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Speaker 1: We're getting you guys ready for the seahawks Week four

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Speaker 1: matchup against the Miami Dolphins. But before we look ahead,

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Speaker 1: let's take a quick glance back to Week three's win

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Speaker 1: isn't that heats the guy who comes up with the

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Speaker 1: That was the final score of the game. A bit

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Speaker 1: of a redemption moment for DK Metcalf, but Dave the

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Speaker 1: start there. Pete Carroll thinks one factors that offenses are

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Speaker 1: And the thing that complicates it and makes it even

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Speaker 1: So they have six right now. Think about this too.

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Speaker 1: Jim that this is a trap game and I'll let down,

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Speaker 1: and you know what, I'm just joking. I'm giving Jim

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Speaker 1: a hard time, but it's you know, every week you

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Speaker 1: go into a meeting in a week and the coaches

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Speaker 1: have a way of making the next team seem like

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Speaker 1: giant killers. So and then you're convinced of it by

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Speaker 1: the end of of the week. And so the idea

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Speaker 1: of taking a game off because they're Miami and they're

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Speaker 1: one and two is just nothing I ever experienced, that's

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Speaker 1: for sure. But you know, now you add in the

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Speaker 1: fact that you have to go playing the early time slot,

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Speaker 1: which they seem to have conquered, and you know you're

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Speaker 1: going all the way down to Miami. So you know

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Speaker 1: that's uh that those things are real. But as far

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Speaker 1: as overlooking this team, you just can't do it. And

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Speaker 1: Joe Shad of the Palm Beach Post joining us now

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Speaker 1: on the huddle. Joe, thanks so much. How are you, hey,

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Speaker 1: guys doing well? Thanks for having me. It's raining here,

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Speaker 1: I know you get wow. I ordered a sweatshirt from

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Speaker 1: a Seattle based store, Soto s Odo. It took like

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Speaker 1: ten days to get here, but it's great. Highly recommend it. Hey, Joe,

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Speaker 1: I gotta ask you just off the top, Ryan Fitzpatrick.

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Speaker 1: I have someone who played with him with the Jets

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Speaker 1: who is a fan of him, really likes him. We

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Speaker 1: got a former linebacker who loves him. We got me

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Speaker 1: and Tom who are also fans. What have you seen

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Speaker 1: from him so far in Miami? Yeah, I mean, Fitzpatrick

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Speaker 1: is a is a great guy. He's one of the

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Speaker 1: best leaders that the Dolphins have had in the last

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Speaker 1: twenty years. I mean, he's a very selfless, humble human being.

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Speaker 1: He realizes that he doesn't have you know, the best,

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Speaker 1: you know tools to work with. It doesn't have the

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Speaker 1: strongest arm, he's not the fastest guy. But he certainly

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Speaker 1: makes things interesting and makes things fun. And I think

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing that he's going to do this year,

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Speaker 1: aside from giving his team a chance to win, which

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Speaker 1: they did in Jacksonville on Thursday, is uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: tutor to a tongue of Valoa and certainly two has

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Speaker 1: been a sponge. Hey, let me ask you about the

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Speaker 1: corners down there. Joe um put a lot of money

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Speaker 1: into him, and you know, I know, Byron Jones got

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Speaker 1: banged up a little bit, but eighty two million to

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Speaker 1: Byron Jones, seventy six million to Xavier Howard, He's produced.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's got thirteen career interceptions. Jones only two

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Speaker 1: and then also drafted the kid out of out Auburn

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Speaker 1: who I was just looking up his pronunciation. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure how to say it. Noah eg Been, no guiney

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Speaker 1: something like that. You can tell me, Joe. But they

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Speaker 1: sure put a lot of stock into corners. How's that

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Speaker 1: working out? That that experiment down there? It performed better

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Speaker 1: against Jacksonville than he did against Buffalo. Stefon Diggs really

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Speaker 1: tore up the Dolphins that did, as did Brown, m

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Speaker 1: Noah IgG Bonogany. Ryan was with Mahogany the way to

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Speaker 1: remember it, Egg Bonogen. Yeah, he's good, he's you know,

