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Speaker 1: the huddle as we will be every single Thursday from

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Speaker 1: coming for you this season. Today we'll be catching up

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Speaker 1: with John Boyle of Seahawks dot Com, Andy Bunker our

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Speaker 1: after that, then Steve Rabel, we'll hear from Dan Quinn,

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Speaker 1: and then our Seahawk guest today will be Quandre Diggs.

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Speaker 1: That will be at one thirty uh so, and then

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Speaker 1: of greatness. Here to have Dave Wyman with us. Dave,

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Speaker 1: we've been talking a ton about the season expectations, whether

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Speaker 1: What have you guys been talking about on your show

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Speaker 1: regarding those issues. Well, I'll tell you what. We're no

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Speaker 1: longer talking about Jadavian Clowney. So that's a huge relief

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Speaker 1: and we can put it for you our focus. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: do have. But yeah, I mean we did our predictions

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Speaker 1: man up there a flowery branch with the Falcons says,

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Speaker 1: Todd Gurley looks great, that he looks healthy, and they

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Speaker 1: expect him to be the number one running back in

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Speaker 1: a big part of the offense. That said, I mean,

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Speaker 1: if he was, if he was that same Todd Gurley

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Speaker 1: that was nearly the MVP a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: he would still be in Los Angeles. So it's really

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Speaker 1: it's really hard to know what to expect from a

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Speaker 1: guy who was was let go by if he's twenty

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Speaker 1: five years old, and we're talking about a guy who's

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Speaker 1: twenty five years old and the Rams moved on from

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Speaker 1: him last offseason. So you know, if Todd Gurley is

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Speaker 1: anything close to what he was in Los Angeles a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, I think the Falcons offense can

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Speaker 1: be dynamic. If he looks a lot like what DeVante

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Speaker 1: Freeman looked like the last couple of years, then the

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Speaker 1: Falcons offense is probably one dimensional and um probably pretty

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Speaker 1: easy to stop. Andy. One player that I think people

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Speaker 1: forget about because of the injuries that he has had

446
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Speaker 1: is Key O'Neil. He is such an X factor for

447
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Speaker 1: this team and what is it going to be like

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Speaker 1: for this group to have him back? Huge? I think

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Speaker 1: for me, Kean o neil's health is the single most

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Speaker 1: valuable part of the Falcons defense this season, if he's

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Speaker 1: able to stay healthy, because like you mentioned, and he's

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Speaker 1: missed almost all of the last two years. In twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: the last year that he played a full slate of games,

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Speaker 1: the Falcons were a top ten defense. And you know

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Speaker 1: Seahawks fans know Dan Quinn's background is in defense. He

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Speaker 1: came from coordinating the Seahawks to back to back Super Bowls.

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Speaker 1: He wants the identity of this Falcons team to be

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Speaker 1: similar to what the identity if that seff what those

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Speaker 1: Seahawks teams were. And Keanuneil is very much supposed to

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Speaker 1: be the Cam Chancellor of this defense. And you don't

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Speaker 1: have to tell I don't have to tell you guys

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Speaker 1: what that defense looked like when Cam Chancellor was not

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Speaker 1: in it, when he was supposed to be um. And

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Speaker 1: that's been that's been the deal for the Falcons defense

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years. So if he can be

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Speaker 1: back there and he can be that enforcer and and

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Speaker 1: he can lay those big hicks over the middle and

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Speaker 1: he could create the fumbles that he created, I think

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Speaker 1: his defense could get back to being really good. But again,

470
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Speaker 1: like you guys are basically like boiling down our last

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Speaker 1: three months of topics of Okay, Falcons can be good

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Speaker 1: if this happens. The Falcons might be good if this happens,

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Speaker 1: and it's all such an unknown. There's so many unknowns

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Speaker 1: of this football. Talking to Andy Bunker on ninety two

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Speaker 1: point nine the game in Atlanta. Are you surprised that

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Speaker 1: Davante Freeman hasn't been picked up at all? I know,

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Speaker 1: maybe he wanted some more money than the Seahawks are

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Speaker 1: willing to give him. But are people just afraid of

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Speaker 1: his health? What's going on there? Yeah? I mean I

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Speaker 1: think you look at what he was last year. Um,

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Speaker 1: he was a he was a older running back coming

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Speaker 1: off of a growing surgery, and he wasn't very he

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Speaker 1: wasn't very dynamic. I mean, he was the guy who's

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Speaker 1: undersized running back anyway, who ran really tough, and you

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Speaker 1: know when guys play like that, it's it's a very

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Speaker 1: quick drop off, and it looks like the drop off

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Speaker 1: happened for him. The other side of it is the money,

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Speaker 1: Like you mentioned Tom, Like you know, it just doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem like he's getting good advice. It seems like whoever

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Speaker 1: is advising Davante his representative. He switched representation at at

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Speaker 1: midway through this offseason, but he seems to value himself

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Speaker 1: still as a top flight running back in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and clearly he's not that. So, I mean, good for

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Speaker 1: him for value in himself highly, but I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's going to find himself on a team

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Speaker 1: until they come down off whatever number it is that

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Speaker 1: they're asking for. But the reality is he's just not

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Speaker 1: the same guy. And he wasn't the same guy last year.

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Speaker 1: The year before that he was injured. He hadn't been

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Speaker 1: the same you know, dual threat, catch the ball out

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Speaker 1: of the backfield, home run hitting type running back since

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, and you know that's a long time ago

503
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 1: in football years. Passing game remains a strength of this team.

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00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: Obviously led the league and attempts last year per game.

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Speaker 1: I'm not asking this for fantasy purposes. This is not

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Speaker 1: self serving, Andy, but I'm just wondering, you know, from

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Speaker 1: your expert opinion, how has Matt Ryan looked great? I mean,

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. God to know is to be counted on, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the things you know that the Knocks

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Speaker 1: team is Matt Ryan's going to be good for somewhere

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Speaker 1: between forty two and forty seven hundred yards. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if if it's healthy and they blocked better for him,

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Speaker 1: it could be better than that. Julia Jones is going

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Speaker 1: to be really good, and they're going to be able

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Speaker 1: to throw the ball down the field. One of the

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Speaker 1: reasons why they had to throw it so much last year, though,

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Speaker 1: is because they were behind a lot and the running

518
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 1: game wasn't very good. So if Todd Gurley can be

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Speaker 1: what we talked about earlier, that helps Matt Ryan out

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Speaker 1: a lot. The other thing about it it's going to

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Speaker 1: help Matt Ryan out a lot, is if the offensive

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Speaker 1: line is anywhere near back to what it was a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. And the Falcons offensive line has

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Speaker 1: been just a revolving door of bodies since the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl season in twenty sixteen. Kaylen McGary's and Washington is

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Speaker 1: out there on the right side at right tackle and

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Speaker 1: first round draft pick. Last year, I traded up to

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Speaker 1: get him, and McGary gave up the most sacks of

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Speaker 1: any tackle in the NFL, so he's got to be better.

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Speaker 1: They also took a first round draft pick on Chris

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Speaker 1: Lindstrom right garden out of Boston College, and he missed

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Speaker 1: half the season last year with an injury, so he's

533
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Speaker 1: got to stay healthy and he's got to be better.

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00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan both got sacked forty eight

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Speaker 1: times last year. I think Seahawks fans at Falcons fans

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Speaker 1: both hope those numbers or that number is a lot

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Speaker 1: lower this season. Hey, Andy, really quick, how's hayden Hurst look?

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Speaker 1: He's one of those tight ends that was pretty productive

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Speaker 1: for Baltimore and got him in a trade. How's how's

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Speaker 1: he looking so far? Yeah, he's a guy that people

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00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 1: are really excited about. I mean, obviously, Austin Hooper leaving

542
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:07,440
Speaker 1: got a big payday in Cleveland. Falcons couldn't afford him,

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Speaker 1: and you know, hayden Hurst kind of I don't know

544
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: if he's fell a lot of favor, but he just

545
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: kind of felt down the depth chart in Baltimore and

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00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 1: he was the first round draft pick a couple of

547
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: years ago. And everything you hear from Dan Quinn and

548
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: the offensive staff is that hayden Hurst could be just

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00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: as valuable, if not more valuable than Austin as he

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00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: care in this offense. Big guy, fast guy, Matt Ryan

551
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 1: loves going too tight ends. So I think he's a

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Speaker 1: guy that if you're talking about sleepers on this Falcons offense,

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Speaker 1: I think hayden Hurst is probably number one on that list. Bunker,

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Speaker 1: we love you, brother, Thanks so much for coming on

555
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: don't be a stranger. Hey, that's up to you. Guys.

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00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 1: Just call me anytime. Okay, we will, And likewise you

557
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: can call us too, anyone of us. Stacy'd be glad

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00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: to come on anytime. All right, Coming up next another

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Speaker 1: friend of the show, Ray Roberts, will be joining us

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Speaker 1: in the trenches with Ray Roberts. That's next on the Huddle.

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Speaker 1: This is the Huddle every Thursday from noon to two

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Speaker 1: on seven ten ESPN, Seattle. I have a feeling like

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00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: this is gonna be our liveliest segment every single Thursday

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Speaker 1: on the Huddle. Just a prediction. We're going in the

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Speaker 1: trenches with Ray Roberts, and it's great to have you

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Speaker 1: a bore with us. Ray. How you doing. I'm doing good,

567
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 1: but man, good to hear your voice again. Likewise, it's

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Speaker 1: good to hear from you. Ray. Hey, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: ahead and get started. There are three new faces, one

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Speaker 1: veteran but in a new role on this offensive line.

