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Speaker 1: at a pretty heartbreaking loss against the Washington football team, Jake.

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Speaker 1: So let's start by looking back at that Monday night

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Speaker 1: not convert on third down. They finished four of twelve

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Speaker 1: I told you wouldn't wate too long on the Washington

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Speaker 1: Then you flip that over to Fred Warner Stacy. In

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Speaker 1: college coach who was so excited about what you could

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00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,240
Speaker 1: do at this level. It was clear that he's felt

428
00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,200
Speaker 1: that you were like one of the best players he's coached.

429
00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,080
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not just paraphrasing what he's saying. There

430
00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:07,959
Speaker 1: really was a lot of real sentiment there. I mean,

431
00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,440
Speaker 1: do you feel like, even though it's been a couple

432
00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:13,760
Speaker 1: of months now, you're you're just now getting a chance

433
00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:18,359
Speaker 1: to prove yourself. Yeah, it has been a lot of adversity. Um,

434
00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:21,240
Speaker 1: that's came my way my first year, which I'm okay with.

435
00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,879
Speaker 1: You know, starting out starting out this way, you know

436
00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,480
Speaker 1: it's gonna make me tougher and stronger for the long run. Um.

437
00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, now that I'm able to get back out there,

438
00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:32,560
Speaker 1: you know, I've just continued to do the things that

439
00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,560
Speaker 1: I started out doing. You know, I always working hard, um,

440
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,800
Speaker 1: keeping my foot, keeping myself grounded, you know, so I

441
00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:42,160
Speaker 1: just keep on attacking. Do What was that like? That process?

442
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, being out with concussion is so

443
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,480
Speaker 1: different from everything else because you know, it's these are

444
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,480
Speaker 1: different injuries and easier ways to get back from wars

445
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:52,600
Speaker 1: A concussion, it's so up in the air. But how

446
00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:54,959
Speaker 1: did you handle that process? And you know, was there

447
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,800
Speaker 1: ever a time where you ended up getting frustrated or

448
00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,080
Speaker 1: you know, uh, upset that you couldn't get back out

449
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,600
Speaker 1: there sooner? Yeah, it was definitely. The whole process was

450
00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:07,800
Speaker 1: definitely frustrating. But you know I didn't I always just

451
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 1: told myself I didn't really have a choice. You know,

452
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,359
Speaker 1: I couldn't. I couldn't stop where I was at, you know,

453
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:14,480
Speaker 1: just because of the concussion and things that I was

454
00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:17,119
Speaker 1: dealing with. So you know, it was a vigorous process.

455
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,320
Speaker 1: You know, I put in a lot of work that

456
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,280
Speaker 1: a lot of people outside of this facility don't really

457
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,280
Speaker 1: know what I did to come back. So you know,

458
00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,480
Speaker 1: I'm just happy that I got through it and happy

459
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,639
Speaker 1: down back on the field. Now. Yeah, that's the thing is.

460
00:21:27,760 --> 00:21:29,879
Speaker 1: I remember Pete Carroll at a press conference saying, oh,

461
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,360
Speaker 1: D's back in town, and I was thinking, D's back

462
00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,240
Speaker 1: in town. Where'd he go? And then we learned that

463
00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:36,639
Speaker 1: you went to see a vision specialist in Florida. I mean,

464
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:40,320
Speaker 1: what was all that like? Yeah, it was, It was definitely.

465
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 1: It was definitely tough. What was doing just just a

466
00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 1: lot of eye reconfiguration and just a lot of just

467
00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,399
Speaker 1: brain things to help me get my senses back to

468
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 1: where they needed to be to perform at a high

469
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,960
Speaker 1: level at wide receiver, you know, because it's a lot

470
00:21:56,040 --> 00:22:00,720
Speaker 1: of things that UM with hand eye coordination, UM being

471
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:02,920
Speaker 1: able to anticipate things, and those were the things that

472
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,600
Speaker 1: I was struggling with. So you know, the doctor, doctor

473
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,639
Speaker 1: answer Nucci, UM and Florida. He just came up with

474
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,280
Speaker 1: a plan. We just came up with a plan, and

475
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,639
Speaker 1: we just attacked it. Um every day all day at

476
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,440
Speaker 1: the time that I was there, scale of one to

477
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 1: one hundred percentage wise, Where are you at right now?

478
00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 1: I would say I'm one hundred now. D you know

479
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,760
Speaker 1: now that you've been back and you've been cleared, Um,

480
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,560
Speaker 1: you know, it's been a process, you know, getting back

481
00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,480
Speaker 1: into the swing of things and getting more reps and

482
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:34,359
Speaker 1: opportunities to get on the field. You know, what has

483
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,119
Speaker 1: it been like for you each week? And you know,

484
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,440
Speaker 1: building towards you know, feeling one hundred percent, not just

485
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,399
Speaker 1: physically but mentally with this offense. Yeah, you know, I

486
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,920
Speaker 1: just I really rely on Russ a lot. Um. You're

487
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 1: not coming early with him, um still like I started

488
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:52,600
Speaker 1: out doing. And you know, I just I just constantly

489
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 1: just asked questions with him and allow myself to rely

490
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Speaker 1: on him to for him to be able to put

491
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Speaker 1: me in the best position, you know. So I just

492
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,760
Speaker 1: feed off of him, feed off of my coach and

493
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 1: the guys in the room, and you know, just finding

494
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,920
Speaker 1: my role since I've missed so much time and coming

495
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 1: back to this team. So I would say some along

496
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 1: the lines of that, what's your relationship like right now

497
00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 1: with some of those other receivers particularly Tyler and DKA.

498
00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 1: I would say, I would say, we'll close. We're tightening

499
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 1: the group in that In that room, Um, you know,

500
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 1: we we get each other better. You know, we talk

501
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,159
Speaker 1: about things and you know, we're not really afraid to

502
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 1: hold our tongue when it comes to each other. So

503
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,199
Speaker 1: I would say, it's a close that group. Now, are

504
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 1: you being you're the new guy? Are you being peer pressured?

505
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 1: Is DK trying to get you to dye the hair green?

506
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:37,719
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? It's Tyler trying to get

507
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:42,440
Speaker 1: you to coordinate some dances. I wouldn't say DK signing

508
00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:44,920
Speaker 1: to give me that my hair green, but Tyler is

509
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 1: trying to get me to dance a little bit more. No,

510
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: and he's saying, Okay, you need Is he saying like, hey,

511
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 1: when we're doing warm ups, you just need to be

512
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:54,360
Speaker 1: more animated, or is he saying we need to coordinate

513
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 1: your first touchdown celebration. Um, it's maybe a little bit

514
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 1: of both. You know you always got great energy all day. Yeah,

515
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,680
Speaker 1: but I always say it's a little bit of Both's

516
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: funny man, Yeah, Tyler is a funny guy, and you know,

517
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 1: being in the locker room with him, he's also a

518
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:16,160
Speaker 1: very calming presence. What is it like the stark difference

519
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: between DK and Tyler and how has that been beneficial

520
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:21,680
Speaker 1: for you to see that there are different styles, not

521
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 1: just in size but approach as well. Yeah. I always

522
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 1: say it helps me. It helps me a lot, just

523
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,399
Speaker 1: because I felt like me and dcare are similar when

524
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,879
Speaker 1: it comes to the attributes that we have when it

525
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:36,639
Speaker 1: comes to speed, power and physicality and things like that.

526
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 1: And then Tyler on the other hand, he's he's pretty

527
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,360
Speaker 1: much all mental. He knows what's going to happen before

528
00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 1: it's going to happen, and he's able to react in

529
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 1: a in a successful way. So I feel like me

530
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: being able to get some things from DK and then

531
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: get some things from Tyler that I don't necessary that

532
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 1: I'm working towards having, you know, I feel like that's

533
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 1: gonna that's gonna create someone aptlete me the where you

534
00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: know I didn't, I didn't show that side in college. Yeah,

535
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 1: so you know, I felt like it'd be it'd be

536
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:09,639
Speaker 1: great for the future of me being able to apply

537
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,720
Speaker 1: those things that I've learned from these two. Now, have

538
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: you had a moment this year where it felt like

539
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 1: someone was really trying to help you out, and you thought, wow,

540
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: this is a cool moment. Like I remember talking with

541
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:20,880
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers when he was here and he said when

542
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,280
Speaker 1: Brandon Marshall, who was here for a little bit, pulled

543
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 1: him aside and was doing like one on one drills

544
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 1: with him and he was just kind of in awe

545
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: of what was happening. Felt like it was a cool opportunity.

546
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,360
Speaker 1: Do you if you had a moment this year where

547
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: maybe Russell Wilson pulls you aside and works one on

548
00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: one DK and anything like that, Yeah, definitely definitely Russ.

549
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,639
Speaker 1: You know, we're just constantly working on details, constantly talking

550
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 1: things out about this look at that look, and just

551
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 1: really just talking football and then a lot of things

552
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:51,120
Speaker 1: about life as well. So you know that's that's pretty

553
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,360
Speaker 1: often when it comes to Russ, you know, that's who

554
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 1: he is, and then DK as well, Anne Tyler, So

555
00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 1: you know we do that pretty often. It's it's no

556
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 1: mistake that the offense has really struggled so far this season,

557
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 1: but you know, from your perspective, uh, seeing it and

558
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 1: seeing how these guys are handling it and how you

559
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: guys as a group are handling it, what do you think,

560
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 1: you know, fans should know about the way the offense

561
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: is approaching it during the week. I man, we're not

562
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: going to stop. It's always you know, we're always trying

563
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: to push forward. Um. Not really worried about too much

564
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: in the past, you know, because at the end of

565
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: the day, it doesn't matter from this far and forward. UM.

566
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,920
Speaker 1: So we just we always just being where we are.

567
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: You know, what can we work on to get better

568
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: from the things that we did see from the last

569
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: week's prior um and just keep on getting better in

570
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 1: some type of way. One percent better, easy day, you know.

