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Speaker 1: You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver

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Speaker 1: Michael Bumpus. After ten yard line, second to day free

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Speaker 1: wide receivers now in motion as Bumpers left to write

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Speaker 1: Julius Jones a single setback Matt pumpfecks looking at the

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Speaker 1: gold line, he throws it into the end zone. Touchdown.

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Speaker 1: Say Hawks, it's Michael Bumpas with a diving catching the

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Speaker 1: end zone. Our ten yard touchdown reception for Bumpus and

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Speaker 1: the kid out of Washington State has found himself a

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Speaker 1: place on this team. Powered by Seahawks dot Com. What's

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Speaker 1: so fos? This is Hot Talk preview editional Week fifteen.

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Speaker 1: The Seahawks are playing the Carolina Panthers in Carolina. Ten am.

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Speaker 1: Start as usual, This is Michael Bumpus along with my

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Speaker 1: producer Nasa Shelby. Before we hop into the specifics, here's

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Speaker 1: your injury update, Thanks Michael. Head coach Pete Carroll. He

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Speaker 1: stepped up to the podium this week as he's each

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Speaker 1: and every week, and gave him some updates on some

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Speaker 1: guys that are banged up from the Rams game and

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Speaker 1: a couple other guys trying to get back in action

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Speaker 1: this week. First starting with Ziggy on zig he's practicing today. Um,

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Speaker 1: he's got a chance real get a chance to it

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Speaker 1: to be okay, but he has to still prove it.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's the strength issue right now. Michael Kendricks,

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Speaker 1: How what'd say status for this week? He ran uh

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Speaker 1: yesterday and and I think he's going again today. He

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Speaker 1: won't practice today. Um, so we have to wait and

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Speaker 1: see all the way to the end of the week

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Speaker 1: if he can make it back. How about he's sick today? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's he got the flu thing. It finally hit him.

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Speaker 1: Any more damage beyond just the acl um, there's some

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Speaker 1: other stuff that they'll look at when they get in

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Speaker 1: there that they are going to do surgery. He will

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Speaker 1: have surgery and uh, so we'll know that he's not

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Speaker 1: going in immediately. They're gonna let it quiet down before

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Speaker 1: they do that. It's a long haul to get him back.

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Speaker 1: So how we're gonna take all the right precautions to

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Speaker 1: make sure we start and start the process at the

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Speaker 1: right time. But they gotta get in and find out

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Speaker 1: what's going on. But it's an acluh damage that mainly

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Speaker 1: they're concerned with. What do you think of how cool

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Speaker 1: and played and is he gonna be healthy? Then yeah,

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Speaker 1: Cody's going today. I mean he's a little get a

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Speaker 1: little banged up in the game, but he came back

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Speaker 1: and got back in. He is just kind of like

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Speaker 1: denying being hurt. You know, it's just not even it's

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Speaker 1: not there. So all right, Michael, let's hop into the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks Week fifteen opponent. That's like you mentioned the Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 1: They've kind of struggled as of late. There are currently

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Speaker 1: on a five game moving streak, and last week they

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Speaker 1: gotta be alert for pressure. Here they comes, yep, Ryans

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Speaker 1: from the pocket, gonna take the shot. Zakias is out there,

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Speaker 1: Alama days first professional tech. He breaks away and Alamaday

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Speaker 1: three yards. Unbelievable. Dante Jackson got caught in the dust.

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Speaker 1: Well they got They came with a sellout blitz, zero

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Speaker 1: coverage and Alamaday is Zikias, the old time leading receiver

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Speaker 1: rookie delivers big time unbelievable. The first professional catch of

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Speaker 1: a Lamina Zakias his career is a ninety three yard touchdown. Well,

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Speaker 1: it didn't go the Falcons way last week. That was

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Speaker 1: a ninety three yard touchdown. The game wasn't that close, Michael,

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Speaker 1: What did you see from him? It wasn't that close.

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Speaker 1: It was thirteen to ten at halftime, but then it

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Speaker 1: got out of hand pretty quickly. The Pathers scored twenty

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan balled out and he went twenty for thirty four,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, tough break for them. But Michael has jumping

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Speaker 1: without question, the most talented player on the Panthers roster.

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Speaker 1: How do you stop this guy? You don't stop him.

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Speaker 1: containing is a good word, because you're not gonna stop him.

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Speaker 1: The Panthers know who the best players. They're gonna put

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Speaker 1: that span Allen has nine touchdowns but twelve interceptions. And

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Speaker 1: Forty four times. Let's get after no sacks last week

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Speaker 1: DJ Moore has been a big surprise for this Panther offense.

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