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Speaker 1: Guard Damian Lewis starting on the right side, and then

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Speaker 1: you've got Brandon Shell at right tackle and obviously Ethan

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Speaker 1: Postic at center. How's the group look to you? Overall?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm not gonna lie. I've I've been

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Speaker 1: wondering how it's gonna look when the season starts. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's really hard, uh to really jail as

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Speaker 1: an offensive line and and to really like craft your

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Speaker 1: your skill as an offensive lineman when you can't finish blocks.

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Speaker 1: So like the first two or three steps in practice

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00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 1: and stuff, you can you kind of go live and

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Speaker 1: you get into the block, but you don't really get

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Speaker 1: you're not really working to take a guy to the ground.

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Speaker 1: And that's a really that's a really important part of

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Speaker 1: the process. So from what I've seen in you know,

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Speaker 1: in the in the two practices roughly that I that

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Speaker 1: I saw and then some of the stuff I've seen

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Speaker 1: just on the on the some of the live streaming,

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Speaker 1: UM is that I really liked the three pieces that

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00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,680
Speaker 1: are added to the offensive line. I think postage to

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Speaker 1: me um, I think one of his one of the

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Speaker 1: biggest problems with him is that his the seals like

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Speaker 1: guys that are flexible, that can do different jobs, different

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Speaker 1: jobs and different positions, and that doesn't always bode well

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Speaker 1: for someone who's trying to master a particular position. And

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Speaker 1: so I think by putting him in as center, letting

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Speaker 1: him play center the entire camp, given him all the

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Speaker 1: you know, the first team reps there, really allowed him

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Speaker 1: to kind of settle into what he's good at and

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Speaker 1: what he was good at in college, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's the position he played the most in college. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then I think that he has finally kind of

602
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Speaker 1: embraced the um the phone booth fight type player that

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00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: they like to have on the offensive line. He's always

604
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: been like a really good technician, kind of a dude,

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Speaker 1: but he didn't quite have all that kind of power

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00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: and and uh, the ability to kind of sustain blocks

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00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: against the bigger, bigger defenders, you know, by himself. So

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Speaker 1: I've been really impressed with his progress and uh and

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Speaker 1: his ability to stay healthy through camp because he had

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00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: the you know, injuries have also been a part of

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Speaker 1: his of his uh lack of development. And then with

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Speaker 1: the other two guys, with Damien Lewis um Man, he

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Speaker 1: just it's like a like a smaller, more athletic version

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Speaker 1: of of DJ Fluker to me, like they just he

615
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: seems like he could beat DJ Fluker's little brother, but

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00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: he's he's a little bit more skilled in his technique.

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00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: He has a little bit better lateral movement and the

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00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: ability to to um uh respond to countermoves and things

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Speaker 1: like that. And the thing I really like about him

620
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: is that he blocks until the whistle blows, like he

621
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: is really trying to drive someone's back into the dirt

622
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: and uh and that that is a really good thing

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Speaker 1: and uh and not that not to put him on

624
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Speaker 1: a huge pedal stool, but it reminds me a lot

625
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: of Kevin Mawhy when Kevin came in as a rookie,

626
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: uh with the Seahawks and they and he from the

627
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: first day he was running with the first team and

628
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: he was trying to finish every single block and every

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Speaker 1: single game and every single practice. Uh. They just just

630
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: their mentality that way. It's similar. And then with Shell

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Speaker 1: that the right the right tackle spot, um man, he

632
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Speaker 1: just like I remember Pete when they first got him.

633
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Speaker 1: Pete said that he kind of kind of one of

634
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Speaker 1: those first dudes off the bus type dudes. And he

635
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: is all every bit of that. And I can't say

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Speaker 1: that anything he does is spectacular, but what but what

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Speaker 1: he does is is something that you can just kind

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Speaker 1: of count on, Like he's a dependable player. I don't

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Speaker 1: see him making a bunch of mistakes. I don't see

640
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Speaker 1: him having a whole bunch of penalties. For all the

641
00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: raw power and things that Affetti had, he could not

642
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Speaker 1: control that part of his game. And I think Shell

643
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: does a better job at controlling that, even though he

644
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: may not be as just powerful as them. So I

645
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: think at the end of the day, Uh, it may

646
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:45,959
Speaker 1: not look like it in the first two or three games,

647
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: because I think they're going to have some inconsistency just

648
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Speaker 1: because of the lack of live reps. But I think,

649
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: you know, Pete Break says, season down into four quarters.

650
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: I think probably halfway through that second quarter of the

651
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: season that you'll start to see them really kind of

652
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: you know, I'm into like really jail and be able

653
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: to trust each other and have that kind of confidence

654
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: with each other as an offensive line. Big dog. I

655
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: love the phone booth reference. And for all of you

656
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: younger people, a phone booth is a four by four

657
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: foot glass encasement of a payphone. It used to be

658
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: said that when you send two guys in, only one

659
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: guy comes out. And and since you brought that up though, right,

660
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Speaker 1: explain how much I always had trouble with the offensive

661
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: linemen that were kind of nasty and that you know,

662
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: always kind of a push at the end and you

663
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,879
Speaker 1: know of the play and just you know, they'd kind

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Speaker 1: of get you out of your game. And I know

665
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: you were that kind of guy, having fought the entire

666
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,439
Speaker 1: defense of the Oakland Raiders back in the day. But

667
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: what tell me how much that means? How much that

668
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: means to a guy? Because I kind of see that

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00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: same thing in Damian Lewis too, and something might kind

670
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: of like to see a little bit more out of

671
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 1: like posic. Yeah to me. You know how they say,

672
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: like the phrase like you know, winning can be the

673
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: bend aid to a lot of problems. Uh, nastiness can

674
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: be the bend aid to a to a lot of

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00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 1: shortcomings as an offensive lineman. And so uh so if

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00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: you have the skill and the talent and less uh

677
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: shortcomings and the nastiness, then I think you're just elevated

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00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 1: to a whole other level. When I you know, when

679
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 1: we coach together, Dave at uh at uh late Washington. Uh,

680
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: you know, with our offensive line, our tagline was low, hard,

681
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 1: Maine and nasty and the more nasty you can be,

682
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: the better. And so I could have picked out those

683
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: other things that you know kind of speak to, like

684
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Speaker 1: your your skill set or your your athleticism or whatever.

685
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 1: But nasting this is just something you can't teach. Either

686
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,240
Speaker 1: have it or you don't have it. And uh and

687
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: and Damien has it, and I think that that that

688
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 1: gives him an opportunity with his skill set to be

689
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: even better. And so it's it's almost like um uh.

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Speaker 1: When I think about the mass in this part, I

691
00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: think about Plinius Wood when he said get off my lawn,

692
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 1: because I'm looking at you as a defender, thinking like

693
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: you're on my grass and I'm going to get you

694
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: off my grass and I'm going to own my grass

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00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: all day long. And in order for me to do that,

696
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 1: I can't just be technically sound. You know, play end

697
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: and I walk back to the huddle. I need to

698
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: let you know that you are trespassing every single time,

699
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: and the way in the way you do that is

700
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: just being super nasty. And sometimes that means been a

701
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: jerk or you know, another word you can use, but

702
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: that's just part of it. Ray. One aspect that I'm

703
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: really curious about it and I'd love to get your

704
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: expertise on this is how is this lack of a

705
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: preseason going to affect the offensive line group. I feel

706
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: like it's going to affect this group maybe more than

707
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: others could, just because it's such a group that has

708
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 1: to work well together. There's such a chemistry that is

709
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: involved with picking up stunts and blitzes and things of

710
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 1: that nature. How do you feel like the Seahawks in

711
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: particular are going to handle this. Do you think we're

712
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,719
Speaker 1: gonna see some glaring weaknesses or maybe some rust from

713
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: the lack of opportunities to really get scrimmage, real game

714
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: rep opportunities. Yeah, that's a that's a great question, Jake,

715
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,959
Speaker 1: because even in the best of times, with the way

716
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:26,480
Speaker 1: that they do OTAs with no contact and things like that,

717
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: that also has really impacted like the development of a

718
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 1: lot of offensive lines and offensive line men because you

719
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: just can't you just can't have hat days and develop,

720
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: you know, those types of things as an offensive line.

721
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: You can't just practice in shells and shorts and really

722
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: get those things. And so with everything that's going on

723
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 1: now with the lack of OTAs and not being able

724
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 1: to play in the preseason and having these kind of

725
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: controlled practices because you don't want to get guys hurt

726
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: and you have all these new pieces. I really think

727
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: that it's gonna That's why I think it's going to

728
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,800
Speaker 1: be maybe into that second quarter of the season before

729
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: you really start to see them come into shape. Because, um,

730
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: you know, when I when I played left tackle, it

731
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: was when I went to Detroit and I played beside

732
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 1: this guy named Mike Compton, and so individually we were both,

733
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: you know, really good players, but together it took us

734
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: a while to like really understand. Like I had to

735
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: understand what his friends and weaknesses are. He had to

736
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Speaker 1: understand what my strength and weaknesses are. I had to

737
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 1: know that if I if I gave him the signal

738
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Speaker 1: that I needed him to be sitting on my inside hip,

739
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: that he's going to sit on my inside hip like

740
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: I need I needed to earn. I needed to be

741
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: able to trust that if if he said he was

742
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: going to be there, that he's gonna be there. And

743
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: then the same with him, if he was setting a

744
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: double team, he had to know that I'm coming I'm

745
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,399
Speaker 1: coming in on that double team because he's leaving half

746
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,359
Speaker 1: of the dude's body exposed that he can maybe slip

747
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,400
Speaker 1: off and split the double team. So it takes a

748
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 1: little bit of time to kind of uh to Jael

749
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: that the one thing I think that works in the

750
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: Seahawks favor uh minus probably you know the rookie is that,

751
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,720
Speaker 1: uh is that the pieces that they brought in are

752
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: guys that have played so Shell has played posted and

753
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: so that will then help kind of quicken the the

754
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: ability to earn that trust, you know, with the rookie

755
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, because you have guys that I

756
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: played the sounds. That was the one thing I liked about, Like,

757
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 1: I know that I think one of the comments you

758
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 1: had made, I think it was a tackle that was

759
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: buy him that was a free agent that was a

760
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: much better player I was. Yeah, so we passed on

761
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: him to bring in all these different pieces, um. And

762
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: the thing I like about the pieces they brought in

763
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 1: is that they brought in experienced dudes. So it wasn't

764
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: like they were bringing in a whole bunch of rookies

765
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: and they were trying to get this thing going. They've

766
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: They've brought in guys. Some of them were high trafficks,

767
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: you know, and uh and but all of them had

768
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: played a lot of games, and so I think that

769
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,320
Speaker 1: that helps with that whole developing chemistry and trust and stuff,

770
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:57,840
Speaker 1: but now a couple with all the other pandemic stuff.

