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Speaker 1: This is the huddle every Thursday from noon to two,

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Speaker 1: presented by hung the Services and Pacific Lampings Apply.

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Speaker 2: This is the huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpus, and

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Speaker 2: Stacy Ross. The Seahawks are winners of two in a row,

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Speaker 2: getting a holiday win over the Tennessee Titans. And how

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Speaker 2: about this one, you guys, another comeback win. You have

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Speaker 2: had back to back great fourth quarters for this team.

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Speaker 2: We're going to get into what needs to happen earlier

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Speaker 2: in these games, but let's start with just to come back. Dave,

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Speaker 2: I'll start with you. I love the stat This was

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Speaker 2: from a Seahawks pr about back to back comeback wins

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Speaker 2: for two separate quarterbacks. I think they said it was

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Speaker 2: the last time since ninety nine or something crazy.

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Speaker 3: Like that, right, Yeah, And Pete knew that stat on

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Speaker 3: the plane because he told me that. I was like,

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Speaker 3: oh wow, I didn't know that, and he said, I

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Speaker 3: think it's some kind of NFL record or something. I

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Speaker 3: don't know, but yeah. So they also had another drive,

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Speaker 3: and I don't think that was They weren't consecutive, right,

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Speaker 3: the two scoring drives, the one in the I think

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Speaker 3: there's one of the third order where they had the

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Speaker 3: scoring drive and the DK touchdown gets overturned. But now

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Speaker 3: that's five for this team, right because Gino's had four

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Speaker 3: and Drew Locke has had one. And the thing that

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Speaker 3: occurs to me is that, like when we talk about quarterbacks,

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Speaker 3: it's like, is he the guy that can win a

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Speaker 3: game for you? And he did that five times. Now

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Speaker 3: you can look at the opponents. One was Cleveland, pretty

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Speaker 3: good team, one was the Commanders, one was Detroit, and

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Speaker 3: then Nashville or Tennessee. So and then you've got you know,

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Speaker 3: Drew Locke with the drive against Philly. So you know,

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Speaker 3: that's one of those things you want to have. You

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Speaker 3: want to have a quarterback and an offense that's able

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Speaker 3: to drive the field and win a game for you.

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Speaker 3: And that's that's what's happened five times.

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Speaker 2: What do you think about Geno's day in particular?

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Speaker 3: I liked it.

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Speaker 4: I think it started off rough. I think you know,

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Speaker 4: you see it for two weeks. I'm not saying two

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Speaker 4: weeks is going to just derail you as a human

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Speaker 4: being or a quarterback. But something's different, right, and then

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Speaker 4: you got to trust your body, right, is my growing fine?

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Speaker 4: Can I push off at the way I want to

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Speaker 4: You're testing it out, and it seemed like the ball

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Speaker 4: wasn't coming off with the same velocity as it was earlier.

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Speaker 4: But as the game went on, he got more comfortable

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Speaker 4: and more comfortable. You see him hitting JSN across the middle,

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Speaker 4: Tyler Lockett on the sideline. He seemed like to be

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Speaker 4: more in control. They only had the ball what three

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Speaker 4: times in the second half, so it's not like he

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Speaker 4: had lots of opportunities to try to fix it. I

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Speaker 4: think he went in at halftime probably calmed himself down.

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Speaker 4: Also want to show some love to Shane Waldron because

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Speaker 4: I feel like he called himself a good game as well.

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Speaker 5: I think he.

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Speaker 4: Understood where the holes were in the defense when it

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Speaker 4: come to throwing the football, and he exploited them. So

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Speaker 4: it was a combination of Gino kind of settling down,

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Speaker 4: Shane Waldron figuring out where to the attack this defense,

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Speaker 4: and overall Geno having a Geno type of a two

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Speaker 2: I'll start with you again for this one and then

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Speaker 2: head back to Dave. Speaking of the offense. One thing

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Speaker 2: that was different in this game compared to the game

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Speaker 2: against the Eagles was just the explosive place for ken Walker.

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Speaker 2: He did have a really good run for twenty four yards,

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Speaker 2: otherwise had thirty four yards on sixteen carries two point

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Speaker 2: one yards per carry. That's not really where you want

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Speaker 2: to see him, and he's capable of so much more.

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Speaker 2: What kept them from being able to get the rung

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Speaker 2: the Eagles just.

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Speaker 4: The strength of the Titans defense is that defensive line,

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Speaker 4: and even when they have Jeffrey Simmons missing, they were

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Speaker 5: And then I feel like ken Walker.

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Speaker 4: At times was looking for just the home run instead

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Speaker 4: So they just weren't successful. When you resh the ball

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Speaker 4: twenty times for fifty eight yards two point nine per clip,

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Speaker 4: you never want to see that.

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Speaker 5: And then if you just take away that.

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Speaker 4: Long of ken Walker, man, you're heaving around what thirty

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Speaker 4: So I think it came down in matchups. We saw

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Speaker 4: They just won that matchup on the d line, honestly

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Speaker 2: We talked with Wyman, We talked with Kenny Albert, who's

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Speaker 2: going to be on the call for Seahawks dealers, and

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Speaker 2: we asked him if he could describe the Seahawks season,

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Speaker 2: you know, how he's feeling right now. He said he

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Speaker 2: would use the word resilient. And a lot of that

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Speaker 2: obviously has to do with not just their back to

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Speaker 2: you think that makes almost more of a statement for

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Speaker 2: this team, like that's the kind of win that they needed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so. I mean I think it helps,

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Speaker 3: like I said earlier, going into you know, cause like

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Speaker 3: what do we hang our hats on as far as offense?

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Speaker 3: I mean, who are we you know, the identity and

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Speaker 3: ever two yards on every other run. I've kind of

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Speaker 3: I'm like, it didn't work in the Tennessee game, But

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Speaker 3: do think in that game he should have gone more

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Speaker 3: trying to run against their front seven. They're not super talented,

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Speaker 3: once in a while, you know, he breaks it. He's

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Speaker 3: not having I don't think as good of a year.

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Speaker 3: And we were talking about this yesterday on our show.

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Speaker 3: Is this team better than last year's team? I feel

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Speaker 3: like it's kind of the same, kind of the same.

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Speaker 3: But you know, I don't know that Gino took a

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Speaker 3: I think with ken Walker it's it's tough as far

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you brought up Boy and Mafe because I

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Speaker 2: save like a good chunk of our open to do.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 2: There have been times in watching these two games where

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Speaker 2: I've just felt so frustrated. I've seen the frustration from fans.

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Speaker 2: And yet and back to back weeks, this defense has

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's a pretty good offense that you

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Speaker 3: feeling when we talk about ropo dope run defense.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't want to fool you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, the one thing you got to

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Speaker 3: Everything else was in the team. So what's talking about,

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Speaker 3: were obviously on purpose, you know, devoting more of their

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Speaker 3: They suffered in the run game really in both games.

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Speaker 3: would feel like, you know, Tomlin late in the season

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Speaker 2: Backs that have backup quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, backup exactly, backup quarterback. And then you got, you know,

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Speaker 3: a couple of backs that have together about two hundred

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Speaker 3: thinking that this week that's going to change. But it

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Speaker 3: it was kind of frustrating to watch, especially being a

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Speaker 2: Hey, Bump, how do you work back in if you're

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Speaker 2: Clint hurt? And Pete Carroll Jamal Adams, assuming he plays.

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Speaker 2: Jamal Adams did return to practice yesterday. Pete Carroll, though,

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Speaker 2: would not commit in a press conference to making Jamal

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Speaker 2: gonna see. We're just gonna see what happens. Julians had

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Speaker 2: two good games. You do have a run game here

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Speaker 4: I think Julian should be the starter. I think he's

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Speaker 4: earned that. It wasn't given to him right. Opportunity was

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Speaker 4: He was already getting snaps, but obviously got more snaps.

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Speaker 4: I would use Jamal red zone and running situations. Clear

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Speaker 4: do his thing. He's got seven TFLs so far this year.

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Speaker 4: And I would limit his snaps as well. Man, because

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Speaker 2: Before we get to it, I was curious to ask

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Speaker 5: I go around Monroe. I would never drive my car

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Speaker 2: I truly think you'd be there, like you'd be like, guys,

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Speaker 2: I'll be in four hours taking the golf cart.

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Speaker 3: One year, I got the entire linebacker room a bottle

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Speaker 2: Right, Here's what I didn't wonder enough for Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 5: Obviously it's public knowledge.

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Speaker 3: You know, they get free massages. Now they take people

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Speaker 2: Well, this is interesting from San Francisco newspaper s F

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Speaker 3: What do you think he went and said, let's go

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, what do you say? You know? I chip in,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got like, I think ninety four eighty five,

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Speaker 2: Well, and thankfully you're going to have some time to

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Speaker 6: There was a like a wine decanter in my locker.

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Speaker 6: Oh, of course I took it home, but like a

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I had a little one of them.

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Speaker 6: No, it was like half wrapped in like a bag

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I just see you just pull it up

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Speaker 4: Last game, I think your first game bag you played

435
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Speaker 4: like fifty.

436
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Speaker 5: Percent and eighty percent and one hundred percent back.

437
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Speaker 4: Was that part of the plan or were they kind

438
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Speaker 4: of checking on, checking with you when you went to

439
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Speaker 4: the silence, see how you were feeling.

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Speaker 6: Oh, that was more so the plan of like the

441
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Speaker 6: first game. I think that was Dallas. They had told me,

442
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Speaker 6: you know, hey, you're gonna you're gonna probably go fifty

443
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Speaker 6: to fifty percent. It's like fine, and then you know,

444
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Speaker 6: they kept kept checking in on me throughout the game,

445
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Speaker 6: and then it was the Niners. Next week, the nine,

446
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Speaker 6: it was I thought it was gonna be fifty percent again.

447
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Speaker 6: And then I came out for one drive and then

448
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Speaker 6: they asked me like are you good and are you

449
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Speaker 6: good to go? And I was like, well, yeah, I

450
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Speaker 6: can go. And then They're like, okay, You're back in.

451
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Speaker 6: And then from then on it was just you know,

452
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Speaker 6: full reps.

453
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Speaker 3: Ye take it take you a while to get back

454
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Speaker 3: into the flow. I mean, you started as a rookie.

455
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Speaker 3: I mean most guys don't. And so you did you

456
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Speaker 3: feel like you got a little bit interrupted or were

457
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Speaker 3: you able to keep that same flow that you had

458
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Speaker 3: from last year?

459
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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 6: I mean I don't really. I don't really look at it,

461
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Speaker 6: look at it as I can continuation. I kind of

462
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Speaker 6: look at is it's like year to year type thing.

463
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Speaker 6: I mean, obviously this year for me has been different

464
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Speaker 6: because I've missed most of the year, But I would

465
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Speaker 6: say that I'm still kind of getting back into it,

466
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Speaker 6: you know. I mean there are a lot of guys

467
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Speaker 6: who played a lot more football this year than I have,

468
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Speaker 6: and it takes It's not that it takes a while

469
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Speaker 6: to get going, but you know, reps are the most

470
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Speaker 6: important thing and when you have guys who've already had

471
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Speaker 6: thousands of reps this year, and then you know, as

472
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Speaker 6: somebody like me who's trying to get to that mark

473
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Speaker 6: and just you know, get myself going. So I'm just

474
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Speaker 6: continuing to move forward in that regard.

475
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Speaker 2: What was that process coming back, like, I mean, like,

476
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Speaker 2: I'm sure there were different levels too. First I'm doing nothing,

477
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Speaker 2: then I'm able to do walk through. Then I'm sure

478
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Speaker 2: the entire time you were in meetings, what was going

479
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Speaker 2: on behind the scenes kind of ramping up to your return.

480
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Speaker 6: So initially after after my little injection that I got,

481
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Speaker 6: actually wasn't like around the building for a couple weeks

482
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Speaker 6: at all, and that was just mainly for like they

483
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Speaker 6: want to meet a rest as much as I could,

484
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Speaker 6: and I couldn't really walk because it hurt. So I

485
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Speaker 6: was just kinda yeah, I was just kind of I

486
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,240
Speaker 6: was staying at home, I was watching football, try I

487
00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,399
Speaker 6: was trying to stay busy, you know, not go stir crazy.

