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Speaker 1: This is the Huddle.

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Speaker 2: Every Thursday from Mund Chum the Huddle.

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Speaker 3: We're listening to the Huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpus,

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Speaker 3: and Stacy Russ. We're gonna spend a little bit of

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Speaker 3: time looking back at that big Week twelve win over

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Speaker 3: the Cardinals. Before we're joined by Ernest Jones, Jalen Sundell,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna hear from coach Mike, and then an hour

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Speaker 3: two especially, we're gonna jump ahead and look at Week thirteen.

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Speaker 4: Against the Jets.

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Speaker 3: Wyman, I'm gonna start with you, though, this felt like

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Speaker 3: a huge win. Not only statistically, the Seahawks odds of

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Speaker 3: making the playoffs with a loss would have been at

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Speaker 3: eight percent. With a win, they're at thirty six percent,

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Speaker 3: but it also felt important to establish a really great

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Speaker 3: defensive game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I thought, like big Cat, everybody noticed that

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Speaker 5: he pretty much beat everybody's ass on the entire offensive line.

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Speaker 5: And you know when you saw the like the pundits

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Speaker 5: usually defensive line play isn't super sexy, and.

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Speaker 1: A big Cat made it that way.

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Speaker 6: Man, it was.

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Speaker 1: It was amazing.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, him and Witherspoon just really stood out on defense,

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Speaker 5: and I thought, I thought, they, you know, those two

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Speaker 5: guys are playing as advertised, you know. I mean that's

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Speaker 5: after they got McDonald. They went and got and signed

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Speaker 5: big Cat, and you know, that was like the most

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Speaker 5: important thing at least that's what it looked like to me.

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Speaker 5: Between Schneider and McDonald, that was the most important guy

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Speaker 5: the defense. And but you could say that Gumby also

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Speaker 5: is a huge part of it.

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Speaker 1: Our guy Spoon.

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Speaker 4: Because he's just bendy, right, He's bendy.

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Speaker 1: He's Gumby, damn it. But yeah, he's just all over

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Speaker 5: The way his body contorts his body, it's like his

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Speaker 5: doesn't even realize it. That's the thing, that little spin

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Speaker 5: move that he did to contain because I was, you know,

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Speaker 5: on that that was it a fourth down. Yeah, So

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Speaker 5: on that play, I was like, oh, no, man, we

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Speaker 5: got Kyler Murray on the edge and then I saw

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Speaker 5: Spoon there and I'm like, everything's gonna be fine. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: And sure enough it was. So yeah, a great defensive performance.

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Speaker 6: Bump.

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Speaker 3: It felt very important in this one that there wasn't

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Speaker 3: like an asterisk to throw in, Like when the Seahawks

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Speaker 3: beat the forty nine ers, people were like, well, you

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Speaker 3: didn't have Nick Bosa out there for part of the game,

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Speaker 3: and oh they didn't have George Kittle. No, this was

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Speaker 3: just a very good Cardinals team coming in off of

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Speaker 3: four wins and you beat them.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, this was a Cardinals team that had been taking

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Speaker 7: care of the football. Kyler Murray had been looking really

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Speaker 7: comfortable in the pocket throwing, he was getting outside making runs.

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Speaker 7: Connor was making some good runs and we just didn't

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Speaker 7: see that. Now, we did see McBride have a day,

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Speaker 7: and I think it was one of the Seahawk players

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Speaker 7: in their postgame presser said well, well, you're going.

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Speaker 6: To give up something if you're trying to take away something.

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Speaker 7: So they clearly made a conscious effort they will not

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Speaker 7: he didn't score any touchdowns. You know, so you gotta

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Speaker 7: look at it that way. If you're going to emphasize

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Speaker 7: one thing, another part is going to be a bit leaky,

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Speaker 7: and I think they can sure that up. This week

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Speaker 7: is going to be a different challenge with a different approach,

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Speaker 7: but it was clear that that approach worked. I'm sure

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Speaker 7: McBride maybe hit some incentives during that game in his

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Speaker 3: I saw you nodding along with Bump's point about, look,

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Speaker 3: you kind of have to decide as a defense that

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Speaker 3: you're going to give something up. What do you think

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it didn't bother me other other than

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Speaker 4: Oh no, that's the worst one. You checked during the game.

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Speaker 4: You go, man, this guy's having a day.

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Speaker 5: Oh no, don't tell Bob I said that he's very

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Speaker 5: only thing that they gave up. But I think Bumps

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Speaker 5: exactly right. If you're gonna you know, take away the

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Speaker 5: so Yeah, I was perfectly fine giving up those little

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Speaker 5: it was, yeah, it was they did the right thing.

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Speaker 5: And what they did was they took away Kyler Murray

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Speaker 5: because what do you have, like, I think nine yards

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so forty nine is a team, I think.

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Speaker 5: the you know, the tight end. But it's not gonna

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Speaker 5: it's not gonna be a problem. We're gonna win this game.

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Speaker 1: Guys.

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Speaker 4: Let's transition to the offense.

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Speaker 3: This is an offense that's averaged over the last two

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Speaker 3: games fifteen points because obviously, don't forget you guys have

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Speaker 3: the pick six from Kobe Bryant. So ten points in

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Speaker 3: this one, I believe, or excuse me, ten ten points

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Speaker 3: in your former thirty across two games, fifteen on average.

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Speaker 3: That is great because you're winning, so no one really cares.

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Speaker 3: But I'd love to see this offense average more across

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Speaker 3: these two games month, they have one passing touchdown. Why

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Speaker 3: aren't we seeing an explosive offense? Are these just two

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Speaker 4: Are these you know? Are there injuries we should be

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Speaker 3: I mean, why do you think we've kind of seen

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Speaker 7: Well against the uh okay, go ahead, well against the Niners.

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Speaker 7: The Niners, that's a good defense. You know, you have

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Speaker 7: backers are on point. That back end is good. I

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Speaker 7: you had some opportunities, but you turned the football over.

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Speaker 7: I think last week it's a bit of the same thing.

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Speaker 7: I'm a Geno guy. I will advocate for Gino all day.

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Speaker 7: But what well I also will do is be honest

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Speaker 7: that's something that this team has just struggled with. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: I think that. And when you become one dimensional, right,

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Speaker 6: We're just gonna allow our linebackers to run.

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Speaker 7: Read and if they see it go forward, we're gonna

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Speaker 7: make sure the back end is cluttered and it makes

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Speaker 4: H Wyman, what do you see from the offense?

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Speaker 5: Well, I think you're saying from the defense that they're

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Speaker 5: finally getting to where they want to be. It just

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Speaker 5: took a while, right, And I think the offense is

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Speaker 5: the same way. Bob was asking me, like, you know,

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Speaker 5: what do you think about the offensive line play and everything.

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Speaker 5: I was like, well, they got sacked five times, they

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Speaker 5: where JSN got the touchdown. The two defenders were waiting

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Speaker 5: him open, and so yeah, there's some things that are happening.

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Speaker 5: And I think Gino, you know, he just every once

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Speaker 5: I understand that. But you know, as much as that

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Speaker 1: It right in there. It was a perfect throw.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean that's I feel like the offense

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Speaker 1: But there wasn't anything that really stood out on.

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Speaker 5: The offensive line like it did the week before with

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Speaker 5: was watching this Michael Clemens guy, Yeah my god, he

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Speaker 5: So you know, they got a good defensive front. It's

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Speaker 5: going to be a good test.

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Speaker 1: For our offense.

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Speaker 3: I know that we're gonna spend most of the second

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Speaker 3: the very least, Dave, you already talked about the defensive line.

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Speaker 3: This is a Jets team that's three and eight, but

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you know, on the offensive side, I just

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Speaker 5: just not impressed with Aaron Rodgers. I feel like he

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Speaker 5: just thinks I'm gonna sit he has arm arrogance, I'm

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Speaker 5: gonna sit back arm Yeah, and he's like, I'm gonna

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Speaker 5: take care of it, and I'm gonna sit back here

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm not an Aaron Rodgers fan.

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Speaker 3: Well, I can't wait to ask you more about the

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Speaker 3: arm arrogance when we jump into our preview. Coming up

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Speaker 3: next though, Ernest Jones is going to join us on

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Speaker 3: the huddle.

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Speaker 2: This This is the huddle every Thursday from noon to

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Speaker 2: two Seattle Sports.

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Speaker 3: You are listening to the huddle with Dave One and

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Speaker 3: Michael Bumpus and Stacy Ross joining us right now. One

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Speaker 3: of the newest Seahawks, Ernest Jones. Ernest, how's it going great?

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Speaker 3: Congratulations on back to back wins. These are monumental. You

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Speaker 3: guys are first place in the NFC West. Now you

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Speaker 3: got here what two weeks three weeks ago?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 4: Well, I think about four weeks about four weeks ago time.

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Speaker 4: I don't understand.

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Speaker 3: Why does it feel any different because it was the

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Speaker 3: team was in a slightly different place, right, and does

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Speaker 3: it feel a little more excitable the vibes are good

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Speaker 5: We're having a lot of fun playing together. It's been

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Speaker 5: Did you have to just say, look, I'm just going

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Speaker 8: I had to just lock back in and focus only

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Speaker 1: Yeah, series going on.

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Speaker 7: Hey, so when when you made the move to Seattle,

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Speaker 8: You know, it was kind of a weird situation because

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Speaker 8: So to be here now it was more so just

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Speaker 3: I kind of appreciated that when you first came here,

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Speaker 3: Was there a Seahawks player during some games you remember

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Speaker 4: I hate this guy.

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Speaker 8: Me Me, It's funny story. Me and DK we got

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Speaker 1: It was just so funny like that we're on teams now.

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Speaker 4: Do we just yeah, You're like we've almost five am.

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Speaker 1: We hated each other, but now we're good man, that's

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Speaker 1: my guy. Yeah, I love it. Hey, just a specific question.

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Speaker 5: So, like my second year in the league as a linebacker,

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Speaker 5: And you've gotten really good at that, and I didn't

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 5: The other thing I would say about is it's a

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Speaker 1: Tell us about about that that talent. Yeah, for me,

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Speaker 8: I used to slip box blocks early on because I

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Speaker 8: So I figured out, you know, through my career, at

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Speaker 1: So if you do slip, it's imperative.

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Speaker 8: As soon as you slip, you gotta get back like horizontal,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and you did it to Trent Williams the other day,

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Speaker 1: You kind of hunch down and got underneath. It was

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Speaker 7: Think you the first game, first home game, at least,

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Speaker 7: I was watching you, and you know, I'm up in

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Speaker 6: I got my binoculars in my let me see thirteen.

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Speaker 1: SI.

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Speaker 6: I know thirteen make you look like you was safety

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Speaker 4: Why didn't you drop that?

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Speaker 7: And I'm watching and I go, well, he's new to

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Speaker 1: Well, he's new.

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Speaker 7: I want to see how many times he looks to

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Speaker 7: Dodson was there at the time. You did it a

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Speaker 7: there's no There wasn't any hesitation in you then, but

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Speaker 8: I always say like that green dot gives me superpowers.

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Speaker 3: Hey take us speaking of wearing the green dot, behind

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Speaker 4: What happened?

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Speaker 1: I think after that?

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Speaker 8: his perfect, perfect call, and it came out so late

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Speaker 8: It worked so that that I mean, that was just

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Speaker 3: And then the next play you have, Devin makes Yeah,

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Speaker 1: He's just incredible.

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Speaker 8: Like I've always, you know, seen his game when we

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Speaker 8: He's a little rocket out there when he makes his

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Speaker 5: I feel like his body or like his body takes

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Speaker 5: I want to go back to the green dot thing,

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Speaker 5: But then both are good, right because the mic, like

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Speaker 1: If you notice the difference in those playing those two. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm a lot love. I love playing Mike.

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Speaker 8: When you give me the will and I don't have

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Speaker 8: So that's honestly great that I have the green dot

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Speaker 1: So it makes you more disciplined.

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Speaker 6: Though, Yeah, let's keep keep keep me in the green dot,

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Speaker 7: One of the things I appreciate about the RAMS is

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Speaker 6: How has that helped you?

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Speaker 8: Keeps you disciplined or just keeps you When you play

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Speaker 4: Yeah, cats you a corny question.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's one that Bump and I were answering for

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Speaker 1: I probably have to say the game.

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Speaker 8: Just being able to still play the game, being able

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Speaker 8: that I'm one of you know, one percent that get

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Speaker 8: this opportunity.

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Speaker 5: Are you in charge of any any cooking tomorrow at all?

444
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Speaker 5: I always do the turkey. You do the turkey.

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Speaker 4: That's a tough one.

446
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Speaker 1: It is tough.

447
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Speaker 5: Well, they have this thing called the internet. Now you

448
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Speaker 5: look it up. How much is away?

449
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Speaker 1: How many minutes? It's tough.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, early on, back when they didn't have the internet,

451
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Speaker 5: when I was cooking, it.

452
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Speaker 6: Was I'm the bartender there.

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Speaker 1: I want to come to your house.

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Speaker 9: Man.

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Speaker 4: You guys, have it easy, all right?

