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Speaker 1: It's a special Wednesday edition of The Huddle. Stacy Ross

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Speaker 1: here with Jake Keats and Dave Wyman, and we're ready

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Speaker 1: to get rolling into Week two. We'll start with a

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Speaker 1: look back to Sunday's win over Atlanta, because who doesn't

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Speaker 1: want that, But then we're going to turn to the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: We've got an opponent preview coming up at twelve thirty plus,

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Speaker 1: we'll talk to tight end, we'll Disley and center Ethan Postic.

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Speaker 1: That's coming up an hour or two. But let's get

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Speaker 1: started right now. Dave, we've had a few days to

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Speaker 1: digest the Seahawks first game of the season. How are

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Speaker 1: you feeling about this team today? Well, I always feel

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Speaker 1: a little bit worse when I start looking at the

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Speaker 1: opponent and it's a good one, so uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: you just can't rest on your laurels. And we'll be

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Speaker 1: saying that probably next week too, even though it's Miami,

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Speaker 1: but um, but yeah, it's just it was just such

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Speaker 1: a nice start. Um. Yeah, Russell, he was so good

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Speaker 1: and I know that's kind of understating it, but you know,

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Speaker 1: he set a new franchise percentage record completion percentage beat

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Speaker 1: Dave Craig my old buddy Dave Craig set it back

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty eight. But um, he just looked really

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Speaker 1: on top of it, especially when the first play of

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Speaker 1: the game he just gets killed for a sack and

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Speaker 1: you know, and he probably should have checked out of that,

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Speaker 1: but I'm still it's just that he just seemed to

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to like, you know, encourage the

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Speaker 1: cooking people, but he just the whole offense, as Jim

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Speaker 1: puts it, the whole offense just kind of flowed through him,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, he just he just did such

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Speaker 1: such a great job. So that was really cool. And

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Speaker 1: then of course Jamal Adams and you know, Bobby Wagner.

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Speaker 1: The defense, Quentin Dunbar did some really good things, uh

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Speaker 1: Quandre Digs. So yeah, it was just it was just

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Speaker 1: a really nice kind of surprise because it usually takes

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Speaker 1: them a while to get going, and the way the

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Speaker 1: offense operated, I think is what really stood out to me.

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Speaker 1: Now I gotta ask you, since you're also a former linebacker,

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Speaker 1: what did you think about the defense? Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: shut them down. But you know, they were just so active.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they compiled a lot of yards. Here's what

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Speaker 1: I would say. I think they just faced the quite

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Speaker 1: possibly the best receiver duo and quite possibly the best

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Speaker 1: quarterback that they'll face all year. I mean, you can

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Speaker 1: make the argument Amari Cooper with Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb,

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Speaker 1: but we'll see about that. But I thought they're they're

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Speaker 1: really good. So they did chew up a lot of yards,

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Speaker 1: but they made lots of plays here and there, and

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Speaker 1: so there was the way I put I think it's

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Speaker 1: ridiculously good. But I was, yeah, that's that's kind of

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Speaker 1: but I did it on Quentin Dunbar because he did

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Speaker 1: here in three years, So I just there was a

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Speaker 1: gave up a lot of yards Dave. And that's a

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Speaker 1: fantastic point about Dunbar because you look at it from

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Speaker 1: But it's not just about coverage. It's about how you

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Speaker 1: from this is that this game defensively at least that

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Speaker 1: they weren't necessarily they weren't perfect coming out of the

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Speaker 1: I mean it was it was really or a dig route.

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Speaker 1: lot of really good things, but he just he affected

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Speaker 1: lot of the other plays that he made really affected

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Speaker 1: you know a lot of other guys to make plays. Well,

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Speaker 1: they talking about the game. It has been fun. But

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Speaker 1: I think everybody is curious from your perspective on game day,

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Speaker 1: what was that like calling the game from remote and

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Speaker 1: what was the setup in the situation there? Well, we

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Speaker 1: I know, Lloyd Glazer was a part of it. Brian O'Connell, um,

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Speaker 1: was a little bit of a struggle. But Rabel is

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Speaker 1: a great job. It was interesting, but it was fun. Man.

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Speaker 1: I'm just happy to have football back. Now. Were you surprised,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're talking about that fourth and five. I

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Speaker 1: Seahawks news, including some injury updates. Next with Seahawks dot

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Speaker 1: see the first practice report, and that's that Rahim Green

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Speaker 1: you know, Derek Henry, you know, Cam Newton didn't matter.

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Speaker 1: That's the way he runs. He's a powerback as a quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and that that's very strange. Yeah, you know, it's amazing

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Speaker 1: to me, Paul. Every year the Patriots are just sneaky

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Speaker 1: good on defense and the run game. And you know,

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Speaker 1: last year, I mean just historic numbers, holding opponents of

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Speaker 1: twenty four percent on third down and but you know,

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Speaker 1: and and you lose, like all the linebackers went to

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Speaker 1: Miami apparently, and then I got like Adrian Phillips comes

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Speaker 1: in and just balls out. So I guess I'm not

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Speaker 1: asking you, Paul, how to playing how Bill Belichick does this,

438
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Speaker 1: but it is it is pretty remarkable. How always good

439
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Speaker 1: defense there and you you know, rarely other than Stefan Gilmour,

440
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Speaker 1: It's not like there's a bunch of superstars on that defense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they definitely have that mentality that they're going to play

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Speaker 1: really well as a team. And I think Devin mccordy

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Speaker 1: has been a guy who's been a big part of

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Speaker 1: that for a lot of years. And they've had others,

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Speaker 1: you know, Patrick Chung is one of the guys who

446
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Speaker 1: opted out this season, but he's been a big part

447
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Speaker 1: of that. They have some veterans in the back end.

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Speaker 1: The secondary is extremely impressive. It's extremely deep. I think

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Speaker 1: it's by far and away the strongest part of the team.

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Speaker 1: And I think you saw that a little bit on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I think they used eleven defensive backs on Sunday and

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Speaker 1: they had several plays I would say somewhere between fifteen

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Speaker 1: and twenty plays with seven defensive backs. So that's how

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Speaker 1: they do it, do it a little unconventionally. They go

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Speaker 1: from the back to the front. The front seven is

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Speaker 1: not all that formidable, but I think they cover up

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Speaker 1: for some of that with the way they play in

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Speaker 1: the back end. And you're right, it doesn't really matter

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Speaker 1: who they are. They tend to play better as a

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Speaker 1: team than they do individually. Well, Paul, you mentioned how

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Speaker 1: they build their team and how they build their roster

462
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Speaker 1: and there's not you know, big name guys up front.

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Speaker 1: But yet they're still doing an awesome job in the

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Speaker 1: run game, and last year late in the season they

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Speaker 1: ended up getting beat up a little bit. Obviously, everybody

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Speaker 1: remembers the Tennessee Titans game with how Derrick Henry ran

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Speaker 1: and how they were able to be effective in the

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Speaker 1: running game. Is that something that Patriots fans are concerned about,

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Speaker 1: that they're still going to be susceptible to the running game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it is a little bit of a concern because you know,

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Speaker 1: it culminated with the Derek Henry game in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But they weren't very good against the run last year

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Speaker 1: and it didn't really hurt them until the second half

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Speaker 1: of the season. The first half they had some games

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Speaker 1: where they weren't very good against the run, but it

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Speaker 1: didn't matter. I think Frank Gore, you know, as old

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Speaker 1: as he is in Buffalo, had a hundred yard game,

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Speaker 1: really but Josh just you know, have kept throwing a reception,

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Speaker 1: so it didn't adder, you know, And they had some

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Speaker 1: other games. I think Nick Chubb had a big game

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Speaker 1: for Cleveland against them on the ground. Again, it didn't

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Speaker 1: matter because of the turnovers that the Browns committed. But

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Speaker 1: you know, sure enough that was an achilles heel for

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Speaker 1: them down the stretch and in the playoffs, and that

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Speaker 1: has been a quiet concern I would say with this

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Speaker 1: year's team. Now, Miami does not run the ball all

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Speaker 1: that well. I think they've taken steps to try to

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Speaker 1: improve that by acquiring guys like Jordan Howard and Matt Brida,

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Speaker 1: but they really didn't do a great job running the

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Speaker 1: ball the other day. I thought the Patriots held up

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Speaker 1: pretty well there. And you know, you mentioned the Adrian

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Speaker 1: Phillips situation with him sort of stepping into almost like

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Speaker 1: a quasi linebacker role, a hybrid role, and I thought

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Speaker 1: he was pretty effective around the line of scrimmage on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if that holds up. But you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, you guys would know a lot more about

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Speaker 1: Seattle's running game. I know it wasn't overally impressive in

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Speaker 1: the in the opener, but that may have been by

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Speaker 1: design with the way they used Russell Wilson coming out

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Speaker 1: of the gate. But I think Seattle would have a

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Speaker 1: chance to have a little bit more success offensively than

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Speaker 1: Miami did. It's interesting I wonder if the Patriots might

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Speaker 1: also take a different approach. I mean, looking back at

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Speaker 1: this week one stats, all three scores were rushing. You

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Speaker 1: obviously have Newton in there with touchdowns, Sony Michelle, we

506
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Speaker 1: already know he's great. But New England still with plenty

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Speaker 1: of receiving weapons. I mean, who should Seahawks fans be

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Speaker 1: keeping an eye out for. Yeah, really, in the passing game,

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Speaker 1: it's just Julian Edelman. I mean that's I mean, the

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Speaker 1: back catch the ball pretty well. Burkehead in James White

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Speaker 1: are pretty effective out of the backfield. But in terms

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Speaker 1: of receivers, it's just Julian Edelman. The second year a guy,

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Speaker 1: Nikhil Harry has been, you know, really a big disappointment.

