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Speaker 1: welcome to the Seahawks Insider podcast as we get you

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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. And by we, I mean the fine

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Speaker 1: young gentleman joining us today. That would be John Boyle

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Speaker 1: from Seahawks dot Com. Not often I get called young anymore,

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Speaker 1: Thanks friend. I thought you were gonna go with gentlemen

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Speaker 1: that's you know, whichever whatever shoe fits there. Also joining

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Speaker 1: us Aaron Johannas from Seahawks dot Com. Foam ah, We're

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Speaker 1: back to learning a new language. And I am Genueler

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter for your Seattle Seahawks and I gotta say

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Speaker 1: it was super fun on the sidelines last week when

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Speaker 1: that game, not from the players, they think, from me

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Speaker 1: and from a lot of fans, but the way the

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Speaker 1: really excited me about that was just the defense. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of teams would still gladly switch defensive rosters

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Speaker 1: with the Seahawks and to go out. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: not as good as the predecessors exactly, and it's you know, look,

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Speaker 1: And they're still I mean, you've still got the best

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Speaker 1: of the whole year. Well, they've only allowed eighteen points

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Speaker 1: So that was a really big first quarter for them. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: tired and run down. And to your point, with Sheldon

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Speaker 1: and Jarren there in the middle, they could have some opportunities.

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Speaker 1: Because it took him twenty carries to get forty five

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Speaker 1: yards last week against the Colts, that's a lot of

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Speaker 1: its hempt for not many yards per carry. That's a

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Speaker 1: lot that looks a lot like some recent running back

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Speaker 1: performances we've seen against Seattle. These seems to want to

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Speaker 1: run the ball just they're trying, but it's it's tough

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Speaker 1: sledding right now against this defense. And he had two

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Speaker 1: point nine yards per carry on those twenty carries. It again,

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Speaker 1: and then the week before gains Areas only had twelve

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Speaker 1: for twenty five at two point one. So the last

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Speaker 1: two weeks for Leonard front have kind of been down

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Speaker 1: for him, So this could be it could be the

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Speaker 1: Thursday week. I like the trend to continue for Leonard Fournett,

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Speaker 1: and I like the trend to continue for the Seahawks defense,

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Speaker 1: and we will be here to break down this game

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Speaker 1: next week. Hopefully we're looking at a win as the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks continue their run in December. But until next week,

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Speaker 1: have a good one