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Speaker 3: The Huddle Podcast presented by Microsoft, and boy, what a

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Speaker 3: at home. So defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn said on Thursday,

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Speaker 3: You know, I was at that twenty and eleven game

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the twenty in the Huddle podcast, and

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Speaker 1: Reporter for the Seahawks.

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Speaker 3: He does a great job covering everything Seattle from across

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Speaker 1: How you doing, John, I'm doing good.

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Speaker 3: You know, this is an interesting matchup on both ends.

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Speaker 3: Well, Detroit certainly expecting the best from Seattle. You look

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Speaker 1: But John.

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Speaker 3: Well, John, great stuff. It should be a fun Sunday.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if we're gonna get forty eight forty

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Speaker 3: But it's gonna be a crazy environment. It's a really

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Speaker 3: important game for both teams. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 6: Well do.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for having him, all right, John Boyle.

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Speaker 3: Guys, welcome back to the twenty in the Whole podcast

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Speaker 7: In rookie cornerback Brian Branch. Brian, thanks for joining the podcast.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 7: All right.

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Speaker 3: We got to start with this that play last Thursday.

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Speaker 7: You see that green in front of you?

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Speaker 3: I mean, what is that feeling like as a defensive

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Speaker 3: It's fourteen to seven, They're going down the field. This

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Speaker 8: Like a great feeling. Feels like I was like a

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Speaker 7: The atmosphere at Arrowhead is it what you expected? Was

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Speaker 8: Like you know they say college stadiums are loud of

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Speaker 3: Was there anything in college that rivaled kind of that atmosphere?

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Speaker 3: I mean those Alabama Auburn games got it be pretty

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Speaker 7: We've seen that all through camp.

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Speaker 7: The way to kind of just jump right in there

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Speaker 3: Because it's amazing to me that a guy can step

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Speaker 2: Uh, they believe in me, and you know, we had

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Speaker 2: It helps, Uh, you know, having that chemistry.

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Speaker 8: Uh, just knowing where everybody's gonna be at, how we're

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Speaker 8: going to like play off of each other, you know, uh,

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Speaker 8: just communication while I was trusting each other. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 8: having chemistry. You can't like this. This is what this

448
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Speaker 8: sport is about, you know, having chemistry with your teammates

449
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Speaker 8: because you're gonna lay it down a line for them,

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Speaker 8: and you know you're not just gonna lay out on

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Speaker 8: the line for anybody.

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Speaker 3: So I thought you had a We talked to you,

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Speaker 3: I think it was last week or two weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: I thought you had a great line and you said,

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Speaker 3: I'm a linebacker who covers.

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Speaker 7: That's what playing the nickel is.

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Speaker 3: Just explain that a little bit more and why that

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Speaker 3: position just fits you and why you describe yourself like that.

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Speaker 2: Because it is like in the run.

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Speaker 8: They expect me to fit the gaps like a linebacker,

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Speaker 8: and you know, uh, when it's like passing downs, I'm

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Speaker 8: expecting to cover like a corner in a way, and

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Speaker 8: just those two uh really like that's that's my responsibility

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Speaker 8: as a nickel and just me being closer to the

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Speaker 8: line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 7: Have you always played majority nickel?

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Speaker 3: I know you've played some safety, you've played a little

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Speaker 3: bit outside, But is that the position that's just always

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Speaker 3: kind of fit you?

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Speaker 9: Uh?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, curt of way, because I would say I grew

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Speaker 8: up playing safety. Okay, you know, I didn't play nickel

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Speaker 8: until about when I got to college, but it still

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Speaker 8: took me a little minute to get adjusted to nickel.

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Speaker 8: I want to say, like, after my freshman year.

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Speaker 3: Are those two positions fairly similar? Because safeties are obviously

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Speaker 3: the last line of defense. They've got to be really

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Speaker 3: good tacklers, but guys that can cover ball hawk a

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Speaker 3: little bit too. Are Are they pretty similar or what's

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Speaker 3: the biggest difference. I'd guess what was the biggest adjustment.

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Speaker 7: Going to nickel.

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Speaker 8: The biggest adjustment is, I say, like, you're closer to

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Speaker 8: the line of scripmant so like.