771
00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: I think it's going to take a few games into

772
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: the season and for you to start to see that

773
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: all come together. Ray, ten minutes is not long enough

774
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: with you, But our next conversation we'll have to wait

775
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: until next week. We appreciate you coming on, Hey man,

776
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: I enjoy coming on, and just know that you know

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00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear words, you know, like snot bubbles and

778
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: stuff like that, like that's kind of old lime kind

779
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: of talk. And we'll I'll explain to you guys what

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00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,439
Speaker 1: the snot bubbles are, uh, the next time we talk.

781
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 1: But uh, but you know, we're gonna try to have

782
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: fun with it and I'm gonna bring you everything I got. Thanks, Ray.

783
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: Appreciate you. If Ray wants to explain what snot bubbles are,

784
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: that's fine. I just don't want him to have to

785
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: give me any snot bubbles. You know, when he knocks

786
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: me over anything that's correct, that's the last thing you want,

787
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 1: right all right. Steve Rabel is the next guest here

788
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: on the huddle, and then Dan Quinn after that. We're

789
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: not gonna talk to him. We'll hear from him Quandre

790
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: Digs at one thirty and then Freddie Swain after that.

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Speaker 1: Huddle's next seven ten ESPN Seattle, and we continue our

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Speaker 1: journey today, and we are joined by the voice of

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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks, Steve Rabel. Great to be joined by

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Speaker 1: Steve Rabel today. How are you, sir? I'm great, kids,

795
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: How are you? We're good. We're good. Obviously excited being

796
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: that it's game week. It feels like it's been forever

797
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: since they've been this excited about any game, but here

798
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 1: we are. This game in particular is exciting because I

799
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: think our show, along with others, have been hoping we

800
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 1: see even more opportunities for Russell Wilson this week, especially

801
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: he's facing a secondary that wasn't that great last year.

802
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: Are you expecting to see pretty early what that connection

803
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: between Russell Wilson and dk looks like this year? Well,

804
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: I mean, anytime you think you're going to go in

805
00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: and especially if the sense is well, let's kind of

806
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: force the ball to DKA, because we know we need

807
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: to get passes to him early and often you can

808
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: pretty quickly get into trouble that way. If you're the quarterback,

809
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: the game has to come to you. You have to

810
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 1: know what dan Quinn wants to do to you on defense,

811
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 1: and that's what Russell does really well is read what's

812
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,959
Speaker 1: happening out there, so they'll have plays in for deca.

813
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, they'll send him down the sidelines,

814
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: they'll send him on flag routes and deep crossers over

815
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 1: the middle. But when you have another target like Greg

816
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 1: Olsen in there, when you've got Tyler Lockett, David Moore's

817
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: playing pretty well, you've got some guy and the speed

818
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,399
Speaker 1: that the Dorset has, You've got guys that can catch

819
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: the football, so you don't have to force it anywhere.

820
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: What you do is come out and you read. And

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Speaker 1: as you mentioned states the Falcon's secondary not the best

822
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: in the league a year ago. Interesting kind of defensive philosophy.

823
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: Now they're going to go with three, sayfties and no

824
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 1: real middle linebacker and then two outside backers along with

825
00:43:04,520 --> 00:43:07,360
Speaker 1: their cornerbacks, so you know, they get a lot of

826
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Speaker 1: passing in their division in the NFC South. That's what

827
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 1: they figure they need to do. So I think, first

828
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: and foremost, I think we come out and run the

829
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: football truly and I know everybody keeps talking about let

830
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: let Russell go crazy in the first quarter. You know,

831
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:26,160
Speaker 1: we'll throw the football, but you've got to establish Chris Carson.

832
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:30,240
Speaker 1: That's just the nature of this Beast. Well, Carlos Heicher

833
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 1: has looked good, Steve and you and I are out

834
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: there for the mock game. It seems like when they

835
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: first signed him, I thought, well, they're they're saying we're

836
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: not going to run out of running backs this year

837
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: like they did last year. But really, I mean I

838
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: was just looking at him as depth. But he sure

839
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 1: has looked good. I think that's that's really good news

840
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: for Chris Carson. And I'm not sure what you think

841
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: the split's going to be between him and Carlos Hide,

842
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 1: but it'll give Chris Carson a pretty good chance to

843
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: to sort of, you know, take some plays off and

844
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: take a little bit of breather because he's had had

845
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:07,280
Speaker 1: health problems, had problems staying healthy the last few years. Yeah,

846
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: without question, David. And the biggest thing is they want

847
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 1: to keep him, you know, on the field. Twelve hundred

848
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: yard rusher a year ago, uh, and then hurt at

849
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,320
Speaker 1: the end of the season and along with Penny's injury.

850
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: I mean, it really cascaded as far as the season went.

851
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: And still we go to the you know, divisional round

852
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,319
Speaker 1: of the playoffs and what losing Green Bay by five

853
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 1: on a snowy, frigid day to the Packers and had

854
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 1: a chance to move on from there. Um, So I

855
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think I think Carlos Hyde was

856
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: brought in for the depth. But you know what, and

857
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned this to you when we were

858
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,320
Speaker 1: standing out there on the on the berm watching practice

859
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: or at the mock game down at the stadium. Carlos Hyde,

860
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 1: You're right, has looked good and I loved him when

861
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: he was a forty nine er. I mean I just

862
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 1: thought he was really effective for the Niners, coming out

863
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:57,319
Speaker 1: of the backfield, a hard runner, he's he's, you know,

864
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 1: bigger than he than he looks, he plays bigger than

865
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 1: he books. And then he goes for over one thousand

866
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: against Houston last year. I mean, this guy is tough,

867
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:06,399
Speaker 1: So yeah, get him in the game if they had

868
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: a seventy thirty split or maybe even a sixty forty

869
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: split to get those guys on the field for the

870
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,880
Speaker 1: first one especially and remember Chris was absent for a

871
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,240
Speaker 1: part of training camp because of death in the family

872
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: that he had to go back to Atlanta for. So

873
00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:23,120
Speaker 1: it's been a tough period of time for Carson. And

874
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: if you can go without having to play him, you know,

875
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: forty five plays on offense or something, I do that.

876
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: And Carlos is also a good receiver out of the backfield,

877
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: as Chris has become, and as we now know, Homer

878
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 1: is and Dallas is. So they've got a lot of

879
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of weapons they can choose from

880
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Do now, Rabel, what is the one aspect

881
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 1: of this game that you are nervous about, something that

882
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: just gives you a little bit of nervousness. Maybe it's

883
00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:02,320
Speaker 1: the unknowns. What is that one thing in your mind? Well,

884
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 1: you know, Pete and John went out and they certainly

885
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: improved the secondary. I mean there's no question about that.

886
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: Not that you know the guys were didn't play well

887
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: last year. At times they did, but Jamal Adams as

888
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: a special player, and Pete and John both really like

889
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: Quentin Dunbar and what he brings to the dance. And

890
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,360
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers is a better player digs. We know about

891
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: and Shaq Griffin we know about so they improved the

892
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: back end. How much are we improved up front? How

893
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: much pressure are we gonna get? We're gonna get a

894
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,800
Speaker 1: good test against Matt Ryan. I mean, he is the

895
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: prototypical stand in the pocket, be tall, look down field,

896
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 1: get the ball out of your hands. He's got plenty

897
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,040
Speaker 1: of weapons. Julio, what caught I don't know, ten or

898
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 1: twelve passes against us last year from Matt shob no

899
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 1: less and Matt schob is you know, he's one hundred

900
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:01,960
Speaker 1: and seven years old. Ryan all out? So can we

901
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: get pressure? Can we get to him enough to just

902
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,240
Speaker 1: get get in his face, make him move his feet,

903
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: get off his mark. That to me is going to

904
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 1: be a big question mark. I'm glad we brought in Bruce.

905
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,479
Speaker 1: I'm glad we brought in Benson Mayo. I think Ken

906
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: Norton is going to have to mix things up a

907
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: little bit. I think he's gonna have to bring some people,

908
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 1: extra people at times to get pressure on the quarterback.

909
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 1: And then you know, are the Falcon's just going to

910
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,839
Speaker 1: hand the ball off? They're gonna run. Todd Gurley has

911
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: run for a lot of yards against the Seahawks over

912
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 1: his career and now he's in Atlanta, So you know,

913
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: how's the defense up gonna hold up up front that front? Seven?