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Speaker 1: He had a couple of catches last week, but really

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Speaker 1: didn't have any production. And he also had a huge

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Speaker 1: fumble in that game. You know, beyond that, they have

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Speaker 1: young tight ends and Devin Astiasse and Dalton Keene, two rookies.

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Speaker 1: Keene was inactive in the opener. Astiasse did not have

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Speaker 1: any any balls thrown his way. Ryan Izzo as the starter,

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Speaker 1: and he's a capable blocker and I think he caught

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Speaker 1: one pass in the game for play, but he's really

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Speaker 1: an afterthought. So in terms of the passing game, it's

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Speaker 1: really all Julian Edelman and until that changes, and I

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Speaker 1: think it will be a few weeks before that changes,

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Speaker 1: because I don't think Cam Newton is really up to see.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget he didn't sign until really July UM, so

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Speaker 1: he doesn't know the system well enough. He had to

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Speaker 1: be much more sophisticated than he wasn't the opener in

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Speaker 1: the passing game. And Jamir Bird is a kid that

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Speaker 1: they got from the Cardinals. You guys are probably familiar

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Speaker 1: with him from NFC West days. He didn't have a

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Speaker 1: single target in fifty five snaps and the opener, but

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Speaker 1: I do think he's a guy they plan on on

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Speaker 1: mixing in, maybe as a deep threat at some point.

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Speaker 1: So I think the passing game in a few weeks

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Speaker 1: might be a little bit more sophisticated than we've seen.

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Speaker 1: But right now, if the Seahawks, you know, can can

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Speaker 1: contain Julian Edelman, I don't see much much danger that

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Speaker 1: the passing game poses for the for the Seahawks. Hey, Paul,

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Speaker 1: I looked a little bit at Kyle Dugger out of

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Speaker 1: Lenora Rhyne, just a very small Division two school, and

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Speaker 1: that was such a Belichick pick. They pick him in

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Speaker 1: the second round, and here he's drawn some pretty high

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Speaker 1: praise from from some of the veterans. He only played

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Speaker 1: in eleven snaps, but it seems like that that it

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Speaker 1: was kind of a risky pick. You know, I'm picking

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Speaker 1: a guy in this you know environment, out of a

548
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Speaker 1: really small school. It sounds like it's working out. Yeah,

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00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: you know, he was pretty impressive. I thought during camp.

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Speaker 1: Now you know, I don't pretend to, you know, pass

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Speaker 1: myself off as a scouter or anything, but I thought

552
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Speaker 1: they were using him in a lot of different ways,

553
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Speaker 1: you know, both you know, both safety spots again, like

554
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Speaker 1: Adrian Phillips moving him down near the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: We haven't had a chance to see it in any

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Speaker 1: kind of game action, but really looks like he has

557
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Speaker 1: the ability to be a dynamic return man as well.

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Speaker 1: We have not seen any of that yet in game action,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I think he'll be sort of worked

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Speaker 1: in a little slowly, you know, Like like you said,

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Speaker 1: the Division two school probably a pretty big learning term

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Speaker 1: for him, and the Patriots do like to use, you know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of personnel groups. He was part of some

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Speaker 1: of those on a limited basis. But I would say

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Speaker 1: for Dougger, the athleticism is absolutely there. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: the size is impressive. I could see him maybe down

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Speaker 1: the road being a guy that can lock up with

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Speaker 1: the tight end. I don't think they feel like he's

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Speaker 1: ready for that now. They use Jewan Williams, a second

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Speaker 1: year corner in that role on Sunday against Mike Kisiki.

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Speaker 1: My guess is that he'll get Greg Olson and this

572
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Speaker 1: one unless they want to try to match his size

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Speaker 1: with DK Metcalf. I think there's some interesting matchup possibilities

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Speaker 1: in this game for the Patriots. But you know, for Dougger,

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Speaker 1: I would say I was very impressed with his overall athleticism.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure he's ready mentally yet. Paul Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Just

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Speaker 1: real quick, what is it like out there in terms

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Speaker 1: of you know, I know there's been some issues with

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Speaker 1: the air and there's been a lot of talk about

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Speaker 1: that here locally. Yeah, what to expect over the weekend?

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Speaker 1: Oh it's uh, I can't I do you guys think

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Speaker 1: it's clearing up. I mean it's still pretty bad a

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Speaker 1: little bit. It's clearing up. Yeah, but you'll you'll still

585
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: notice it when you get out here, for sure, but

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00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: they will. They plan on playing the game and they

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Speaker 1: all systems go and all that. You know, as far

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Speaker 1: as we know that's the case. Yeah, well that'd be good.

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00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: That good. Maybe we'll get a little more rain and

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Speaker 1: there you go a little bit. Yeah. I never thought

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Speaker 1: i'd be hoping for it, but that's what we're hoping for. Fun. Really,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much. We appreciate it. Thanks for having

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Speaker 1: me guy. All Right, we're heading into the trenches, taking

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Speaker 1: a look at the performance on both sides of the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and revisiting a few of the biggest plays.

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Speaker 1: That's next on the huddle. This is the huddle every

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Speaker 1: Thursday from noon to two on seven ten ESPN Seattle.

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Speaker 1: This is the Huddle with Dave Wyman, Jay Keats, and

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Speaker 1: Stacy Ross. Now uh, normally Ray Roberts would join us

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Speaker 1: for this segment, but we don't have him today. It's

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Speaker 1: a weird Wednesday edition of the huddle with the Mariners

602
00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: on tomorrow, but we're still gonna go in the trenches.

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Speaker 1: Take a look at the defensive line, offensive line, how

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Speaker 1: they performed against Atlanta on Sunday, A little bit of

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Speaker 1: what we expect coming up here in Week two against

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. I'm gonna get started though with play by

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Speaker 1: play that I know none of you mind revisiting. It's

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Speaker 1: cut number two right here. Adams blitz the first sack

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Speaker 1: of the season for Seattle. This one of Matt Ryan

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Speaker 1: from his own forty four line. They get the Ryan

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Speaker 1: and they knock him off his feet back near the

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Speaker 1: thirty five yard line. Any of his Adams again, he

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Speaker 1: has been close, and that time he gets there. The

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Speaker 1: first sack of the day on Matt Ryan, and it

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Speaker 1: comes from the strong safety Jamal Adam Dave. One of

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Speaker 1: the big questions we had heading into the season was

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Speaker 1: and I think it was spurned by Greg Williams, but

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Speaker 1: How are the Seahawks going to use Jamal Adams? How

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Speaker 1: is he going to fit into their system? It's a

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Speaker 1: fair question to ask for any team when they acquire

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Speaker 1: a player that can take over a game, is how

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Speaker 1: are you going to use them? I really liked the

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Speaker 1: way they used him on Sunday. What did you see

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Speaker 1: from them? And do you expect to see more of it? Well? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think we'll probably see him doing all kinds of

626
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Speaker 1: things like that. I mean, he makes plays all over

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Speaker 1: the field. I mentioned earlier there was a deep in

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Speaker 1: route or dig route or whatever you quarterbacks call it. Jake,

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Speaker 1: It's just you know, it's probably a seventeen eighteen yard

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Speaker 1: route just up the field, and you know, either stops

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Speaker 1: or just turns in. And he was all over and

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Speaker 1: he knocked the ball away and it was Julio Jones.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was Matt Ryan throwing to Julio Jones.

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Speaker 1: So he's making a play on the ball twenty yards

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Speaker 1: down field and then he's coming up to the line

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Speaker 1: of scrimmage and knocking guys around on You remember when

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Speaker 1: Bruce early on had like a tackle for a one

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00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: yard loss playing linebacker, which Bruce does a great job.

639
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: He came up and was was like he read the

640
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: run there. He him and Dunbar have uncanny skills of

641
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: uncanny ability to predict or diagnose plays. They're really good

642
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: at that, and I don't see Diggs getting fooled very often.

643
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, though, It's going to be a

644
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: challenge this week because Cam Newton's really good with the

645
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 1: slider hand. He runs that read option, and they're running

646
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,239
Speaker 1: in a lot. I just watched the Miami game and

647
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 1: he rushed for you know, like eighty ninety yards, So

648
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be tough for him. But yeah,

649
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: Adams really is good at reading a run. I don't

650
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 1: know if he picks up little tips or and maybe

651
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 1: if you asked him, he might not even be able

652
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: to tell you, but it's just a sense that he gets.

653
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's making plays downfield, he's making plays on

654
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. When he's not in the play,

655
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: he's blasting somebody, I mean, and he reads things really well.

656
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: And Dunbar's the same way. I mentioned him in the

657
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: run game. So I think once he gets up to speed,

658
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 1: this is gonna be really a different defense to watch.

659
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: And it's gonna be fun because they did give up

660
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: a lot of yards, but it's they're making so many

661
00:33:05,360 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: plays all over the field that I think eventually they'll

662
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: come together and I think they can be a top

663
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: ten defense, Dave. When you watch the game and you

664
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Speaker 1: look forward to what they're going to be facing against

665
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, who are absolutely going to try

666
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: and ground and pound it here on the road, how

667
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: do you feel does it Is it a matchup that

668
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: makes you anxious or worried, or do you feel like, hey,

669
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are going to be ready for that challenge. Well,

670
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: I think they have the personnel to handle a guy

671
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: like Cam Newton. He's not the greatest passer in the world,

672
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: but he's good. And then he's he's really good at

673
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: obviously running the ball. The other thing is when you

674
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: have a quarterback involved in the run game. You know,

675
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: typically a quarterback hands the ball off and he's a

676
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: dead player. It's eleven verses ten. Now you've got to

677
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: be more disad and you got to really, you know,

678
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: be on your read. So I was talking about both

679
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: Dunbar and Adams ability to read plays. It'll be interesting

680
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: to see how they handle Cam Newton because he does

681
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: a good job of you know, kind of like Lamar Jackson,

682
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: where you know, when he runs the read option, he'll

683
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: wait till the very end, like the running backs, almost

684
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 1: all the way up to the line of the scrimmage,

685
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 1: and he'll keep the ball. He'll pull it out and

686
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,840
Speaker 1: keep it and run. And so that's that's a difficult

687
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: read for those guys. So they're gonna have to be

688
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: on that. I imagine Jamal Adams, Bobby Wagner, those guys,

689
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: they are going to be a big part of stopping

690
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:38,799
Speaker 1: that aspect of the Patriots run game. As far as

691
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball for Seattle, it was

692
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 1: interesting what Paul Perillo mentioned in the last segment about

693
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: the Patriots, who were the top defense in the league

694
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: last year, still showing some signs of weakness against the run.

