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Speaker 1: your hosts, Michael Bumpis and Paul Moyer.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Paul Moyer, he's out in Texas with his family, so

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Speaker 3: wait a little bit to get to the player interview,

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Speaker 3: but my man got some things to do, so he

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Speaker 3: joined us early. You guys cop it up one time

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Speaker 3: for a quarterback. Nemi Brichett. Yes, sir, neil Mine, thanks

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Speaker 3: for joining us today. Man, thanks for joining us. The

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Speaker 3: first thing I noticed when I look at your bio

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Speaker 3: from Jackson. My mom was born in Jackson, so we

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Speaker 3: like we like family already, so it's gonna start off

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Speaker 3: right there.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, last week you got some snaps, man,

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Speaker 3: what's it like? You know, you played in the toughest

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Speaker 3: conference in all the land, in the SEC and now

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Speaker 3: you got some reps in the NFL. What's it been

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Speaker 3: like so far?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Man, it's been great. Just stepping in behind reuling this season.

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Speaker 6: Our coaches always talk about a standard that we have

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Speaker 6: with any chance we get on the field, So just

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Speaker 6: being out there and trying not to let the stand

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Speaker 7: Let it be no drop off. So it's been fun though.

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Speaker 5: So so, first off, I did my my geography lesson

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Speaker 5: and you're going to Atlanta. There's only I think Atlanta

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Speaker 5: might be the second closest city NFL city to Jackson, Alabama.

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Speaker 5: New Orleans probably closest. Right, So do you have a

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Speaker 5: bunch of family coming? Oh Atlanta, Yes, you got it.

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Speaker 5: How many tickets did you have requested?

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Speaker 7: Probably like fifteen fifteen?

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Speaker 5: I love it. That's the best. Now going back, I

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Speaker 5: want to go back to the New York Giants game

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Speaker 5: because something that impressed me about you want you know,

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Speaker 5: that big stop on third down you got in there,

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Speaker 5: you broke up the past. But something you said in

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Speaker 5: your post game press conference was, you know you've noticed

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Speaker 5: these tendencies all game, and you know you didn't know

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Speaker 5: Ifriq was you know, gonna get hurt like he did,

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Speaker 5: and you don't ever know when you're actually gonna be

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Speaker 5: thrown into the fire. Like that, you were taking notes

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Speaker 5: on the sideline, you're taking mental reps. What's that been

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Speaker 5: like so far? Kind of you know, being a rookie

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Speaker 5: take more of those mental reps and kind of get

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Speaker 5: yourself into the game that way.

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Speaker 6: Right in my case, like we have rep and David

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Speaker 6: the chances that I do get in, I have to

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Speaker 6: during that time. Just taking notes all throughout the week

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Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna go back to high school when I

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Speaker 2: I played receiver. When I was in high school is

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Speaker 3: You know, you do everything in high school, right, And

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Speaker 3: I used to love cover too. And I love cover

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Speaker 2: What's your what's your favorite covers?

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Speaker 6: I'll say, man man, just because you get to get

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Speaker 6: like this show man, and this why you had to

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Speaker 2: I like too. You can make it look like man,

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Speaker 5: back to your high school and all that, you're an athlete.

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Speaker 5: You played three sports? When started? When did you think that?

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Speaker 5: When did you pick football over every When did you know?

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Speaker 6: I'll say my junior year when I started collecting offers

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Speaker 2: Now they say you played baseball.

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Speaker 3: A lot of us play baseball, but you played baseball

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Speaker 6: I really never got any downtime, and that's kind of

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Speaker 6: your whole summer was taken up by going to baseball camps,

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Speaker 5: Keeps you busy? Hell love it? Now? What what made

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Speaker 6: It was the only SEC school, well old Missing Auburn

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Speaker 6: was the only two SEC schools to offer me.

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Speaker 7: And Auburn was close to home.

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Speaker 6: I mean my dad was an Auburn fan, so it

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Speaker 3: We went out to Auburn and the culture is just different.

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Speaker 3: And I was telling these guys at dinner, I go, obviously,

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Speaker 3: there's what ninety one hundred thousand fans out there, But

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Speaker 3: the grass at Auburn.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's like anything else.

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Speaker 3: I'm from California, so we played in after three weeks,

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Speaker 3: it's nothing but dirt at this point, but the grass

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Speaker 3: You're sliding for a while. Just to signing before I

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Speaker 2: That? That Iron Bowl rivalry? Like, man, it's one of

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a crazy rivalry.

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Speaker 6: It's something I grew up watching because like in BEMA,

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Speaker 6: And especially when BEMA come to Jordan Hare in Auburn Stadium,

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Now, did you follow what Alabama did last weekend? Did

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Speaker 7: I did?

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Speaker 5: Oh, the big loss to Vandy. What do you think

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Speaker 6: I mean, it wasn't an so I wasn't superfieder, but

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Speaker 5: So all right, hey, take me take me back to

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Speaker 5: kind of the whole process getting ready for the draft.

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Speaker 5: Where did you think the Seahawks were a potential team,

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Speaker 5: you know, how the all the workouts and everything you

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Speaker 6: It definitely was a shock. I had no clue to

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Speaker 6: see how its was gonna draft me. I had a

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Speaker 7: So it was a shaka.

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Speaker 3: How often do you talk to the fam back home?

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Speaker 3: I know it's a long ways away.

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Speaker 2: Have they been up? What's the communication?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 6: I talk to them every day, especially my parents, my siblings.

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Speaker 6: Any chance I get to talk to him, I talked

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Speaker 2: But how many brothers and sisters you got.

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Speaker 7: I got two brothers and one little sister. You're the

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Speaker 6: Both of my brothers are sick, so it's a big

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Speaker 5: Have they been out to Seattle yet to visit?

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Speaker 7: They have not yet.

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Speaker 5: Do they have any plans to come out?

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Speaker 6: I'm not sure yet. I'll try to get them out

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Speaker 5: Nice. So what have you been? Would have been your

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Speaker 4: Is that?

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Speaker 5: Does it kind of surprised you? And training camp? Atmosphere?

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Speaker 6: Everything through our training camp? I mean, the weather was beautiful.

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Speaker 6: When I first got drafted, a lot of people saying

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Speaker 2: It's about to get real right now. You feel it's

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Speaker 5: Man?

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Speaker 2: What was it like making that play? You know?

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Speaker 3: I believe that was probably your biggest play of your

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Speaker 3: career so far. You seem like a reserve type of person,

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Speaker 3: but we all know ballers hit to hit the field

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Speaker 6: I'll say, I'm not a super big trash talker. I

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Speaker 6: As you see, like when I make a play, I

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Speaker 6: get excited celebrate with my teammates, so it'd be fun.

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Speaker 5: How's the cornerback room been for you so far? And

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Speaker 5: as someone really kind of took you under their wing,

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Speaker 5: who have you really looked for, looked up to as

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Speaker 5: a as a veteran?

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Speaker 6: I'll say all of the guys like we bun like

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Speaker 6: always asking the veterans or anything they see me struggling with.

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Speaker 6: They always pull me to the side and ask me

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Speaker 6: like do I need help with anything? They willing to

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Speaker 6: spend extra time with me. So all of the bit's

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Speaker 6: been been great.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: We get to speak to you guys every week a

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Speaker 3: different player, and we talk to you guys when you're

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Speaker 3: three and on. If we spoke to you guys when

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Speaker 3: you're three and three, and it doesn't seem like anybody

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Speaker 3: has changed it all, Like the focus is still there

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Speaker 3: with this team, the energy is still there. Why is

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Speaker 3: that is the coaching stad Mike McDonald what keeps this

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Speaker 6: And I'm glad that you said that, because after practice

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Speaker 6: today I'm glad, like everybody had great energy, great juice.

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Speaker 6: So I think we just continue to try to stack.

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Speaker 2: Different level there, man. I know you can't tell us

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Speaker 3: You know, the game playing against Atlanta, but but what

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Speaker 3: Well, Nia and My We're glad you took time out

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Speaker 3: know you guys got a big week, a long flight

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Speaker 3: for cornerback Nea my Bridgett.

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Speaker 7: Thank you go Hawks.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Hawks Live of Michael Bumpus with my

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Speaker 3: guy Brian Walters Man to show I always here at

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Speaker 8: Man.

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Speaker 2: We just spoke to Neami Pritchett.

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Speaker 3: It's always cool when you get to get to know

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Speaker 2: But let's talk about these Falcons.

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Speaker 3: It's an important week enough for these Seahawks start off

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Speaker 2: Everybody's jumping ship.

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Speaker 3: Not everybody, I know, y'all out because you're here on

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Speaker 2: So the Falcons are four and two overall.

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Speaker 3: Offensively, the Falcons are eighth in the NFL, the Hawks

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Speaker 3: the rock, the Hawks are sick the season, the Falcons

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Speaker 3: the Falcons are putting up twenty four game and the

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Speaker 3: Hawks are doing the same. Defensively, they look similar as well,

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Speaker 3: all right, Seventeenth overall for the Falcons, nineteenth for the Hawks,

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Speaker 3: look at the numbers, man, this should be an even game.

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Speaker 3: But I feel like there are some advantages. The Falcons

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Speaker 5: I think that's exactly where my eyes went when I

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Speaker 5: We weren't very We should have beat the Giants, but

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Speaker 5: They leave the league in sacks, which is kind of

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Speaker 5: And I expect some big numbers from him because of

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Speaker 2: No, I love it.

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Speaker 3: They had a three game stretch that was tough. You

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Speaker 2: And what that does, in.

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Speaker 3: My opinion, it allows them to gain some confidence man.

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Speaker 3: So I'm excited for them to have an opportunity to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the same way you just describe the backfield for

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Speaker 3: hundred yards. He's more than capable of tossing the ball

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Speaker 3: across the yard. He got Drake London over there, the

442
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Speaker 3: young player out of US Sea Draft, out of the

443
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Speaker 3: USC in his third year. You have Kyle Pitts to

444
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Speaker 3: tidy out of Florida as well, So they got weapons.

445
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Speaker 3: So just like we talked about the run game for

446
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Speaker 3: the Falcons and their potential, I think we can do

447
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Speaker 3: the same if the Hawks find a way just to

448
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Speaker 3: get a man on a man and get run game going.

449
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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. And I loved what I really did love

450
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Speaker 5: what Grub did against the forty nine ers. He the

451
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Speaker 5: way he came out and just said, we're gonna establish

452
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Speaker 5: establish this run and really it's gonna set up the

453
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Speaker 5: play action and stuff for Gino. Did it work, Eh,

454
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Speaker 5: not as much as we would want it to, But

455
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Speaker 5: the thought is there, and that's what you have to do,

456
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Speaker 5: and that's what you have to keep doing every single game.

457
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Speaker 3: All right, man, we got a tough game this week

458
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Speaker 3: going down south to the Falcons and taking on or

459
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Speaker 3: going to Atlanta and taking on the Falcons. All right,

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Speaker 3: when we come back, we will chat with Seahawks Mike Morris.

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Speaker 2: That is next right here on Hawk's Lot.

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Speaker 3: now via the phone line. We are joined now by

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Speaker 3: defensive lineman Mike Morris.

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Speaker 2: How we doing We're doing great.

472
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Speaker 4: I ain't think y'all gonna have me on here, so quick.

473
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Speaker 4: Bow in my mouth. I'm king some tea. I'm drinking

474
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Speaker 4: some tea with some man.

475
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Speaker 2: Take take it time. You good, good, Hey again, thanks

476
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Speaker 2: for joining us. Man.

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Speaker 3: My first question is I'm watching you this year. You're

478
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Speaker 3: a versatile player, man. You know I've seen you in

479
00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,040
Speaker 3: the a gap taking on the doubles. I've seen you

480
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Speaker 3: on the edge.

481
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Speaker 2: Man.

482
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Speaker 3: How do you change up your game according to where

483
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Speaker 3: you're lined up defensively?

484
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Speaker 4: I feel like you have to. You have to be

485
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Speaker 4: very versatile when it comes to the NFL, especially with

486
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Speaker 4: just knowing my role on the team, Like I have

487
00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,639
Speaker 4: to be very honest with myself and everything that's going on.

488
00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:47,840
Speaker 4: There are a lot of guys in front of me

489
00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,400
Speaker 4: who have a lot a lot more experience and who

490
00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,920
Speaker 4: have done this for a very long time. We is

491
00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,000
Speaker 4: going this tenth year than Jay Res going on eighth

492
00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,000
Speaker 4: or ninth year, Pink is going on was twelfth year.

