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Speaker 1: getting you guys ready for the seahawks upcoming game. This

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Speaker 1: one is going to be a Week fourteen matchup against

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans on the road. Before we get to that, though,

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Speaker 1: let's take a quick look back, and this time it's

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Speaker 1: great news. The Seahawks won. It was a thirty to

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Speaker 1: ers to looming Field. So let's start here. The Seahawks

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Speaker 1: most importantly get the win, but also they controlled time

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Speaker 1: change of pace there thirty three minutes to San Francisco's

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Speaker 1: twenty six minutes. That was a nice change for what's

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Speaker 1: been an ongoing problem for Seattle. And how about this

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Speaker 1: one Russell Wilson thirty of thirty seven, two hundred and

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Speaker 1: think we can all say the interception maybe not totally

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Speaker 1: on Russell Wilson. There Tyler Locket dk Metcalf both great

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Speaker 1: a great day, a great day for Seattle on offense,

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Speaker 1: on defense. They didn't completely write the ship with third downs, Jake,

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Speaker 1: but they did just about everything else right. They did.

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Speaker 1: And it's funny how five conversions on third down, how

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's still not perfect and right where

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Speaker 1: And you know, you start the game off and it

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Speaker 1: That was the theme for the rest of the day,

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Speaker 1: just pure and utter chaos. That was one of the

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Speaker 1: craziest games Seahawks games that I have seen in quite

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Speaker 1: some time. And that's saying something considering we have seen

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Speaker 1: some insane Seahawks games over the years. But you know,

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Speaker 1: been otherwise pretty quiet for you this year. And oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, that score tied the game twenty three.

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Speaker 1: It is just a sample of the rest of that game,

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt, but it was obviously that was a

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Speaker 1: Fantastic goal line stand for the defense. Now, the forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers got twenty three points. That's a little higher

431
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Speaker 1: than the Seahawks defense has been allowing this year. But

432
00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:50,440
Speaker 1: a key stop there, and Sidney Jones a huge part

433
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,959
Speaker 1: of it. He joins us right now. Sydney, please please

434
00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:58,520
Speaker 1: walk us through that play on third down, you don't

435
00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,240
Speaker 1: let the pass get completed. I don't care what anyone says.

436
00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,159
Speaker 1: It was not defensive pass interference. I don't care. It

437
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:08,480
Speaker 1: was a great play. Walk us through it. Yeah it was.

438
00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,320
Speaker 1: It was crunch sign. So game on the line. You know,

439
00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,160
Speaker 1: had to make a big play, um to play before

440
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,560
Speaker 1: that they ran the ball and then I came in

441
00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,879
Speaker 1: and made a nice hit. Every play blade of grass

442
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 1: matters at that point. And then next play third down pass,

443
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Speaker 1: I gotta gotta lock my defender by by any means

444
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,440
Speaker 1: and don't let him box me out. And it was

445
00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,960
Speaker 1: a physical, physical game and physical matchup all game and

446
00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,720
Speaker 1: we're um, that's what it came down to. Physicality, and

447
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:37,639
Speaker 1: you know I was able to make him play. Did

448
00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,760
Speaker 1: you get the feeling that your guy would be targeted

449
00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,800
Speaker 1: or like, were you reading his body language or did

450
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,600
Speaker 1: you see something before the play where you thought, I

451
00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,760
Speaker 1: think they're going to him. Oh no, it's it's just

452
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,199
Speaker 1: every player you're expecting. You're respecting the ball to come

453
00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,880
Speaker 1: your way, so uh, just read your keys of your

454
00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,040
Speaker 1: man and then guarding the playoff. Sydney, what does this

455
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,320
Speaker 1: process been like for you as you've come back here

456
00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,679
Speaker 1: to a familiar place here in Seattle, and and uh,

457
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,959
Speaker 1: it has it been nice being able to make that transition,

458
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 1: not with the organization, be familiar with the Seahawks, but

459
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:16,280
Speaker 1: you know, at least you know your surroundings. Yeah, for sure. Um,

460
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 1: being here, it's been it's been awesome. I love I

461
00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:22,919
Speaker 1: love the city. I love the food in the city. Um,

462
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,360
Speaker 1: there's a lot of great things, you know, restaurants. I'm

463
00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,159
Speaker 1: I'm a big food guy. So UM, super excited to

464
00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,360
Speaker 1: be back and to eat all the food I love here.

465
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: And um, just just have my huskies and go catch

466
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,159
Speaker 1: a couple of games and stuff like that. And you

467
00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,920
Speaker 1: know that's a that's always the luxury to have something

468
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,600
Speaker 1: like that. What's the best your backyard? Yeah, what's the

469
00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,360
Speaker 1: best meal you've ever had here in Seattle or around Seattle?

470
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,199
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of a shout out. Um, simply

471
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 1: simply soulful. Okay, And it's a soul food spot and

472
00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,040
Speaker 1: um around the Seattle area. Okay, what's your order? What

473
00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:04,000
Speaker 1: what do I know to order here? I get the

474
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 1: fried chicken dinner with um home fries and mac and cheese.

475
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,639
Speaker 1: Expectations are fine. That sounds really really good with with

476
00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,840
Speaker 1: hot sauce, with with hot sauce. Okay, all right, well

477
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: we'll have to we'll have to give our report here

478
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 1: from from Sydney Jones. Uh, Sydney. You know you mentioned

479
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: being through the process of all right, you were in Philly, Jacksonville,

480
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 1: now Seattle. You know, with each step along the way, Um,

481
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 1: you know, what have you learned from every organization that

482
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 1: you've been with that has made you the player that

483
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: you are right now? Every every organization has a positive

484
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 1: and negatives. Um, even just season wise with winning records stuff. Um,

485
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,720
Speaker 1: it's a lot. You can take us. If you want

486
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 1: me to give a whole whole story, I'll be I

487
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,120
Speaker 1: might beat here for forever. But it's it's a it's

488
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:02,920
Speaker 1: a lot of good things, a lot of negative things,

489
00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 1: and you just you just see what see what you

490
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 1: likes or you don't like. It's kind of just like life,

491
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 1: you know, life from football and yeah, it's just at

492
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's a blessing to be

493
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 1: able to play football regardless of any circumstances, good or bad. Yeah,

494
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: I mean, Sidney, there's no doubt about that. And and

495
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,359
Speaker 1: taking those lessons and being able to dissect them and

496
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: and use them for the betterment of for you as

497
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 1: a as a player and a man. I mean that

498
00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 1: that is obviously the the ultimate goal here. Um. You know.

499
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Speaker 1: But you know as you go through this process, and

500
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,760
Speaker 1: you know you first got on with the Seahawks just

501
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: to start barely start the season, um, and then eventually

502
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,880
Speaker 1: made your way onto the field with some time, how

503
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,480
Speaker 1: how long did it really take you to feel like

504
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,679
Speaker 1: you got your feet underneath you and all right, now

505
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 1: I'm good, I feel great. Now I can go make place.

506
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 1: To be honest, it took a while longer than I

507
00:24:54,840 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: expected or wanted to. Um. I would say about six

508
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 1: games in five or six games in Okayu and then

509
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: like towards the I think the Sames game, I really

510
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,960
Speaker 1: started to feel a little bit more comfortable and stuff. Um.

511
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 1: But but that's been that's been good, you know, Sydney.

512
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: What is that process? Like, most people don't understand the

513
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: idea of how the relationship and the chemistry is and

514
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: how important that is when it comes to the secondary,

515
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 1: when it comes to linebackers and everybody being on the

516
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: same page. I mean, there's so much trust that goes

517
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Speaker 1: into that. So what has that process been like not

518
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:37,640
Speaker 1: only trying to get yourself up to speed, but then

519
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: you know, developing that chemistry with the rest of the guys.

520
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:44,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the chemistry is a whole other section of

521
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 1: things you have to think about when it comes to

522
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 1: a good team or having a complimentary defense. And um,

523
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 1: it was it was a process. Um just kind of

524
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: like just as a playbook or feeling comfortable. That chemistry

525
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,960
Speaker 1: part was also a big part of it. You just step,

526
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: you step into a new atmosphere in terms of the

527
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:08,440
Speaker 1: team and organization wise, and you don't have any type

528
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: of communication understandings or you have to learn. It's just

529
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: a learning curve. And in terms of brotherhood, nobody had

530
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,359
Speaker 1: a brotherhood when we at that point because I'm a

531
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Speaker 1: fresh face, so all that, all that stuff takes time,

532
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,480
Speaker 1: and I think we're at a good spot right now. Yeah,

533
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Speaker 1: that was well said. We have to let you go,

534
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: but I am going to let you know that. A

535
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: listener texted in and told you if you haven't yet

536
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: to since you're a foodie, to check out Southern Kitchen

537
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 1: and Tacoma. They said they think you'd like that if

538
00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 1: you like simply soulful. So okay, passing that along. All right,

539
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 1: thanks so much, Sidney. We appreciate it, all right, thank

540
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: you boy. Thanks Sidney. All right, and that was Sidney Jones.

