's going to be on the

1357
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 1: back end. You know, the back end's gonna help the box.

1358
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 1: If they can cover tight on the back end and

1359
01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: give this defensive line, then these linebackers time to get

1360
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:16,920
Speaker 1: after the quarterback where they protect. So well, um, it

1361
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 1: could be. It could be a good one. Well, I

1362
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:20,360
Speaker 1: wonder you got to bring it though? When you sorry

1363
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 1: stays up to cut up, I was gonna say, you

1364
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 1: gotta bring it though. He's six six twos Justin Herbert.

1365
01:03:26,640 --> 01:03:28,959
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, big boy. Isn't that funny? I mean because

1366
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:32,320
Speaker 1: you watch him any tight end, Yeah exactly, You forget

1367
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 1: how big he is. Yeah, how a little difference from

1368
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: last week j and Kyler Murray Row. Do you think

1369
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 1: we're looking at maybe a shootout or because that's kind

1370
01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:42,800
Speaker 1: of been either, That's been the tone of a lot

1371
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 1: of their games. And I'm just wondering. The reason I

1372
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 1: ask is because for the first time in a while, Dave,

1373
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 1: I know you mentioned that they're randomly facing another team

1374
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 1: whose kicker is injured, but this this might be the

1375
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:55,600
Speaker 1: healthiest offense they've faced in a while. Um, they've kind

1376
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:57,920
Speaker 1: of gotten away with facing some offenses that have had,

1377
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's Detroit, whether it's the fell whether

1378
01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:03,840
Speaker 1: it's um, you know whoever, offenses that have had one

1379
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 1: or two guys down starters Detroit and New Orleans Bowls. Yeah, exactly.

1380
01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 1: I mean not only yeah, the kickers, but you're you're

1381
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:15,480
Speaker 1: not seeing all of these you know, they're they're best players. Detroit,

1382
01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 1: I think was the one that stood out the most.

1383
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift was out, and then their top two receivers, yes, yeah,

1384
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: and then um yeah, same thing with the Saints, yeah,

1385
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 1: you know, and then you dropped that one in New

1386
01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 1: Orleans that was Yeah. I hope that doesn't come back

1387
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:31,080
Speaker 1: to buy them because that was a game they really

1388
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 1: shouldn't want. Yeah, I'm just wondering if the tone that

1389
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:35,920
Speaker 1: you guys are feeling early from this is, Hey, it's

1390
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:38,760
Speaker 1: going to be on the defense, or hey, I'm not

1391
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 1: confident the defense is going to have the best or

1392
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 1: easiest time against this offense and this might be a shootout. Like,

1393
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:46,400
Speaker 1: what's kind of the early tone you're getting from this game?

1394
01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:50,440
Speaker 1: My early tone is the charters are going to move

1395
01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 1: the ball, but it's going to come down to, like

1396
01:04:53,480 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 1: every week, it stop stopping the explosive plays and letting

1397
01:04:57,760 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 1: the offense get into a rhythm because we didn't see

1398
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:03,640
Speaker 1: that rhythm that we saw in the past with his offense.

1399
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 1: And that's just that's stay in the field, that's football, right.

1400
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 1: There's going to be times where you lean on the

1401
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 1: other side of the ball. You know, it's interesting if

1402
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:11,120
Speaker 1: you look at the numbers right now, for you, you

1403
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:13,440
Speaker 1: would have told somebody in the preseason or before the

1404
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 1: season started that one side of the ball is going

1405
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:20,040
Speaker 1: to be thirty thirty one, twenty two and number thirty

1406
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:23,360
Speaker 1: as far as defense total you know stats all that,

1407
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 1: and the other side is going to be twelve eleven,

1408
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:30,400
Speaker 1: fourteen eight and eight, you would go, Yeah, the offense

1409
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:32,640
Speaker 1: is going to be the one in the thirties and

1410
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 1: in late you know, twenties or whatever, and you know

1411
01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:38,720
Speaker 1: the offense. I have a lot of confidence right now

1412
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 1: in Gino because we're kind of talking about him, like,

1413
01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:43,640
Speaker 1: how many more games do you need to see to

1414
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:48,520
Speaker 1: convince yeah that he's our guy. I think we're there.