914
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:42,840
Speaker 1: How do you think Pete Carroll is going to sort

915
00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: out the Flowers versus Dunbar battle to start the year,

916
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: because Flowers has had a terrific camp. But I'm sure

917
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: you've watched him out there. How do you think that

918
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:57,359
Speaker 1: he divides up the reps to start Well, I think

919
00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 1: he's gonna go by what he's seen in practice. And

920
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: I mean, how prepared is Quentin. He had to leave,

921
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: he had a death in the family, had to go

922
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 1: back for a funeral, He's had the legal issues that

923
00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: you know have kind of played on his mind. I

924
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,759
Speaker 1: can't see how they wouldn't. And Trey has just been

925
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 1: able to put his head down and get out there

926
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:18,720
Speaker 1: and work hard. So in effect, you have three guys,

927
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: and then you got Marquise Blayer, who's going to be

928
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: your nickel guy, who has come in and played really

929
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: well at that nickel back. So I don't know that

930
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: you can make a wrong decision on that. As far

931
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 1: as Pete's concerned, I think he's gonna go with the

932
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: guy he feels most comfortable with at this point and

933
00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: who can be most effective out there this week. I mean,

934
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: Trey is six three, Julio Jones is a big wide receiver.

935
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: Do you want to get some size on sides? Quentin

936
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: Dunbar six two? I give you that, but I don't know.

937
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 1: I whatever whatever they decide, I think is going to

938
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 1: be the right one. I think we'll see both guys play.

939
00:48:56,480 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: Rame's pleasure talking to you as always. Hope you enjoy

940
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,880
Speaker 1: away broadcasting this game. I'm sure it's going to be

941
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: a much different environment for you. Oh well, it is.

942
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,879
Speaker 1: Unfortunately Dave is going to be there with me. So

943
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: that's that's the tough part that we'll have to get through.

944
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: I was, you know, I had set aside like forty

945
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: five minutes to chat with you guys. That's it. We're done.

946
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:21,399
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like a whole thing. I've had enough,

947
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:27,719
Speaker 1: that's for sure. Stop right, Okay, Well we will we

948
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: will see what we shall see. It'll be interesting. From

949
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 1: Century link Field, Dave and me and a few of

950
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: our closest friends. Thanks so much, all right, guys, thank you,

951
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:43,879
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna hear a little bit more from

952
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,640
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn. We heard a little bit yesterday and a

953
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: bit more today on some other topics are on the

954
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 1: Huddle that's next. This is the Huddle every Thursday from

955
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 1: noon to two on seven ten ESPN Seattle. We're scheduled

956
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: just catch up with Quandre Diggs coming up in about

957
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, so don't miss that. It was spoken to

958
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:10,360
Speaker 1: Quandre yet on this show. I don't think so be

959
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,919
Speaker 1: a first raw of us. Maybe with the exception of Dave.

960
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 1: Right now, we're gonna hear from Atlanta Falcon's head coach

961
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:20,760
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn. Now this is interesting because he's talking about

962
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:24,840
Speaker 1: Bruce Ervin, a guy who he had here in Seattle

963
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,839
Speaker 1: and a guy who he had in Atlanta last year.

964
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: Let's hear cutting over one on Bruce Ervin. Yeah. I

965
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: think what remarkable is just, you know, like for everybody

966
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: who's been around Bruce, they know the speed that he

967
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: can play with, and so to see him ripping off

968
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:42,720
Speaker 1: the edge with the speed that was really evident because

969
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 1: you weren't sure, but once he got back and was

970
00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 1: into the system, his versatility at speed. So we played

971
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: him at linebacker, we played him at defensive end, and

972
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: so he did a good job during the time here.

973
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 1: The season didn't work out like we hope, but he

974
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:59,919
Speaker 1: certainly did a good job in his time. Now, Dave,

975
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 1: do you think that that gives Quinn a huge scheming

976
00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:07,080
Speaker 1: advantage because he's had Irvan before. He may have coached

977
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: against him when he was with Oakland and or Carolina.

978
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 1: How do you see that matchup going? Well, you know,

979
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: I don't he's just rushing off the edge. I mean,

980
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be, you know, physically hard

981
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 1: to handle. But as far as you know, knowing where

982
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:25,399
Speaker 1: he lines up or how they're gonna use it, what's

983
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: interesting is watching him play linebacker, and you know, he

984
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:30,879
Speaker 1: was really I mean, I don't know about you guys.

985
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 1: I thought when they signed him, all I thought about was,

986
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 1: we've got an edge rusher. You know, we got a

987
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: guy who coming off a career high of what eight

988
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 1: and a half nine and a half sacks, and yet

989
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: they talk about him as playing linebacker, and you know,

990
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: and look, they he would only be a linebacker if well,

991
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 1: at least this is my best guess, is only if

992
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: they're in base personnel, which is you know, forty lineman,

993
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: three linebackers, you know, and for defensive backs and that's

994
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 1: usually when it's a situation. He's a really good linebacker,

995
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: you know that, that's the thing about him. But I

996
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,799
Speaker 1: think dan Quinn knows all of that. It's probably gonna

997
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: be you know, different to see how they use him.

998
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 1: That'll probably be the biggest thing, you know, is trying

999
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: to match up and figure out what they're doing. I

1000
00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: think there's going to be some different looks this year.

1001
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think you can look at the

1002
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:22,440
Speaker 1: Seahawk tape from last year and go, Okay, this is

1003
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: how they're going to run their defense by any means.

1004
00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's the thing that stands out to me

1005
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: is probably the biggest surprise is that they've talked so

1006
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: much about him playing linebacker, and as far as I

1007
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 1: can tell, he's not interested in playing linebacker. When he

1008
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 1: got those two pick sixes that year, you know, and

1009
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: they threw him in there, and I was watching him

1010
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: drop into his zones and everything, like he gets it.

1011
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 1: He's really good, like technically inside and the run game,

1012
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:53,239
Speaker 1: he's his shoulders are always square. I mean, he does

1013
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:55,880
Speaker 1: everything a linebacker was taught to do. But it just

1014
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: seems like he's he's much more interested in putting his

1015
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: hand in the dirt and rush in the quarterback and

1016
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:07,920
Speaker 1: cut here talking about you talk about that versatility, and

1017
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,880
Speaker 1: I think, for for when you look at the versatility

1018
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,240
Speaker 1: of Bruce Irvin, it's just like so many other players

1019
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: that they have across this defense. So it will be

1020
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: fun week one to see how different, how different this

1021
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,240
Speaker 1: defense looks, the little wrinkles that they put in. Obviously

1022
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 1: they'll structurally still be the same, but the fun wrinkles

1023
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:26,319
Speaker 1: that they add to this group, it will be fun

1024
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:30,439
Speaker 1: to watch. He speaks here about the tandem, his own

1025
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: tandom of Matt Ryan and Julio Jones, comparing that to

1026
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,839
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and Tyler Lockett Cut two. Yeah, I think

1027
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: when you're you're probably talking about like traits of players,

1028
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 1: you know, and uh so with Julio as speed and

1029
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: length and uh you know Matt, you know certainly you

1030
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 1: know as as a pastor, you know, all of the

1031
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:50,760
Speaker 1: things that you're looking for. But they also found, uh

1032
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:54,439
Speaker 1: you know, with Russell and with Kyler, it's like the

1033
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: absolute competitors, and so all they've ever done was just

1034
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: kick ass that everywhere they play. Stacy, he said a

1035
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:10,360
Speaker 1: bad word. I noticed that Now there's a huge difference

1036
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: obviously between Tyler Lockett and Julio Jones and the type

1037
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:18,360
Speaker 1: of receivers they are, but those but those two tandems,

1038
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:21,839
Speaker 1: that's an interesting comparison there. How do you see them

1039
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:25,480
Speaker 1: being similar or different? I mean, I think that both

1040
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: have been I don't want to say a security blanket,

1041
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: because they both are the lead receivers for very good quarterbacks.

1042
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,759
Speaker 1: They both are the target. I think that has a

1043
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:39,319
Speaker 1: lot of trust from their quarterback, and I think you know,

1044
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:43,359
Speaker 1: on either team you see other receivers getting in their

1045
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:47,319
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf, for example, any Seahawks fan would would tell

1046
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:49,359
Speaker 1: you seemed like he had, you know, built a lot

1047
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: of that trust last year, and certainly it sounds like

1048
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,400
Speaker 1: they have this offseason. But I think there's that ability

1049
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: to trust them. And while they are different quarterbacks, to

1050
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: make throws that it's almost like you have to have

1051
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:05,719
Speaker 1: a good connection and timing and chemistry to make that throw.

1052
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: Think of that catch Jaker Dave. You might have to

1053
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 1: remind me what was that toetep catch that Lockett made

1054
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 1: that had like a like a three percent chance exactly

1055
00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 1: something like that. I mean, you have to know each other,

1056
00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:25,359
Speaker 1: your tendencies so well, get the timing down and it's

1057
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: just stuff like that. It's the same kind of thing

1058
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: you see Matt and Julio due to the two together,

1059
00:55:30,719 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 1: just from working together so much. Dave, I'm curious to

1060
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: get your perspective on this one. You're used to playing

1061
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:39,840
Speaker 1: in front of crowds your whole life. Now all of

1062
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 1: a sudden, there's not going to be one. How's that

1063
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:46,680
Speaker 1: going to work? Cut number five? Yeah, I think, um,

1064
00:55:46,719 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 1: they're pretty equipped for that. And that's um, you know,

1065
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 1: you get into you know, signals and silent counts and

1066
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:55,919
Speaker 1: you know different ways to use a cadence. So those

1067
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 1: are things that that we worked on. But I think

1068
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:02,960
Speaker 1: going to the stadium and many experiences with that certainly

1069
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: seem to help in this season of new things. You

1070
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 1: wanted to keep trying and keep putting your space yourself

1071
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: in the environment and try some of the new things.