541
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Speaker 1: Earlier you heard from Darryl Taylor. This Seahawks defense has

542
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,679
Speaker 1: played so well over the last couple of weeks here

543
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: in Jake. They're going to have a chance to keep

544
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: that going against the Texans offense, which is thirty second

545
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: in just about everything. Points per game, they're thirteen yards

546
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,400
Speaker 1: per game, they're thirty second, about what two fifty two

547
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 1: forty or so? How do you look at specifically we've

548
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,240
Speaker 1: got about two minutes left here, but specifically the secondary,

549
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,160
Speaker 1: they're not going to have Jamal Adams. They've got Ryan

550
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: neilback there. Sidney Jones is in there. That cornerback group

551
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: settled down. But what kind of chances do they have here? Well,

552
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: they've got tremendous chances and they've got an opportunity to

553
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: be aggressive. Now, it doesn't mean that, you know, the

554
00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 1: Houston Texans don't have any talent. I mean when you

555
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: talk about what they're who they have and somebody that

556
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: they have to really really make sure they keep an

557
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: eye on and not let have a big game that

558
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: would be Brandon Cooks. And so Brandon Cooks is still

559
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: a dynamic, big play weapon. He is one of the

560
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: weirdest stories out there in the NFL in terms of

561
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: a guy who's been moved around from place to place,

562
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: been traded as much as he has been traded to

563
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: then you know, still be productive. I mean he has

564
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: sixty five receptions for seven hundred, seven hundred forty two yards.

565
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 1: I mean he doesn't have, you know, a bevy of touchdowns,

566
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Speaker 1: but he's still an incredibly productive player that has elite speed.

567
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: So he's somebody that you definitely have to keep an

568
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 1: eye on in this process. But I think that when

569
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Speaker 1: you're talking about the secondary as a whole, keeping an

570
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: eye on Brandon Cooks while also playing aggressively, playing with

571
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 1: an aggressive nature, knowing that you could take advantage or

572
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 1: maybe bait Davis Mills into some bad throws, I think

573
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:36,719
Speaker 1: absolutely the Seahawks secondary is excited about that chance. All right,

574
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,719
Speaker 1: it is Thursday, and every Thursday, Russell Wilson is one

575
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Speaker 1: of the players to take to the podium and talk

576
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: to reporters. We will take you there. Next you are

577
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: listening to the huddle, Russell Wilson, speaking with reporters live

578
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,480
Speaker 1: from Seahawk's headquarters. Will take you there now, the Iranian

579
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: lady think Tyler walet be in this year holmony. Well,

580
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: first of all, the Man of the Year awards a

581
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: special thing. Obviously it was a gift to be able

582
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Speaker 1: to win that last year. I got a blessing. Um.

583
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: When I think about a guy like Tyler Lockett, Um,

584
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: he's a man that's uh, that demonstrates you know, everything

585
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: and that's good. Um. You know, he's a guy who's

586
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: obviously a really amazing teammate to everyone. He works his

587
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 1: butt off every day, he loves the game. But I

588
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: think what's what's amazing about Tyler is he uses his

589
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: gifts to serve others, and he uses his gifts to

590
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: love others and impact others in such a tremendous way.

591
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: And Uh, we couldn't have a better Man of the

592
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: Year than Tyler Lockett. And what he's demonstrated for this

593
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: football team, demonstrated for this organization, demonstrated what what what's good? Um?

594
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: You know about the city and just um and he's

595
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: done so many amazing things. I think about, Um, some

596
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: of the things he's done, you know obviously over the

597
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: years and what he's done. He's just even as of late,

598
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: you know, with I know he's donated over you know,

599
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: something like thirty thirty plus thousand and thirty two thousand

600
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: dollars worth of clothes and food and and all that

601
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: into the community. And um, I know he's also done

602
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 1: the scholarships for kids for college and I thinks thirty

603
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: five thirty four thousand dollars or something like that for

604
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: college scholarship. So I mean, what a what a what

605
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: an amazing individual, A guy who if he didn't play

606
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: receiver anymore, he could be an amazing writer, uh, you know,

607
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: poet and also best seller. So he's an amazing He's

608
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: an amazing man, and just um hopefully he gets acknowledged

609
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: in an amazing way, continues to get acknowledged an amazing way.

610
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: Rest last week, when you think about the offense to fund,

611
00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: you start clicking in the second quarter, I think the

612
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: first time driving just keep going, you know, outside of

613
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: the fake funding, going backwards and yardage and what pick

614
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: forward to where you guys starting to find it. Well,

615
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: I think, you know, we're playing some really good football teams,

616
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 1: you know, along the way. Then you know, you're not

617
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: gonna get every every play every night, everything your draw

618
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 1: up or imagine ory thing's gonna happen or whatever. They

619
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: got some really good players on the other side. Um.

620
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,080
Speaker 1: And so the game, a game of football is a

621
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: is a long lasting game. It's a game that every

622
00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: possession counts, but also as as a possession that that

623
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: that has left you before the next one is the

624
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: most important one and the next play is the most

625
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: important one. So that's what we stayed focused on. And

626
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: I think that we did a tremendous job with that. Um,

627
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: you know, this past game and we really caught fire.

628
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: Um we had we had a couple of other touchdowns

629
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: in there. We really could have scored you know, forty

630
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,479
Speaker 1: five points probably or so. Um. It's a really really

631
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: good defense. We have a lot of respect for how

632
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,719
Speaker 1: they played the game, and we were able to make

633
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: some really cool plays. Um. Some things didn't go ourway,

634
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: but UM, you know, that's that's the kind of NFC

635
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: West battles that you get. UM. And I thought we

636
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: did a tremendous job of that. And the other part

637
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 1: that I thought was really critical was just the engagement

638
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: of everybody on the sideline from offense to defense. Everybody

639
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: was working together. Everybody knows what we're fighting for, and um,

640
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: that really showed up all week. And I think that

641
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: we've been really determined to have that. You know, I

642
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: think that was really special. You just look at Houston's defense,

643
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: the total of fourteen interceptions by ten different players. What

644
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: are you seeing on film? That's that's led to all

645
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,240
Speaker 1: of those takeaways that they've pret Yeah, Houston does a

646
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: great job getting after the ball. They punch it out,

647
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: They make great plays on the secondary linebackers due too,

648
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,600
Speaker 1: they do a tremendous job. They play with high effort um.

649
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: This team is a really good football Teammediately, the record

650
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: may not necessarily demonstrate everything they've done. You mean, to

651
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: have fourteen interceptions and to have all the things they've done.

652
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: Their coach extremely well obviously, Lovely Smith's tremendous football coach

653
00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: has been in the league for a long time. You know,

654
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 1: is highly highly regarded and highly respected across the league.

655
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 1: And so I think that they've done a great job

656
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: of making plays. They got playmakers across the board. Where's

657
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: the challenge for you on that? Right, there's that one

658
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: guy that you have to look out for who's been

659
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: the ball hawk the entire time. What's the challenge? But

660
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: you've got so many different potential playmakers talking about I

661
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: think to know that, um, you know, I think the

662
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: challenge in that is is to know that all their

663
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: guys can make plays. Um, you know, you got to

664
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: be really efficient with the football like we always know

665
00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: how to be, and to be really diligent with the ball.

666
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: I think I think that also to um, you know,

667
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: pressing the gas and just in terms of just us

668
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: making our plays. You know, as we go and go

669
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: make our plays, we're gonna get contested plays. And and

670
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: to be able to win those fifty fifty balls or

671
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: to be able to win those moments, there's gonna be

672
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: really key. And uh and then um, you know when

673
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: we run it obviously protecting the football, and we dropped

674
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: back protecting it too as well. And and uh, you

675
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: know it's gonna be Like I said, this team's you know,

676
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: has played some really good football. You know, they're really physical,

677
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: they make some great plays. Um, you know, Jacob Martin

678
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: come off the edge. He's done a really good job.

679
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: So it's cool to see him, you know, doing his thing.

680
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: I remember when he came in as a rookie, just

681
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: a guy who was so dedicated to was craft and um,

682
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: so I have a lot of respect for him, a

683
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: lot a lot of great players on that team. You

684
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: mentioned the talent the forty nine ers have up front,

685
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: the dropped as of line has been pretty banged up.

686
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: He had to have two rookies to play a good

687
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: chunk of the game someday. What did you mean for

688
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: you to see those guys step in you a rivalry

689
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: game like that, Yeah, step up played as wealthy. Yeah,

690
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: it was huge to have to have you know, guys

691
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: step into the game. Offensive line I thought kept battling

692
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: throughout that game. Obviously we got a guy like Bosa

693
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: on the other side, and and uh some other players

694
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: they have, you know, and their ability to get to

695
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: the quarterback, they're really special at that. But um, you know,

696
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: to be able to have our guys step in, you

697
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: know and really do a tremendous job of past protecting

698
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: it and run blocking two as well, and really give

699
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: me enough time to make some of those throws, and

700
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,919
Speaker 1: um was really huge. And the guys have been playing

701
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: banged up. I think about a guy like Shell, who's

702
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: who's been banged up kind of for most of the year.

703
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,280
Speaker 1: He just keeps he just keeps battling. He just keeps battling.