456
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Speaker 3: You guys this thank you Ernest for joining us. You

457
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Speaker 3: are listening to the huddle.

458
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Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere this This is the huddle every Thursday

459
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Speaker 2: from noon to two on Seattle Sports.

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Speaker 3: You are listening to the huddle with Dave Woyman, Michael Bompas,

461
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Speaker 3: Stacy Ross and joining us right now, yet another Seahawk

462
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Speaker 3: back to back going offense here with Jalen Sundale. Jalen,

463
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Speaker 3: how's it going going good? Are you a big Thanksgiving person?

464
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Speaker 3: Are you excited for this week?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I like Thanksgiving. Yeah, I'm excited.

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Speaker 4: Favorite holiday?

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Speaker 1: Uh, not my favorite holiday?

468
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Speaker 4: What takes that spot?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Probably fourth of July?

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Speaker 6: Oh okay, fourth of July? Like blowing stuff up?

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Speaker 1: I do.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna say, why the fourth Oh see, I'm from.

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Speaker 7: I'm from California, right, and in LA you can't legally

475
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Speaker 7: have the you know, fires that go up.

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Speaker 6: So we just had sprinklers growing up.

477
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Speaker 7: And then I came out here and with my wife's

478
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Speaker 7: and they started blowing stuff up.

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Speaker 6: I go, guys, is this illegal?

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Speaker 1: Like can we know?

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Speaker 6: And he gets crazy out here?

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Speaker 1: Same thing.

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Speaker 5: I was from California, and I was like, you can

484
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Speaker 5: actually do that.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, there's lots of freedom here.

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Speaker 4: Now, did you grow up that way because you're from Missouri?

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Speaker 3: Mentioned and then so I'm assuming you've you've had exposure

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Speaker 3: to some pretty decent firework options.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can do whatever you want, set.

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Speaker 4: Something on fire.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So do you have any any part in cooking

492
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Speaker 5: the Thanksgiving meal?

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Speaker 10: Uh?

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Speaker 5: No, that would that would be my wife. Your wife

495
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Speaker 5: take care of everything. Yeah, okay, probably better better that way.

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Speaker 6: Oh for sure, come from a program. What all you

497
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Speaker 6: guys do is win?

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Speaker 7: I mean, and I always I think of when I

499
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Speaker 7: think of North Dakota, I think of two things. I

500
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Speaker 7: think of the winning tradition and then just the weather

501
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Speaker 7: man like you guys. Granted you practice indoors and all that,

502
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Speaker 7: but you gotta you gotta fight through some winters. So

503
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Speaker 7: this winter are leading up to winter just must be

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Speaker 7: easy for you.

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Speaker 1: Then, Oh, yeah, it's been great so far.

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Speaker 11: The weather's been you know, this is this is fall

507
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Speaker 11: weather for you know, this is September and in Fargo,

508
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Speaker 11: so easy, this has been great.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna ask you a question that's gonna make

510
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Speaker 3: all of us feel one hundred years old. But you

511
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Speaker 3: were born in nineteen ninety Nine's right, what is the

512
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Speaker 3: first football player or athlete? Right? Maybe you didn't grow

513
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Speaker 3: up a football first kid, but like the first athlete

514
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Speaker 3: you remember thinking, oh, I love this guy, like you

515
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Speaker 3: grew up watching him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: My my whole family are are basketball players. But you know,

518
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Speaker 11: we grew up watching the Chiefs and I remember watching

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Speaker 11: Alex Smith and Travis Kelsey.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I grew up watching Alex.

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Speaker 6: Got me on that one.

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Speaker 4: But very cool and very cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So you're a very versatile player.

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Speaker 5: And I've talked to a couple of people, you know,

525
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Speaker 5: tell me about this Jalen Suendel guy and really a

526
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Speaker 5: smart player. You know, multiple positions, and you've been activated

527
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Speaker 5: a couple of times. You've been out there at full back,

528
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Speaker 5: a tight end that moves. And had you done that

529
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Speaker 5: before when when you were in college or is that

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Speaker 5: something new for you?

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Speaker 1: Uh no, I've never done that before on a game.

532
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Speaker 5: At least, no lining up at full back and yeah, yeah.

533
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Speaker 5: Have you campaigned to the coaches to throw you the rock?

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Speaker 1: Uh no, No, I don't think that's my place to

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Speaker 1: do that.

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Speaker 7: What was the what was the moment like when you

537
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Speaker 7: saw the install and they're like all right, Jenny, move

538
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Speaker 7: full back.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna have you here.

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Speaker 7: Is that's always fun at least when I played whenever

541
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Speaker 7: we had our install and we can kind of tell, Okay,

542
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Speaker 7: who's gonna be highlighted this week? And one day my

543
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Speaker 7: boys highlighted. I'm like, man, you ain't gonna do nothing

544
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Speaker 7: with it, you know, I mean, I'm highly one week.

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Speaker 7: What was the moment that you saw the installs that

546
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Speaker 7: I'm playing some full back?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean I just saw it, like in the

548
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Speaker 11: in the install drawings, you know, it just has your number,

549
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Speaker 11: and uh.

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Speaker 1: It was like, okay, I guess I'm playing fullback. Say somebody, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: how are.

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Speaker 3: You feeling if grub goes Jalen is going to you?

553
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Speaker 4: Your your geno's first rate on this?

554
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Speaker 12: Yeah?

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Speaker 11: I think you you just go out there and do it.

556
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Speaker 11: You don't think too much. Yeah, you just go out

557
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Speaker 11: there and do it.

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Speaker 4: I'm not built like that.

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Speaker 1: So they didn't tell you. They just put your number

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Speaker 1: up on the board.

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Speaker 11: They told me, But they send out the drawings early.

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Speaker 11: So oh, I got a I was.

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Speaker 5: Gonna say, what, you know, you're so versatile? Is there

564
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Speaker 5: a position that that you really feel more comfortable in?

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Speaker 5: Whether it's you know, guard, tackle, center, which which one center?

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Speaker 1: Center is mine? That's your spot spot. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I've never played off as the line before.

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Speaker 7: As you can guess, I did take one rephen I

569
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Speaker 7: was in high school. Because on high school I played quarterback, receiver,

570
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Speaker 7: running back, and I told my coach, I said, hey, man,

571
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Speaker 7: I need to play office in line for one play,

572
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Speaker 7: so I can say I played every position I go in.

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Speaker 7: I just get pancaked and against a kid. Why, I thought,

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Speaker 7: I'm going to dominate this kid. It looks like a

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Speaker 7: JV player, but he still is bigger than me. He

576
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Speaker 7: dominates me. If you could go on the other side

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Speaker 7: and play a position or maybe even outside of the

578
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Speaker 7: office line or fullback that you play, what position would.

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Speaker 6: You want like one rep with?

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Speaker 10: Mmm?

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Speaker 11: Uh, well there's no way I could ever play dB.

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Speaker 1: I would look sillier.

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Speaker 4: So I was gonna say, Chalen stay corner.

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Speaker 11: Uh uh probably linebacker, I guess.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty solid getting knock guys around.

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Speaker 1: As long as it's not a pass play.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, goal line package.

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Speaker 13: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So you mentioned you grew up basketball family. Yeah, how'd

592
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Speaker 3: you get into football other than just being a big dude?

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Speaker 3: But I mean it was it like a sibling was

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Speaker 3: into it. Did you get thrown into pee wee? I

595
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Speaker 3: mean where'd that start?

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Speaker 11: Well, my dad never played football, but he was always

597
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Speaker 11: a huge fan of football, and then the hometown that

598
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Speaker 11: I'm from, Maryville, Missouri, was a was a big football tom.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I kind of just got thrown into it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Has any of your family made it out to a

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Speaker 1: game or anything or you?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, they've came to basically every home game so far.

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Speaker 1: All the time. So who's your hoop team growing up? Well?

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Speaker 11: I guess we didn't, like, we didn't watch as as

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Speaker 11: much sports as we did play it, I guess.

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, we didn't really have a hoop team. I guess.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what if you could play any other sport?

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Speaker 1: Probably basketball?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, actually glamorous.

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Speaker 5: Hey, tell us what it's like being in uh, you

611
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Speaker 5: know with Gino in the huddle and just his leadership

612
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Speaker 5: and things that that you've noticed. He seems like he's

613
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Speaker 5: he's a great leader, especially with the younger guys bringing

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Speaker 5: him along.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean he's always uh, very poised, it seems

616
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Speaker 11: like when you get in the huddle and speaks very clearly,

617
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Speaker 11: and I think that that gives you a lot of

618
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Speaker 11: confidence when your quarterback is is that poised? And yeah,

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Speaker 11: it just gives you a lot of confidence to go

620
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Speaker 11: out there and just do your job.

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Speaker 6: What's lifelike for you outside of football?

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Speaker 1: Year you've been married?

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Speaker 6: How long you've been married?

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Speaker 1: A year and a half.

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Speaker 7: Year and a half now, So what what what are

626
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Speaker 7: you and wife you do when you're not watching film

627
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Speaker 7: or icing up or you know, doing some type of rehab.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, well, we like to eat. We like to try

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Speaker 11: new foods. So it's it's been fun in Seattle try

630
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Speaker 11: and try new foods and new restaurants, and.

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Speaker 1: So we like to do that. And we like to

632
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Speaker 1: go to the movies a lot too.

633
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Speaker 6: You see Gladiator yet we have not seen it. I

634
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Speaker 6: haven't seen yet either.

635
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Speaker 4: I thought you were going to watch it.

636
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Speaker 6: It got too late. I need to sleep. I'm getting old.

637
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Speaker 4: Okay. I thought it was really good. I highly recommend it. Yeah,

638
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Speaker 4: it was pretty true.

639
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Speaker 1: The tickets to go? Do you go to the theater

640
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Speaker 1: or are you just watching them at home? We go

641
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Speaker 1: to the theater.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's a great time.

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Speaker 1: I haven't been since twenty eleven.

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Speaker 3: Movie theater they have whole reclining seats now like movie

645
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Speaker 3: theaters have leaps and bounce. Yeah, I can't, so, Jalen,

646
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Speaker 3: I want to know how you guys met. I'm guessing

647
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,199
Speaker 3: in college. Yep, we know the church okay, so what

648
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Speaker 3: was the situation. Did you see her from afar and

649
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Speaker 3: you're like background.

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Speaker 11: No, we we were like sitting I was sitting behind

651
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Speaker 11: her in the pew behind her and she was in front.

652
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Speaker 11: And then you know, you kind of get up after

653
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Speaker 11: church and look around and find people that you know

654
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Speaker 11: to talk to, and we both stood up kind of awkwardly,

655
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Speaker 11: and no one was around us. So we just eventually started.

656
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Speaker 4: Talking to each other and then from there you just

657
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Speaker 4: like asked her out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, we we went on a date that that week.

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Speaker 3: So how scary was it too, in that moment when

661
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Speaker 3: you just met this girl ask her out?

662
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Speaker 1: Yeah? It was. It was nerve wracking.

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Speaker 4: It's pretty bold.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it.

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Speaker 4: Just felt right so worked out.

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Speaker 5: I just remember being so relieved that my wife felt

667
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Speaker 5: awkward to.

668
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Speaker 4: Yeah did you know that though?

669
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,199
Speaker 5: No, not at the time. She looked pretty cool to me.

670
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:04,359
Speaker 5: I was awkward as could be.

671
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 7: So before the games, Now, when I was playing, maybe Dave,

672
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 7: when you were playing to home Gon have us in

673
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 7: a strict suit and tie.

674
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 6: You need to wear it to the games type of

675
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 6: dress code.

676
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: Uh.

677
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 7: The the dv's and receivers are the more flashy guys.

678
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 7: What's your typical outfit, you know, showing up to the stadium.

679
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 11: Whatever my wife picks out for me. Nothing, nothing crazy.

680
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 5: Not like DK's pants. What did he have the stuffed

681
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:33,200
Speaker 5: animal pants?

682
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,120
Speaker 1: Did you see? Yeah?

683
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 6: That was flashy, baby, Yeah we do.

684
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 3: You guys do big dinners as an offensive line, right,

685
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 3: Have you had your turn to have to.

686
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:45,880
Speaker 4: Play for things? Not yet?

687
00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,919
Speaker 1: No, at the end of the year, all the all

688
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 1: the rookies, Well, oh.

689
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 3: You guys have a joint one. That's good that you

690
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 3: guys do it together. Yeah, it would be like really

691
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 3: then we're going to talk about that's what we're doing,

692
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 3: all right. He is Jalen's son. Kind enough to join

693
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 3: us for the huddle, big game against the Jets. Excited

694
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 3: to fly to the East Coast for sure. Yeah, the

695
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 3: fun city. Hopefully it comes with a win, right, hopefully?

696
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:10,640
Speaker 1: All right?

697
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 4: First place Seahawks.

698
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 3: He is one of your offensive linemen, Jalen, thank you

699
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 3: so much. I do hope as a bump hitted at

700
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 3: that grub finds a way to get you the bump.

701
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 3: We're personally rooting for that. It would just be really fun.