1072
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: And so having the sound at the stadium it was

1073
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 1: pretty familiar for us. So he's talking about his offense, Dave,

1074
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:22,959
Speaker 1: what about would you guys on defense, Well, crowd noise

1075
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,280
Speaker 1: get you fired up, you know if you're at home,

1076
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 1: And I think didn't they say like the seventy decibel

1077
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 1: level is what is going to be the max? I

1078
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 1: think somebody I read that somewhere and they change it,

1079
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:37,200
Speaker 1: and you know, we don't know if it's going to

1080
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: be the same different everywhere. I think the interesting thing

1081
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:42,799
Speaker 1: Tom is going to be to ask the players afterwards,

1082
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: does it does crowd? Does noise really get you fired up?

1083
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:52,279
Speaker 1: If it's coming from speakers? I mean, when you get

1084
00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: when you light people up and make them, you know,

1085
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 1: scream and yell, that's a person and then there's sixty

1086
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:02,040
Speaker 1: five thousand of them. If in this case it's gonna

1087
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: be if you get I guess the guy who's controlling

1088
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: the knob fired up to turn up the sound. I mean,

1089
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: it's just it's a strange phenomenon. I'm curious to hear

1090
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:14,640
Speaker 1: from those guys, like does that really get you fired

1091
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: up when you know it's just piped in noise? So um,

1092
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:21,440
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean I guess I just I noticed,

1093
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: like in the Kingdom it used to get so loud

1094
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: in there and you don't feel the hits the adrenaline.

1095
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: Really it gets you going. But again, if it's because

1096
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 1: it was coming from people, you know, so it's a

1097
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 1: it's a weird one. I don't know how they're gonna

1098
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:38,919
Speaker 1: you know, and they're talking about competitive advantages and things

1099
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: like that because some people are letting you know, um,

1100
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 1: the crowd in and you know as far as social

1101
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 1: distancing and maybe you know, quarter capacity whatever. But uh,

1102
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: that's a that's a great question. I really don't know.

1103
00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,640
Speaker 1: I really don't know how that's that's gonna affect. I

1104
00:57:54,640 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: know this that we used to prepare in this I

1105
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys were around boy, and we

1106
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:04,240
Speaker 1: had the bubble out there and in Kirkland it looked

1107
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 1: like a big maggot. It was this big white you know,

1108
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: tent that they blew up and they would crank the

1109
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: noise in there during practice to get you ready. And

1110
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 1: that just used to annoy the heck out of me.

1111
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: I just couldn't stand it. But you know, it just

1112
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:21,440
Speaker 1: was trying to get you ready for going on the

1113
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 1: road and play in front in front of a big crowd.

1114
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: But yeah, that that always kind of kind of bugged me.

1115
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 1: And you know, and if it's quiet, I think it

1116
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: would be kind of interesting, kind of like in baseball,

1117
00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:33,080
Speaker 1: you hear the crack of the bat much more, you know, maybe,

1118
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 1: you know, if it was just quiet, you you'd get

1119
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: to hear some of the hits and possibly guys, you know,

1120
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: yelling at each other and stuff like that. So yeah,

1121
00:58:41,080 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 1: I'm kind of I'm I'm with you where I'm just

1122
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 1: kind of like waiting to see how this is gonna

1123
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:48,959
Speaker 1: play out, how these guys are, you know, to ask

1124
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 1: the players afterwards, it's going to be very interesting, like

1125
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 1: what what's that like? Like I want to ask Luca Wilson.

1126
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: I think he could probably give you like the most

1127
00:58:56,280 --> 00:59:00,080
Speaker 1: interesting answer. But you know, how does that affect you

1128
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,479
Speaker 1: when you know it's just a machine making the noise

1129
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: versus people. He'll think it's some kind of conspiracy and

1130
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: he'll blame Jake for it, as he always does, of course,

1131
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: always always, all right, Quandre Diggs will join us on

1132
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: the phone. Next the Huddle continues. This is the Huddle

1133
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 1: every Thursday from noon to two on seven ten ESPN Seattle.

1134
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: That wasn't funny. My co hosts are a couple of knuckleheads.

1135
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 1: All Curtis jo all day is tease me. I mean,

1136
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? Stacy said that she would

1137
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: like to talk about the defensive backgroup, and I said, well, actually,

1138
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: I would prefer to talk about the secondary group. And

1139
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 1: you should have seen the look on her face. She

1140
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: was I'm just so confused. I didn't know what to

1141
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 1: make of it. Pretty much the same thing there, I guess,

1142
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 1: I know. I just I thought Jake was correct to me,

1143
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 1: and then I was like, maybe he didn't hear me.

1144
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: What what's happening? I would like to talk about defensive

1145
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 1: backgroup slash the secondary He heard you loud and clear,

1146
01:00:18,760 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: believe me. By the way, we're supposed to catch up

1147
01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 1: with Quandre Diggs. Practice still going on at the moment,

1148
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 1: so hopefully we can squeeze him in by the end

1149
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:29,840
Speaker 1: of the huddle. Here, you never really know. So my

1150
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 1: co hosts all of last year and in the offseason, Dave,

1151
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 1: we're trying in vain to convince me that the Seahawks

1152
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 1: were so much improved as soon as Quandre Diggs took

1153
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 1: the field with them last year. I know statistically that

1154
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 1: that's true. It was hard for me to see with

1155
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: my eyeballs. Do you agree, and how would you prove

1156
01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:54,880
Speaker 1: that case? Well, I guess I'd prove it from the

1157
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: standpoint that both Trey Flowers and Shaquille Griffin told us

1158
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 1: how much better they felt with Quandre Diggs back there,

1159
01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:05,400
Speaker 1: so you know, and that's the thing you listen to

1160
01:01:05,440 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 1: the players it. Yeah, that's kind of one of those

1161
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 1: things that's hard because you know what you don't hear.

1162
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 1: I mean, you can see it sometimes, but it's just

1163
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:18,640
Speaker 1: the communication and the way the safeties communicate that I

1164
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:22,320
Speaker 1: had the good fortune a plan probably the two baddest

1165
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 1: dudes that ever played safety, I mean up two of

1166
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 1: them anyway, and one was Dennis Smith. Dennis Smith with

1167
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:34,680
Speaker 1: the Broncos. I mean, that guy would run through a

1168
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 1: wall and like if you told him to run through

1169
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: a brick wall, he would not hesitate at the point

1170
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:43,440
Speaker 1: of contact him. He was just so tough, but not

1171
01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 1: a great communicator. And then the other guy was Steve Atwater,

1172
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:51,720
Speaker 1: who was a great communicator. So I mean he just

1173
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,720
Speaker 1: behind you saying, hey check this, Hey check that, you know,

1174
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 1: talking about it afterwards, Hey, you know when I play

1175
01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:00,440
Speaker 1: it this way, you do it that way. Yeah. And

1176
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:03,920
Speaker 1: the numbers were there, I mean when he came in

1177
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 1: the first game where he kind of hit the scene

1178
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 1: was the Monday night game, and there was like a

1179
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 1: five game stretch there where they got half their turnovers

1180
01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:14,880
Speaker 1: for the whole year, so it's sixteen of them takeaways,

1181
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 1: and he had a few of them, including the pick

1182
01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: six against the Rams. So I just it's really nice

1183
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 1: having somebody back there that is communicates well and talks well,

1184
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:27,520
Speaker 1: and you know, they just didn't have that. I mean,

1185
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: I don't think Lano Hill. You have to be a

1186
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: really confident player and have confidence in yourself before you

1187
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 1: start talking to other people, and that's what you When

1188
01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 1: you have a guy that doesn't talk a lot. Two

1189
01:02:38,560 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 1: things could be I mean, it could be that he's

1190
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:42,439
Speaker 1: just quiet, but the other thing could be that he's

1191
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:46,040
Speaker 1: not quite sure what he's doing. So when Diggs came in,

1192
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 1: that was I thought the difference, and you could see

1193
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 1: it a little bit on the field, but mostly, you know,

1194
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: I was listening to the players and when you're two

1195
01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: corners who are two of the most vulnerable players on

1196
01:02:56,400 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 1: the field, I mean, I think playing corner is really

1197
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 1: really tough. You know, you have to have a certain

1198
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: personality to be out there on an island playing against

1199
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 1: what are a group of people that are probably the

1200
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 1: greatest athletes in the world. I mean, Julio Jones, guys

1201
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 1: that can run, they can jump, they can catch. You know,

1202
01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 1: they're physical. I mean you get look at Julio Jones

1203
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 1: and DK Metcalf scoring off this weekend. I mean, two

1204
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 1: of the best athletes in the world and you got

1205
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 1: to cover them and they know where they're going and

1206
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 1: you don't know where they're going. So I think, you know,

1207
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:30,720
Speaker 1: having a safety back there that really is a good

1208
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 1: communicator and knows that you know, he's got your back,

1209
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:36,560
Speaker 1: that helps the rest of the defense. And it's certainly

1210
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:39,400
Speaker 1: showed him the numbers, but you know, I think more

1211
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:44,280
Speaker 1: than anything just hearing that from his teammates, David, it's

1212
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:47,200
Speaker 1: you talk about the communication. And one of the other

1213
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 1: things that really impressed me as we were watching training

1214
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 1: camp together was seeing how vocal not only Quandre Diggs was,

1215
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:58,080
Speaker 1: but Jamal Adams and you see Shaquill Griffin, and you

1216
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:01,160
Speaker 1: see you see Trey Flowers and Quitting Dunbar and Bobby

1217
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:04,400
Speaker 1: Wagner and KG right, all those guys communicating everything out

1218
01:04:04,480 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 1: when it talks about motions and shifts and all those

1219
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:11,120
Speaker 1: different things. It's really fun to watch from that standpoint

1220
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:15,000
Speaker 1: as this group has just really look like it's gelled together. Okay,

1221
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 1: we got Quandri Digs on the line right now. Pleasure

1222
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:21,560
Speaker 1: to have Quandre. And how are you today, sir? I'm good,

1223
01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,320
Speaker 1: I'm good. Can't complain, man, just another work day, trying

1224
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 1: to get ready for Sunday. Quandre, how's the dB room

1225
01:04:28,960 --> 01:04:31,160
Speaker 1: feel right now? I mean, not just the excitement, but

1226
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:33,440
Speaker 1: how do you feel as a collective group. You haven't

1227
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:36,080
Speaker 1: had much of an off season, but you may not

1228
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:38,240
Speaker 1: want to listen to it. There's plenty of hype too.