488
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Speaker 6: And then, like you said, I kind of worked my

489
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Speaker 6: way progressively back into meetings and then meetings and you know,

490
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Speaker 6: maybe one or two walkthroughs, and then you know, started

491
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Speaker 6: being like non contact sort of things so yeah, it's

492
00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:39,679
Speaker 6: just a gradual building.

493
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Speaker 4: To two games, two game winning drives, two different quarterbacks.

494
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Speaker 4: What are the differences in the similarities of the huddle

495
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:49,960
Speaker 4: when you guy Drew leading the charge for a game

496
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Speaker 4: winner and Gino leading the charge for a game winner.

497
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Speaker 6: I don't I don't know if there's too many, too

498
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Speaker 6: many differences, honestly, I mean, the only difference is that

499
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Speaker 6: they're not the same person, Like in my mind, I mean,

500
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Speaker 6: I mean for me and for the old line, it's it's.

501
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Speaker 3: All the same.

502
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Speaker 6: You know, we gotta block, and we gotta you know,

503
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Speaker 6: do our assignments, and you know, it doesn't really matter

504
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 6: who's behind us.

505
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:07,640
Speaker 5: We just protect for him.

506
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Speaker 3: Hey, we were just talking about it seems like to me,

507
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Speaker 3: maybe I'm wrong, but it just seems like this is

508
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 3: the year of the screen. Everybody's running screens all the time.

509
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Speaker 3: Is that the timing on that you know, you've got

510
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,399
Speaker 3: to do a fair amount of acting right, Like you

511
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,120
Speaker 3: can't let that defensive lineman know that you're letting him

512
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Speaker 3: go right? That is that a play that you guys

513
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Speaker 3: run that it takes a particular amount of practice and

514
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,160
Speaker 3: reps and things like that. It seems like some guy.

515
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Speaker 3: They say, some teams are good at screens, some aren't.

516
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Speaker 3: What do you think about about the execution of that?

517
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:41,680
Speaker 3: Is that something that just comes from practice?

518
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Speaker 6: I mean, I would say just more or less comes

519
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,159
Speaker 6: from practice. I mean more teams some teams do it

520
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,639
Speaker 6: more than others, obviously, but some teams, like, you know,

521
00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:50,640
Speaker 6: it's part of their scheme more, you know what I mean.

522
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 6: And so you know, some teams practice it a lot,

523
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:57,440
Speaker 6: some teams practice it sometimes. And I mean every play

524
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Speaker 6: kind of has its own special technique that you can use,

525
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Speaker 6: depends on the front, you're looking at, who you're going

526
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 6: against and all that. So there's a lot of factors

527
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:05,480
Speaker 6: that kind of contribute to that.

528
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Speaker 2: When Russell Wilson was still here, we used to always

529
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Speaker 2: ask offensive lineman because he would obviously have these scramble

530
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Speaker 2: plays or he'd randomly end up somewhere else, and we

531
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 2: used to always ask offensive woman, like, what's it like

532
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 2: blocking for you know, a mobile quarterback at the time

533
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,360
Speaker 2: early in his career. It's like mobile quarterbacks A bit

534
00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 2: different when it comes to a running back because there

535
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,919
Speaker 2: are plenty of guys that you know, can can be

536
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 2: really explosive. But have you ever had that moment with

537
00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 2: Ken Walker where you're like, how did he how did

538
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:33,120
Speaker 2: he get twenty yards downfield? Like he just has these

539
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:34,639
Speaker 2: crazy plays. Have you had that moment?

540
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Speaker 5: Yeah, all the time.

541
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Speaker 6: I mean Ken's special running back, you know, and this

542
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,959
Speaker 6: early in his career looks like it's obviously very promising.

543
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Speaker 6: I mean we're part of the same class. Some of

544
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Speaker 6: the stuff that he's able to do is just like,

545
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Speaker 6: I mean, you can't help but just like be like wow,

546
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Speaker 6: you know, and it's it's it's great for like us

547
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Speaker 6: as oldlignement because it's like if you miss a block

548
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 6: and he makes his way out of it, then it's

549
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 6: like okay, like it wasn't as bad as maybe it looked,

550
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Speaker 6: you know.

551
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Speaker 5: So that's nice.

552
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Speaker 2: You could still claim the block, like you know, a

553
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,840
Speaker 2: cornerback will be like not on me. All I think

554
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 2: you should. I think you should do the equivalent of that,

555
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 2: like just start flexing.

556
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 5: I don't know if that's really much.

557
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,920
Speaker 2: Probably all right. He is a Lucas kind enough to

558
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 2: join us after practice and chat about about this game

559
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 2: and this team for a bit. Thank you so much.

560
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:17,680
Speaker 2: We appreciate it. Yeah, all right, you guys, we are

561
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 2: gonna have Devin Brush joining us next. Don't go anywhere.

562
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563
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Speaker 1: and Pacific Lamping Supply every Thursday from noon to two

564
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565
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Speaker 2: You are listening to the huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bambas,

566
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 2: Stacy Ross and joining us right now, right out of practice,

567
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Speaker 2: Devin Bush. Devin, how's it going. I was so sad

568
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Speaker 2: to hear the thing is bump and women were like, yeah,

569
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,159
Speaker 2: welcome to the life of a player that you You

570
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Speaker 2: guys don't really get to do much Christmas celebrating when

571
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Speaker 2: you're so far from home. Did you just take it easy?

572
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 2: Did you buy yourself a gift like we did?

573
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Speaker 5: We did see your sanna for the linebacker room.

574
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Speaker 2: So yeah, you have.

575
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Speaker 5: I had Darren Bates, what you gain?

576
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Speaker 7: I got a whole bunch of stuff, So limit was

577
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 7: like fine and all this, Yeah, multiple gifts and stuff

578
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Speaker 7: like that, so it was cool.

579
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Speaker 4: Almost messed up my white my white senna. I have

580
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Speaker 4: my sister in law and I didn't know I'm sitting

581
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Speaker 4: there at our celebration and my other systems like what

582
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 4: you get? What are you talking about? Because you didn't

583
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Speaker 4: get the email? So I had to run to the

584
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Speaker 4: store real quick. Email email, Come.

585
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Speaker 3: On now, get the email.

586
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Speaker 4: You got my number, check my real real professional in

587
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Speaker 4: the bumper's household.

588
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Speaker 2: But calendar.

589
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Speaker 4: Right, man, but you've been you've been getting some run man.

590
00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 4: You look you look comfortable out there. Man, it's uh,

591
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,760
Speaker 4: what's it like? Because offensively, right, when you switch playbooks,

592
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 4: the language is so different, but the concepts are the same.

593
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:53,680
Speaker 5: What's it like? Defensive? Defensively?

594
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Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, cover two is the two, there's

595
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,200
Speaker 4: the three. You know, this is the blitz? Like what

596
00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 4: was that transition lie from the playblook?

597
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it was more language first for the

598
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 7: first like a couple of months. Uh, it goes like language,

599
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 7: then it goes like rules, and then like after rules,

600
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Speaker 7: it's kind of like, all right, who am I playing with?

601
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Speaker 7: You know, who was in front of me? Who's my

602
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 7: three tech? Who was my nose?

603
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Speaker 3: Who's my end?

604
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 5: Who's my linebacker? Who's my safety corner?

605
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Speaker 7: So you kind of got to start like understanding how

606
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,719
Speaker 7: you play off one another. You know, whether you know, oh, snap,

607
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 7: this three texts fast field or this three tech kind

608
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 7: of kind of holds, you know, or across his face

609
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 7: faster than the other one. So like stuff like that.

610
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 7: It's like small stuff, you know, just more repetition things

611
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:32,159
Speaker 7: like that.

612
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Speaker 3: So I went from here to Denver and we're in

613
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Speaker 3: the same division, so we played him twice a year.

614
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Speaker 3: Tended to get pretty fired up playing the Seahawks. Yeah,

615
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,240
Speaker 3: it was. It was a good timing for you. You're

616
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Speaker 3: probably gonna be out there at.

617
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Speaker 7: Like I just got to say, you guys, just you

618
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 7: gotta just look at God work, you know, Like this

619
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Speaker 7: whole year, I've been just knocking on the door, knocking

620
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Speaker 7: on the door and then lo and behold.

621
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Speaker 5: Like I didn't come here to play the Stellers, you

622
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Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.

623
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Speaker 7: I didn't sign there for That means the opportunity to

624
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 7: just present this stuff is.

625
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 5: Kind of like, man like, I couldn't scripted this.

626
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 7: Yeah, opportunity came and this is what it is now a.

627
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Speaker 3: Little little extra excitement or you're probably fired up for

628
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 3: every game.

629
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm always fired up for every game, but I

630
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 7: think this one's like more for me.

631
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Speaker 5: Is not because of the formal team.

632
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Speaker 7: I think it's just the opportunity and the circumstances we

633
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 7: in right now. So everything is like a must win,

634
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 7: so to you know, to go out there and just perform,

635
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 7: you know, and and prove of my teammate is like

636
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 7: I'm here for the team, you know, so you know,

637
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Speaker 7: I mean I couldn't.

638
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Speaker 5: I couldn't. I couldn't have scripted this.

639
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 7: I mean I didn't script this, of course, but I

640
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 7: couldn't want it any differently.

641
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Speaker 2: You know, Now, you guys on defense had to do

642
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 2: your job. You've held your opponents in two weeks to

643
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,399
Speaker 2: seventeen points, but you've also in both games been standing

644
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Speaker 2: on the sideline having to watch the offense get back

645
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Speaker 2: into it. What's that like?

646
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Speaker 5: It's tough. I mean, you can't do much, you know,

647
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 5: throw It's like I got hands, you know, you're just

648
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 5: sitting in the side, justatching the game.

649
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Speaker 7: Like those these last two games, it's just less to

650
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Speaker 7: like the last like going to the last drive, you

651
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 7: just you don't know what to expand I ain't know it.

652
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Speaker 7: I ain't know they're gonna throw a bomb in the jig,

653
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Speaker 7: but I ain't know that. I just seen the ball

654
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Speaker 7: in there next year, know we caught it. So it's

655
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 7: like you don't know. You just you just got to

656
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 7: do your job and just get it to do is

657
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 7: as much opportunity as they can and kind of just

658
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 7: limit you know what other teams, you know, just putting

659
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 7: points on the board.

660
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Speaker 4: Pittsburgh had a game last week.

661
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 5: George Pickings goes nuts.

662
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Speaker 4: Alright, what eighty something yard touchdown sixty six?

663
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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 4: But when you look at this team, I feel like

665
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 4: they're gonna want to try to run the football with

666
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Speaker 4: their two backs, with Nause and then with Warren as well.

667
00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 4: Is that the feeling you guys get. It's gonna be

668
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 4: a physical type of game.

669
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Speaker 7: One hundred percent. I mean that's just the type of

670
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 7: type of style they bring anywhere to go. I mean,

671
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 7: they got those two backs for a reason, and obviously

672
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 7: they don't have a picket back there, so I mean

673
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 7: what else would you do? Right, So I mean, yeah,

674
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:51,959
Speaker 7: they they gonna bring it.

675
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying. They're gonna run the ball.

676
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Speaker 5: I mean we used to.

677
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Speaker 7: I'm in this is where you know, this helps me

678
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 7: out because Ice being nine on seven with those guys

679
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 7: for four years. So it's like I gotta feel for

680
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 7: and I gotta you know, I gotta if for. You

681
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 7: know what to look for and what to see and

682
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 7: how they move and who they want to run with,

683
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,080
Speaker 7: run behind, situation and stuff like that.

684
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were talking about that backup quarterback. It's late

685
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 3: in the season, you want to run the ball on

686
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Speaker 3: the road. And then you know Mike Tomlin right. So,

687
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 3: and he's always been one of those guys I look

688
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 3: at it, go I wish I'd played for him. Tell

689
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Speaker 3: us a little bit about his personality and the stamp

690
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Speaker 3: that he puts on that team.

691
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, he's just he's he's one of those

692
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,479
Speaker 7: one of those dudes where like, you know, his his

693
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 7: his actions.

694
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Speaker 5: You know, he's like more of action leader, you know.