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Speaker 1: he's raw. He made a mistake in the last game

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Speaker 1: that almost led to a long touchdown. Dolphins caught a

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Speaker 1: break when Gardner Minshew overthrew a wide open target who

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Speaker 1: Igbanagini was supposed to be on. We were surprised at

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Speaker 1: Byron Jones practiced today and practice pretty hard. He wants

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Speaker 1: to play, you know, and considering he has an achilles

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Speaker 1: injury and a groin injury, they're certainly unexpected. But it

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Speaker 1: would be very helpful if he could cover Tyler Lockett

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Speaker 1: in the slot. That would free up Xavian effort to

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Speaker 1: deal with DK Metcalf. I think that that's a nice

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Speaker 1: matchup for the Dolphins because Howard is you know, aggressive

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Speaker 1: and experienced, and so we'll see. But he's banged up. Also,

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Speaker 1: he's coming off in knee surgery, so you know, the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins secondary is nowhere close to healthy. Joe, what was

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Speaker 1: the recipe for success for the Miami Dolphins this last

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Speaker 1: week against the Jacksonville Jacks. They certainly were able to

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Speaker 1: play better, able to get themselves a nice commanding lead

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Speaker 1: off of some turnovers and things of that nature. So

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Speaker 1: is that some and is that some of the game

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Speaker 1: plan that they use. Are they feeling like they're finding

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Speaker 1: their footing in the direction that they're going to be

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Speaker 1: heading this week? Yeah? I mean this team, this program,

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Speaker 1: this franchise is so far ahead of where they were

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Speaker 1: a year ago. I mean, they were just humiliated in

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Speaker 1: the first portion of last season. They really do have

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Speaker 1: a lot more talent in terms of all the free

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Speaker 1: agent players they've added. Kyle van Noy seems to be

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Speaker 1: coming on. The highly paid free agent linebacker Christian Wilkins,

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Speaker 1: last year's first round draft choice. The defensive lineman he

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Speaker 1: is starting to emerge. The free agents Shack Lawson and

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogba had improved performances last week, so the defense

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Speaker 1: really took a step forward after some early season struggles.

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Speaker 1: This is a team that has also improved on the

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Speaker 1: offensive line. You know, one of the biggest reasons the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins haven't gone anywhere the last few years is they've

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Speaker 1: had a woeful, pathetic offensive line, and now they're actually

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Speaker 1: relatively solid. So, uh, this team, you know, is giving

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Speaker 1: themselves a chance. You know that it's all that sort

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Speaker 1: of boring patriot stuff that you always hear Bill Belichick

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Speaker 1: talk about in terms of complimentary football limiting mistakes. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's the Dolphins want to be as boring as possible

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Speaker 1: and they think that'll lead to wins. What kind of

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Speaker 1: losing would it take to get to on the field.

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Speaker 1: I know, I heard he had an illness the other

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Speaker 1: day and that won't that probably won't last. But when

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Speaker 1: do you think they'll get him there on the field. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think November is the appropriate target. You know, that

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Speaker 1: would be one year removed from that. You know, season

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Speaker 1: ending hip injury suffered at Mississippi State last year, and

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Speaker 1: you know, the Dolphins, you know, cut Josh Rosen, So

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Speaker 1: obviously they're willing to put a tongue Abouoa on the

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Speaker 1: field in an emergency situation. We'll see if he dresses

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Speaker 1: as the backup for this weekend. Um, but you know,

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Speaker 1: there's no rush. You know, I think there's no rush

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Speaker 1: because they want the offense to be as cohesive as possible.