704
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,320
Speaker 1: He keeps battling. You know, I know, Um, you know

705
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: Post has overcome some injuries. Uh, you know, Kyle has

706
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,280
Speaker 1: been in there before some injuries battling, um, you know, obviously,

707
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: and hopefully we get Dodlu back out there. Um, he's

708
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: been battling with some stuff. And so, UM, Gabe, you know,

709
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: he's a he's an ultimate pro. He's been he's been

710
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 1: in there. Um obviously, Dwayne two as well. Those two guys,

711
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 1: um or are ultimate pros. And so I think, Um,

712
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: what's been really cool to see is just, um, there

713
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: is no fear in our guys. You know, they they

714
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 1: they they believe in what we can do. I mean,

715
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 1: you know, I believe in him, and we all believe

716
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: together that we can we can do great things. And

717
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: so um that really showed up this past week, in

718
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: particular with with a tough, you know, challenge ahead of us.

719
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: When you look when you look after look at the

720
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 1: film in that game and statistically was your best game

721
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 1: sort of sets you you know, attings Or and all

722
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: that didn't feel like that to you, like, you know,

723
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: this started to come. Yeah, I think every week it's

724
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,439
Speaker 1: just cutting better. But which I knew that that would happen,

725
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: you know, just anytime you're you're battling and coming coming

726
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: off of stuff, I think you get better every day.

727
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: And that's that's hopefully the goal. Every week, you know,

728
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: you get better from each week. And I think that, Um,

729
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: I think for me, you know, I think the biggest

730
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: thing that I said early in the game, after the

731
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:29,080
Speaker 1: you know, or after the first or second drive, and

732
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: I said to the sideline, I said, this game is

733
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: all gonna be this game, you know, this past game

734
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: we just played. This game is gonna be all about composure.

735
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: You know, it's gonna be some crazy stuff. I mean,

736
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: you know, I've been fortunate to be in a lot

737
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 1: of these crazy games, you know, with with forty nine

738
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: ers or other teams in our division and everything else.

739
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: And that game in particular was about composure. You know,

740
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: how could we keep our composure, how could we remain

741
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,840
Speaker 1: neutral in the midst of it all? Um, and and

742
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: and just you know, know that this is gonna be

743
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: a long game, you know, and so keep battling, keep

744
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: keep trying to win our matchups and keep trying to

745
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: win our opportunities. You see Gerald respond this week from

746
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 1: his top team. You've both been great. I mean I've

747
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: been talking to him during the game and after the game. UM,

748
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: we texted, talked you know after the game in the

749
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: locker room too as well. UM we also, uh, you

750
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: know obviously all all week. You know, he's he's one

751
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: of those guys that doesn't blink. You know, he knows that. UM,

752
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,959
Speaker 1: you know, he wishes that that that stuff didn't happen.

753
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: But he's competing. You know, he's doing the best that

754
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: he can every day. He's been tremendous for us this season.

755
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 1: He's made some amazing plays for us, you know, and

756
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: he continues to do that. He will continue to do that.

757
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,240
Speaker 1: And if I believe in anybody, you know, Gerald Everett's

758
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: one of those guys who was a report yesterday about

759
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: that you would approve trades to three different teams. Did

760
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: you see that you have? I didn't see it. I'm

761
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: not really on social right now as much, um or

762
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: anything like that, but I did see it because somebody

763
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: sent it to me. Um, you know, no, that's not

764
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: that's not that's not in my head right now at all.

765
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: I didn't say that either. Um, so you know, I'm

766
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,760
Speaker 1: focused on what we're doing here. Obviously. I love Seattle.

767
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: This is a place that I've I've I've loved every day.

768
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: Every moment I talked to you is about joy. Last week, Um,

769
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: you know, when I hurt my finger, you realize that,

770
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: you know, every day, you just you want to take

771
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: advantage of every day. I've always had that mindset. But

772
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: just um, you know, I love this. I love this

773
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: this place. I love this space. I love where my

774
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: mind's at. I love where our team's at. Um. I

775
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: think that we can be better. Um, you know, you know,

776
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: in this journey, but we can. We can go as

777
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:21,959
Speaker 1: far as we want to go the next five weeks

778
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: in plus, you know. And so I think that's that's

779
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: where my head is. And you know, so that's that's

780
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: a that's a non story. Would you would it be

781
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:32,000
Speaker 1: active to say you intend to fulfill your contract again,

782
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 1: to say you intend to fulfill a good contract you're

783
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: under it. Yeah, that's my hope, you know, and I

784
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: hope to not just fulfill it. Hopefully I get to

785
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 1: play here for you know, twenty years of my career. Um,

786
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,800
Speaker 1: well that happened, and I don't know, but that's my prayer,

787
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,720
Speaker 1: that's my hope, um, you know, and all that stuff

788
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 1: that's that's us in the future. You know, that's stuff

789
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: down down the road. I think my my my mission,

790
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: my focus that I can only do right now is

791
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: focus on right now today, third down, red zone, light

792
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: it up, have a great day, bring as much in

793
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: much focused as I can to this football team. As

794
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, I love this place, I love this

795
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: city and this team and what we can do. So

796
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: I think my focus is on that, and that's that's

797
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: really what matters. It was a packed first hour of

798
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: the huddle. You heard from Darryl Taylor, you heard from

799
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: Sidney Jones and those interviews, and you just heard from

800
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,720
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson answering questions by the way about trade rumors.

801
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: We're about to get into a packed second hour. By

802
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,800
Speaker 1: the way. Now come the experts. We're gonna go in

803
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 1: the trenches with Ray Roberts. We've got Steve raybell On,

804
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,320
Speaker 1: We're gonna have an opponent preview, wrap things up with

805
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:33,839
Speaker 1: John Boyle. Don't go anywhere. It's all coming your way next.

806
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,319
Speaker 1: All right, you are listening to the huddle, Stacy Ross

807
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: and Jake keeps here and we're going in the trenches

808
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: with Ray Roberts. Ray. First of all, how's it going.

809
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: It's going all right? Deal them with a little internet

810
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 1: fell you're over here. But other than that, doing okay, okay,

811
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: good thing. Other than that? Okay. Um, last week when

812
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: we talked to you, we talked about the offensive line struggling.

813
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: Now did you see an improvement in this game or

814
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: did they win in spite of it? I mean, what

815
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 1: were your takeaway specifically? We'll just start up front. Well,

816
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: I think, you know, during the game, with the injuries

817
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: that they had and uh Forsyth and Kurran having to

818
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: come in. UM, I think it was a little bit

819
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: of a combination of both. It was a rough start.

820
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: You know, there were moments in the game where they

821
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: showed that inconsistency, but then there were moments in the

822
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: game where they were doing some you know, some good

823
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 1: things in pass protection and and you know with the

824
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: running game that we had, uh, you know, being able

825
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: to be effective with the run game. I still obviously

826
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: don't think that uh that you know, that is a

827
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: well tuned machine. And uh, and I think that for

828
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: some of the players, they're still room to be to

829
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: be better at it. But the thing I liked was

830
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: that they just kept battling, you know, and kept trying

831
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: to find ways to give Russell time or create lanes

832
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: to pick up the two or three yards to get

833
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson in the end zone, or or you know,

834
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny had ten carries for thirty five yards. That

835
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,800
Speaker 1: was success. You know, it may not sound like a

836
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: whole bunch, but in the whole scheme of things, that

837
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: was a successful day for him to pick up a blitz,

838
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: finish a run with a nice little form shiver, and

839
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 1: then come out the game Andrey Free ready to lace

840
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 1: it up for this week. That's a win. You know,

841
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 1: ray I looked at everything in context when it came

842
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,919
Speaker 1: to the forty nine ers game. Yeah, the run game

843
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: statistically didn't have the monster night. Yes, the offensive line

844
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:23,879
Speaker 1: struggled in past protection at different points in time, there's

845
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: no question. But you talk about battling, you talk about

846
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: being effective. What can we hope for as they finish

847
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: out the rest of the season. Is it that that

848
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: they can be good enough to be effective or do

849
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 1: you think there's an opportunity to build something and finish

850
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 1: on a high note. Well, I think if you can

851
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: get all the guys back in there healthy, you know,

852
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: like you know, sometimes you know you're out because you're injured,

853
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,760
Speaker 1: and when you come back, you're still dealing with the injury.

854
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: You're just at a place where you can play, right.

855
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: But if you can get guys, if you can get

856
00:40:56,760 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: guys back healthy enough to have that starting unit in there,

857
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: certainly there there's something that you can build on you

858
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: they can get into a rhythm, you know, the last

859
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: few games and have that, you know, carry them into

860
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: the into the off season. But so far, it just

861
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,359
Speaker 1: hasn't been anything that says that that's going to happen.

862
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: And so the way I described it at the pregame

863
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: show last week was, you know, I don't know if

864
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: you guys have been in these types of situations, but

865
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: I have. When they when you're in school and the

866
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:26,879
Speaker 1: and they say, hey, at three o'clock, the fight's going down,

867
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: you know, And so when the bell rings, everybody runs

868
00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: to the football field or out to the open space

869
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 1: of the school and the fight happens, and uh and

870
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: the and the folks that are in the fight or

871
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: in the fight and uh, and you can't be You're

872
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:41,399
Speaker 1: either in or you're out. And so I think that's

873
00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: how the Seahoffs have to make it. We we talked

874
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: about this last week. You have to find a way

875
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: to win. That is your identity, Like your identity isn't

876
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,480
Speaker 1: gonna be you know, like running the rock for one

877
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards and throwing it for three hundred

878
00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: and fifty yards. It's gonna be find a way to win.