1229
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:41,880
Speaker 1: I mean, we're feeling good, you know. I mean, we're

1230
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 1: going into the first week of the season, so it's

1231
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of excitement, a lot of

1232
01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:48,600
Speaker 1: players in this room that's ready to make plays and

1233
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 1: just go out and put together a full game, you

1234
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:53,320
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Like you gotta say, the hype

1235
01:04:53,360 --> 01:04:55,320
Speaker 1: is there, but we're more worried about what we can

1236
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:58,880
Speaker 1: handle on the field. We're more worried about our communication

1237
01:04:58,960 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: and locker room communica on and off the field. So

1238
01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 1: we're just trying to be great and we're trying to

1239
01:05:03,880 --> 01:05:07,920
Speaker 1: set our own standard, not worry about anybody else standard. Yeah, Quandrie,

1240
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:10,040
Speaker 1: speaking of that communication, we were just talking about that

1241
01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 1: before you came on. And you know, talking about how

1242
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 1: last year, talking to Trey Flowers and talking to Shaquille,

1243
01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:17,520
Speaker 1: they both said, you know what a difference you make

1244
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: because because of your communication and you're understanding at the defense,

1245
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 1: And I imagine that's that's really ramped up with Jamal here,

1246
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:27,880
Speaker 1: and uh, that's just what I'm seeing out there. But

1247
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 1: kind of tell us what the difference is, because it

1248
01:05:30,400 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 1: seems like you guys are out there just communicating really well,

1249
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 1: and that's such a key well, I think altogether, you

1250
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:39,960
Speaker 1: know what I mean. First of all, we all have

1251
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 1: a great relationship off the field, so you know, it's

1252
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:43,480
Speaker 1: a lot of texting, it's a lot of talking, you

1253
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:45,120
Speaker 1: know what I mean. We hang out, you know, I mean,

1254
01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:47,919
Speaker 1: I know everybody always see me, Jamal and Shack hanging out.

1255
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 1: But you know, I mean dunbars lockers right by mine,

1256
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:52,720
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, trades right there, Shacker is right there.

1257
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 1: So all of us are right by each other in

1258
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:56,360
Speaker 1: the locker room. So things that we you know what

1259
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:57,640
Speaker 1: I mean, that we want to see and be on

1260
01:05:57,680 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 1: the same page, we can go talk about those things

1261
01:06:00,200 --> 01:06:03,000
Speaker 1: in the locker room also, so um, you know, I

1262
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 1: mean it's dope, you know, I mean bringing Jamal in here,

1263
01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 1: bringing a guy that's full of energy, full of passion,

1264
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:09,480
Speaker 1: somebody that's just gonna continue to go out and play

1265
01:06:09,520 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 1: and just have fun. And he keeps the you know

1266
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 1: what I mean, he's more of the the you guys

1267
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: know me, I'm more I'm just chill, I'm laid back,

1268
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 1: but Jamal is more a high energy guy. Where he um,

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01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 1: he's making sure everybody has a little pepper and that

1270
01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 1: step of that practice and um, you can just tell

1271
01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:26,200
Speaker 1: the way he practices how much he loves the game.

1272
01:06:26,320 --> 01:06:28,959
Speaker 1: So um, he decided to get him in the room

1273
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:31,360
Speaker 1: and Dunbar, he's just he's super smart, you know what

1274
01:06:31,360 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: I mean. He's intellectual, He talks, he sees things really fast.

1275
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:37,760
Speaker 1: So you put that together with me, Shack Marquis, you

1276
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Trey, Um, you know, I mean,

1277
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 1: it's really fun to watch and it's fun to go

1278
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 1: to work each and every day with these guys. Quandre,

1279
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:47,240
Speaker 1: could you take us a little bit behind the curtain

1280
01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: here for a second. On game day, if something doesn't

1281
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:53,920
Speaker 1: go right, and we know the game of football, uh

1282
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:58,080
Speaker 1: that that it's oftentimes there are things that aren't going

1283
01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:00,720
Speaker 1: to go right. It's how you respond to those things.

1284
01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:03,400
Speaker 1: So when you go back to the sideline and you

1285
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:05,840
Speaker 1: guys are talking through something, maybe a play that got

1286
01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 1: you u during the drive or what have you, what

1287
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:12,600
Speaker 1: is that conversation like it? Is it finger pointing? Is

1288
01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 1: it you know, diagramming and talking through it? What does

1289
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:18,240
Speaker 1: that look like for you guys to then recapture, regroup

1290
01:07:18,240 --> 01:07:20,919
Speaker 1: and get back on the same page. I mean, any

1291
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:24,040
Speaker 1: secondary I've ever been in that ill that I'll be

1292
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:25,560
Speaker 1: in for the rest of my career to never be

1293
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:27,160
Speaker 1: finger point, you know what I mean? That starts with

1294
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:29,280
Speaker 1: the leaders and not consider myself as a leader. So

1295
01:07:29,760 --> 01:07:31,920
Speaker 1: um not to never be the case in any secondary

1296
01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 1: that I'll be in that my name is on, so

1297
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:36,800
Speaker 1: it won't be any finger point. It'll be just more, um,

1298
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: get to the I pad, see what we can fix,

1299
01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:41,080
Speaker 1: See what they ran, and sometimes you know what I mean,

1300
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:43,360
Speaker 1: they have plays set up to beat us and we

1301
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:45,600
Speaker 1: just gotta get it fixed on the sideline. But it's

1302
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:47,400
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of smart guys talking on

1303
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:49,360
Speaker 1: the sideline. Just tell us what we see starting the

1304
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:52,120
Speaker 1: formation and the rocks that they ran, and um we

1305
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:55,520
Speaker 1: explain it into Dre Dre dre gets it back to us.

1306
01:07:55,560 --> 01:07:56,960
Speaker 1: He figures out what we want to do, how we

1307
01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 1: want to play it, and we go from there. And

1308
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:01,200
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, you can't let one play ever,

1309
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:03,960
Speaker 1: um take your confidence, take your squire out of you.

1310
01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:06,720
Speaker 1: So UM won't let that happen. But like I said,

1311
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:08,640
Speaker 1: it's it'll be a lot of guys talking on the

1312
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:11,400
Speaker 1: sideline that getting that point across, telling us what they've seen,

1313
01:08:11,440 --> 01:08:13,120
Speaker 1: and then we go, we make an understand it and

1314
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:14,920
Speaker 1: we go back on the field. Be ready to go.

1315
01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 1: Talking to Quandre Diggs here on the huddle, you mentioned

1316
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:22,679
Speaker 1: the personalities of the guys in that secondary You're laid back,

1317
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 1: you said, and Jamal Adams is like the intense guy.

1318
01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:31,720
Speaker 1: What about some of the other guys, Blair and Griffin, Dunbar, Flowers,

1319
01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:34,280
Speaker 1: what are their personalities like? How do how do they

1320
01:08:34,280 --> 01:08:38,200
Speaker 1: all mix together? I mean, I think we all mixed

1321
01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:40,960
Speaker 1: together great, you know what I mean. I think Keisa

1322
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:44,400
Speaker 1: is more like him and Jamal about they're about the same,

1323
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:46,360
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, both of those guys really intense.

1324
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 1: Uh they practiced the tell off and Um, Keisa he's

1325
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:51,800
Speaker 1: just so willing to learn, you know what I mean.

1326
01:08:51,840 --> 01:08:53,640
Speaker 1: It's his first time playing Nickel, and I have some

1327
01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:55,680
Speaker 1: experience with nicols, so I'm trying to tell them a

1328
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:57,240
Speaker 1: little nuggets that I used to do when I played

1329
01:08:57,320 --> 01:09:00,160
Speaker 1: Nickel and things like that, and Um, I think he's

1330
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:02,160
Speaker 1: gonna be one of the better Nickels in the league. Um,

1331
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 1: I think. Um With Dunbar, he's so smart, you know

1332
01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 1: what I mean. People were saying, oh, he's you know,

1333
01:09:06,960 --> 01:09:09,320
Speaker 1: he's been behind because he hasn't been here with us,

1334
01:09:09,360 --> 01:09:11,960
Speaker 1: But he literally wasn't there for what the first week,

1335
01:09:12,040 --> 01:09:14,000
Speaker 1: week and a half or something like that, and he's

1336
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:17,719
Speaker 1: come in. He's fitting. Um, he's chill, he's laid back,

1337
01:09:17,760 --> 01:09:19,639
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But he's super smart and talks.

1338
01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:21,599
Speaker 1: And Shack is the same way. You know, I mean,

1339
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 1: Shack is he chilled, he's more you know what I mean.