695
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 7: You know, he's in the building all the time, he's

696
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 7: watching film all the time, he's talking about football all

697
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 7: the time. So I mean, if hey, coach is doing that,

698
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 7: you don't have no choice but to you know, kind

699
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 7: of follow suit. So I mean he's a real life

700
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 7: football you know junkie. You know, he really loved the history. Again,

701
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 7: He'll come in, he would come in and like team

702
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 7: meetings and talk about like the history of like you know,

703
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 7: the matchups you know, dating back.

704
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 5: From like eighties and nineties, you know what I'm saying.

705
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 5: So it's like he's just a football junkie. You just

706
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 5: love football.

707
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 7: So that's the top of energy he bring bring to

708
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 7: the team, and you know they want the same thing.

709
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 7: They just kind of want to be football junkies as well.

710
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Speaker 2: All right, he is Devin Bush kind enough to join us.

711
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 2: You guys actually have a playoff clinching scenario this weekend,

712
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 2: which is never thought that we'd be rooting for a tie,

713
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 2: but here we are. If you guys win, which knock

714
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 2: on wood, Yeah, that's exactly what happens. That's the half

715
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 2: that you can control, and then a time yeah, and

716
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 2: then a tie between the Vikings and Packers, and you

717
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 2: guys are in. I mean, I never thought i'd be

718
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 2: rooting for it.

719
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 5: The Vikings won.

720
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 2: First, so they so there's a weird thing where like.

721
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 5: You say tie, they got to go.

722
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 2: They got a tie, no tie like tie the game.

723
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 2: So yeah, so here's the thing. Hypothetically, we want the

724
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 2: Vikings to keep losing, so it's like ideally tie because

725
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 2: if they tie and you guys win, you guys are in.

726
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 2: If the Packers win, it's still good because it still

727
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 2: pushes Minnesota back. But it's not a playoff clinching scenario.

728
00:30:58,920 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 2: It's a it's a very.

729
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 5: His reaction is perfect.

730
00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 2: I know.

731
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 7: I thought right now, I'm like, we gotta win, we win, punching, like,

732
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 7: how are you going to end the game?

733
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 8: Tie?

734
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 5: I don't even matter, Devin.

735
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you and our listeners that Sunday Night football,

736
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,239
Speaker 2: if there is a tie, you guys have punched your

737
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 2: ticket as long as you win. So that is a

738
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 2: very cool over the world over overtime and.

739
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 5: Overtime hit zeros.

740
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 2: There hasn't been one this season, but if it happened.

741
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 5: Honestly, that's possible.

742
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 2: It's possible.

743
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 3: Is this soccer.

744
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 2: I'm just.

745
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,720
Speaker 5: It's possible. But like, didn the White Vikings win the

746
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 5: first one?

747
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 9: Yeah?

748
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 5: They lost? They lost? I thought they won. They lost?

749
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 4: Lines beat them? You mean the first time? The pack

750
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 4: don't know the Vikings and the Packers.

751
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 5: I don't like that. I think the Vikings won the

752
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 5: first one.

753
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 2: Did they still have Kirk though?

754
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 5: I believe so?

755
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, in Green Bay they have just.

756
00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 2: I don't know, damn, I know. Did they did lose

757
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 2: Hawkinson for the season. I gotta let you go. We're

758
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 2: keeping you late. But all right, Devin, thank you so much.

759
00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 2: Good luck on Sunday. That's the half. You guys got

760
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:07,040
Speaker 2: to control. We appreciate you joining us. All right, you guys,

761
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 2: don't go anywhere. We're gonna hear from Geno Smith.

762
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 4: Next.

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Speaker 1: This This is the Huddle presented by Hunt Services and

764
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: Pacific Lamping Supply every Thursday from noon to two Seattle Sports.

765
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Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to Gino speaking with reporters. Now,

766
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 2: kind of feel like you're.

767
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 10: Going into a normal week after all the ups and

768
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 10: downs of injuries and uncertainty and all that.

769
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, it feels pretty normal. You know, still taking.

770
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 12: Care of everything as far as rehabbing and getting myself ready,

771
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 12: you know for Sunday. I feel like at this point

772
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 12: in the season that's every single player on every roster, so,

773
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 12: you know, just trying to get as healthy as I

774
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Speaker 12: can and be ready for Sunday.

775
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Speaker 13: About Pittsburgh, obviously they're quite good. TJ watser thing, but

776
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 13: like what else.

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Speaker 8: Kind of.

778
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 12: Well, yeah, starts with you know TJ wat seventeen sacks.

779
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 12: You know, one of the better defensive defensive players in

780
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Speaker 12: the league.

781
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 11: Great edge guy, you know, a guy who he has

782
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 11: it all.

783
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 12: You know, he's got the bull rush, he's got you know,

784
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 12: quicks on the edge. He's really good at punching the

785
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 12: ball out, causing causing have it getting turnover to them,

786
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 12: and also great at you know, baton balls at the

787
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 12: line of scrimmers. So just being mindful of where he

788
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 12: is at all times, you know, knowing that we have

789
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 12: to have a plan for him and be able to

790
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 12: make sure that he is impacting the game the way

791
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,719
Speaker 12: that he has. And then overall, you know, Mike Tomlin

792
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 12: coach team. Uh, a defense that that plays hard, that

793
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 12: gives you, gives you multiple looks. They're gonna go out there,

794
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 12: they're gonna fight, they're gonna compete. They lead the league

795
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 12: and turnover differential, they're plus ten right now, and uh,

796
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 12: you know, they get a lot of turnovers, and you

797
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 12: can see they're.

798
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Speaker 11: In a lot of close games.

799
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Speaker 12: They figure out ways to win at the end, they

800
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 12: keep believing, they keep fighting. Very similar to how we

801
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 12: are and how we're built. So a great defense, a

802
00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 12: lot of good players on that side, some young players,

803
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 12: but uh another challenge. You know, they got Hyght Smith

804
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,719
Speaker 12: on the other side, who's uh he got about seven sacks,

805
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 12: but I think he's got two interceptions.

806
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 11: Uh, you know, a couple force fumble.

807
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 12: So, uh, couple guys on that side, we gotta be

808
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 12: uh very mindful of.

809
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Speaker 14: You see, in the way that they feel the most

810
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 14: of the secondary.

811
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Speaker 2: They've had a lot of injuries and.

812
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Speaker 14: And now Patrick Peterson's played in a position and there's

813
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Speaker 14: a rookie.

814
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 15: Starting it for him.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

816
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 12: Shoot, man, I feel like I've been pl playing Pat.

817
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 12: You know, it's my entire life since high school to

818
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 12: see him transition into to safety. He's always been an athlete.

819
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 12: He's always been able to play all the positions. And

820
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 12: I don't think that's no difference, you know. I think

821
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 12: he's always gonna be a impact player. That's just the

822
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 12: type of guy he is. Uh, type of ability that

823
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 12: he has. And then yeah, a rookie corner, but uh,

824
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 12: he's out there, he's playing like a vet.

825
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 11: You know, he's he's uh, he's got a lot of confidence.

826
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Speaker 15: Uh.

827
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Speaker 12: You know, a taller, slid, more slender guy, long arms.

828
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Speaker 12: Uh seems like he does well in and out of

829
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Speaker 12: break So, uh, another guy we gotta be you know,

830
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Speaker 12: on top of and make sure that you know, when

831
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 12: we're going at him replacing the ball in the right places.

832
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 12: They got a lot of talent, talented guys on that defense,

833
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 12: on that team, and uh, we expect them to come in.

834
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 12: They're fighting for their season, so we expect them them

835
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 12: to come in and uh be prepared.

836
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Speaker 1: Are you do?

837
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Speaker 2: You know?

838
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 3: What?

839
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Speaker 11: Are your thought so much? Russell Wilson's going through just

840
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 11: hears talk about Steelers? Kay, so free three?

841
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 3: Was that?

842
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 15: Wasn't this?

843
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,320
Speaker 11: Was that a message of support for him?

844
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 15: Uh?

845
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm talking about the still us today. Okay, thank you.

846
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,759
Speaker 14: The run game has been a little bit hit and miss.

847
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,919
Speaker 14: You're getting the yards through the air, and you're getting

848
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,279
Speaker 14: the points that you need. What would have any more

849
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,960
Speaker 14: yards on the ground do for options and just.

850
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 2: The offensive shut?

851
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think again, more yards on the ground in

852
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 12: the air, however we can get 'em. It's gonna help

853
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:42,919
Speaker 12: our offense, gonna help any offense. We always talk about

854
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 12: being balanced. That's a huge thing here. Uh, it's a

855
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 12: big part of who we wanna be as an offense.

856
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 12: And so the more we can run the ball, the

857
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 12: more efficient we can be in the running game. Uh,

858
00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 12: it'll open up everything else for our passing game, for

859
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 12: our play action, uh, for the boots and the nakeds.

860
00:35:57,640 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 11: Uh, it all works together.

861
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,880
Speaker 12: And it also allows the line to get settled in,

862
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 12: allow those guys to uh, you know, move guys, get

863
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 12: their feet moving, start to dominate games, take over games. Uh.

864
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 12: It just helps out in a bunch of ways. So

865
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 12: of course that's something we gotta stay on top of.

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Speaker 2: Does it matter what.

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Speaker 14: The anual balance isn't necessarily mean in fifty to fifty?

868
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Speaker 14: Does it matter what the yard, how the yards are

869
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,399
Speaker 14: distributed when you look at the final box for as

870
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 14: long as the deserts.

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00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't think stats matters long The only stat

872
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 12: that matters is a win. You know, I don't think

873
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 12: any of those stats really matter if you don't win.

874
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 12: But obviously, you know, you wanna be efficient in all

875
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,240
Speaker 12: you know, uh, aspects of the game. And so whether

876
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 12: that's passing, whether that's running third down, red zone, you know,

877
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,879
Speaker 12: it's all about being efficient. And uh that's a that's

878
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 12: a big part of our offense. So uh, as long

879
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 12: as we win, I could care less about how the

880
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 12: numbers look. Uh, that's something we'll fix later. But uh,

881
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 12: obviously we wanna just be efficient and be and be

882
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 12: great at all things.

883
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 11: Oh how critical agesy be efficient inside the red the

884
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 11: red zone, you know, with the balance the attack that

885
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 11: you're talking.

886
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 12: About it now, Yeah, fifte, you know, the red zone

887
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 12: is all about positive plays. You know, it's a shorter

888
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,879
Speaker 12: feel for the defense, right, so they obviously have that advantage.

889
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 12: And as an offense, you know, you just want to

890
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 12: continue to you know, if you can't move the chains,

891
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 12: continue to move the ball forward. You know, if you

892
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 12: get any negative plays in the red zone, it'll kind

893
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 12: of set you back. So you know, for us, we

894
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 12: just talk about being positive around the league. The yards

895
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 12: per rush is going to be down, the yards per

896
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 12: pass is going to be down because of the shortened field,

897
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 12: So you just want to make sure that you're being

898
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 12: getting positive runs, you know, two and three yard runs,

899
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 12: being able to move the chains, and then once you

900
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,439
Speaker 12: get inside that five, you know, just finishing the drive

901
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 12: with the touchdown, whether that's a pass or run. So

902
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,399
Speaker 12: being efficient down there in the red zone is big too.

903
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 2: You say, Dan Marino and Damn Hewart sent.

904
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 5: You a gift, is that right?

905
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 11: Yeah? Yeah, that was cool? Was that for the history

906
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 11: that they referenced?

907
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 3: There was that?

908
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 11: Yeah, two different quarterbacks leading.

909
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 12: Yeah, Damon Hewart and Dan Marino, they did it, and

910
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 12: I guess Izzo was actually on that team, so he

911
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 12: might be the common denominator and all this, and you

912
00:37:58,120 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 12: know they did it back then, and Drew and I

913
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 12: were to kind of, uh do that, you know, these

914
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 12: past couple of weeks. So it was cool to get

915
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 12: that from them. Dann Marino has always been one of

916
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 12: my favorite quarterbacks, and uh, that's something I'll I'll hold

917
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 12: on to forever.

918
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 5: Were you a Dolphins sand grown up?

919
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 11: Uh, wasn't a Dolphins fan, but was a Marino fan?