1415
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:52,400
Speaker 1: I mean, every every other one helps, right, But still

1416
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:54,360
Speaker 1: I have a lot of I have a lot of

1417
01:05:54,400 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: faith in in Geno. Right now, I don't I'm not

1418
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:02,560
Speaker 1: entirely sold just yet, but I have a lot of

1419
01:06:02,720 --> 01:06:04,800
Speaker 1: faith the defense. They're going to have to do this

1420
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:08,080
Speaker 1: for a couple more times or take the ball away

1421
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:11,200
Speaker 1: at a ridiculous rate. But you know, that was a

1422
01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 1: huge healing over the weekend. You know, three hundred and

1423
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:16,960
Speaker 1: twelve yards. I think they gave up. But because they

1424
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 1: were giving up like four, it was bad. I mean

1425
01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:22,360
Speaker 1: they were thirty first, yeah, so only the lines were worse.

1426
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:25,200
Speaker 1: That was surprising to me too, by the way, I

1427
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:27,520
Speaker 1: thought the biggest difference this year was going to be

1428
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:30,200
Speaker 1: the defensive coach. I did too, hasn't showed up just yet.

1429
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 1: I like, starting we haven't focused on Gino a lot.

1430
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:36,400
Speaker 1: We haven't talked a lot about that. The offense in general,

1431
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 1: let's start there with John. Inevitably, we're gonna get to

1432
01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:40,960
Speaker 1: the defense. We're gonna get to all kinds of stuff.

1433
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 1: But John Boyle, if Seahawks dot Com is going to

1434
01:06:42,960 --> 01:06:45,280
Speaker 1: join us, we're gonna get started talking about Gino with him,

1435
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:47,640
Speaker 1: go over some injuries, and wrap up with some of

1436
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:49,720
Speaker 1: our final thoughts ahead of this game. This is the huddle.

1437
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:52,400
Speaker 1: You are listening to the huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpus,

1438
01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:55,480
Speaker 1: and Stacy Ross wrapping up with some final thoughts on

1439
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 1: this game and taking one last look at the Seattle Seahawks. Now, technically,

1440
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:01,360
Speaker 1: you guys are going to hear a final wrap up

1441
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 1: on the Seattle Seahawks on Friday when the head coach

1442
01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:07,080
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll does his final interview update. That happens around

1443
01:07:07,120 --> 01:07:11,439
Speaker 1: two pm. But before we get to that, this team

1444
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 1: is mostly healthy heading into LA, which is hugely important

1445
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:17,960
Speaker 1: because they've been facing some banged up offenses. They're facing

1446
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 1: a relatively healthy Chargers team as well, but a Chargers

1447
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:23,920
Speaker 1: team that, as the three of us talked about in

1448
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 1: our last segment, is not really playing the way that

1449
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:29,560
Speaker 1: you thought that they would. Expectations were so high, I

1450
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 1: mean the in the AFC West. I think that people

1451
01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:34,680
Speaker 1: still saw Kansas City as a favorite. You knew that

1452
01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:37,200
Speaker 1: Derek carn and the Raiders would get something done. You

1453
01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:40,280
Speaker 1: knew or expected rather that Russell Wilson and the Broncos

1454
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:43,240
Speaker 1: would be able to do something. But the Chargers had

1455
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:45,840
Speaker 1: this big arm with Justin Herbert, these big free agent

1456
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:50,880
Speaker 1: acquisitions on defense, and yet despite having an okay record,

1457
01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 1: they've they've at times underperformed. So let's talk about where

1458
01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 1: some of the opportunities are for Seattle and this one

1459
01:07:58,080 --> 01:08:00,480
Speaker 1: just to maybe ease anyone like my elf that has

1460
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:03,760
Speaker 1: some nerves about Justin Herbert versus the defense. Um, so

1461
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:06,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna start with I'll start with Bump, I'll jump

1462
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:09,480
Speaker 1: over to John, and then we'll kind of just cycle

1463
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:11,120
Speaker 1: through as we talk about some of this. Oh, which

1464
01:08:11,160 --> 01:08:13,520
Speaker 1: is kidding You're right, Okay, we got John, John, I

1465
01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: like Bump. I'm going with John. That's okay, that's okay, John.