493
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,200
Speaker 4: So it's a it's a lot of guys up there

494
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,000
Speaker 4: who have been in the league for a long time.

495
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Speaker 4: So I need to get in where I fit in

496
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Speaker 4: and make sure I'm as versatile as fossil, so the

497
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Speaker 4: coaches feel that they can put me out there and

498
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Speaker 4: have trust and faith in it. So it just like

499
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Speaker 4: I kind of have to live in that world. What

500
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Speaker 4: my from what my DC told me like, I have

501
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Speaker 4: to I have to be there.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Mike, you might think this is uh, this is creepy.

503
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Speaker 5: Last year you came on the show, I was here,

504
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:30,639
Speaker 5: we interviewed you. Awesome job, and then from that point forward,

505
00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:33,040
Speaker 5: I think you got injured that next week and you know,

506
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,359
Speaker 5: your shoulder you went down and everything.

507
00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:37,399
Speaker 4: I was injured when that when we when we did that,

508
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Speaker 4: when we did.

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Speaker 5: That show, I think, yeah, exactly, exactly, no, yeah exactly,

510
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,160
Speaker 5: I think that's exactly what it was. But every single week,

511
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Speaker 5: you know, we're coming from the press box we're walking

512
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Speaker 5: down and when you're injured, you're on ir you sit

513
00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 5: in the suite, and you were walking down to the field.

514
00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,000
Speaker 5: Every time I'd walk by you, you know, and you're

515
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Speaker 5: six six to ninety five, and I'd and I just

516
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,240
Speaker 5: talked to you. But man, I was intimidated by you. Man,

517
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,919
Speaker 5: you're giant, and I was gonna say what's up, hey,

518
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,440
Speaker 5: Mike every single time I walked by you, But I

519
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,879
Speaker 5: chickened out. I didn't say what's up. Uh, But on

520
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,160
Speaker 5: that note, on that every time, I don't know why.

521
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Speaker 5: It won't happen again. But you're not up there anymore.

522
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 5: Now you're playing, you're on the sideline. You're healthy. Yeah,

523
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Speaker 5: but hey, tell tell me about that process, just kind

524
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Speaker 5: of battling the shoulder injury, getting back and now you

525
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,480
Speaker 5: know you're you're out there every single game this year.

526
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Speaker 5: How's that been for you?

527
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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Man, it's been amazing. It's definitely been a journey, just

529
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Speaker 4: not only having a surgery but just working my way

530
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Speaker 4: back into it. And also, like as athletes, we kind

531
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Speaker 4: of have to build up that courage and trust ourselves

532
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Speaker 4: with coming back from injury. So I've been dealing with

533
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Speaker 4: that and like now like just believe or not, like

534
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Speaker 4: like right now is where I finally like actually just

535
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Speaker 4: feel comfortable with my shoulder and I feel comfortable with

536
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Speaker 4: everything that's going on with my body. So it's it's

537
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Speaker 4: been a grind, but I'm happy that I'm here in

538
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Speaker 4: this place.

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Speaker 2: Right now talking.

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Speaker 3: We're talking to d Lineman, Mike morris Man, so obviously

541
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Speaker 3: Mike McDonald is here. And if you ran his defense

542
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Speaker 3: when you were in Michigan, so I know you're a

543
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Speaker 3: younger guy on the team, but were you kind of

544
00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 3: like all right, fellas, let me let me show you

545
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Speaker 3: how that's done. This is what he means when he

546
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Speaker 3: when he uses this type of terminology. How have you

547
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Speaker 3: been able to help the defense?

548
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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, I just let the coaches coach.

549
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 4: I didn't want to be. I didn't want to be

550
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Speaker 4: that guy that was one of the main impistes. I

551
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 4: never wanted to be because like I was that I

552
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 4: was I'm not gonna lie. Aiden and Goo used to

553
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,439
Speaker 4: talk about me a lot of how like they call

554
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Speaker 4: their nickname for me in college was coach Mo. And

555
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,399
Speaker 4: because I was just I was just coaching people up

556
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,680
Speaker 4: too much. So I just took the back row seat,

557
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Speaker 4: especially like not playing last year and just like letting

558
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Speaker 4: the coaches coach and the coaches handle what they handle

559
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Speaker 4: and just sit in the back and just know what

560
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Speaker 4: they're talking about. I know, the whole terminology, whole defense

561
00:23:48,440 --> 00:23:50,720
Speaker 4: house orchestrated, but I'm just sitting back and learn the

562
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Speaker 4: coaches handle the business.

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Speaker 5: Hey, well, all right, so the defensive side of the ball,

564
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Speaker 5: you got that down, But what about special teams?

565
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Speaker 6: One?

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Speaker 5: Did you ever have to play much special teams when

567
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 5: you're at Michigan? And then two, kind of how's that

568
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 5: adjustment been because you're like a huge part of the

569
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Speaker 5: special teams now for the Seahawks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean just just versatility. You gotta you gotta

571
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 4: just help the team as most possible. But Coach j

572
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 4: was trying to get me in the special special teams

573
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Speaker 4: around when I was in college, and I was just like, nah,

574
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Speaker 4: I don't do that, just like as like a young guy.

575
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Speaker 4: And then by the time I was like a big dog,

576
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,880
Speaker 4: it was kind of too late. But all I did.

577
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Speaker 4: I think all I did in college was special teams

578
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 4: like punk return, so I just go and rush and

579
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Speaker 4: then just walk while they returned the ball. But this year,

580
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Speaker 4: I've taken it out myself just to just with being

581
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Speaker 4: with coach j being being one of his players back

582
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Speaker 4: for back in Michigan. This is definitely taking upon myself

583
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Speaker 4: to just make sure that he's one of the best

584
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Speaker 4: special team coaches in the in the National Football League,

585
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Speaker 4: and my return man are one the best in the

586
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Speaker 4: league also, So just wanting to be the wanted to

587
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,320
Speaker 4: be a key guy in that instance and just helping

588
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Speaker 4: my team the best way I can and my coaches.

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Speaker 3: Also, you mentioned the return guys man Leaviska took one

590
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Speaker 3: to the house.

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Speaker 2: What's that like for you, guys man?

592
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Speaker 3: Obviously he gets a lot of the shine and the love,

593
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,160
Speaker 3: but it don't happen without you, guys man. How excited

594
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 3: was that unit to see him take one to the house?

595
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Speaker 9: Man?

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Speaker 4: It was nice. And the thing about like the Luska

597
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 4: that what made it so special for us is like

598
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 4: he's a team's guy, teams guy, teams guy. You know,

599
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 4: he's all about the team, doing whatever he can to

600
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Speaker 4: help the guys out. And when that happened, it was

601
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Speaker 4: just I feel like it was a moment for all

602
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 4: of us that we all scored on that play. Like

603
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 4: the whole special Teams unit caught on that play because

604
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 4: previously he fumbles and he was Beatinghi Stuf about it,

605
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,640
Speaker 4: and we just kept reaffirming him that, bro, you're our guy,

606
00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 4: like they don't kick it to you again, and we're

607
00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 4: gonna be good, and they keep it to him again

608
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,600
Speaker 4: and then took it to the house. So that's the

609
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Speaker 4: testament just who he is a character, but also who

610
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 4: we were and having his back.

611
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Speaker 5: Hey, looking forward to the Falcons, you know they you

612
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 5: know that they have two big time running backs. They're

613
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 5: tough to stop. You know, how excited are you or

614
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 5: you know what kind of challenge does that bring for

615
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,479
Speaker 5: you guys? And you know, just to kind of get

616
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 5: things right with the Falcons, it gives us, It gives

617
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Speaker 5: us a.

618
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Speaker 4: Great opportunity to kind of set the records straight because

619
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Speaker 4: these last three weeks have been hard, difficult, and we've

620
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Speaker 4: been battling like a lot of injuries. That's not an excuse,

621
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Speaker 4: but we just kind of need to set the records

622
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Speaker 4: strate on who we are in the in the NFL

623
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Speaker 4: and kind of just like tell everybody like, nah, those

624
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 4: games were flukes, Like this is who we really are,

625
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 4: you know, and just kind of just tell everybody we're here,

626
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 4: because there's a lot of a lot of you look

627
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 4: back at the film from the last three games, like

628
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 4: in those three games, we shot ourselves in the foots

629
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Speaker 4: every chance we could have got, and we still ended

630
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 4: up almost winning every single one of those games. So

631
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 4: if we just eliminate those things and eliminate just the

632
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 4: self afflicted wounds, those games could have turned the tide

633
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 4: and we could have probably been sitting here six and all.

634
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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I think you learn a lot.

635
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 3: You learn a lot after losses, and I know you

636
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 3: don't want to lose games, but if there's a silver.

637
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 2: I don't want to learn. I don't want to learn,

638
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,399
Speaker 2: all right, I just want to win.

639
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 3: But what what have you learned though after the losses

640
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 3: about this team and just about Mike McDonald and his leadership.

641
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 4: I feel like this team is definitely greaty in all

642
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 4: aspects of the word, because after every single one of

643
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 4: those games, we could have easily been a team to

644
00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:46,719
Speaker 4: be like now, we're just gonna kind of fold and crumble.

645
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 4: And we see teams all all like that all around

646
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 4: the league. When things go hard. It's just like kind

647
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 4: of just like, all right, bro, game's over, Like I'm

648
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 4: still getting my check. But we made it very clear

649
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 4: of who we want to be as a team and

650
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 4: how we want to how we want to play and

651
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 4: if we're gonna lose, lose on our terms. And I

652
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 4: feel like every one of those games we lost on

653
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 4: our terms, even with the sufflicted wounds. Wounds, we showed

654
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 4: everyone that if we come to when we come to play, like,

655
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,879
Speaker 4: do not sleep on us, because we will punch you

656
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 4: in the mouth. And its just again eliminating self flicking wounds.

657
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 4: And that's it. Like we're we're one of the best

658
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 4: teams in the NFL.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I like that.

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Speaker 4: Let me let me put that Ino like it.

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Speaker 5: I'm fired up, jump to the wall, hey, and on that.

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Speaker 5: You know, you guys had three games in eleven days.

663
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Speaker 5: That that's tough on a player. Uh, I've done that.

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Speaker 5: It's it's tough to recover.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 5: But then you also you had a little little mini

667
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Speaker 5: bye week is what we called it. What have you

668
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:48,719
Speaker 5: done the last three days? If you got away from football,

669
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Speaker 5: cleared your mind, if you if you stayed in football,

670
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Speaker 5: what's been going on? The last pass.

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Speaker 4: I sat down on the couch and relaxed, like I

672
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Speaker 4: went to like an a event out here, the wrestling

673
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 4: wrestling event, just just to kind of just get away

674
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Speaker 4: from football a little bit, because this job can be

675
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Speaker 4: really stressful, even though itsionary looked upon like that, but

676
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Speaker 4: I feel like every job is is a lot, especially

677
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Speaker 4: when things aren't going the way you wanted to and

678
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 4: we're not winning, and it could easily be frustrating. So

679
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Speaker 4: you just kind of got to remove yourself. And also,

680
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 4: like this game takes so much time away from our families,

681
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 4: because like there are times where I want to be

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Speaker 4: home and or my fiance has something to tell me,

683
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Speaker 4: but she can't tell me. I can't talk about it

684
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 4: because I'm at work and my phones don't be undisturbed.

685
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Speaker 4: So just being taking that time to spend time with

686
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Speaker 4: your family is definitely something that I look forward to.

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Speaker 3: All Right, So you said you're on the couch. So

688
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Speaker 3: when you're on the couch, are you gaming Netflix? You

689
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Speaker 3: say you got a fiance, y'all? Watching Love is blind? Like,

690
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Speaker 3: what's uh?

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Speaker 2: What's what?

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Speaker 4: I can't I can't get on that wave. I can't

693
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Speaker 4: get on that way. I'm not gonna I'm a big kid.

694
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Speaker 4: So I like watching like all the old Disney movies

695
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 4: that I grew up watching. I'm trying to find us,

696
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Speaker 4: trying to find the show to watch with us, because

697
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Speaker 4: he watched we We just finished what's it called Modern Family,

698
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Speaker 4: so we're trying to find a similar show to that,

699
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Speaker 4: and we finished The Office before that, so yeah, we've

700
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Speaker 4: already watched them before, but we're just kind of just

701
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Speaker 4: running through that. So we're in that like comedy sitcom

702
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 4: phase right now. We're trying to just find a new show.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Mike, you mentioned a w event. Are you a

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Speaker 5: w or E w W E? What's your preference there?