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Speaker 1: And two, it does step into the lineup. And I

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Speaker 1: think maybe you look for a soft spot in the

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Speaker 1: schedule too. You know, the Dolphins have three week stretch

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Speaker 1: in November where they play the Jets, a bye week

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Speaker 1: and then the Jets again. That certainly is an ideal

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Speaker 1: spot to drop two into the line up. Joe, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna pit you on the spot and see if you

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Speaker 1: can give us a quick score prediction here. Yeah. Actually

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Speaker 1: I just sent my score to to my editor Nick,

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Speaker 1: nice guy guy anyone would love to work for. Uh

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Speaker 1: really is former sports writer, so he kind of gets it.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like you want to stay at the Marriott, go

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Speaker 1: for it. You want to go get some steak, go

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Speaker 1: for it. It's kind of rare in today's business. Thirty

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Speaker 1: four thirty one, Yeattle, I think the Dolphins. Dolphins will

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Speaker 1: score some points but I think they're gonna have a

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Speaker 1: really hard time slowing down Russell Wilson, who's one of

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Speaker 1: my favorites. I first met Russell when he transferred to Wisconsin,

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Speaker 1: and I remember being like, Wow, this is an old soul,

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Speaker 1: and he is. He's an old soul, and he's done

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Speaker 1: a lot more than folks thought he could do when

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Speaker 1: he was, you know, at nc State, which is remember

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Speaker 1: talking to their coach about how he didn't think he'd

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Speaker 1: be an NFL. He wasn't going to be an NFL quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and he wasn't gonna make it Major League baseball either.

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Speaker 1: So Russell proved them all wrong. Absolutely unreal to look

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Speaker 1: back at that too. He is Joe Shadd of the

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Speaker 1: Palm Beach Post. Joe, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: You're welcome, Thanks for having me, all right. The Seahawks

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Speaker 1: offense is second in the league in points per game.

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is playing his best football, and we would

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Speaker 1: be remiss if we didn't take a look at this

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Speaker 1: offensive line. That's up next on the huddle, se This

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Speaker 1: is the huddle every Thursday from noon to two on

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Speaker 1: seven ten ESPN Seattle. Welcome back to the huddle with

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Speaker 1: Dave Wyman, Jay Keeps, Tom Wossle, and Stacy Rost, starting

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Speaker 1: our preview of Week four's matchup against the Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: Seahawks hit in the road, trying to stay undefeated before

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Speaker 1: they head into their bye week in week six. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about this offense though, particularly this offensive line. Now

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Speaker 1: this segment is called in the Trenches. Normally we would

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Speaker 1: be joined by former Ohlman Ray Roberts. We will try

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Speaker 1: our best to make up for we don't have them

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Speaker 1: here today, but we are still talking about the oh line.

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Speaker 1: We'll get a little d line conversation in here too.

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Speaker 1: Seattle's offense, you guys, has looked phenomenal through three weeks.

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Speaker 1: They had to lean on some depth last week, could

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Speaker 1: potentially do that this week if Damian Lewis doesn't go. Dave,

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Speaker 1: what have you seen from some of these backups so far?

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Speaker 1: Were you impressed? Yeah, Jamarco Jones, I really like we

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Speaker 1: We did an offseason thing where we ranked the top

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Speaker 1: twenty and players on the team, and of course everybody

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Speaker 1: knows who number one was, but I had Jamarco Jones

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Speaker 1: at number twenty and he was one of two offensive linemen.

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Speaker 1: Dwayne Brownbee and the other just because his versatility and

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Speaker 1: ability to fill right in and he did well. So

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Speaker 1: but Damian Lewis, the good news for him is that,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's got an ankle, and that was the

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Speaker 1: thing with ankles, I mean, it's so much better than

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Speaker 1: ni because once you get the swelling out, you're good

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Speaker 1: to go. So hopefully he'll be okay. And I heard

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Speaker 1: he practiced limited yesterday. We'll see about today. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's been it's been good. I mean, look, Russ

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Speaker 1: the very first when the very first play you get sacked,

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Speaker 1: you know, the first play of the season and we're

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Speaker 1: talking about I mean, it just kind of you know,

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Speaker 1: cast a Paul over the whole thing. But I'll say this,

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Speaker 1: probably Russ should have checked out of that. But he

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Speaker 1: has been done a really good job far as you know,

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Speaker 1: creating space when there is a pass rush. But for

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Speaker 1: the most part, yeah, he's been able to throw deep

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Speaker 1: and that's the thing. I know, going into last week

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Speaker 1: he was number ten or number two in yards per attempt,

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Speaker 1: So that means he's thrown deep, and that means that

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Speaker 1: Jake's he's getting enough time to do it. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: certainly is and I think that when you look at

