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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Seahawks Insiders Podcast. Jen Mueller and John

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Speaker 1: Boyle with you as the Seahawks look for a Sunday

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Speaker 1: night matchup and perhaps a Sunday night win against the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings to go to five and oh for the

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Speaker 1: first time in franchise history. John Boyle, it feels like

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Speaker 1: every single week we are talking about some sort of

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Speaker 1: potential history for this team. Yeah, it's been kind of

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Speaker 1: an early season of milestones, mostly on offense, but also

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Speaker 1: only been four and oh the one time in that

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Speaker 1: I mean, I recall that being a very long season.

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Speaker 1: We could do that again. But I wouldn't mind doing

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Speaker 1: prolific rate. In fact, no team has scored more touchdowns

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Speaker 1: entire time talking about Russell and the wide receivers, but

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Speaker 1: I do think the biggest storyline around the Seahawks this

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Speaker 1: Damon's he's been a real force in the league, and

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Speaker 1: you've noticed we've been able to use players off our

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Speaker 1: they've been part of it. It's an expanded roster in

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Speaker 1: hopefully he'll he'll be able to add in. Right now,

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Speaker 1: just whether or not it happens on Sunday. Well, and

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Speaker 1: not that he wasn't in shape, but that is a

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