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Speaker 4: Hey, man, man, man, Man, don't be messy.

706
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Speaker 2: Trying to mess up his money, trying to mess.

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Speaker 5: Man man Man, all right, I'm out trying.

708
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Speaker 4: I'm not gonna answer that question. That question sounds like

709
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Speaker 4: a double ed sword.

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Speaker 3: All right, all right, that's awesome, that's awesome. Hey Mike,

711
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Speaker 3: always always a pleasure talking to you. Man, Safe travels,

712
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Speaker 3: go down to the South and da thing.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 4: We appreciate your time, Oh for sure, Man, I appreciate y'all.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: next right here on Hawks Live.

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Speaker 3: for joining us on this Thursday. It is time for

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Speaker 3: us to go around the NFL. If you wanted to know,

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Speaker 3: the Broncos are getting it done. Twenty six to three

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Speaker 3: in New Orleans. Sean Payton, welcome back, and he's doing

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Speaker 3: this thing.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I picked the Broncos to win

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Speaker 3: or not. I think I picked them to win. I'm

738
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Speaker 3: not sure. I'm just gonna say I did because it

739
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Speaker 3: makes me look smart. All right, let's go around the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: The biggest news we're talking about receivers. You got two receivers.

742
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Speaker 3: Up here, we're gonna talk about receivers, so we'll go

743
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 3: with the smaller news with the receiver before we get

744
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 3: to the big one. Amari Cooper is out of Cleveland.

745
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 3: The nightmare is over for him. He led the league

746
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 3: in drops, but I want to say partly because of

747
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 3: his quarterback situation, the stress that he's under. We spoke

748
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,280
Speaker 3: to somebody over there at Cleveland. They said he's essentially

749
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 3: checked out. They knew this team wasn't going anywhere, didn't

750
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Speaker 3: believe in de Shaun Watson. He checked out. He has

751
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 3: another chance this year to get her done, going to

752
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Speaker 3: the Buffalo Bills, and I think that's the best thing

753
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Speaker 3: to happen at Josh Allen. He starts the season undefeated,

754
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,960
Speaker 3: hadn't turned the football over, but didn't have that number

755
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Speaker 3: one target at receiver. Now he has it in Amari Cooper.

756
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Speaker 3: What does that do for Josh in his game?

757
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm curious how quick he can get into the

758
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 5: mix and start understanding the playbook and how Josh Allen works.

759
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Speaker 5: Because what a weapon. What a pickup by the Bills too.

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Speaker 5: You know, I saw stat that they're only owing about

761
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Speaker 5: eight hundred thousand of Mari's salary because the Browns converted

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Speaker 5: his salary to a signing of at the beginning of

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Speaker 5: the year. So now the Bills are only on the

764
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Speaker 5: hook for that small portion. So I mean to me,

765
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Speaker 5: this is just brilliant by the Bills to give as

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Speaker 5: long as now that he's with Josh Allen, he's not

767
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Speaker 5: drop happy, right because if he starts dropping passes and

768
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Speaker 5: Josh Allen can't count on that's a big thing, then

769
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Speaker 5: it's just then then you start getting on Amari Cooper

770
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Speaker 5: about that. So, uh, it'll be it'll be fun to

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Speaker 5: see how they work and how quickly the chemistry can

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Speaker 5: be built between those two because it's not going to

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Speaker 5: be right away. He's not gonna be able to go

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Speaker 5: in there and understand how Josh Allen works, how he's

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Speaker 5: calm plays right away. But you know, give it, give

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Speaker 5: it three, four, four weeks. I see that being a

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Speaker 5: huge weapon for him.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 3: So that is the uh, the smaller news still big

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Speaker 3: news for the Bills. With smaller news, the biggest one

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Speaker 3: is uh Man Aaron Rodgers. They've been talking about this

782
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Speaker 3: for about a year and a half gets his wide

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Speaker 3: receiver and Devonte Adams right after a game where he

784
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Speaker 3: tosses a.

785
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Speaker 2: Ball up to Mike Williams. Mike Williams doesn't catch a football.

786
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Speaker 3: Rodgers is throwing him under the buzz Say, he didn't

787
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Speaker 3: get to thee I saw the film. There are things

788
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 3: that Rodgers could have done to help him get to

789
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Speaker 3: the mid line, our redline. But you got to be

790
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Speaker 3: where he's supposed to be. So now he didn't have

791
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Speaker 3: to worry about that. DeVante Adams is back there. He's

792
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Speaker 3: actually living with Aaron Rodgers right now, so they're they're

793
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Speaker 3: rooming together. They're getting to know the playbook they play.

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Speaker 3: Russell Wilson in the Steelers side note, Russell my start

795
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Speaker 3: this week.

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Speaker 2: We got a two of the old heads going at it.

797
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Speaker 2: But let's focus on DeVonta Adams and what that means

798
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Speaker 2: to the Jets.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well you look at that and you go Davante Adams,

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Speaker 5: Garrett Wilson. I mean, those are two dynamic receivers that

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Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers has. So no more excuses for Aaron Rodgers, No,

802
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Speaker 5: there's not. I mean, this is this, this is now.

803
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Speaker 5: The Jets are wanting to win right now, and if

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Speaker 5: they don't, then you got to put it all on

805
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Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers. They've already, they've already, you know, scapegoaded Robert

806
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Speaker 5: sala For. I think the struggles of Aaron Rodgers and

807
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 5: and now Mike Williams there's you know, so they're they're

808
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Speaker 5: giving Aaron Rodgers every way out, so now it's his

809
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Speaker 5: time to perform. And you know, on that note, since

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Speaker 5: we're talking about salary, the salary, Davonte's ode eleven point

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Speaker 5: four million by the Jets, So they didn't get quite

812
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Speaker 5: as good of a deal as far as a bargain,

813
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Speaker 5: but I think they get a better receivers when it

814
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Speaker 5: comes to Devonte Adams compared to Mary Cooper.

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Speaker 2: And there's some urgency over there. It's win. Now. Aaron

816
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Speaker 2: Rodgers is forty, I mean, ain't gonna play forever.

817
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Speaker 3: So when you have the defense that they have, they

818
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 3: got guys in the second, first, second, and third level.

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Speaker 3: You have the running game that they have in Breeze

820
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Speaker 3: hallm you have the receivers that they have Davante, you

821
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Speaker 3: got Garrett and don't forget Lazard, who's coming off a

822
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Speaker 3: big game, had one hundred yards last game. It's all

823
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Speaker 3: set up for them to win. They get rid of

824
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Speaker 3: their head coach, they demote the offensive coordinator. I mean,

825
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 3: they've been doing a whole bunch of stuff over there

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Speaker 3: in New York, so they better get it done or

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Speaker 3: it's all for nothing. We shall see, all right, Let's

828
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Speaker 3: talk about Russell Wilson, justin fields four and two has

829
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Speaker 3: not turned the ball over one time, accounting for ten touchdowns,

830
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Speaker 3: and Mike Tomlin is saying, look, I told Russell Wilson

831
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Speaker 3: he had the pole position going into the season. He

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Speaker 3: got injured as Cavish jacked up, going to give him

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Speaker 3: an opportunity.

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Speaker 2: What does this mean to you? Because there's a couple

835
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Speaker 2: of ways you can look at this.

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Speaker 3: What angle are you looking at Russell Wilson possibly getting

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Speaker 3: the starting with Sunday?

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Speaker 5: I have two angles on this one. I kind of

839
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 5: respect Mike Tomlin for this because I've never thought players

840
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,279
Speaker 5: should lose their starting starting spot to an injury. I

841
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 5: think that's just kind of a part of the game,

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00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 5: and you know, guys should be able to have the

843
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 5: chance to prove, like you know, this was a fluke thing.

844
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Speaker 5: Let me get back in, let me prove myself, let

845
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Speaker 5: me put up the numbers. On the other hand, I think, man,

846
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:34,360
Speaker 5: the Steelers have been winning. Justin Fields has been not

847
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say he's winning games for the Steelers, but

848
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Speaker 5: he's not losing him for the Steelers. You know, he's

849
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 5: showing his athleticism, he's using his legs a lot. Their

850
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 5: their whole playbook, you could tell is different because of him,

851
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 5: because they're design quarterback runs with him and just kind

852
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 5: of getting them out there running with with the Naji

853
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Speaker 5: Harris and uh that running attack that they have. They're

854
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 5: they're kind of he's kind of they're incorporating Justin Fields

855
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Speaker 5: into that. They're not gonna do that with Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 5: So what I'm kind of curious about is how this

857
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 5: offense is gonna change. I know Russell's gonna hand it

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00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 5: off a lot, because that's what they want to do

859
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 5: if they want to hand it off. But they're not

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Speaker 5: going to be having design runs for Russ. He can't

861
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 5: run anymore like not like he could not like he

862
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Speaker 5: used to. So I think they're going to open up

863
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 5: the passing game a little bit with Russ. And you

864
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Speaker 5: know what, part of me, just to just throw this

865
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Speaker 5: out there, thinks that they want Russ to perform well

866
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Speaker 5: as trade bait to show that he still has value

867
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Speaker 5: and then get some trade for him at that point,

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Speaker 5: and Justin Fields is their younger, more athletic guy to

869
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Speaker 5: lead the team in the future. I like that angle.

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Speaker 3: I'm also looking at the angle that they're trying to

871
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Speaker 3: see who they're gonna roll in for the next two years,

872
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 3: you know, because then you can draft a quarterback, you

873
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,080
Speaker 3: can develop them. Who do they want to kind of

874
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 3: lead the charge for a couple of years, as they

875
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Speaker 3: figured out, if they go Justin Fields, there's no rust

876
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 3: to draft rush to draft a quarterback. If you go

877
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Speaker 3: Russell Wilson, you got to get one within the next

878
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 3: year or so. This is wild to me. I get

879
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 3: it because I feel like Russell Wilson opens up the

880
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 3: playbook a bit more for Arthur Smith. But I also

881
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 3: feel like, if the young man is winning ball game games, yeah,

882
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 3: you let him ride it.

883
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 2: Until you're not winning ball games.

884
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,280
Speaker 3: I think you're tied for first place in the AFC

885
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 3: North or you're in first place, like they're in control.

886
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 3: But you know that Baltimore is getting better. You know

887
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,399
Speaker 3: that the Bengals aren't gonna go anywhere. The Browns say

888
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 3: goodbye to them. But it's a three horse race, So

889
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 3: it's a it's an interesting move. I wasn't prepared for

890
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 3: that one.

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00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,439
Speaker 5: It's a really I can't imagine what that team meeting

892
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,720
Speaker 5: was like. I mean, I'm sure Tom Lan didn't announce

893
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 5: it in front of the whole team, but you know,

894
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 5: you're four and two and you're winning, and all of

895
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,759
Speaker 5: a sudden, we're making a change at quarterback, which I

896
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,840
Speaker 5: don't know if that's happened ever in the league, that

897
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 5: they're gonna bench their starter or not their starter. They're

898
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 5: technically yes, Justin Fields was their backup point of the year,

899
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 5: So I get it. I give him a chance, give

900
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 5: russ a chance. You know, maybe Rusk can rejuvenate his

901
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 5: career and finish off there. So I'm excited to watch

902
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 5: him play again, see if he's coming back healthy.

903
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Speaker 3: And then in Las Vegas you get rid of Davante.

904
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 3: This is just saying, look, we're trying to rebuild over here.

905
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 3: You know, Gardner issue was no longer the starter.

906
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 2: Go Koog's.

907
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 3: You got O'Connor over there doing his thame Antonio Pierce.

908
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 3: The honeymoon is over with him no more in the

909
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,400
Speaker 3: locker room smoking cigars, celebrating these little victories. They got

910
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 3: to get down to business. So you're we're seeing a

911
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:18,800
Speaker 3: transition going on throughout the league. So yeah, So with

912
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Speaker 3: the with the Marii Cooper going to the Bills, now

913
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Speaker 3: going to the season, the Bills are already considered contenders.

914
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,920
Speaker 2: Does that I mean, does that increase you think their.

915
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 3: Chances because you still got the Chiefs over there, you

916
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Speaker 3: still got Baltimore. I always describe the AFC as like

917
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,839
Speaker 3: the prestigious conference when it comes to quarterbacks, and then

918
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 3: you come to the NFC and it's kind of like

919
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 3: this is more the collective group.

920
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 2: But how much better does that move make the Bills?

921
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:49,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's almost a replacement for Stefan Diggs in a way.