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Speaker 1: that has been a huge question mark at least you

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Speaker 1: had in this offseason of how were they going to

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Speaker 1: be able to come together without having a proper preseason,

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Speaker 1: without having OTAs you know, Damian Lewis, how is he

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Speaker 1: going to be as a rookie guard. Through all of this,

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Speaker 1: they've really exceeded expectations and it has allowed them to

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Speaker 1: play this style and and that was one of the

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Speaker 1: things that really stood out to me over the course

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Speaker 1: of the last couple of weeks of Pete Carroll evaluating

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Speaker 1: this offense. One of the things that he said was, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean we could see him practice, that Russell Wilson

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Speaker 1: was ready to go, and that he was ready to

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Speaker 1: tear this league up, and this offense was going to

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Speaker 1: be special. The question was about our offensive line. And

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Speaker 1: I think really that's the story of this for the

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, is that they just haven't had

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Speaker 1: the offensive line to really make Pete Carroll and this

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Speaker 1: coaching staff feel comfortable enough to open things up. But

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Speaker 1: this offensive line has definitely answered the challenge, that's for sure. Tom,

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Speaker 1: You've been a big fan of Damian Lewis. I remember

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Speaker 1: you first of all, you were campaigning to make him

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Speaker 1: your best friend ever, and Damien seemed very receptive. That's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you guys are friends. Now, what have you

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Speaker 1: seen from him? Tell you what the question that I

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Speaker 1: was just asking Boyle about what the Alton Robinson thing.

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Speaker 1: Is it unfair to ask a rookie to contribute X

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Speaker 1: number of sacks? Well, look at it on the other

637
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Speaker 1: side of the ball with Damian Lewis. I mean he's

638
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 1: come right out as a rookie, showed even in preseason.

639
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: I mean, he caught the attention of Dwayne Brown. We

640
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: heard him complimenting him on more than one occasion, and

641
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: then he's gone out and continue that on the field

642
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: really until he got hurt the other day. And I'm

643
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: glad to know that he should be back this week.

644
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: I think, uh right, So I don't think you could

645
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: ask anymore from a guy like that. I mean, Dave,

646
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 1: what I wanted to ask you before was when we

647
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 1: look at rookies, I know it's hard to point at

648
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: them and say all right, well you've got to do this,

649
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: but in some cases, if they're good enough, they can yeah. Well,

650
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: like DK Metcalf last year, right, I mean, sure, yeah,

651
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: you know, going into the year last year, I don't

652
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: know about you guys, we had a prediction. You know,

653
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: I thought, h DK, I'll get twenty five catches. Maybe

654
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: that'd be good for a rookie, because I just I'm

655
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: it's always a pleasant surprise. And maybe the guy that

656
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: had the best rookie year ever was Lofa Tatupu, you know,

657
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: coming in here as a second rounder and starting right

658
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: away and getting picked sixes and just how smart he

659
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: was and everything. But it's funny. After the draft, I

660
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: think everybody thought that Damian Lewis was the one guy

661
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: at the end of the year was probably gonna have

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00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: the most snaps. He's really really strong. He's ridiculously strong.

663
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: He's a nasty player in a good way. And you know,

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00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: he also played professional football in college at LSU, So

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00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: you know, I just think that that made him much

666
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: more ready. And uh and you know, look, we saw

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00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: him struggle. The things I've seen him do is the

668
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: first game, he's not picking up the stunt, you know,

669
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,640
Speaker 1: the te stunt where the one guy comes inside, the

670
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: other guy goes out and you got to pass him off,

671
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: and you're starting to see him do those things now,

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00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 1: so he gets it. I'm just yeah, when I saw

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00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 1: him land on the ground, I was like, oh man,

674
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 1: please be an ankle, not a knee. And so it

675
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 1: sounds sounds like good news there. But yeah, I just

676
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 1: whenever it comes to rookies, it's always like a plus

677
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: it's gravy. You know. If you get that then fine.

678
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 1: But for the most part, I don't expect anything from rookies.