695
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: So I'd certainly expect more carries for Chris Carson this

696
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: upcoming week, but there might also be more than for

697
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide. I mean, what did you see for not

698
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: duo and what do you think we're going to see

699
00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:04,399
Speaker 1: in Week two? Yeah, I think they're going to try

700
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: to get back and run the ball. I mean I

701
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna, you know, be as lopsided as

702
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: it was. But yeah, I think both of those guys

703
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: look good. I think Chris Carson, I mean, it's it's

704
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: gonna have to be a little bit more coordinated up

705
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,359
Speaker 1: front as far as you know, the blocking, and we'll

706
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: talk to Ethan post It later about that. I think

707
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,080
Speaker 1: though it was good to get that one under their

708
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: their belt. You know, you saw Damian Lewis make some

709
00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: rookie mistakes, and you know, and you saw sometimes where

710
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: it didn't look great, but there were times where they didn't.

711
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: They just they adjusted and they just threw the ball

712
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: because they couldn't get the run game going. So but

713
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: I think they will. I think they will, and I don't.

714
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,000
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, Jake. I think Chris Carson

715
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: is maybe the most dynamic running back. From the standpoint

716
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: of I would hate to play against him because you

717
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: don't know if he's going to run you over. He

718
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: doesn't know, you don't know if he's gonna beat it

719
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: to the edge because he's got good speed to jump

720
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: over you. I mean, it's just it's ridiculus all the

721
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 1: different things that that you know he can do to

722
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 1: a potential tackler. Yeah, I agree with you, Dave, and

723
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: I've I've been saying that I fully believe that Chris

724
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,720
Speaker 1: Carson is the top five running back in this league.

725
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: You know, you can look at the stats, and you

726
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: can look at all this and that, but Chris Carson

727
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: is a special, special runner with the ball in his hands,

728
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: and for all the reasons that you just mentioned. I mean,

729
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: he he's a really fun player to watch and and

730
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: you know, when you look at their strategy heading into

731
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,880
Speaker 1: this next week, he'll certainly be a factor into it.

732
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: And what I loved what I saw from the offensive

733
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: line overall was there were moments where they were shaky,

734
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,800
Speaker 1: but they recovered. Uh. Damian Lewis had some rookie moments,

735
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,000
Speaker 1: but for the most part, he did really, really good

736
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,480
Speaker 1: in the run game. It was great to see Ethan

737
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: Posk have great command out there at the center position.

738
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: I mean, so this is a group that coming into

739
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,919
Speaker 1: it week one, not having a real game to play

740
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: with and expecting them to be sloppy. They did a

741
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: great job. Oh sorry, Stacy, I thought you were gonna

742
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: go there. Yeah, I agree, it was really good. Yeah,

743
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope we're all together in the same

744
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 1: room here. He and Jake had been saying during the

745
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: breaks that we missed talking to you normally. It's we

746
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: all get a talk about, you know, like ranking the

747
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: candies best at worst, and you guys have awful opinions,

748
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: and I do. Actually I have a question about um.

749
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,280
Speaker 1: We've been talking about the Seahawks path rush no surprise

750
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: all offseason. Benson Mayowa one of the new editions, really

751
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: his second stint with Seattle though cut number three right here.

752
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 1: I was happy to see him get a sack. Girly

753
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 1: the tail of the I play fate man, Ryan being Chase,

754
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: rolls right, gets hit, gets up, he goes down Benson

755
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: Mayowa all the way after the twenty yard line on

756
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 1: the sack, and the Seahawks are gonna take over. Where's

757
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: the pass rush coming from? Well, there's part of it.

758
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: Benson Mayowa tracks down Matt Ryan for a sack and

759
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: the Seahawks takeover. Now, I know we didn't get to

760
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: see a ton of these guys in camp, and camp

761
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: maybe isn't always the best reflection of how a team

762
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,280
Speaker 1: is going to look per se on the field against

763
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 1: an opponent. But I do think I can't help but

764
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 1: be excited for Benson Mayoa finally getting the chance to

765
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: kind of lead the charge. There is what you saw

766
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: from him on Sunday kind of a reflection of what

767
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: you saw on camp. I mean, did you see kind

768
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: of what his ceiling is there? Yeah, you know, I

769
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: thought he looked good at camp, but you know, I

770
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 1: wasn't quite sure. I know that they were saying great

771
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: things about him, and you know, he had he had

772
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 1: seven sacks last year and then it kind of tailed

773
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: off at the end. But I was really impressed with that.

774
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: He also had the knockdown on fourth down, so he

775
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: made two fourth down plays. But first of all, I

776
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: was surprised Jake that Matt Ryan didn't throw that ball away.

777
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 1: But I thought that he, you know, or at least

778
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: try to make a play. I mean, it's fourth down.

779
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: But I thought he surprised Matt Ryan Benson Mayoa did

780
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 1: with his speed, I thought he didn't. I don't think

781
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: he felt he felt like he could outrun him and

782
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: and get a chance to throw that ball. And so

783
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,320
Speaker 1: that was that was surprising to me. I was like, Wow,

784
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: he's he's got some wheels still. He wasn't expecting that

785
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: superman leap that he did that all out reach for

786
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. That was incredible. Oh man, um, well, Dave,

787
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: I have good news. Uh well, maybe not good news

788
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,000
Speaker 1: for you. I fully plan on telling Steve Rabel about

789
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: all the nice things you said about him, because we

790
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: are going to bring in the voice of the Seahawks

791
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 1: next play by play man. Steve Rabel joins us next

792
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: on the huddles from You to two. Welcome back to

793
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: the huddle with Dave Wyman, Jake Eats, and Stacy Ross

794
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 1: joining us now as the boy of the Seahawks. Steve Rabel, Steve, Hi,

795
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: Hello all day, How are you good? Thank you so

796
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: much for joining us. It felt like we finally had

797
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,360
Speaker 1: a bit of normalcy hearing you call the game. It

798
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: felt nice with Dave on Sunday, you guys calling the Seahawks.

799
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: But I am curious, just for kind of a peak

800
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: behind the curtain for fans. What was that experience like

801
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:26,399
Speaker 1: on your end? Well, first of all, you know, Dave

802
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: wasn't wearing any pants. That was a little disconcerted, but

803
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: we got beyond top it. Okay, Actually, you know, we

804
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: were all prepared for it. But then there are some

805
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,719
Speaker 1: things you just can't prepare for. Some of the technical

806
00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: aspects that we have no control over and that our

807
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: guys don't have any control over. Things that are supposed

808
00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 1: to be coming out of the fox truck in Atlanta

809
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: that weren't coming out of the Fox truck, and suddenly

810
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: going from crowd noise to music playing in your ears

811
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: when you weren't affecting it, and some little things like that.

812
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: That that made it a little more interesting. But you know,

813
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: all in all, it was a football game, and I

814
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,399
Speaker 1: know what my job is, and that's to make sure

815
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: that we get all that information in every play down

816
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 1: in distance, yard line, how much to a first down.

817
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,960
Speaker 1: But when you don't get to see everything, when the

818
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 1: picture is in such a tight shot of players or whatever,

819
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: you don't get to see the sidelines, you don't get

820
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: to see the down markers. So uh, you know, we

821
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: had to kind of punt a couple of times. But

822
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: all in all, it was still a football game, and

823
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: it was still fun and there were still big plays

824
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: and it was just great to kind of be back

825
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: doing something that seemed somewhat normal. Again. Yeah, that was bizarre.

826
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,919
Speaker 1: At one point, there was like this background noise where

827
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: Rabel and I felt like we were in a in

828
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: a bar and the like. Yeah, and then you know,

829
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 1: I thought I was in the movie good Fellas or

830
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: something when I hear Rabel saying, forget about it, about

831
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:06,399
Speaker 1: that call, you're gonna you're gonna cover me, man to man,

832
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: forget about it. That was awesome. Did I say that? Yeah?

833
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: I did stuff, man, good stuff. But that was the

834
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 1: throw k. You know, you try to be in mid

835
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: season four. But Dave, as you know, as everybody knows

836
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: out there, we didn't have a preseason game, so we

837
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: kind of practiced during those mock games and that helped

838
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 1: a little bit. But it, you know, it takes a

839
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: it takes a little bit of time at least to

840
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: get that that timing back down and to kind of

841
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: get into that flow. But I think we got there

842
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: by the time we got going into the game. Yeah,

843
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 1: just about with a thirty seconds left for me anyway,

844
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 1: yet got back hand to it. But hey, we're gonna

845
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 1: be back to normalcy this, you know, having the game

846
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: at century length, so that'll be nice. At least we

847
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: get half of them at home. But but yeah, the

848
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: call that you had their rapes, I think we saw

849
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: I've been saying, I think I saw them throw that

850
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: go route to DK Metca one hundred times when I

851
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: was down at practice, So you know, they take they

852
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: take a chance there. But I think it's a pretty

853
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: good one because you like what happened with Lockett. You know,

854
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: sometimes you get a pass interference penalty that'll take you

855
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,280
Speaker 1: right there. So well and remember too, and I didn't

856
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: know this until well after the game, and I guess

857
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: Russ talked about it in his postgame comments, but I I,

858
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: you know, I think some of the guys got a

859
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: little ticked off when on that third down play before

860
00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:31,080
Speaker 1: the touchdown pass, which was a fourth down play, the

861
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 1: Falcons kind of stuffed Travis Homer on a third down

862
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 1: run and I guess they were celebrating, and their sidelines

863
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: was celebrating, and you know, it was still early in

864
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: the game, and so Russ kind of looked at our

865
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: sidelines and said, let's go for it. Let's let's go

866
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: after him. And you do not want to tick off

867
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson because, as he proved with a one forty

868
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 1: three quarterback rating uh and and NFC Offensive Player of

869
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,319
Speaker 1: the Week honors, he can beat you up if you

870
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 1: make him angry, and even if you don't make him angry.