922
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 5: It's that they're still looking for that big playmaker. And

923
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Speaker 5: you know Stefan Diggs. We've seen what he's doing now

924
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 5: in Houston. He's continued to perform. So they got to

925
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 5: get that that guy back that can to be that

926
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Speaker 5: game changer a little bit. So I think the Bills

927
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Speaker 5: are always contenders no matter what without Amar or with Mario,

928
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 5: they're still contenders. But they're trying to get themselves over

929
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Speaker 5: that hump to beat the Chiefs and get to that

930
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 5: Super Bowl because they haven't been able to do it.

931
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Speaker 5: So if a Mari's the piece of the puzzle that

932
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Speaker 5: does that and gives them that extra weapon, then then

933
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Speaker 5: what a movie. I think. Regardless, it's a great move

934
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Speaker 5: by them, even if it doesn't get them past the Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: All Right, that was around the NFL on Hawks Live.

936
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Speaker 3: When we come back, Seahawks, they got some roster moves

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Speaker 3: going down. We'll talk about that next.

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Speaker 1: Hawks Live presented by the Dining District at the Bellevue

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Speaker 1: Collection at Bellevue Squares Center Court, every Thursday from seven

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Speaker 1: to nine, live on air on Seattle Sports no. If

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Speaker 1: you're your hosts Michael Bumpus.

942
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Speaker 3: And Paul Moyer, you are listening to the Hawks Live.

943
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 3: I got Brian Watks's filling in for Paul Moyer. I

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Speaker 3: am Michael Bumpus every Thursday right here on Seattle Sports seventeen.

945
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Speaker 3: You can holler at us, ma'am. There are some things

946
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 3: been going down with these Seahawks, man. Unfortunately, Rayshawn Jenkins

947
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 3: was put on the ir So what does that mean

948
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 3: for the Hawks? That means that you might see Kobe Bryant.

949
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 3: That means ty O Katta has been elevated from the

950
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,919
Speaker 3: practice squad. Also, if you didn't know, if you haven't heard,

951
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,279
Speaker 3: the Hawks brought over a man by the name of

952
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Speaker 3: Roy Robertson Harris from the Jaguars. He's a defensive lineman,

953
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,759
Speaker 3: can play inside, he can play outside. There was some

954
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 3: things going down already Burns his banged up. Trey Brown

955
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 3: will see more of Niami. Pritchett is going to get

956
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 3: some more opportunity to play because of the injuries.

957
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 2: This is just the football season. This is how things happen.

958
00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 9: Man.

959
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 3: I got my opportunity in the NFL because guys went

960
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:41,560
Speaker 3: down and you have to stay ready. I don't know

961
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 3: how you got yours, man, you were just nice like that.

962
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,080
Speaker 3: Maybe you know they just gave you an opportunity. But

963
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 3: this is the NFL, man, what is this As a

964
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 3: guy who was a you know, a number two to

965
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Speaker 3: start this whole thing, and we heard from Pritchett, it's

966
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Speaker 3: just important that you're always locked in, you are focused,

967
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 3: ready to go, because you never know when.

968
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Speaker 2: Your number is gonna be called.

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00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 5: You know, answered your question, Bump, I think I had

970
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 5: about three guys get hurt in front of me before

971
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Speaker 5: I finally got my shot. So it's just next man up,

972
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 5: not just not not just you. Yes. And what we

973
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 5: talked about when neim I Pritchett a little bit was

974
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Speaker 5: the fact that he's on the sideline. He was a

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Speaker 5: four year starter ober R and so and he's on

976
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Speaker 5: and so now he's he's forced with this task that

977
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Speaker 5: he's got to be on the sideline, kind of taking

978
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 5: mental reps the whole time. You got to be in

979
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 5: these games. You gotta be, you know, studying the tendencies

980
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 5: that they're showing you. How are they attacking the corners

981
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 5: without even playing, without even being out there, because when

982
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 5: one guy goes down like Rieke did, you're you're thrown

983
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 5: into the fire and you can't there can't be a

984
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 5: misbeat there. And when he came in made that big

985
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 5: stop on third down against the Giants, and he said, hey,

986
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 5: you know, we've seen these tendencies all game. He was

987
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,280
Speaker 5: in it. He's locked in. So that just that's the challenge,

988
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 5: that's the challenge to all these guys asked to step up.

989
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 5: If it's Kobe Bryant, where Racheon Jenkins is on the

990
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Speaker 5: i R. Now Kobe Bryant's ask to step up you know,

991
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 5: he's the guy that's got to fill in and there

992
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 5: can't be a the the big the gap and uh,

993
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 5: you know it's not We've been talking about injuries all

994
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 5: year with the Seahawks, but the Seahawks aren't the only

995
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 5: team dealing with injuries. This is every single team thinks

996
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 5: they have the injury bug at this point of the

997
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 5: year because they all do. It's football, there's gonna be injuries.

998
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 5: So I think that's the importance of the roster and

999
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 5: the depth bringing guys in like I'm gonna butcher the

1000
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 5: name Roy Robertson Harris. There we go. That's the first

1001
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Speaker 5: time that's a we need to find.

1002
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 2: A nickname for him.

1003
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 5: That's what we need to do. We need to find

1004
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 5: like we gotta as we got to ask him what

1005
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 5: do they call? You can't keep saying Roy Robinson Harris

1006
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 5: did it again? Right, Robertson? I messed it up anyway.

1007
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 5: But but bringing depth like that in is just is

1008
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:44,399
Speaker 5: huge because now if you have a guy like Bira

1009
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 5: Murphy go down like he did, you just you just

1010
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 5: have more rotation, more guys. Because we noticed guys, guys

1011
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,399
Speaker 5: were getting tired up front. Yep, you know, guys were

1012
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 5: standing a little taller than we're used to than then

1013
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 5: they were. The first three games when the rotation was full,

1014
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 5: guys were getting a little taller, maybe driven back a

1015
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,719
Speaker 5: couple more years and they're used to. And that's that's

1016
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 5: gonna happen when you don't have really the depth that

1017
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:06,879
Speaker 5: you're used to. So bring guys in like that, next

1018
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 5: man up. Uh, you know, it's just it'll be it'll

1019
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 5: be fun to see these guys step up.

1020
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 3: And at the beginning of the season, we just talked

1021
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 3: about the depth of the secondary, the safeties of corners

1022
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 3: not knowing or anticipating that you're gonna need that depth. Right,

1023
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 3: We've seen Reke Willing go out, Trey Brown gets some opportunity,

1024
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 3: Jenkins is out. Now Kobe's gonna get some burned. And

1025
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 3: let's talk about Kobe for a minute. Man, Kobe is

1026
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 3: is interesting to me because when he came into the league,

1027
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 3: he's a Jim Thorpe Award winner best corner in the game,

1028
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 3: opposite of Sauce Gardner, and he's causing turnovers and for

1029
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,320
Speaker 3: some reason he kind of just fade out of what

1030
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 3: the Hawks were trying to do. Sometimes that's just out

1031
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 3: of Look, this guy is playing just a bit better.

1032
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 3: He's a bit older, he knows our scheme. But I'm

1033
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 3: excited for Kobe because this gives him an opportunity to

1034
00:44:52,520 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 3: re establish himself as a contributor, not just a guy

1035
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,879
Speaker 3: who runs down on special teams that makes place.

1036
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,760
Speaker 5: Yeah, to me, it's kind of a testament to Kobe

1037
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 5: because I think that the secondary is so deep that

1038
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 5: I think coaches realize, hey, we need Kobe on the field,

1039
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:09,640
Speaker 5: and the quickest way for him to get on the

1040
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 5: field is to move to safety because but he has

1041
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 5: the ability to be a safety. He has the ability

1042
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 5: to make plays of safety, not necessarily a corner. But

1043
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 5: he's gonna get on the on the field faster that way.

1044
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 5: And now we're seeing it. So uh, I don't think

1045
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 5: we've ever seen Kobe really get into full swing of things.

1046
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 5: You know, he's never been that like every down kind

1047
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 5: of guy for the Seahawks really, so it'll it'll be

1048
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,479
Speaker 5: fun to kind of see him get in that game mode.

1049
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 5: We know, we know what that is. Bump, right, There's

1050
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 5: a big difference a guy that goes in every seven plays,

1051
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 5: once every seven plays, once every ten plays, you know,

1052
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 5: to fill a role for a guy who's tired and

1053
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,240
Speaker 5: he's a breather right as a receiver or as opposed

1054
00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,399
Speaker 5: to your in there every second, every third down, every

1055
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 5: passing situation. You're in there almost every single play. You

1056
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 5: almost get in that, you get in the zone, you

1057
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 5: get in the game mode, and your game changes.

1058
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

1059
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 5: I feel like you you almost care less, if that

1060
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,279
Speaker 5: makes sense, and you're just in the game, just playing thinking,

1061
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,520
Speaker 5: you're not thinking about, man, this one play I'm in,

1062
00:46:03,680 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 5: I'd better not mess this up, Like, that's not what

1063
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 5: you're doing. So getting Kobe into that zone playing safety

1064
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 5: where he's in every single down, it'll be fun to

1065
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 5: watch him in action, I think.

1066
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Speaker 3: So Kobe will get more action. We're gonna anticipate seeing

1067
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 3: Wallace as well. We've seen Wallace this year. He's made

1068
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 3: a couple of plays himself. So you're really seeing the

1069
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 3: depth of this secondary. Unfortunately, but fortunately because you have

1070
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 3: some guys who can play and get her dumb. All right,

1071
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 3: let's focus on the Falcons here for a little bit.

1072
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Speaker 3: This is going to be a battle of the quarterbacks.

1073
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 3: I feel like both teams want to get the run

1074
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 3: game going, but both teams lean on their quarterbacks to

1075
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 3: set the tone and get her going. I would love

1076
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Speaker 3: for Geno not to throw the ball fifty times. If

1077
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Speaker 3: he doesn't throw the ball fifty times, that means the

1078
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 3: run that means the run game is going. I'm on

1079
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Speaker 3: the other hand, I would love for Kirk Cousins to

1080
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 3: throw the ball fifty times, because that means their run

1081
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 3: game is not going. We haven't seen a lot of

1082
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 3: play action. I mean, I think Geno operates well when

1083
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 3: you can run the ball and hit them with the playagshot.

1084
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, one hundred and uh And I think that's the

1085
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:09,520
Speaker 5: importance of getting the run game going, and both teams

1086
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 5: will be doing that. To me, the Falcons team, it's

1087
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 5: almost these teams are trending in almost two opposite directions,

1088
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 5: which is kind of you know, the Falcons have won

1089
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:19,879
Speaker 5: three in a row. Seahawks have lost three three games

1090
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 5: in a row, and and so this is uh but

1091
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 5: but but we keep looking at it on paper, we

1092
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 5: look at the stats, we look at what the Falcons have,

1093
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 5: and it's a good matchup for the Seahawks. It's a

1094
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,440
Speaker 5: it's a matchup that we still feel the Seahawks should win.

1095
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,399
Speaker 5: It should come out on top of this one.

1096
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 9: Uh.

1097
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 5: Where the Falcons have really kind of impressed me a

1098
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:39,919
Speaker 5: little bit is their ability to win in different ways.

1099
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:44,319
Speaker 5: They've had out of four wins, You've they've had Kirk

1100
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 5: Cousins go for over five hundred yards and that's how

1101
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 5: they won the game. They've had the running backs go

1102
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 5: off and that's how they run the game. And then

1103
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 5: they've had their kicker just have to make a bunch

1104
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 5: of kicks and they won a game that way. So

1105
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 5: they've won games in multiple ways. So I don't think

1106
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 5: the Seahawks game plan. I don't think that they're going

1107
00:47:58,520 --> 00:47:59,959
Speaker 5: to be able to just take one thing away because

1108
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 5: they're pretty efficient in all these things, you know, running.

1109
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 5: But if you're going to do it, you said it

1110
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 5: at the very start, is make Kirk Cousins throw at

1111
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,800
Speaker 5: fifty sixty times a game. Because I think our dbs

1112
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,800
Speaker 5: match up well with their receivers, I really do. I

1113
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 5: think Witherspoon, I think if Trey Brown plays, Reek plays,

1114
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:24,960
Speaker 5: I think they just match up with Drake London, Darnell Mooney,

1115
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 5: and Kyle Pitts. I think Kyle Pitts has been a

1116
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 5: little bit of a disappointment for the Falcons I've heard,

1117
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,279
Speaker 5: you know, rumblings of him being kind of lazy, and

1118
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 5: we knew that going and he's not going to be

1119
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 5: the blocker that they expect him. So he's almost just

1120
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:40,360
Speaker 5: a big, maybe slower receiver. And yeah, I think we

1121
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 5: match up with that. I think Julian Love, I think

1122
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 5: guys like that take care of that. So I like

1123
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,280
Speaker 5: the secondary matchup against the pass catchers of the Falcons.

