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Speaker 1: It is week two of Seahawks Insiders. Jen Mueller here

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Speaker 1: alongside John Boyle from Seahawks dot Com as we get

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Speaker 1: you ready for the Seahawks matchup against the Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: Rams and John, how many times have you said Saint

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Speaker 1: gonna say? It'll be a miracle if we get through

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Speaker 1: this whole podcast without a Saint Louis Rams reference. I

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Speaker 1: might just say, Rams, did you say? I have done

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Speaker 1: that with everybody this week because I don't trust myself

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Speaker 1: to get it right, even though I am very much

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Speaker 1: looking forward to a trip to Los Angeles as opposed

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Speaker 1: to Saint Louis. Absolutely, I mean that's a shorter flight,

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Speaker 1: no ten am kickoff, It's I mean, no dark dome.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of things better about this trip. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we'll get into that game. I want to come

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Speaker 1: back to what you said about that ten am kickoff

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Speaker 1: when we talk more about Sunday's game a little bit

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Speaker 1: later on in the podcast, but every week during the season,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna get you ready for the game ahead. We'll

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Speaker 1: spend a couple of minutes breaking down what we saw

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Speaker 1: in the past game and how that might change as

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Speaker 1: we take a look. Specifically at how the Seahawks played

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Speaker 1: in Week one against Miami and John, I think we

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Speaker 1: could say that it was an ugly win, but winning

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Speaker 1: at this time of year when everybody's trying to get

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Speaker 1: I mean it's so cliche, but I mean it's the NFL,

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Speaker 1: I mean, a win is a win. I want to

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Speaker 1: any player, the offense needs to be better, But they've

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Speaker 1: made some progress, did enough at the end to win

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Speaker 1: the game, and they showed kind of that patented Seahawks

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Speaker 1: I think you can see they've picked up where they

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Speaker 1: It is a pretty impressive thing about this team, the way,

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Speaker 1: a couple things. Third down was big in the last game,

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Speaker 1: Tying to that, one of the matchups I think could

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Speaker 1: leading receiver against the Rams last week was Jeremy Curly.

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Speaker 1: Nice player, but not quite Doug Baldwin. He was working

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Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers. So maybe the Rams will totally

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Speaker 1: I think that's a matchup Doug Baldwin could really exploit.

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Speaker 1: You talk about third down conversion. Seattle was five for

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Speaker 1: so they gotta go. They picked it up and it

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Speaker 1: And I would say on both sides of this one. Penalties.

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Speaker 1: Week one, and I'm willing to say that part of

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Speaker 1: that is just getting back into it. Eight penalties for

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Speaker 1: Those penalties just a little bay Oh for sure. I

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Speaker 1: mean they're they're always going to have a few. But

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Speaker 1: and we always think about the offensive pre snap, offensive line.

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Speaker 1: Those are big deal. But special teams too. They really

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Speaker 1: hurt themselves field position wise with a couple, especially punt returns.

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Speaker 1: and you know, you go from almost midfield backed up

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Speaker 1: gonna be tight, low scoring, that field position could be big.

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Speaker 1: It could be, indeed, and that will be it for

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Speaker 1: Seahawks insiders. John Boyle from Seahawks dot Com all of

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Speaker 1: his great stuff available of course every day, multiple times

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Speaker 1: a day. You post right, yeah, we're all over. We're

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Speaker 1: all over at seahawks dot com. Jen Mueller with yea,

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Speaker 1: I will be on the sidelines on Sunday and we

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Speaker 1: will see you back here next week