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01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 1: We were just saying how the Chargers a good team,

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01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 1: but maybe some weaknesses that we didn't anticipate to start

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01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:25,760
Speaker 1: the season. Where do you see some opportunities for the

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01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:27,920
Speaker 1: Seahawks in this one. Yeah, I guess maybe we just

1470
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:31,040
Speaker 1: all assumed given their quarterback and kind of all everything

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01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:33,840
Speaker 1: surrounding that team, some of the weapons. I think most

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01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:35,000
Speaker 1: of us thought they were going to be a little

1473
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:38,479
Speaker 1: more explosive, bigger numbers Offensively, I don't think that means,

1474
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:40,479
Speaker 1: you know, the Seahawks can take them lightly by any means.

1475
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:43,799
Speaker 1: They've basically played one good two good games of defenses

1476
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:45,640
Speaker 1: here and some pretty poor ones, so they got to

1477
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:47,479
Speaker 1: be on their business. But yeah, I mean, I don't

1478
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:49,559
Speaker 1: look at this opponent think like this is some huge

1479
01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:52,880
Speaker 1: overmatched situation here. I think the Seahawks definitely can hang

1480
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:55,840
Speaker 1: in this one. You know, we were talking to Rabel

1481
01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:58,000
Speaker 1: and of course you know he he's been around the

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01:08:58,040 --> 01:09:03,200
Speaker 1: game for one hundred years, so hey, going back and forth.

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01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:05,840
Speaker 1: Oh it's necessary boil. You should hear what he says

1484
01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:08,240
Speaker 1: to me. No, but no, he pointed out rightly. So

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01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, six weeks in. Yeah, but still

1486
01:09:11,040 --> 01:09:13,080
Speaker 1: it's been kind of a surprising year. We were talking

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01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:16,679
Speaker 1: about like the AFC West. I gotta say our guy,

1488
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 1: my guy, Lewis Riddick, who came on our show he

1489
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:22,519
Speaker 1: predicted that the Broncos were going to finish last and

1490
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 1: the AFC West. I thought that was a bold prediction.

1491
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 1: But is it too early to figure out the NFL?

1492
01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:30,760
Speaker 1: And yeah, there's been lots of surprises, you know, like

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01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:33,600
Speaker 1: the Russ thing is a surprise, the Geno thing is

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01:09:33,640 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 1: a surprise. So you know, I just I think it's

1495
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:38,639
Speaker 1: I mean, there's things you can start to see, like, Okay,

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01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:41,120
Speaker 1: the Eagles are actually really good, and you know, the

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01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 1: New York teams look a lot better than we thought

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01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:45,320
Speaker 1: they were, and like you said, the Broncos, But I

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01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:47,880
Speaker 1: don't think you can make defensive judgments about team six

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01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:50,679
Speaker 1: weeks and so much can change, especially with seventeen games.

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01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:53,760
Speaker 1: I think I just don't remember this many question marks though. Yeah,

1502
01:09:54,080 --> 01:09:56,240
Speaker 1: maybe it's like this every year. To me, the wildest

1503
01:09:56,280 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 1: one is just the parody in the NFC. You've got,

1504
01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of teams with one or two

1505
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:03,839
Speaker 1: losses and the Eagles out there alone first, but otherwise

1506
01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 1: everybody's right in the middle. It's just this huge middle

1507
01:10:07,120 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: where in the Seahawks fall right in there. Like so

1508
01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:13,120
Speaker 1: many of these races could go so many ways. Right now, now,

1509
01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:15,800
Speaker 1: I look at just by the numbers at least the

1510
01:10:15,960 --> 01:10:20,360
Speaker 1: Chargers offense, and they're not explosive, but they're still the

1511
01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:23,160
Speaker 1: seventh ringer offense in the league. They still put up

1512
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:25,920
Speaker 1: two eighty pass shards per game, that's number three in

1513
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:28,280
Speaker 1: the league. If there's any weakness, it's the run game.