879
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: So that means that the guys up front, you just

880
00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta, you gotta come with it and just

881
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 1: come ready to fight and do whatever you have to do.

882
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: Strain a little harder, hold a little tighter, move a

883
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 1: little faster, you know, finish a little better, all those

884
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: different kinds of things to be able to make plays.

885
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: You know, when you have to make plays so that

886
00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 1: you can win the football game. Hey are you expecting?

887
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I know we were talking about balance and

888
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: kind of doing what you do best, not what you

889
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: think you can do best. Against an opponent that said,

890
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: do you view them maybe leaning into the run against

891
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: the Texans defense that's giving up one hundred and forty

892
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 1: a game, Well, I would expect even if they were

893
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 1: giving up minus one hundred and forty a game. Pete

894
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: Carroll's kilking to try to run the football, you know

895
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So we can just take we just

896
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: take that piece of it and just know that that's

897
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: going to happen, you know what I'm saying. Like, and

898
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: because I still think that, you know, it's not always

899
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,720
Speaker 1: whether or not you can be rush for one hundred

900
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,919
Speaker 1: and fifty yards. It also creates a rhythm to your office.

901
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: And he spoke to that a few weeks ago. You know,

902
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: we're talking about the Washington football team that they ran

903
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 1: it so many times that they only average about, you know,

904
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 1: less than four yards to carry. But it kept their

905
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: offense on rhythm, and it kept the defense having to

906
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,799
Speaker 1: come off blocks and make tackles and all that kind

907
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: of stuff. And Adrian Peterson is a dude that if

908
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: he carries a ball eight times or eight yards, you

909
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,279
Speaker 1: have to tackle that dude eight times. Like he runs,

910
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: he still runs really really hard, and so that that

911
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 1: brings something to the to the deal. And so I

912
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: think they're gonna try to establish the run, especially since uh,

913
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: you know, Penny, like I said, came out of it, healthy,

914
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: looked good, did some good things, finish off the runs strong,

915
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: you know, use his body to pick up a blitz

916
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: you know, a blitzing uh outside defender like those kinds

917
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: of things. So that looks like he has more confidence

918
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: in himself. So I would expect that they're gonna at

919
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: least test that out and see what he can bring

920
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: to the table. Right one of the questions that we

921
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: were talking about and debating about yesterday UM really came

922
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: off with something Mark Slaith had said before, was talking

923
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: about how look, part of the job and the effectiveness

924
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: of an offensive line is predicated off of your play caller.

925
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 1: And right now, as we've talked about and lamented that

926
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 1: Shane Waldron has not been able to successfully establish an

927
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:22,440
Speaker 1: identity to this offense, how much of that do you

928
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: think is the factor for this group underperforming versus just

929
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 1: personal performance. I think it's you know, a combination of

930
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 1: both and and I still think you know this late

931
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: in the season, it's kind of hard to lean on

932
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,560
Speaker 1: this as an excuse, but not having those live reps

933
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: together in the preseason, when you have one guy a

934
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: new guy coming in at right guard, the right guard

935
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: moving to left guard looking to play beside all pro

936
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 1: tackle who doesn't take any reps in the games. Are

937
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 1: in practice and you're trying to settle the center position,

938
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: you know, between two guys, and you have a new

939
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: play caller and you have you know, you have new

940
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 1: plays that you're running. There's a lot of newness going

941
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: on and uh, and so it just seems like up

942
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 1: until this point, you've had five guys plan, you know,

943
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 1: individual dudes plan to try to get something to accomplished,

944
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: versus versus having five, uh, you know, players players one

945
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: and so. But so that's part of it. And the

946
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: other part of it is when when you talk offense,

947
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: when people start talking about how you put an offense

948
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: together and all this stuff, usually the conversation starts and

949
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: ends with the quarterback, the running backs and receivers, and

950
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:34,840
Speaker 1: so you're trying to maximize what they can do and

951
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: how they can be effective, and how they can be

952
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: explosive and how they can be dominant. And people don't

953
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: take into the account the things that the offensive land

954
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: can or cannot do. And so I think you have

955
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: to do that. When you're putting an offense together, you

956
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: have to start right there, because that's where it all

957
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: starts and ends. None of those other things really work

958
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: if the if the quarterback has you know, less than

959
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: two seconds to throw the ball, you know, And so

960
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 1: I think you have to build an offense, craft an

961
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,760
Speaker 1: offense and call plays in a way that it allows

962
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: the offensive line to have a few more tools in

963
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: their box and you can you can you know, develop

964
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: an offensive line that way. So short passes, you know,

965
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: drop back passes, moving the pocket, rollouts, play action passes, screens,

966
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 1: all those different things give me as an offensive linement

967
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 1: and pass detection, five or six different sets that I

968
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: can use. So now I have the defensive line thinking

969
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: about what they're doing and they're not just tan off

970
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 1: and rushing the quarterback. And it also helps in the

971
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 1: run game when things start to look the same, like

972
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 1: the first two or three steps look the same. So

973
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: now they might be reading pass action and it's run

974
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: and so you get that, you get really into them

975
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: and you can drive them down the field, get good,

976
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 1: good movement, or they might be reading run and so

977
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: they slow down the bracet for the run and it's

978
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: a pass. So like you can do things to create

979
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: development for your offensive line and help your offensive line

980
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:52,319
Speaker 1: depending on how you build the offense and call the plays. Hey, Ray,

981
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: we've only got a minute, and I should have asked

982
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 1: this earlier, but I have to make sure I get

983
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 1: this question in what did you make of stone Foresight?

984
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: That's kind of our most extended look yet. Yeah, you

985
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: know it's I think he just came in and battled,

986
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,240
Speaker 1: you know, uh, you know, it wasn't any real glaring mistakes,

987
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 1: but but you know, some of the technique wasn't good.

988
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,600
Speaker 1: I think, you know, speed of the game was still

989
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,319
Speaker 1: an issue for him. I think his height is still

990
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: going to be something he has to deal with and

991
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,880
Speaker 1: learn how to play lower and not allow guys to

992
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: take advantage of their just natural leverage because they're short

993
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,480
Speaker 1: it than he is. But you know, for for just

994
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 1: you know, jumping in the game, you know, not necessarily

995
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 1: probably coming into the game, think you're gonna play, and

996
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you're taking a lot of reps.

997
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: You know, I thought, I thought he battled and uh

998
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: and did pretty good. All right, you guys. He is

999
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 1: an expert with this stuff and all things football. Is

1000
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: a former offensive lineman and current NFL analyst. You can

1001
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: hear him this Sunday on the Seahawks pre and postgame show.

1002
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 1: He's Ray Roberts. Ray, thanks so much for joining us. Hey,

1003
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Guys. Look forward to send you

1004
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: guys again at the stadium. Yeah. Thanks, Ye, all right,

1005
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 1: we are not done with expert interviews. We're going to

1006
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: talk to the voice of the Seahawks, Steam Rabel next.

1007
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:02,799
Speaker 1: I want to know some of his keys to the game. Now.

1008
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: I've been thinking like run the ball. Yeah, sure, but

1009
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 1: let's see what Steve has to say. That's coming your way. Next.

1010
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: You are listening to the huddle. Jay Keeps and Stacy

1011
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 1: Ross here were joined now by the voice of the Seahawks,

1012
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: Steve Rabel. Hey, Rabes, how's it going. I'm great, guys,

1013
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: how are you fantastic? I mean, we're looking ahead to

1014
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 1: a game against the Houston Texans at ten am kickoff.

1015
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: That on paper seems very winnable for Seattle. But what's

1016
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: going to be one of the biggest keys for them? Yeah? Well,

1017
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: one thing I learned a long time ago, and perhaps

1018
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: Jake did too, that you rarely play a game on paper.

1019
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: Most of the time, you have to go out on

1020
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: the field and do it. I think Chuck Knox said

1021
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: one time that if all you had to do was

1022
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 1: go out and dump the playbook out at midfield to

1023
00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: win the game, then you know it'd be a lot

1024
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:50,359
Speaker 1: easier on everybody. But there are any team can beat

1025
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:53,280
Speaker 1: anybody on any given Sunday. I mean, just just figure

1026
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: that's the case. When you go in thinking that in

1027
00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: every game, in every circumstance, then you know that you

1028
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: have to prepare to beat a team that's two and ten.

1029
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:04,520
Speaker 1: And that's what the Hawks have to do this week.

