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Speaker 1: All right, man Ax, you go ahead. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the Richard Sherman Podcast. And it's free agency time. The

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Speaker 1: tampering period is over and deals are getting done like expected,

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Speaker 1: like people said, like the rumors said. Sam Darnold to

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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks is done three years. Either one hundred

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Speaker 1: point five million or one hundred and ten million. Those

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Speaker 1: a three year deal worth around thirty six million dollars

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Speaker 1: a year. Again, is this an upgrade over Geno Smith?

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Sam had a really good year last

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Speaker 1: year for the Minnesota Vikings. They had a great team.

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Speaker 1: They had an old line that that blocked, They had

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Speaker 1: great in the past game. Can the Seattle Seahawks mimic

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Speaker 1: that offense? I think in order to do that, you

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Speaker 1: the interior offensive line and you're gonna have to have

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Speaker 1: them played better than they did last season. And unless

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Speaker 1: that happens, I'm not sure this will be an upgrade.

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Speaker 1: Not because of Sam Donald's talent, but because you're not

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Speaker 1: able to execute up to your talent when you don't

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Speaker 1: have time to throw the football. I think Sam Donald

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Speaker 1: average three point zero seconds to throw last season. I

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Speaker 1: think the Seahawks only gave the quarterback two point five

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Speaker 1: or two point six seconds. I'd have to go back

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Speaker 1: and get the exact number. But that's where my concern

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Speaker 1: Gino to to be able to extend some of those

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Speaker 1: can Sam do it? I'm sure he can. You know,

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Speaker 1: people talking about a reunion with Clint Kobiak. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be fine. They'll run the football, but again, offensive line.

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Speaker 1: You have to fix the offensive line. A lot of

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Speaker 1: these runs were getting stopped in the backfield last season

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Speaker 1: Sharbonne at times last season looked like a really really

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Speaker 1: without dk Metcalf, who was the number one concern of

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Speaker 1: a lot of defenses in the receiver that they were

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Speaker 1: game planning for when they played the Seattle Seahawks. Now

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Speaker 1: it's JSN and JSN alone, you got bow bol I'm

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Speaker 1: sure they'll draft a receiver of two, but you gotta

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Speaker 1: We're going to give him the chance. We got to

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Speaker 1: When you look at the Seattle Seahawks, you got a

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Speaker 1: Just like everybody else was Vic Fangil. They're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: be fine. Jaron Reid, congratulations of my boy Jay Reid.

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Speaker 1: be great. Ernest Jones thirty three million dollars for three years.

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Speaker 1: And how it translates to National Football League. Sometimes it does,

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Speaker 1: My guy DJ Reed got paid for the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 1: They had to replace Carlton Davis who got big money

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