920
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 13: Did you get it out on the fact that you

921
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 13: can ended up gonna seem to score the games either

922
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 13: for both you and jo.

923
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 12: I know, I actually just realized that and that was

924
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 12: you know, it's kind of how football is sometimes, man.

925
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,919
Speaker 12: It just kind of happens like that seventeen to twenty, uh,

926
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 12: you know, both games, and you know, that was pretty cool, man,

927
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 12: just for both of us to have that moment, especially

928
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 12: for Drew to have that moment, and uh, for it

929
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 12: to come out the way that it has, you know,

930
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:34,959
Speaker 12: that's pretty cool.

931
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 11: You hit Jackson for that twenty yarder to start the ninety.

932
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 16: Six yard drive.

933
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 13: He hit the third down on.

934
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 5: The last drive.

935
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 11: Obviously a couple of game winners this year.

936
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,280
Speaker 10: What what about him as a rookie makes him come through.

937
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 11: In those big moments.

938
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: Uh.

939
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 11: I think it starts with his confidence. He's from day one.

940
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 12: Uh, Jackson's been the guy that's been extremely confident in

941
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 12: his ability. He wants the football, you know, and so

942
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 12: those pressure moments. He's played a ton of big games

943
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 12: at Ohio State. Uh, he's been the too guy all

944
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 12: his life. So he wants the ball and in those moments,

945
00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:05,919
Speaker 12: he knows, you know, it's gonna probably come to him

946
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 12: and he just gets to the right spot. He's got

947
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 12: great hands, he makes uh makes the tough catches look easy.

948
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 12: And uh, you know, he's a dynamic player. He's a

949
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 12: guy if they want to double DK and they want

950
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 12: a double Tyler. Uh, he's another guy that can win

951
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,400
Speaker 12: his one on ones. And I think he's continued to

952
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 12: show that, you know, over the course of the season.

953
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:24,359
Speaker 14: Uh.

954
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 12: Way back in shoot when we were in Miami throwing,

955
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 12: Uh kind of kind of hit him with a pass

956
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 12: and kind of hurt his finger a little bit, and

957
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 12: most guys would kind of shut it down and be like,

958
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:35,479
Speaker 12: you know what, let's come.

959
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 11: Back another day.

960
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 12: He went inside, wrapped it up, came right back out

961
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 12: and finished the drill, and so that that to me

962
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 12: spoke volumes about who he is.

963
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 2: We are going in the trenches with Ray Roberts. Next.

964
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:46,879
Speaker 3: This is the Huddle.

965
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: From Noon to to, presented by hung the Surfaces.

966
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 2: Entering hour two of a two hour Seahawks preview. It

967
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 2: is the huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpus, and Stacy

968
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 2: Ross and joining us right now, Ray Roberts. We are

969
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 2: going in the trenches. Ray. We just had Abe Lucas

970
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 2: on the show in the last hour and we were

971
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,399
Speaker 2: talking to him about kind of like that journey back

972
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 2: from injury and how long it takes to kind of

973
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,959
Speaker 2: like integrate yourself back into the offensive line. How hard

974
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 2: can that be for an offensive lineman when so much

975
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 2: of what matters with that position group is chemistry and

976
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 2: time together.

977
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 17: Well, it can be.

978
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 16: Can you guys hear me all right?

979
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 9: Because I have your speakerphone.

980
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,879
Speaker 16: Yep, we got you, Okay, Yeah, it can be difficult

981
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 16: sometimes because of the timing of like playing with the

982
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 16: guy beside you, whether it's to guard or to tackle,

983
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:42,759
Speaker 16: and then also just you individually getting back into the

984
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 16: rhythm of the game, the speed of the game. The

985
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 16: physicality of the game because you don't have all of

986
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 16: that in practice, and most of your practices are in

987
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 16: like shells most of the time.

988
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 9: So you're trying to come.

989
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 16: Back to a really super physical football game without being

990
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 16: able to be super physical on your way back.

991
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 9: So it can be a little bit challenge.

992
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 16: I've had to do it a few times in my career,

993
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 16: you know, every every other year. I missed a couple

994
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 16: of games here and there, and so it was kind

995
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 16: of a little bit difficult getting back into it. But

996
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:12,240
Speaker 16: but I think Abe and and Bradford have worked well together.

997
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 16: I think that going down the stretch here to be

998
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 16: important for them to really kind of get connected with

999
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 16: the running back and the running game to really make

1000
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 16: that thing work, because to me, that's where the magic

1001
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 16: is going to be for the Seos offense.

1002
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,680
Speaker 4: Hey, Ray, I'm looking at obviously got Watt coming into town.

1003
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 4: He has what seventeen sacks, he leads the league. How

1004
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:36,479
Speaker 4: do you defend a guy like him? I mean, maybe

1005
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 4: you don't, maybe you try to contain him, but what

1006
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 4: would be your approach?

1007
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 16: Well, the thing is is like a guy like him, man,

1008
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 16: he's gonna make some plays, right, You just hope that

1009
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 16: he doesn't make plays that they're gonna like grossly impact

1010
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 16: negatively impact the game for your offense. So you're gonna

1011
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 16: have to send tight ends at him, You're gonna have

1012
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 16: to send running backs at him.

1013
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 9: You're gonna have to you know.

1014
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 16: Chip a lot and pass protection. But the dude is

1015
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 16: he to me, he's one of the harder dudes to

1016
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 16: defend because even when he when he's blocked, he's really

1017
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,399
Speaker 16: good at jumping up and knocking the ball down. He'll

1018
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 16: find another pathway to the quarterback if you if you

1019
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 16: stop him from getting around the edge, he just keeps

1020
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 16: working until he finds a place to get to the quarterback.

1021
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 16: So I think the thing you have to obviously like

1022
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,359
Speaker 16: break the huddle, know where he is, Finn help his way.

1023
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 16: I would probably you probably better off running the ball

1024
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 16: at him, running play action at him versus h versus

1025
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 16: the other way. And so, but the chips and the

1026
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 16: you know, giving him more people to work through is

1027
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 16: gonna be important. And then you know, like he mostly

1028
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,800
Speaker 16: rushes over the right tackle. So big Abe is gonna

1029
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 16: have to be the big ad that we thought he was,

1030
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 16: you know, before he was all hurt and stuff. He's

1031
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 16: a big, strong dude. He's very gifted at pass protection.

1032
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:46,919
Speaker 16: He did it well in college, he's done it well

1033
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 16: in the NFL. So it'll be a big challenge for him.

1034
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 16: So part of the time, like you're gonna have to

1035
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 16: take your shots when when Abe is gonna have to

1036
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 16: block him by himself, and then other times you're gonna

1037
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 16: have to use a running back and the tight end

1038
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 16: to kind of chip at him.

1039
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 3: Hey, Ray, have you spoken with Anthony Bradford at all?

1040
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 9: I am not. I have not had a chance to

1041
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 9: speak to him.

1042
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 3: Well, I bring it up because he reminds me of you,

1043
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 3: Like he is a he's a very like aggressive, fiery

1044
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 3: player and you know he he drew a penalty the

1045
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 3: other day and I saw, you know, afterwards there's a

1046
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 3: flag and I'm like, oh, no, man, because he's gotten

1047
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 3: into little scuffles and things like that. But he's a

1048
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 3: super nice kid. But he you know, he's just got

1049
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 3: that that fire which can either help you or hurt you.

1050
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 3: And I feel like he's you know, he's it's helping

1051
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,280
Speaker 3: him and that he's a he's a similar type of player.

1052
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 3: Did you how did you use that as a player

1053
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 3: without getting in too much trouble.

1054
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 16: Well, I've got like, uh, you know, that's what I

1055
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 16: can identify with the DK Metcalfs of the world, because

1056
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 16: you know, we're people are complaining over DK for basically

1057
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 16: three penalties a fourth one to me, like he deserved

1058
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 16: he needed to go push that dude in the mouth.

1059
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 16: But but that's just kind of part of it.

1060
00:43:58,280 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 17: Man.

1061
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,600
Speaker 16: If you can't play on the edge like that, then

1062
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 16: I don't know, maybe it's not the right game, you

1063
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,640
Speaker 16: know what I'm saying, Like, you have to be willing

1064
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 16: to go as far as it will possibly take you,

1065
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 16: just so that you know how far you can go.

1066
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 16: And so I think you have to be I much

1067
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 16: rather have a guy that I got to dial back

1068
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 16: than a guy I have to keep preaching to every

1069
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 16: every day and every play to kind of keep him going.

1070
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 16: And so I like players that have that edge about him.

1071
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 16: And I like young players that aren't afraid of the

1072
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,919
Speaker 16: veteran players that are across the field from him, because

1073
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 16: sometimes as a young player, you can give the veterans

1074
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 16: too much respect, you know. And I'm not saying you

1075
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 16: got to go out there and be a jerk, but

1076
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 16: you don't have to go out there and take any

1077
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 16: of their crap either. You know what I'm saying, Like,

1078
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,760
Speaker 16: we're both men. Just because you've been in the league

1079
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 16: eight years and I've been here one year doesn't make

1080
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 16: the manhood any different. And so we're gonna play the

1081
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 16: game that way. And I love that he approaches it

1082
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 16: that way to me, Like Dave, I'm getting excited now because.

1083
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 3: I hear it. Ray, I'm rapping you up, man, I'm

1084
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 3: cranking it up.

1085
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 16: I have this saying that I always use its low hard,

1086
00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 16: meaning nasty. That's how you have to play it on

1087
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 16: the offensive line. And if you can't do the low

1088
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 16: hard and main part, be an expert at the nasty part.

1089
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Speaker 16: And the nasty part entails all of that. It entails

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00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 16: grabbing a face mask, twisting an ankle, punching a gut

1091
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 16: like whatever it is like that, like the nastiness is a.

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Speaker 9: Is a bedding for it all.

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00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 16: And so that's what I love about Bradford is that

1094
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 16: when his technique isn't the greatest, sometimes you know, his

1095
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,879
Speaker 16: position isn't the greatest. You know, maybe his conditioning isn't

1096
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,760
Speaker 16: the greatest, but his nastiness is always on point.

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Speaker 9: And I love that. I love that about it.

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00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 2: Ye, Ray, speaking of nastiness, what's the nastiest thing you've

1099
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Speaker 2: seen a teammate do to another player? Like, like when

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00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 2: that nastiness from a from alignment comes out where you

1101
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 2: were like, wow, Oh well, I mean, like.

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00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,800
Speaker 3: I say, Ray hasn't seen it, he's done it.

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Speaker 16: I've seen some guys do some Like the biggest thing, Well,

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00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 16: this video of somewhere of this my second year if

1105
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,280
Speaker 16: they were playing the Raiders and Rick Meyer was our quarterback,

1106
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 16: and so we were down in LA and every time

1107
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,760
Speaker 16: we dropped back to past, you know, they were dropping

1108
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 16: so deep that Rick would just take off running. So

1109
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 16: we just that became a play for us within the game.

1110
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 16: It's just we hey, we're just gonna do this and

1111
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 16: let Rick run. Well, then Weston Moss tappled him one time,

1112
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Speaker 16: had him in the bottom of the pile, and I

1113
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 16: could see from where I was he was pulling his

1114
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 16: face mass up and trying to punch him in the

1115
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,120
Speaker 16: face under the pile. So I just took off about

1116
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 16: fifteen yards away and I just freaking drilled this dude

1117
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 16: in the face with my farm as far as I

1118
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:34,879
Speaker 16: could boom knocked him off the pole and then next

1119
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 16: thing I know, I had Chasta Mclock and all three

1120
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 16: hundred and forty pounds of him like right in front

1121
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 16: of me trying to throw punches. So I was like,

1122
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 16: you know what, I'm on the raider sideline. I'm one

1123
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 16: dude is gonna get it. Like I know, I know,

1124
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 16: I'm but one dude is gonna get it. And so

1125
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 16: and so I just I just grabbed his face mask

1126
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 16: and just started getting in as many punches as I

1127
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 16: could possibly get in. And then I was getting clocked

1128
00:46:57,160 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 16: upside the head and knocked all over the place. And

1129
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 16: then and then I felt somebody like grabbing my shoulder,

1130
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 16: and I grabbed the dude and I pulled him like

1131
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 16: I'm trying to throw them off of me, and then

1132
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Speaker 16: she's going by.