1124
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1125
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 3: For Kyle Pitts Man, when you're the number four pick overall,

1126
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,400
Speaker 3: they're expecting you to go for at least a thousand

1127
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 3: yards and six touchdowns every year.

1128
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 2: He's yet to do that. But he's also had a few.

1129
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,839
Speaker 3: Quarterbacks over there, right, you have Murrao there for a minute,

1130
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 3: Desmond rid of there as well, so there's room for

1131
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 3: growth when it comes to him over there. All right,

1132
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 3: running game, gotta get this run game going. And I

1133
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 3: went on our show on the Bumping Station Show ten

1134
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 3: to two. If you guys ain't doing that throughout the day,

1135
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 3: Holly at me and I went out there and I said, look, man,

1136
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 3: you're not gonna get four or five linemen to show

1137
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 3: up tomorrow and kind of save the day. So it's

1138
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 3: up to the coaches to try to get the best

1139
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 3: out of these guys that they have here and try

1140
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 3: to coach them up because I watched the film and

1141
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 3: it's just little things. You and I were talking over

1142
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:31,800
Speaker 3: dinner and we talked about that last run by the

1143
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 3: forty nine ers to seal the game, and you said,

1144
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 3: what it was blocked just perfectly to perfect.

1145
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 5: You know, when you get on a whiteboard and you

1146
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 5: draw the lines, like, hey, you're blocking this linebacker and

1147
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 5: you put the little line to seal them off. I

1148
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 5: mean it was that. It was that in perfection. Just

1149
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 5: everything you drew up was perfect, And no play you

1150
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 5: ever drawn a white board turns out the way you

1151
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 5: draw it, and that one did.

1152
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1153
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 3: So I'm not asking for those guys to be the

1154
00:49:56,440 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 3: forty nine ers and execute that play that perfectly.

1155
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,720
Speaker 2: But if you are six.

1156
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 3: Something three hundred pounds and you just get to the

1157
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 3: right guy, good things are going to happen because you

1158
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 3: have running backs who can manipulate, run around and do

1159
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 3: all that good stuff. So I'm looking forward to see

1160
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 3: how the coaches prepare this offensive line. Because you have

1161
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,720
Speaker 3: who you have, there's not going to be a huge

1162
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:19,240
Speaker 3: trade at the trade deadline.

1163
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 2: And bring in three or four guys. This is who

1164
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 2: you have, so get the run game going.

1165
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 3: I also want to see something that we've been asking

1166
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 3: for and we've actually seen a bit more of it

1167
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 3: this year.

1168
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,400
Speaker 2: This is screen game. Get going. If you cannot protect

1169
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 2: your quarterback consistently, what do you do? You get the

1170
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 2: screen game going quickly?

1171
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,839
Speaker 3: All right, Hey, make sure you get out to Bellevue Collection, Dining,

1172
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:42,799
Speaker 3: dishc so many great restaurants to choose from.

1173
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:43,360
Speaker 2: Today.

1174
00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:46,640
Speaker 3: We had our pre show meal at Tavern Hall. I

1175
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 3: had the spicy Chicken pizza. Our producer had the spicy

1176
00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 3: chicken sandwich and b wald Hat Pepperoni pizza.

1177
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:57,399
Speaker 2: Pepperoni pizza he got.

1178
00:50:57,560 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 3: He stepped outside the box, you know, he tries something

1179
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 3: new and with Pepperoni pizza.

1180
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:01,800
Speaker 5: Do I regret it?

1181
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:02,080
Speaker 4: No?

1182
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 2: No? You okay?

1183
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:05,680
Speaker 3: All right, when we come back, we'll go inside the

1184
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,840
Speaker 3: film room. Man, We're gonna break down some plays and

1185
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:09,520
Speaker 3: that is next right here on Hawk's.

1186
00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:15,239
Speaker 1: Live, hawkss Live. I'm presented by the Dining District of

1187
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: a Bellevue Collection and Bellevue Square Center Court live on

1188
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:20,280
Speaker 1: air on Seattle Sports.

1189
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:24,480
Speaker 2: This is Hawks Live. I'm Michael bumpas this is my God.

1190
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 3: Brian Waltch's Man, presenting live from the Dining District at

1191
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 3: Bellvy Square. We are at Center Court every Thursday at

1192
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,839
Speaker 3: seven right here on Seattle Sports seven ten. It's time

1193
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 3: to go into the film room. This is what keeps

1194
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 3: me young and alive is watching film.

1195
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 2: All right.

1196
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 3: I know you people watch the game, but I can't

1197
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 3: wait till I get home and the all twenty two

1198
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 3: is up and I can get in coach mode and

1199
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 3: we're texted back and forth between the broad cast crew

1200
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 3: and trying to figure out what went right and what

1201
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:56,120
Speaker 3: we're wrong. So this first play, after a fumble, Laviska

1202
00:51:56,239 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 3: Chanolk gets another opportunity.

1203
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 2: He goes ninety seven yards and a kick return to

1204
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:00,720
Speaker 2: the house.

1205
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,359
Speaker 9: Niners lead twenty three to three. As right gets set

1206
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:07,920
Speaker 9: to kick it away from left to right, Leavisca Shanal

1207
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 9: de Williams the two deep men. This one's gonna come

1208
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 9: up short out to the three yard line. Is Leviska

1209
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:16,360
Speaker 9: Shehanal how to cross the twenty cuts back inside twenty

1210
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:17,720
Speaker 9: five thirty, breaks a tackle.

1211
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 5: He's on the run.

1212
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:23,080
Speaker 10: He could go forty thirty five being chased twenty fifteen

1213
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 10: to ten.

1214
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 5: Well let's get shit.

1215
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 10: All our hero of the game so far touch down,

1216
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 10: say Hawks, just exactly when the Seahawks needed something to happen,

1217
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:39,680
Speaker 10: some bit of good luck, Laviska Shenal.

1218
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:43,320
Speaker 8: Takes it almost one hundred yards for the touchdown.

1219
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 3: So if I remember correctly, they were down twenty three

1220
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 3: to three at this point. Laviscus Chanld had fumbled m

1221
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 3: Kate return prior to this, and the Niners score, and

1222
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:58,279
Speaker 3: you gotta make something happen, and this is how you

1223
00:52:58,520 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 3: do it.

1224
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 2: I'm sitting next to a kick return extraordinary, so you

1225
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 2: let me know what you see.

1226
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 5: B I think that's the best part is that he's

1227
00:53:05,880 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 5: coming off of fumble and then you just you just

1228
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 5: hope he can change the game somehow, and he comes

1229
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 5: in and does this returns it for a touchdown. This

1230
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,399
Speaker 5: is a straight middle return. It's easy. There's two double

1231
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 5: teams on the forty nine ers L five and the

1232
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 5: forty nine ers are four. So for anyone who doesn't

1233
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 5: know what that is, it's gonna be the middle guy

1234
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 5: on the left side of the field for the forty

1235
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 5: nine ers, the fifth guy in from the sideline, and

1236
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 5: then it'll be the fourth guy in on the right

1237
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 5: side of the field for the forty nine ers. So

1238
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 5: when you take it, there's still a guy an R

1239
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 5: five for the forty nine ers that is left unblocked

1240
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,919
Speaker 5: on this. So to me, this is probably a game

1241
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 5: plan thing. They see him and Chanault, they say, hey,

1242
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 5: we're gonna leave you one on one with this guy.

1243
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:49,959
Speaker 5: You have to make him miss. We're not gonna block

1244
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 5: him because if you double team two guys, you're gonna

1245
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:55,959
Speaker 5: be short someone. Right, you don't take into account the kicker,

1246
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 5: but you're gonna have another guy, so you're gonna be short.

1247
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:00,320
Speaker 5: You're gonna have to leave a guy unblocked. So I

1248
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 5: don't know if I've ever seen this bump. I don't

1249
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:04,360
Speaker 5: know if you've seen this. Uh, just a guy in

1250
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 5: the middle of field left unblocked on a middle return.

1251
00:54:06,920 --> 00:54:09,800
Speaker 5: But that's exactly what they did. And Chanolt put his

1252
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:11,920
Speaker 5: foot in the ground and made the guy miss. And

1253
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 5: then that's when everything else works. Because what I love

1254
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 5: to see here is after the initial point of attack

1255
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 5: by a lot of these blockers. Here you see Aj

1256
00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:23,839
Speaker 5: Barner and Drake Thomas, the perfect examples. After their initial block,

1257
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 5: they worked their way upfield and and and kind of

1258
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 5: pick up garbage is what I would say. You know,

1259
00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,360
Speaker 5: they're just kind of they're floating and picking up more garbage,

1260
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 5: and that's clearing the way for Chanolton chanol had one

1261
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 5: job well he made he made two good cuts. But

1262
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 5: then the third one was make the kicker miss. Returners

1263
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 5: can never get tackled by the kicker. That's like a

1264
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 5: cardinal rule them bears. You do not get tackled by

1265
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 5: the kicker. And he didn't, and he was off to

1266
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 5: the races with it. Really the play that got the

1267
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 5: Seahawks back in the game as a momentum changer.

1268
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 2: Man, I love this.

1269
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 3: This The mental toughness to come back after a fumble

1270
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:56,320
Speaker 3: is huge. And we talked to Mike Morris, who was

1271
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:59,280
Speaker 3: on this team, this uh special team's when that happened,

1272
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 3: and he said, look, we let Leviiska know we have

1273
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 3: his back and we believe in him, and he's gonna

1274
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 3: make a big play. And that's exactly what happens. This

1275
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 3: is textbook, man, middle return. You hit it up the gut,

1276
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:11,239
Speaker 3: you pass the first wave, second wave, and then you

1277
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 3: hit the sidelines. You get away from everybody. What I

1278
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 3: don't appreciate about this is that on the TV broadcast,

1279
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:18,479
Speaker 3: they showed my man.

1280
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 2: Leaviska throwing up on the sideline that list.

1281
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 3: I took a punt to the house in Arizona in

1282
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:26,720
Speaker 3: college for like seventy some yards and I was throwing

1283
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:29,200
Speaker 3: up too. Now, I mean, when you exert all that

1284
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 3: energy and you're so emotional, things happen.

1285
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 2: My guy went one hundred and two. I don't think

1286
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 2: he threw up though, And you know.

1287
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:37,719
Speaker 5: What that will. I was on the oxygen. But any

1288
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 5: time you could ever get on the oxygen, you got

1289
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 5: it because it means you did something.

1290
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 7: You know it did.

1291
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 5: But the thing that that happens the returners when they

1292
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,320
Speaker 5: have a play like this, they run more after the

1293
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 5: play than they do during the play. You know, he

1294
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:50,359
Speaker 5: runs one hundred and some yards whatever, but then after

1295
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:52,800
Speaker 5: the play you see him take off down the sideline celebrate.

1296
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:54,760
Speaker 5: You never catch your breast, so you're running two hundred

1297
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 5: yards and you don't stop. So the oxygen is it's

1298
00:55:58,800 --> 00:55:59,359
Speaker 5: tough to come back.

1299
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:01,839
Speaker 3: And he's hollering at the camera. We saw him yelling

1300
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 3: at the camera. He exerted a lot of energy, burned

1301
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,719
Speaker 3: like a thousand calories that one play, right this next

1302
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,799
Speaker 3: play Geno Smith, Oh my goodness, this one hurt my heart.

1303
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 2: He's looking for DK. Unfortunately the pass is intercepted.

1304
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 9: JSN shifts over to the left side til the locket

1305
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 9: is wide to the right. Geno from the shotgun four

1306
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:23,400
Speaker 9: man rushed by the Niners. Geno time stands.

1307
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 8: Droves intercepted, intercepted by Green inside the twenty down to

1308
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,720
Speaker 8: the fifteen. The second pick of the night for Geno

1309
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,759
Speaker 8: and he just underthrew that ball and it was undercut

1310
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 8: by the cornerback and man, oh man.

1311
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 5: Those kill you.

1312
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:43,279
Speaker 2: Those just hurt. Man, this one hurt.

1313
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 3: They had a chance to would go up or tie

1314
00:56:45,320 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 3: the ball game at this point, and this one hurt

1315
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 3: my soul and everyone else is sold in that stadium.