871
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: So I thought that was great that they came back

872
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: right away with that fourth down play and DK just

873
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: ran a great route and Russell put it absolutely perfectly.

874
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: You know we're talking about you know, you're great calls here, Steve,

875
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:20,280
Speaker 1: And I'm curious, you know, now that you're in retirement,

876
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: do you have more time to work on your material now?

877
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: Where you spending time working on that material? Well, I

878
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: have more time to work on game planning prep, which

879
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: I've been doing here this morning. I've also spent half

880
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:36,800
Speaker 1: my morning trying to figure out how to do web

881
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: X whatever that is, to talk to some folks back

882
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: in New England. So it took me forever to figure

883
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: that out, how to turn my mic on and my

884
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,720
Speaker 1: camera on. I'm an idiot when it comes to this stuff,

885
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,279
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm trying. I'm trying real hard. And

886
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: the big thing about Jake doing a game is sometimes

887
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:57,840
Speaker 1: you just don't know what's going to come out. And

888
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: as long as it's not a curse word, you know,

889
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 1: like Holy Catfish Away it appeared a few years ago

890
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: out of the clear blue. You know, you just go

891
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: with it. And and so I'm you know, as long

892
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 1: as I don't get myself or the station or the

893
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,760
Speaker 1: Seahawks in trouble, I'll just if it happens, it happens. Well,

894
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 1: you've been doing a fantastic job, there's no question about that.

895
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: So Steve, as you're doing some of this prep now,

896
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: as you know, we look back at, you know, some

897
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: of the Seahawks and the Seahawks performance what they've done.

898
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 1: Do you think that you're going to see some of

899
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 1: the same things offensively, defensively here in Week two? Or

900
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: do you expect that the Seahawks are going to change

901
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: their game plan a little bit in terms of how

902
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: they approach this unique New England team that Bill Belichick has. Yeah,

903
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 1: you know, it's a really good question. And as you know,

904
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: because you've gained plan from a bunch of teams over

905
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: the years, it is different every week. Pete always used

906
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 1: to say, it's not about them, it's about us. It's

907
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:00,760
Speaker 1: about what we do we make them adjust to us.

908
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 1: Certainly that was the case with the defense back in

909
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl years, when you know, you had so

910
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: many great athletes on that team. You could do and

911
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:11,760
Speaker 1: you could you could dictate to the offense here. Okay,

912
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:15,719
Speaker 1: here's what we'll give you. I'm I think maybe we'll

913
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:18,759
Speaker 1: start to see a little more that on defense in

914
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 1: that our guys a little bit more dictating. Now that said,

915
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: this is a completely different team than we saw just

916
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: a week ago. Last week you had Matt Ryan, who's

917
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:32,280
Speaker 1: a drop back statue at quarterback, who is a good passer,

918
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: really accurate passer, and he had you know, you had

919
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: Julio Jones, arguably one of the top three receivers in

920
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: the National Football League. This Falcon, this Patriots offense is

921
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: a whole lot different. You know, you got Julian Ellman,

922
00:46:46,120 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: he's kind of the top dog when it comes to receiving,

923
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: and he's a little guy who skitters around. And then

924
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: you got this guy who could be a tight end

925
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,839
Speaker 1: and outside linebacker, you name it, at quarterback, who's got

926
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 1: a cannon for an arm and who is maybe not

927
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: quite as as sharp with each individual path, but he

928
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: will beat you. He will beat you, not can he

929
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: will beat you with his legs if you give him

930
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 1: an opportunity. So, in that respect, these are two very

931
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 1: different teams. And I'm sure the game plan for the Seahawks,

932
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: one of which is going to be wherever Number one goes,

933
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: somebody's got to be looking at him. And I remember

934
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: talking about this when Bobby Wagner made his debut years

935
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 1: ago and he had to chase around Cam Newton and

936
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 1: he chased him down several times, and we all thought

937
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 1: at the time, while this kid is for real Wagner,

938
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: and sure enough, he's been doing it for a long

939
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: time at a great at a high level. So I

940
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: expect to see that part different. And the Patriots defense

941
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 1: is I think maybe they don't have a lot of

942
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: big names except in the secondary, but but they're a very,

943
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: very well coached defense. I know these are the kinds

944
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 1: of questions we ask every week, but I do still

945
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:58,399
Speaker 1: love them. We had someone text in the other day

946
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: and say, Hey, Jamal Adams from Wagner were so great

947
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:03,720
Speaker 1: week one? Are they the key to a Seahawks victory

948
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:06,839
Speaker 1: week two? Obviously they're two really important players, but I

949
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: felt like Chris Carson's performance on the ground would be

950
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: kind of the big factor for Seattle in week two.

951
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: What do you think it's going to be the key? Well,

952
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: I think they're certainly going to try to get the

953
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,240
Speaker 1: ball to Chris Moore. But you know what, a swing

954
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 1: pass out of the backfield for twenty some yards and

955
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: a touchdown is just as good as a runoff tackle

956
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. It shows up differently in the stats,

957
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 1: but it still accomplishes the same thing. However, you can

958
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 1: get the ball to your playmakers. That's what you want

959
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: to do, and that's what Russell does such a good

960
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: job at. You know, I expected us to be able

961
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: to run the ball a little bit better than we did,

962
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:41,840
Speaker 1: and I think the Falcons, knowing that we like to

963
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: run the ball, really loaded up at times. I would

964
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,960
Speaker 1: expect to see the Patriots do somewhat the same. This

965
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: is going to be interesting because the Patriots, for instance,

966
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: you know, they had the number one ranked defense in

967
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,920
Speaker 1: the league a year ago, and they lost all three

968
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,320
Speaker 1: of their linebackers, two of them to free agency, and

969
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 1: a high tower has opted out. They lost one of

970
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: their one of their guys in the in the secondary,

971
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: so they've got you know, they've got some people who

972
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 1: are who are off the field, and even with a

973
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:15,800
Speaker 1: great coach like Belichick, you still have to have the horses.

974
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 1: You still have to have the athlete. So I'll be

975
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: interested to see kind of what they do if they

976
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: play it kind of straight up play. It's just a

977
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 1: general four three defense and and you know, man up

978
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: when they can or go some zone. They'll mix things

979
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 1: up in the secondary. But I again go back to

980
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,439
Speaker 1: what I said, I think it'll be Russell trying to

981
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:38,439
Speaker 1: dictate to the defense. Here's what we're gonna do. Now,

982
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:40,919
Speaker 1: you stop Tyler, or you stop DK, or you stop

983
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:46,520
Speaker 1: Chris Raves. You are the best. Thank you so much

984
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 1: for joining us. As always, I do have to let

985
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:51,800
Speaker 1: you know that Dave said really really nice things about

986
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: you behind your back, so he'll yeah, so he The

987
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:57,839
Speaker 1: teasing is all in good fun. I like to think,

988
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: well he God blessed. We couldn't do the games without Dave.

989
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: I'd love to try, but we can't do the game.

990
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: All right, Steve, Thank you so much. All Right, guys,

991
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,359
Speaker 1: see you Sunday. See you Sunday you guys. I can't

992
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: believe I'm saying this, but Bill Belichick was really nice

993
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,880
Speaker 1: this morning. Yeah, I'll play that audio next. This is

994
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:26,799
Speaker 1: the huddle. This is the huddle every Thursday from noon

995
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: to two on seven ten ESPN, Seattle Patriots head coach

996
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's book with the media earlier this morning. You

997
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,720
Speaker 1: guys aren't going to believe this, but he was really nice,

998
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 1: really nice. It's like a different side of Bill Belichick

999
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,600
Speaker 1: when he's talking about players he really really respects, and

1000
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 1: among those players Russell Wilson, Bobby Wagner, Jamal Adams. No

1001
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,319
Speaker 1: surprise there. I'm going to go through a few of

1002
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: these cuts with you guys right now. Let's get started.

1003
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: This is Bill Belichick cut number five talking about what

1004
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: makes Russell Wilson great. It's more than a good quarterback

1005
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: season one, but one of the top players in the

1006
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: league and has been for his entire career. He's tremendous player,

1007
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:08,399
Speaker 1: obviously a tremendous person um. You know, he's just really

1008
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: good at everything, and you have to defend the whole

1009
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,280
Speaker 1: field with him. Very dangerous you know, in the pocket,

1010
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 1: out of the pocket, great deep ball passer, has that

1011
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 1: con vision, super competitive, hard to tackle. He's a great

1012
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 1: football player. And there's nobody out more. I mean, I

1013
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: respect you know, a lot of players, all the players, really,

1014
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 1: but I mean he's certainly at the top of the

1015
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: list of people we compete against. I mean, Jake, that's

1016
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: good to hear, Oh, it is great to hear. It's

1017
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 1: great to hear Goat recognizing Goat. You know. I mean,

1018
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 1: I think that you look at Bill Belichick and what

1019
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: he's done over the years and the different guys that

1020
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: he's had to face, I could imagine that Russell Wilson

1021
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: is one of the toughest quarterbacks that he has had

1022
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: to face from everything that he brings to the table,

1023
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:55,919
Speaker 1: you know, his ability to throw the ball and run

1024
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: the ball, his competitive nature. But I'll tell you guys this,

1025
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 1: I mean this offseason. You know, this is year three

1026
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: that I've worked with Russell in the off seasons, and

1027
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:08,760
Speaker 1: and you know, he has worked extremely hard, extremely diligent.