1340
01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:27,680
Speaker 1: He's he's he knows exactly what he's doing. He has

1341
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 1: to plan for everything he does. And then you got Slim,

1342
01:09:30,320 --> 01:09:33,759
Speaker 1: who's really smart, just goes out and work and he's quiet,

1343
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:35,639
Speaker 1: you know. I mean. So for me when I got

1344
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:39,479
Speaker 1: here was kind of my My whole thing was kind

1345
01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:41,120
Speaker 1: of get him to talk a little bit more, kind

1346
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 1: of let him express how he feels about certain things

1347
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:44,960
Speaker 1: and let him go from there, because I know he's

1348
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 1: a smart player. You know what I mean. He played

1349
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:48,519
Speaker 1: safety in college and he moved the corner. So you've

1350
01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 1: got to be a smart player to be able to

1351
01:09:49,880 --> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 1: play the safety position, you know what I mean. I

1352
01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:53,040
Speaker 1: know that. So I want to hear him talk a

1353
01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:57,880
Speaker 1: little bit more. Game is over on Sunday. What are

1354
01:09:57,880 --> 01:10:00,799
Speaker 1: you hoping that Seahawks fans are thinking about this defense?

1355
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:04,400
Speaker 1: I mean, what's that lasting impression you want to leave them? Oh?

1356
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 1: I just want people to know that we're fast and

1357
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:08,599
Speaker 1: physical and when we play hard, yeah, I mean, no

1358
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 1: matter what happens, Um, yeah, I mean I want people

1359
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 1: to know we're gonna play hard. We're gonna we're gonna

1360
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:15,479
Speaker 1: throw our bodies around. Um, we're gonna be intense, We're

1361
01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:17,600
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna play sixty minutes, and you know what

1362
01:10:17,600 --> 01:10:19,080
Speaker 1: I mean, we come out with a win. Hopefully we

1363
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:20,559
Speaker 1: come out with a win, and that's that's the most

1364
01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:22,000
Speaker 1: important thing, you know. I mean, we got a lot

1365
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:23,680
Speaker 1: of time to build, but you know what I mean,

1366
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:26,439
Speaker 1: you stacked w's up and you build and that sets

1367
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:30,639
Speaker 1: you up good for them. Just season Quandre We really

1368
01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 1: appreciate you joining us today. Best of luck in week one.

1369
01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 1: Talk to you soon. Thank you appreciate it, thank you

1370
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 1: all having me. Thank you. Okay, Well, hopefully next now

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01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:44,720
Speaker 1: that we know practice sober for sure, we're gonna be

1372
01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:48,840
Speaker 1: catching up with Freddy Swain. That's next on the huddle.

1373
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:53,559
Speaker 1: This is the huddle every Thursday from noon to two

1374
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:59,759
Speaker 1: on seven ESPN Seattle. Hoping to catch up with Freddie

1375
01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:03,679
Speaker 1: sin here in a few minutes. In the meantime, we'll

1376
01:11:04,320 --> 01:11:07,080
Speaker 1: round out our thoughts on this game, Dave, what do

1377
01:11:07,120 --> 01:11:10,200
Speaker 1: you think the biggest advantage that the Hawks have in

1378
01:11:10,240 --> 01:11:15,040
Speaker 1: this game is against Atlanta? I think them not really

1379
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:17,920
Speaker 1: knowing what the defense is going to look like. You know,

1380
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:22,240
Speaker 1: I didn't think that that Pete would change the defense.

1381
01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 1: And I say Pete, but you know Ken Norton, of course,

1382
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:28,080
Speaker 1: But as much as they did last year, I was

1383
01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 1: surprised by that. I was surprised that they went with uh,

1384
01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:33,679
Speaker 1: you know, with bass personnel as much as they did.

1385
01:11:34,120 --> 01:11:37,240
Speaker 1: But I think it's it's more about getting the players,

1386
01:11:37,560 --> 01:11:40,800
Speaker 1: you know, the right players on the field. So you know,

1387
01:11:40,840 --> 01:11:42,599
Speaker 1: I think that that's what you're going to see, is

1388
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 1: I guess we bring in Freddie swayin here. Yeah, we're

1389
01:11:46,360 --> 01:11:49,479
Speaker 1: looking forward to have to seeing this big time passing

1390
01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 1: attack a lot of weapons and Freddie Swain joins us

1391
01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:56,280
Speaker 1: right now. Freddie, thanks for your time. We appreciate it.

1392
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:01,320
Speaker 1: Thank you, Freddie. How is the reality of being on

1393
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:04,360
Speaker 1: this NFL roster heading into week one hitting you right now?

1394
01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:07,599
Speaker 1: Because you guys didn't really have a preseason, you're jumping

1395
01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:09,479
Speaker 1: right into it. How are you feeling? How are you

1396
01:12:09,520 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: really feeling? Oh, I'm ready to go, you know, Uh,

1397
01:12:13,280 --> 01:12:14,920
Speaker 1: put in a lot of work, you know, just with

1398
01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:17,719
Speaker 1: the offense and defense, and things are finally coming together

1399
01:12:17,800 --> 01:12:21,360
Speaker 1: and it's a wait to see the things like jail

1400
01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:23,760
Speaker 1: on Sunday should be pretty fun to watch and in

1401
01:12:24,439 --> 01:12:27,840
Speaker 1: a surreal moment at the same time, if Freddie went

1402
01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:31,120
Speaker 1: went to Florida of course and then grew up looks

1403
01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:34,520
Speaker 1: like in Ocala, Florida. What did you know about the Northwest?

1404
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:36,880
Speaker 1: And when the Seahawks drafted you, did you have you

1405
01:12:36,920 --> 01:12:39,519
Speaker 1: been up here? Were you familiar with the team? What

1406
01:12:39,560 --> 01:12:43,080
Speaker 1: was what was going through your mind when you got drafted? Oh?

1407
01:12:43,080 --> 01:12:44,880
Speaker 1: When I when I first got drafted, I just knew

1408
01:12:44,880 --> 01:12:48,080
Speaker 1: it was really far away. I didn't really understand how

1409
01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:50,559
Speaker 1: far I was until I actually got on the plane

1410
01:12:50,840 --> 01:12:52,280
Speaker 1: and hit it out here. But no, this is my

1411
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:54,479
Speaker 1: first time, but it's been it's been great. You know,

1412
01:12:54,520 --> 01:12:57,040
Speaker 1: the weather is a lot different, you know, and the

1413
01:12:57,120 --> 01:13:00,240
Speaker 1: guys welcome, welcomed me with open arms. So, man, I

1414
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:03,320
Speaker 1: came to a great organization, so I can't be nothing.

1415
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:08,160
Speaker 1: I'm blessed, Freddie. It really looked like in the middle

1416
01:13:08,360 --> 01:13:10,680
Speaker 1: to the second half of trainee camp you really just

1417
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:13,280
Speaker 1: took off. You kind of found your own and really

1418
01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:15,960
Speaker 1: started looking comfortable and making plays and really kind of

1419
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:20,759
Speaker 1: developing a relationship there with Russell Wilson, which obviously helped

1420
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:24,080
Speaker 1: you solidify your spot on the active roster. What was

1421
01:13:24,120 --> 01:13:27,240
Speaker 1: that process like, just trying to learn and grow through

1422
01:13:27,280 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 1: training camp and then you know, really trying to gain

1423
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:35,640
Speaker 1: a rapport with Russell Wilson. Um, it was it was

1424
01:13:35,680 --> 01:13:38,200
Speaker 1: just learning a playbook and learning why I was doing things,

1425
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:40,080
Speaker 1: you know, while I was running a certain route or

1426
01:13:40,280 --> 01:13:42,639
Speaker 1: while I was getting certained up. So, UM, I think

1427
01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:44,600
Speaker 1: DK helped a lot. You know, I just called d

1428
01:13:44,680 --> 01:13:48,280
Speaker 1: K and we'll talk about things, you know, and I

1429
01:13:48,439 --> 01:13:50,360
Speaker 1: just got a lot of my confidence back, and you know,

1430
01:13:50,400 --> 01:13:53,120
Speaker 1: I just just started having fun with it again. So um,

1431
01:13:54,439 --> 01:13:56,720
Speaker 1: A lot of credit goes to DK and helping me

1432
01:13:57,240 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 1: make another transition to playing ball again. So um, I

1433
01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:03,719
Speaker 1: think that's what it was, just slowing things down and

1434
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:06,720
Speaker 1: understanding it for myself and not moving too fast and

1435
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:11,240
Speaker 1: just being aware of what I'm doing. Freddie, what was

1436
01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:15,040
Speaker 1: draft weekend like for you? I mean, sixth round pick?

1437
01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:17,880
Speaker 1: Were you glued to it the whole time? Were you

1438
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:20,080
Speaker 1: taking breaks for you with your family? How did that

1439
01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:23,519
Speaker 1: whole thing go? So? I was just chilling. I was

1440
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:25,519
Speaker 1: just watching it, you know how. I clicked back and

1441
01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:29,880
Speaker 1: forth from channel to channel, and um, I finally got

1442
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:33,479
Speaker 1: the call on the last day, and um, it was

1443
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:36,400
Speaker 1: just a surreal moment at the time, like I couldn't

1444
01:14:36,400 --> 01:14:40,240
Speaker 1: really believe what was going on. So um, it was

1445
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:45,519
Speaker 1: very nerve wracking. Now there hasn't been any hazing of

1446
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 1: any kind. Has there no welcome to the NFL moment

1447
01:14:49,439 --> 01:14:53,120
Speaker 1: from the rest of the receivers. No, they're pretty cool.