1030
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: You know, they don't do Houston that is, they don't

1031
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: do a lot of things great. They take the ball

1032
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: away and they've got twenty one takeaways on that defensive side,

1033
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 1: so they're pretty good at that. And we know that

1034
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:19,399
Speaker 1: that's one of Pete's biggest mantras every game is it's

1035
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: all about the ball. So Seattle's going to have to

1036
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,319
Speaker 1: do a good job protecting it, especially a week after

1037
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: three turnovers. So you know, that's one of the things

1038
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 1: that I expect Houston will try to do. Try to

1039
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 1: force either Russ into a poor throw, stick tight to

1040
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: receivers to try to pick a pass or two and

1041
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: maybe jar one or two loose from the running backs.

1042
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 1: You know, Raves, That's a great point that you make

1043
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: because it is something that they recently, just this last game,

1044
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: really struggled with him. Yes, it came from one individual

1045
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,439
Speaker 1: in particular, but you're fortunate that you didn't have four

1046
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: With Adrian Peterson as well. He had a he had

1047
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:56,480
Speaker 1: a fumble that hit the turf and they were able

1048
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: to recover it. But it just goes to show that

1049
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: again conversation about any given Sunday, you have to take

1050
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 1: every single opponent, you know, seriously. Tennessee learned that the

1051
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,800
Speaker 1: hard way a few weeks back when playing the Houston

1052
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 1: Texans as well. What will this tell you, though, if

1053
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,320
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are able to build upon the win that

1054
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: they had against the forty nine ers and play good,

1055
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,360
Speaker 1: solid football in this one, well, it tells me that

1056
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: exactly what Pete has kind of preached all along, that

1057
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 1: if we can get this thing turned around, we can

1058
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: build on it. And if they win this week, as

1059
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: they should, the expectation is they should not only from

1060
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:39,320
Speaker 1: outside the building, but inside the building. There is that expectation.

1061
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 1: You have to win the games that you're supposed to win.

1062
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,759
Speaker 1: Then I think that what that says is this team

1063
00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:49,400
Speaker 1: is finally starting to recognize how best they can utilize

1064
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 1: all those parts. Defense took a little time off the

1065
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: top of the season, but here in this stretch, yeah,

1066
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:57,799
Speaker 1: they've given up some yards, but they haven't given up

1067
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: many points. They've been able to take the ball away,

1068
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,280
Speaker 1: and now they're actually starting to get some pressure on quarterbacks,

1069
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: which is kind of the last thing in the list

1070
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: that you want to go down defensively that they need

1071
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: to do offensively. I was even though it was kind

1072
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 1: of pedestrian the running attack, besides the seventy three yard

1073
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: fake punt, I was encouraged that they got with it

1074
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 1: and they stayed with it, and I expect to see

1075
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:25,719
Speaker 1: that this week. That running the football Houston gives up

1076
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 1: one one hundred and forty four yards a game on

1077
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: the ground, that should tell me that Penny and Peterson

1078
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 1: and Collins are going to get the ball early and

1079
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 1: off in this week and I think they should be

1080
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: successful with that. This is a team that's now going

1081
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: to play the rest of the season, unfortunately without Jamal Adams,

1082
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 1: their star safety. How if it all do you think

1083
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 1: that changes the way they play on defense? Well, Jamal

1084
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 1: is one of those guys that can do so many things.

1085
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:53,840
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he can come up to the

1086
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and blitz. We know that, we saw

1087
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: it last year. He can drop down into the box

1088
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: and be uh terrific on on a run pressures. He

1089
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:08,799
Speaker 1: can drop back and play zone. He's he can play man.

1090
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of things that that he

1091
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 1: can do as a as a safety and I think

1092
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: Pete has talked about it and the other guys have

1093
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:16,880
Speaker 1: talked about it too. Just the energy that he brings

1094
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: to the locker room on the sidelines during the game. Uh,

1095
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 1: you know, you mike him up and you have like

1096
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: two and a half to three hours of non stop

1097
00:52:28,239 --> 00:52:32,439
Speaker 1: noise making and talking and getting guys prepared. You're gonna

1098
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 1: miss all that stuff that said Ryan Neil is experienced.

1099
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: Now he's played, I expect him to step in and

1100
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: do his job, as we like to say, and um,

1101
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: but you will miss all those things that that that

1102
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 1: Jamal brings. Rabes. We got the opportunity to talk to

1103
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: Daryl Taylor earlier today on the huddle and and you know,

1104
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: just kind of explaining through some of the process of

1105
00:52:57,560 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 1: being out and then you know, getting the getting to

1106
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 1: be on the field for the first time, and how

1107
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 1: much he feels like he has learned, and how much

1108
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: he feels like he has grown. Have you seen that

1109
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: growth in him as you watch him play this season? Yeah,

1110
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: I have, And you know he would love to be

1111
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: able to be a nine or ten sack guy, and

1112
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: maybe one day he will be. I think sacks happen

1113
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons. You have some people that

1114
00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 1: are just so physically dominating that they are going to

1115
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:24,720
Speaker 1: get their sacks. You know, in his early years, Clowney,

1116
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: you know the brothers from Pittsburgh and Houston whose last

1117
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 1: name escapes me wat those guys are just they're just

1118
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 1: remarkable pass rushers. But a lot of guys need help

1119
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 1: from the rest of the defense. They need to have,

1120
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: you know, the defensive tackles doing their job, pushing everybody

1121
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 1: straight up field, forcing that quarterback to try to wheel

1122
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 1: out and run right into your arms. So there are

1123
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: lots of things that go into a sack. That said,

1124
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 1: he seems to be a young guy who wants to learn.

1125
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:56,239
Speaker 1: In fact, I just ten minutes ago finished a conversation

1126
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,800
Speaker 1: with Carlos Dunlap. He has sort of become that elder

1127
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 1: statesman of helping teach these young guys. And he was

1128
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 1: telling me that these young guys are leaning in when

1129
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,440
Speaker 1: he has something to say, and that's a good thing.

1130
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:12,440
Speaker 1: A guy like Taylor can learn from a guy like Dunlap,

1131
00:54:12,520 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 1: and so can so can Robinson, and so can the

1132
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 1: other guys. They need to continue though that growth. But

1133
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: I'm really encouraged by what I see. Yeah, Dunlap is

1134
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: one of those guys raves that does so much behind

1135
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: the scenes. And I know that you see those things

1136
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:29,320
Speaker 1: and you see on the sidelines and at the headquarters

1137
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: and everything, but a lot of things people don't see.

1138
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: Like Gerald Everett when he had that first fumbled, he

1139
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,720
Speaker 1: was on the bench clearly upset, frustrated, and Carlos Dunlap

1140
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: came up. I mean that you don't normally see a

1141
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: lot of offensive and defensive players other than when they

1142
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: congratulate each other, coming up and talking to each other.

1143
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: But walks up and reassures him, and I just thought, man,

1144
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 1: this guy's only been here, this is a second year,

1145
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: and he's this comfortable being a leader, right, and he

1146
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 1: has a flair for the dramatic. We talked about that,

1147
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 1: you know, he gets the sack in the end zone,

1148
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:02,320
Speaker 1: he gets the safety, He waits till the last basically

1149
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 1: the last offensive play of the game as far as

1150
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 1: San Francisco is concerned, and slaps down a pass at

1151
00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:10,879
Speaker 1: the three yard line to secure the win. Remember last

1152
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 1: year he won a couple of games, or helped win

1153
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 1: a couple of games with big sacks right at the

1154
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: end of the game. So he does have that flair.

1155
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 1: But something I didn't know about him until I prepared

1156
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 1: for this interview. He has his master's degree in business administration.

1157
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: He is a very intelligent, gentleman, business owner, has his

1158
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 1: own foundation. So when you're a young football player, why

1159
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 1: wouldn't you kind of lean in and listen to what

1160
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: a guy like that has to say. I was, I'm

1161
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 1: just desperately impressed by Carlos Dunlap. I would love to

1162
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: see him now finish out the season on a rise

1163
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 1: and getting a one or two sacks every game. I

1164
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 1: think that'd be terrific. It definitely would be terrific. And

1165
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 1: that is the thing that I agree with you, is

1166
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 1: that you know Dunlap is one of those personalities and

1167
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,360
Speaker 1: one of those people that are genuinely good people in

1168
00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 1: this league and are great representatives and so definitely want

1169
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: to see him in on a positive note. But Rabes,

1170
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 1: who else do you look at and say, gosh, I

1171
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:13,800
Speaker 1: really would love to see this guy in in a

1172
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: positive note? Well, for everybody, because you know it's easy

1173
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: because if everybody finishes on a positive note, then that

1174
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 1: means the team is gonna win their games, you know,

1175
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: here towards the end of the season, and that's what

1176
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: you have to do. I mean, there's just you have

1177
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:32,120
Speaker 1: no other recourse now other than to win everything if

1178
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,800
Speaker 1: you want to continue to play, and there's no guarantee

1179
00:56:34,800 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: even that that's going to happen. But you know, you

1180
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 1: owe the Rams, you owe the Cardinals. You need to

1181
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: win those two games in the division. You are supposed

1182
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 1: to win games against the Lions and the Bears. So

1183
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:50,719
Speaker 1: everybody needs to really kind of play to their best abilities.

1184
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: You know, I don't. I've kind of learned from Pete.