1316
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 5: What you see be well, we did hear from DK

1317
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 5: this week, and he came and owned it. He owned

1318
00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 5: the route, he owned everything. It's a tough one. I mean,

1319
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:06,279
Speaker 5: the plays there. The thing that's about this play, this

1320
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 5: is very receiver. We love to talk about this play

1321
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 5: because as a receiver, our main rules are one state

1322
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 5: quarterback friendly. Yep, like that would be kind of the

1323
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 5: main rule you have. And what that means is you're

1324
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 5: always kind of no matter what route you have, unless

1325
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 5: it's like a deep ball or a post or something,

1326
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 5: you're always kind of working your way back to the quarterback,

1327
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 5: and so you're kind of limiting the distance between the

1328
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 5: ball and you, so the defender can't undercut these things.

1329
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 5: And on this play, DK just has a fifteen ten

1330
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 5: to fifteen yard in route. It's a dig route to

1331
00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 5: put his foot in the ground and come quarterback friendly

1332
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:45,640
Speaker 5: straight across the field, maybe losing a yard, and Gino

1333
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 5: saw the initial angle that DK gave him. He put

1334
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 5: his foot in the ground and DK kind of just

1335
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 5: kept fading up field a little bit drift drifting up field.

1336
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 5: He saw green grass, is what he said. And the

1337
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 5: dB on the fort night was able to undercut it.

1338
00:58:01,120 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 5: And that's exactly why you stay quarterback friendly. So it's

1339
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 5: just a tough situation because they were going in, like

1340
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 5: you said, bump to tie it or take the lead.

1341
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 5: All the momentum was on the sea X side and

1342
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 5: you have a big interception like that. But good thing

1343
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:16,880
Speaker 5: that we've had ten days. We'll have ten days until

1344
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:18,640
Speaker 5: they get back on the field to clean these little

1345
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 5: things up and kind of attention to details.

1346
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 3: This is why you do exactly what you're told, nothing more,

1347
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 3: nothing less. If the QB is expecting you to flatten

1348
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 3: that thing out, go horizontal across the field, you do

1349
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 3: exactly that, even if there is green grass out there.

1350
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:37,280
Speaker 2: And I've been big up to the DK because he

1351
00:58:37,280 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 2: owned it.

1352
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 3: He said it was his fault, and big ups to

1353
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 3: Geno because he did not throw DK under the bus either.

1354
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 2: But yeah, you described it perfectly.

1355
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 3: When you when you start playing football, especially at the receiver,

1356
00:58:47,160 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 3: they tell you not to drift because you cause interceptions

1357
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 3: and you might get little by that safety who's lurking

1358
00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 3: back there. So unfortunate for DK and the Seahawks, but

1359
00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 3: that's the way that went.

1360
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 5: Down, all right. I was just gonna say it. In

1361
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 5: the receiver, when you don't have a quarterback's eyes, you

1362
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 5: never want to change your angle that you're on, too.

1363
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 5: That's kind of a big thing. If you have his eyes,

1364
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,600
Speaker 5: then maybe a scramble drills happening, you can change your angle.

1365
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 5: But when you don't have a QB's eyes, he's going

1366
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:14,280
Speaker 5: through his reads. He sees your initial angle you take,

1367
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 5: and he's assuming you're gonna stay on that angle until

1368
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 5: he gives you his and so that and that's exactly

1369
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:19,520
Speaker 5: what happened there.

1370
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 2: That's a great point, all right.

1371
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:23,600
Speaker 3: This last one, Isaac Grindo Ice is the game with

1372
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:26,200
Speaker 3: a seventy six yard run after the Seahawks have made.

1373
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:28,920
Speaker 2: It a one score game with one thirty nine remaining hurd.

1374
00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 9: He's gonna go under center in the backfield, single setback,

1375
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 9: getting the handoff.

1376
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 8: Straight ahead of no off to the races. Is Grindo

1377
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:43,400
Speaker 8: be chased? Can't he get caught? He is at the

1378
00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 8: five yard line. Witherspoon catches him. There's only a couple

1379
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:52,959
Speaker 8: of things you can't do in that situation, and that's

1380
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 8: give up a big play.

1381
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:58,920
Speaker 3: I hate to say this about the Niners, but man,

1382
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 3: this is beautiful. I mean, this is this is football

1383
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 3: right here. This is what offensive coordinators dream about. Your

1384
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 3: guys executing late in the game to seal it. McCaffrey's

1385
01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 3: not in the game, Mason's not in the game. We're

1386
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 3: down to your third stringer, and yet they're still able

1387
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:19,479
Speaker 3: to execute this zone beautifully. You got a double team

1388
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,960
Speaker 3: on the zero tag by your left guard. He combos

1389
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 3: up to the linebacker. Your right guard double teams which

1390
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 3: are tackled. Then he climbs up to the linebacker. You

1391
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 3: got your fullback who's lining up in the tight end spot.

1392
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,800
Speaker 3: He double teams and goes up to the nickel. Everything

1393
01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:35,360
Speaker 3: that needed to happen happen in this play.

1394
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't even want to talk about this play.

1395
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 5: I hate this. It was such a It was hurt.

1396
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 5: It hurt when this happened because we have so much

1397
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 5: hope you get down there. And the worst part about

1398
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 5: this is, you know, as a defense, you need three

1399
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 5: stops and they're going to run the ball three times yep.

1400
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:51,320
Speaker 5: So there's no question. This is just kind of you

1401
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 5: versus them. There's no trickery, there's nothing happening and happen,

1402
01:00:55,600 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 5: nothing fancy that they're going to run at you because

1403
01:00:57,720 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 5: they need to waste your time outs. This is just

1404
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:02,280
Speaker 5: just say, hey, we need to just stop him. And

1405
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 5: the forty nine ers, like you said, this is perfection

1406
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 5: by them. The way they executed these blocks. The running

1407
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 5: back didn't even get touched. He didn't get touched until

1408
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 5: Witherspoon tackled him. He went through, he touched his own guy.

1409
01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 5: But after that it was just there was a hat

1410
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 5: on a hat. Double teams worked up to second levels

1411
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:22,520
Speaker 5: they broke off. The only person that had a chance

1412
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 5: was Jenkins, who kind of took the wrong angle of

1413
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 5: eight yards down the field. So the game was gonna

1414
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 5: be over anyway because's probably gonna fall for us first down.

1415
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1416
01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 5: So it was just perfectly executed play by the forty

1417
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 5: nine ers at the most inopportune time.

1418
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:37,200
Speaker 3: Man, that was tough. But you know what, Zip, your

1419
01:01:37,280 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 3: cap forty nine ers are playing good football. They have

1420
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 3: the Chiefs this week. So hold for an l you

1421
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:43,480
Speaker 3: get a W boom. You're in first place all by

1422
01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 3: yourself in the NFC West.

1423
01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 5: All right.

1424
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:48,080
Speaker 2: When we come back, it's time to talk that talk.

1425
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 2: This is when b and I square off.

1426
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 3: We talk about some topics and he tells me I'm

1427
01:01:53,120 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 3: right and I tell him he's wrong.

1428
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:56,880
Speaker 2: That is next right here on Hawk's lot.

1429
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: It's time to talk that talk with Michael Bumpus and

1430
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 1: Paul Moyer on Hawks Live.

1431
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Hawk's Live of Michael Bumpus with Brian Walters.

1432
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:12,920
Speaker 2: Every Thursday.

1433
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:16,120
Speaker 3: We are live from Bealfy Sports in the Court and

1434
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 3: live on Seattle sports Man.

1435
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 2: So it's time to talk that talk.

1436
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 3: This is when we throw out a topic or two

1437
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 3: or three, maybe even four depending on the time.

1438
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:29,480
Speaker 2: And we debate them, why is it gonna happen? Why

1439
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 2: isn't it gonna happen? And yeah, we just go after it.

1440
01:02:32,160 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 3: So the first one we got here, Brian Walters, the

1441
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:39,880
Speaker 3: Seahawks will not excuse me, the Falcons will not run

1442
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 3: for more than one hundred and fifty yards on Sunday.

1443
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:46,520
Speaker 3: And now you got one eighty five by New England,

1444
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 3: you got one seventy five by was it the boys?

1445
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:51,000
Speaker 2: Last week?

1446
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 3: No, by the Giants, and then last week got over

1447
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,320
Speaker 3: one hundred yards I believe as well. So you know,

1448
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 3: they've shown that it's hard for them to stop to run.

1449
01:02:59,440 --> 01:02:59,919
Speaker 2: What do you said?

1450
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 5: You know what I don't like about this is usually

1451
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 5: one hundred yards to the mark. You know, usually we'd

1452
01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 5: ask this question, we'd say, you know, the Seahawks or

1453
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 5: the Falcons will not rush for more than one hundred

1454
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:11,320
Speaker 5: yards right Sunday. You know that's kind of the the

1455
01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:14,480
Speaker 5: the you know the mark you used. But now we're

1456
01:03:14,520 --> 01:03:16,320
Speaker 5: going one to fifty, so we're giving a little lead weight.

1457
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say that after this whole ten day break

1458
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 5: that they've had, not break, they've been practicing they've been working,

1459
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:24,800
Speaker 5: they've been getting in the film room, they've been making

1460
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:29,479
Speaker 5: little tweaks and changes. They have some guys healthy, Bira

1461
01:03:29,640 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 5: Murphy's back, they got the guy from Jacksonville in the trade.

1462
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:36,800
Speaker 5: I am gonna go with They are gonna hold them

1463
01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 5: to under one hundred fifty yards. I'm gonna I'm gonna

1464
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,920
Speaker 5: board this. And as good as those running backs are,

1465
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:46,160
Speaker 5: I just I see it as a breakthrough game.

1466
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 2: For the Seahawks.

1467
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Well, the Falcons are averaging one hundred

1468
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 3: and thirteen yards per game, so if they are to

1469
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 3: go for over one fifty, it will be a horrible

1470
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:03,480
Speaker 3: performance by everyone involved. And Mike McDonald talked about their

1471
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 3: waves of defense. Right, you got your defensive line, Yeah,

1472
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 3: you got your force, your secondary force and all that

1473
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 3: good stuff. Everybody is invited to this party. If they

1474
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:14,920
Speaker 3: go for a buck fifty, I would be concerned about

1475
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 3: the win this weekend.

1476
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:16,800
Speaker 7: So I'm with you.

1477
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:18,720
Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna go for buck fifty. They're

1478
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 3: averaging one thirteen.

1479
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 2: I'm sure they have a game or two out there

1480
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 2: where they were explosive. This is not gonna be that game.

1481
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 2: So I think we agree on this one.

1482
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 5: It's not going down, all right, all right, all right, bumba,

1483
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say here we go. The Seahawks will be

1484
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 5: turnover free.

1485
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 2: On Sunday, turnover free on Sunday.

1486
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:42,720
Speaker 5: And how about we add to this and will force

1487
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 5: a turnover.

1488
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 3: Okay, I like that double whammy. Turnover free. Gino threw

1489
01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:52,360
Speaker 3: two interceptions last game. He's averaging interception the game.

1490
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 2: Essentially. DK has fun with the ball twice. Laviska has

1491
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:57,400
Speaker 2: fun with the ball.

1492
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,800
Speaker 3: So I think just coming and I think they will

1493
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 3: be turnover free, and I think that they will force

1494
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:08,640
Speaker 3: a turnover. I believe Kirk Cousins has five interceptions on

1495
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 3: the season, and he's due. Kirk Cousins is gonna be

1496
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:14,439
Speaker 3: forced to throw the ball more than thirty to forty

1497
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:16,920
Speaker 3: times because we just talked about how they're gonna lock

1498
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 3: down the run. So there's gonna be opportunities out there

1499
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 3: for our safeties to get involved, for the corners to

1500
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:25,160
Speaker 3: get involved. So look, I'm on both of these, man.

1501
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 3: I'm two for two on this one. They will be

1502
01:05:27,960 --> 01:05:30,640
Speaker 3: turnover free and they will force a turnover.

1503
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:35,560
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go one for two on this one, all right.

1504
01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say I think there'll be a turnover. It happens,

1505
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 5: It happens. There's a lot going on. If you know

1506
01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:44,840
Speaker 5: you have ten to fifteen drives a game, I think

1507
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 5: the chances are there will be whether it's a tip

1508
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:49,880
Speaker 5: ball off the line of scrimmage that's you know, randomly

1509
01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:52,400
Speaker 5: picked off, or some guy makes a great play getting

1510
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:54,440
Speaker 5: his hand on the ball causes the fumble. I think

1511
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:58,160
Speaker 5: a turnovers could happen and will happen. So I'm gonna say,

1512
01:05:58,400 --> 01:05:59,640
Speaker 5: but one, I'm only going one.