1028
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: But he was obsessive this offseason about trying to be

1029
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: better and trying to be the best version of himself

1030
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:16,879
Speaker 1: for this team. And I think that, you know, when

1031
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: you look at the way that he played on Sunday

1032
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: and how prepared he was and how how you know,

1033
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 1: decisive he was with his decision making, I think that

1034
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: that's something that you look at from Bill Belichick and

1035
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:33,240
Speaker 1: you continue to see this guy grow. He already respects

1036
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 1: him as a player, but when you see the continued

1037
00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:40,439
Speaker 1: growth even into year nine. I think it's impressive. I'll

1038
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: tell you a little secret. Um, I've always liked Bill Belichick.

1039
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 1: Me too. No, you can't really say that here in Seattle. No,

1040
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: but we should allow it. We should allow just for

1041
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:53,280
Speaker 1: today people are listening, man a special allowance, you guys.

1042
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:57,440
Speaker 1: I like Bill two well. I read the book by

1043
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: David Halberstamum Education of a Coach, and I just after

1044
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: having read that, I just always really respected him. I mean,

1045
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: he just he's got a knack for coaching and it's amazing.

1046
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: I mean, they'd never have anybody on their defense. I

1047
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: mean Stefan Gilmour, we all know who he is now,

1048
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:17,320
Speaker 1: but I mean for the most part, and they're pretty

1049
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,839
Speaker 1: much always the best defense in the league. I mean

1050
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:23,399
Speaker 1: I always say this, they're sneaky good run game. Their

1051
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 1: run game is always good, and they're sneaky good on

1052
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 1: defense without a bunch of superstars. So you know, his

1053
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: ability to take away things, and that'll be what's interesting.

1054
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: You know, he's talking about Russell Wilson. That's the one

1055
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,480
Speaker 1: thing he likes to do is take away what you

1056
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:43,279
Speaker 1: do best. And it'll be interesting to see how how

1057
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 1: he does that. Speaking of defense cut number six right here.

1058
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 1: Bill Belichicks took some time to talk about what he

1059
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 1: sees in Bobby Wagner. Yeah, Bobby's a He's a great

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00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: football player, you know, super productive, got a great note

1061
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:59,759
Speaker 1: from the ball, very inspect of runs. Well, there's just

1062
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: no price you can put on that, just knowing what's

1063
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,280
Speaker 1: going to happen, or being anticipate what's going to happen

1064
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: and then being able to you know, to get there

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00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:09,800
Speaker 1: and you know, make the play and went right in

1066
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:12,359
Speaker 1: the middle, and you know you're you're a bull dye

1067
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:15,799
Speaker 1: for somebody on every play. No plays were where you're

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00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:19,400
Speaker 1: not blocking Fiftyfore, Dave, what did you make of Wagner's

1069
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:22,839
Speaker 1: performance Week one? Yeah, he had he had a good game.

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00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 1: I mean he was jumping the underneath routes really well.

1071
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:30,480
Speaker 1: And he jumped one on the one I would describe

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00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 1: earlier about Adams where he ran the or he knocked

1073
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: the ball away from Julio Jones on the deep end route.

1074
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: Bobby jumped the underneath route and you know, usually you're

1075
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,439
Speaker 1: not supposed to do that, but um, I'll bet you

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00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:47,360
Speaker 1: that you know Adams is saying, hey, go ahead and

1077
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:50,239
Speaker 1: jump the underneath stuff because I'll take care of the

1078
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 1: deep stuff. Um, that's that's kind of what it looked

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00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: like to me. But yeah, he was he was all

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00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: over that. Um had a couple of those tackles, you

1081
00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: know where the ball came out, and then he had

1082
00:54:59,920 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: a really nice third down stop which he sometimes he'll

1083
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 1: shoot a gap and I don't know if it's a

1084
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:08,640
Speaker 1: run blitz meaning you're just going to run through a gap,

1085
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:11,320
Speaker 1: or he just read it really well because he reads

1086
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: things well. So yeah, he kind of had a sneaky

1087
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,240
Speaker 1: good game, you know, because we were all about Jamal

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00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 1: Adams and you know everything that he did. But but

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00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:22,319
Speaker 1: you know, there's a couple of guys, you know, I

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00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: thought L J. Collier I mentioned earlier. I thought POONA

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00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,279
Speaker 1: Ford had a pretty good game as well. He made

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00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:29,600
Speaker 1: a couple of plays. So but it was just all

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00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: overshadowed by Jamal. Now there's a little bit of an

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00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:37,120
Speaker 1: interesting angle specifically about Jamal Adams for this game. Cut

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00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: number seven right here. This is Belichick talking about him

1096
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:42,920
Speaker 1: as a reminder he is already used to facing Adams

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00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:44,799
Speaker 1: from his time with the Jets. Yeah, he's a tough

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00:55:44,840 --> 00:55:46,320
Speaker 1: player to handle, of course, we saw a lot of

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00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 1: him at the Jeff, and you know, he was a

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00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: very disruptive player for us against the you know, on

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00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,879
Speaker 1: our games with the Jeff. And he's got you got

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00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 1: a game plan for you go. You know, you got

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00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,200
Speaker 1: to be able to handle he he can really, you know,

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00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 1: do everything well. He's very good around a line of scrimmage, bath,

1105
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:07,360
Speaker 1: the tackler, the pursuit player, instinctive in coverage, and you

1106
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: know he kind of controls the middle of the field. Jake,

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00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 1: I don't even know how you game plan for Jamal Adams,

1108
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:16,319
Speaker 1: but I mean, at least Bill has some experience with it.

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00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: But man, I'm curious about that matchup. Well, from an

1110
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: offensive perspective, it's really difficult. It's difficult because Adams was

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00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:25,759
Speaker 1: actually lined up in places that you didn't know he

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00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: was going to be in. I mean, dan Quinn and

1113
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan even said that, which is surprising that dan

1114
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 1: Quinn was surprised by the role at the different places

1115
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:39,240
Speaker 1: that Jamal Adams was placed in. So it makes it difficult.

1116
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 1: But they'll always and I think this is probably a

1117
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 1: positive positive, Dave, is that the offense now that you

1118
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 1: look after week one, they're definitely going to be tilting

1119
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:53,400
Speaker 1: their protection schemes towards Jamal Adams, which is probably going

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00:56:53,440 --> 00:56:56,919
Speaker 1: to give a chance for other guys to be freed up. Yeah, well,

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00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:59,320
Speaker 1: you know, here's how you prepare for him. I always

1122
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:03,240
Speaker 1: called these guys extra meeting guys. There are some guys

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00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:05,359
Speaker 1: that you have to have extra meetings for. It's not

1124
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:08,280
Speaker 1: just a quarterback you're playing when you're playing Russell Wilson,

1125
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:12,240
Speaker 1: you know, it's not just a safety that you're playing against.

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00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 1: When when you play against Jamal Adams and so and

1127
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: Clowney was kind of that guy too, you have to

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00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: have extra meetings for him. We have to actually pay

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00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: attention to this guy. Because everybody's great in the NFL,

1130
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: but sometimes you get someone that is head and shoulders

1131
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 1: even above everybody else, and Adams is one of those guys.

1132
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: So but yeah, it'll it'll be fun to watch how

1133
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: this develops throughout the year. I just was so encouraged.

1134
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 1: I think my favorite player I mentioned it twice now,

1135
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 1: it was him knocking away that eighteen yard route because

1136
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 1: he was in like a deep cover two, you know,

1137
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:48,760
Speaker 1: so he can play out too on the line of scrimmage.

1138
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: But he also can make plays back there. And so

1139
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 1: you know, here's the Also, I want to mention really

1140
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: cook and now we're doing Bill Belichick. If you have

1141
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 1: the game recorded, go back and watch the second play

1142
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:03,840
Speaker 1: of the game. Game Quandre Diggs takes up you know,

1143
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 1: not a great angle, but he makes an open field

1144
00:58:06,840 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: tackle on Gurley the second play of the game. I

1145
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 1: have no idea how he got his body to do that.

1146
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: It's like someone First of all, he was almost like

1147
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,760
Speaker 1: horizontal to the ground and somehow his feet were still

1148
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:22,360
Speaker 1: on the ground and he like flung himself back at him. So,

1149
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: you know, the safety play was really good and it'll

1150
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how how Belichick, you know, is

1151
00:58:29,720 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: able to attack the safeties. How about that. I just

1152
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: brought it back to Bill Belichick, even though I just

1153
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: wanted everybody to watch the play. Number two, you've got

1154
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 1: to work laundry. Pect that's a pro a pro move. Also,

1155
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 1: what I love about having two former players on the

1156
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:46,480
Speaker 1: show with me right now is that kind of insight,

1157
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: you guys, And that's not even sarcastic. We are going

1158
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 1: to have two more players joining us to close out

1159
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 1: the show in the next two segments will get started

1160
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: with Will Disley next on the Huddle. This is the

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00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 1: Huddle every Thursday from noon to two on seven ten

1162
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: ESPN Seattle. Welcome back to the Huddle with Dave Wyman,

1163
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:12,400
Speaker 1: Jay Keeps, and Stacy Ross. Waiting on Will Disley to

1164
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: join us Seahawks. Still on the field for practice, so

1165
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: that should be shortly in the meantime. You guys, I'm

1166
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: glad we're talking to Will Disley today because I know

1167
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 1: that he didn't go out and put up you know,

1168
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 1: an insane kind of like multiple touchdown one hundred yards whatever,

1169
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: but he almost didn't need to, because it was great

1170
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:35,960
Speaker 1: to just see him fit right back into that offense.