1185
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:55,799
Speaker 1: You don't say they have to play above themselves. They

1186
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:58,680
Speaker 1: have to come up with some spectacular kind of play. No,

1187
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:02,000
Speaker 1: but play the way you've been coached and the way

1188
00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 1: we know you can play, and then you give your chance,

1189
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: your team a chance to win so defensively, I you know,

1190
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:13,280
Speaker 1: I love what Monet is doing inside. Those big guys

1191
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: up front, Puna, They're they're playing really good football these days,

1192
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: and the whole defense is playing well against the run.

1193
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: Brooks is a special player. The skill he has defensively,

1194
00:57:24,400 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: and then of course Digs in the secondary can make

1195
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 1: plays all over the field. He reminds us of another

1196
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 1: guy who is a free safety on this team a

1197
00:57:31,640 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: few years back. Maybe not quite the speed, but by

1198
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: that aggressive nature he can make big plays. And on offense,

1199
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 1: you know, your quarterback has to play best. Your best

1200
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 1: players have to play best to win football games. So

1201
00:57:43,520 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: Russ and DK, they all have to be good. And

1202
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: I you know, I'm gonna put a little bit too here,

1203
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: Jake on the offensive coaches, Andy Dickerson, the run game coordinator,

1204
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: and Shane Walter and the offensive coordinator. You know, now

1205
00:57:58,160 --> 00:57:59,800
Speaker 1: that you've got some guys that can run the ball,

1206
00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 1: they all seem to be pretty healthy. Yeah, so now

1207
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 1: let's get to it. Let's stick to it. Let's get

1208
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: that balance going so that that makes the game easier

1209
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 1: for us to complete those play action passes downfield. Well

1210
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: said he is Steve Rabel, the voice of the Seahawks.

1211
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 1: Obviously you'll be here able to hear him this weekend

1212
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: on that called ten am kick off between these two teams,

1213
00:58:20,160 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: and you can hear him every week on the huddle raves.

1214
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Thank you guys. See yeah, all right,

1215
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: coming up next, we're going to step across enemy lines

1216
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 1: for an opponent preview talking with John McClean about these

1217
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: Houston Texans what's in store for Seattle. This is the

1218
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: Huddle with Dave Wyman, Jay Keeps, and Stacy Ross. Let's

1219
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 1: take a step over enemy lines with an opponent preview

1220
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:45,439
Speaker 1: with the John McClain of the Houston Chronicle. John, how's

1221
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 1: it going? Well? If you as bad as people may

1222
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 1: think it is with the Seahawks this season, it's even

1223
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: worse for the Texans, who I believe they're the worst

1224
00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:59,440
Speaker 1: came in the league and they'll break that again against

1225
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: the say as they have to last two weeks against

1226
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 1: the Jets and the calls. This is John, the most

1227
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 1: fire opening to an opponent preview interview we've ever had,

1228
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,560
Speaker 1: just someone coming in and being like, Yeah, this team's awful.

1229
00:59:12,640 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: How's it going with you? Well? John, Well, you know,

1230
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 1: when we look at the Houston Texans here. You know,

1231
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 1: one of the things that we're trying to figure out

1232
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: is just how bad everything currently is. We know things

1233
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 1: from the outside, but internally, John, what is the organization

1234
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: currently dealing with. Obviously, the latest news being that they

1235
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:39,960
Speaker 1: released their start starting linebacker Zach Cunningham. First of all,

1236
00:59:40,120 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: Zack Cunningham been breaking rolls all season and the coach

1237
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 1: stayed college set him down. They said, look, if you

1238
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: do it again, you're out of here. Then he didn't

1239
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: show up to get his COVID nineteen test before the

1240
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: col scheme. That's a violation of protocols are negotiated by

1241
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: the NFL Players Association and the Management Council. And if

1242
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: you're I'm enough to miss that past after you've been

1243
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 1: repeatedly warrant, he deserved to get cut. Now they did

1244
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 1: in the favor he'll have a chance to go to

1245
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 1: the playoff contender instead of the team competing for the

1246
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:15,920
Speaker 1: first overall pig. But when Necessario As hired as general

1247
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:18,960
Speaker 1: manager from New England and they hired David Cullor, one

1248
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 1: of the things they did turned over the roster and

1249
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 1: they said they are going to establish the kind of

1250
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 1: culture that they want, and the players don't want to

1251
01:00:27,760 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 1: be thought of it, then they can be gone. So

1252
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 1: they've made trades, they'd made cuts. Din't surprise me at

1253
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:36,200
Speaker 1: all about cutting him. I'd honestly sit on my top.

1254
01:00:36,280 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 1: So yesterday I thought he's gone it after the season.

1255
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 1: But David Cullor did him yesterday and he minced no words,

1256
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: and his lovely smith, the defensive Cordetor said today, sometimes

1257
01:00:47,720 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: divorce is best. So they got divorce from Zack cunning

1258
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:55,200
Speaker 1: him and hopefully he learned from his transgressions and whatever

1259
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:57,640
Speaker 1: new team he ends up with, he will be more

1260
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 1: reliable off the field. John, I'm really curious about David

1261
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: Coldy specifically in his relationship with the organization. Does the

1262
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:09,560
Speaker 1: organization view David Coldy as the man for the job

1263
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:13,160
Speaker 1: or a staff gap or a stop gap leader to

1264
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 1: get them out of this difficult transition, Well, it could

1265
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 1: be both. They can't commit to anybody in this organization

1266
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 1: beyond this year because they're so pathetic. And when you

1267
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:26,400
Speaker 1: get deep by the Jets at home after you just

1268
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: upset the Titans in the biggest game of the year,

1269
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 1: and then you get shut out by the Calls second time,

1270
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 1: you've been shut out and you have the fewest points,

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01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: the biggest point differential. You're last in offense, last in rushing,

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Speaker 1: next to last in I'm sorry they are last and rushing,

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01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 1: next to last in passing. They yet to get the

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Speaker 1: trifecta there and then a defense has played better under

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01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 1: Lovely Smith, but they've got a lot of injuries, a

1276
01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: lot of players coming in going, and so the defense

1277
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 1: and special teams have been bright spots, but the offense

1278
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:08,200
Speaker 1: is so utterly pathetic. Somehow they've only gained a hundred

1279
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: yards twice only wat since the first name victory over Jacksonville.

1280
01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:16,520
Speaker 1: And somehow last week they went from thirty second and

1281
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:20,840
Speaker 1: average per Carrie to thirty first thanks to the Dolphins

1282
01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:24,120
Speaker 1: having such a bad running game. But Miamis won five

1283
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:27,120
Speaker 1: in a low So the Saxons, as far as the organization,

1284
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:29,560
Speaker 1: where they're going. Everybody in the league that they're going

1285
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 1: to be the worst team, and they've lived down with

1286
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: those expectations and they are the worst team. I think

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01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:36,960
Speaker 1: they need to get the first pick in the draft,

1288
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 1: trade to Sean Watson, get multiple picks, and there's some

1289
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 1: other players need to be traded. And they're starting over

1290
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 1: again next season. I think they should be the worst

1291
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Speaker 1: in the league next year, said they would get Alabama

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Speaker 1: quarterback by Young. Hey John, I'm asking because I'm carries

1293
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:57,160
Speaker 1: about your answer. How should the Seahawks feel if they

1294
01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:02,160
Speaker 1: lose to this team plus see Mike the Tiger's dead,

1295
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:06,200
Speaker 1: utterly humiliated? But the Tags had a lot of excuses

1296
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 1: they had so many players out. But it's still as

1297
01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 1: I told people, Texans had players out. Team they just

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01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 1: went up there and beat them, and they were still

1299
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:18,120
Speaker 1: in shock. I think they're in shock. So I did

1300
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: not look for the Seahawks Louis's game. The last two

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01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 1: times they've played, they've both been great games. I'm writing

1302
01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:29,560
Speaker 1: a column tomorrow about the last time they played here.

1303
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 1: One play changed the course of both franchises. There was

1304
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman's interception that set up over time and allowed

1305
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:42,000
Speaker 1: the Seahawks to go three oh and I mean four

1306
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:46,760
Speaker 1: oh and when the Super Ball Texans had been twelve

1307
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:48,920
Speaker 1: and four, they were two and one at that point,

1308
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: had the game in hand. And to pick six by

1309
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 1: Sherman altered the course of this franchise. And in the

1310
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 1: last game, of course, I paid rookie Seawan Watson was great,

1311
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 1: Russe Wilson was greater, and I'll never forget add to

1312
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: that game, Sherman and some other defensive players saying Watson's

1313
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:10,360
Speaker 1: performance against them was the best day ever, saying not

1314
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 1: by rookie, but the best light ever, saying, and you

1315
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:16,600
Speaker 1: know what his career took. Allack to that all I'm

1316
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:20,000
Speaker 1: so I mentioned he can practice towards ACL but then

1317
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:22,360
Speaker 1: when he came back him two thousand and eighty team,

1318
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 1: Sherman and those other players were right because he is

1319
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 1: a great quarterback. John. That's why you know, you look

1320
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 1: at the Texans organization and just the downfall, the rapid

1321
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:37,120
Speaker 1: decline has been so I mean just from the outside perspective.