702
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 3: All right, you are listening to the huddle. Still to come,

703
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 3: We're going to take a listen to the head coach

704
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 3: Mike McDonald, who's got his press conference. Then we're going

705
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 3: to go in the trenches, back to the offensive line

706
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 3: with Ray Roberts. Raids is going to join us, and

707
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 3: then we're going to take a listen to your quarterback,

708
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 3: Gino Smith.

709
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:35,360
Speaker 4: Don't go anywhere.

710
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Speaker 2: This is the huddle every Thursday from noon to two

711
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 2: on Seattle Sports.

712
00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 3: You are listening to the huddle right now. Take a

713
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 3: listen to head coach Mike McDonald speaking with reporters.

714
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Speaker 14: We're playing Aaron Rodgers man.

715
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 15: This guy, I mean, I don't think you don't need

716
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 15: to say anything else. It's got a lead arm talent,

717
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 15: I mean, still be able to extend the play. He

718
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 15: knows all the things that are about to happen before

719
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:05,600
Speaker 15: they happen. He's in complete control. So that's really that's

720
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 15: the thought going into the whole thing.

721
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 14: Goes into the hard count stuff that he does this week.

722
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 15: It's a challenge, it's hard to you know, it's hard

723
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 15: to time things up and the various things a good

724
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 15: bit and has command of it. And he's been he's

725
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 15: been around. He knows all the tricks of the trade.

726
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 15: So it's gonna be hard to have slight hand and

727
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 15: things like that. So if we feel like we have

728
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 15: an opportunity, we'll try it. But you know, we'll see.

729
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: But he does.

730
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 14: He does a great job.

731
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Speaker 12: What's the challenge of their defense.

732
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 15: Man, Well, they got really good players, which is which

733
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,719
Speaker 15: is a challenge. They get all three levels and uh,

734
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 15: I think they play extremely hard.

735
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 14: Their sound.

736
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Speaker 15: They want to challenge you, so you got to go

737
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 15: earn it, you know, and how you play. So I

738
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 15: know a few of those guys and know our coaches

739
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 15: know some of their coaches, So got a lot of

740
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 15: respect for what they do.

741
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Speaker 9: What's unique about the way Quinn and Williams can affect a.

742
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 15: Quarterback, Well, we've talked about the two gifts of line,

743
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 15: but he's just so disruptive and uh, it's hard to

744
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 15: get those guys doubled all the time. And when you

745
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,200
Speaker 15: do some things to get multiple people in his direction,

746
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 15: then you know you're taking away you're adding some stress

747
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 15: at others at other points too, So absolutely, you got

748
00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 15: to know where you know, we have a plan for that.

749
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 15: But but it's just different ways. When you're adding, you know,

750
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 15: taking away stress in the middle, it's a little difficult,

751
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,719
Speaker 15: more difficult to do, and uh, it's a little more

752
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 15: unconventional than just like adding chips or things like that

753
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:31,520
Speaker 15: on the edge.

754
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 9: We feeling about Kobe Bryant wing and at the NFC

755
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 9: defensive players for a week.

756
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 14: Yeah, it was great news.

757
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 15: Uh we didn't tell the team today, but we told

758
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 15: told the defense and proud of him, and he's got

759
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 15: a great mentality, he's he's obviously excited about it, but

760
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 15: uh that was last his last week, and you know,

761
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 15: we'll look back and next year and look back and

762
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 15: be proud of it.

763
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 14: Right now, we got it. We got work to do.

764
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Speaker 14: Three and one on the road, including two wins going east.

765
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Speaker 14: What what do you think is allowed to you guys to

766
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 14: find success on the rest so far?

767
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: Well?

768
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 15: I think you know, I mean, it's hard to say

769
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 15: one thing. You know, it's probably different week to week,

770
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 15: but having a mentality and kind of a goal and

771
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 15: a togetherness being on the road has helped.

772
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 14: And our guys are locked in.

773
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 15: You know, I think our all of our ops people

774
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,360
Speaker 15: kind of make it seamless for us to go on

775
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 15: the road and our guys know what, you know, what

776
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 15: the challenge is each week and you know you got

777
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 15: to go execute it. And we've done that three out

778
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 15: of four times. So h But I mean it's kind

779
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 15: of the same story it is at home, and obviously

780
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 15: wish our home record was better, but it's an opportunity.

781
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 15: We have a great opportunity now to go, you know,

782
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 15: try to get another win and uh, you know, further

783
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 15: our our position here down the stretch putting Bradford on.

784
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 16: Are is there any more clarity I guess to what

785
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 16: his injury is or how Yeah?

786
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,520
Speaker 15: Yeah, mean, it just that like he had a high

787
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 15: ankle and it was just it was it was a

788
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 15: pretty severe one. So we felt like it was the

789
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 15: best thing for us and him to you know, give

790
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 15: him the four weeks and then hopefully he's back.

791
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Speaker 14: You said earlier this week that you're gonna take a

792
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 14: long look at La Maya. Is he competing to start

793
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 14: or is that going to be Christian.

794
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Speaker 15: I'd say I'd say that's accurate right now, and so

795
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 15: we're working through that those guys will split reps throughout

796
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 15: the week, and we haven't decided about how the reps

797
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 15: will work on Sunday yet.

798
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 17: What have you just in general assessing Christian when when

799
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 17: he has played this year where you've kind of thought

800
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 17: of how he's.

801
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 15: Playing, well, you know, I think I think Christian has

802
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 15: done a nice job. And this again, this is not

803
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 15: like a hey, Christian can't go do the job. We

804
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 15: just saw him go play really good football for us

805
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 15: uh in you know, in reliever duty for AB this

806
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 15: past week. But Stal is a guy that we're really

807
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 15: excited about as well. And so now there's an opportunity

808
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 15: where he can gain some more reps through out the week,

809
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 15: and he's been kind of making some progress and we're

810
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 15: later in the year now, so let's see what Let's

811
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 15: see what he can do.

812
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 18: What's it like for a guy like him that hasn't

813
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 18: been active for a game yet this lead to a

814
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 18: season now getting this opportunity and having a chance to

815
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 18: work and ramp up and run with it.

816
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: A little bit.

817
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:02,959
Speaker 15: It's not out of the ordinary from my perspective. I mean,

818
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 15: it's just how we're how we roll. It's like, guys,

819
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 15: are you know, they earn opportunities in practice, and you

820
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 15: should be confident that you've had all these reps that

821
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 15: you're standing on and uh, we'll see how Again, we're

822
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 15: not sure how the reps are going to work out

823
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 15: on Sunday. But when he's out there, let's go rock

824
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 15: and roll, man, go do all the things you've been

825
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 15: doing in practice this whole time.

826
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Speaker 14: So he should be really excited when.

827
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Speaker 18: You've done that with Kobe Bryant and Cody White, Josh Joe,

828
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 18: guys who have impressed you in practice.

829
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: During playing time. Yeah, what do you look in that

830
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: in those practices?

831
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Speaker 13: What stands out and especially when they're moving maybe scout team.

832
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think there's a difference in when when people

833
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 15: say like making plays, you know, people think of like,

834
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 15: you know, making tackles or picks or whatever. It's just

835
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 15: just constantly doing the right things all the time. So

836
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:48,920
Speaker 15: it's taking the right footwork. It's how you know, how

837
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 15: we're playing. It's how we're you know, the the A blocks,

838
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 15: the B blocks, all the blocks that we're doing, all

839
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 15: the slips, like how he handles him one on one,

840
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 15: his energy, no one has a sign and obviously you're

841
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,800
Speaker 15: looking at like the physical capabilities as well. So it's

842
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,160
Speaker 15: all those things together and it's not to add any

843
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 15: pressure anything on anybody, but like this is the NFL,

844
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 15: it's the highest level.

845
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 14: We got to bring it every day. I think we

846
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 14: do a great.

847
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 15: Job of bringing competition to practice where you're going to

848
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 15: sharpen each other if you have that mentality. So we're

849
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 15: not just rolling the ball out there, and we're continuously

850
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 15: trying to get better and the best guys than are

851
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 15: playing the best should get opportunities to play.

852
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 9: Like before the last couple weeks, I think you guys

853
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 9: are averaging almost nine penalties of game, but in the

854
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 9: last two weeks, I think it's nine total. Which what

855
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,280
Speaker 9: has allowed you to play cleaner football? Is it playing

856
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 9: together more, knowing these signs more?

857
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think it's all the above.

858
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 15: Some couple of tweaks made at the by about how

859
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,959
Speaker 15: we're operating, and I think that's helped how we're coaching

860
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,359
Speaker 15: it throughout the week. We did a couple of things

861
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 15: a practice to you know, there's any time you're trying

862
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 15: to find solutions these things you don't know, so you

863
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 15: know me, I'm a tinker, so well we'll go It's

864
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 15: like my dad and his golf swing. You just got

865
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:03,439
Speaker 15: to go try stuff, man, and so some things work,

866
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 15: some things don't, and then you just kind of build

867
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 15: off of it. But the guys deserve a lot of

868
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 15: credit too, I mean, really deserve all the credit. I

869
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,919
Speaker 15: mean it's it's as a point of emphasis. I've done

870
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,839
Speaker 15: it well enough for two games, but again you're still

871
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 15: chasing it. I mean there's still plays on there where

872
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 15: we had opportunities from maybe some exposive plays or keep

873
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 15: drives going, and those are unforced errors, and those are

874
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 15: the ones we're trying to eliminate the cost of doing

875
00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 15: business stuff, you know, to a certain extent. You know,

876
00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 15: that's why the numbers kind of fluctuate back and forth.

877
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 15: But you're looking at kind of the totality of the

878
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 15: whole thing.

879
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 9: I think Lendy used the phrase ballfights energy.

880
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 14: Yeah, talking about what does that mean?

881
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 15: Well, it's actually that's from Tom Crean, who's John Harbaugh's

882
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 15: his brother in law and a great basketball coach, great guy,

883
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 15: great human. But he had that saying about his basketball team.

884
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 15: I thought it was really cool. Can you imagine a

885
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 15: basketball team people moving without the ball and you know,

886
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 15: playing for one another unselfishly and the ball finds them

887
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 15: if they play the right way. If it's just static

888
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 15: and everybody's just staring around, you know, standing around, then

889
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 15: that's not that's not good. Basketball and football is the

890
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,439
Speaker 15: same way. If you play the right way, you play

891
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 15: with energy, you play, you play team football. You run

892
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 15: to the rock, you block your tail off, you know,

893
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 15: you follow the runner down the field, finishing a downward position,

894
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 15: all those things. I don't know, there's a spirit to

895
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 15: it that, you know, the ball just kind of the

896
00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 15: ball should bounce your way more often than not.

897
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 16: What kind of challenges Brice Hall present as a runner

898
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 16: and pass catcher on.

899
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 14: The backfield, Well, we showed the guys today.

900
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 15: I mean it's got I'm breaking a breakaway speed and

901
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 15: he runs with power and he runs how he runs

902
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 15: some of their tracks is not unique, but just like

903
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 15: kind of unique to his running style. So it's something

904
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 15: that we have to do a great job preparing for

905
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 15: throughout the week. But his run after the catch and

906
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 15: his breakaway ability is dangerous. So again, it's anytime we

907
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 15: play great players every week. You know you have a

908
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 15: kind of a different plan of attack each week, but

909
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 15: you know it's going to take all eleven. We've got

910
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 15: to take great angles, we've got to tackle sound, we

911
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 15: got to get to the ball.

912
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 19: Coach, you can talk about the running backs role and

913
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 19: getting the running game going. A lot of focus on

914
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 19: the offensive line and blocking there, but about picking the

915
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:21,760
Speaker 19: right gaps and and actually hitting it as designed versus

916
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 19: you know, improvising.

917
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 15: I just think, yeah, it's easy to say the running game,

918
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 15: the run game is purely falls on the offensive line

919
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 15: line shoulders, which is not true. It's all eleven. It's

920
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,359
Speaker 15: how we design it as coaches and how we call it.

921
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 15: It's how we coach it up, and then it's how

922
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:39,280
Speaker 15: well we execute.

923
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 14: It's all together. And it's the same thing on defense.

924
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 15: You know, it's easy to point fingers and guys that

925
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 15: are in the proximity of the ball, but you don't

926
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 15: it's hard to know all the things that are going

927
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 15: into it. So it's a team mentality. So I think

928
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 15: anytime you're not in a spot that you want to be,

929
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 15: if everyone has the approach of taking a responsibility for

930
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 15: their area and making sure that they're on on point,

931
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 15: then that's how you're gonna grow. So uh, and those

932
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 15: guys are the ones total and we got great ones.

933
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 15: So but they're they're they're part of the equation too.

934
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,439
Speaker 15: They're part of the solution as well. Who's the better

935
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 15: golfer between you and your dead Unfortunately he's probably beat

936
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 15: me too many times, but.

937
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 14: Right now he is. I've played like once this year.

938
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 4: We are going in the trenches with Ray Roberts. Next.

939
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 1: This is the huddle.

940
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 6: Every Thursday from you to cho.

941
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: The Huddle.

942
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 3: You are listening to the huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael

943
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 3: Bumpus and Stacy Ross were going in the trenches with

944
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 3: Big Ray Roberts. Ray, how's it going.

945
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 1: Going all right?