1171
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:39,440
Speaker 1: I think that it is clear the way Pete Carroll

1172
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: talks about this guy, Dave, that he has been so

1173
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: impressed with the way that he's tackled his rehab from

1174
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 1: a second injury and in kind of a rare way.

1175
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 1: It sounds like it's really impressive to me because and

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Speaker 1: while we're waiting for Will, I'll tell this story. I

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00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 1: worked as hard as I ever did in the offseason

1178
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 1: when I turned thirty years old, just because when I

1179
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: hit thirty, I was like, I'm an old man. I

1180
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,040
Speaker 1: got to really work my tail off, and I did.

1181
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 1: I got my body fat down to like eight percent.

1182
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:13,880
Speaker 1: I mean, I was as strong as I'd ever been.

1183
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:18,440
Speaker 1: And the three days before the opener that we're going

1184
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:21,320
Speaker 1: to play on ESPN and everything, I got my knee

1185
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 1: blown out in practice and I went and it didn't

1186
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:26,440
Speaker 1: hurt or anything. I mean, but I went in the

1187
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:29,120
Speaker 1: showers and I remember, I just I stood in there

1188
01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 1: and just cried for fifteen minutes because it's so discouraging. Man,

1189
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:39,440
Speaker 1: you work all off season, and especially for Will having happened,

1190
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 1: having had that happen early in the year both times

1191
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: Game five, Game six, So that's the part that's impressive

1192
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:51,240
Speaker 1: to me, because you know, emotionally, it's just you just go, man,

1193
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:53,600
Speaker 1: I just did all that working out, all that stuff

1194
01:00:54,120 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 1: for nothing, and it's really discouraging. So his attitude has

1195
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 1: been really good. And I saw him a few weeks

1196
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 1: after down on the field after he you know, got

1197
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: the surgery and everything, and he seemed to be in

1198
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 1: good spirits. But we talked to him earlier and he

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01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 1: said he was down there for a while and a

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01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:13,040
Speaker 1: lot of his teammates and his friends really picked him up.

1201
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 1: You know. It's one of those things, Dave, as you

1202
01:01:17,400 --> 01:01:21,480
Speaker 1: mentioned your experience dealing with that that I just can't

1203
01:01:21,520 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 1: imagine going through that and saying, Okay, here we go again,

1204
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:28,360
Speaker 1: you know you had to deal with at the one time.

1205
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:31,640
Speaker 1: He deals with it twice and then then right after

1206
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 1: that he has you know, he's described it as that

1207
01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:37,400
Speaker 1: morning period. I believe with you guys actually, and that

1208
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 1: he was able to get right back to it right

1209
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: after that and have the normal you know, Will Disley

1210
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:47,520
Speaker 1: mentality that he always has in that upbeat, positive attitude.

1211
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 1: And it is really fun to see him back. And

1212
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:55,440
Speaker 1: I hope that this combination between him, Greg and Hollister

1213
01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:59,440
Speaker 1: really help him stay healthy and helps him, you know,

1214
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:02,400
Speaker 1: continue to be a factor, because you gotta also remember

1215
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 1: last year he was having an incredible year, six touchdown

1216
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 1: passes before before he before he got out and would

1217
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 1: have been a top a top guy, yep, yep ye.

1218
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:17,479
Speaker 1: And joining us right now is Will Disley. Will thanks

1219
01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: so much for taking the time. How do it feel

1220
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 1: to get back out there Week one? Oh? It's happy

1221
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: to come away with the win, so um, but you

1222
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 1: know I can't exclebrate too quick. We're on the Patriots

1223
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:32,479
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, already looking at the Patriots will it's uh, yeah,

1224
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,000
Speaker 1: you can't sit there and rest on your laurels too

1225
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 1: long in the NFL, But tell us how how fun

1226
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:40,440
Speaker 1: that was to get out and play football, and you know,

1227
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 1: especially from your perspective coming back from the injury, being

1228
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:46,960
Speaker 1: with your team. I mean there's nothing like a road win.

1229
01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 1: Tell us about just how that must have been kind

1230
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 1: of a joyful moment for you considering what you came

1231
01:02:53,320 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 1: back from. Yeah, I think just aside from the whole

1232
01:02:57,360 --> 01:02:59,440
Speaker 1: COVID deal and not knowing if we were going to

1233
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 1: get there. But um, you know, for me personally, uh

1234
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 1: you know, kind of find my tail off to get

1235
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 1: back to the team and then to go through a

1236
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 1: road game, traveling, being with the guys, and uh coming

1237
01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:13,920
Speaker 1: out with a win especially, Uh, you know, it just

1238
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:17,600
Speaker 1: was gratifying. For sure, worked really hard and you know

1239
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:19,320
Speaker 1: the reason I do this for my teammates and to

1240
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:21,720
Speaker 1: be out there with them and and to just be

1241
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,600
Speaker 1: a part of this amazing program. So uh, you know,

1242
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:27,480
Speaker 1: it was definitely celebrating and uh, like you said, though,

1243
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 1: I can't can't celebrate too hard. We're on in New

1244
01:03:29,520 --> 01:03:34,760
Speaker 1: England now. Well you talk about you know, onto New England.

1245
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,360
Speaker 1: Now after you guys are able to go through that

1246
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:40,439
Speaker 1: great week one opener, what's it like being a part

1247
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:42,720
Speaker 1: of this group where you just have so many dynamic

1248
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:45,480
Speaker 1: players that you guys really can be multiple and you

1249
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 1: guys can really put stress on defenses in terms of

1250
01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 1: the different personnel groupings, you know, heavy formations, spread out formations.

1251
01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 1: It's got to be really fun to be a part of. Yeah, well,

1252
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 1: I mean I just love being a part of this group.

1253
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 1: US group that's you know, led by Russ and uh,

1254
01:04:01,920 --> 01:04:03,840
Speaker 1: you know, we worked tremendously hard. Uh, and it just

1255
01:04:03,880 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: comes from the leadership and Russ and Greg and um,

1256
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 1: you know Dwayne, those guys they're they're they're showing day

1257
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 1: in and day out what it takes to be successful.

1258
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,640
Speaker 1: And um, you know, I think it's great for guys

1259
01:04:13,680 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 1: that are young like me and DK and um some

1260
01:04:16,480 --> 01:04:18,440
Speaker 1: of the proving guys as well, just to show the

1261
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 1: consistency that these guys bring. And uh, you know what,

1262
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:23,600
Speaker 1: the ton of weapons it comes from the preparation that

1263
01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:27,200
Speaker 1: we do and it starts at the top. He will

1264
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:29,680
Speaker 1: we talk to you on our show about you know,

1265
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: you said you went through kind of a you mentioned

1266
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 1: the morning period. Uh, and a lot of your your

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Speaker 1: friends and teammates you said really picked you up. Who

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01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:38,440
Speaker 1: were who were some of the guys that you know

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01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:43,040
Speaker 1: you got you found some inspiration from. Yeah, I honestly,

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01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:45,480
Speaker 1: you know, it's the guys that you wouldn't expect. It was,

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01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:49,640
Speaker 1: you know, just random guys coming up to you and saying, hey, man,

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01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:52,480
Speaker 1: you got this, and UM just checking in and and

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01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 1: you just you just never know how far like h

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01:04:55,840 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 1: one of those goes right, you see someone in the

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01:04:57,600 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 1: hallway or on the street, Hey, hope your day is

1276
01:04:59,480 --> 01:05:02,480
Speaker 1: gone good? Like that? Really that really brings people up.

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01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:05,120
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what it was. It wasn't you

1278
01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:08,040
Speaker 1: know always Obviously, the people that are in my close

1279
01:05:08,080 --> 01:05:09,919
Speaker 1: circle were there for me one hundred percent of time.

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01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: But it was the random guys that you were like, oh,

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01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:14,400
Speaker 1: I didn't realize we were that close and how much

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01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:17,880
Speaker 1: those relationships really mean to me, and UM, that was

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01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 1: really fun to see and it kind of just solidified

1284
01:05:19,920 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 1: my thinking of you never know just what a simple

1285
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:27,040
Speaker 1: hello will do, and UM try and brighten someone's day. Well,

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01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 1: I love I love your game, I love watching you play. UM.

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01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 1: One of the one of my favorite aspects is knowing

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Speaker 1: that I'm going to be going to the film and

1289
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 1: and watching Will Disley just absolutely destroy people in the

1290
01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 1: running game. What has been your mentality and why you

1291
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:46,720
Speaker 1: have been able to be such an effective blocker. Yeah,

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01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:48,760
Speaker 1: I think, uh, I think when I came into league,

1293
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:50,760
Speaker 1: you know, everyone was like, He's a you know, run

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01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: blocking tight end, and obviously I wanted to show people

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01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:55,600
Speaker 1: that I can do both. But I definitely hang my

1296
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 1: hat on the fact that I'm able to do it,

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01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,520
Speaker 1: and it's a it's a want to thing. Um, you know,

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01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:01,360
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of guys that are just

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01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:04,120
Speaker 1: as big as me and athletic as me, that uh

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01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:06,400
Speaker 1: maybe just don't have the want to And so that's

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01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 1: kind of why I want to bring to the games,

1302
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:09,560
Speaker 1: just some grit and want to do it in the

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01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:11,760
Speaker 1: run game and just stick my hat in there. So,

1304
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 1: you know, I think in this league, you know, you

1305
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:16,040
Speaker 1: got to have a specialty, but I'm kind of trying

1306
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:19,200
Speaker 1: to do both. I guess, well, ultimately it's because he's

1307
01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 1: a d lineman from Montana. That's how he started out,

1308
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:26,880
Speaker 1: that that's where his roots come from, right, Yeah, Hey,

1309
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 1: tell us about um, tell us about Greg Olsen, and

1310
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 1: he just seems very masterful the way he runs his routes.