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Speaker 6: You're able to.

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Speaker 2: That's when that linebacker role comes into play.

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Speaker 7: Seems like it's a lot faster, and then it moves faster.

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Speaker 3: Have you let yourself think about what Ford Field is

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Speaker 3: going to be? Like you mentioned the preseason when they

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Speaker 3: sold out a preseason game, but after what you guys

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Speaker 3: did last week, the hype that's around this team, you

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Speaker 3: just can you feel it the area and have you

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Speaker 3: let yourself think of what that atmosphere is going to

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Speaker 3: be like running out of that tunnel for the first

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Speaker 3: time with sixty five thousand plus just going nuts. I mean,

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Speaker 3: they're gonna lose their mind.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm already knowing for it to be a preseason

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Speaker 8: game against the Giants, well both preseason games really, I

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Speaker 8: feel like they came out there, you know, just support

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Speaker 8: it in love a scream already know the atmosphere for

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Speaker 8: a regular season game, especially like the season opener.

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Speaker 3: You've gotta be You've started to dive into Seattle a

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Speaker 3: little bit. You look at their offense, obviously not the

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Speaker 3: performance they wanted last week, but you just looked the

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Speaker 3: last two years against this team. Fifty one points they

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Speaker 3: scored against Detroit in twenty eleven, forty eight in that

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Speaker 3: shootout last year. What jumped out to you on tape

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Speaker 3: about them? What do you guys have to do really well,

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Speaker 3: maybe that you didn't do as well last week to

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Speaker 3: hold these guys down.

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Speaker 1: Just we gotta.

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Speaker 8: Everybody gotta do It's like our job, you know, just

512
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Speaker 8: got to buy into being disciplined football. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 8: fit to run perfectly, everybody being in their gaps and

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Speaker 8: you know, just stopping pass.

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Speaker 2: Uh. That's really as long as everybody do their job,

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Speaker 2: then will be good.

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Speaker 3: There are a dangerous team though, that trio wide receivers

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Speaker 3: obviously with Jackson Smith and Jay but joining that group.

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Speaker 3: Have you played against him before Coe your freshman year

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Speaker 3: and then Kenneth Walker? Obviously it is great. They're really

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Speaker 3: explosive team. That's the important part though, right is limiting

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Speaker 3: the big plays. You guys did a great job with

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Speaker 3: that for the most part. In Kansas City. It seems

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Speaker 3: like that's where they really excel. When they can get

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Speaker 3: down the field, they get big runs, explosives. Has that

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Speaker 3: been the message from Aaron Gun this week? It's just

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Speaker 3: limiting those explosives.

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Speaker 8: That's that's the message every week. Yeah, limiting the explosives Seattle,

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Speaker 8: like you said, have a uh they have a good offense,

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Speaker 8: you know, dkuh Tyler Lockett Jackson a good running back

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Speaker 8: and also a good quarterback who's you know, been progressive

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Speaker 8: like each game and we got to be ourselves and

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Speaker 8: we'll be fine.

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Speaker 3: You guys re fine defensively last week. How fun is

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Speaker 3: it to be a part of this of this defense?

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Speaker 7: It looks like at all.

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Speaker 3: Three levels, you guys have playmakers, and you guys did

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Speaker 3: a great job last week of marrying that rush and cover.

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Speaker 7: You're gonna get home.

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Speaker 3: I expect a little bit more this week with Hutching

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Speaker 3: those guys, but just the defense overall, when you watch

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Speaker 3: the totality of it, how fun is it to be

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Speaker 3: a part of and it just seems a little bit different. Brian,

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Speaker 3: It's very fun.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 8: I feel like we have dogs at each position and

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Speaker 8: you know, really just our main thing is you got

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Speaker 8: to be consistent.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, well, it's going to be crazy exciting

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Speaker 3: in Ford Field. It's going to be your first regular

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Speaker 3: season game at Ford Field. Obviously had one of the

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Speaker 3: biggest plays of the game last week. You know, fans

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Speaker 3: are expecting another one from you. Thanks for joining the podcast.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate and good luck on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Man, appreciate you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the twenty in the Huddle podcast presented

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Speaker 3: by Microsoft, and I am very happy to welcome in

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Speaker 3: the color analyst for the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 7: The newest member of the Ring of Honor.