946
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 13: How you guys doing fantastic?

947
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 3: Always gonna after a win, especially after back to back wins.

948
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 5: Uh?

949
00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 3: You know, Ray, Normally I love asking about the offensive

950
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 3: line after all, this is going in the trenches, but

951
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,479
Speaker 3: I can't stop talking about the Seahawks defense after this one.

952
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 4: What did you make of Leonard Williams?

953
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,879
Speaker 20: Well, that is interesting that we had a show went

954
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 20: on the show with Falk earlier in the week and

955
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 20: he was asking, what makes this guy so difficult to block?

956
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 20: And I said, you know, he's not the biggest dude,

957
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 20: but he's big. He's not the strongest dude, but he's strong.

958
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,839
Speaker 20: He's not the most athletic dude, but he has enough athleticism.

959
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 20: But the thing that makes them really hard to block

960
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 20: is he has relentless effort. There's so many times where

961
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 20: he looks like he's been blocked and then all of

962
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 20: a sudden, he makes a tackle for a loss, so

963
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 20: he gets a pressure on the quarterback or he sacks

964
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,240
Speaker 20: the quarterback. Sometimes you know, he'll look like he's double

965
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 20: teamed and he's out of the play, and at the

966
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:36,439
Speaker 20: last second he splits the double team and makes the play.

967
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 20: If you watch that particular game, you know when he

968
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 20: had to chase down Kyler Murray. I think it was

969
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 20: off towards their sideline and the angle that he took

970
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 20: where Kyler felt like he had nowhere to go, so

971
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 20: he just went to the ground. So that was one

972
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 20: of his sacks. And so this dude has been playing

973
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 20: really good football all year long. He just hasn't had

974
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 20: the stats to go with it. He's been doing a

975
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,760
Speaker 20: lot of the dirty work, allowing other people to make plays,

976
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 20: and then on Sunday he was able to break through

977
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,240
Speaker 20: and actually get guys to the ground, get the facts

978
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 20: and really impact the game in a way that I

979
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 20: haven't seen a defense alignment impacted that way here in

980
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 20: a long time.

981
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 5: Ray, I'm gonna ask you about Weatherspoon because I think

982
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 5: you're able to put things into words as well as anyone.

983
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: And I'm I was.

984
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,200
Speaker 5: There are some animals that like when like a light

985
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 5: comes on or there's any kind of like motion, that

986
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 5: there's some like a sensor that it just makes our

987
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 5: feet go. I think that's like, you know, I don't

988
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 5: want to say cockroaches are one, but but like yeah,

989
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 5: I mean it's like it's almost like his body like

990
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 5: he doesn't know that, like his brain doesn't even process it,

991
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 5: Like his body just reacts before he even thinks about it.

992
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,280
Speaker 5: That's that's the only way I guess I could explain

993
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 5: like his quickness and his reaction time.

994
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: What do you think, Well.

995
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 20: Well, there's some like uh I think of like there's

996
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 20: the honey badger, which which is not you know, I

997
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 20: don't want to nickname him, that the honey badgers like

998
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 20: a fearless small animal. It'll stay on anything, in anybody, anywhere,

999
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 20: in any shape, conditioned, night, cold, hot, you know, whatever

1000
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 20: it is. And uh, And so that's the first thing

1001
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 20: I think about, and then the other part is that

1002
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 20: he doesn't have the back down gene in his body.

1003
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 20: Like he doesn't. He's not backing down from anything or

1004
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 20: anybody in any place. There was a play early in

1005
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 20: the game or maybe the second quarter. They were coming

1006
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 20: out of the end zones from where the Hawk's ness

1007
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 20: is and uh and he we talked about dominating your assignment.

1008
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 20: He set the edge against a bigger receiver. He held

1009
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 20: his he kept his outside arm free, he kept his

1010
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 20: his uh, his shoulders parallel to the line of scrimmage.

1011
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 20: And some people go like, Okay, I got my job done.

1012
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 20: So somebody come and make the tackle. Well, he disengaged

1013
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 20: from the blocker. And then thenton just pulled the running

1014
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 20: back down. He tried to scoop him up and up

1015
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 20: and down. So like this dude, like the way that

1016
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 20: he plays, he embodies all of that stuff that coach

1017
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 20: McDonald talks about that he wants in his team to

1018
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 20: be physically mentally, to be physically tough mentally, to be

1019
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 20: physically tough physically, and then to play good, hard, smart,

1020
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 20: you know, team football. And on the interception that Kobe

1021
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 20: Bryant played made for the touchdown. He you know, he

1022
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 20: rushed the quarterback, reverse field, impacted to throw, made a block,

1023
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 20: and then all of this before Kobe Bryan got to

1024
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 20: the end zone, turned to the sideline and told him

1025
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 20: they were too small. So this dude is like, he

1026
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 20: has an awareness that is unbelievable that you can do

1027
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 20: all of that stuff he did in that one place.

1028
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 20: Is I mean, it's like a Tasmanian devil. He's all

1029
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:48,439
Speaker 20: over the place all at the same time.

1030
00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he knocked over to dudes too on

1031
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: the block.

1032
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 7: Yeah, instincts are crazy in that one Ray, I like

1033
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 7: what McDonald has been not McDonald's me. Grubb has been

1034
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 7: trying to do right. You're getting different kind of looks.

1035
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 7: We've seen Sundell at that full back spot.

1036
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 6: I've seen I.

1037
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 7: Saw Jake Bubbo at the full back spot one time.

1038
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 7: You're bringing in an extra lineman, But I'm really excited

1039
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,760
Speaker 7: about the extra lineman part of this deal, right, putting

1040
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 7: Sundal on the edge of the line of scrimmage and

1041
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,319
Speaker 7: just having them go to work when it's time to

1042
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 7: pack it in and run the football. What do you

1043
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 7: think of that package in the way they're using Sundell

1044
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:27,920
Speaker 7: with his offense.

1045
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 20: Yeah, I think I can't remember if it was the

1046
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 20: Cardinals last year or a thing we played Buffalo. It

1047
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 20: was a team that we played last year that kept

1048
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 20: bringing in the extra offensive lineman as they're like in

1049
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,400
Speaker 20: their jumbo package to run the football, and it was

1050
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 20: given our defense a hard time. And I've always wondered, like,

1051
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,800
Speaker 20: why haven't we done that? Like, we have some titands

1052
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 20: that are willing to block. I don't know if they're

1053
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 20: the greatest blockers in the world, but you have other

1054
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 20: dudes on the sideline that are paid to block, And

1055
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 20: so when when these obvious running situations, why don't we

1056
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 20: use them that way? And so I liked the idea

1057
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 20: of putting some doll in there, or you know, even

1058
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 20: if you know one of those other rookie UH linemen

1059
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 20: in there to be an extra blocker on the edge.

1060
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 20: Or there was one play where they pulled the guard

1061
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 20: and UH or the tight end and some dels. So

1062
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 20: the tight the tight end was the kickout block, and

1063
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 20: then some dell was the leading, leading, leading blocker into

1064
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 20: the hole. And that's kind of another way to run

1065
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 20: the pin and pull concepts that they want and so

1066
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,839
Speaker 20: you have an offensive lineman making that block, and then

1067
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:34,640
Speaker 20: I also uh bump like they ran like a traditional

1068
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 20: counterplay three or four times in the game where you're

1069
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 20: pulling the backside guard and the backside tackle uh to

1070
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 20: the front side, and you're pinning down with the with

1071
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 20: the you know, with the left side and the and

1072
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 20: the right side was pulling to the left. And the

1073
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 20: thing I like about that play is that is a

1074
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 20: punch you in the mouth.

1075
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:52,240
Speaker 1: Uh.

1076
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 20: We came to play physical football type of play, and

1077
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 20: so I love the way that at the end of

1078
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 20: the game came nine and charbon A really attacked that

1079
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 20: play because early in the game of knin trying to

1080
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 20: cut it back, and that's not a play that you

1081
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 20: cut back. That's one of those plays where you go like, hey, knon,

1082
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 20: I know that's your thing, but on this place, just

1083
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 20: put your hand on apes back and let's just go

1084
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,719
Speaker 20: make this thing happen. And like, if it's two or

1085
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 20: three yards, it's two or three yards. If it's ten yards,

1086
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 20: it's ten yards. But it's not negative yards. When you

1087
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 20: try to cut that play back, you're cutting back to

1088
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 20: where you're pinning all the defenders to, so you're gonna

1089
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 20: have that run five or six guys to make that

1090
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 20: cut back work. So I love that they're trying to

1091
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:37,400
Speaker 20: make that work. And I love that late in the

1092
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 20: game supposedly Knin went to the offensive line and said,

1093
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 20: we need to run the ball to win the game.

1094
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 20: And then they ran that play with charbon A and

1095
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 20: with Knin back to back and made good yards. So

1096
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 20: I like that they're trying to do that. I love

1097
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 20: that they're trying to find ways to blend those running

1098
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 20: styles and the ability of offensive line together.

1099
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 3: Hey, Ray, we had Ernest Jones on huddle earlier today

1100
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Speaker 3: and I said, Ernest, you used to play for the Rams,

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Speaker 3: and obviously while playing with the Rams, you probably didn't

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Speaker 3: like the Seahawks. But who was a player that you

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00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,360
Speaker 3: just absolutely couldn't stand when you played this team? And

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Speaker 3: he said, dk Metcalf. Uh Ray, when you played was

1105
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 3: there a player or maybe a whole team that you

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Speaker 3: just absolutely hated?

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Speaker 20: Oh man, Probably.

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Speaker 1: We fought the entire Raider like I was.

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Speaker 20: I was ready to drop them and fight at any

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Speaker 20: at any moment. I didn't. I didn't like any of

1111
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:34,920
Speaker 20: those dudes, and uh And I don't know, that's just

1112
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,560
Speaker 20: my approach to the game, like, this is a little

1113
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 20: funny story that kind of goes with this, is that, uh,

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Speaker 20: the offensive line coach at Virginia his last name is Hefferman,

1115
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 20: and so they call him coach hef Well here the

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00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 20: offensive line coach is tough, and I have them both

1117
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 20: in my cell phone. And so Virginia's playing Virginia Tech

1118
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 20: this week and that's our rivalry game. I thought I

1119
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 20: was fit in this text to coach Hefferman, and I

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00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 20: was in it to coach Huugh. But the in the

1121
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 20: thing I was saying, like, Virginia Tech in this game

1122
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 20: shows up to four four hour fist fight every year,

1123
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 20: and the football game happens to break out, and I'm like,

1124
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 20: I showed up at that game ready to drop them

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00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 20: and throw them anytime they wanted to do it. And

1126
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:17,879
Speaker 20: so you have to be willing to play that way.

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00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:22,760
Speaker 20: And so they coached off with like great message. I'm like, oh, shoot,

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Speaker 20: I sent it to the wrong guy. But that message

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Speaker 20: works for you too, because that's how I that's just

1130
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 20: kind of how I approach the game. It's like, if

1131
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 20: you want.

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Speaker 18: To fight, then let's fight.

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00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 20: Like, let's do it. But I promise you that I'm

1134
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 20: not backing down and I'm coming up, hoping that the

1135
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 20: football game breaks out in the middle of this fight.

1136
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 20: I'm ready to have.

1137
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,359
Speaker 4: Oh God, Ray, we love you so much.

1138
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 3: Man going in the trenches with Ray Roberts for the huddle.

1139
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 4: Ray, thank you so much. Happy Thanksgiving, Thanks Ray, Thanks

1140
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 4: you guys to peace. Thanks oh Man.

1141
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Speaker 3: I knew that Ray would have an answer for it, though,

1142
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 3: I just didn't know if it would be one or

1143
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 3: twenty people.

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Speaker 5: I think I heard you guys talking about this that

1145
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 5: like the hockey players are like that. They're like, it's

1146
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 5: a fight, let's go fight, And I can't fight unless

1147
00:47:58,360 --> 00:47:59,280
Speaker 5: I'm really angry.

1148
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, a fight on the field.

1149
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I got fined like four times.

1150
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 4: What was the biggest fine you ever got?

1151
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: Twelve thousand and five.

1152
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 4: Woo for fighting? Who do you remember?

1153
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety dollars? Abel? Huh do you remember who it was? Okay?

1154
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 5: Now, I got kicked out of a game for a

1155
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 5: perceived cheap shot, perceived.

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Speaker 4: Voice the Seahawks. Steve Rabel joins us. Next, you're listening

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Speaker 4: to the huddle.

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Speaker 1: This This is.

1159
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Speaker 2: The huddle every Thursday from noon to two on Seattle Sports.

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Speaker 3: You are listening to the huddle, joining us now in

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Speaker 3: studio in person voice of the Seahawks, Steve Rabel, Hey, Raves,

1162
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 3: how's it going.

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Speaker 12: I'm looking at my screen over there.

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Speaker 10: Hi, everybody. I know you're saying, who's the old guy

1165
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:42,879
Speaker 10: sitting over there?

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Speaker 12: That's me, right, It's it's lovely, Stacey.