571
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:46,600
Speaker 1: I just feel like that's the that's the type of

572
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: energy we have on this offense, even though it hasn't

573
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: been going as well. Yeah, it hasn't been going as well,

574
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: especially on third down, and I know you guys know that.

575
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 1: Has that been a special focus for you guys this week? Yeah, definitely. Yeah,

576
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,720
Speaker 1: we're constantly just working on all phases honestly, because nothing's

577
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,360
Speaker 1: perfect and nothing will be perfect. So we're just constantly

578
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: just hammering down what we need to do with the

579
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:11,400
Speaker 1: details of what we're doing. Do you get any sense

580
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 1: of panic or do you feel like there's a good

581
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: a good presence about the way that everybody's trying to

582
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: handle everything. I feel like it's a good presence because

583
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 1: in football, you know, this is you don't win everything,

584
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,200
Speaker 1: you know, and there's there's times where like losing. You know,

585
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,680
Speaker 1: we've been here before, so you know, we just just

586
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 1: constantly just keeping our foot one foot in front of another.

587
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: All right. He is d Escer's wide receiver for the Seahawks.

588
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 1: D You know what this means though, is now when

589
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: you do get your first touchdown, I'm personally going to

590
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: be expecting that Tyler and you will have worked something

591
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: out with like a dance or a celebration move. I mean, man,

592
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: you're setting the bar high right now. You should never

593
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 1: have told us this. Yeah, we'll feel about that, all right.

594
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: All right, well, how fun this Sunday man? All right,

595
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: thank you guys. Thanks. He is wide receiver dsk Gridge

596
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: really excited to see him. He said, he's on one

597
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:07,960
Speaker 1: hundred percent as he continues to get out there and

598
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 1: just be incorporated into this offense. I remember just how

599
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: excited a lot of people were to see what he

600
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: would be in this system. You had an offensive coordinator

601
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 1: coming from the Rams offense in a wide receiver that

602
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 1: seemed like he was a perfect fit for that type

603
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: of offense. And you haven't quite seen the marriage work

604
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: out so far because he's missed so much time and

605
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: the offense is trying to get firing on all cylinders.

606
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: So I'm very curious to see that marriage finally happen.

607
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: All right, coming up next, we're gonna be joined by

608
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: Seahawks dot Com reporter John Boyle. Let's get updated on

609
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 1: the latest injuries to this team. That's next. This is

610
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: the huddle with Dave Wyman, Jay keep Since Stacy Ross.

611
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: We are getting you guys ready for the seahawks upcoming

612
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: game against the San Francisco forty nine Ers, that one

613
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: back at Looming Field this Sunday. Now, Jake, we've talked

614
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 1: to Cody Barton to figure out what's going on with defense.

615
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: All of that was very interesting. Asked him about red

616
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 1: zone defense, buckling down inside the twenties. We talked to

617
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: dsk Ridge to ask him about how he's acclimating to

618
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: the offense now that he's healthy. Says he's at one

619
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: hundred percent. And now we're going to talk with the

620
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: John Boyle, who's a reporter for seahawks dot Com cover

621
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: and this team knows it inside and out. John, how's

622
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: it going. It's going pretty good. How you guys doing well?

623
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: We just talked I just mentioned with Cody Barton and

624
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 1: d esk Ridge to get a bit of a look

625
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: at both sides of the ball here. But I'm wondering

626
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 1: if we could take kind of a holistic approach first

627
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,200
Speaker 1: with you, which is to say, this is certainly not

628
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: where the Seahawks expected to see themselves. I don't know

629
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 1: how much there is to play for in terms of

630
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: trying to push for the playoffs. They're still technically alive,

631
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 1: but you certainly just want to get a win for,

632
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: if nothing else, a feeling of getting back on the

633
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: right track here. Yeah, for sure. I mean, look, these guys,

634
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: they want to win every game from here out, and

635
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna keep playing for a playoff spots until you know,

636
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: the masks as they can't get it. But they also

637
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: probably understand internally it that's really tough offs at this point.

638
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: But you're right, they just they need to get one

639
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,520
Speaker 1: for themselves, just to you know. These are all competitive guys.

640
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: They're you know, especially guys who've been here a long time,

641
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 1: guys who are not just losing at all. You know,

642
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: they're the winning ten twelve games of season. So yeah,

643
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: it's you know, I don't think there's any sense of

644
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: guys you know, giving up or you know, just coasting

645
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: to the season. They're all fighting hard still and in

646
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 1: the right place mentally. But yeah, they they got to

647
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: get some things right and start winning games well. And

648
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: that's certainly the mindset it seems like of the front

649
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: office in Pete Carroll as well, because they went and

650
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: signed Adrian Peterson and John What did you make of

651
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: that signing and what could it hopefully do for the team. Yeah,

652
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: I mean, well we'll see how he you know, how

653
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: ready he is. He's you know, I know he didn't

654
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 1: play earlier this year, but he's been out of football

655
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: for you know whatever it is, a month or two now,

656
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 1: So I might have a little bit of Russ and

657
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:52,160
Speaker 1: knockoffs and learn some some of the offense and stuff.

658
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: But I mean he gives them even you we're not

659
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,360
Speaker 1: going to pretend to use all pro MVP level Adrian

660
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: Peterson probably at this point, but he's still a physical

661
00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: back and you know, we've seen them struggle in some

662
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: of those short yard situations that they missed a couple

663
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: of them last week in the running games. So maybe

664
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: he's a guy that it wants to speed if you

665
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: want to very much practice squat and give you some

666
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: some just physical play and some you know, some extra

667
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 1: punch there. And then we heard Russell Wilson just talking

668
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: about he's a veteran, he knows how to prepare, he

669
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: knows how to work, and it's just some of that

670
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: can be setting a good example for some young guys

671
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: as well, and just sort of how to go back

672
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: and be the right way. Speaking of Russell Wilson, he's

673
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: certainly come under a lot of scrutiny. I mean, struggles

674
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 1: on third down, the offense has a whole struggling. So

675
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: it's all understandable. Now. What makes it tough is he's

676
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: coming back from a finger injury, right, so you're like, well,

677
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: how much is not being healthy, how much is missing time?

678
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: And how much is just making weird mistakes we're not

679
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: used to seeing. And I don't think any of us

680
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: know the answer right now. But when you guys have

681
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: asked Russell Wilson about, you know, what he's working on

682
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: or his mindset moving forward. What has he said? I

683
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: mean terms of the mindset, he's just all about getting

684
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 1: it right. I mean he talks about he's a guy

685
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: and and he's right about this. If there has a career,

686
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: he's been good at fixing things when you know, whether

687
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: it was a stretcher scare where third down was bad

688
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: or he was turning the ball over a little bit

689
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: too much. He's always been a guy that, you know,

690
00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: you put a challenge to him, he tends to get

691
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: it right. And I think he'll do that here too.

692
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 1: He you know, we've seen some really good throws out

693
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: of him, especially the last two games where you see

694
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, that looks like Russ. You know

695
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: that that ball he threaded into Gerald Lark for the

696
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:25,840
Speaker 1: touchdown was great. He's throwing some really good deep balls

697
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: last two games. So he can make the throws. There's

698
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 1: been a few that have gotten away, you know, especially

699
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: we've seen some of those quick you know, or he's

700
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: trying to rip it quick to Gerald evert on third

701
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: down or something like that where they just sail on

702
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: a little bit. So whether that's you know, a little

703
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: bit or rust he's knocking off or whatever else, it is.

704
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: You know, no one's quite sure, at least they're they're

705
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: not saying yet, but I have full confidence that we're gonna,

706
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: you know, as a season goes long, where you see

707
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 1: him get better and look more like Russell Wilson. Hey,

708
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,000
Speaker 1: I want to get back to the running backs. We

709
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: talked about Adrian Peterson being signed here and tbd A

710
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: is to what he's going to contribute, I mean, certainly

711
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: someone to learn from for the other running backs in

712
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: the room. One of the other running backs is were

713
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: shod Penny John. I was I don't want to say surprised,

714
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: but it was curious to say, Pete Carroll say, no,

715
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 1: Penny not heading to i R right now. He's injured,

716
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:13,760
Speaker 1: but we're going to wait to see how he looks.

717
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: What's your understanding of where Penny's at in his recovery

718
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 1: and maybe the probability he'll be back this week. Yeah,

719
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't begin to be able to get

720
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: a good probability and pretend like I know what I'm

721
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: talking about. But I think it's just that they want

722
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: to wait and make sure. You know, they don't want

723
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,719
Speaker 1: to make this call too soon because I'm like YO

724
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,479
Speaker 1: earlier when you put him on IRE the first time,

725
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,239
Speaker 1: it's that three week thing. But you put a guy

726
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: in i R a second time, he's done. So I

727
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: don't think they want to shut him down for the year.

728
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: If they do think he's going to get back relatively

729
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 1: as soon, they want to get him that shot. This

730
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: is it's so unfortunately we've seen kind of the tannelighting

731
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: talent when he wants healthy, and I think they just

732
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: want to get him every shot to try to show

733
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: it one more time here before the season. Biver. But

734
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: you know, I would get to, you know, a week

735
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: by week thing and that I think you can get

736
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: back early soon. You keep him around and if it

737
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: doesn't look like that happens soon and you need that

738
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: roster spot for an Adrian Peterson or anyone else, and

739
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: maybe at some point you got to make that decision.

740
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 1: But right now they're helping up Cross the Tower roster

741
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 1: that they don't need to rush to make them the

742
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: roster spot. John. There was obviously a lot that was

743
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 1: going wrong for the offense in this game against Washington,

744
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: but you look at the defense and the job that

745
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: they did in the second half, and really the effort

746
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: that they game gave all game long. It wasn't perfect,

747
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: but man, they did come up with some big stops

748
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 1: when they needed it. What does that say about this defense? Yeah,

749
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we've seen some really good things

750
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: out of this defense for a while and just really

751
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of the heart if you will,

752
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: or the grid or what didn't you want to call it,

753
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 1: that they've been on the field a ton has been

754
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,959
Speaker 1: well documented and that I mean, I know, guys aren't

755
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 1: guys don't want to throw each other under the bus,

756
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: and you don't mean to hear defensive players complain about

757
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: but you just can't tell me that playing seventy five

758
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 1: plays the game isn't getting tiring on them, especially later games.