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Speaker 6: Congratulations on the broadcast CT Man. Look, I thought for

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Speaker 6: a minute I was getting fired.

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Speaker 9: Man, when Willis came up with that mellowtone voice, I'm

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Speaker 9: like with him, minute, I'm not about to get fired

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Speaker 9: on the air.

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Speaker 6: So it was nice they got me.

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Speaker 3: Well he is Lomas Brown knows everything football, terrific career,

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Speaker 3: terrific color analysts, and the perfect.

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Speaker 10: Person to invite in to go through a few matchups here. Yes,

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Speaker 10: huge win last week, loa, you know, huge week to

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Speaker 10: go on the road in that atmosphere and look, no,

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Speaker 10: but neither team played, you know, the perfect game in

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Speaker 10: case he was missing, but Detroit was missing some guys too,

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Speaker 10: and so to go in there, get that win and

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Speaker 10: now come home. Have you let yourself even think about

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Speaker 10: what that atmosphere is going to be like? Have you

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Speaker 10: been doing some voice exercises so that you know.

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Speaker 9: I have Man, I have been working on my vowels

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Speaker 9: A E. I've been working on those.

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Speaker 7: But it's going to be loud.

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Speaker 9: I'm telling you, man, I think what will I probably

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Speaker 9: be able to compare it to is ninety one back

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Speaker 9: in the Silver Dome when we played Dallas, when I'm

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Speaker 9: telling you, you were standing right here to somebody else's

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Speaker 9: closest me and you and you couldn't hear what they

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Speaker 9: were saying. And I kind of expect that to be

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Speaker 9: that atmosphere, that type of enthusiasm, that type of ruckus noise.

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Speaker 6: There for the Allions when they get back.

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Speaker 3: I think it'll rival that twenty eleven.

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Speaker 6: Game two I heard about today night.

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Speaker 3: I was there and my ears were ringing hours after

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Speaker 3: that g I mean nine star penalties.

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Speaker 7: Yes, I mean, that's how loud that place was.

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Speaker 10: And I just think it's going to be a fun atmosphere.

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Speaker 6: I can't wait.

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Speaker 7: All right, well let's get.

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Speaker 1: Break into these.

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Speaker 6: Wait.

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Speaker 7: One other thing, like.

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Speaker 3: You guys out there might not know, but this is

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Speaker 3: the Bloomfield Hills High.

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Speaker 11: School, black haw my son there, I know, ye my

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Speaker 11: son went there, and I've been coaching there just like

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Speaker 11: my tenth year coaching.

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Speaker 6: There has been.

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Speaker 9: A little Rocky there, but we hang in there, real

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Speaker 9: black hal so we hang in I love it.

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Speaker 6: I love it all.

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Speaker 3: Right, let's get into and did some of these matchups.

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Speaker 3: And I think first obviously, when you look at Seattle offensively,

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Speaker 3: you see that trio of receivers and you see their

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Speaker 3: run game, the style that they play, and obviously DK

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Speaker 3: Metcalf jumps out with his ability to go down the field.

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Speaker 1: And make plays.

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Speaker 3: I think a key matchup in this one is Cam

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Speaker 3: Sutton and Dk Metcalf. You look at last week with

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Speaker 3: with with Metcalf had a touchdown, but you know he's

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Speaker 3: had seven catches one hundred and forty nine yards against

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Speaker 3: his team last year. He's their big play guy, right,

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Speaker 3: he really is.

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Speaker 9: He. I think he's kind of the call to that engine.

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Speaker 9: I really do, because you're right, you have Smith and Jig,

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Speaker 9: but you know, and you have Tyler Lockett there, But

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Speaker 9: to me, the guy's Metcalf. And it'll be interesting to

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Speaker 9: see how we do match up on this guy because

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Speaker 9: you have to be physical with him.

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Speaker 6: He's a big guy.

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Speaker 9: You can't give him a free release because if you

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Speaker 9: do that, he could run past you. But he could

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Speaker 9: use that big body that shield you off. So he's

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Speaker 9: going to be a match up problem. And like I say,

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Speaker 9: is it going to be Cam Sudden that matches up

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Speaker 9: with him? Probably have to be that type of guy.