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Speaker 3: We are happy to be able to see you and

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00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 3: happy to be able to talk about a win. I

1169
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 3: mean I obviously mentioned to Ray when we were just

1170
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 3: talking about him that it is just more fun to

1171
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 3: talk about your team, not only when they're winning, but

1172
00:48:57,760 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 3: right now first place in the NFC wes who to

1173
00:48:59,640 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 3: funk it?

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Speaker 10: You know, you know going into the game that that

1175
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Speaker 10: that can happen, and you know the week before that

1176
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:07,120
Speaker 10: you have to win this game against the forty nine

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00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 10: ers to just even keep your feet in the ball

1178
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 10: game when it comes to the division. And yet here

1179
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 10: you are now with the tiebreakers. Of course we got

1180
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 10: a lot of season left, but with the tie breakers

1181
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 10: you're sitting on top. It's just it's a great feeling.

1182
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 10: It's for us. You know, three football players here surrounding you,

1183
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 10: it's for us. What's fun is to see the look

1184
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:34,000
Speaker 10: on the guy's face, the faces of those players knowing

1185
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 10: what they're accomplishing and knowing that, hey, we can do this.

1186
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Speaker 10: We just came from the presser next door listening to

1187
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 10: Big Cat and Gino and the rest and these guys

1188
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 10: talking and the confidence right now that they have, and

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Speaker 10: also the understanding that none of this happens if we

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Speaker 10: don't keep working hard doing just what we're doing. So

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00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 10: in that respect, it's all fun. It's fun leaving the

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Speaker 10: stadium on Sunday evening when you got a big win.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, and apparently from what we heard from you during

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Speaker 5: the break, you're the president of the Aaron Rodgers Fan Club.

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Speaker 1: You're telling that man.

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Speaker 10: You know, I grew up a Packers fan anyway, So

1197
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Speaker 10: but he's too much. He's very very you know, late

1198
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Speaker 10: in the Packers deal. But Bart Starr was my guy

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Speaker 10: growing up. That's a quarterback for all you under a

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00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 10: Hall of Fame quarterback who won like five championships.

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Speaker 1: It sounds made up.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, that's right for all of you under sixty folks

1203
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 10: out there listening. But Aaron Rodgers numbers are just just

1204
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 10: hard to believe, and that he's still playing at a

1205
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Speaker 10: high level. He'll be forty one in stays reminding me

1206
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Speaker 10: on Monday. So, I mean, we have shoes that old,

1207
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Speaker 10: but still that's that's old for football. Happily, he's not

1208
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Speaker 10: playing to those kinds of levels, but he's got a

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Speaker 10: lot of weapons around him, and he is not going

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Speaker 10: to be easy to beat at home on Sunday.

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Speaker 12: That's just that's just kind of the way it's going

1212
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Speaker 12: to be.

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Speaker 7: I described a win for the Seahawks on Sunday as

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Speaker 7: them allowing us to try them a bit more again.

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Speaker 7: You know, Okay, you take care of the Niners, take

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Speaker 7: care of the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 7: I feel like this is the first game in a

1219
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 7: wild race where I'm looking at this game and saying

1220
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Speaker 7: you should win this ball game.

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Speaker 10: Do you feel the same, Yes, absolutely, And that's oftentimes

1222
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,839
Speaker 10: the most difficult games to win, the ones that you're

1223
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 10: supposed to go out there and win. You know, the

1224
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,360
Speaker 10: Jets have had just all manner of issues this season,

1225
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 10: but that's not to say they don't have a lot of.

1226
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Speaker 12: Great football players.

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Speaker 10: That defense is just loaded with high first round draft choices.

1228
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Speaker 10: If those guys ever figure it out as a group,

1229
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,720
Speaker 10: they could be scary led by you know, Quinn Williams

1230
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 10: right in the middle of the defensive front. He causes havoc.

1231
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,439
Speaker 10: And you know, we've had some issues at times up front.

1232
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:45,919
Speaker 10: We're playing a lot better on the offensive line now,

1233
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,319
Speaker 10: you know, Bradford goes on ir and so we're going

1234
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 10: to be dealing with a couple of young guys at

1235
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 10: the right guard spot. And that's that's the way football is.

1236
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 10: But this is a good team with a lot of

1237
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,680
Speaker 10: really good athletes. And if you let down at all,

1238
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 10: or if you don't play as good as you've been

1239
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 10: playing the last couple of weeks and maybe even step

1240
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 10: it up a little, you're gonna have problems back there.

1241
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Speaker 3: The defense over the last three games has allowed about

1242
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,399
Speaker 3: eighty seven rushing yards per game, about fourteen points per

1243
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,760
Speaker 3: game we've seen, even if not all three were wins,

1244
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 3: obviously that lost to the Rams, it's felt like a

1245
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 3: real defensive turnaround. Rabes, do you find it pretty easy

1246
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 3: to buy stock in this turnaround?

1247
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 4: Being real? Are there questions you still have on the

1248
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 4: defensive side? Defensive side on man, no, I'm I'm all in.

1249
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 10: I'm pushing my chips to the middle of the table.

1250
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 10: I like this group what they've done at the inside

1251
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 10: backer position, and Dave and I have talked about it

1252
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 10: nauseum on the broadcasts and on planes and everything else.

1253
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 10: These two guys now that are playing together in there,

1254
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,680
Speaker 10: they really have a sense a for what the coach wants,

1255
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 10: what Mike wants on defense, but be how.

1256
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Speaker 12: To get it done. It's one I was great in

1257
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 12: the classroom, you know, I didn't.

1258
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 10: I never screwed up when it came to taking tests

1259
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 10: before a game and all that stuff. But then you

1260
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 10: go out on the field and you have to translate

1261
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 10: that into actually making plays. And that's where Largin, who

1262
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,399
Speaker 10: maybe got a seventy five on his test, had four

1263
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:07,839
Speaker 10: touchdowns in the darn game. So it's more difficult when

1264
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 10: you talk about it in terms of now we got

1265
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 10: to go out and do what we know we have

1266
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 10: to do. But I'm all in on the defense. I

1267
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 10: think they're playing terrific football. As Leo just said a

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00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 10: minute ago, you'll probably play some some clips as the

1269
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 10: afternoon goes on, but he said, all of what we're

1270
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 10: doing on defense right now has been predicated on stopping

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00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,919
Speaker 10: the run. He said, that's been the lynchpin of why

1272
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Speaker 10: we can do everything else now, and it makes it

1273
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 10: so much better for Mike as he's calling the defenses

1274
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:35,280
Speaker 10: on the sidelines.

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Speaker 12: When you kind of.

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Speaker 10: Knows the play caller, we're able to stop what they're

1277
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:42,439
Speaker 10: doing on that inside run game or on that trying

1278
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:44,319
Speaker 10: to you know, we're controlling the edges a little bit

1279
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 10: better now you put them in a situation where it's

1280
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:50,359
Speaker 10: second down and nine or third down and eleven, and

1281
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 10: that's where you want the quarterback to be.

1282
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 12: So yeah, I'm all good on the defense.

1283
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 5: Well yeah, and especially as you mentioned stopping the run.

1284
00:53:57,280 --> 00:53:58,560
Speaker 5: I feel like on the other side of the ball,

1285
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 5: if they're able to get that going, get the run

1286
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 5: game going. We had Mark Schlarathon yesterday and he was

1287
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:05,360
Speaker 5: saying in Denver during that time when they had the

1288
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 5: Super Bowl run that they ran six plays. But you know,

1289
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:12,240
Speaker 5: there's variations off of every single thing, and you know,

1290
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:13,959
Speaker 5: if you if you can just get a few things,

1291
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,200
Speaker 5: and I think you know who's the guy, Mark Sanchez

1292
00:54:17,239 --> 00:54:19,919
Speaker 5: that was he called into brocknsas, same type of thing.

1293
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 5: And you do you see from the offensive line like

1294
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 5: it looks like maybe Olu, maybe Lucas, maybe Cross can

1295
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 5: kind of shape that that running game up before before

1296
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Speaker 5: we get there to the end of the season.

1297
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Speaker 10: You know, this is just my own speculation because I

1298
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:37,080
Speaker 10: haven't talked to I haven't asked Mike about it or

1299
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 10: Ryan Grubb about it. But one of the things that's

1300
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,879
Speaker 10: helped the defense is kind of doing this, do what

1301
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 10: you do really well and kind of start lopping a

1302
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 10: little bit of stuff off on the on the outside

1303
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:49,880
Speaker 10: and just say, Okay, this is where our focus is.

1304
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 10: I think with the running game it might be sort

1305
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 10: of the same way. Yeah, let's kind of pair this

1306
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,520
Speaker 10: down to the four or five or ten, eight or

1307
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 10: ten running plays that we know we feel good about.

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Speaker 12: I think they're getting there, I really do.

1309
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 10: And I think now that Abe is back, they're really

1310
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 10: going to get closer the three.

1311
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Speaker 12: Names that you mentioned.

1312
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Speaker 10: And I'm not, you know, stacking him on basis of

1313
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Speaker 10: talent or what kind of cook they are or anything else.

1314
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 10: I'm stacking in terms of what I can see of

1315
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 10: an individual person. A back is the leader of that

1316
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,799
Speaker 10: offensive front. In most cases, it's the center because he's

1317
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 10: got the most responsibility. You know, when you guys played,

1318
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,479
Speaker 10: and when we watched Walt Jones play, Walter was about

1319
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 10: as quiet as anybody could be on the offensive front.

1320
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 10: You didn't want to make him mad, and you hoped

1321
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,919
Speaker 10: he didn't glom onto you grab those get those big

1322
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 10: hands on you, because then you were dead. But he

1323
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 10: wasn't kind of that vocal guy. Abe is not a

1324
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 10: real vocal guy, but he is in my estimation. Now,

1325
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 10: this is only one guy, but I think he's the

1326
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,359
Speaker 10: leader of that offensive front. And as he continues to

1327
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,839
Speaker 10: get he's just working himself into game shape. He hadn't

1328
00:55:56,840 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 10: played since last decemberance fil two weeks ago, and so

1329
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 10: I think he is going to be the lynchpin of

1330
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 10: how much better we run the ball as as the

1331
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 10: season goes on.

1332
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,839
Speaker 1: And because he's right, naturally, he didn't even.

1333
00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,320
Speaker 12: Have to say it, and I could see over.

1334
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 6: There beaming with pride, a proud uncle watch.

1335
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: Rapes.

1336
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Speaker 7: You've seen a lot of these Sea All teams come through,

1337
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:22,279
Speaker 7: and I think a lot a component a component of

1338
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 7: it are guys like Josh Joe who finds a role,

1339
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:29,400
Speaker 7: Guys like Kobe Bryant who establishes himself. What do you

1340
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 7: think is missing from this team? Obviously they're going to

1341
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:33,360
Speaker 7: make some moves next year to try to make this

1342
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 7: thing better. And this is a good football team. But

1343
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 7: what do you what do you think is missing from

1344
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,240
Speaker 7: this team to put them in the direction of hopefully

1345
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 7: being a contender one day.

1346
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:44,800
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a that's a tough question because A you

1347
00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 10: kind of look, first of all, you always need depth.

1348
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 10: You know, you can never be to to have too

1349
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 10: many guys cornerbacks. You know, they're oftentimes not the biggest

1350
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 10: guys on the field. Sometimes they're the smallest of the

1351
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 10: guys you have on the field, and they're asked to

1352
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:02,720
Speaker 10: take on guard and running backs who are two hundred

1353
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:06,399
Speaker 10: and thirty pounds and so things break. You know, that's

1354
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 10: kind of the nature of the beast. So you can't

1355
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 10: have too many of those good guys. And I think

1356
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,640
Speaker 10: we've got a pretty good core of cornerbacks. And just

1357
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 10: look at the guys as somebody else gets hurt and

1358
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 10: you ask job to step up and he makes plays.

1359
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:20,320
Speaker 10: And you've got Trey Brown who we know can make plays,

1360
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 10: and he's just you know, trying to get back on

1361
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 10: the field to play more defense as well as the

1362
00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 10: special teams.

1363
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: So you look at.

1364
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:30,240
Speaker 10: Where I don't think you can ever be too strong

1365
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 10: on the edge. I like our inside backers. Do you

1366
00:57:34,920 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 10: have enough depth at inside backer. Here's the other thing.

1367
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 10: The better the players, either the higher draft choices they are,

1368
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 10: or which you know, the trade or pickups or whatever.

1369
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 10: You get real good, and what do you do. You

1370
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 10: have an opportunity to get a big contract, and you

1371
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 10: can't keep all those big contracts, so you also have

1372
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 10: to replenish the guys who are now after this season

1373
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 10: going to go out and maybe find their opportunity to

1374
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:05,160
Speaker 10: get their big payday. It's always the second obviously, the

1375
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 10: second contract. The first one, you know, is okay, but

1376
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 10: the second one is where you start to make your money.

1377
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 10: If you're a really good player, and if you can

1378
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:14,720
Speaker 10: get to a third one, Heaven forbid, you know, then

1379
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 10: you're your You get Dave Wyman money after that.

1380
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 4: He is the voice of the Seahawks. Dey Raybels here

1381
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 4: up on the call.

1382
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, Sunday, wonder how Gino Smith feels about playing his

1383
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 3: former team.