1513
01:05:59,680 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 4: One.

1514
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 2: It's it.

1515
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 5: I'm not going two or three.

1516
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:01,920
Speaker 9: One.

1517
01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:02,760
Speaker 2: We can handle one.

1518
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:05,080
Speaker 5: We can handle one. But the big thing, if you

1519
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 5: turn the ball over once you got to you gotta

1520
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:11,479
Speaker 5: force two or three turnovers. You gotta win that turnover battle.

1521
01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 5: I mean, we're minus six right now in the turnover battle,

1522
01:06:14,440 --> 01:06:16,880
Speaker 5: and so it's pretty wild to me that we're still

1523
01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 5: three and three because those are unheard of numbers. But

1524
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 5: I think we'll get to Kirk Cousins. And I think

1525
01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 5: that after the ten days, the ten days off. I

1526
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:28,200
Speaker 5: keep going back to this ten days off because it's big.

1527
01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 5: It's a huge thing. I think it's a refresher. It's

1528
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:33,240
Speaker 5: like a little mini reset button, and I think the

1529
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:35,760
Speaker 5: emphasis will be on, you know, just getting to the

1530
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:38,400
Speaker 5: ball forcing turnovers. I like to see some of the

1531
01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:41,080
Speaker 5: big I think we saw week one Julian Love had

1532
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:43,480
Speaker 5: uh he kind of he punched the ball out on

1533
01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 5: the Denver. Yeah, they just recovered it, and they just

1534
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:48,080
Speaker 5: recovered it. We haven't seen that sense. We haven't seen

1535
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:51,920
Speaker 5: that kind of the ferocious like punches. Yeah, and that's

1536
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:53,400
Speaker 5: what it takes. And I want to see that. I

1537
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 5: want to see him swarming, and I want to see

1538
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 5: the second or third guy in uh, you know, big

1539
01:06:57,480 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 5: punches on the ball and just to get that lucky angle.

1540
01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 5: I mean, and that's what it is. A lot of

1541
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:02,760
Speaker 5: the ball security is still good in the NFL these days,

1542
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 5: but you get that lucky angle, there's nothing you can do.

1543
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 5: It's gonna come out. So we're gonna we're gonna force

1544
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:08,560
Speaker 5: two or three turnovers.

1545
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 2: Okay, yep, there we go.

1546
01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 3: Next one, the Seahawks will be once again all alone

1547
01:07:14,160 --> 01:07:16,080
Speaker 3: in first place come Monday.

1548
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:20,200
Speaker 5: This is easy. Seahawks are gonna win, forty nine Ers

1549
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 5: are gonna lose. They'll be in first place as simple

1550
01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:25,320
Speaker 5: as that. Forty nine Ers play the Chiefs so but yeah, no,

1551
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:27,320
Speaker 5: I can't go, but I'm gonna stick with it. Forty

1552
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:29,040
Speaker 5: nine ers are gonna lose to the Chiefs. I don't

1553
01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 5: think the forty nine ers are what they used to be.

1554
01:07:31,040 --> 01:07:31,360
Speaker 4: Uh huh.

1555
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:35,640
Speaker 5: And the Chiefs are are looking pretty pretty complete, I

1556
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 5: should say. And it's not even a question Seahawks are

1557
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 5: winning this week. This is a nice little bounce back

1558
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 5: game for him against another Bird opponent, and everything kind

1559
01:07:43,680 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 5: of lines up in the matchup, and I go to

1560
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 5: the defensive line. It's this is probably the weakest defensive

1561
01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 5: line that they have faced in the last three weeks.

1562
01:07:51,160 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 5: It is the weakest. So this is and that's been

1563
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:56,480
Speaker 5: an nemesis. So boom, win by the Seahawks, lost by

1564
01:07:56,480 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 5: the forty nine ers there in first place all alone.

1565
01:07:58,360 --> 01:08:02,560
Speaker 2: Okay, don't hate me. I think the Niners win this weekend, man,

1566
01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:03,320
Speaker 2: I do.

1567
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:05,959
Speaker 5: I just think they win in California talking.

1568
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:08,840
Speaker 2: No, that's just the Niners are playing better and better

1569
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:09,400
Speaker 2: every week.

1570
01:08:09,840 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 3: The Chiefs have really only played one former Bole opponent,

1571
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:15,000
Speaker 3: and that was what Week one or two against Baltimore.

1572
01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 3: I think the Niners are playing good football right now.

1573
01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:23,040
Speaker 3: And I think that Pat Mahomes isn't playing his best

1574
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:26,559
Speaker 3: football right now. He has six touchdowns, six interceptions. He's

1575
01:08:26,600 --> 01:08:29,360
Speaker 3: being carried by the run game in the defense right now,

1576
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:32,280
Speaker 3: Pat Mahomes is liable to go off though. He has

1577
01:08:32,360 --> 01:08:34,680
Speaker 3: a three hundred and fifty to four hundred yard game

1578
01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:36,479
Speaker 3: in him. But I'm just looking at the way the

1579
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:38,599
Speaker 3: Niners are playing right now. Man, I think they're gonna

1580
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 3: get them. And I think the Niners right home too.

1581
01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:44,320
Speaker 5: So isn't that scary though? That Pat Mahomes has not

1582
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 5: had a great season and.

1583
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:48,479
Speaker 2: They're still They're still undefeated. That's how complete that team is.

1584
01:08:48,640 --> 01:08:50,840
Speaker 2: He had Jujus Smith Schuster have went for what one

1585
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:52,280
Speaker 2: thirty last game.

1586
01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, they just find ways to win. But I think

1587
01:08:56,040 --> 01:08:59,360
Speaker 3: like there's teams on the ascend right now, right Baltimore.

1588
01:09:00,840 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 3: We'll see how Detroit bounces back from that deal. The

1589
01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:05,200
Speaker 3: Vikings have who are they playing?

1590
01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:07,960
Speaker 2: Green Bay? I think this week, Oh it's a good game.

1591
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:08,720
Speaker 2: I forget who it was.

1592
01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:12,639
Speaker 3: Vikings have a good game coming up this week, so yeah, man,

1593
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:16,160
Speaker 3: it's it's gonna be interesting. But unfortunately, I think the

1594
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 3: Niners are going to get her dead.

1595
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:22,879
Speaker 2: So all right, don't shoot me, all right? Vikings Lions. Actually,

1596
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 2: who do you think is that one?

1597
01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:26,040
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go Lions.

1598
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:26,519
Speaker 2: Lions.

1599
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 5: They can't stay undefeated, just like you just picked the

1600
01:09:29,120 --> 01:09:30,280
Speaker 5: Fort and Jeeves.

1601
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 3: The only reason why I'm picking the Vikings is because

1602
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:35,760
Speaker 3: I like when quarterbacks get thrown away and and that

1603
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:36,760
Speaker 3: team finds them.

1604
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:40,960
Speaker 2: It just makes them great. Like what's happening here in

1605
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:42,519
Speaker 2: Seattle with Gino, It's.

1606
01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:43,599
Speaker 5: About the system, not the player.

1607
01:09:43,680 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 2: There you go, there, we go.

1608
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:45,000
Speaker 5: All right.

1609
01:09:45,080 --> 01:09:47,080
Speaker 3: When we come back, we will give you our final

1610
01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 3: thoughts and keys the victory.

1611
01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:50,200
Speaker 2: That is next on Hawk's Lit.

1612
01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:56,600
Speaker 1: Hawks Live. I'm presented by that dining district of the

1613
01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 1: Bellevue Collection at Bellevue Square Center Court Live on it.

1614
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:01,519
Speaker 1: They are on Seattle Sports.

1615
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:05,759
Speaker 2: This is Hawks Live. I'm Michael Bumpus.

1616
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:08,960
Speaker 3: Well my guy Brian Walters, And for the thousands of

1617
01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:12,080
Speaker 3: you that hung out with us tonight, we appreciate you.

1618
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:14,880
Speaker 3: This is going down as the biggest crowd in live

1619
01:10:15,439 --> 01:10:19,320
Speaker 3: radio history. We broke records today, folks, and we would

1620
01:10:19,360 --> 01:10:21,519
Speaker 3: have done it without you. So I appreciate every one

1621
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 3: of you. Okay, even you guys in the back, you know,

1622
01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:24,880
Speaker 3: way back there.

1623
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 2: We appreciate you guys, all right, man final thoughts and

1624
01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:30,599
Speaker 2: keys to victory.

1625
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:34,559
Speaker 3: All Right, my final thought, it's not a must win game,

1626
01:10:34,640 --> 01:10:37,720
Speaker 3: but it's like a you probably need this win, you know,

1627
01:10:37,840 --> 01:10:40,960
Speaker 3: because I expected this team to win nine eight games

1628
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:44,760
Speaker 3: this season, possibly ten after the three h start, I'm thinking, hey,

1629
01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:46,479
Speaker 3: you know, man, you might go to New Orleans, but

1630
01:10:46,560 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 3: then reality hits and you still got some things that

1631
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:52,160
Speaker 3: you were trying to fix, some personnel that you're moving around.

1632
01:10:52,439 --> 01:10:54,600
Speaker 3: You got a draft well in twenty twenty five, and

1633
01:10:54,680 --> 01:11:00,160
Speaker 3: pick up some free agents. But they should not shit good.

1634
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 3: There's a high probability that they win this ball game

1635
01:11:04,640 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 3: if they correct some things. Yes, yeah, wow, brilliant.

1636
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:13,040
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be careful for careful, you know, because

1637
01:11:13,800 --> 01:11:15,680
Speaker 2: you know I said that they should beat the New

1638
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 2: York Football Giants and that didn't happen. Yeah, so don't

1639
01:11:18,160 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 2: take anybody for granted.

1640
01:11:19,400 --> 01:11:19,600
Speaker 3: I know.

1641
01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:22,880
Speaker 5: It's uh, you're right, it's not a must win game.

1642
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 5: Almost as a must win game, but it's not quite.

1643
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 5: But the thing you want to see is just you

1644
01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:30,639
Speaker 5: just need to see the little improvements you want to see,

1645
01:11:31,040 --> 01:11:32,680
Speaker 5: and because we've talked about you want to see the

1646
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:34,920
Speaker 5: route running by the receivers, get a little bit better.

1647
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:37,519
Speaker 5: You want to see, uh, the offensive line be able

1648
01:11:37,560 --> 01:11:40,320
Speaker 5: to create a nice, big pocket for Gino this week.

1649
01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:43,360
Speaker 5: The defensive line is the weakest one they've seen so far.

1650
01:11:43,479 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 5: So you want to see Geno. I want to see

1651
01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 5: Gino go off if he can have a pocket. I

1652
01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:49,720
Speaker 5: want to see what he can do without being under

1653
01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 5: duress every single play. You want to see the running

1654
01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:55,560
Speaker 5: game go off too, you know, I mean it's like,

1655
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't even know how to. You just

1656
01:11:58,000 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 5: want to see everything get better. But I think the

1657
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:01,920
Speaker 5: most important thing is you got to shut down their

1658
01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:06,040
Speaker 5: running backs. It's a if you can see them eliminating

1659
01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:08,240
Speaker 5: the big plays, because we've seen a lot of big

1660
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:10,559
Speaker 5: plays in the last three weeks and that's what's killed them.

1661
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:13,840
Speaker 5: It's those are such those are momentum killers. And so

1662
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 5: if you can you know, teams are gonna get first downs,

1663
01:12:16,920 --> 01:12:19,080
Speaker 5: teams are gonna run the ball, teams are gonna get

1664
01:12:19,120 --> 01:12:21,840
Speaker 5: little chunks on you. But it's the big, big explosive

1665
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:26,240
Speaker 5: play that flips field position, that changes momentum, that extends

1666
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:28,720
Speaker 5: the drives, that puts points on the board, and then

1667
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:32,440
Speaker 5: in the other way, looking back, it's the little turnovers

1668
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:35,600
Speaker 5: that takes points off the board or puts points on

1669
01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:38,439
Speaker 5: the board. So either way you look at it, you know,

1670
01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:40,439
Speaker 5: those are the little things you gotta fix. So and

1671
01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:43,160
Speaker 5: coach Mike McDonald, he said it after the last game

1672
01:12:43,200 --> 01:12:46,479
Speaker 5: of the press conference. It's about, you know, there's too

1673
01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:48,120
Speaker 5: many you know, there's a lot of there's a lot

1674
01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 5: of good things, but there's just there's too many highs

1675
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:52,840
Speaker 5: and lows. Yeah, and that's the you just gotta gotta

1676
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 5: The highs are great, but you gotta limit the lows.