1133
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:08,840
Speaker 9: I realized it was a referee.

1134
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,839
Speaker 16: So then I'm like, oh, I might as well get

1135
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:15,360
Speaker 16: all my money's worth now, and so I just started

1136
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 16: swinging at everybody and uh and got kicked out of

1137
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 16: the game and uh. But the cool thing about that

1138
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 16: story was I get to the locker room and they

1139
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 16: don't want me to come back out to the coliseum

1140
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 16: because the fans and stuff will be you know, chirping

1141
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 16: at you. And so I'm in the locker room. It's

1142
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,720
Speaker 16: before halftime, and I found this cooler that our trainers

1143
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 16: had that had beer in it.

1144
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 9: And so by the.

1145
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 16: Time the team came in at halftime, I was deep

1146
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 16: in somebody's locker, a few beers deep, and.

1147
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 17: I didn't know what was Everyone sat me on the back. Hey, man,

1148
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 17: appreciate it.

1149
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 16: Like we were killing him at that point. I think

1150
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 16: it kind of gave us a little spark and went

1151
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 16: down there and beat him. And the coach was coming

1152
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 16: up like all this other kind of stuff, and I'm

1153
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 16: just like, yeah, okay, but uh can I get another

1154
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 16: Cords light or whatever we're drinking?

1155
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 3: But yeah, I was.

1156
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 16: I was. I was toasted in the locker.

1157
00:47:58,000 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 9: Room after that gave Ray.

1158
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 2: Obviously, we all always love your insight. This might be

1159
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 2: my favorite answer you've ever given, though. This is an

1160
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,839
Speaker 2: amazing how.

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Speaker 17: Hey, Dave. I'm not even lying, Dave, like I'm like

1162
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 17: sweating and everything. It's just it's like you just like

1163
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 17: people don't understand, like this is why the running game

1164
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 17: is so important for offensive linemen, because, like I say

1165
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 17: all the time, I said down here before when we

1166
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 17: all started playing this game. We all played both sides

1167
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,760
Speaker 17: of the ball, right, So you're used to making tackles

1168
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 17: and blowing people up and knocking the crap out of people.

1169
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:31,720
Speaker 16: You don't get to do that when.

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Speaker 9: You pass block. You know what I'm saying.

1171
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Speaker 16: It's cool, that's a big part of the game. You

1172
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 16: got to be able to do it and make you

1173
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:37,000
Speaker 16: want of the better lineen in of the league and

1174
00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:38,919
Speaker 16: all that other kind of stuff. But man, I didn't

1175
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:40,960
Speaker 16: play back. I didn't play football to come out and

1176
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 16: just play basketball with a dude. I played football to

1177
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:44,960
Speaker 16: knock the hell out of somebody. And so when you

1178
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 16: run into football, you get to do that. You get

1179
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 16: to impose your freaking will on another person. And like

1180
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,960
Speaker 16: and when it comes to the playoffs, the teams that

1181
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 16: are better in the playoffs are the teams that dominate

1182
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 16: the line of scrimmage. And I think that's why the

1183
00:48:57,520 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 16: Seahawks need to get this running game going and on

1184
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 16: d they need to buckle up and start, stop and

1185
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 16: run because the teams are the healthy and can run

1186
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 16: the ball going into the playoffs tend to do the

1187
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 16: most damage.

1188
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 2: Hopefully we see plenty of that on Sunday. He is

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00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 2: Ray Roberts kind enough to join us for the huddle.

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00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Ray, haven't been Thanks for having me.

1191
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 16: Now I got to go find somewhere to towel off

1192
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 16: the Thanks big Ray.

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00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 2: See Ray. All right, we're gonna have another one of

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00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 2: your favorite voys of Steve Rabel join us next. Don't

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00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 2: go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Pacific Lamping Supply every Thursday from noon to two on

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Speaker 2: You are listening to the Huddle with Dave Wine and

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Speaker 2: Michael Bumpus, Stacy Ross, and right now Steve Rabel Rapes.

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Speaker 2: How's it going.

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Speaker 9: Great, guys? How are you doing? Everybody have a nice Christmas?

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Speaker 2: I had a wonderful you guys have a good Christmas?

1204
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, awesome.

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00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 2: Everyone had a good Christmas here, Rapes. We're proud to

1206
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,720
Speaker 2: report maybe that was helped in part by the Seahawks

1207
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 2: winn their second consecutive game. It's kind of nice to

1208
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:02,959
Speaker 2: win too in a row.

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Speaker 15: It is, indeed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my first question for you is just going to

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Speaker 2: be a vibes question, Rabes. It feels especially important to

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Speaker 2: me that the last two games were one in the

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Speaker 2: fourth quarter, Like I know, it's frustrating that they weren't

1214
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 2: dominant wins or they didn't get involved earlier. But for

1215
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 2: a team trying to you know, scratch and clots way

1216
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 2: back into the playoffs after losing four in a row,

1217
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 2: it felt important that they could kind of prove you

1218
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 2: couldn't you know, doubt them in these two And.

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Speaker 15: It doesn't come by just luck. It doesn't come by

1220
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 15: to somebody making one crazy play here or there and

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00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 15: suddenly you win the game.

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Speaker 9: I mean, we've given.

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Speaker 15: A great deal of credit obviously the JSN for the

1224
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 15: big catch Geno and Kolbe for the big touchdown at

1225
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:48,359
Speaker 15: the end of this last game. But there's a lot

1226
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 15: that goes into winning a game like that, not the

1227
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Speaker 15: least of which is simply believing you can do it.

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Speaker 15: And I think that's one of the most remarkable things

1229
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 15: about Pete Carol teams is that when he talks about

1230
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 15: in the law room after the game about you can't

1231
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:03,840
Speaker 15: win it in the first quarter or the second quarter

1232
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 15: or the third, but you can win it in the fourth.

1233
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 15: That's a belief system, that's an understanding of how good

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00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 15: you are and can be if you do things the

1235
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 15: right way, and so you know, what would the odds

1236
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:18,800
Speaker 15: be that you win another game in the fourth quarter

1237
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 15: in the last drive twenty to seventeen. I dare say

1238
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:25,880
Speaker 15: somebody will have that statistic. And if that happens on

1239
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 15: Sunday afternoon day, I know we're going to hear that

1240
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 15: this has never happened before in the history of the

1241
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:33,360
Speaker 15: National Football League.

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00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think we're going to hear a lot

1243
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 3: of holy catfishes so that happens.

1244
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 15: But yes, I believe you're right.

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00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, Rabes. You know, I was happy to hear Pete talk.

1246
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:48,800
Speaker 3: I wasn't happy about calling the run defense rop a dope,

1247
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 3: but you know, some of those things that we saw.

1248
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 3: I mean, first of all, they've given up a lot

1249
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 3: of rushing yards over the last couple of weeks, but

1250
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 3: we have not been giving up the explo And I

1251
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 3: thought that was kind of a quiet thing that kind

1252
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 3: of happened that you look back later, because after that

1253
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 3: San Francisco game, that was ridiculous. I mean, you know,

1254
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:14,360
Speaker 3: they had their the number ten longest play was twenty

1255
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 3: yards and everything was above that, and you look at

1256
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,360
Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks, and you know, I was

1257
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 3: kind of grumbling a little bit about the run defense,

1258
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,360
Speaker 3: but it seems like it's worked. I mean, it's obviously

1259
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 3: kept both teams at seventeen points and you know, you

1260
00:52:29,120 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 3: got you got wins there and then you know, just

1261
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 3: totally limited the explosive plays. Pretty pretty interesting, but you know,

1262
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 3: effective game plan as far as Pete goes.

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00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,360
Speaker 15: Yeah, and as he was saying this week, and you know,

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00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:46,919
Speaker 15: just in the second half against Tennessee, the way they

1265
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 15: were able to kind of shut down the run, We're

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00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 15: looking at another kind of team in Pittsburgh, like we've

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Speaker 15: seen several times this season, including this last weekend against Tennessee,

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00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 15: and that is a team that can run the ball

1269
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 15: pretty well well, doesn't score a lot of points, and

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Speaker 15: they have an all season long, mostly because their quarterback

1271
00:53:04,840 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 15: situation has been so up in the air, but that

1272
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:09,799
Speaker 15: in the last couple of weeks and especially last week

1273
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 15: against the Bengals, huge explosive plays. Part of that comes

1274
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 15: from the new quarterback back, basically the old quarterback, Mason Rudolph,

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00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 15: who's been there for a while and just sort of

1276
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 15: languishing on the bench, but he came up with some

1277
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,520
Speaker 15: huge plays to pickens. Deontay Johnson is a big play

1278
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,360
Speaker 15: guy at wide receiver, and of course Nagie Harris is

1279
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 15: kind of a battering ramp. So this is exactly the

1280
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,240
Speaker 15: kind of team that the Seahawks need to guard against.

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Speaker 15: You just cannot give up those explosives. They've done a

1282
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 15: good job in adjusting and doing whatever it takes to

1283
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 15: take those away. And now you know, you just with

1284
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:49,319
Speaker 15: their offense if they're not scoring on big plays, they've

1285
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 15: had trouble scoring points. So it kind of sets up

1286
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 15: for the Seahawks defense doing what it has done the

1287
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,120
Speaker 15: last couple of weeks and then giving your offense a

1288
00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:59,960
Speaker 15: chance to get out there. And as DK said yesterday,

1289
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,359
Speaker 15: well it's great to win it in the fourth quarter,

1290
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:03,879
Speaker 15: but I sure would like to win in the first,

1291
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,359
Speaker 15: second or third quarter. Score off points at the fourth

1292
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 15: quarter doesn't become that place where you have to make plays.

1293
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Speaker 15: We'll see if that happens on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Hey Raves, there's a situation that I'm gonna play pay

1295
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 4: close attention to. I think most people do. Either way

1296
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,880
Speaker 4: it goes. It's the red zone. You look at this

1297
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh Steelers defense and they're around twenty something when you

1298
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 4: look at all the major categories, when you're judging a

1299
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 4: defense except for red zone defense. Man their fifth when

1300
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 4: it comes to red zone defense and the Hawks are

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00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:38,399
Speaker 4: twenty eighth when it comes to red zone offense. How

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Speaker 4: do the Hawks get better at this? Is it just

1303
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 4: winning your matchup? Does it play calling? What are you seeing?

1304
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 15: Well, it's always a combination of that. But when you

1305
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 15: take a look at what Pittsburgh has, especially with TJ. Watt,

1306
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 15: Cam Hayward is still really good, but they've got so

1307
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 15: many injuries do the Steelers on defense? I mean they've

1308
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 15: lost a couple of safeties already. They've got rookies playing

1309
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 15: all over the defense, Joey Porter being won. But then again,

1310
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 15: you've got guys like veterans Patrick Peterson. I mean, he's

1311
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,879
Speaker 15: one of the best cornerbacks ever. He's seen a lot

1312
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 15: of time at safety in the last couple of weeks

1313
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,360
Speaker 15: just because of all those injuries. But this is a

1314
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:17,799
Speaker 15: pretty good defense, and especially when you don't have as

1315
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 15: much ground to cover behind you, you know, it makes

1316
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 15: it easier in the red zone in a lot of ways.

1317
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 15: And that means the Seahawks on offense really have to

1318
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 15: be stout upfront, especially because if you can score on

1319
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,240
Speaker 15: the ground, which has been a bit of an issue

1320
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,360
Speaker 15: for this team at times. Then you can control the

1321
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,400
Speaker 15: play action pass game and maybe find a way to

1322
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 15: score a little more easily through the air.

1323
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Speaker 16: But this defense is not going to.

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Speaker 15: Give you anything upfront, especially this Steelers defense. So you know,

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00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:50,720
Speaker 15: I don't know that it's going to be any easier

1326
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 15: than it's been all season long. They're just going to

1327
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 15: have to find ways to do it. But I kind

1328
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,799
Speaker 15: of trust in what Gino and the offense been able

1329
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,760
Speaker 15: to do last week and before that, drew in getting

1330
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 15: down there in that red zone and making something happen.

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00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 2: How does Mason Rudolph presumably starting this game, change the

1332
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 2: way that you might see it.