1384
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 2: Let's find out next This This is the huddle every

1385
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 2: Thursday from noon to two on Seattle Sports.

1386
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 3: You're listening to Battle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpus, and

1387
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 3: Stacy Ross speaking. Now it's quarterback Gino Smith. Let's take

1388
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 3: a listen.

1389
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 13: Good afternoon.

1390
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 14: A little bit about the cause you represent this year.

1391
00:58:44,040 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 21: Yeah, so, uh, big shout out to the artists who

1392
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 21: did these, but this is Extended Hands.

1393
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:51,960
Speaker 13: So this is my cause for this year.

1394
00:58:52,560 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 21: It's my mother's foundation does a lot of work in

1395
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 21: the community in South Florida. She's been doing that my

1396
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 21: entire life. The name Extended Hands. We're extending our hands

1397
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 21: and really just trying to reach out and touch the community,

1398
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 21: you know, be an advocate for change, uh in many ways.

1399
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 21: And you know it's something that I hold dear in

1400
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 21: my heart because obviously my mother she instilled that in me,

1401
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 21: you know, always giving back, and uh, you know, I

1402
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 21: want to represent her in that way.

1403
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 13: So I thought it was a cool thing.

1404
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 16: You talked a lot about your mom and your grandma

1405
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 16: and kind of how they've helped instill all that age.

1406
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 16: How much have they shaped the.

1407
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 1: Man you are?

1408
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 21: Uh, my my parents, my mother, my grandmother, grandmothers, they've

1409
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 21: shaped me.

1410
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:33,680
Speaker 1: They are me.

1411
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 21: I am them. Every single part of who I am

1412
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 21: is because of my upbringing and uh, the way they

1413
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 21: raised me. You know, my mother in the household couldn't

1414
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 21: bring bees home. She said that was uh, that was average.

1415
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 21: You know, you got to be outstanding, so it was

1416
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 21: ags or nothing else. And uh, she always pushed me

1417
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 21: to better myself, you know, always to do things the

1418
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 21: right way the first time, and uh, you know, try

1419
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 21: to limit your mistakes. And I think when I think

1420
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 21: about who I am today, satisfied.

1421
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 13: Because of that. And uh, you know, I just appreciate

1422
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 13: my upbringing.

1423
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 21: I appreciate my parents and obviously again extended hands is

1424
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:08,680
Speaker 21: is a way for us to uh to kind of

1425
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 21: meet at the middle right there.

1426
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,200
Speaker 22: Do you ever talk to your teammates about following their

1427
01:00:12,240 --> 01:00:15,560
Speaker 22: passion projects or getting involved in the community in any way?

1428
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 21: For sure, And a big shout out to China. You know,

1429
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:20,720
Speaker 21: he's uh our man of the Year this year. But

1430
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 21: you know, all the guys, man, it's important for all

1431
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 21: of us. Yesterday I was passing out food and uh

1432
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:29,080
Speaker 21: I was down there at Island Soul, Uh you know,

1433
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 21: a place that you know a lot of us are

1434
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,240
Speaker 21: familiar with, and I was out there with the community

1435
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:35,920
Speaker 21: just you know, uh, extending my grace and you know,

1436
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 21: being thankful, being grateful.

1437
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 13: Had a lot of people there. It was awesome.

1438
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 21: But uh, yeah, our team is we're big on philanthropy. Uh,

1439
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 21: we want to be active in the community. We always

1440
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:46,880
Speaker 21: talk about twelve is one, so that includes our fans

1441
01:00:46,920 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 21: and uh, the more that we can reach out to

1442
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:51,919
Speaker 21: the community and uh again be an advocate, the better

1443
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 21: it is for all of us.

1444
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 22: Going back to Sunday's game, I think that is the

1445
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 22: most energy I've seen from the defense on the sideline

1446
01:00:58,240 --> 01:00:59,560
Speaker 22: of any game this year.

1447
01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 13: Oh how much did.

1448
01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 22: They set the tone?

1449
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 13: Yeah, they set the tone.

1450
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 21: Our defense again has been playing phenomenal football.

1451
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 13: As of late.

1452
01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 21: Uh, you know, they started out really hot. I know,

1453
01:01:10,200 --> 01:01:12,440
Speaker 21: you know, some changes were made and some guys have

1454
01:01:12,480 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 21: stepped in and stepped up, and the way they're playing

1455
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 21: gives us a shot to win every single game. They're

1456
01:01:18,760 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 21: they're really leading this team. They're leading the charge right

1457
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 21: now and we love that. You know, That's that's how

1458
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 21: it always was here in Seattle. You know, I know

1459
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 21: people always you know giving old to the legion of

1460
01:01:29,120 --> 01:01:31,080
Speaker 21: boom and you know, we got some new guys, some

1461
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 21: new faces, but they're playing with that same energy and

1462
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 21: so you know, we want those guys to continue that,

1463
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 21: to continue to build on that, and uh, we're looking

1464
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 21: forward to another great game Sunday.

1465
01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:42,560
Speaker 16: On Sunday, just going back to New York still still

1466
01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:43,920
Speaker 16: hold any special meaning for.

1467
01:01:43,880 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 21: You all or always, you know, always, I've always had

1468
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 21: tremendous love and respect for that organization. Obviously, the team

1469
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 21: that drafted me gave me a chance out the gate.

1470
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:56,960
Speaker 21: You know, a lot of great people there, some people

1471
01:01:57,120 --> 01:01:58,800
Speaker 21: that I you know, was there with a lot of

1472
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 21: those people are not gone. So you know, as far

1473
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 21: as the whole revenge thing, that's not on my mind.

1474
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 21: You know, like I said, man, there's a lot of

1475
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 21: great people in that city that I still talk to

1476
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 21: and I still love and still support me. And so

1477
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 21: it's just it's the biggest game of the year because

1478
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 21: it's the next game. But uh, you know, definitely obviously

1479
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 21: because I was drafted, there's gonna be you know, a

1480
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 21: narrative that's built.

1481
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: You stay in touch with Rex Ryan, Is that something

1482
01:02:22,120 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 1: you guy you talked to?

1483
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 13: No, I don't talk to Rex.

1484
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 16: Is there a difference at all between a Jets game

1485
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 16: and a Giants game in that stadium, I mean, the

1486
01:02:29,040 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 16: crowd or anything, or is it just kind of this.

1487
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 13: Uh, you know, it's been a while since I've been there.

1488
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:35,840
Speaker 21: You know, I can think about last year when we

1489
01:02:35,880 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 21: played there, you know, Monday Night game. I thought it

1490
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 21: was you know, the crowd. It was the Giants game obviously,

1491
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:41,800
Speaker 21: but I thought the crowd was there and I thought

1492
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 21: it was just a fun game for all of us.

1493
01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 21: But you know, I haven't been there in so long.

1494
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:48,000
Speaker 21: I can't really answer.

1495
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 23: That, do you know?

1496
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 18: I know you can be hard on yourself about some

1497
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:53,880
Speaker 18: your own game. What do you kind of look the

1498
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:55,240
Speaker 18: last couple of weeks. I know you've had a couple

1499
01:02:55,240 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 18: of tough picks. You probably went back, but then the

1500
01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 18: bounce back from them to leave the key drugs you.

1501
01:02:58,800 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 13: Guys that needed to win game.

1502
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:02,400
Speaker 1: You kind of evaluate your last couple of performances.

1503
01:03:02,520 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 21: Yeah, always gonna look at the things that I can

1504
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 21: do better. I think that's the way I I've always

1505
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 21: approached the game. And so you know, you can make

1506
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:12,920
Speaker 21: the right decision on every play but one, and that'll

1507
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 21: be the play that I'll I'll emphasize and I'll look

1508
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 21: at the most and so how do I evaluate it?

1509
01:03:16,880 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 1: We won the game?

1510
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 21: That's what I care about the most. Uh, Other than that,

1511
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 21: you know, how can I get better? Many ways everything

1512
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 21: can improve, and that's something that I continue to work

1513
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 21: on daily.

1514
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 13: You know, where I think I am.

1515
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 21: I think I'm really, you know, a good player, and

1516
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 21: I think I have a chance to be even better.

1517
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 21: So as long as I continue to work hard, continue

1518
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 21: to stay focused on my process, as I talk to

1519
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 21: you guys about, you know, I think good things will happen,

1520
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:41,000
Speaker 21: and I think some of that stuff that's unlucky will,

1521
01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:42,600
Speaker 21: you know, kind of weed itself out.

1522
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 16: Some players might get a little gun shy if a

1523
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 16: bad play happens. You've in the last two games after interceptions,

1524
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 16: you've done some really good things. But what allows you, like,

1525
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:52,560
Speaker 16: what's the mentality to put that behind you and still

1526
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 16: make the plays you need to make later.

1527
01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 21: I mean, I grew up watching football, my favorite players,

1528
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Speaker 21: Brett far Born on the same day, and uh, you

1529
01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:02,919
Speaker 21: know what would Brett do? Keep slinging? You know, That's

1530
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:05,400
Speaker 21: that's the way we play the game. I never try

1531
01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:07,600
Speaker 21: to be reckless. I'm always trying to make the right decision.

1532
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 21: But I do believe in myself. I believe in my arm,

1533
01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 21: I believe in my process, like I always talk to

1534
01:04:11,800 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 21: you guys about, and uh, at times, you know, uh,

1535
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:17,280
Speaker 21: bad things happen. That's the way this game goes. But

1536
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 21: you can't let that affect you. If you really are

1537
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 21: you know who you say you are, then you just

1538
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 21: go and play the next play.

1539
01:04:23,120 --> 01:04:26,160
Speaker 13: Was that was far of kind of swinging mentality. What

1540
01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:27,320
Speaker 13: attracted you to this game?

1541
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 21: Nah, I love the game from the jump from Uh

1542
01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 21: just playing it. That's really what attracted me to it.

1543
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 21: Just playing football and being out in the yard. My grandmother,

1544
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 21: you know, she's the biggest football fan fan of our

1545
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 21: family and uh, she she raised me in in in

1546
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:44,640
Speaker 21: this world, and she just I've always loved football, you know,

1547
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:45,960
Speaker 21: from the time I put on cleats.

1548
01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 13: Yea, Why was pred far of your favorite player?

1549
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:49,120
Speaker 23: Uh?

1550
01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:50,920
Speaker 13: I just love the way he plays. I love his style.

1551
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 21: Think about like a guy who played a game, you know,

1552
01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:55,560
Speaker 21: a day after his father passed.

1553
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:56,920
Speaker 13: Uh, it's probably something I would do.

1554
01:04:57,320 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 1: Uh.

1555
01:04:57,520 --> 01:05:00,640
Speaker 21: We just love playing football. And uh, you know a

1556
01:05:00,680 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 21: guy who was if he was hurt, still goes out there.

1557
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:05,400
Speaker 21: Uh he's gonna leave it all on the line. And

1558
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 21: again we're born on the same day, so kind of

1559
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:08,160
Speaker 21: my spirit in him.

1560
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:10,800
Speaker 22: We've talked about the run game a lot the last

1561
01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 22: few weeks.

1562
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:13,360
Speaker 18: What gives you the most confidence.

1563
01:05:12,920 --> 01:05:13,960
Speaker 22: It's about to turn the corner?

1564
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 21: Yeah, I just think our guys up front. Man, I

1565
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 21: think you know, the way Olu stepped in and he's

1566
01:05:19,360 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 21: really leading the charge. You know, Olu's doing a great

1567
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:23,959
Speaker 21: job with communication. I think our plans have been great,

1568
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:25,880
Speaker 21: you know, I think the coaches have done a great

1569
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 21: job at putting together a scheme that allows us to

1570
01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 21: be successful. And then you know, with the backs that

1571
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 21: we have, man like, they're always gonna have a shot.

1572
01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:35,920
Speaker 21: Just watching Ken run the ball and Sharpennay and you

1573
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 21: know that big third down run that we had to

1574
01:05:38,200 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 21: kind of you know, get us in field position and

1575
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:42,200
Speaker 21: get a field goal on the third and six, right

1576
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 21: like running the ball in that situation. It's tough and

1577
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:48,080
Speaker 21: for us to go and get it that way, you know,

1578
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:49,919
Speaker 21: it says a lot about our team, and it says

1579
01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:51,120
Speaker 21: a lot about our guys up front.

1580
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:52,640
Speaker 13: And as long as we.

1581
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:54,880
Speaker 21: Continue to you know, power the ring game, continue to

1582
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:58,480
Speaker 21: stay focused on, you know, developing our run game and

1583
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:00,680
Speaker 21: and finding that balance that we want as offense, you know,

1584
01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:01,919
Speaker 21: things will, things will be great.

1585
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:03,920
Speaker 13: We just got to keep keep working at it.

1586
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:07,920
Speaker 17: You know, three straight intense divisional games and now you

1587
01:06:07,960 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 17: guys are facing US three and eight Jets team at

1588
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:13,080
Speaker 17: ten am. Start that something the leaders on the team

1589
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 17: are talking about making sure that the intensity stays where

1590
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:15,720
Speaker 17: it's been.

1591
01:06:16,120 --> 01:06:17,520
Speaker 13: For sure, it was.