1514
01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 1: And I feel like the Chargers look at the Seahawks

1515
01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:31,680
Speaker 1: and say, all right, we're not good at the run,

1516
01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:33,400
Speaker 1: but we still got Austin Ekeler back there. We're starting

1517
01:10:33,439 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 1: to give him a chance because everyone else has been

1518
01:10:35,040 --> 01:10:37,800
Speaker 1: able to run against them. So it's weird, man, because

1519
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:39,040
Speaker 1: and then you look at the points that they put

1520
01:10:39,120 --> 01:10:41,080
Speaker 1: up twenty three points per games, So they're moving the ball,

1521
01:10:41,120 --> 01:10:43,040
Speaker 1: but they're not putting it in the end zone. Might

1522
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:45,800
Speaker 1: the elite teams do? And like I was just telling

1523
01:10:45,920 --> 01:10:48,479
Speaker 1: Dave Boy, I'm like, I look at Justin Herbert as

1524
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:51,040
Speaker 1: like a volcano that can't erupt at any moment, like

1525
01:10:51,160 --> 01:10:54,559
Speaker 1: he has the talent to do it. And I think

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01:10:55,040 --> 01:10:57,720
Speaker 1: they're gonna attack the Seahawks, But also don't look at

1527
01:10:57,760 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 1: them as this is a team that the Hawks can

1528
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:02,640
Speaker 1: be Think that if the if the defense could be

1529
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 1: good on the back end, give that box some time

1530
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 1: to work. Give pressure on on Justin Herbert, you never know,

1531
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:09,680
Speaker 1: like this is the this is the NFL, man, Like

1532
01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:13,600
Speaker 1: you mentioned that the freaking Phillies six and old dallass

1533
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:17,479
Speaker 1: is what one the Giant or four and two? The

1534
01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:19,559
Speaker 1: Giants are five and one, Like, I don't know what's

1535
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 1: going on, you know, I'm just I'm taking a week

1536
01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:24,280
Speaker 1: by Minnesota's five and one. Yeah. I did not see

1537
01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:27,519
Speaker 1: the Vikings being five and one at all. Yeah, I mean, look,

1538
01:11:27,520 --> 01:11:30,519
Speaker 1: the Chargers are four and two and they're they're winning games,

1539
01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 1: close games, but they're not a team that if you're

1540
01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:34,320
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, you look at it like, hey, we're going

1541
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:36,320
Speaker 1: to LA and we're in big trouble and can angle

1542
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:39,280
Speaker 1: this team, Like the Seahawks team is gonna be feisty

1543
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:40,800
Speaker 1: all year. I'm not gonna go out and predict how

1544
01:11:40,840 --> 01:11:43,160
Speaker 1: many games they win, but they're not gonna back down

1545
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:45,680
Speaker 1: from any challenge. And we've seen they can do a

1546
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:48,320
Speaker 1: lot of really good things offensively and defense looks to

1547
01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:50,200
Speaker 1: have turned a corner a little bit last week. Yeah,

1548
01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:51,960
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you what you've heard from the

1549
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:54,680
Speaker 1: defensive coaches and the players and stuff this week that

1550
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 1: is different from from week's past. Yeah, I mean, I think,

1551
01:11:58,200 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 1: you know, the main thing is have to believe sustainable

1552
01:12:01,120 --> 01:12:03,360
Speaker 1: and they do. Like you know, Arizona was struggling. They're

1553
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 1: missing some guys, and you don't want to just go, oh,

1554
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:07,479
Speaker 1: we played well in this game. Everything's fixed, like they

1555
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 1: know they still can get better and need to. But

1556
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:11,640
Speaker 1: a lot of the talk this week has been some

1557
01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:13,840
Speaker 1: things are doing differently up front, just the way you know,

1558
01:12:13,880 --> 01:12:15,840
Speaker 1: they don't want to give away too much schematic stuff,

1559
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:18,400
Speaker 1: but just the way they're kind of freeing guys up

1560
01:12:18,439 --> 01:12:20,760
Speaker 1: to do a little more playmaking wise and be more

1561
01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:23,320
Speaker 1: aggressive on the line, and it paid big dividends. I

