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Speaker 1: dot Com. Welcome to the Seahawks Insider Podcast. I'm Jen

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Speaker 1: Mueller alongside John Boyle from Seahawks dot Com. Hi Jen,

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Speaker 1: how are you? I am well? Has the Christmas magic

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Speaker 1: worn off yet? Hey? You know we're getting there. We

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Speaker 1: can still have the joy of the young and playing

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Speaker 1: with new toys. She's having fun with them. There you go,

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Speaker 1: and the tree will certainly stay up in my house

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Speaker 1: past New Year's because we will be spending New Year's

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Speaker 1: Day in Santa Clara, California. Yes, as many times as

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Speaker 1: I keep saying San Francisco locals, there will remind me

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Speaker 1: that it is nowhere close to San Francisco. We are

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Speaker 1: playing in Santa Clara and this Seahawks Seahawks Insiders podcast

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Speaker 1: is going to focus on that game against the Niners,

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Speaker 1: which will be the final regular season game for the Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: We already know that the Seahawks are hosting a playoff game.

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Speaker 1: We're waiting to see, though, John, is whether that is

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Speaker 1: going to be a wild card game or division matchup exactly.

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Speaker 1: There's still a lot of options on who they can play,

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Speaker 1: what seed they can be, and as you mentioned, if

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Speaker 1: they get a little help from the Saints down in Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks still have a chance with that two seed

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Speaker 1: to buy. But if the Falcons take care of business,

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Speaker 1: then the Seahawks will be playing the following weekend in

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Speaker 1: the wild card round. And everybody in that locker room

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Speaker 1: has talked about just how disappointing Christmas Day was coming

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Speaker 1: acknowledge that the Cardinals have played them tough, not just

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Speaker 1: this year, but that's been a tough matchup, and considering

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Speaker 1: I guess that they don't control their own destiny anymore.

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Speaker 1: How would you describe kind of that vibe around the team?

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Speaker 1: You know, I think they look at it as, you know,

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Speaker 1: priority one. You gotta take care of your own business

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Speaker 1: and not worry about who you're gonna play when you're

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Speaker 1: playing all that, But then you know, they realize that

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Speaker 1: if they could get the buy, it'd be great. Everybody

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Speaker 1: would love the rest, but they also understand that, you know,

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Speaker 1: the team that gets hot at the right time can

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Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl and no matter what they're out.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Michael Bennett mentioned you'd look at, you know,

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Speaker 1: wildcard teams that have won it recently, like the Giants

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Speaker 1: to get that buy and get a week off and

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Speaker 1: be hosting the divisional around Sure, but they know that

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Speaker 1: if they don't, they still can. You know, everything's still

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Speaker 1: try to quell some of those fears and some of

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Speaker 1: those concerns a little bit. John, Why shouldn't be Why

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Speaker 1: shouldn't people be worried about this Seahawks team? You know,

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing would be that if you

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Speaker 1: the question around and say where is their reason for

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Speaker 1: that's kind of what's happened at times that last week

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Speaker 1: We're having to wait a couple of weeks about that.

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Speaker 1: All pulfor Drew Brees in the Saints to Hey, you

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Speaker 1: know what your business? Yes, we just saw that, you know,

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Speaker 1: know exactly how that play, so you know why not

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Speaker 1: that's true. A win this week would give the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: ten regular season wins. A win would also give Pete

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Speaker 1: tie him with the great John Madden, which would be

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Speaker 1: a very cool thing to talk about. And of course

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Speaker 1: it will set them up for the postseason and whoever

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Speaker 1: here to break it down for you next week as

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Speaker 1: that is this week's edition of Seahawks Insider. You can

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