759
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:00,359
Speaker 1: And to see them in that fourth quarter have those

760
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: three third and short stops and then they get the

761
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: fourth down and by literally is close to Martin if

762
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: you can get where they got to go view it.

763
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: But Jamal Adams makes a really good fight just get

764
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: that fourth down to stop its goal line and gives

765
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: offense a chance and make that an impressive drive they put. Yeah,

766
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 1: that was a Jamal Adams his second pick of the year,

767
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: and his season's just been improving. What have you been

768
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: seeing from him in terms of why things are clicking

769
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: and why he's improved. Oh, yep, we might a lost

770
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: John there. Yep. We'll work to see if we can

771
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: get him back. But just a couple of minutes left here, Jake,

772
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: I'll throw you the question actually just to say, you know,

773
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams got his second pick this one against Taylor Heineke.

774
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,800
Speaker 1: It wasn't really his strong suit as strong as you

775
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: last year was sacks. He hasn't been getting to the

776
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: quarterback as much, but you've seen him improve as the

777
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: year has gone on. Is that translating to you outside

778
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: of the stats? You're seeing it with your eyes of

779
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams. That's petting better well in certain aspects. I mean,

780
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: the one thing that really I don't like is is

781
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 1: the is the run by j D McKissick that happened

782
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,439
Speaker 1: in the Washington game and seeing Bobby Wagger and Jamal

783
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: Adams at the effort that they gave on that play.

784
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: To me, I was not thrilled about that. But after that,

785
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: I mean I thought that they I thought for the

786
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: most part in the game, Jamal Adams had played extremely well,

787
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: had been given a ton of energy and you know,

788
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: laying big hits and doing all those things. So for

789
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: the most part, I mean, I've been really happy with

790
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: what Jamal has done and what he in terms of

791
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: what he has been asked to do. I think he's

792
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 1: done a really good job up to this point. And

793
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 1: you know, outside of a couple you know, big mistakes

794
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,319
Speaker 1: that's happened throughout the year, I think Jamal Adams has

795
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 1: has played the role exceptionally well. And again it just

796
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: comes down to usage being more of the reason why.

797
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: You know, Jamal hasn't consistently made some of these game changing,

798
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 1: big time impactful plays that we saw him make a

799
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: ton last year. But definitely seeing him start to get

800
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: some of those interceptions starting to get too now is

801
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,839
Speaker 1: an encouraging sign and hopefully he'll get some more as

802
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: time goes on. And I know in that building, you know,

803
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: being in that room, Stacy, you have any opportunity when

804
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: you got tips and overthrows, you gotta get those, and

805
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: that is the mantra of that defense. I like that

806
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: it rhymes. I appreciate and respect that I mentioned that

807
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 1: we would get to injuries with John Boyle. We lost

808
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: John's He's like alive. He still he's still with us.

809
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 1: He's just not on the phone right now. But that's okay.

810
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: We'll let him go because we just have a couple.

811
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: Hoefully missus Boyle didn't tune in right there. Oh no,

812
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 1: oh god, No, John's okay. John's okay. Um. But I'm

813
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and go over that injury report anyways,

814
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: just so you guys have it. Only one player misspracticed yesterday.

815
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,720
Speaker 1: That is guard at Kyle Fuller. I know he's centered,

816
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: but he filled in at Garden place of Lewis. He

817
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: has an ecle injury. Limited. It's a full list here.

818
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna read right through him. Gabe Jackson, Damian Lewis,

819
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:58,280
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf, Alex Collins, Rashad Penny, Brandon Shell, Dwayne Brown,

820
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: Carlos Stunlap the last you guys there. Brown and Dunlap

821
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: just resting veterans. So I wouldn't worry about those two.

822
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: I also wouldn't worry about DK Metcalf, who's been on

823
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:08,359
Speaker 1: and off the injury report with a foot injury. He's

824
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: always managed to play. If I'm you guys, I'm looking

825
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: at Damian Lewis to see if he can get back

826
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: I'm also keeping an eye on that abdomen injury for

827
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: Alex Collins. He's been dealing with kind of a hip

828
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: abdomen injury. Make sure he can get back. And Rashad Penny,

829
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: I'm also watching him to see if he could get back. Yeah,

830
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's one of those things where you

831
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,240
Speaker 1: talk about the running back group, and that is obviously

832
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: an area where you are concerned about the overall depth

833
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: and everything else, but stacy overall, I mean, I think

834
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: it's it's a very good positive injury chart at this

835
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: point in the season. Right. John did get back to

836
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 1: me and said his phone just drop the call. I'm

837
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: too afraid to tell him. We may have told people

838
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 1: implied that he died. I'm not gonna say anything. Well,

839
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: he might hear about it later. You want to tell

840
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: he's gonna be fine. Don't tell John anything. This doesn't

841
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 1: leave this room, Okay, No one needs to know about

842
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 1: it anyways. That is the Seahawks injury report. In the

843
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: latest from Seahawks dot Com reporter John Boyle. Coming up next,

844
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: we are heading in the trenches figure out what's going

845
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: on with this old line, not just health, but how

846
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:12,880
Speaker 1: they can improve for the rest of the year with

847
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: Ray Roberts. He joins us. Next, you are listening to

848
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,759
Speaker 1: the huddle with Dave Wyman, Jay Keeps, and Stacy Ross.

849
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: Dave Wyman out sick today, So Jake and I will

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Speaker 1: be previewing the seahawks upcoming game against the San Francisco

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers. But we're gonna get some help right

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Speaker 1: now because an expert is joining us. We're going in

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Speaker 1: the trenches with Ray Roberts, a former lineman current NFL

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Speaker 1: analyst himself. Ray, what's up? Nothing, Marks, just hanging out

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Speaker 1: here on the East coastal of a bit that gaming

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Speaker 1: and Washington was so bad, I had to hang out

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Speaker 1: and DCA just a little bit more, had to recover. Hey,

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Speaker 1: so I actually do want to start. I know we

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Speaker 1: talked to you about everything. We don't just stick to

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Speaker 1: the offensive line, but I do want to start with

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Speaker 1: the offensive line for this one, which is to say

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Speaker 1: that when you're looking at strug on offense, Ray, I

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Speaker 1: know some of this stuff is easy for you to

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Speaker 1: pick apart. I think for the casual viewer, they're like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know where to start. I'm saying Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: overthrow people. Sometimes it seems like receivers aren't open. Other

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Speaker 1: times it seems like the run game can't get going.

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Speaker 1: In the offensive line of struggling, Just where does all

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Speaker 1: of this start? For you? You know what, Like obviously

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm the biggest defender of the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, really trying to bring some light

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Speaker 1: and to what's happening up there. But I'll be honest

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Speaker 1: with you, they've kind of left me at a loss

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Speaker 1: of words. I think of a lot of guys up

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Speaker 1: there have underperformed. They haven't been able to play together

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Speaker 1: as a unit. It's been five separate dudes playing football

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Speaker 1: at the same time. And and so we've said it before,

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Speaker 1: and weeks pass that. You know, every play it just

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Speaker 1: seems like a different player is taking turns, not getting

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Speaker 1: the job done. And so when that happens, you don't

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Speaker 1: have consistency within the drive, you don't have consistency within quarters,

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Speaker 1: you don't have consistency from half to half, and so

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Speaker 1: it's all hidden miss and so that's why, you know,

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Speaker 1: with a bunch of three and outs, because then you

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Speaker 1: and they missed a lot, and so you know, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of blame to go around. You can blame

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Speaker 1: Russell for holding the ball too long or not send

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Speaker 1: an open guy and going for bigger plays, but you

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Speaker 1: can also blame the offensive line for giving up. You know. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the pressure just comes too fast, you know, and so

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Speaker 1: you have to make a really quick decision, you know,

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Speaker 1: and so then you kind of go. You tend to

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Speaker 1: fall back to you your comfort zone, and it's in

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Speaker 1: his conference zone. Maybe to hold onto the ball a

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Speaker 1: little bit, or you know, maybe get the ball out

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Speaker 1: to the you know, you know, try to make big

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Speaker 1: plays with Tyler and DK to get something happening. So

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Speaker 1: to me, it's just it's kind of a you know

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Speaker 1: what my sisters would always call a hot mess and

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Speaker 1: uh and someway, you just have to figure out At

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Speaker 1: this point, I don't think it's about figuring out what

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Speaker 1: the offense is or what it is not. It's about

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Speaker 1: just figuring out a way each game to win the game.

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Speaker 1: So if that's throwing the ball, if that's running the ball,

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Speaker 1: if it's a combination of those things, if it's play

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Speaker 1: action pass as a drop back pass, if its screens,

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Speaker 1: if it's you know, short ralph's, deep ralphs, you have

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Speaker 1: to figure out early in the game. What is there

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Speaker 1: for you to take and then just go take it? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I am right there with you, Ray, one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: on that last part because one of the things, and

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Speaker 1: I don't I wonder what your response was to this,

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Speaker 1: because you know, when the game ended and Pete Carroll

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Speaker 1: talked about it post game and then he and then

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Speaker 1: he came back after watching the film on Monday and said, well,

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Speaker 1: we got to run the ball more. It's just as

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Speaker 1: blanket of a statement as that. And I looked at

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Speaker 1: that game, right and I watched the film, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: how can you say that running the game and running

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Speaker 1: the ball. They were getting man handled, absolutely dominated. And

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Speaker 1: I understand it's a philosophy, it's an identity, it's a

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Speaker 1: want to, But I mean, in that game, clearly it

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Speaker 1: wasn't going to happen no matter what the attempts were.

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Speaker 1: I mean, do you see that the same way or

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Speaker 1: do you do? Do you disagree? I mean, I really

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Speaker 1: really would love to hear what you had to say

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Speaker 1: on that. Yeah, I'm right there with you, Jake, And

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Speaker 1: because I don't know how you can watch the film

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Speaker 1: and just say you need to run it more unless

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Speaker 1: just for the sake of trying to create an identity

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Speaker 1: some kind that you that you want to run the ball.