1562
01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:25,240
Speaker 1: mean that that group had its best game by far

1563
01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:27,639
Speaker 1: as a front and got to the quarterback a whole bunch,

1564
01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:29,640
Speaker 1: and that won't be easy this week. HERPETI them been

1565
01:12:29,680 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 1: sacked I think seven times, so they get the ball

1566
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:34,439
Speaker 1: out quick. But yeah, that that front. You know, I

1567
01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:36,800
Speaker 1: say front four because I forget that they only play

1568
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:38,600
Speaker 1: three down linemen, but really it's a front five with

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01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:41,960
Speaker 1: outside linebackers, and they were really disruptive both in the

1570
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:45,719
Speaker 1: run game and the passing game. We've been talking about

1571
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:47,800
Speaker 1: some of the surprises for the Chargers, and we've also

1572
01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:49,720
Speaker 1: been talking about how great this rookie class has been.

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01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:52,920
Speaker 1: That's one surprise for me. Outside of Seattle. The Vikings

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01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:55,720
Speaker 1: being great is one surprise for me. What's something that's

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01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 1: surprised to you so far about this season in and

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01:12:59,080 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 1: or outside of Seattle. Yeah, I mean in Seattle, it's

1577
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 1: definitely Geno Smith. I mean, look, I know he was

1578
01:13:04,320 --> 01:13:05,920
Speaker 1: as confident and the team is confident in him to

1579
01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:07,599
Speaker 1: give him that job, but I'm not going to pretend

1580
01:13:07,640 --> 01:13:09,040
Speaker 1: to tell you that I thought he's cut and put

1581
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 1: out the numbers he has so far. And then the

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01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,360
Speaker 1: rookie class, for sure, I think outside of the league

1583
01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 1: is just to me, it's how much parody there is

1584
01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:18,680
Speaker 1: outside of maybe you know we're talking what are the

1585
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 1: like true top tier teams like Buffalo, Kansas City and

1586
01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:24,720
Speaker 1: the Eagles kind of seemed to have separated themselves and

1587
01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:28,720
Speaker 1: then it's pretty much everybody. So that's really surprised me too,

1588
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:31,280
Speaker 1: just how much parody there seems to be. I wanted

1589
01:13:31,280 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 1: to ask you Jamal Adams and Rashot Penny, do those

1590
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:38,840
Speaker 1: guys do they go home? Are they around? Do we

1591
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:41,200
Speaker 1: see him around here? From what I've seen just on

1592
01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:43,680
Speaker 1: social media. I haven't seen anything from Penny, but I

1593
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:45,760
Speaker 1: know Adams tends to you know, when he has as

1594
01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:47,640
Speaker 1: a surgeries, he tends to go home and do most

1595
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:50,080
Speaker 1: of its rehab there. I believe that's the case, again,

1596
01:13:50,160 --> 01:13:53,800
Speaker 1: just based solely on what he posted. Generally, guys, you know,

1597
01:13:54,040 --> 01:13:55,600
Speaker 1: somewhat up to their own discretion, and a lot of

1598
01:13:55,600 --> 01:13:58,000
Speaker 1: times if it's a younger guy who doesn't have as

1599
01:13:58,040 --> 01:14:00,080
Speaker 1: big of a network of people working with them, they

1600
01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 1: might stay here and work out with the team, but

1601
01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:04,640
Speaker 1: other guys might go home. Um, let's wrap up. We

1602
01:14:04,720 --> 01:14:07,559
Speaker 1: got about two minutes here a little less, so we'll

1603
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:09,880
Speaker 1: just keep it simple with our keys to a win.

1604
01:14:10,360 --> 01:14:11,880
Speaker 1: John will start with you, and then we'll just go

1605
01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:14,400
Speaker 1: counter clockwise. Will our clockwise, will end with me. But

1606
01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 1: he to will win for the Sehawks against the Child Offensively,

1607
01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:19,639
Speaker 1: just be a little more efficient in the key areas

1608
01:14:19,640 --> 01:14:21,479
Speaker 1: like third down, red zone. Those are two things they've

1609
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:23,599
Speaker 1: done pretty well most of the year, but struggled last

1610
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:25,760
Speaker 1: week and it hurt him a little bit offensively, And

1611
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:27,880
Speaker 1: then I brought this up last week and they didn't listen.