679
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: It's really hard to play well you're a rookie year

680
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: and Pete Carroll's saying that he Damian Lewis managed to

681
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: avoid boyd any high ankle sprain and Jake, do you

682
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 1: have the same feeling about just like, hey just managed

683
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: to like maybe contribute, but the expectations are mostly just

684
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 1: stay healthy and be there. Yes. Also it's telling, especially

685
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Speaker 1: in certain situations like let's say, for example, Damian Lewis

686
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:23,760
Speaker 1: dk Metcalf Lofa to Tupu. Maybe you weren't expecting Lofa

687
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: to have the kind of year that he was having,

688
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: but the fact that the coaching staff recognize how quickly

689
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 1: he adapted to the game as a rookie, dk Metcalf,

690
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: he adapted to the game and he was a playmaker,

691
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: and he was a guy that was was penciled in

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00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,839
Speaker 1: as a starter right from the beginning. I think that

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00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: those are things that give you confidence in a player

694
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,720
Speaker 1: moving forward. Now, what will their contributions be, It's really

695
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: up in the air, but you just see very quickly

696
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: to me, the really good players in the league, they're

697
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 1: ready to go from the beginning. And I think one

698
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 1: of the things that gives you some pause. Doesn't mean

699
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:04,320
Speaker 1: that's the indictment on him, clearly not for Alton Robinson,

700
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: is that they did not put him as a member

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00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: of the active roster for the first two weeks, right

702
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: like that. The coaching staff felt that a there were

703
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: better players in front, and b that he was a

704
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: rookie that they didn't know if they could depend upon.

705
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 1: Now they're in a situation where they do need him,

706
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:26,640
Speaker 1: and he answered the call very very well last week,

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00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: and you just hope that it wasn't. You just hope

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00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 1: that he can build off that performance. And to me,

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00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: I've loved the kid from the beginning, but I just anything,

710
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: like as Dave put it, anything that he does additionally

711
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:45,919
Speaker 1: is just gravy on top, you know. Just going back

712
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: to the offensive line for a second. The name Mike Salari.

713
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: It's like one of those things where you know, if

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Speaker 1: you know the umpire's name, he's probably not a very

715
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 1: good umpire. If you know the offensive line coach's name,

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Speaker 1: there's probably an issue. Well, Mike Solari, we haven't mentioned

717
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: his name in a long time. We did when he

718
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: first got here because he turned things around so fast.

719
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: But he's certainly guys I think stopped Charlie. I think

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00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: he deserves a lot of credit for what this offensive

721
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: line has done, at least to this point, because it's

722
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 1: really a mixed bag. These guys haven't played together, right,

723
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: they barely played together at all, and they've had a

724
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: shortened preseason. I mean, there's a lot of things working

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00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: against him. And Solari's just got at home, and yeah,

726
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the best in the league.

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00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: And one of the reason why I think that is

728
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,959
Speaker 1: the late Howard mud who was a good offensive line coach.

729
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: He just died recently from a motorcycle accident. But we

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Speaker 1: had him on a few months ago and I got

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Speaker 1: to be friends with Howard. It was really I was

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00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: so sad when he passed, because after I got done

733
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 1: talking to him a couple of times. I'm like, hey,

734
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: I got a new friend. And anyway, he had a

735
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 1: lot to say. He's one of the I think that

736
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Speaker 1: in the NFL when he was in Indian app Us

737
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: that was with Peyton Manning, they had the lowest sack

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Speaker 1: total of any NFL team when Howard mud was coaching

739
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:08,720
Speaker 1: a team. But anyway, he spoke very highly of Solari

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Speaker 1: and just the way that he coaches, and it sounded

741
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: like they were pretty similar. So yeah, that makes it.

742
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if anybody's ever gotten a

743
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: golf lesson, but you know, when you get a golf lesson,

744
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: it's like the instructor, the good ones say the right

745
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: thing to you, right, they say something that like resonates

746
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: with you or clicks with you, or you're you're able

747
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: to change something, and that's what you know. It's about communication.

748
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: And that's the thing that I hear about Mike solaris

749
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: that he's able to explain things in a way that

750
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: guys just understand it and then you know where you're going.