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00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:13,319
Speaker 15: It's really interesting about him. I mean, you know, I

1334
00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:16,520
Speaker 15: remember back in I'm old enough to remember twenty nineteen,

1335
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 15: whereas many of you kids can't. But that's that's when

1336
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:23,240
Speaker 15: Mason Rudolph actually saw a fair amount of action against

1337
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 15: the Seahawks back there in Pittsburgh when Roethlisberger got hurt

1338
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 15: and they ended up the Steelers didn't end up losing

1339
00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:34,399
Speaker 15: that game by a pair of twenty six. He's the guy.

1340
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:36,839
Speaker 15: He's got a big arm, he's a big, strong guy.

1341
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 15: He can kind of shake off a possible blitz. One

1342
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 15: of the reasons why he was drafted by Pittsburgh to

1343
00:56:43,920 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 15: be that air apparent to Roethlisberger. It's just never sort

1344
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 15: of panned out for him. But he can do a

1345
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 15: lot of things, and least of which is not the

1346
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,359
Speaker 15: least of which is throw the ball deep, Just throw

1347
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 15: it up and let your guys run under it. And

1348
00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 15: he's got some targets now that can do that. So

1349
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,759
Speaker 15: I think he's he's the guy for the moment, at

1350
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 15: least Kenny Pickett they really like. It's just that he's

1351
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 15: had some ups and downs. He's only a second year guy.

1352
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 15: I think he played better last year as a rookie

1353
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:13,360
Speaker 15: than he was playing this year. But Mason Rudolph is

1354
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 15: the guy right now. He's brought him a little spark,

1355
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:18,240
Speaker 15: and let's hope we can, you know, kind of damp

1356
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 15: and throw a bucket of water on that spark.

1357
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 2: All right. Raves is going to be on the call

1358
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Speaker 2: for this game on Sunday along with Dave Wyman. Seahawks

1359
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 2: taking on the Steelers Week seventeen. Thanks so much, Rabes, Thanks.

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Speaker 15: Raves, Thanks guys, good talking to you.

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Speaker 2: See you buddy, all right, still a lot to come

1362
00:57:33,480 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 2: your way. We're going to have John Boyle join us

1363
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 2: for some final thoughts as we wrap up our preview

1364
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Speaker 2: of this game coming up at forty four. After quickly

1365
00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:41,920
Speaker 2: final thirty seconds of this bump, I know you've been

1366
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:44,360
Speaker 2: watching a lot of tape on this team. What are

1367
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 2: you most curious to learn from brook Pryor when we

1368
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 2: have her on in just a couple of minutes, Maybe just.

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Speaker 4: What she thinks the strength of this team is. I

1370
00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 4: know how they want to attack the Seahawks defense. I think, yeah,

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Speaker 4: But how much confidence is in Mason Rudolph because eventually

1372
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:04,640
Speaker 4: he's going to have to make some throws. I think

1373
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 4: last week he kind of got lucky.

1374
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Speaker 5: Honestly, I'm looking at the film.

1375
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 4: There's a slant that went any something yards, mistackles horrible angles,

1376
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 4: there's a bench route where the corner's eyes were in

1377
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 4: the backfield, and I go without those two plays, he

1378
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 4: has an average looking day. So just how much do

1379
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 4: they really trust in this Mason Rudolph.

1380
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Speaker 5: I'm hoping that it's his fool's goal. What happened last week.

1381
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:29,920
Speaker 2: I'm so curious to see what we're going to hear

1382
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 2: from Brook, and that red zone stat is going to

1383
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 2: be stuck with me. That discrepancy is pretty concerning.

1384
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they faced that last week too. Zone tits

1385
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 3: were number two and it was kind of hard to

1386
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 3: explain because they were pretty crappy at everything else, Yeah,

1387
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 3: including especially taking the ball away. I think they had

1388
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 3: their number one interceptor had one interception. Nobody had double digits.

1389
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's kind of it's kind of weird that

1390
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 3: that stat. But I don't know if some teams are

1391
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,760
Speaker 3: better playing on a compacted field, you know, when you

1392
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 3: get inside the red zone. The other thing is, I

1393
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 3: know the Titans gave up a ton of explosive plays,

1394
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 3: so some teams weren't scoring.

1395
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 2: From the red stone, right, scoring from the All right,

1396
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:13,919
Speaker 2: well we're going to learn a little bit more about

1397
00:59:13,920 --> 00:59:16,040
Speaker 2: the Steelers. Brook Pryor, who covers the Steelers, is joining

1398
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 2: us next. Don't go anywhere.

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1401
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1402
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1403
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:35,919
Speaker 2: Stacy Ross. We are getting an opponent preview with Brooke

1404
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 2: Pryor of ESPN, she covers the Steelers brooke. My first

1405
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 2: question is just clarification. I saw that you had been

1406
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 2: tweeting some quotes from Kenny Pickett, who spoke with reporters

1407
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:50,640
Speaker 2: yesterday just to confirm it's Mason Rudolph starting Sunday, Right.

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Speaker 8: Well, that's the expectation, but the door is open for

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00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 8: Kenny Picket. And that's why it's been a little bit

1410
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 8: of an interesting week in Pittsburgh because Mason Rudolph has

1411
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:07,400
Speaker 8: gotten all the team reps with the ones. He's gone

1412
01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 8: through practice much in the same way he did last week.

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Speaker 8: But Kenny Pickett has been listed as a limited participant

1414
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Speaker 8: in practice. And based on what I know about Pickett

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Speaker 8: and the way that he conducts himself in the way

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Speaker 8: that he tries to play through things, I mean, he's

1417
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 8: been injured, not significantly to like a season ending type

1418
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 8: of injury or anything earlier this year with I think

1419
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 8: he had a bone bruise on his knee, he had

1420
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:33,880
Speaker 8: a ribs injury, two things that put his availability in doubt,

1421
01:00:33,960 --> 01:00:37,439
Speaker 8: and he rebounded and pushed to play and did play

1422
01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 8: the following weeks after those injuries. So he does not

1423
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Speaker 8: like being on the sideline, But it seems like this

1424
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 8: is not a decision that he gets to make. This

1425
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 8: will be up to the trainers and the coaching staff

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Speaker 8: whether they feel comfortable putting him out there. At this point,

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Speaker 8: I would expect it to be Mason Rudolph, but I

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01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 8: don't think that we will have any kind of significant

1429
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Speaker 8: clarity tomorrow afternoon, or maybe even pregame.

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Speaker 4: I'm looking at the quarterback situation in Pittsburgh and I

1431
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 4: see some similarities over here in Seattle. Well, well, my

1432
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:13,920
Speaker 4: question is are there some similarities honestly because you have

1433
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:16,440
Speaker 4: your your geno crowd who are allowed them proud and

1434
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 4: think Gino should be the guy. But then you also

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01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,280
Speaker 4: have fans that fell in love with Drew Locke with

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Speaker 4: his two starts. Did Mason Rudolph do enough this year

1437
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Speaker 4: or with that start last week to have people want

1438
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 4: to flip and see him play instead of kidding?

1439
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 8: Yeah, It's a really interesting situation because I think that

1440
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:37,320
Speaker 8: there's a lot of parallels not only in the quarterback

1441
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 8: situation in Seattle right now, but especially in Mason Rudolph's

1442
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:44,360
Speaker 8: career or what he hopes his career will turn into.

1443
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 8: In Gino Smith's career. You know, Mason's a guy that

1444
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 8: he's only been with the Steelers, but I mean, he

1445
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 8: got thrown into the starting job in nineteen obviously a

1446
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 8: very tumultuous situation starting kind of stretch here between being

1447
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 8: can cuss and knocked out against Baltimore to having his

1448
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 8: own helmet swung on him by Miles Garrett and Cleveland

1449
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 8: get finched. I mean, it was just chaotic, and after

1450
01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 8: that he really didn't get a shot to be a

1451
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 8: starter again until this year now when Mitch Trubisky got benched.

1452
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Speaker 8: And I think that the feeling in Pittsburgh is that

1453
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 8: it is somewhat evenly split between the people that want

1454
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 8: to see Mason, at least fan base wise, people that

1455
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 8: want to see Mason go back out there, and the

1456
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 8: people that want to see Kenny get back out on

1457
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:33,400
Speaker 8: the field. And it's kind of a stunning turn of

1458
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:36,160
Speaker 8: events when you know, you consider that Mason Rudolph was

1459
01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:41,040
Speaker 8: kind of the scapegoat for the Steelers struggles in nineteen

1460
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 8: and he was kind of just the guy that was

1461
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Speaker 8: the butt of a lot of Steelers fans jokes when they,

1462
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Speaker 8: you know, talk about the quarterback situation. But the way

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Speaker 8: that he played against the Bengals. You know, the Steelers

1464
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 8: offense with both Picket and Rudolph really lit up the

1465
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Speaker 8: Bengals defense. But it was the way that Rudolph did

1466
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 8: it touch the field, he showed his arm, he got

1467
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 8: just the vertical game more involved than opened up the

1468
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Speaker 8: run game, and it just felt like things were easier

1469
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 8: in a way that they haven't been for the Steelers

1470
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Speaker 8: offense for most of the season. And so I think

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Speaker 8: that maybe the prevailing narrative is that Mason should start.

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Speaker 8: People want to see him because it's been so long

1473
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Speaker 8: since they've seen consistently good offense.

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Speaker 3: It broke. You could say this for the Seahawks too.

1475
01:03:26,920 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 3: I mean, we start out game one, play the Rams,

1476
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:32,360
Speaker 3: get killed, then go on the road to Detroit and

1477
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Speaker 3: win in overtime, which was a really tough, you know,

1478
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:38,360
Speaker 3: place to play, and then you know, just got worked

1479
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Speaker 3: by the Ravens. You look at Pittsburgh, I mean, they

1480
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Speaker 3: beat the Ravens and then they lose to New England.

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Speaker 3: It just seems like it's it's kind of very I'd

1482
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 3: say in general, maybe in the NFL it's kind of

1483
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 3: like that. But what what is what happens in those

1484
01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 3: games where you know, they go to they go to

1485
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 3: Houston and they lose thirty to six, and then you know,

1486
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 3: you go to you go to the the Rams, which

1487
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Speaker 3: have been a really tough team for us, and beat

1488
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Speaker 3: them by a touchdown. What's the difference? And you know what,

1489
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:07,959
Speaker 3: what do you sort of where do you point for

1490
01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 3: those kinds of kind of wild swinging wins and losses.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it's I've been covering the Steelers now,

1492
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 8: this is my fifth season, and it feels like that

1493
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 8: every season ends up coming down to this because there's

1494
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Speaker 8: just so many swings and inconsistencies throughout the season. But

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Speaker 8: to me, the thing that has made this season different

1496
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:35,880
Speaker 8: is that the offense hasn't established an identity. They want

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Speaker 8: to be a run first team, and the games that

1498
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 8: they win, they are a run first team. But the

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Speaker 8: games that they're losing and just getting the doors blown

1500
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Speaker 8: off are games where they're not running the ball effectively,

1501
01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 8: where they're not committing to the run game. And the

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01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:53,920
Speaker 8: biggest different a differentiating factor to me is just the

1503
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:56,920
Speaker 8: sloppiness and the lack of execution, and that's come up

1504
01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:02,120
Speaker 8: with a bunch of penalties with you know, errors in formations,

1505
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 8: these presnat penalties, leaving guys uncovered at the line. It

1506
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:09,400
Speaker 8: just they're making these boneheaded mistakes. I think Mike Talmlan

1507
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Speaker 8: called it. They're making September mistakes in December. And that's

1508
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Speaker 8: the thing that really was going wrong for them in

1509
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 8: the last three games before this second Bengals game that

1510
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:22,400
Speaker 8: they were able to come out and win it and

1511
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Speaker 8: really dominate on but I think that they just the

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Speaker 8: offense has not been working all year, and then they

1513
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 8: had the coordinator change, and it just showed that there

1514
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 8: was fundamental mistakes being made, fundamental things that either weren't

1515
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:39,640
Speaker 8: being coached on offense or the message just wasn't getting through.

1516
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:42,880
Speaker 8: And so because of that, it's led to these just

1517
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:46,400
Speaker 8: wild swings and these white knuckle wins and these blowout losses.