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Speaker 9: So Cam, if he is, he's going to have to

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Speaker 9: really be physical up on top of him, you know,

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Speaker 9: try to readirect the big guy like that, which is

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Speaker 9: hard to do, or try to get him off his time.

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Speaker 6: But all that's going to be predicated on trying to

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Speaker 6: get pressure on Geno.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know you've got to marry the Rushian to

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Speaker 3: cover in this one. For sure.

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Speaker 7: I thought I Cam did a nice job last week.

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Speaker 3: I think it was targeted five times, gave up two

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Speaker 3: catch for thirty nine years, had the questionable pass interference,

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Speaker 3: But I thought he played overall really well just what.

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Speaker 7: We've seen from him in Pittsburgh over the four years.

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Speaker 3: Look, that's a physical defense in Pittsburgh and he was

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Speaker 3: one of their top guys.

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Speaker 9: So I think he's up for the chance. I do too,

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Speaker 9: and he knows that's just his plans side. But if

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Speaker 9: you look at the TT, even the whole secondary, now

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Speaker 9: that we have a physical secondary, when you talk about CJ,

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Speaker 9: you talk about Brian Brand, we don't even talk about

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Speaker 9: Tracy Walker, who you could bring in off there Will Harris.

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Speaker 9: We have physical guys, and I think that's what Aaron

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Speaker 9: Glenn wanted to kind of mold this secondary to be.

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Speaker 9: And I kind of think that's where we're almost at

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Speaker 9: right now.

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Speaker 3: I think that's a great point by you, because Aaron

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Speaker 3: Glenn said as much on Thursday when we talked to him.

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Speaker 3: He said, I thought we showed our identity, which he loved,

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Speaker 3: and part of that identity was being physical, especially in

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Speaker 3: the back end. All right, let's flip over the other

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Speaker 3: side of the ball. David Montgomery and Jamier Gibbs. Obviously

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Speaker 3: a lot of excitement with those two in this Lin's backfield.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, this is the Lions team loan that

666
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Speaker 3: that rushed for over two thousand yards twenty plus touchdowns

667
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Speaker 3: last year. They were really good. They think they're better

668
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Speaker 3: with these two, but they've got to get by Bobby Wagner,

669
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Speaker 3: who has eight tackle machine nineteen tackles. Last week, I

670
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Speaker 3: mean he had to be he had been sore waking up.

671
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Speaker 9: I know you're telling my age and getting good and

672
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 9: you know they say, fine, why they And that's what

673
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Speaker 9: Bobby wagon is doing. And don't forget this little counter

674
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Speaker 9: party bringing h my goodness, thank you so man. The

675
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Speaker 9: combination of those two that is going to be a problem,

676
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Speaker 9: especially once you try to get those guys, because as

677
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Speaker 9: offensive lineman, you try to get your backs to the

678
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Speaker 9: second level, you know, and try to give them there clean. Well,

679
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Speaker 9: that second level you looking at, you're looking at it

680
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Speaker 9: absolutely so that's where it's going to come in to

681
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 9: see the real skills set from a Jamia Gibbs, from

682
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Speaker 9: a David Montgomery matched up on those two linebackers, not

683
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Speaker 9: only in the run game being physical with them TT,

684
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Speaker 9: but also in the past game and also in the

685
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Speaker 9: past protection games too, because they like to send those

686
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Speaker 9: guys and they are going to have to be able

687
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Speaker 9: to step up and pass protect to keep Jared clean too.

688
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Speaker 6: They did a good job of that.

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Speaker 1: Last especially was really good.

690
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Speaker 3: I thought Casey brought a lot of pressure, tried to

691
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Speaker 3: get after Jared, David stepped up.

692
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Speaker 6: Was great.

693
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Speaker 3: Look David had seventy four yards rushing last weekend, a touchdown,

694
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Speaker 3: Gibbs sixty scrimmage arts in only nine touches than seven

695
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Speaker 3: miss tackles. Loan, So, to your point about the second level, right,

696
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Speaker 3: That's why I wanted this to be an interesting matchup,

697
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Speaker 3: because Gibbs made some guys miss and I think he

698
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Speaker 3: showed these a little more physical than people thought.