1677
01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:59,040
Speaker 5: You really do. Those lows are really bad. And that's

1678
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:01,439
Speaker 5: I mean, that's says I mean, I can't even you

1679
01:13:01,520 --> 01:13:03,760
Speaker 5: can't sugarcoat that it is. The lows have been pretty bad.

1680
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:06,720
Speaker 5: One of my neighbors gave me a marriage advice. He's

1681
01:13:06,760 --> 01:13:10,519
Speaker 5: been married like thirty five years. He said, ride the

1682
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:13,639
Speaker 5: high weather the lows. I'll go, Yeah, that Seahawks right there.

1683
01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:16,800
Speaker 5: So that's my marriage advice for the Seahawks. Ride the

1684
01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:19,960
Speaker 5: highs and weather the lows. And then let's get.

1685
01:13:19,840 --> 01:13:25,120
Speaker 3: Back to this this enthusiastic, intense defense that we saw

1686
01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:27,920
Speaker 3: the first couple of weeks. Everyone's fresh, so I get

1687
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:30,000
Speaker 3: that right, and the body is fresh, the legs afresh,

1688
01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:32,920
Speaker 3: the mind is fresh, everything's new. So you're flying around

1689
01:13:32,920 --> 01:13:34,560
Speaker 3: and you're making plays, and then you get punched in

1690
01:13:34,560 --> 01:13:36,639
Speaker 3: them out a couple of times. Then you gotta decide

1691
01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:39,120
Speaker 3: if am I gonna keep walking forward? Am I gonna

1692
01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:41,799
Speaker 3: put up my guards? What's gonna be my plan of attack.

1693
01:13:41,960 --> 01:13:43,880
Speaker 3: It's time for these guys to start walking forward. I

1694
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:45,439
Speaker 3: think they put up their guards and maybe took a

1695
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:48,680
Speaker 3: couple steps back. It's time to move forward defensively and

1696
01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 3: get these linebackers flying around. I think that if your

1697
01:13:52,479 --> 01:13:55,439
Speaker 3: tacklers are not making the majority of the tackles, that's

1698
01:13:55,479 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 3: an issue.

1699
01:13:57,120 --> 01:13:58,599
Speaker 2: And those are the linebackers right now.

1700
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 3: You have Julian Law who's leading the team in tackles,

1701
01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:04,080
Speaker 3: and last year he led the team in tackles, and

1702
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:06,400
Speaker 3: I'm glad that he's a safety net for these guys.

1703
01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 2: But you want your lbs making those tackles. You pay

1704
01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:10,599
Speaker 2: those guys to make the tackle.

1705
01:14:10,640 --> 01:14:13,080
Speaker 3: So if they can get violent again and get downhill

1706
01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:16,600
Speaker 3: be efficient, I think they're gonna they're gonna have a

1707
01:14:16,720 --> 01:14:17,559
Speaker 3: chance to win this ball game.

1708
01:14:17,680 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 5: You know, people people discredit the first game of the

1709
01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:24,880
Speaker 5: year when they played the Broncos, and the Broncos tonight

1710
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:27,080
Speaker 5: ran for two hundred twenty five yards against the Saints. Yep,

1711
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:29,240
Speaker 5: all right, And everyone said when the Seahawks played on

1712
01:14:29,280 --> 01:14:30,880
Speaker 5: the Broncos, they're not a good team. They're not a

1713
01:14:30,920 --> 01:14:34,280
Speaker 5: good running team. They're just not good. And the Seahawks

1714
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:36,880
Speaker 5: held the Broncos to under one hundred yards rushing that game.

1715
01:14:37,200 --> 01:14:39,479
Speaker 5: So the defense can be dominant, and the Broncos have

1716
01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:41,800
Speaker 5: proven that they are. They are a decent team. They're

1717
01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:44,679
Speaker 5: four and three right now. They've came back and made

1718
01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:46,800
Speaker 5: a little run, So that's what you want to see.

1719
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:50,200
Speaker 5: But when we got done watching that Broncos game, we

1720
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:52,479
Speaker 5: saw exactly what we just talked about. It was it

1721
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:56,080
Speaker 5: was guys were kind of just fully committed to their assignments.

1722
01:14:56,120 --> 01:14:58,959
Speaker 5: They're fully committed to these gaps, and they were Everything

1723
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 5: that was happening was happening at the line of scrimmage

1724
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 5: or behind the line of scrimmage, and it wasn't happening

1725
01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 5: three or four yards, you know, in your territory in

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01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:10,120
Speaker 5: front of the line of scrimmage as a defense. So

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01:15:10,840 --> 01:15:13,080
Speaker 5: I think that's the big thing, is just playing on

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01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:14,920
Speaker 5: the other side of the line of scrimmage. We haven't

1729
01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 5: seen that. We haven't seen many big tackles for losses

1730
01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:21,200
Speaker 5: and those game changing plays that puts the other team

1731
01:15:21,240 --> 01:15:24,240
Speaker 5: behind the sticks. And when we talked about it, we

1732
01:15:24,320 --> 01:15:28,519
Speaker 5: talked about how they were such a cohesive unit and

1733
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:31,640
Speaker 5: guys were kind of flowing, flowing together. So if one

1734
01:15:31,680 --> 01:15:34,240
Speaker 5: guy took a shot fast Downhill took a shot, you

1735
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:35,800
Speaker 5: knew other guys were going to clean it up. If

1736
01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:38,240
Speaker 5: you missed it, you know, you knew your job was

1737
01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:40,040
Speaker 5: to take a shot on the guys outside or in

1738
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 5: this gap, and you're gonna either make the big play

1739
01:15:43,439 --> 01:15:45,280
Speaker 5: or you're gonna affect him and turn them back into

1740
01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:46,960
Speaker 5: where you have help. And that's what you want to see.

1741
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:49,400
Speaker 5: And they did it fast motion and weren't letting, they

1742
01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:52,000
Speaker 5: weren't getting stuck on these blocks, and it was just

1743
01:15:52,320 --> 01:15:54,880
Speaker 5: it was really really encouraging, and you just kind of

1744
01:15:54,880 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 5: getting back to that kind of football.

1745
01:15:56,439 --> 01:15:58,960
Speaker 2: And you got to protect Gino man. I mean, Gino

1746
01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:00,439
Speaker 2: is leading the league in.

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01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:03,840
Speaker 3: Passing yards, completions, attempts, he's eighth when it comes to

1748
01:16:03,920 --> 01:16:06,800
Speaker 3: completion percentage, and he's doing all of this while being

1749
01:16:06,880 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 3: the second most sacked quarterback in the game. So if

1750
01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:12,640
Speaker 3: you can protect him, imagine what life will be like

1751
01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:15,800
Speaker 3: with a clean pocket for Gino, with receivers running the

1752
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 3: precise routes and flattening things out when they're supposed to

1753
01:16:18,800 --> 01:16:20,880
Speaker 3: just doing what you're supposed to do. I don't think

1754
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 3: Geno is appreciated enough. On our show Bump and Stacy.

1755
01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:26,280
Speaker 3: Every day you should see the Geno hate that comes

1756
01:16:26,360 --> 01:16:28,599
Speaker 3: through and I go, what are you guys looking at? Yes,

1757
01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:30,760
Speaker 3: he had a bad game his last game through a

1758
01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:32,000
Speaker 3: couple interceptions.

1759
01:16:32,080 --> 01:16:33,960
Speaker 2: One was his fault. I believe the one in Tyler

1760
01:16:34,040 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 2: Lockett to open up the game.

1761
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:38,240
Speaker 3: But he's putting up these type of numbers and he's

1762
01:16:38,320 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 3: not being protected. You have to be able to protect

1763
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:44,479
Speaker 3: Geno against a team with five sacks. So if he

1764
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:47,639
Speaker 3: gets a clean pocket, I'm excited to see how these

1765
01:16:47,720 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 3: receivers can challenge their secondary.

1766
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:52,479
Speaker 5: Even on that interception to Tyler Lockett and the first

1767
01:16:52,560 --> 01:16:54,840
Speaker 5: drive of the game, Gino got hit by three forty

1768
01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 5: nine ers on that play right as you're released it.

1769
01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:58,439
Speaker 5: He got drilled it. Boso was one of them, and

1770
01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:00,840
Speaker 5: two other guys from the other side all got Geno.

1771
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 5: So even on that he's getting he's getting pressured. So

1772
01:17:05,040 --> 01:17:07,800
Speaker 5: I think Geno throws one of the best passes in

1773
01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:11,240
Speaker 5: the game, the way it comes off his fingers, the spiral,

1774
01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:14,920
Speaker 5: the precision. He's known to be. He's proven it for

1775
01:17:15,000 --> 01:17:17,200
Speaker 5: the last two years as a Seahawk, that he's been

1776
01:17:17,240 --> 01:17:20,200
Speaker 5: the starter, that he's one of the most accurate passers

1777
01:17:20,280 --> 01:17:22,679
Speaker 5: in the league. So if we can get him sitting

1778
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:25,320
Speaker 5: back there in a pocket where he can really break

1779
01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:28,479
Speaker 5: down make multiple reads, I don't think we've really seen that.

1780
01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:30,720
Speaker 5: He hasn't had enough time to sit back there and

1781
01:17:30,840 --> 01:17:33,160
Speaker 5: really go through a progression, and you know, he's had

1782
01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:36,320
Speaker 5: to go through one, you know, maybe won two reads,

1783
01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 5: and then everything's always broken down and he's had to

1784
01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:42,760
Speaker 5: he's had to scramble or do what he does best.

1785
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 5: He moves in the pocket so well, the way he

1786
01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:48,519
Speaker 5: buys extra time. He does it like nobody else in

1787
01:17:48,560 --> 01:17:52,560
Speaker 5: the National Football League. And so just the Falcons do

1788
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:55,360
Speaker 5: not have a good defensive line. Five sacks. If we

1789
01:17:55,439 --> 01:17:58,479
Speaker 5: can keep Geno off the ground, off the ground, no sacks,

1790
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:00,120
Speaker 5: maybe one sack, you might he might give a one

1791
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:02,800
Speaker 5: Sagie might leave one one on one battle. It's okay,

1792
01:18:03,439 --> 01:18:04,000
Speaker 5: one and a half.

1793
01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 9: Uh.

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01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:07,200
Speaker 5: If we can do that and have Gino just sit

1795
01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:10,200
Speaker 5: back there, and have one clean game. The confidence that

1796
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:12,599
Speaker 5: brings one to the offensive line, the confidence that also

1797
01:18:12,680 --> 01:18:14,880
Speaker 5: brings to Gino saying I'm not going to be getting

1798
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:17,240
Speaker 5: drilled every single time I throw the ball. We'll be

1799
01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:18,479
Speaker 5: huge for this team. Yeah.

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01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:22,400
Speaker 2: I also think that keep the d line fresh Byron

1801
01:18:22,479 --> 01:18:25,720
Speaker 2: Murphy is going to be back. I'm telling you, you.

1802
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 3: Go forty to fifty plays against a double team, you

1803
01:18:29,200 --> 01:18:31,000
Speaker 3: are going to be worn out by the time you

1804
01:18:31,120 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 3: reached the fourth quarter.

1805
01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:35,439
Speaker 2: You mentioned it earlier. That's what we're seeing. So Roy

1806
01:18:35,560 --> 01:18:38,200
Speaker 2: Robertson Harris, welcome to the team. Welcome to the club.

1807
01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:40,599
Speaker 2: Byron Murphy, welcome back.

1808
01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:44,000
Speaker 3: Let's get healthy and keep that rotation fresh man and

1809
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:47,280
Speaker 3: uh and just get after that dang quarterback.

1810
01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:51,160
Speaker 2: Keep the linebackers clean, and we should.

1811
01:18:50,920 --> 01:18:56,240
Speaker 5: Be okay, we have this three and oh whenever he's

1812
01:18:56,280 --> 01:18:58,080
Speaker 5: visiting that lineup three and oh.

1813
01:18:58,000 --> 01:18:59,120
Speaker 2: All right, there we go that one.

1814
01:18:59,240 --> 01:18:59,640
Speaker 5: You heard it.

1815
01:18:59,840 --> 01:19:03,559
Speaker 2: Now, that's a stat right there. That's a stat ay.

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01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:07,000
Speaker 3: Special thing to Mike Morris Neiami Pritchett for joining the show.

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