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Speaker 1: The one thing that he did say that might be

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Speaker 1: a little bit duanced in it is that he was

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Speaker 1: talking about the rhythm of things, and so like, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe because he even identified that Washington had run the ball,

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Speaker 1: you know, having every times forty times, but they only

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Speaker 1: averaged three point eight yards to carry. So it's not

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Speaker 1: like it's not like their yards for Carrie was killing it,

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Speaker 1: but they were. But by them running the ball, it

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Speaker 1: kept rhythm to their offense. And so that's the thing

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Speaker 1: that I kind of thought that he was trying to

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Speaker 1: speak to because the idea was saying like, oh, we

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Speaker 1: need to run the ball because we're crushing the running

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Speaker 1: the ball at that wasn't happening. And then it just

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Speaker 1: wasn't happening. Dudes were just getting you know, uh, you know, manhandled.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, the running back was having to make cuts,

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Speaker 1: you know, in the backfield that even when they had

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Speaker 1: some success running, it was inconsistent. And so what I

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Speaker 1: took from that is in his mind to keep the

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Speaker 1: offense in rhythm and on tempo, that the running they

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Speaker 1: needed to run the ball more to kind of satisfy

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Speaker 1: that desire related what do you make of the Adrian

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Speaker 1: Peterson signing? You know, it's just interesting that it's just

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Speaker 1: too honestly to me, like if if I'm an opponent

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Speaker 1: of the Seahawks, man that it just it just screens

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Speaker 1: desperation to me, and so and so. Then if I

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Speaker 1: was the other team, I'd be looking at my chops.

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Speaker 1: It is like, you either the Seahawks you have people

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Speaker 1: right when they want them, or or it's just going

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Speaker 1: to be a long rest of the season. To me.

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Speaker 1: To me, there's I mean, I don't know what he's

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Speaker 1: going to come in and provide, you know, maybe the

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Speaker 1: threat of what he was in the past, but what

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Speaker 1: you've seen in the last couple of years, there's nothing

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Speaker 1: about Adrian Peterson that makes you feel threatened by what

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Speaker 1: he can bring to the table. So, uh, to me,

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Speaker 1: it seems like it's kind of a desperate move. And

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Speaker 1: to me, I think opponents are gonna are gonna be

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Speaker 1: like sharps and smell like you know, the blood in

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Speaker 1: the water. Yeah, And that comes down to an interesting question, Ray,

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Speaker 1: is now, you know, with six games remaining, you know

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Speaker 1: your playoff chances are I mean, I don't even no

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Speaker 1: way you bring up playoffs at this point stramatically. Sure,

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Speaker 1: sure it's there. Yeah, that mathematically a live thing. Yeah

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Speaker 1: me too, me too, I love it. It's mathematically could

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Speaker 1: still play. But Ray, Ray, what in these six games

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Speaker 1: can you really find out about this team? Is there

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Speaker 1: anything that you can find out or take away, you know,

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Speaker 1: as you head into next year? Yeah, you know, I think,

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Speaker 1: you know, especially with some of the younger players, I

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Speaker 1: still think there's an opportunity to see some improvement you

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Speaker 1: know that you can that can hopefully carry over to

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Speaker 1: next year. And then you also want to just see

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Speaker 1: what which dudes are gonna melt it in and which

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Speaker 1: guys are going to compete, because that's going to tell

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Speaker 1: you something too. So even though you're out of it mathematically,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that you're not getting the paycheck. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you know, you don't have a job

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Speaker 1: to do. So you still have to go out there

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Speaker 1: and get that job done. And so if you want

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Speaker 1: to be on this roster, or have a chance to

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Speaker 1: be on the roster, or you have you know, the

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Speaker 1: other teams watching this film, you still have to put

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Speaker 1: you still have to put the work in. And so

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, trying to even if it's like

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Speaker 1: short term improvements, you know, like that you want to

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Speaker 1: see a person do. Maybe that's a technique. You just

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Speaker 1: want them to work and be better for the sixty

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Speaker 1: games over that technique and not even worry about everything else.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like when I work with

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Speaker 1: my kids and we're trying to like work on improvement,

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Speaker 1: I don't give them like five things to do it once.

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Speaker 1: I go, Okay, for the next two weeks, I just

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Speaker 1: work on this one thing, and then after two weeks

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Speaker 1: we will work on another one thing. And so I

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Speaker 1: think that's what they have to do with this football

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Speaker 1: team and with the individual players or as a units,

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Speaker 1: and go like, okay, as a unit, what can we

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Speaker 1: do over the next two weeks to improve on what

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Speaker 1: one thing? So these other things may not improve, but

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Speaker 1: this one thing will and then and then as players,

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Speaker 1: you have to do this. You have to take that

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Speaker 1: same approach, you know, Ray, I know you've given this

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Speaker 1: a really long time, and I think I have an

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Speaker 1: idea where you're going to go with this, But what

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Speaker 1: is your evaluation ben of the decision to move Damian

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Speaker 1: Lewis to the left side and have Gabe Jackson play

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Speaker 1: the right side, and and has that hurt Damian Lewis's

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Speaker 1: development for this year in his second season. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think, uh, probably trying to accommodate, you know, Gabe

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Speaker 1: and his experience and where he felt comfortable, and then

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Speaker 1: trying to like build I thought, I think they were

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Speaker 1: trying to build like a one powerful side and so

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Speaker 1: to have Dwayne Brown and Damian Lewis beside each other,

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Speaker 1: he thought, like, man, this is going to be something

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Speaker 1: to contend with. But unfortunately, you know, to me, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Damian Lewis just kind of slipped a little bit, uh

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Speaker 1: this year, and this hasn't been consistently the guy that

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Speaker 1: I thought he was going to be. And then and

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Speaker 1: then I think his development was stumped a little bit

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Speaker 1: by Dwayne brown struggles. I think, you know, Dwayne Brown

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Speaker 1: just hasn't been the dude that he was that I

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Speaker 1: thought would be able to support and uplift the play

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Speaker 1: of Damian Lewis. So I think a combination of that

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Speaker 1: just kind of made the things about work. Switching the guard,

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Speaker 1: you know, guards from right side to the left side,

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Speaker 1: UH isn't as big as switching tackles from left to right.

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Speaker 1: And so I don't know that the switch was that

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Speaker 1: big a deal as much as just UH, I really

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Speaker 1: do And I know it's late in a season, but

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Speaker 1: I really do think, man, that they needed those reps

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Speaker 1: in the train and UH in the preseason to kind

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Speaker 1: of get everybody off, to get start to have the

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Speaker 1: different people playing a different positions beside different guys and

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Speaker 1: trying to understand what they do and can't do. And

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Speaker 1: I think by missing those reps and then having scripted

1047
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Speaker 1: reps in practice, you just the chemistry just didn't grow,

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Speaker 1: and you along the offensive line and UH, and then

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Speaker 1: you know Dwayne missing all of training camp, So I

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Speaker 1: think that really stunted the growth of the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: And then you throw in injuries and people panicking and

1052
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Speaker 1: things not going you know, the way you expected to go,

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Speaker 1: and it just it has just been a it just

1054
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Speaker 1: hasn't been what I expected. And for me, it's hard

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Speaker 1: to say, Jake, it's hard for me to give up

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Speaker 1: on on the offensive line. It's hard for me to

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Speaker 1: not defend them and all that kind of stuff. At

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Speaker 1: this point, man, it is really like each person. Each

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Speaker 1: player has to look at themselves in the mirror. It's

1060
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: like the story I told him Twitter about when I

1061
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 1: had to be brutally honest with myself and not just

1062
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:13,160
Speaker 1: truthful with myself, but I had to be brutally honest

1063
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: with myself about what it was I needed to do

1064
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: to get better or for me in that situation, I

1065
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: had to hang it up. Yeah, he is Ray Roberts.

1066
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 1: You can hear Ray on the Seahawks pre and postgame

1067
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 1: show that's this Sunday at ten am. Thanks so much, Ray. Yeah,

1068
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Good to hear from you guys.

1069
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: Thanks Ray. Bye. All right. The voice of the Seahawks,

1070
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,760
Speaker 1: Steve Rabel, joins us next on the Huddle. Don't go Anywhere.

1071
00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:39,200
Speaker 1: This is the Huddle with Dave Wyman, Jay Keeps, and

1072
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: Stacy Ross. We are joined now by the Voice of

1073
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, Steve Rabel and Raves. There's no Wyman today.

1074
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 1: He's out sick. Now. I have two theories. One he's

1075
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:50,320
Speaker 1: lying about being sick because he was too afraid to

1076
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:53,359
Speaker 1: face you, or two, he really is sick and he's

1077
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 1: trying to rest up and save his voice so that

1078
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: he can hang out with you on the call this weekend. Yeah, wow,

1079
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 1: I just either one of them is kind of a

1080
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: dreary thought. Uh no, I hope he gets well soon.

1081
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,320
Speaker 1: You know, we just just you know, just rest drinking,

1082
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: eat your chicken soup, right and and relax and listen

1083
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 1: to us and maybe you'll learn something day. Hey, Raves,

1084
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:19,360
Speaker 1: you could call him wood. I know you want to

1085
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: call him. You could call him a big baby if

1086
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: you want to. Well, I I try not to being

1087
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: one of those guys myself. I try not to try

1088
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: not to do that. Rabel. Uh. You know, you look

1089
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: at the game and obviously, uh, there are many takeaways

1090
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: that you can have with it, but being two offensive

1091
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: guys here, Uh what what did you make of the

1092
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 1: game overall? Watching it? Well, it was you know, it's

1093
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: difficult and and um, I guess I should preface everything.

1094
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: You know, people, and I get this sometimes and people.

1095
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: I don't go online very often, but sometimes I'll go

1096
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: on there and just see what folks are talking about it,

1097
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: and you'll see something like, oh, Rabel, he's a homer

1098
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,359
Speaker 1: and all that. Well, you know, I mean, I grew

1099
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: up with this team, I've played for this team. I've

1100
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: been a part of this team for forty six years now.