1518
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 8: And it's hard to tell which direction this team's going

1519
01:05:50,760 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 8: to go. After a pretty convincing win against the Bengals, hey.

1520
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 2: Last one and just a quick one broke. I'm just

1521
01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 2: glancing at the injury report. Najie Harris didn't practice with

1522
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:02,720
Speaker 2: the knee injury. Minka Fitzpatrick didn't practice with the knee injury.

1523
01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 2: What's the latest from Tomlin on those guys.

1524
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:09,480
Speaker 8: You know, I don't think that Naji's injury is going

1525
01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 8: to be something that keeps him out. He's been dealing

1526
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:13,840
Speaker 8: with it for a couple of weeks now. It seems

1527
01:06:13,880 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 8: to be just a lingering issue.

1528
01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 4: Mink.

1529
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 8: If it's Patrick, though, I would be surprised if he played.

1530
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:21,320
Speaker 8: I talked to him briefly today. He said the knees

1531
01:06:21,360 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 8: getting better, but didn't have any real concrete updates on that.

1532
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:28,440
Speaker 8: So I think that I would expect him to not

1533
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:31,040
Speaker 8: be on the field Sunday, but there's nothing official on

1534
01:06:31,080 --> 01:06:31,479
Speaker 8: that yet.

1535
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 2: She is ESPN's Brooke Prior kind enough to join us

1536
01:06:34,600 --> 01:06:37,440
Speaker 2: for an opponent preview this Sunday's game between the Seahawks

1537
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 2: and Steelers. I am a shock. It was like every

1538
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:40,960
Speaker 2: question you answered, I felt like saying, you know, that's

1539
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:43,920
Speaker 2: funny you say that, Brooke, all of us similarities here

1540
01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:46,200
Speaker 2: in Seattle. It's going to be a fascinating game on Sunday.

1541
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:47,320
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining us.

1542
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 8: Absolutely, thanks for having me.

1543
01:06:49,640 --> 01:06:52,240
Speaker 2: Thanks before we get to John Boyle coming on, That's

1544
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:54,200
Speaker 2: really how it felt like. Even with the identity one,

1545
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:56,280
Speaker 2: my follow up was almost and it was the same stuff.

1546
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:57,720
Speaker 2: It's the same issues with the run game.

1547
01:06:57,800 --> 01:06:59,240
Speaker 3: I was going to interrupt her and say this sounds

1548
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:01,480
Speaker 3: oddly familiar, all this stuff.

1549
01:07:01,520 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 2: Everything you're saying, Oh, and there's like a safety who's

1550
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:09,280
Speaker 2: struggling to get healthy and everything happening all right. John Boyle,

1551
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:11,760
Speaker 2: Seahawks dot Com reporter, is going to join us next

1552
01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 2: and we'll recap our final thoughts heading into this one.

1553
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:14,800
Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: This is the Huddle presented by On Services and Pacific

1555
01:07:23,640 --> 01:07:28,120
Speaker 1: Lamping Supply every Thursday from noon to two on Seattle Sports.

1556
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 2: You are listening to the Huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpus,

1557
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:35,320
Speaker 2: and Stacy Ross joining us right now as we wrap

1558
01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:37,040
Speaker 2: up our thoughts and take a final look at a

1559
01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:40,840
Speaker 2: preview of Seahawks Steelers. John Boyle of Seahawks dot Com. John,

1560
01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:41,439
Speaker 2: how's it going.

1561
01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:42,560
Speaker 3: It's going great.

1562
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:43,040
Speaker 9: Stacy?

1563
01:07:43,040 --> 01:07:43,840
Speaker 3: How you doing good?

1564
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 2: You're very throwback today out Yeah. Oh, I wish we

1565
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:51,520
Speaker 2: had one more game in these throwback ninety alas. We

1566
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 2: do not rule. I know we may have a throwback

1567
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:57,880
Speaker 2: style though. You see what I did, Some good old

1568
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:00,600
Speaker 2: fashioned running of the football going on in this game.

1569
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:02,960
Speaker 2: Is that kind of the attack you're expecting from Pittsburgh.

1570
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, I would think both because that's, you know,

1571
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:07,760
Speaker 10: something they've leaned on in the past. And also, you

1572
01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 10: know they're going to look at what the Seaks have

1573
01:08:09,280 --> 01:08:11,040
Speaker 10: done well and haven't done well lately in the stocks.

1574
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 10: You know, last couple of games especially, they've taken care

1575
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:14,800
Speaker 10: of the passing game really well, but they have been

1576
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:17,879
Speaker 10: susceptible some ourney yards. So yeah, I'm sure the Steelers

1577
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:19,840
Speaker 10: with a backup quarterback are going to look to test that.

1578
01:08:21,160 --> 01:08:25,439
Speaker 4: I'm looking at Mason Rudolph and I'm watching a film

1579
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 4: and I'm just not convinced. But I know how this

1580
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:29,599
Speaker 4: game is.

1581
01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 3: Man.

1582
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:32,479
Speaker 4: Sometimes you just you're in the zone and things happen.

1583
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:35,120
Speaker 4: What do you think the best approach is for Mason Rudolf.

1584
01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:37,800
Speaker 4: Would you keep the show that we've seen the last

1585
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:39,600
Speaker 4: couple of weeks, keep things in front, or would you

1586
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:41,920
Speaker 4: challenge him and make him make themself throws?

1587
01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, we'll see. I don't know enough about

1588
01:08:44,360 --> 01:08:46,880
Speaker 10: how they were using Mason Rudolf last game to you know,

1589
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 10: give you a game plane, but I think that in general,

1590
01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:51,960
Speaker 10: they really like what they've seen out of their pass defense.

1591
01:08:51,960 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 10: I mean, they didn't give up a play longer in

1592
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:56,639
Speaker 10: seventeen yards in the passing game last week. So if

1593
01:08:56,680 --> 01:08:58,120
Speaker 10: you can do that, keep it on in front of

1594
01:08:58,120 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 10: you and say to Mason Rudolf, like, can you go

1595
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:03,280
Speaker 10: twelve plays without making a mistake and dink all the

1596
01:09:03,280 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 10: way down the field? You know they might take their

1597
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:05,760
Speaker 10: chances there.

1598
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:07,800
Speaker 3: Hey. I don't know if this happened here, if you

1599
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 3: were looking on like social media or anything, but I

1600
01:09:10,280 --> 01:09:12,680
Speaker 3: was walking through the stadium at halftime to get a

1601
01:09:12,680 --> 01:09:16,080
Speaker 3: hot dog or whatever, and as one does, yes, and

1602
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 3: people were saying every time to go to Drew Lock

1603
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 3: it's time.

1604
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:19,880
Speaker 11: Yeah I heard that.

1605
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:21,439
Speaker 10: I heard that a little bit on social media.

1606
01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:21,920
Speaker 9: Yeah.

1607
01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:24,400
Speaker 3: So, and you look at Gino, I mean, really wasn't

1608
01:09:24,479 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 3: you know he didn't He threw for seventy yards, sixty

1609
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,040
Speaker 3: three percent completion, no touchdowns, no interceptions, but the second

1610
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:34,960
Speaker 3: half seventy two touchdowns. I mean, do you get a

1611
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:36,720
Speaker 3: lot of that or like people? I mean, it's not

1612
01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 3: too surprising now.

1613
01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:41,080
Speaker 10: I mean, look, we as long as there's been football,

1614
01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:43,080
Speaker 10: I feel like the backup quarterback is always going to

1615
01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:46,639
Speaker 10: be popular because anytime something is going a little bit wrong.

1616
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:48,640
Speaker 10: I mean, look, there's maybe one or two throws I

1617
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:49,880
Speaker 10: can think of it. That first half that could have

1618
01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:51,240
Speaker 10: been a little better. But for the most part, I

1619
01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 10: didn't watch that half and think the offense isn't functioning

1620
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:54,240
Speaker 10: because of the quarterback.

1621
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:54,720
Speaker 3: It was.

1622
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 10: You know, there were some protection is usally, they weren't

1623
01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:57,360
Speaker 10: running the ball very well.

1624
01:09:58,120 --> 01:09:58,720
Speaker 3: You know it.

1625
01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 10: Look, Gino spent has been the starter here for a reason.

1626
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:04,000
Speaker 10: He's a really solid quarterback and they really trust him.

1627
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,400
Speaker 10: And you know, once he got going to the second half,

1628
01:10:06,439 --> 01:10:08,640
Speaker 10: he was really good. You just mentioned those numbers, and

1629
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:10,840
Speaker 10: that includes a game winning drive when he made some

1630
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:13,479
Speaker 10: great throws on that drive. So yeah, I mean they

1631
01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:15,400
Speaker 10: look they'd love to be great for four quarters and

1632
01:10:15,439 --> 01:10:17,120
Speaker 10: that's the goal and they're hoping to get there. But

1633
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 10: I still think there's a ton of trust in Geno

1634
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:20,439
Speaker 10: in this building.

1635
01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:22,640
Speaker 2: What have you seen in those final two minutes or

1636
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:25,360
Speaker 2: in those quick drives where you know it's a comeback

1637
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 2: because those drives are just especially efficient for this team

1638
01:10:28,040 --> 01:10:28,320
Speaker 2: right now.

1639
01:10:28,360 --> 01:10:30,720
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's more than anything, it's just kind

1640
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 10: of the collective group, the calmness of it, like you

1641
01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:35,240
Speaker 10: don't see you watch some teams go through two minut

1642
01:10:35,320 --> 01:10:37,759
Speaker 10: drive and it's a little like scattered looking and guys

1643
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:40,479
Speaker 10: maybe get a little panicky, and I think that's they

1644
01:10:40,520 --> 01:10:42,160
Speaker 10: We heard Geo Smith talk about this after the game,

1645
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:44,919
Speaker 10: how much they practice it here and what a big emphasis.

1646
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:47,040
Speaker 10: I mean, not that every team doesn't practice two minutes,

1647
01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:49,080
Speaker 10: but Gino Smith has been a lot of places and

1648
01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:51,160
Speaker 10: he was saying, like, it's different here, the amount of

1649
01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:53,400
Speaker 10: emphasis they put on it. So I think, you know,

1650
01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:55,200
Speaker 10: and obviously just having a lot of good weapons really

1651
01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:57,519
Speaker 10: helps in those moones because it's one thing to throw

1652
01:10:57,520 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 10: the ball in your balance and all that, but when

1653
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:01,000
Speaker 10: teams know you're throwing it, it really helps. When you

1654
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:04,880
Speaker 10: have three legit receivers and some really capable tight.

1655
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:05,719
Speaker 11: Ends and all that as well.

1656
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:08,599
Speaker 4: What do you make of oline play the last few weeks.

1657
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:10,880
Speaker 4: I got pretty much the whole band together. Yeah, which

1658
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 4: is in here, said he's played every snap last game.

1659
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:13,599
Speaker 5: What are you see in there?

1660
01:11:13,720 --> 01:11:15,639
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I think getting a back a few

1661
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,000
Speaker 10: weeks ago has really made a big difference. I still

1662
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:20,080
Speaker 10: think they're looking for more consistency in the running game

1663
01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:23,479
Speaker 10: in particular. You know, it hasn't just hit quite like

1664
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 10: they want, but I do think that group they like

1665
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 10: the growth they're seeing out of them. And you know,

1666
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 10: I think Anthony Bradford's a guy that you know, he's

1667
01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 10: a rookie. He's going to have his mistakes, but I

1668
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:34,000
Speaker 10: think there's a lot of upside there that they really

1669
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:34,559
Speaker 10: like as well.

1670
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 3: We just had Devin Bush in here, really excited to

1671
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:38,920
Speaker 3: see this kid play. I mean, a chance to see

1672
01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:42,120
Speaker 3: him last week. But you know, he's interesting story. I mean,

1673
01:11:42,240 --> 01:11:45,000
Speaker 3: he's playing his former team now, and there's always a

1674
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:47,680
Speaker 3: little extra juice, whether whether you want to admit it

1675
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 3: or not. As a player, yeah, that was the case

1676
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 3: for me. But he's really kind of an interesting story,

1677
01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:55,000
Speaker 3: kind of chance to get a fresh start and kind

1678
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:57,120
Speaker 3: of ironic that he's, you know, going to get to

1679
01:11:57,160 --> 01:11:58,920
Speaker 3: start this game against his old team.