1592
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 21: It was intense and walkthroughs today, Like I said, man,

1593
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 21: guys are just taking this thing one, one game at

1594
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:24,560
Speaker 21: a time. We're gonna treat each game like a playoff

1595
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:27,240
Speaker 21: game from here on out until we get to that point.

1596
01:06:27,320 --> 01:06:29,160
Speaker 21: And uh yeah, the leaders are doing a great job

1597
01:06:29,160 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 21: and making sure guys are focused. I think Mike's doing

1598
01:06:31,680 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 21: a great job and making sure we're focused. That was

1599
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:36,160
Speaker 21: the message today. You know, they're a very talented team.

1600
01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:38,720
Speaker 21: The record, you know, doesn't describe the type of team

1601
01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 21: they are. They've been in a lot of close games

1602
01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,400
Speaker 21: and they're a great second half team as well. They're

1603
01:06:43,400 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 21: gonna be at home coming off of buye. You know,

1604
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 21: they're trying to turn their season around, trying to finish

1605
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 21: on a good note, and so they don't care that

1606
01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:52,640
Speaker 21: we're coming in and or what we have going on.

1607
01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:54,160
Speaker 13: Again, this is the NFL.

1608
01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 21: They got Aaron Rodgers, they got great players on that

1609
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:58,280
Speaker 21: on that team, and we got to go out there

1610
01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 21: and we gotta take it. It's gonna be tough, but

1611
01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:02,360
Speaker 21: you know, we got the right mentality in the right

1612
01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:03,959
Speaker 21: guys might give you a lot.

1613
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:05,360
Speaker 16: Of credit for the check you made on that run

1614
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:07,800
Speaker 16: to Zach, I guess how much pride you taking that

1615
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:09,320
Speaker 16: part of the game and you know kind of the

1616
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 16: ability to do that.

1617
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:12,840
Speaker 21: Yeah, I take extreme pride in, you know, being able

1618
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 21: to play this game from the neck up. I think

1619
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:17,000
Speaker 21: that's why I've been able to last this long into

1620
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:20,080
Speaker 21: my career. I'm not just out there playing off athleticism.

1621
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:22,120
Speaker 21: There is a rhyme and the reason to the decisions

1622
01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:24,320
Speaker 21: that I make. And so you know, when I'm out there,

1623
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:26,640
Speaker 21: it's a chess game, I'm I'm up against the decordinator,

1624
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:28,800
Speaker 21: and uh, you know I get the final say because

1625
01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 21: I'm on the field. So I take that personally, and

1626
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:33,160
Speaker 21: I try to make sure that I'm always putting us

1627
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:35,080
Speaker 21: in the right position, getting us into the right place.

1628
01:07:36,200 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 21: You know, if there's a zero check or if there's

1629
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 21: something that you know, we talked about during the week

1630
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:41,480
Speaker 21: and I catch it on the field, you know, gonna

1631
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:42,960
Speaker 21: make sure I get to it. And uh, I think

1632
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:43,840
Speaker 21: it's been helping us out.

1633
01:07:44,040 --> 01:07:46,720
Speaker 17: So you were Leonard Williams as the best New York

1634
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:49,240
Speaker 17: restaurant recommendations.

1635
01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:52,440
Speaker 21: For the team, Probably Leonard, uh you know. He uh,

1636
01:07:52,680 --> 01:07:54,880
Speaker 21: it's a lot heavier than I am, so probably eat

1637
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:57,680
Speaker 21: some more. But no, I mean I've I definitely got

1638
01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:00,480
Speaker 21: some some decent ones. Maybe Reo spark a couple of

1639
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:03,800
Speaker 21: my favorites, but other than that, you know, I really

1640
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:05,480
Speaker 21: didn't frequent too many spots in the NYC.

1641
01:08:05,920 --> 01:08:06,600
Speaker 1: Thank you, guys.

1642
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:08,760
Speaker 3: John Boyle of Seahawks dot Com joins us.

1643
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 2: Next, This is the huddle every Thursday from noon to

1644
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:14,800
Speaker 2: two on Seattle Sports.

1645
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:18,920
Speaker 3: All right, final segment of the huddle. We are circling

1646
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 3: back to Seattle here and taking a look at this team.

1647
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 3: John Boyle, Seahawks dot Com reporter, joining us. Now, Hey Boyle, Hello,

1648
01:08:26,479 --> 01:08:30,240
Speaker 3: how you doing good? Some I thought pretty positive injury

1649
01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:33,639
Speaker 3: news in terms of n WOE suit sounds like being

1650
01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:38,479
Speaker 3: activated though some updates in terms of of Anthony Bradford.

1651
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:40,519
Speaker 3: Tell us what we need to know for what we

1652
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 3: learned from Mike McDonald's today for some.

1653
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 16: Of the Yeah, to clarify, Chenna is going to return

1654
01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:47,360
Speaker 16: to practice, you will very likely not be activated.

1655
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:47,720
Speaker 12: Yeah.

1656
01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:50,400
Speaker 4: Oh, sorry said don't listen to anything I say.

1657
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:51,760
Speaker 23: That's a good life.

1658
01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:57,240
Speaker 16: Sorry, nice, It was.

1659
01:08:57,240 --> 01:08:58,599
Speaker 1: Just hanging there for you though.

1660
01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:01,679
Speaker 16: Yeah, so he's Gonta turn to practice, which great first step,

1661
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 16: but yeah, he's not back this week. And then yeah,

1662
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 16: Anthony Bradford has what McDonald said was a high ankle sprain,

1663
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:09,360
Speaker 16: so they put him on ir kind of interesting. Sounds

1664
01:09:09,400 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 16: like we're gonna see a competition at that spot. We

1665
01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 16: all just assumed, you know, Christian Haynes is the guy

1666
01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:16,840
Speaker 16: because he has been you know, the number two guys

1667
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 16: so far this year. But Mike McDonald, without really being

1668
01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:22,280
Speaker 16: asked about it, volunteered the other day that they're gonna

1669
01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:25,120
Speaker 16: let us to allow Maya compete there as well and

1670
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:27,320
Speaker 16: split reps this week. So it could be a chance

1671
01:09:27,360 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 16: we see both guys on Sunday. Maybe one guy wins

1672
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 16: it and plays the whole game. But kind of interesting

1673
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:33,479
Speaker 16: that the the other rookie is pushing for playing time.

1674
01:09:33,560 --> 01:09:36,719
Speaker 5: Yeah, what are you hearing from McDonald about the defense?

1675
01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:39,320
Speaker 5: He's got to be as happy as he's been all year,

1676
01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:43,439
Speaker 5: and the last three really starting to come together. Guys

1677
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:46,920
Speaker 5: that they meant to have big years are having big years.

1678
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 5: What's been different from Mike from what you've heard?

1679
01:09:49,520 --> 01:09:52,280
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, I think it's just two things. One

1680
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:54,720
Speaker 16: the most obviously is they're stopping the run. And when

1681
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 16: they do that, you know, we heard this from Laron

1682
01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:59,559
Speaker 16: Williams earlier today, is like that's when Mike McDonald's defense

1683
01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:01,559
Speaker 16: can really shine and he can get into the play

1684
01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 16: calls he wants, the pass rushers he want.

1685
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:05,639
Speaker 23: Is when you actually get teams behind the sticks and.

1686
01:10:05,600 --> 01:10:08,120
Speaker 16: Having to throw the ball, you know, midway through the season,

1687
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:09,960
Speaker 16: when they're getting run on like crazy, it's hard to

1688
01:10:09,960 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 16: do much defensively.

1689
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 23: So that's a big part.

1690
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:14,400
Speaker 16: And too, I just think we're seeing, you know, the

1691
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:16,280
Speaker 16: results of what happens when you have a new coaching

1692
01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:18,360
Speaker 16: staff with a new scheme and you know they've made

1693
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:20,040
Speaker 16: some personal changes. It's going to take a little time

1694
01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:22,280
Speaker 16: for it to really start humming. And it's looked really

1695
01:10:22,320 --> 01:10:23,839
Speaker 16: different good these last couple of games.

1696
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:23,960
Speaker 12: For sure.

1697
01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:28,400
Speaker 7: Oh, defense, defense, defense, Yeah, I asked you the question.

1698
01:10:28,479 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 7: I think I think I asked you a question about

1699
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:32,160
Speaker 7: Kobe Briant. What we're gonna see out of him? Is

1700
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:34,759
Speaker 7: Rashwan gonna kind of get the start. We saw Kobe

1701
01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:37,160
Speaker 7: keep his spot over there as a starter, but Jenkins

1702
01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:37,880
Speaker 7: did play with that.

1703
01:10:38,080 --> 01:10:39,880
Speaker 1: Three safety left well quite a bit.

1704
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:43,440
Speaker 6: Is safe to say that Kobe is the guy moving forward.

1705
01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 23: I would think so.

1706
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 16: I mean, yeah, I think as long as he's healthy,

1707
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:48,639
Speaker 16: he's starting at this point. I mean, he's he played

1708
01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:50,679
Speaker 16: so well in the five games since getting that role.

1709
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:52,200
Speaker 23: Obviously just one player of the week.

1710
01:10:52,320 --> 01:10:54,080
Speaker 16: Now you can argue he might not even been the

1711
01:10:54,280 --> 01:10:56,720
Speaker 16: best player of his own defense because williands played so well.

1712
01:10:56,760 --> 01:10:58,080
Speaker 23: But cool to see him get that.

1713
01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:00,000
Speaker 16: I mean, there's a guy that had a great rookie year,

1714
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:02,840
Speaker 16: had some struggles with injuries and lack of playing time

1715
01:11:02,920 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 16: last year. So to see him earn this opportunity and

1716
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:08,280
Speaker 16: then just really take it on as well as he

1717
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 16: has it, it's just a cool story.

1718
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 3: To say, Hey, John, A matchup that we've talked a

1719
01:11:12,160 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 3: lot about on our show yesterday with Brian today obviously

1720
01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:17,680
Speaker 3: with Bump is the number two passing defense against a

1721
01:11:17,680 --> 01:11:19,599
Speaker 3: team that does like to pass the ball a ton.

1722
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:22,240
Speaker 3: Is this a game where you anticipate Ken Walker getting

1723
01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:24,360
Speaker 3: more involved or do you think Ryan Grubb and Gino

1724
01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:25,320
Speaker 3: really lean into it.

1725
01:11:25,400 --> 01:11:27,240
Speaker 16: I mean, I would think that if they can they

1726
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:28,800
Speaker 16: I mean they've been trying to run the ballf you

1727
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 16: look at Walker's carry numbers the last three games, going

1728
01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:32,880
Speaker 16: back to the Rams game, there you know, this isn't

1729
01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:34,479
Speaker 16: like earlier in the year where they're just not even

1730
01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:36,599
Speaker 16: trying to run and they're just you know, throwing a ton.

1731
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:38,720
Speaker 16: The efforts been there.

1732
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 23: Just has not been as successful as they want.

1733
01:11:40,360 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 16: So I think, you know, both because as you said,

1734
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:44,720
Speaker 16: their pass defense is good and just because to be

1735
01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 16: the offense they want to be, the Seahawks wantity bounce.

1736
01:11:47,240 --> 01:11:48,439
Speaker 16: I think we're going to see a good amount of

1737
01:11:48,479 --> 01:11:50,559
Speaker 16: run game if they can get it going. But you know,

1738
01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 16: if you have we saw so many first and ten

1739
01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:55,640
Speaker 16: runs that went nowhere last week, and you keep doing that,

1740
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 16: it's hard to stick with it.

1741
01:11:56,560 --> 01:12:00,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm offer, I guess asking you to to make

1742
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:03,439
Speaker 5: a prediction. But we had Jaln Sundell in here and

1743
01:12:03,479 --> 01:12:05,719
Speaker 5: it's the first time we've seen him, So I'm thinking

1744
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:08,760
Speaker 5: that they're thinking, okay, let's make this guy available. We're

1745
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:11,760
Speaker 5: going to see Do you think for indication of that,

1746
01:12:11,800 --> 01:12:13,880
Speaker 5: we're going to see more of him?

1747
01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:17,080
Speaker 16: You know, Look, I I don't like to predict how

1748
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:19,800
Speaker 16: the team's going to do things with the personnel and all.

1749
01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:21,000
Speaker 5: But it's kind of interesting that now all of a

1750
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:23,360
Speaker 5: sudden he's coming down here and talking to us, and

1751
01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:23,800
Speaker 5: he's been.

1752
01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:26,000
Speaker 16: Out the guy that's been really high on since they

1753
01:12:26,040 --> 01:12:28,000
Speaker 16: brought him in with you know, he's kind of a

1754
01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:30,759
Speaker 16: later later signing the undrafted guys.

1755
01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:32,160
Speaker 23: I think he might have had a health thing that

1756
01:12:32,200 --> 01:12:33,200
Speaker 23: might have been why he signed later.

1757
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 16: I can't remember, Jalen, but yeah, yeah, I can't remember

1758
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:37,320
Speaker 16: for sure why he signed so late. But they've they've

1759
01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:39,760
Speaker 16: been highing him the whole time, so you know, they've

1760
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:41,880
Speaker 16: they've gotten him involved in a few little packages here

1761
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:42,200
Speaker 16: and there.