1101
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:08,800
Speaker 1: I want these guys to win, so I try to

1102
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 1: look at things through a little more positive prism perhaps,

1103
00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: And so you can't help but feel for these guys because,

1104
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: as you know, Jake, nobody goes out there with the

1105
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: intention of playing lousy and losing a football game. Nobody.

1106
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 1: It just doesn't happen. You go out there, and you

1107
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:28,880
Speaker 1: to be at this level, to play in the National

1108
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: Football League, you have to be out there leaving it

1109
00:51:31,160 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: on the line and leaving it on the field every

1110
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:36,319
Speaker 1: single week. Unfortunately, they don't have the results to show

1111
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: for it, and this is a results driven business. So

1112
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: in that respect, I really feel bad for the guys.

1113
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,320
Speaker 1: Where do you put your finger on it? Well, I

1114
00:51:45,920 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: think I think right now you can kind of focus

1115
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,359
Speaker 1: it obviously on the offense and what we're not getting done,

1116
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: and that's a whole lot of stuff. But in my estimation,

1117
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 1: it's a confidence thing. For one, I think Russ has

1118
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 1: to be more confident in the guys he has in

1119
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: front of him that he's going to be protected. I

1120
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: think he's seeing some rush before it actually materializes, and

1121
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 1: I think it's taking his focus away from some the

1122
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: guy's downfield sometimes that he's trying to throw the ball too.

1123
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: He's also not a kid anymore, no matter how healthy

1124
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: he is. Right now, he's thirty three years old, so

1125
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: you can't expect him to react his body to do

1126
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 1: the same thing that he did when he was twenty

1127
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: three as a quarterback. I think we just need to

1128
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: be tougher upfront. I don't think we're there yet. I

1129
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: think part of it is just guys are nicked up.

1130
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 1: It's that way for everybody in the league, and you

1131
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: just got to find a way to get over the hump.

1132
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: And I think the other thing, Jake, ultimately you just

1133
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 1: need one or two big plays. That last drive got

1134
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: me believing in this offense all over again. The two

1135
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 1: point conversion hurt. But you know, you know it's in him.

1136
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: You know what they can do now, it's just to

1137
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:58,440
Speaker 1: go out there and do it. I think too, and

1138
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: I've been wondering this for a while when I see

1139
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: debates about either nothing's wrong with the team, everyone's overreacting,

1140
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 1: or fire everyone like somewhere in the middle is where

1141
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: most people lie. But I think sometimes there's a hesitance

1142
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: to overpanic when you've seen a lot of people have

1143
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 1: been Seahawks fans for a while and they've seen awful

1144
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:20,919
Speaker 1: versions of this team and the low lights for this team.

1145
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: And I think there's a fear of, like throwing the

1146
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: baby out with the bathwater, that you make too many changes,

1147
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:28,080
Speaker 1: too many wholesale changes, and what if you get to

1148
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: a place where you don't want to be. So I

1149
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: feel like in that way I can kind of understand

1150
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: the very thin comb with which people are going through

1151
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,799
Speaker 1: the issues on this team. And I'll tell you something else.

1152
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,800
Speaker 1: Stay and this is something that I heard from the

1153
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: first day I got here in nineteen seventy six and

1154
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: have basically believed it all the way through, and having

1155
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: seen you more than forty five years of football in

1156
00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:55,360
Speaker 1: this franchise alone, that the difference in talent around the

1157
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:58,799
Speaker 1: league is not that great. It really isn't. And there

1158
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 1: are a lot of terrific football players all over the league.

1159
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 1: And the NFL has made sure of that fact. That's

1160
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:07,080
Speaker 1: the draft is based that way, that the lower ranking

1161
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:09,800
Speaker 1: teams get the first of the higher draft choices. So

1162
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: you have to, you know, you have to at times

1163
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 1: be patient. Listen, We've had a decade of great football here.

1164
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,400
Speaker 1: This year, it's just not working out that way for

1165
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons, injuries, all of the above, and

1166
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: you know they're going to be changes next year. Guys

1167
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 1: for the last six games are going to be playing

1168
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:34,799
Speaker 1: for their jobs in some cases, and that's the way

1169
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:38,279
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be. If you're not performing, then they

1170
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:41,879
Speaker 1: get somebody else in here who can. So I don't

1171
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: tend to be part of that group that wants to,

1172
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 1: you know, throw everything out like you said, and start over.

1173
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: I would very much like to see this group pull

1174
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 1: it together for the final six games, as as I

1175
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,879
Speaker 1: said before, because we know they can do it. We've

1176
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: seen them do it before. All right, let's start with

1177
00:54:58,120 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: one of those games, and that is the one coming

1178
00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:01,879
Speaker 1: up this Sunday against the forty nine ers at home.

1179
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:04,320
Speaker 1: When I look at this forty nine Ers team, I

1180
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 1: see a team that can run all over you, but

1181
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:08,879
Speaker 1: still a team with some weaknesses and we've seen those.

1182
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: Where's maybe an area where Seattle has an advantage here

1183
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: or can attack well. One thing I'm really grateful for

1184
00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: is that Deebo Samuel is going to be listening to

1185
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: us on the radio this week. You know, maybe not

1186
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: maybe not us personally, okay, all right, And I know

1187
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: Greg Popa pretty well, the play by play guy for

1188
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:30,800
Speaker 1: the Niners, So yeah, so I'm sure Deebo will be

1189
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 1: listening to us. I think that that's going to be

1190
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: a real plus for the Hawks. He is such a

1191
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 1: great player. There's so many things that he does for

1192
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:42,359
Speaker 1: that team offensively. So I hate for guys to be hurt.

1193
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: You always want to play against the very best to

1194
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: prove that you're, you know, the very best team you

1195
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: know and as good a team as the other guys.

1196
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 1: In this case, I'm glad he's not playing. And he

1197
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 1: is one of those things that I think the Seahawks

1198
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 1: now can say, Okay, he's a guy that we have

1199
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 1: to devote a certain amount of time in the game

1200
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:03,320
Speaker 1: plan just to figure out what he's going to do,

1201
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: how they're going to use him. Take that away, that's

1202
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 1: one last thing we have to worry about. But you

1203
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:10,759
Speaker 1: still have Jimmy Garoppolo, who's throwing the ball pretty well

1204
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: right now. They still have Elijah Mitchell in the backfield.

1205
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:16,800
Speaker 1: He didn't play against us the last time. He is

1206
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: a good running back, he's a rookie, he's tough to

1207
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 1: bring down, He's faster than people think, and they love

1208
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 1: to use him, and they're going to use him and

1209
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 1: all the other running backs on the list and anybody.

1210
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 1: They'll hand it to a tackle if they can because

1211
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 1: they like to run the football. So that is going

1212
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:34,600
Speaker 1: to be the real key I think for the Seahawks

1213
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 1: this week. Get up front, load up the box, and

1214
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 1: be ready for them to run downhill at you all

1215
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:43,920
Speaker 1: game long. All right. He is the voice of the Seahawks,

1216
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: Steve Rabel. Raves. Unfortunately, you probably will be joined by

1217
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 1: Wyman on the call this weekend, but I'm sure it'll

1218
00:56:50,200 --> 00:56:52,799
Speaker 1: still be pretty fun. Well, wish him the best when

1219
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,399
Speaker 1: you talk to him, telling him and Stace, you sound

1220
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,520
Speaker 1: like you I know there's something going around the whole station.

1221
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:02,200
Speaker 1: Jake had it, have it, Wyman has it? None of

1222
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 1: us are will get Well, I'll tell you the old

1223
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 1: secret from the old country that always worked for me,

1224
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: Tylan all and whiskey. I'll try it. I'll try it,

1225
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: Raves perfect, all right? Talked to him later. He is

1226
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: the voice of the Seahawks, Steve Rabel. Coming up next,

1227
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 1: we are stepping across opponent lines. We're gonna have an

1228
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 1: opponent preview with Nick Wagner of ESPN Don't Go Anywhere.

1229
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the huddle with Dave Wyman, Jay Keeps,

1230
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:33,760
Speaker 1: and Stacy Ross. We are joined now stepping across enemy

1231
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: lines by ESPN NFL reporter Nick Wagner. He covers the

1232
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine Ers, this week's opponent for the Seahawks. Nick,

1233
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: how's it going. I'm doing well, fantastic. I've actually, you know,

1234
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 1: were we not talking about a team that's about to

1235
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:52,360
Speaker 1: face the forty nine ers. I might otherwise really enjoy

1236
00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 1: watching this team because they've kind of been a bit

1237
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 1: of a surprise, I Nick, I've got to be honest.

1238
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,479
Speaker 1: I'd written them off a little bit. I thought people

1239
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:02,440
Speaker 1: were doubt them and and or excuse me, I thought

1240
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: people overhyped them and then felt a little validated by that.

1241
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:07,920
Speaker 1: But here they are kind of, you know, bouncing back

1242
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 1: into this thing, becoming a headache for teams that are

1243
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: trying to really contend what's been really working out for them. Yeah,

1244
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 1: you shouldn't apologize for doubting them. They had a thank you.

1245
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: I apologize for very absolutely. They had a really ugly

1246
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: loss a few weeks ago, one that Seattle fans can

1247
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: actually relate to when they lost to the Cardinals B team,

1248
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 1: at least the varsity or the junior varsity offense. UM,

1249
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:32,800
Speaker 1: and that was really the low point. I think a

1250
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 1: lot of people at that point said, Okay, this team,

1251
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 1: you know, they had lost and they had four game

1252
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 1: losing streak. They beat Chicago and then they turned around

1253
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 1: and lost that game, and I think a lot of

1254
00:58:40,800 --> 00:58:42,480
Speaker 1: people were saying, Okay, this is just gonna this is

1255
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 1: gonna get ugly. It's gonna get worse before it gets better.