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01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 1: What kind of what kind of things have have you

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01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:38,160
Speaker 1: learned from him? He seems like he's almost like a

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01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:41,480
Speaker 1: coach out on the field out there. Yeah, I mean

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01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:44,000
Speaker 1: I think I just touched on the preparation. Um, you know,

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01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:47,720
Speaker 1: it's interesting to see just the learning phase of you know,

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01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 1: fall camp and then we got into game week and

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01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:53,080
Speaker 1: just how much detail oriented he is and what he

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01:06:53,120 --> 01:06:55,880
Speaker 1: wants to see in the film and the cutups that

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01:06:55,920 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 1: he gets and UM, just I think he does a

1320
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 1: lot of visualization which helps him with his route, so

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01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:02,960
Speaker 1: he's never surprised when he goes out on the field.

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01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: And um, definitely something that I do. And again it

1323
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 1: just solidifies it. So, Um, he's been awesome to have around,

1324
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 1: even I mean the whole room has been been awesome.

1325
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 1: Luke and Jake and Gregg and myself and even the

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01:07:13,320 --> 01:07:16,520
Speaker 1: young guys just working together and um, you know, bringing

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Speaker 1: the energy all the time. It's been fun. Well, you

1328
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:24,560
Speaker 1: talk about doing both, wanting to be both, and you

1329
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:27,120
Speaker 1: certainly have proven yourself to be able to do both.

1330
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 1: There's no question about that. Um. And and it's it's

1331
01:07:30,440 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 1: fun to see the transition that you have made. But

1332
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:37,360
Speaker 1: you look into this year, you look into what you

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01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 1: guys are going to try and accomplish here in week two.

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01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:42,440
Speaker 1: You know, what are some of the things that you

1335
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:44,680
Speaker 1: guys have You know, looked at it in New England

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Speaker 1: and said, Okay, this is going to be unique challenge. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think I think New England is going to be

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Speaker 1: a great test for us. Uh. You know, they got

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01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:55,480
Speaker 1: a tremendous scheme and coaching staff and um then they

1340
01:07:55,520 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 1: just reloading with players, so uh, it's going to be

1341
01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:00,400
Speaker 1: a good test. You know, they bring a lot of challenges,

1342
01:08:01,280 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 1: just varying their fronts and their schemes and stuff like that.

1343
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:06,840
Speaker 1: And so again it just comes to preparation. How much

1344
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:08,920
Speaker 1: film can you watch and how how much do you

1345
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 1: know the playbook going into the game, And then it's

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01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 1: all about executing. I think there's the New England a

1347
01:08:14,360 --> 01:08:17,200
Speaker 1: lower and everyone is afraid. But you know something I

1348
01:08:17,280 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 1: learned a long time ago is respect all and fear none.

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Speaker 1: And that's what we're gonna do this week. Yeah. Hey,

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01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:24,800
Speaker 1: well take us kind of inside of how different it

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01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 1: was going on the road this year with all the

1352
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:30,360
Speaker 1: restrictions and everything, and I think you guys were on

1353
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:33,640
Speaker 1: like a bigger plane. Um, you're probably each getting your

1354
01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:36,280
Speaker 1: own row. Like when you get there, I guess you

1355
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 1: can't really leave the hotel to take us through. How

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01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:43,160
Speaker 1: how that trip was different than normal? Yeah, I think

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01:08:44,080 --> 01:08:47,160
Speaker 1: you know, there's kind of a bubble that we're operating under,

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01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 1: you know, we go on the road. I think it's

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Speaker 1: the best thing is just to keep everyone safe, not

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01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:53,599
Speaker 1: just the players, but the staff as well. And so

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01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:55,920
Speaker 1: there's last numbers. I think it creates a challenge, you know,

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01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:59,439
Speaker 1: showing game day preparation and for the staff. And then

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01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: as far as the plane goes, uh, you know, everyone

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01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:04,920
Speaker 1: that gets on the plane is tested negative. So um,

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01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:07,080
Speaker 1: there's some confidence getting on the plane, including the fly

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01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 1: tendants and um. And then when we get there, yeah,

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01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:12,920
Speaker 1: there's no you know, that's kind of the best part

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01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 1: is going to these these cool cities and and seeing

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01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:17,400
Speaker 1: the sights and getting some good dinners. But um, they

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Speaker 1: wanted us to stay in the hotel and and kind

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Speaker 1: of isolate and uh, you know, quarantine for twenty four hours,

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Speaker 1: I guess if you will. But um, we did a

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Speaker 1: good job. Um, you know, we kept the business as usual,

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Speaker 1: and we're able to get our meetings and our walk

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01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:32,040
Speaker 1: throughs and and come out with a wind. So um,

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Speaker 1: I think we're able to hand it pretty well now.

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Speaker 1: Will greg Olson is much older than you. Do you

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01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:40,000
Speaker 1: also have him calling you uncle Will? Or is do

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01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:43,080
Speaker 1: you guys have a different nickname set up? I think

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01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:46,080
Speaker 1: it's just the fans and my Matthews. I go down

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01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:49,120
Speaker 1: the will h You know, Disc gets done around a lot.

1382
01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 1: But I'm a guy with a mini nicknames. But what's

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01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 1: another one? What do they call him? What is it

1384
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 1: they call me Disc? Or Will or Bill or Billy Bowsman.

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01:09:57,479 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 1: I mean there's so many. I could go down the lad.

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01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:06,479
Speaker 1: Yeah that's the old one. Hey. So before we let

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01:10:06,520 --> 01:10:09,200
Speaker 1: you go, well, we're getting ready to have Ethan posic on.

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01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 1: I don't know how well you know Ethan, But what's

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01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:14,720
Speaker 1: something that we would we could ask him or give

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01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:17,639
Speaker 1: him a hard time about or any background, any any

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01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:27,240
Speaker 1: ammunition for Ethan? Talk about the Louisiana River Rats. He's

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01:10:27,280 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 1: an lsu guys, he's proud to call himself, So ask

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01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:32,240
Speaker 1: him what that means to be a Louisiana river Rat.

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01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 1: We will do that, Okay, all right, Well, thank you

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01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:37,879
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. We appreciate your time. Appreciate

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01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 1: you guys. All right, we'll see if we can grab

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Speaker 1: Ethan Pos off the Seahawks practice field. This is the huddle.

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01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:48,800
Speaker 1: This is the huddle every Thursday from noon to two

1399
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:54,200
Speaker 1: on seven ten ESPN Seattle. Welcome back into the huddle

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Speaker 1: with Dave Wyman, Jake Keats, and Stacy Ross. We're trying

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01:10:57,680 --> 01:11:00,360
Speaker 1: to get ethan postic Center for the Seahawks off the

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01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:04,480
Speaker 1: practice field here. Uh, don't have him yet. In the meantime,

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01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:08,040
Speaker 1: we have been advised by post six teammate tight end

1404
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 1: Will Disley to talk to him about the Louisiana river rat.

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01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:16,120
Speaker 1: You guys, I've been doing some googling. I legitimately can't

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01:11:16,160 --> 01:11:19,720
Speaker 1: tell if uh, this is a real river rat that

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01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:23,040
Speaker 1: I'm looking at, or if a Louisiana river rat is

1408
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 1: some kind of like LSU joke that I don't know about.

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01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:29,040
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to the bottom of it. But needless

1410
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:32,880
Speaker 1: to say, I've just been looking at pictures of Nutria.

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01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 1: I don't know. They look like cute little beavers lickey damn. Yeah,

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01:11:37,479 --> 01:11:42,600
Speaker 1: beavers without the tail, no tail, they rat tails. Yeah,

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01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:50,639
Speaker 1: Well that'll be a really fascinating. This is what people

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01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:52,679
Speaker 1: who listen to the huddle they want to know. These

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01:11:52,680 --> 01:11:55,880
Speaker 1: things the people want to know. Thankfully we have them.

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01:11:55,960 --> 01:11:58,519
Speaker 1: We have them joining here in just one second. I mean,

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01:11:58,520 --> 01:12:00,200
Speaker 1: this is obviously going to be the first I want

1418
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 1: you guys to know. This is the first thing I'm asking.

1419
01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:03,920
Speaker 1: The second we get them on the line, I mean,

1420
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 1: we can get to the offensive line. I know all

1421
01:12:05,960 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 1: of it's important, but this is gonna steal my question

1422
01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 1: that I got out of Will DISLI you're gonna steal it. Well, no, David,

1423
01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:15,599
Speaker 1: I'm going to clarify. I'm going to clarify for you

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01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:18,720
Speaker 1: and then you can go with it. So Ethan, No, No,

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01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:22,400
Speaker 1: are you there? Yes, I'm here, Ethan. Thank you so

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01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:25,559
Speaker 1: much for joining us. We appreciate it. Um. We have

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Speaker 1: been advised by an anonymous teammate, not Will Disley at all,

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01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:33,640
Speaker 1: someone anonymous UM to talk to you about the Louisiana

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01:12:33,720 --> 01:12:36,720
Speaker 1: river rats. I have a question, though, Ethan, is this

1430
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:40,920
Speaker 1: a real river rat or is this like a joke,

1431
01:12:41,280 --> 01:12:46,479
Speaker 1: an lsu joke that I don't get. Um. Yeah, so

1432
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:50,720
Speaker 1: this is this goes way back. Um. This is just

1433
01:12:50,960 --> 01:12:54,120
Speaker 1: like a funny joke for like the freaks that come

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01:12:54,120 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 1: out of Louisiana. Uh like okay Cooper, um, like when

1435
01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:06,280
Speaker 1: you think about guys like uh Mingo. You know, um,

1436
01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:09,439
Speaker 1: you know me and Deelu aren't from Briana, but we

1437
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:13,040
Speaker 1: call each other that. Um. You know DJ Flukers from

1438
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 1: New Orleans. That's Louisiana river rat. Um. So you know,

1439
01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:19,559
Speaker 1: just back to the college days, that's what that's what

1440
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:23,160
Speaker 1: we call. You know, these athletic freaks that come out

1441
01:13:23,160 --> 01:13:26,320
Speaker 1: of Louisiana. Ethan, I've been looking up photos of these

1442
01:13:26,479 --> 01:13:29,400
Speaker 1: river rats, and I've been like looking up facts on Wikipedia,

1443
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:31,800
Speaker 1: ready to like talk to you about it. And now

1444
01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:35,320
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm thrown off. Yeah. You know, I don't

1445
01:13:35,320 --> 01:13:41,440
Speaker 1: know anything other than very athletic, good football player. Um.