1322
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 1: I know for you it's it's probably been a nightmare

1323
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:43,720
Speaker 1: to deal with, but it has been very fascinating to

1324
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:47,240
Speaker 1: watch how quickly from a leadership perspective, and the success

1325
01:04:47,440 --> 01:04:50,600
Speaker 1: is just tapered off. And you mentioned them needing to

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01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:54,880
Speaker 1: offload and continue to keep rebuilding. Is there anything or

1327
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 1: any player that you look at with this organization right

1328
01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 1: now and say there's one spot here, here's a guy

1329
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:03,200
Speaker 1: that you should be looking out for for the Texans

1330
01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:07,880
Speaker 1: that has been performing well Oh yeah. They've got some players.

1331
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:11,720
Speaker 1: Their offensive tackle Dennis Howard, he'll play left tackle. He'd

1332
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:14,320
Speaker 1: been at right he'd been at left guard, and I

1333
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:17,160
Speaker 1: thought they made a mistake moving in from right tackle.

1334
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: But co Football Focus as in his highest grade tackle

1335
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:23,080
Speaker 1: in the league of US two games. He plays well.

1336
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:27,120
Speaker 1: They got defense and him Jonathan Bernard, who is second

1337
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 1: in the league to t J. Watt and Saxburg Naps.

1338
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:35,200
Speaker 1: He's been really good. They have some players that I'm

1339
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: not saying cornerstones. They have a linebacker, camraguz A Hill

1340
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 1: who just set a team record for tackles. He's been

1341
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 1: terrific and is going to get a big new contract.

1342
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:50,919
Speaker 1: So they do have some talent. Their problem is that Tyladkay.

1343
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,800
Speaker 1: They played great for six quarters to start the season.

1344
01:05:54,240 --> 01:05:57,640
Speaker 1: They beat Jacksonville here handily. Then they were tied with

1345
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:01,440
Speaker 1: Cleveland fourteen fourteen in Cleveland, and he had a handstring

1346
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: injury that kept him out six weeks. Their backup, they're

1347
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:09,160
Speaker 1: rookie Davis Mills, only started eleven games at Stanford. Third

1348
01:06:09,320 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 1: round pick. They didn't want to have to play him

1349
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:13,040
Speaker 1: till the end of the year, and he had to play,

1350
01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 1: and he had one great game to get status in

1351
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:18,520
Speaker 1: which they lost it by three, and he's never come

1352
01:06:18,640 --> 01:06:21,920
Speaker 1: close to it since when Taylor came back they started him,

1353
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: he was not the same quarterback. And so now even

1354
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:28,000
Speaker 1: though they're trying to play Coy and say they won't

1355
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:31,320
Speaker 1: announced the starting quarterback till tomorrow, we all believe it.

1356
01:06:31,520 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 1: We Davis Mills. There's no reason we go back to

1357
01:06:34,760 --> 01:06:38,280
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor and he has torn ligament in his left rest,

1358
01:06:38,360 --> 01:06:41,080
Speaker 1: but they say he could play and it's not an

1359
01:06:41,160 --> 01:06:45,160
Speaker 1: injury decision. Well, there's no reason to play him. Davis

1360
01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:48,440
Speaker 1: Mills should be seen the rest of the year because

1361
01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 1: they got to decide do we want to build around

1362
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:54,600
Speaker 1: him and give him a full season as the starter

1363
01:06:54,680 --> 01:06:56,840
Speaker 1: and if he can't handle it, then they'll worry about

1364
01:06:56,880 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 1: the quarterback next year when the clock coming out as

1365
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 1: a whole lot better than this year. And I think

1366
01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 1: that's what they're going to do. So they need to

1367
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 1: play Davis Mills. John one of the other things that

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01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:11,920
Speaker 1: you look at with this organization. You had mentioned this

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01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 1: earlier in a question, but how are Houston fans reacting

1370
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:21,800
Speaker 1: to David Coley? What does everyone down there think of

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01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 1: David Coley, the head coach. Everyone down here is angry

1372
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:30,000
Speaker 1: at everybody in the organization, starting with the owner, cal mcmare.

1373
01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:32,960
Speaker 1: They're a little more tolerable of Nick Cassario the after

1374
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:36,240
Speaker 1: twenty years with the Patriots, they tried to get him

1375
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:39,360
Speaker 1: third time. They finally got him because rules changed and

1376
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:41,920
Speaker 1: they give him a six year contract, so he came

1377
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:44,120
Speaker 1: in to care everything down We all knew that I

1378
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,440
Speaker 1: was going to be the situation, and yet, you know,

1379
01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:49,920
Speaker 1: after the Tennessee game, people thought they might be the

1380
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 1: Jets and they were awful. And so I don't know

1381
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:56,320
Speaker 1: why people think they need to win. They don't need

1382
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:59,200
Speaker 1: to win. They need to get the first pick. But

1383
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:02,280
Speaker 1: as far as Colleen and everybody wants him fired, I'll

1384
01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:05,480
Speaker 1: be very surprised if he's a one and gun. Keith

1385
01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:08,120
Speaker 1: Carroll couldn't do a better job with this talent. Bill

1386
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 1: Belichick couldn't do a better job with this talent this

1387
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:15,560
Speaker 1: season because they are awful. He's one of the more

1388
01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:19,280
Speaker 1: accomplished reporters on any beat anywhere. It's John McLean, been

1389
01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:21,680
Speaker 1: doing this for forty five years. You can read his

1390
01:08:21,720 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 1: work in the Houston Chronicle and in Texas Fashion. Very

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01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:27,639
Speaker 1: straight shooter with us today, John, We appreciate the time.

1392
01:08:27,680 --> 01:08:30,920
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Thank you guys very much. I

1393
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 1: do appreciate it. Happy Holliday, all right. From one reporter

1394
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:37,280
Speaker 1: to another, John Boyle, a reporter for Seahawks dot Com,

1395
01:08:37,400 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 1: Gonna join us next on the Huddle plus our final thoughts,

1396
01:08:40,360 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. This is the Huddle with Jay Keeps

1397
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:48,000
Speaker 1: and Stacy Ross joining us right now to help us

1398
01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:50,559
Speaker 1: wrap up the day and also give us an update

1399
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:53,880
Speaker 1: on this team. It's John Boyle, reporter for Seahawks dot Com. Hey, John,

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01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: how's it going. It's going good. How are you guys?

1401
01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:00,439
Speaker 1: We're good, We're good. We're recovering from the interview that

1402
01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:03,160
Speaker 1: we did with John McClain down there in Texas, and John,

1403
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:05,599
Speaker 1: I have to say already you are far more upbeat

1404
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 1: and positive than what he was from. Yeah, it's the

1405
01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:12,160
Speaker 1: full rockdown there for them. He ended the interview by

1406
01:09:12,240 --> 01:09:20,559
Speaker 1: just saying and like punctuating, they are awful. Said yes, yes,

1407
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:27,479
Speaker 1: And he's been around yeah yeah, yeah, yeah bad. He

1408
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:30,400
Speaker 1: certainly has so. From one John to another. You know,

1409
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:33,880
Speaker 1: I mean, we we wanted to ask you currently where

1410
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 1: what you think of the challenge, the unique challenge that

1411
01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:38,920
Speaker 1: is in front of the Seahawks. I mean, they're they're

1412
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:41,600
Speaker 1: four and eight, but they're not you know where the

1413
01:09:41,680 --> 01:09:44,880
Speaker 1: Houston Texans are right now. And uh, you know, a

1414
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:46,920
Speaker 1: lot of people go into the game and assume that, hey,

1415
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:48,680
Speaker 1: they got this in the bag and that they should win.

1416
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:50,800
Speaker 1: But what do you think is the unique challenge for

1417
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:53,639
Speaker 1: them in this matchup? Yeah, I mean I think that's

1418
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:56,519
Speaker 1: a big challenge for any coaching staff is hey, you know,

1419
01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:58,960
Speaker 1: you gotta take this seriously. I don't care what the

1420
01:09:59,040 --> 01:10:02,599
Speaker 1: record says, you know what their stats say, It's still

1421
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:05,080
Speaker 1: the NFL. And I mean we just saw it was

1422
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. Houston went out and beat Tennessee,

1423
01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:10,280
Speaker 1: which is a really good team. So they're a team

1424
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:13,000
Speaker 1: that's getting a lot of turnovers on defense. And if

1425
01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:15,000
Speaker 1: you turn the ball over, I don't care who you're playing,

1426
01:10:15,439 --> 01:10:18,080
Speaker 1: you can lose games with a bunch of turnovers. So yeah,

1427
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: I mean that's on paper, the Seahawks are definitely the

1428
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:22,600
Speaker 1: better team here, but you can't just go coasting into it.