1256
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: But I actually think that loss has somehow galvanized them

1257
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,440
Speaker 1: in a way. UM. But I think the bigger thing

1258
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: is is that it got them kind of beast to

1259
00:58:53,600 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 1: their basics, bast to the things that they did well

1260
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: in the twenty nineteen teas and when they had so

1261
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 1: much success and went to the Super Bowl, Kyle Shanahan

1262
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: started running the ball more. They got back to some

1263
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 1: of the more creative ways to run the ball and

1264
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 1: including getting Deebo, Samuel and Bob as a running back,

1265
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,480
Speaker 1: and then the defense started playing a little better. They

1266
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:14,480
Speaker 1: haven't been dominant, certainly, not like that twenty nineteen group,

1267
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: but maybe getting takeaway and honestly, that's really been The

1268
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 1: other big thing that they have turned around is I

1269
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: think they were minus nine through that Arizona game. They

1270
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 1: were toward the bottom of the league, and turnover differential

1271
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks they've been plus five. And

1272
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: it's not a coincidence. We all know that turnovers are

1273
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: one of the biggest indicators are winning and losing in

1274
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 1: the league, and they have turned that around, and you've

1275
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:35,880
Speaker 1: seen some of the success here recently, Nick, I guarantee

1276
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 1: you that Pete Carroll falls asleep at night looking at

1277
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:41,280
Speaker 1: that game between the forty nine ers and Rams, thinking, yes,

1278
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,000
Speaker 1: run at forty four times, this is the way, Like

1279
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: they can absolutely do this. But the thing is, and

1280
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 1: I'm sure Seattle's a little green with envy. Despite having

1281
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 1: running back injury, San Francisco has been able to find

1282
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 1: a way to make it work. I mean, Elijah Mitchell

1283
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:58,920
Speaker 1: has been fantastic. My fantasy team thinks him no matter what,

1284
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 1: they found a way to make it happens. What's been

1285
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:04,919
Speaker 1: working for them, Yeah, I think I think, first of all,

1286
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: a lot of it goes back to kind of that creativity.

1287
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 1: And you know, they lost forhe Mooster, who was supposed

1288
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,960
Speaker 1: to be their starter and their primary guy in week one,

1289
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: very early in Week one against Detroit, and then a

1290
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: lot of people were surprised that Elijah Mitchell was kind

1291
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 1: of second man up. But you know, if you watch

1292
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 1: people who paid attention in training camp and kind of

1293
01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:25,120
Speaker 1: watch that play out, he had outplayed Trey Sermon. But

1294
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 1: I think the thing that had surprised the most is

1295
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 1: that Mitchell gives them a more physical element than anyone expected.

1296
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 1: That I wrote about this yesterday actually on ESPN dot com,

1297
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 1: and Trent Williams, the all world left tackle for the

1298
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 1: for the Niners, was talking about how, you know, when

1299
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 1: he was a freshman in college at Oklahoma, Adrian Peterson

1300
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:45,440
Speaker 1: ran up on him, you know, and they kind of

1301
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 1: had an accidental collision and he decleted. Trent Williams, well,

1302
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 1: the only other time he's been run into by one

1303
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 1: of his own running backs and took friendly fire like

1304
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 1: that and felt it and said, like holy craft, who

1305
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:58,240
Speaker 1: was that? It was Elijah Mitchell against Chicago on Halloween

1306
01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 1: in Chicago. So he gives them a little bit more

1307
01:01:01,160 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 1: of a physical element than people expected. He's fast too,

1308
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 1: but not as fast as mostre too. It's a little

1309
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 1: different style, but working Deebo Samuel into the backfield where

1310
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 1: you know, Debo was second in the league in receiving

1311
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: yards for most of the I think it's the first

1312
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 1: eight or nine weeks of the season, and then team

1313
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:18,640
Speaker 1: started rolling coverages his way, trying to take it away. Well,

1314
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 1: the Niners said, well, he's one of our best players

1315
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:22,680
Speaker 1: who want to make sure he gets the ball, so

1316
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 1: they line him up in the backfield and there's no

1317
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 1: way to stop him getting the ball that way. And

1318
01:01:26,440 --> 01:01:29,040
Speaker 1: so all those different things that have kind of played

1319
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:31,320
Speaker 1: in and some of the creativity has played into that

1320
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 1: as well. But Elija Mitchell has really been a big

1321
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 1: fine for them and I think really been kind of

1322
01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:37,480
Speaker 1: a guy that has made it all go. Russell Wilson's

1323
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:40,440
Speaker 1: had the distinct displeasure of having a couple of nightmare

1324
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:44,400
Speaker 1: matchups in this division. You've got Aaron Donald in La obviously,

1325
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones when he's been healthy in Arizona has just

1326
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:50,440
Speaker 1: been a nightmare for Seattle's offensive line. Nick Bosa the

1327
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 1: obvious one to point too. In San Francisco. Are they

1328
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:56,240
Speaker 1: using him differently this year out there? Yeah? No, you

1329
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: know what's really interesting is is this this whole team

1330
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: has kind of been built around their defensive line, but

1331
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: it hasn't been the strong point that they hoped it

1332
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: would be. And a lot of that is is, you know,

1333
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago they traded the Forrest Buckner,

1334
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: they had some injuries before. It hasn't been able to

1335
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 1: stay healthy. Javon Kimlaw, who's in the first round pick

1336
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 1: that they used the pick that they got from Buckner

1337
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 1: trade on him, and he's been hurt. He's on injured reserve,

1338
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:21,920
Speaker 1: so they haven't got a lot of that. But so

1339
01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 1: Bosa has been really getting a ton of attention in

1340
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 1: terms of edge rushers. He gets double team more than

1341
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: anybody in the league. But the big thing for him

1342
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:32,880
Speaker 1: has been kind of trying to figure out how to

1343
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 1: attack those double teams because when Buckner was there, for example,

1344
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 1: they you know, our offenses had to kind of pick

1345
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 1: their poison. So it was, you know, who are you

1346
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 1: doubling between Buckner and Bosa. More often than not, it

1347
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 1: was Buckner because he's inside a little easier to do that.

1348
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:47,800
Speaker 1: But Bosa had to kind of have that like wake

1349
01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:49,400
Speaker 1: up moment of like, all right, this is just going

1350
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:51,200
Speaker 1: to be my life. This is my lot in life.

1351
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:53,160
Speaker 1: Now I'm gonna be double team all time. How do

1352
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 1: I get through this? And I think he's figured it out.

1353
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 1: You've seen eleven sacks and eleven games, you know, a

1354
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 1: career high already above the nine that he had in

1355
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:04,600
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Is a rookie and he's only getting better.

1356
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:06,920
Speaker 1: And I think the thing that would really help him

1357
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:09,440
Speaker 1: is if he got more help from that group. Irik

1358
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: Armstead has been solid as a pass rusher inside, but

1359
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 1: there hasn't been somebody else who's like, you know, his

1360
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 1: tag team partner and you can count on every week.

1361
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: So if that happens, I think both of us the

1362
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 1: game could go to an even higher level, which is

1363
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:23,560
Speaker 1: pretty crazy to think about considering how good he's been

1364
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,440
Speaker 1: this year. You guys are listening to the huddle. We're

1365
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:28,680
Speaker 1: taking a step across enemy lines here talking to Nick

1366
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 1: Wagner if ESPN for an opponent preview. Nick, tell us

1367
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 1: what we need to know health wise for this forty

1368
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 1: nine ers team. Yeah, there's a couple of big ones

1369
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:37,880
Speaker 1: this week, and the first of all, a guy we

1370
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 1: talked about a lot, Deebo Samuel is dealing with a

1371
01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 1: growing injury. He's not going to play this week. Fred Warner,

1372
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:47,160
Speaker 1: They're All star middle linebacker also out. He's dealing with

1373
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:49,720
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury. So both of those guys, and the

1374
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: good news for the Niners via one of them looks

1375
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 1: like a long term thing, one or two weeks at most,

1376
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 1: but you're not going to have him this week, So

1377
01:03:56,680 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 1: good for Seattle in that regard. So those are really

1378
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: the big one. They think. Everything else there's a couple

1379
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: of things that are up in the air, but nothing

1380
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:05,920
Speaker 1: that I think would have a huge impact on the

1381
01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 1: outcome of the game. The other thing I will say, though,

1382
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:10,720
Speaker 1: in addition to Fred Warner, the Niners are really thin

1383
01:04:10,840 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 1: at linebacker right now. Drake Greenlaw is dealing with a

1384
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:16,960
Speaker 1: core muscle injury. He's day to day. Marcel Harris, they're

1385
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:20,280
Speaker 1: starting Strong Suy linebacker is dealing with a concussion. He's

1386
01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 1: in the concussion protocols. So if they don't have all

1387
01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: three of those guys, they're going to be down to

1388
01:04:25,440 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 1: m with Zis Alshier, who has been kind of a

1389
01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:29,520
Speaker 1: revelation for them, been very good. But other than him,

1390
01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 1: you're going to be looking at undrafted guys like Nutrius

1391
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 1: planning in files or even Tyrell Adams called up with

1392
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:37,240
Speaker 1: the practice squad, So there may be some opportunities for

1393
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 1: the Seahawks to kind of make Hay at that second level.

1394
01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 1: One of the other things that I wanted to ask

1395
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: you about is Jimmy Garoppolo. I mean, how has he

1396
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:49,920
Speaker 1: done so far this season? And really, how has this

1397
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:53,920
Speaker 1: been this season been viewed by forty nine Ers fans

1398
01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:57,160
Speaker 1: in terms of the direction of that the franchise will

1399
01:04:57,160 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 1: be going in in regards to him and Trey Lanson,

1400
01:05:01,200 --> 01:05:06,000
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, and how he's developed this quarterback situation. Yeah,

1401
01:05:06,080 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 1: and so answer the first part of that, Garoppolo has

1402
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 1: been very good lately, and I think in the last

1403
01:05:11,640 --> 01:05:14,320
Speaker 1: five games he's had a ninety plus quarterback rating and

1404
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:17,320
Speaker 1: all of them, four of those over one hundred. But

1405
01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 1: the big thing for him has been taking care of

1406
01:05:19,320 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 1: the ball. He threw a bad interception last week against

1407
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 1: the Vikings, but other than that has been pretty good

1408
01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 1: with ball security here lately. And that goes back to

1409
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:29,640
Speaker 1: the turnover thing we talked about earlier, and the run

1410
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:32,160
Speaker 1: game has been so good that it has only put

1411
01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 1: him in good position. So in a lot of you know,

1412
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 1: he's been very good on third down, but he's getting

1413
01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: a lot of favorable third down opportunities, third and two,

1414
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:41,600
Speaker 1: third and three, things like that, and I think that's

1415
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 1: kind of what you want him to be. You don't

1416
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:45,320
Speaker 1: want to have to ask him to carry the freight.