1446
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: And that's about that. Okay, Well that's you then, Ethan.

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01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 1: You are. You are now our Louisiana river rat. Good,

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01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 1: good stuff, good game man. How did you feel out

1449
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:53,720
Speaker 1: there and how was it you know, working with a

1450
01:13:54,040 --> 01:13:57,479
Speaker 1: fellow river rat there and then you know, just uh,

1451
01:13:57,520 --> 01:14:00,280
Speaker 1: you know, the way you guys all came together really

1452
01:14:00,280 --> 01:14:03,559
Speaker 1: put up some good numbers. Must have felt good. Yeah,

1453
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:06,600
Speaker 1: it was good to get out there. Um. You know,

1454
01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 1: good to you know, especially not having preseason. Man, I

1455
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:11,160
Speaker 1: felt like we just had to get out there, like

1456
01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:14,840
Speaker 1: we just had to go and uh it was fun. Um.

1457
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:18,679
Speaker 1: I think Damien, you know, Damian Lewis did a great job.

1458
01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:22,320
Speaker 1: You know, he just keeps getting better and better every day.

1459
01:14:22,439 --> 01:14:24,599
Speaker 1: So it was fun to get out there. And I

1460
01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:27,000
Speaker 1: felt like, uh, I felt it was just fun. You know,

1461
01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 1: we were just flowing ethan you you talk about just

1462
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 1: you know, flowing and getting into the rhythm of it.

1463
01:14:35,120 --> 01:14:37,760
Speaker 1: You know, it's got to feel good because you know

1464
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:40,719
Speaker 1: that was your primary position when you were at LSU

1465
01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:44,040
Speaker 1: and and you've kind of transitioned from center guard tackle?

1466
01:14:44,360 --> 01:14:47,280
Speaker 1: Do you feel at home playing playing at center now

1467
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:51,280
Speaker 1: getting the opportunity to do it. I tell you this,

1468
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 1: I feel good. Uh. You know, you never know, you know,

1469
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:56,120
Speaker 1: what's going to happen over the course of a year

1470
01:14:56,240 --> 01:15:00,240
Speaker 1: with injuries and everything. And so I wouldn't say I'm like,

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01:15:00,680 --> 01:15:02,840
Speaker 1: you know, dead set. You know, this is my home

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01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:05,280
Speaker 1: or whatever. Um, you know, if the team needs me

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Speaker 1: to move around, I can move around. Um. But to

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01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:10,360
Speaker 1: you know, I tell you this, I feel good. Uh,

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01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:12,479
Speaker 1: you know, and this is the NFL. You know, just

1476
01:15:12,479 --> 01:15:14,479
Speaker 1: got to continue to get better one day at a time.

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Speaker 1: That's that's my goal, you know, just you know, take today,

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01:15:18,640 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 1: get better and then you know, continue to just try

1479
01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:25,200
Speaker 1: to stack days and try to improve your game. Yeah. Absolutely,

1480
01:15:25,240 --> 01:15:28,080
Speaker 1: and that's that completely makes sense, Ethan. Um, what has

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Speaker 1: it been like in terms of as you've tried to

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01:15:30,200 --> 01:15:33,200
Speaker 1: make this transition in training camp to really work on

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01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:36,200
Speaker 1: that communication between you and Russell And what has that

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01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 1: been like for for you? You know, really diving in

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01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:45,480
Speaker 1: and working hard to make those protection calls right. Yeah,

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01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:47,880
Speaker 1: you know, just one of those things that the more

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01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:49,800
Speaker 1: you do it, the more comfortable you get, the more

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01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:54,160
Speaker 1: of a flow you get into. And um, you know,

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01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:56,280
Speaker 1: Russell does a great job too. He's so easy to

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01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 1: communicate with. So it's just fun to you know, continue

1491
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:03,479
Speaker 1: to just get better and better and just continue to

1492
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:07,639
Speaker 1: keep working. Ethan. I have two things to tell you. Well,

1493
01:16:07,800 --> 01:16:10,679
Speaker 1: one's a question. The first one is that those river

1494
01:16:10,760 --> 01:16:12,840
Speaker 1: rats are called Nutria, and I want you to know

1495
01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:15,439
Speaker 1: that they're also here in Washington. I didn't know this

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01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:18,160
Speaker 1: until we were told about it, but they're on Lake Washington.

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01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:22,040
Speaker 1: I don't know that they look like crazy freak athletes,

1498
01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:24,280
Speaker 1: but they are horrifying and I never want to meet

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01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:28,200
Speaker 1: one in my life. That's the first statement, just letting

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01:16:28,200 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, keep your eyes peel because you guys, your

1501
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:33,840
Speaker 1: practice field is on Lake Washington. You don't know when

1502
01:16:33,840 --> 01:16:36,160
Speaker 1: they can jump out of the bushes or something like

1503
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:38,360
Speaker 1: that and run onto the field. So just stay on

1504
01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 1: high alert. I'm warning you as a friend. The second

1505
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:47,720
Speaker 1: thing is for a fan's perspective, what's kind of the

1506
01:16:47,800 --> 01:16:49,720
Speaker 1: mood that are you guys trying to get any kind

1507
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:52,960
Speaker 1: of vibe going against or with the offensive line? Because

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01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:55,360
Speaker 1: I think one of the things that I've loved hearing

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01:16:56,200 --> 01:16:58,439
Speaker 1: from some lineman is when they say, like, we're trying

1510
01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:01,840
Speaker 1: to get an aggressive attitude, and it's just fun to

1511
01:17:02,040 --> 01:17:06,559
Speaker 1: hear from you know, a group that, uh that you're

1512
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:08,760
Speaker 1: really trying to be kind of aggressive and have an

1513
01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 1: attitude when you're out there. Yeah, I definitely think so, Um,

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01:17:13,479 --> 01:17:16,280
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think that's that's what's fun

1515
01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:18,599
Speaker 1: about playing OH line is when when you can get

1516
01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:23,760
Speaker 1: after him and um, you know, have fun. So uh,

1517
01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:27,800
Speaker 1: that's definitely like what makes playing OH line fun. And uh,

1518
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:30,840
Speaker 1: you know that comes with you know, everyone being on

1519
01:17:30,880 --> 01:17:33,080
Speaker 1: the same page and you know, putting the work in

1520
01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:36,400
Speaker 1: each week and um, you know, knowing knowing each other

1521
01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:39,800
Speaker 1: and how we fit blocks and stuff. So that's definitely

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01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 1: what makes O line play fun. Hey, Ethan, you know what,

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01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:47,479
Speaker 1: if I was a center, I think the one thing

1524
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 1: I would probably forget the most would be the snap

1525
01:17:50,080 --> 01:17:53,280
Speaker 1: count because you got lots to do up there. And

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01:17:53,360 --> 01:17:55,120
Speaker 1: I think we we interviewed so I think it was

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01:17:55,200 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 1: justin britt a few years and he goes, yeah, you

1528
01:17:58,200 --> 01:18:01,240
Speaker 1: know sometimes I do, because you're doing all kinds of things, right,

1529
01:18:01,280 --> 01:18:04,719
Speaker 1: I mean you're calling out the front, you're communicating with Russell,

1530
01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 1: and you have things like that. Did that ever happen

1531
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:12,080
Speaker 1: to you? You know, I think I'd be lying if

1532
01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:15,160
Speaker 1: I said it never happened. It's definitely. It's definitely on

1533
01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 1: the list of things that you know, you gotta be

1534
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:21,400
Speaker 1: focused on, you know, because you got motions. You got

1535
01:18:21,439 --> 01:18:24,479
Speaker 1: all this other stuff too that can change the box

1536
01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 1: and how the boxes and so yeah, that can definitely happen.

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01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:31,679
Speaker 1: The good thing is, you know, I got my guards

1538
01:18:31,760 --> 01:18:33,439
Speaker 1: next to me, and if I ever need to ask

1539
01:18:33,479 --> 01:18:35,200
Speaker 1: them a question, I can ask them a question, and

1540
01:18:36,200 --> 01:18:41,120
Speaker 1: you know they you know, I'm sure they've bailed me out. Ethan.

1541
01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it.

1542
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:46,720
Speaker 1: Thank thanks you all for having me. Yeah, good look

1543
01:18:46,760 --> 01:18:49,880
Speaker 1: out there. We two. All right, this has been the

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01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:53,639
Speaker 1: Huddle with Dave Wyman, Jake Keeps, and Stacy Ross. Now

1545
01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:56,519
Speaker 1: Dave is unfortunately going to leave us, but you'll be

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01:18:56,520 --> 01:19:00,120
Speaker 1: coming back for Bob. David Moore just saw your co

1547
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:02,200
Speaker 1: hosting here. It sounds like you guys should have a

1548
01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:08,120
Speaker 1: fun show planned obviously Mariners later in the day. Up next, though,

1549
01:19:08,240 --> 01:19:11,479
Speaker 1: we've got Tom, Jake and Stacy, so don't go anywhere. Dave,

1550
01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:15,240
Speaker 1: as always, thanks so much for joining us. Head to blast, guys,

1551
01:19:15,280 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot. All right, this has been the Huddle, Tom,

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01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:18,479
Speaker 1: Jake and Stacy's next