699
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Speaker 1: He was too them.

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Speaker 9: And I said that on the radio TT because I

701
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Speaker 9: love the way he dropped this show that I think

702
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Speaker 9: it was a run to the outside to the left sideline,

703
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Speaker 9: and yeah, he could have just stepped out, but man,

704
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 9: he dropped that shoulder. And that's kind of sending a

705
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Speaker 9: message to guys. That's letting those dbs, those secondary guys

706
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Speaker 9: know like, wait a minute, this dude's not just gonna

707
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Speaker 9: step out of the bout. I'm going to have to

708
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Speaker 9: be ready.

709
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Speaker 6: So I love that.

710
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Speaker 1: So I love that matchup.

711
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Speaker 3: How many mistackles can David Montgomery and Jamier gives force

712
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Speaker 3: on Brooks and Wagner and that could maybe lead to

713
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Speaker 3: some big plays in the run game. If the Lions

714
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Speaker 3: could run the ball, control the temple a little bit.

715
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Speaker 3: I think that's a big key to their success on Sunday.

716
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Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about their running back. People around

717
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Speaker 3: here knowing pretty good, you know Michigan State former Michigan

718
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Speaker 3: State Kenneth Walker, I mean terrific, He's you look at

719
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Speaker 3: the season he had last year, and then look he

720
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Speaker 3: averaged five point three yards per carry last week and

721
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Speaker 3: that game got a little out of hand.

722
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Speaker 7: They had to start throwing late, but he was a

723
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Speaker 7: factor early.

724
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Speaker 3: And that matchup against him and Alex ANZELOONI kind of

725
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Speaker 3: the same thing. Alex is our tackle guy, right, He's

726
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Speaker 3: the guy that's gonna have to make those plays, limit

727
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Speaker 3: those big plays by Walker.

728
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you're right, but man T T to your point.

729
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Speaker 9: Man, just from watching film on Kennet Wall, I didn't

730
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Speaker 9: realize he was that good. I really didn't. I mean,

731
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Speaker 9: I know he had a big year last year, but

732
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Speaker 9: I didn't realize. But because it's some of the little

733
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Speaker 9: things that he does that really really impressed me, especially

734
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Speaker 9: watching again watching.

735
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Speaker 6: Them the first game against the Rams.

736
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Speaker 9: Like you say he was on the roll, he really was,

737
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Speaker 9: but they fell behind and really didn't do anything in

738
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Speaker 9: the second half of that game. But to me, if

739
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Speaker 9: they came out the second half running the ball like

740
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Speaker 9: they did the first half of the game, I think

741
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Speaker 9: they could have probably stayed in that game a lot

742
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Speaker 9: more than they did versus Rams. So he's going to

743
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Speaker 9: be a problem for our defense now. The good thing

744
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Speaker 9: is they're a little banged up on their offensive line,

745
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Speaker 9: which I talk about that, but the thing about it is, man,

746
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Speaker 9: this guy man he outside inside you know, Kenneth, Like

747
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 9: I say, newfound respect for just how good he is.

748
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Speaker 9: And Alex is going to have the key in on him,

749
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Speaker 9: not only I think in the run game, but I

750
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Speaker 9: think the passing game too, because I think they're going

751
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Speaker 9: to try to match him up, get Alex out of him,

752
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 9: maybe will routes, get split them out, try to get

753
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Speaker 9: Alex that one on one match up with him to

754
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Speaker 9: see if he could keep up with him in coverage too,

755
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Speaker 9: along with trying to bring him down one on one tackle.

756
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Speaker 9: If he got him in the open.

757
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Speaker 3: And Alex is playing the will now more, he's gonna

758
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Speaker 3: be in coverage a little bit more. We saw that

759
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Speaker 3: in Kansas City. That's going to be an important match

760
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Speaker 3: up both on the ground and in the air. Great

761
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Speaker 3: point by you. All right, let's look to this one.