1417
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:47,200
Speaker 1: I do think there's going to come a time whereas

1418
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 1: that's probably going to be the case, they're going to

1419
01:05:48,680 --> 01:05:51,720
Speaker 1: need him to step up and offer a big performance.

1420
01:05:51,760 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 1: And in twenty nineteen he was able to do that

1421
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:55,280
Speaker 1: when the Niners won. Will he be able to do

1422
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:57,520
Speaker 1: that this year kind of remains to be seen. And

1423
01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 1: then on the bigger picture of it all, I think

1424
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 1: the Niners are in a position right now where they

1425
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:05,520
Speaker 1: really that their cores wanted to follow the Chiefs blue

1426
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:09,040
Speaker 1: blueprint from twenty seventeen when they had Alex Smith as

1427
01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 1: the veteran they had drafted Patrick Mahomes. They wanted to

1428
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:13,560
Speaker 1: give Mahomes as much time as possible will sit and

1429
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:16,280
Speaker 1: learn before throwing him into the fire. The Niners never

1430
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:18,440
Speaker 1: came out and outwardly said that they hinted that in

1431
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:20,200
Speaker 1: a few times, but I think we're kind of seeing

1432
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 1: it play out now and Kyle Shanahan was talking this

1433
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: week about how, you know, earlier in the season they

1434
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:27,560
Speaker 1: wanted to work Trey Lance in, as you know, just

1435
01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:30,800
Speaker 1: in passages, certain spots, and Kyle Shanahan said, as he

1436
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:32,400
Speaker 1: was trying to do that, and he was realizing it

1437
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 1: was kind of throwing off his rhythm as a play

1438
01:06:34,520 --> 01:06:37,200
Speaker 1: caller because the two quarterbacks are so different. So the

1439
01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:39,840
Speaker 1: offense would get rolling doing something and then he switched

1440
01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:41,920
Speaker 1: to Lance and it might throw that rhythm off. So

1441
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 1: there's all these things that are kind of playing into it.

1442
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:45,400
Speaker 1: I still think at the end of the day, what

1443
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:47,600
Speaker 1: you're seeing right now is maybe the last ride of

1444
01:06:47,680 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo as the forty nine er so to speak.

1445
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 1: He's going to get a chance to ride this season

1446
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:54,960
Speaker 1: until the wheels fall off, I think, and then in

1447
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 1: the off season. I still think everything is pointing in

1448
01:06:57,640 --> 01:06:59,560
Speaker 1: the direction of this thing's gonna get turned over to

1449
01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 1: Trey Lane and she's still a featuring Nick What is

1450
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:06,480
Speaker 1: the view of everybody with Kyle Shanahan? To me, it

1451
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:10,560
Speaker 1: seems that it's been a very up and down season,

1452
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that, But overall he's gotten things

1453
01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 1: back on tracks. So does everybody feel okay about him

1454
01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: at this point, But what's your take on that? Yeah,

1455
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:23,000
Speaker 1: it's funny. It's one of those things that if you

1456
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:24,760
Speaker 1: had asked me three weeks ago, I would have given

1457
01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:27,440
Speaker 1: you a completely different answer. But here we are in

1458
01:07:27,520 --> 01:07:29,360
Speaker 1: the middle of a three game winning streak. But you

1459
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:31,680
Speaker 1: know how it is, And I understand it with fans

1460
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 1: in the NFL because there's only seventeen of these things.

1461
01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:36,959
Speaker 1: Used to be sixteen of these things, and so overreacting

1462
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:38,640
Speaker 1: to a loss is a little makes a little bit

1463
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:40,400
Speaker 1: more sense than if you're in the NBA or Major

1464
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:42,640
Speaker 1: League Baseball or something where you get so many more

1465
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:45,520
Speaker 1: more craft at it. But I think people also are

1466
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 1: smart enough to realize that it's always the question any

1467
01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:51,160
Speaker 1: time you're talking about a coach, if you're moving off

1468
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 1: from a coach, who are you going to get that better?

1469
01:07:53,640 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 1: And Kyle Shanahan had them in the Super Bowl, you know,

1470
01:07:56,520 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 1: just two years ago, and twenty twenty was an abomination,

1471
01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:01,960
Speaker 1: but was an abomination on a lot of levels for

1472
01:08:02,040 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 1: a lot of people, and not just in football. And

1473
01:08:05,720 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 1: so they had so many injuries last year that it

1474
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 1: was hard to even really kind of take that take

1475
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:13,040
Speaker 1: that seriously. Now, I realized that you're judged on your

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Speaker 1: body of work. But I think Jed York is really patient.

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Speaker 1: You know, kuc and him and John Lynch Show just

1478
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:20,960
Speaker 1: recently after the Super Bowl run signed long term extension.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think he's going anywhere. I think that

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01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: people are realizing again, like hey, this he just needs

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01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:27,880
Speaker 1: to kind of get back to what works. That's what's

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01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:29,680
Speaker 1: happened over the last few weeks. And I think it

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01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:32,719
Speaker 1: says a lot too that his team has responded when

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01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 1: he put the challenge to them after losing that Arizona game.

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01:08:35,200 --> 01:08:38,479
Speaker 1: He covers the forty nine ers for ESPN. It's Nick Wagner.

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01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:40,559
Speaker 1: Make sure you're following him too. I wouldn't normally tell

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01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 1: you guys all this, but in the NFC West, you

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01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:45,880
Speaker 1: gotta keep your eye on what's going on at n Wagner, Nick,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us, Thanks for having me

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Speaker 1: take here. Thanks all right, don't go anywhere. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: share our final thoughts. Next, on the huddle. This is

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Speaker 1: the huddle with Dave Wyman, Jake Keeps, and Stacy Ross

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01:08:56,360 --> 01:08:59,360
Speaker 1: getting you guys ready for the seahawks upcoming opponent. That

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01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 1: being the Francisco forty nine ers a chance to get right. Now.

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01:09:03,280 --> 01:09:06,240
Speaker 1: The playoff odds technically still there, but really what this

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01:09:06,320 --> 01:09:07,920
Speaker 1: team is playing for is a chance to just get

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Speaker 1: on the right track right, figure out what they can do,

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01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:12,840
Speaker 1: what they need to fix right and most importantly and

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Speaker 1: just I would imagine there's a feeling of wanting to help,

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Speaker 1: the feeling around the team right, like you want a

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01:09:21,160 --> 01:09:24,240
Speaker 1: feeling of winning. These are professionals, and you have an

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01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 1: opportunity here against San Francisco. Jake. So let's wrap up

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Speaker 1: this preview with some of our final thoughts. I asked

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01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:32,760
Speaker 1: Steve Rabel, hey, where are the forty nine ers week?

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01:09:32,760 --> 01:09:35,960
Speaker 1: Where's an area where where Seattle can attack? And he said, well,

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01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 1: one good thing is they aren't going to have some

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01:09:37,400 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 1: of their best weapons with Fred Warner and Deeble Samuel out.

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01:09:40,160 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 1: Where's another area you look at and say, you know what,

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01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 1: Seattle's got a chance? Well, I mean the other one

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01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 1: that you point to is Fred Warner being out and

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Speaker 1: the star middle linebacker for the San Francisco forty nine ers.

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01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:52,360
Speaker 1: You've got a massive pay day this offseason. And nactually

1513
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:55,840
Speaker 1: surpassed Bobby Wagner is the highest paid middle linebacker in

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01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 1: the league. And you look at that contract and it's

1515
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:01,519
Speaker 1: very well deserving terms of his play, what he brings

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01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:03,560
Speaker 1: the table in the run game and also in the

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01:10:03,640 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 1: passing game as well. I mean, he's one of the

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01:10:05,439 --> 01:10:09,040
Speaker 1: better cover middle linebackers in the league. And um, and

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01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:12,000
Speaker 1: I think that that part of it is something that

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01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 1: you can't understate how important he is to that defense. Sorry,

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01:10:18,439 --> 01:10:24,439
Speaker 1: just uh laughing. Um, we just had a really funny

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01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:28,240
Speaker 1: conversation with Rapes. Um. Now when you're looking at uh,

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01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 1: you know where Seattle needs to improve quite obviously they

1524
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:36,600
Speaker 1: need to couldn't have anything to do with sure that

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01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:44,200
Speaker 1: Jake is wearing underneath his jacket. Say so for everybody

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01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 1: out there behind the seats, you need to pull it together.

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01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:51,560
Speaker 1: Ross Okay, Uh, right out there we have we have

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01:10:51,640 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 1: a hit that we do with Cairo Uh stacy that

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01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:58,160
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Um and uh, I forgot that we had it.

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01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:01,920
Speaker 1: So it's a TV hit And I don't have a

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01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:05,680
Speaker 1: button up jacket or a button up shirt. And so

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01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:10,519
Speaker 1: our our friend Taylor Jacobs, who is here, I'm sorry,

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01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:13,639
Speaker 1: put together great content. We went he went and grabbed

1534
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:14,880
Speaker 1: me one of his shirts. I tried to put it

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01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 1: on and it is very very tight, very tight. I'm

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01:11:19,080 --> 01:11:23,240
Speaker 1: not gonna work. Okay, okay, uh, you know, can we

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Speaker 1: get to obviously I want to look ahead to this team.

1538
01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:27,800
Speaker 1: Can we get to the story that you were too

1539
01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: afraid to tell Cody Barton? Sure, but not on a

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01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:34,280
Speaker 1: light note. I think I think we all need some laughter.