1680
01:11:59,120 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, it's a it's funny how the timing

1681
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:02,720
Speaker 10: works out of you know, he's he's a guy all

1682
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 10: year kind of behind some really good linebackers on the

1683
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:05,559
Speaker 10: depth chart.

1684
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:06,799
Speaker 3: Now, Jordan Brooks is hurt.

1685
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 10: And we don't know for sure, but it sounds like

1686
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:10,120
Speaker 10: he might have a hard time getting back, and if not,

1687
01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 10: as he said, he starts against this former team and

1688
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:14,240
Speaker 10: you know, he's a guy they brought in. You know,

1689
01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:16,200
Speaker 10: I think they brought him in expecting him to have

1690
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:18,160
Speaker 10: a pretty big role because they didn't necessarily think Jordan

1691
01:12:18,160 --> 01:12:20,400
Speaker 10: Brooks would be back week one because of that injury.

1692
01:12:20,479 --> 01:12:22,559
Speaker 10: So he's a guy that maybe they thought would play

1693
01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:25,040
Speaker 10: more when they signed him. But Jordan Brooks, think this crazy,

1694
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:27,639
Speaker 10: you know, less than eight month recovery and was back.

1695
01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:29,799
Speaker 10: So this guy with you know, a ton of physical ability.

1696
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:31,439
Speaker 10: As you said, he's a first round pick, and he

1697
01:12:31,520 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 10: got off to a great to start in his career

1698
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 10: and then had I think an acl some sort of

1699
01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:37,720
Speaker 10: serious injury in his second year and just didn't quite

1700
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:40,240
Speaker 10: get back to for him there. So yeah, this is

1701
01:12:40,280 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 10: not you know, plugging in a backup. You don't think

1702
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:43,680
Speaker 10: he can get the job done. This is a very

1703
01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:45,160
Speaker 10: capable guy, a.

1704
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:48,400
Speaker 2: Guy who could be coming back. Jamal Adams has faced

1705
01:12:48,400 --> 01:12:51,360
Speaker 2: a lot of criticism, and some of it completely fair.

1706
01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:55,080
Speaker 2: Julian Love, meanwhile, has played really well for two weeks.

1707
01:12:55,560 --> 01:12:58,000
Speaker 2: Is there an area where, let's say Jamal is healthy

1708
01:12:58,040 --> 01:12:59,640
Speaker 2: and maybe they're splitting reps, Pete doesn't know what he

1709
01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:01,599
Speaker 2: wants to do. Is there just an area a phase

1710
01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:03,880
Speaker 2: of the game where you think I would still love

1711
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:05,040
Speaker 2: to see Jamal in there?

1712
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:07,519
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, look, I think you know, the knee

1713
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:09,639
Speaker 10: has obviously held him back a little bit this year,

1714
01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:11,559
Speaker 10: and he hasn't been himself, But I do think he

1715
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:14,120
Speaker 10: can still be still a really physical guy, good tackler.

1716
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:16,680
Speaker 10: I could see a scenario where if you don't want

1717
01:13:16,720 --> 01:13:18,360
Speaker 10: to take Julian Love off the field as well as

1718
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:20,840
Speaker 10: he's playing that Jamal can sort of be that big

1719
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 10: nickel that he can play in the box. He's good

1720
01:13:23,120 --> 01:13:26,200
Speaker 10: against a run, he can still blit. So I definitely

1721
01:13:26,200 --> 01:13:27,880
Speaker 10: think he can still help this team quite a bit

1722
01:13:27,920 --> 01:13:30,880
Speaker 10: in certain areas. But if A you're worried about his

1723
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:32,760
Speaker 10: health with that knee, and b you just don't want

1724
01:13:32,800 --> 01:13:34,720
Speaker 10: Julian Love to lee the field playing the way he is,

1725
01:13:35,160 --> 01:13:36,760
Speaker 10: that could be a role that would make sense for him,

1726
01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:38,679
Speaker 10: almost like we didn't really get to see it because

1727
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:40,960
Speaker 10: of Jordan Brooks's injury, but they wanted Bush to be

1728
01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:43,040
Speaker 10: sort of that They called it a big nickel in

1729
01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 10: the last game, where if you're facing a more run

1730
01:13:44,880 --> 01:13:47,679
Speaker 10: heavy team, instead of having a third safety on, it's

1731
01:13:47,680 --> 01:13:48,600
Speaker 10: more of a linebacker.

1732
01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:49,160
Speaker 5: Well, in this.

1733
01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:51,200
Speaker 10: Case, you know, Jamal's list is a safety, but he

1734
01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:52,440
Speaker 10: can play more like a linebacker.

1735
01:13:52,520 --> 01:13:54,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, you covered this guy for a while, so I

1736
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:56,000
Speaker 4: got to ask you about him. What do you think

1737
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:58,479
Speaker 4: about Russell Wilson in the situation over in Denver.

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01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:01,040
Speaker 10: I mean, look, I'll use the geno line.

1739
01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:02,479
Speaker 11: I'm here to talk about the Steelers now.

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01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:04,800
Speaker 9: I don't know.

1741
01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 10: I mean, it's obviously always unfortunate these situations when things

1742
01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:10,880
Speaker 10: don't go the way the team or the player wanted.

1743
01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:13,240
Speaker 10: But you know, I'm not there, so I don't have

1744
01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 10: a great feel for what all is going on behind

1745
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:15,920
Speaker 10: the scenes.

1746
01:14:16,840 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 5: You gave me the boring answer.

1747
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:19,560
Speaker 3: I mean, what do you want? I can't keep you

1748
01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 3: I know, yeah, I know you can't tell us what

1749
01:14:22,120 --> 01:14:22,759
Speaker 3: you really don't.

1750
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:24,639
Speaker 9: No, no, we're not going there. Yeah.

1751
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:27,759
Speaker 3: We were talking earlier about sort of the wild Swings

1752
01:14:27,800 --> 01:14:32,400
Speaker 3: with the Brook the reporter, and I'm sorry prior, you know,

1753
01:14:32,439 --> 01:14:35,679
Speaker 3: and you look at like they lose to New England

1754
01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:37,800
Speaker 3: and then they go and beat the Rams and kind

1755
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:40,040
Speaker 3: of I feel like that's kind of us. And she

1756
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:44,280
Speaker 3: was explaining, you know, what are the successes and what

1757
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:47,120
Speaker 3: are the failures, and it was like a failure to

1758
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:50,240
Speaker 3: really establish an identity of what this team is. But

1759
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 3: I think the one thing they do really well, like

1760
01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:55,559
Speaker 3: where they hang their hat. You know, like a third

1761
01:14:55,600 --> 01:14:58,360
Speaker 3: of their games they've had comeback drives, you know, for

1762
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:00,280
Speaker 3: Gino to be able to do that, and I think

1763
01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:03,320
Speaker 3: it's kind of interesting because whenever someone judges a quarterback,

1764
01:15:03,680 --> 01:15:05,960
Speaker 3: they're like, uh, can he take you on a game

1765
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:08,639
Speaker 3: winning drive? That's usually the question. The other one is,

1766
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:10,680
Speaker 3: you know, can he do that in the playoffs? But

1767
01:15:11,160 --> 01:15:13,599
Speaker 3: I mean that's something that they kind of can hang

1768
01:15:13,640 --> 01:15:15,320
Speaker 3: their hat on, right, Yeah, for sure.

1769
01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:17,320
Speaker 10: I mean that's as long as Pete Carroll's been here.

1770
01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:19,040
Speaker 10: He makes a big deal out of finishing, and they've

1771
01:15:19,080 --> 01:15:22,120
Speaker 10: done that really well this year. I mean what four yeah,

1772
01:15:22,120 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 10: you said, four gaming as for Gino Smith plus one

1773
01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:25,000
Speaker 10: for Drew Locke.

1774
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:25,479
Speaker 11: I remember.

1775
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:27,920
Speaker 10: It's funny because early last season, when Gino was a

1776
01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:29,800
Speaker 10: starter and he's playing really well, that was sort of

1777
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:31,599
Speaker 10: the thing people are thrown out there. I was like, oh,

1778
01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:33,120
Speaker 10: but can he come through in the clutch? And it

1779
01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 10: was like, I think it was at the Rams. He

1780
01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:36,600
Speaker 10: did it midway through the season was sort of the

1781
01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:40,000
Speaker 10: first time. And now it's he's doing it almost every week,

1782
01:15:40,040 --> 01:15:42,680
Speaker 10: it feels like, and that's a big deal. And I mean,

1783
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:45,400
Speaker 10: so many games in the NFL I mean team the

1784
01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:47,800
Speaker 10: Seahawks beat last week, the Titans. They now have I

1785
01:15:47,800 --> 01:15:50,080
Speaker 10: think with that loss eight losses seven or eight losses

1786
01:15:50,120 --> 01:15:53,600
Speaker 10: by singles score margins. So that's the way this league is.

1787
01:15:53,640 --> 01:15:56,400
Speaker 10: And sometimes difference between being five and ten like the

1788
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:58,000
Speaker 10: Titans are right now, and an eight win team like

1789
01:15:58,000 --> 01:15:59,639
Speaker 10: the Seahawks is finishing those games.

1790
01:15:59,720 --> 01:16:02,439
Speaker 2: Final minute thirty. You guys know how we do this.

1791
01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 2: I always end with refresh, my supid prompt that you

1792
01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:10,479
Speaker 2: guys all hate. You have choices, though, Okay, it's either

1793
01:16:11,160 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 2: choose which one you want. It's one's called keep it

1794
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:18,200
Speaker 2: rolling and one's called spirit of giving. Okay, which one

1795
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:18,559
Speaker 2: do you want?

1796
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:19,320
Speaker 3: Keep it rolling?

1797
01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:23,599
Speaker 2: Keep it rolling? What is something the Seahawks have been

1798
01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:26,680
Speaker 2: doing well? Something you liked in the last game or

1799
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:29,280
Speaker 2: even in the game prior that you want to see

1800
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:33,000
Speaker 2: them do more of John, You can go ahead and

1801
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:34,640
Speaker 2: go first. We'll wrap up with.

1802
01:16:34,280 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 11: Taking care of the football.

1803
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 10: They two straight games with that turnover, they're five and

1804
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:39,400
Speaker 10: one when they don't turn the ball over this year,

1805
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 10: Pittsburgh's tied for first league and turnover differential.

1806
01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:43,360
Speaker 11: So don't give the ball away.

1807
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, here you go. I would say continue to limit

1808
01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:51,800
Speaker 3: the big place. You know, they've had a twenty three

1809
01:16:51,880 --> 01:16:53,719
Speaker 3: yarder and a twenty yarder have been in the last

1810
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 3: two games the biggest plays that they've given up. So

1811
01:16:57,000 --> 01:17:00,080
Speaker 3: as much as I don't like the term ropodope for

1812
01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:04,640
Speaker 3: run defense, UH, if they can continue to do that,

1813
01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:05,400
Speaker 3: I think they get a win.

1814
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:08,320
Speaker 5: Bump, keep distributing the football.

1815
01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:11,160
Speaker 4: Last week for receivers, two running backs and two tight

1816
01:17:11,240 --> 01:17:12,720
Speaker 4: ends all had receptions.

1817
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:17,280
Speaker 2: You guys all have the wrong answer. Well, I mean,

1818
01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:19,439
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. These are all great answers.

1819
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:22,920
Speaker 3: You're right, Gino gets on a roll like he gets

1820
01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:26,640
Speaker 3: when he starts distributing it to There's one driver that

1821
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:31,960
Speaker 3: goes Bobo Walker. Lock it. Yeah, yeah, awesome.

1822
01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:34,280
Speaker 2: Makes it tough on a defense. John, thank you so

1823
01:17:34,360 --> 01:17:36,439
Speaker 2: much for joining us. You guys can read more from

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01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:40,400
Speaker 2: John Boyle at SILS dot com. UH for Dave Wyman,

1825
01:17:40,439 --> 01:17:42,599
Speaker 2: Michael Bump as I'm Stacy Ross. This has been the huddle.