762
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Speaker 3: Jared Golf and the guy Liones fans know, well, Quandre, Yeah,

763
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Speaker 3: it was fine. We talked to Ben Johnson, the offensive

764
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Speaker 3: coordinator today, and he called Quandre Diggs a study and

765
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Speaker 3: you just look at what he has done over fourteen

766
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Speaker 3: interceptions the last three years long.

767
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Speaker 7: And look, Jared's been great in that regard.

768
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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, yes, I'm sorry, Okay, I'm sorry. I just lost.

769
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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

770
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Speaker 3: Three hundred and fifty nine straight passes for Jared without

771
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Speaker 3: an interception dates back to Week nine last year, third

772
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,919
Speaker 3: longest streak in NFL history. He is really taking care

773
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Speaker 3: of the football and he'll have to do it because,

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Speaker 3: like I said, with those fourteen interceptions, Quandre Digg is

775
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Speaker 3: a guy who knows how to go get it. We

776
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Speaker 3: saw that Week one game against the Jets.

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Speaker 7: We won't talk.

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Speaker 10: About anything else after that game, but that's the kind

779
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Speaker 10: of impact he can make.

780
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Speaker 3: That's the kind of playmaker Kwandra can be. And so

781
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Speaker 3: I think that'll be an interesting matchup here. Can can

782
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Speaker 3: manipulate him with his eyes? Can Can he find plays

783
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Speaker 3: down the field? Can he avoid the mistake? He's done

784
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Speaker 3: a great job of doing that. I think he's got

785
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Speaker 3: to do it again someday.

786
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Speaker 9: I agree to T and I think you're right. And

787
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Speaker 9: the thing from watching the game, watching this film, their

788
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Speaker 9: first game, Quandre then he didn't make an impact.

789
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Speaker 6: He may have had I heard his name, maybe twice

790
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 6: the whole game, this first game.

791
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Speaker 9: So what that tells me, he's gonna come in here ready,

792
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:15,240
Speaker 9: coming back against your former team. Coming here, He's gonna

793
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,359
Speaker 9: want to make some plays. He's hearing about Jared having

794
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 9: all these games without an interception. He hears all this,

795
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Speaker 9: so he's gonna want to have a big game. That

796
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 9: scares me as a Lion fan. You know, him coming

797
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 9: in him and like I say, especially the first game

798
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Speaker 9: of the year, he really didn't make an impact in

799
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Speaker 9: that game and with them coming in on the loss.

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Speaker 6: So yeah, you're right. Manipulation of Jared.

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Speaker 9: Eyes, you know.

802
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 6: To me, t t run the ball.

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Speaker 9: If we can establish the run game, and we started

804
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 9: early versus Casey kind of got away from it a

805
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 9: little bit, but man, if we could start off that

806
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 9: way and run the ball, I think that'll help Jared

807
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 9: and help him with his manipulation what he has to do.

808
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 6: Let on in the game. As far as affecting.

809
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 9: Quandre, then they might have to bring Quandary closer to

810
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 9: the line of scrimmage because we're gashing them on the run,

811
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Speaker 9: which can also help us.

812
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Speaker 6: So to me, that'll help Jared too.

813
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Speaker 3: And he's an important guy over there in that second

814
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 3: because they got some young pieces.

815
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I right, good pieces piece.

816
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Speaker 3: We're going to see Devin Witherspoon the first time. I

817
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 3: know that's a guy that you liked in the draft

818
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Speaker 3: as well.

819
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Speaker 9: Absolutely, and then you know trek I think it, well,

820
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Speaker 9: now I think he took trek off and it's just

821
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Speaker 9: reak because something.

822
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Speaker 6: Now so woman, So yeah, he's so that.

823
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Speaker 9: You're right, they are bringing in the good defense, and

824
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:37,960
Speaker 9: we think about it, they're looking pretty good. And then

825
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 9: they got the big fellow Jared up front. So they

826
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 9: got a nice defense that they're gonna bring in here.

827
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Speaker 9: And of course that's what they want to try to

828
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 9: do anyway, is stop the run. That's what they're decordinator.

829
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Speaker 9: That's the emphasis that their defense may just stop the

830
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Speaker 9: run first, and I think we need to run the ball.