1429
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:24,799
Speaker 1: And I mean that's the big challenge for the players

1430
01:10:24,840 --> 01:10:26,439
Speaker 1: and the coaches to make sure they're in the right

1431
01:10:26,479 --> 01:10:29,720
Speaker 1: place mentally. We know Adrian Peterson was signed with this

1432
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 1: team last week and had a touchdown for them. Now

1433
01:10:33,240 --> 01:10:36,280
Speaker 1: there's like a favorable matchup between the Seahawks run offense

1434
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 1: and a run defense allowing one hundred and forty plus

1435
01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:41,160
Speaker 1: yards per game. But does that mean to you you

1436
01:10:41,320 --> 01:10:44,000
Speaker 1: expect to see a lot of Adrian Peterson or who

1437
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 1: are you expecting to see? Kind of caring getting most

1438
01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:50,439
Speaker 1: carries for Seattle? It sounds like you're trying to sneak

1439
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:53,400
Speaker 1: a fantasy football question into me. Stay and look, look, look,

1440
01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:55,320
Speaker 1: I'm just saying if you had a couple of choices

1441
01:10:55,360 --> 01:11:00,080
Speaker 1: and maybe Dalvin Cook on your bench, now I do

1442
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:02,519
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it probably is going to come

1443
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 1: down to the health of Alex Colin. He did practice

1444
01:11:05,040 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 1: yesterday and Pete Carroll said that we got really helped him,

1445
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:10,880
Speaker 1: so I would think, I mean, it's really hard to

1446
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 1: read right now because Alexe Collins has been the main guy.

1447
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:15,519
Speaker 1: But we did see or Sean Penny have a big role,

1448
01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:17,639
Speaker 1: and Pete Carroll seemed to really like what they saw

1449
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:20,559
Speaker 1: him in small glimpses and wants to see him get

1450
01:11:20,600 --> 01:11:22,960
Speaker 1: going more. And then obviously you know Peterson had a

1451
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 1: big role. But if they're all healthy. Somebody's probably the

1452
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:28,320
Speaker 1: odd man out of that three in terms of touches.

1453
01:11:28,439 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 1: So yeah, I can't. I can't help you in your

1454
01:11:30,479 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 1: fantasy team, Stacey. But I think a lot of it

1455
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:34,800
Speaker 1: might just come down to how healthy they feel. Like

1456
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:37,720
Speaker 1: Alex Collins was going in, I'm adjusting my lineup as

1457
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:42,479
Speaker 1: we speak. This is on you now, John. We know

1458
01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:46,080
Speaker 1: that obviously there was a devastating injury to Jamal Adams

1459
01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:48,639
Speaker 1: his shoulder. He's gonna have to have season ending surgery.

1460
01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:53,200
Speaker 1: But we know very familiar who Ryan Neil is. What

1461
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 1: is the expectation for Neil as he steps into this

1462
01:11:56,360 --> 01:11:58,280
Speaker 1: role for Jamal Adams to finish out the rest of

1463
01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:01,240
Speaker 1: the season. I mean they're expecting him to come in

1464
01:12:01,280 --> 01:12:03,800
Speaker 1: and play really well. I mean Ryan Eil himself said

1465
01:12:03,920 --> 01:12:06,160
Speaker 1: he's not Jamal Adams. He's not trying to be Jamal Adams.

1466
01:12:06,200 --> 01:12:08,639
Speaker 1: You're probably not going to see him rushed the pass

1467
01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:10,640
Speaker 1: earth much, although Jamal is doing a lot less of

1468
01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:13,280
Speaker 1: that this year anyway than last season, so that may

1469
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 1: be less of a factor. But you know, they feel

1470
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 1: good about having him in there. He played really well

1471
01:12:18,439 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 1: last year when Adams was hurt, and he was, you know,

1472
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:22,680
Speaker 1: a good enough player. They felt they need to get

1473
01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 1: him on the field more this year with that dime package,

1474
01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:28,439
Speaker 1: even when everyone was healthy, So you know, they're not

1475
01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:30,560
Speaker 1: expecting there'd be a lot of fall off. He's not

1476
01:12:30,640 --> 01:12:32,600
Speaker 1: the exact same player, and you can't expect him to

1477
01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 1: do everything the Jamal Adams Adams does, but everybody expects

1478
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:39,120
Speaker 1: Ryan Neil to play. Well. Hey, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: shuffling on this offensive line with injuries right now. Is

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Speaker 1: there a name or two we should be keeping an

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Speaker 1: eye on this week? Yeah? I mean, to me, Brandon

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Speaker 1: Shell's the biggest one. It sounds like Damie and Lewis

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Speaker 1: will be back. So if you get him back, you

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Speaker 1: feel pretty good about That's most of your stars are

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Speaker 1: healthy otherwise. But Shell, you know, Pete Carroll didn't sound

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Speaker 1: very optimistic about him when he was talking about him Monday.

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Speaker 1: He said, you know, he right off the bat, sounds

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Speaker 1: like he's getting at least today off and yesterday off.

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Speaker 1: So if he's practicing at best Friday, and we don't

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Speaker 1: even know about that yet, then that might make his

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Speaker 1: chance as a little slim. And the fact that the

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Speaker 1: shoulders not like as a new thing it's been bugging

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Speaker 1: if it's knock him out of a couple of games,

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Speaker 1: so maybe they look at this as a game or

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Speaker 1: you just even if he could gut it out and play,

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Speaker 1: maybe you arrest him and try to get him healthy

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Speaker 1: for the stretch run. And you know, see what either

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Speaker 1: the rookie Stone Foresight or Jake Kern, both of whom

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Speaker 1: played the bunch last week, maybe you let one of

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Speaker 1: them go there. John, we have gotten starting to get

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Speaker 1: these swirling reports just out there in general about where

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks are currently at, where you know, some of

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Speaker 1: the big players within this organization, Jody Allen, Pete Carroll,

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Speaker 1: John Schneider, Russell Wilson obviously the latest one that Russ

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Speaker 1: was asked in his own press conference today. You know,

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Speaker 1: if he could confirm or deny the reports that were

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01:13:51,600 --> 01:13:55,479
Speaker 1: out there, what would your advice be to Seahawks fans

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01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:58,840
Speaker 1: that are starting to see the increase in conversation that's

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Speaker 1: surrounding this team national. I mean, I get why these

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Speaker 1: conversations come up. The team's got losing record in general

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01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:10,360
Speaker 1: in the NFL. When teams don't do well, changes happen,

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Speaker 1: So it's natural that these conversations are going to happen

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Speaker 1: if if you know my advice, I doubt anyone would

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Speaker 1: follow this. But my advice may situation is let's just

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Speaker 1: chill and enjoy the ride, and then you know, nothing's

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Speaker 1: going to happen right now anyway. No one's gonna get traded,

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01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:26,120
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna get fired in the middle of the season.

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Speaker 1: So let's let's enjoy the ride, see if this team

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Speaker 1: can win some games, and then yeah, January Sebuary, maybe

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Speaker 1: we will be talking about some changes, but none of

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Speaker 1: that's happening now. Anyway. There's gonna be a lot of

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Speaker 1: speculation rumors out there, but for now, there's five games

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Speaker 1: left and granted not huge, but a chance at the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and let's just see what this team can do if

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Speaker 1: they get hot. Speaking of enjoying the ride, they do

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01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:50,559
Speaker 1: have a lot of opportunities against some teams that are

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01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:54,439
Speaker 1: also really struggling. That comes first against the Texans, so

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Speaker 1: I'll focus on them right now because we'll of course

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Speaker 1: be interviewing you for the Bears and Lions. But what's

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Speaker 1: maybe a key to success this Sunday. I mean I

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Speaker 1: referenced a little bit earlier, but just take care of

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Speaker 1: the ball. You know. That's if there's one thing that

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Speaker 1: kind of scares you about this text and the team,

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01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:12,800
Speaker 1: when you look at all the different numbers and all

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01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:15,320
Speaker 1: the players and stats, the one that really jumps out

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01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:17,680
Speaker 1: to me is, you know, they've they've got fourteen interceptions

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Speaker 1: and twenty one takeaways, which both are you know, top five,

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Speaker 1: top ten in the league. So if your bad teams

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01:15:24,840 --> 01:15:26,120
Speaker 1: are going to sneak up and get you, that's a

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01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:27,600
Speaker 1: good way for them to do it is take the

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01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: ball away, get some extra possessions. So I think if

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson can do what he usually does, which has

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Speaker 1: not turned the ball over, and you don't have some

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01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:37,479
Speaker 1: you know, unusual fumbles like we saw last week, I

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01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:39,800
Speaker 1: think this team should be fine. All right. He is

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01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:42,599
Speaker 1: a reporter for Seahawks dot Com, John Boyle. You can

1547
01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:44,160
Speaker 1: hear him every week on the huddle and make sure

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Speaker 1: you're reading his work at seahawks dot com. John, Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much, talk to you next week. You're You're welcome.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Thanks John. All right, that'll do

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Speaker 1: it for this week's huddle. You're going into a game

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Speaker 1: with a lot of opportunities. That is the one theme

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Speaker 1: we learned from all of our guests today, Lots of

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Speaker 1: opportunities for Seattle, but got a hand to that second part.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you capitalize on him. Jake, Yes, So thank

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Speaker 1: you again to Daryl Taylor, to Sidney Jones, to Rabel,

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Speaker 1: to Ray Roberts, to John McLean and to John Boyle,

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Speaker 1: all of our guests today, a fantastic huddle. Can't wait

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Speaker 1: for next week. Until then, this is seven ten ESPN Seattle,