1448
01:14:53,320 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 1: It was pretty good. If Freddie, about twenty years from now,

1449
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:00,679
Speaker 1: you need to go into radio. You got a really

1450
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:04,880
Speaker 1: cool voice, So just think about that after a long

1451
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:08,519
Speaker 1: NFL career. But you know, how difficult. I always hear

1452
01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:11,120
Speaker 1: from from young receivers that it's it's one of the

1453
01:15:11,160 --> 01:15:13,560
Speaker 1: tougher positions to adjust from college. You know, some of

1454
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:16,559
Speaker 1: the landmarks, of course are different on the field, and

1455
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:19,479
Speaker 1: then you know just the precision of the routes and everything.

1456
01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:23,400
Speaker 1: What is what's been some of the challenging things that

1457
01:15:23,400 --> 01:15:28,479
Speaker 1: that you faced. The challenging things is just um, I

1458
01:15:28,640 --> 01:15:31,720
Speaker 1: kind of like like at first I was playing outside

1459
01:15:31,720 --> 01:15:34,479
Speaker 1: and inside, so I would just learn me I was

1460
01:15:34,520 --> 01:15:37,599
Speaker 1: trying to learn all three positions, and um, I would

1461
01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:39,960
Speaker 1: just like get some things confused, and like I could

1462
01:15:39,960 --> 01:15:42,240
Speaker 1: be at an outside receiver and I was thinking about

1463
01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 1: the inside receiver route, you know, and just things like that,

1464
01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:47,320
Speaker 1: which I you know, talked with DK and just slowed

1465
01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:49,680
Speaker 1: things down for me. And now I don't got to

1466
01:15:49,720 --> 01:15:52,639
Speaker 1: hang over. So now it's just a matter of going

1467
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:55,519
Speaker 1: out there and doing it. But I think coach Billy

1468
01:15:55,600 --> 01:15:58,280
Speaker 1: g and coach Mollenham in Florida it did a really

1469
01:15:58,280 --> 01:16:01,320
Speaker 1: good job of helping it making me the transition a

1470
01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:04,320
Speaker 1: lot easier from the program we were in and the

1471
01:16:04,320 --> 01:16:07,360
Speaker 1: way they taught things. So um, a big shout out

1472
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:12,360
Speaker 1: to those guys. Freddie, what has it been like Pete

1473
01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:16,160
Speaker 1: Carroll and this organization is just a whirlwind. You know. No,

1474
01:16:16,479 --> 01:16:19,360
Speaker 1: remember my time being here with the Seahawks. It was

1475
01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:22,240
Speaker 1: just such a blast going to work every day. What

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01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 1: has that environment been like? Uh? From your experience, it

1477
01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:29,360
Speaker 1: makes it feel like it's not worked. You know. We come,

1478
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 1: we play, we shoot hooves at each other, we laugh,

1479
01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 1: we joke, you know, and it makes your job a

1480
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:38,720
Speaker 1: lot easier when you're having fun. So, um, it's a

1481
01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 1: very cool environment. All the guys have fun, all the

1482
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:43,600
Speaker 1: guys get along, and um, you just couldn't ask for

1483
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:47,920
Speaker 1: a better workplace growing up in Florida, Freddie, were you

1484
01:16:47,960 --> 01:16:53,360
Speaker 1: a fan of any one team or player? Um? No,

1485
01:16:53,439 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 1: I'll just watched football. I'll just watch it. Is there

1486
01:16:57,400 --> 01:16:59,840
Speaker 1: a piece of advice you've gotten this week? You mentioned

1487
01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:02,120
Speaker 1: talking to DK a lot. Is there anything that he

1488
01:17:02,320 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: said that maybe you're repeating to yourself, Like when I

1489
01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:07,600
Speaker 1: think of things that maybe I've gotten good advice and

1490
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:09,400
Speaker 1: I just kind of repeat that in my head once

1491
01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:12,680
Speaker 1: in a while. M He just like something little like

1492
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 1: it was like probably something little to him, but it

1493
01:17:15,360 --> 01:17:16,800
Speaker 1: was kind of big to me. Just said, he just said,

1494
01:17:16,840 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 1: be yourself, you know. Um, don't try to do too much.

1495
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: Don't try to you know what I'm saying, just yea,

1496
01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 1: do what got you here? And once I just figured

1497
01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:25,320
Speaker 1: that out and just stop caring about things and not

1498
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:27,640
Speaker 1: like not caring about things, but you know it just

1499
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:29,479
Speaker 1: got back to my old stuff and just went to

1500
01:17:29,600 --> 01:17:31,800
Speaker 1: having found a playing football, you know. Yeah, that's what

1501
01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 1: helped me with the transition. Weren't trying to be anyone else, right,

1502
01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:38,200
Speaker 1: And and there's and there's a million million things going

1503
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:40,240
Speaker 1: through your mind. You're trying to impress, you're trying to

1504
01:17:40,240 --> 01:17:42,360
Speaker 1: do all these different things. At times you can you

1505
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:49,040
Speaker 1: can start playing tight right, Great, Hey, Freddie, were you

1506
01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:53,400
Speaker 1: surprised by how like welcoming and all the because you

1507
01:17:53,439 --> 01:17:55,960
Speaker 1: know earlier that you Stacy asked you about you know,

1508
01:17:56,000 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: the hazing which really doesn't go on in the NFL

1509
01:17:58,120 --> 01:18:02,160
Speaker 1: and don't believe you. Yeah, well maybe a little bit.

1510
01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:04,559
Speaker 1: I mean sometimes they might ask you to take them

1511
01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 1: out to a really expensive dinner, Freddie, that might be

1512
01:18:07,200 --> 01:18:09,920
Speaker 1: the extent of it. But were you kind of surprised

1513
01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 1: by how I mean, Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf two

1514
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:17,280
Speaker 1: of the nicest guys and just generous and you know,

1515
01:18:17,600 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 1: sometimes receivers can be a little uh, you know, they

1516
01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:23,080
Speaker 1: can be a little on the side of you know,

1517
01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:25,920
Speaker 1: being devastion and things like that. But this, this has

1518
01:18:25,960 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 1: got to be a great room, especially with those two

1519
01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:31,240
Speaker 1: guys talk about how they sort of set the town

1520
01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:36,679
Speaker 1: in that receiver meeting room. So like DK Demo and Tyler,

1521
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:38,840
Speaker 1: they're you know, they're they're cool. You know, they don't

1522
01:18:38,840 --> 01:18:42,479
Speaker 1: really like the things Coach tells them. They passed on

1523
01:18:42,479 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: to us. You know, if if we don't really get

1524
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:46,040
Speaker 1: the message or we don't really get what's going on,

1525
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:48,960
Speaker 1: they'll pass it on in a different perspective, you know,

1526
01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 1: something maybe something that we could catch on too. And

1527
01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:53,880
Speaker 1: those guys don't hold any information. They'll let you know

1528
01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:58,920
Speaker 1: what's going on, like they'll pass all the information to you.

1529
01:18:58,960 --> 01:19:00,720
Speaker 1: So none of them guys are says, it's not a

1530
01:19:00,760 --> 01:19:04,439
Speaker 1: selfish guy in that room. So I mean, I just

1531
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:07,599
Speaker 1: keep it harping on. Like the organization. It's just great,

1532
01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:09,759
Speaker 1: you know, And I think that comes from the top,

1533
01:19:09,880 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 1: you know, with Coach Carroll and the way they act

1534
01:19:12,439 --> 01:19:14,800
Speaker 1: and things like that. So, um, I mean our room

1535
01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:17,200
Speaker 1: is great. Other rooms are great. So I mean we're

1536
01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 1: just having fun. Freddy, We appreciate you coming out with us,

1537
01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 1: and best of luck this season too. You yeah, thank

1538
01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:29,519
Speaker 1: you so much, appreciate it all right, that's Freddy Sway

1539
01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:32,840
Speaker 1: got to talk with whole Yeah, very nice kid. I

1540
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 1: got to talk with a whole bunch of people today,

1541
01:19:34,520 --> 01:19:38,200
Speaker 1: John Boyle, Andy bunker down in Atlanta, Ray Robert, Steve Rabel,

1542
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:43,439
Speaker 1: Quandre Diggs, and Freddy swayin quickly, Dave before we wrap,

1543
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:47,320
Speaker 1: what do you got going on tonight? Ah? We got

1544
01:19:47,320 --> 01:19:50,720
Speaker 1: the Hawks Live. Actually I'm a late fill in for

1545
01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 1: Paul Moyer, so uh yeah, me and Michael bump Is

1546
01:19:54,200 --> 01:19:58,960
Speaker 1: seven to nine Hawks Live. Seven to nine was a

1547
01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:03,320
Speaker 1: late scratch by the way, okay, and is that originating

1548
01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:06,519
Speaker 1: from everybody's home? How's that working? I think we're doing

1549
01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:09,639
Speaker 1: it from the vMac, so oh okay. You know where

1550
01:20:09,720 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: Jake broadcasts out on the picnic table up. He tries

1551
01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:16,519
Speaker 1: to cover the mic with his hand when it's windy,

1552
01:20:16,520 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 1: and then he just sounds like he's on a chopper.

1553
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 1: Hopefully there's no wind down there. That's right. Yeah, it's

1554
01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:25,639
Speaker 1: gonna get cold out there come December, but we'll worry

1555
01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:29,400
Speaker 1: about telling. Thanks. Thanks for joining us table. We appreciate it.

1556
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:33,719
Speaker 1: Thanks guys, all right, have a good day. All right, Tom,

1557
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:36,799
Speaker 1: Jake and Stacy gets going next. This has been addle