1612
01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:30,240
Speaker 1: No more special teams disasters. How did the Why didn't

1613
01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:33,479
Speaker 1: they listen? Do they not listen? That's so rude. Yeah,

1614
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 1: but seriously, we have all the sea like they've done

1615
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:37,600
Speaker 1: a lot of things really well on special teams just here,

1616
01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:41,559
Speaker 1: but it just gets really overshouted by just these disastrous plays. Yeah,

1617
01:14:41,600 --> 01:14:44,519
Speaker 1: there was a fumble, there was a muffed pond, two todowns.

1618
01:14:44,920 --> 01:14:47,600
Speaker 1: It's basically they've given away four touchdowns often, you know,

1619
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:49,680
Speaker 1: either the play was a touchdown or directly led to

1620
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:51,920
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Rusty Till him on our defensive or he

1621
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:54,840
Speaker 1: was our special team guy, you know, the late Rusty

1622
01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 1: Till me used to say, you want to win a

1623
01:14:56,960 --> 01:14:59,600
Speaker 1: couple of games because of your your special teams, and

1624
01:14:59,680 --> 01:15:02,280
Speaker 1: you ever want to lose in the game because of

1625
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:04,920
Speaker 1: your special teams. And yeah, that's a that's a big

1626
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:08,479
Speaker 1: part of it. So yeah, we're gonna echo that, or

1627
01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:10,080
Speaker 1: do you want another key that you want to I'm

1628
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:12,040
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna go with I want to see a

1629
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:14,800
Speaker 1: repeat performance from the defense. I want to see that,

1630
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:17,400
Speaker 1: you know, and I think it'll be fairly easy to see.

1631
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:19,840
Speaker 1: There was some confusion on who takes on what block

1632
01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:23,000
Speaker 1: and now they're attacking, So that to me is what

1633
01:15:23,439 --> 01:15:25,560
Speaker 1: what they need to do. I'm just gonna say be

1634
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:28,360
Speaker 1: getting the back end. Um, yeah, Herbert loves so attack

1635
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:29,840
Speaker 1: the middle of the field deep. I think this is

1636
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:32,280
Speaker 1: the week that Quandri gets his first pick. And you

1637
01:15:32,439 --> 01:15:35,640
Speaker 1: got Mike Will, you got Kennyan Allen, you got a

1638
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:38,160
Speaker 1: couple good tight ends. Just so in the back end.

1639
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:41,080
Speaker 1: I was going to look at eliminating some of those

1640
01:15:41,120 --> 01:15:43,720
Speaker 1: explosive plays. I think that is the biggest key to me,

1641
01:15:43,920 --> 01:15:47,960
Speaker 1: especially against the Chargers, who haven't been like leading the league,

1642
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 1: but have the potential to do it. Um. I'm gonna

1643
01:15:50,280 --> 01:15:52,280
Speaker 1: look offensively then, and I'm gonna say final key just

1644
01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:54,479
Speaker 1: as we wrap up here, is just for the offense

1645
01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 1: to be prepared for a shootout. I'm not worried about

1646
01:15:57,360 --> 01:16:00,559
Speaker 1: them after you know, like nineteen points is in entire team.

1647
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:02,519
Speaker 1: I didn't leave that game feeling like, oh no, can

1648
01:16:02,600 --> 01:16:04,519
Speaker 1: they keep it up. I feel good about the offense.

1649
01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:05,800
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be one of their

1650
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:09,120
Speaker 1: bigger tests, certainly since week one and week two. All right,

1651
01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:11,800
Speaker 1: So that is our keys, and that has been the huddle.

1652
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:14,639
Speaker 1: Thank you John Boyle Seahawks dot Com read John's work,

1653
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:17,599
Speaker 1: and thank you John for joining us every single Thursday

1654
01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:20,519
Speaker 1: to wrap up the huddle. For Dave Wyman, for Michael Bumpus.

1655
01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:22,839
Speaker 1: I'm Stacy Ross. This has been the huddle. Don't go anywhere,