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Speaker 1: They're coming off a disappointing loss in Green Bay. Seattle

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Speaker 1: for Sunday's game, which we keep saying, John, is a

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Speaker 1: Because we spent a lot of time John traveling across

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that to me if I would love to

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Speaker 1: we need to see that. Yeah, And I think that

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Speaker 1: But would you like to start it off with the

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Speaker 1: but keep them quiet, you know, let let Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: we don't know, you know, he and p Carroll Bill

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Speaker 1: But right now, since the biggest weakness of that defense

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Speaker 1: so keep Connor and company. You know, limitary steaming yards

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Speaker 1: play into this a little bit. The Seahawks have not

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Speaker 1: care how you do it. I don't care if it's

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Speaker 1: increasing those runs to like Pete said, you know, upper twenties,

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Speaker 1: or if it's just utilizing short passes. But that plays

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Speaker 1: from Russell Wilson. I know the Seahawks have short passes

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Speaker 1: come after perhaps Russell has gone through his progression and

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Speaker 1: his reads. Now, there's nothing wrong with that, but a

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Speaker 1: little bit at tempo and just getting the ball out

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Speaker 1: of your hands in under three seconds I think would

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Speaker 1: certainly help to keep the Arizona defense off balance and

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Speaker 1: going to need to do that, as we pointed out,

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Speaker 1: with an offense in the Cardinals that is capable of

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Speaker 1: scoring thirty points anytime they want. I think we pretty

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Speaker 1: much covered it, John, Yea. We feel good about that

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Speaker 1: game plan. I feel good about I do. I think

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Speaker 1: if they do all things we said, they'll be okay.

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Speaker 1: I think so too. And maybe next week I'll wear

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Speaker 1: my piggly Wiggly shirt. We can all revisit that fun

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Speaker 1: because you know what's there's only one thing left to say.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you next week. Have a piggly wiggly day.

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