1541
01:11:34,400 --> 01:11:36,280
Speaker 1: We need to feel good moment. Well, okay, you know

1542
01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:39,719
Speaker 1: it makes me feel good quarterbacks falling, if quarterbacks falling,

1543
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:42,600
Speaker 1: or how about breaking my ankle? Uh yeah. So my

1544
01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:45,160
Speaker 1: my freshman year when I was at Scotland High School,

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01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:50,639
Speaker 1: I was the quarterback and the punter, and there was conversation, okay, well,

1546
01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 1: you know, let's not have him punt. And you know,

1547
01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:55,639
Speaker 1: our head coach at the time, who's now the defensive coordinator,

1548
01:11:56,000 --> 01:11:58,800
Speaker 1: rightfully said, are you kidding me? He's play he's playing punter.

1549
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 1: He can't get hurt doing that. And so I our

1550
01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:04,920
Speaker 1: very first game we went and played and super jacked

1551
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:06,960
Speaker 1: up about it, you know, first high school football game.

1552
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:10,400
Speaker 1: And we're playing Bellevue, big deal, big rivalry, and uh

1553
01:12:10,520 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 1: in lo and behold, we have to go punt are

1554
01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:15,800
Speaker 1: the very first punt of the of the season, And um,

1555
01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:18,920
Speaker 1: and they are actually So I kick it and the

1556
01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:20,840
Speaker 1: guy's actually making a return to the point where I

1557
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:23,479
Speaker 1: have to go make the tackle. And I'm like, oh wow, okay,

1558
01:12:23,479 --> 01:12:25,080
Speaker 1: so I gotta I gotta really go make this tackle.

1559
01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:27,160
Speaker 1: So I go to make the tackle. I'm right there.

1560
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:29,400
Speaker 1: He jukes me out of my socks to the point

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01:12:29,439 --> 01:12:32,760
Speaker 1: where he broke my ankle, literally broke my ankle, and

1562
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:34,800
Speaker 1: my foot got planned in one way, tried to go

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01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:37,519
Speaker 1: the other way, and just it just popped. And from

1564
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:43,800
Speaker 1: that point one never played special teams. Never heard the

1565
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:46,840
Speaker 1: end of it. And uh and Ryan Thorson, it was

1566
01:12:47,439 --> 01:12:52,000
Speaker 1: always a longtime defensive coordinator. Still to this day, whenever

1567
01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 1: I see him, it's always it's always a funny joke

1568
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:56,639
Speaker 1: between the two of us. Ending on actually a positive note.

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01:12:56,720 --> 01:12:58,600
Speaker 1: I mean this genuinely. You know what's been great for

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01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:02,760
Speaker 1: Seattle this year? Teams they've been fantastic. They've been They've

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Speaker 1: been good. I mean, I wouldn't say they've been fantastic.

1572
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:07,080
Speaker 1: I think that they've been good in spots. And I

1573
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 1: think that with the things that they have done though,

1574
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:11,639
Speaker 1: because I think they've done a good job setting the tone.

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01:13:11,760 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 1: I think that they've done a good job of in

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01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:18,759
Speaker 1: Punk coverage, in particular running down there and really flipping

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01:13:18,800 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 1: the field. Michael Dixon being great in that aspect, and

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01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:25,240
Speaker 1: Nick Buhlore and Cody Barton and those guys. I think

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Speaker 1: they've done a really good job in the Punk game.

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Speaker 1: All right. Now that we are settled and we're looking

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01:13:31,520 --> 01:13:35,559
Speaker 1: ahead at San Francisco, UM, I just really do want

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01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:37,720
Speaker 1: to focus on the third downs. I started going to

1583
01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:39,519
Speaker 1: it and then I completely broke down, So I do

1584
01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:41,760
Speaker 1: want to get back to third downs. It is one

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01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:44,280
Speaker 1: of the most baffling things about this team, Jake, because

1586
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:47,519
Speaker 1: it is so confusing to see an offense that has

1587
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Speaker 1: so many weapons, and I know that not all of

1588
01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:53,200
Speaker 1: it is up to par with what they'd want. But

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01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 1: you've got Russell Wilson, You've got DK Metcalf, youve got

1590
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:58,600
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett. Alex Collins has been great for you, and

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01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:02,479
Speaker 1: they've struggled so much there. If there is a lesson

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01:14:02,520 --> 01:14:05,000
Speaker 1: to be taken from Washington heading into San Francisco, what

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01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 1: is it? Honestly, I don't really have a great answer

1594
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:11,320
Speaker 1: for you. I mean, I think that's the state of

1595
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:14,280
Speaker 1: the current affairs for this offense, is is that there's

1596
01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:15,880
Speaker 1: not one thing that you could point to and say,

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01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 1: my goodness, how are they not doing this? More, my goodness.

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01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:21,679
Speaker 1: When they were in this situation, they did extremely well.

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Speaker 1: And I think that one of the other things that

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Speaker 1: you point to is, you know, everybody will look at

1601
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:27,800
Speaker 1: the end of the game and the two minute drive

1602
01:14:27,880 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 1: and all that, but you know, look, Washington's playing prevent defense.

1603
01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:34,519
Speaker 1: They're not going for it. They're not going for it,

1604
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 1: but they're playing a specific style that allows you to

1605
01:14:37,479 --> 01:14:40,639
Speaker 1: easily drive the field. So it's not a super real

1606
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:45,599
Speaker 1: indication as to what would be successful for the majority

1607
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:46,960
Speaker 1: of the game. So when you look at this as

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Speaker 1: a whole, I mean, I think that the Seahawks offense,

1609
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 1: they have to establish a rhythm. They have to establish

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01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:57,320
Speaker 1: a rhythm of some kind, whether it's on the ground

1611
01:14:57,479 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 1: or through the air, to be able to get the

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01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 1: themselves an opportunity to consistently drive down the field. And

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01:15:04,000 --> 01:15:05,880
Speaker 1: when you play the San Francisco forty nine ers, the

1614
01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:08,160
Speaker 1: one thing that you can count on is that it's

1615
01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:10,320
Speaker 1: going to be a physical game. It's going to be

1616
01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:14,720
Speaker 1: a battle. And Dave Wyman is not here to say it,

1617
01:15:14,840 --> 01:15:17,040
Speaker 1: so I'll say it for him. Thank you. Is you

1618
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:19,519
Speaker 1: need to be violent, and you need to be physical,

1619
01:15:19,720 --> 01:15:21,719
Speaker 1: and you need to be more physical than your opponent.

1620
01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:24,400
Speaker 1: And in terms of a rivalry game like this with

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Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine ers, that absolutely applies here.

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01:15:27,520 --> 01:15:29,200
Speaker 1: All right, very last question. We get to this every

1623
01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:32,519
Speaker 1: single week, your player to watch in this one, I'm

1624
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:34,040
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and go I mean, it's easy, and

1625
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 1: I'm stealing it from you maybe, but I'm going Russell Wilson,

1626
01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:39,559
Speaker 1: and the pressure is on him. He's under the spotlight,

1627
01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 1: just as he is every single week anyway, and any

1628
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 1: quarterback is. But you really got to get better on

1629
01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:46,879
Speaker 1: those third down numbers. And you know that he's capable

1630
01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:49,200
Speaker 1: of it. You know this offense is capable of being

1631
01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:50,960
Speaker 1: better than they have ben. Let's hope that they can

1632
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,639
Speaker 1: get it done this Sunday. I would say that it's

1633
01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:57,360
Speaker 1: not a specific player, but I'm gonna say a group,

1634
01:15:57,360 --> 01:16:00,080
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna say the offensive line. I mean, I

1635
01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:04,240
Speaker 1: am very surprised that we were sitting here today with

1636
01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:06,960
Speaker 1: this offensive line and saying that this group has not

1637
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:11,599
Speaker 1: played well and especially up to this point, and the film,

1638
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:14,479
Speaker 1: the film doesn't lie, As Pete Carroll said this week,

1639
01:16:14,560 --> 01:16:18,400
Speaker 1: and I think that the offensive line has really underperformed

1640
01:16:18,760 --> 01:16:21,479
Speaker 1: in the trenches and that has to change in order

1641
01:16:21,560 --> 01:16:24,599
Speaker 1: for this offense to have a chance to put something together.

1642
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 1: And really, as you have a quarterback and an offense

1643
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:30,960
Speaker 1: from a passing perspective that is struggling and trying to

1644
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 1: get things going, allowing that guy to have more space

1645
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:37,680
Speaker 1: and to find his comfort is going to be a

1646
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: really big deal for this offensive the next six games,

1647
01:16:40,040 --> 01:16:42,240
Speaker 1: and the offensive line can definitely help out in that area.

1648
01:16:42,439 --> 01:16:44,799
Speaker 1: This has been the huddle with Dave Wyman, Jay Keeps

1649
01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:47,599
Speaker 1: and Stacy Ross. Obviously, we'll talk to you guys next week.

1650
01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:49,519
Speaker 1: In the meantime, you're gonna have a one twenty five

1651
01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:52,640
Speaker 1: pm kick off at Lumanfield this Sunday, Seahawks against San

1652
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:55,320
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine Ers. As a reminder, that pregame show

1653
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:58,280
Speaker 1: that starts at ten am. Make sure you're tuning in

1654
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:00,760
Speaker 1: for that to learn every you need to know about

1655
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:02,280
Speaker 1: this game. Nice way to get ready for it, and

1656
01:17:02,360 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 1: stick around for the postgame show where you're gonna hear

1657
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:07,519
Speaker 1: from Pete Carroll, from players, all that good stuff. And

1658
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 1: then thank you once again to everyone who joined us today.

1659
01:17:10,120 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 1: An awesome huddle. It's it's not an easy spot for

1660
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 1: this team, but we had so many great conversations Cody Barton,

1661
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:17,280
Speaker 1: d Eskridge. Thank you to them, John Boyle, Ray Roberts,

1662
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:20,200
Speaker 1: Steve Rabel, to everyone, this has been the huddle.