831
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like a true radio and television man, you tease

832
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 3: the offensive line a little earlier. So let's get into

833
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 3: it a little bit. And to me Aiden Hutchinson, you

834
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Speaker 3: look at his game last week. Now, he didn't get home,

835
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Speaker 3: he didn't record the sack, but three quarterback hits for horries,

836
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 3: seven total pressures. I think the Lions as a team

837
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Speaker 3: had seventeen pressures and seven quarterbacks. I'm Holmes, they got

838
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Speaker 3: after it. And now you've got a Seattle team coming

839
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Speaker 3: in here.

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Speaker 1: Left tackle you don't know his status.

841
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Speaker 3: They've already put the right tackle on ir. I mean

842
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 3: they are really banged up up front. How big of

843
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 3: an advantage is that for you know, for for Aiden Hutchinson,

844
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Speaker 3: for Charles Harris, for you know, James Houston and all

845
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Speaker 3: those guys yed.

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Speaker 9: So on tt So the first thing I look at this,

847
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 9: that's gonna limit their offense because a they're going to

848
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 9: have to keep the tight end then more than they

849
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 9: normally do, and they're gonna have to keep the back

850
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 9: end more than they normally do the matchup to help

851
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,919
Speaker 9: these guys out, they're gonna have they help them out.

852
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 9: So maybe that'll limit them to the basically the receivers

853
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Speaker 9: being the route runners, which should help us out some.

854
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Speaker 9: I'm not gonna say that's gonna happen all the time,

855
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Speaker 9: but the majority of time they're gonna have to help

856
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 9: them young guys out. I watched those tackles, those young

857
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 9: tackles go in the game after the veteran guys got hurt,

858
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 9: and they're gonna need help get inside defensive ends. I

859
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 9: don't care who you put out there with the speed

860
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 9: that we got a defensive ends. Those things, it's like

861
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Speaker 9: pick your poison. You you on, James, you know you

862
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 9: want Charles who you want? I mean, so that's a

863
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 9: luxury that we have right now. And then don't forget

864
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Speaker 9: our inside guys too. So again they're gonna have to

865
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Speaker 9: keep tight ends in the Max Protect. They're gonna have

866
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Speaker 9: to keep Kennick walking in sometime when maybe they want

867
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Speaker 9: to flare him out to help Max Protect. It's gonna

868
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Speaker 9: help us and that's an advantage. Plus the biggest the

869
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 9: other biggest thing the crowd noise man.

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Speaker 6: They got to go sound like I used to say,

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Speaker 6: thank you, T bring.

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00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 9: Mayor you t T I'm here for you, my good.

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Speaker 1: So let me ask you this.

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Speaker 3: Jason Peters, they signed him to the practice sore. I

875
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 3: think he's forty one years old. At forty one years.

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00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 9: Old, could you step down the fielding man and look.

877
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 9: Bill Coward tried to get me. I was forty and

878
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 9: he tried to get me to come back the seventh

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Speaker 9: game of the regular season.

880
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Speaker 6: I was like, oh my god. He was such a salesman.

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Speaker 9: T T.

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Speaker 6: By the time we got off the phone, I was like, yeah, Coach,

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Speaker 6: I think I could do it.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 6: Reality snapped to me about the hour later, like, what

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Speaker 6: in the.

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Speaker 9: World am I telling this man, a forty year old

888
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 9: fat lineman trying to come back the seventh game of

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Speaker 9: a regular season.

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Speaker 6: So that's how Jason.

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Speaker 9: It's not the seventh game, but that man, this this

892
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 9: game so fast, Man, Jason won't be a fact that

893
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 9: he could come back all you want to and try

894
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Speaker 9: to get those credited years and that money. More power

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Speaker 9: to your brother, But.

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Speaker 6: This is that game. That's a young man's game, man,

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Speaker 6: get away from it. It's a young man's goal.

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Speaker 1: You're looking pretty good right now.

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Speaker 6: Alone.

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Speaker 1: Great stuff as always, Man, I love having you come

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Speaker 1: in studio. You spit that knowledge.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be fun on Sunday and it's gonna

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Speaker 3: be fun later in the year when they honor you

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Speaker 3: with the ring.

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Speaker 7: Congratulations again, that is well desired.

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Speaker 6: Appreciate thank you for coming in, man, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, man, My God,