1762
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:44,880
Speaker 23: But yeah, I mean he's a guy that they think

1763
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:45,320
Speaker 23: ily of.

1764
01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, they think he's really smart. The other

1765
01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:49,680
Speaker 5: thing is, you know, it's a lot of positions for

1766
01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:52,360
Speaker 5: a guy who's an undrafted free agent rookie, right, I

1767
01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 5: mean he's played fullback, he's played tight end, he's gone

1768
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:57,080
Speaker 5: in motion, he can play center guard.

1769
01:12:57,320 --> 01:12:58,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess Dockle.

1770
01:12:58,560 --> 01:13:00,559
Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean I think we've you know, when you

1771
01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:02,800
Speaker 16: we don't really know for sure all the visions he plays,

1772
01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 16: but when you just look at some of the games

1773
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:06,599
Speaker 16: of who's active and who's not, just by default when

1774
01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:08,320
Speaker 16: they had some injury tackle, well he must be their

1775
01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:10,680
Speaker 16: backup tackle too. So yeah, I think I think he's

1776
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:12,479
Speaker 16: a guy they see April do a lot of things.

1777
01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:14,400
Speaker 3: Can you imagine how funny it would be if John,

1778
01:13:14,520 --> 01:13:17,519
Speaker 3: who does have a lot of insight, obviously because you're

1779
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:21,080
Speaker 3: a reporter with the team, if they were like, yo, listen,

1780
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:23,800
Speaker 3: we actually have this crazy package that we're gonna have

1781
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:24,519
Speaker 3: Jalen in on.

1782
01:13:24,560 --> 01:13:27,160
Speaker 4: Whatever you do, don't say anything to Dave, and then.

1783
01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:29,320
Speaker 3: Dave just kept peppering you with But like, how funny

1784
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 3: would it be if like, like.

1785
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:31,760
Speaker 23: You're right, they're gonna run the fly seat.

1786
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:32,840
Speaker 12: You know, this week he.

1787
01:13:32,840 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 5: Got me if you think I could crack open boil

1788
01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 5: then I.

1789
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:40,160
Speaker 1: Mean the guys were raw.

1790
01:13:40,479 --> 01:13:41,320
Speaker 23: I don't know about that.

1791
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:46,840
Speaker 7: I love the attempt to be under center more by

1792
01:13:46,840 --> 01:13:50,320
Speaker 7: this offense. Yeah, do you feel and see that Grub

1793
01:13:50,400 --> 01:13:52,680
Speaker 7: is starting to try a few more things that he

1794
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:54,400
Speaker 7: maybe necessarily didn't do much of it?

1795
01:13:54,479 --> 01:13:54,519
Speaker 6: You?

1796
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:55,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe?

1797
01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:57,639
Speaker 16: I mean, you know, he said this from the day

1798
01:13:57,680 --> 01:13:59,479
Speaker 16: he got the jaw, or not the day he got

1799
01:13:59,479 --> 01:14:00,960
Speaker 16: the job, but the day we heard from him after

1800
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:03,200
Speaker 16: he got the job, is like he knows that not

1801
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:04,720
Speaker 16: everything that works in college is going to work in

1802
01:14:04,760 --> 01:14:06,439
Speaker 16: the NFL, and he's going to have to adjust. So,

1803
01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 16: you know, the Bible goes probably a natural time for

1804
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 16: him and all the coaches to evaluate things, and you know,

1805
01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 16: he's you know, his offense is always going to have

1806
01:14:14,200 --> 01:14:14,839
Speaker 16: a lot of shotgun.

1807
01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:15,840
Speaker 23: That's gonna be a big part of it.

1808
01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 16: But yeah, I mean, we have seen the under center

1809
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:20,639
Speaker 16: rate to increase a little bit, and you know, maybe

1810
01:14:20,640 --> 01:14:22,720
Speaker 16: that'll help them get some run game going or you know,

1811
01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:24,160
Speaker 16: whatever it is they want to get out of that.

1812
01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:25,960
Speaker 16: But I do think they're always going to be a

1813
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:28,719
Speaker 16: fairly shotgun heavy team just based off his history.

1814
01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 3: This feels like a silly question, but how do you

1815
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:33,439
Speaker 3: view the threat of Aaron Rodgers? Because we know who

1816
01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:35,599
Speaker 3: he has been, which is one of the best ever,

1817
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 3: but he also hasn't played like it this year, So

1818
01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:39,160
Speaker 3: I feel like, is it a sleeping giant or is

1819
01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 3: it someone who's lost.

1820
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:43,280
Speaker 4: I don't know, Yah doesn't.

1821
01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:45,639
Speaker 23: I have not watched enough of the just this year

1822
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 23: to have a great sense of it.

1823
01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:48,840
Speaker 4: You could be forgiven. I don't think that fans have.

1824
01:14:49,040 --> 01:14:51,200
Speaker 16: I think, you know, if you're preparing for this team,

1825
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:53,120
Speaker 16: if you have the seahawksy, you got to have it

1826
01:14:53,120 --> 01:14:55,400
Speaker 16: in the back and around like, man, you can't take

1827
01:14:55,439 --> 01:14:58,320
Speaker 16: this guy lightly no matter what, because you know, if

1828
01:14:58,320 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 16: he is with the bike. You know, we've heard all

1829
01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:02,679
Speaker 16: these different reports about injuries he's been playing through and whatnot.

1830
01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:05,160
Speaker 16: But if the bye week did allow him to get healthier,

1831
01:15:05,160 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 16: and if if that was part of us holding them back.

1832
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:09,160
Speaker 16: I mean, as you just said, he's one of the

1833
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,719
Speaker 16: best to ever do this. So even if it's not peak,

1834
01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:14,519
Speaker 16: you know, prime ten years ago Aaron Rodgers, he still

1835
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:15,880
Speaker 16: got a scary a little bit and he's got some

1836
01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:16,720
Speaker 16: great weapons as well.

1837
01:15:16,760 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, they could roll him out at sixty five and

1838
01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:21,880
Speaker 3: it'd still be like, you don't know, Yeah.

1839
01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:24,080
Speaker 16: He's still get a hard count you and throw deep

1840
01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 16: and want a free point.

1841
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:25,439
Speaker 1: Smart.

1842
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:27,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to see Spoon talk some mess to him.

1843
01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 5: I think a lot of times I can't understand exactly

1844
01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 5: what Spoon is saying, but I think it's hilarious.

1845
01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 1: It's so ortant. He's one of the best.

1846
01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:39,559
Speaker 5: Like in the post game, I swear he said something

1847
01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:43,360
Speaker 5: about a bad lady, but it was something about he

1848
01:15:43,479 --> 01:15:45,240
Speaker 5: was getting in his bag that lately.

1849
01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:45,840
Speaker 21: Yeah.

1850
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 16: Yeahah, magn Donaldson's bag lately is what he said.

1851
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 4: Lady.

1852
01:15:50,080 --> 01:15:50,280
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1853
01:15:50,320 --> 01:15:52,920
Speaker 1: I was like, what did he say there? Yeah? So,

1854
01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:55,920
Speaker 1: I mean I just I couldn't love a player more.

1855
01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: I mean we haven't.

1856
01:15:56,680 --> 01:15:58,160
Speaker 5: We've talked to him one time and when he came

1857
01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:00,280
Speaker 5: in here, he was super serious and he said some

1858
01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:04,439
Speaker 5: really unbelievably I don't know, it was like high end

1859
01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:06,840
Speaker 5: type of like veteran stuff. Yeah, the stuff that he

1860
01:16:06,880 --> 01:16:09,200
Speaker 5: talks about, he just he just seems to be like

1861
01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:12,679
Speaker 5: wise beyond his years, and he plays like a demon

1862
01:16:13,160 --> 01:16:16,519
Speaker 5: and then just when he communicates and like one, I

1863
01:16:16,600 --> 01:16:18,439
Speaker 5: was cracking up when I saw that he got a

1864
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:21,639
Speaker 5: taunting penalty until we missed the extra points.

1865
01:16:21,720 --> 01:16:24,160
Speaker 23: Yeah, but I mean he kind of probably got a couple.

1866
01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:25,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was.

1867
01:16:25,040 --> 01:16:27,920
Speaker 5: Gonna say, I can only imagine what he was saying

1868
01:16:27,960 --> 01:16:28,320
Speaker 5: over there.

1869
01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:30,280
Speaker 16: Yeah, No, I mean he talked a little bit to

1870
01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:33,599
Speaker 16: Kyler Murray, then realized the play was still going, ran

1871
01:16:33,680 --> 01:16:35,479
Speaker 16: him through a block and then got up and taunted

1872
01:16:35,479 --> 01:16:35,840
Speaker 16: some more.

1873
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:38,280
Speaker 1: So he went through a block that knocked down two guys.

1874
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 23: Yeah, he said.

1875
01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:41,400
Speaker 16: After the game, someone asked what the flag was for,

1876
01:16:41,479 --> 01:16:43,719
Speaker 16: and he goes taunting and it was definitely taunting.

1877
01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:47,760
Speaker 7: That's what I love about football is that like, cause

1878
01:16:47,800 --> 01:16:51,160
Speaker 7: you got it, you have to be emotional playing this game.

1879
01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:53,280
Speaker 7: You know, in basketball can be a cold killer and

1880
01:16:53,320 --> 01:16:56,479
Speaker 7: golfing and be quiet. In football, I've seen players sit

1881
01:16:56,600 --> 01:16:58,639
Speaker 7: here and be one way and get into the field

1882
01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:01,400
Speaker 7: and just transformed into a totally different player.

1883
01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:03,400
Speaker 6: And most of them are on defense, Dave.

1884
01:17:03,479 --> 01:17:06,559
Speaker 16: So that's a good offensive line. You see that with

1885
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:09,559
Speaker 16: some linemen. Yeah, abes that way. I mean, you watch

1886
01:17:09,680 --> 01:17:11,280
Speaker 16: you bring Abe in here. It's gonna be a.

1887
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:13,400
Speaker 23: Quiet interview, and you get him out there, he's gonna

1888
01:17:13,439 --> 01:17:14,360
Speaker 23: be flattening dude.

1889
01:17:14,960 --> 01:17:16,439
Speaker 4: Uh, last assign, it's an easy one.

1890
01:17:16,439 --> 01:17:18,000
Speaker 3: I'm gonna start with Bump because you were next up

1891
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:20,280
Speaker 3: with the question, and then uh, Boyle, I'm going to

1892
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:20,720
Speaker 3: end with you.

1893
01:17:20,920 --> 01:17:23,759
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, you go Seahawks win Sunday.

1894
01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 7: If what they win, if they're able to throw the

1895
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:29,960
Speaker 7: football like they have been. You're playing against the number

1896
01:17:29,960 --> 01:17:33,200
Speaker 7: two pass defense. Sauce isn't having a great year, but

1897
01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:35,640
Speaker 7: he's still athletic. DJ is the best corner they have

1898
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:36,080
Speaker 7: over there.

1899
01:17:36,160 --> 01:17:36,880
Speaker 1: We miss you. DJ.

1900
01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:40,680
Speaker 7: Just be able to do what you do best and

1901
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:43,200
Speaker 7: then sprinkle in some run. But don't switch it up

1902
01:17:43,200 --> 01:17:45,679
Speaker 7: now just because going against the number two pass defense.

1903
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say that, just because this is what I

1904
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:50,880
Speaker 5: want to happen. Take the ball away if especially if

1905
01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:53,519
Speaker 5: you get an Aaron Rodgers pick or two. I know

1906
01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:55,639
Speaker 5: it's not like he's handing them out right and left,

1907
01:17:55,680 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 5: but that would be nice.

1908
01:17:57,320 --> 01:17:58,320
Speaker 1: I would like to see that.

1909
01:17:58,760 --> 01:18:01,679
Speaker 16: I'm gonna say, don't don't let someone like Quinn Williams

1910
01:18:01,720 --> 01:18:02,400
Speaker 16: be a game wrecker.

1911
01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:04,040
Speaker 1: I think overall the Seahawks are.

1912
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:06,160
Speaker 16: The better team and they you look at this on

1913
01:18:06,200 --> 01:18:08,480
Speaker 16: paper like, Okay, there's a game they should win. But

1914
01:18:08,520 --> 01:18:11,479
Speaker 16: that whenever team's got that interior guy that can just

1915
01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:13,840
Speaker 16: mess things up, especially when you've had some trouble this

1916
01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:17,679
Speaker 16: year with interior pass rush, that can really tilt the game.

1917
01:18:17,760 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 23: So take care of him.

1918
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:21,240
Speaker 3: Make sure you are reading the latest from John Boyle

1919
01:18:21,280 --> 01:18:23,680
Speaker 3: on Seahawks dot com. Obviously, Wyman is going to be

1920
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:25,800
Speaker 3: on the call with Raves. Listen to Bump and the

1921
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:28,280
Speaker 3: rest of the crew on the Seahawks pre and postgame show.

1922
01:18:28,320 --> 01:18:29,519
Speaker 4: This has been the Huddle Oil