751
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: Then you can just go play instead of think, all right,

752
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: there are going to be a couple keys to a

753
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,240
Speaker 1: Seahawks win we'll ask the voice of the Seahawks, Steve Rabel,

754
00:39:50,280 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: what he thinks those are next on the Huddle Thursday

755
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: from This is the Huddle with Dave Wyman, Jake Keats,

756
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 1: Tom Wastle, and Stacy Ross. Seahawks heading to Miami this

757
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,479
Speaker 1: Sunday to take on the Dolphins, one and two, third

758
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,439
Speaker 1: place in the AFC East. That'll be an early game

759
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 1: calling the game on seven ESPN Seattle. We'll obviously beat

760
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: Dave Wyman here with us, but also voice of the Seahawks,

761
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: Steve Rabel, always calling the game. Steve, how are you hey?

762
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 1: Stacy good? And I don't know how I don't know

763
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: how obvious it is about Dave being a part of

764
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: the broadcast this week. We decide basically on Saturday whether

765
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Speaker 1: we're going to allow him in the booth or not. Yeah,

766
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,480
Speaker 1: how do you feel about this? This coming Sunday? We'll

767
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: let him in this time? Yeah? I like that? She?

768
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,640
Speaker 1: Uh that Stacy just described we have Dave Wyman and

769
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: then also and then also calling the game. I'm used

770
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: to it. I've been backing up since I got out

771
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: of here in nineteen seventy six. Why should it be

772
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: any different now? Uh? Raves, you're the best. We had

773
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: some fun moments. I was I was talking about this

774
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 1: with these guys that when we heard Brandon Carr down

775
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: there complaining on the field, it's it's it's been that

776
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:14,840
Speaker 1: part's been kind of cool. And I was talking about

777
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: the shift that Bobby made when they got the safety,

778
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: you know, and he didn't have to go up and

779
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: pat the guy on the side of the rear to

780
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: get him to move over. You remember Tom Katlin Steve,

781
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: he used to say, if those d linemen don't hear you,

782
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: you just go up and slap him on the butt.

783
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 1: They'll move. They're just like cattle. So you used to

784
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: have to do that. You know. There's lots of things,

785
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,919
Speaker 1: but now you know, I guess we want the crowd there.

786
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 1: But there are some kind of cool things like listening

787
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: to guys complain and some of the communications a little

788
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,879
Speaker 1: bit better. Well, and I'll bet Dave, of course we're

789
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: not down there on the field, but I'll bet Russ

790
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: at times they have to be or any quarterback have

791
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: to be somewhat careful in the huddle about calling the

792
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,479
Speaker 1: play too loud, because you know, we used to set

793
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 1: the huddle up. What like ten yards back from the

794
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Now it's about five. Maybe what was

795
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: that by the way, I'd probably because they just want

796
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 1: to run up set and go, or maybe they just

797
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: don't want to have to go that extra four and

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00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 1: a half yards to the line of scrimmage. I have

799
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:19,439
Speaker 1: no earthly idea, but it's one of those things that's

800
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 1: just sort of developed over the years. But the closer

801
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: you are to the defense, the easier it is for

802
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: them to hear you. Now you know the other side

803
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,319
Speaker 1: of that coin as well, Russ is just probably going

804
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: to come out in half the time or a third

805
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: of the time, is going to audible at the line

806
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and get them into a play that works

807
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: against whatever defense. But still, there's just so many things

808
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 1: that they have to now be aware of that they

809
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: didn't used to have to be And like Bobby used

810
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: to have to scream at the top of his lungs

811
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 1: to be heard because of the noise, now not so

812
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: much now, Steve, you guys aren't going to be traveling, correct,

813
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: You guys are having to make the broadcasts from Century

814
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: Link field. Yes, So what in your year, guys, is

815
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 1: you know, short experience because this is only the second

816
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,959
Speaker 1: time that you guys are going to be doing this. Stephen, Dave,

817
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 1: what what has that been like to call a game

818
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: that you're not at Well, it's it's it is certainly different. Um,

819
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're even even at home when the

820
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,480
Speaker 1: team is here. This last Sunday, we were Dave and

821
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: I were talking about it, how different it is, how

822
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: much we miss going down on the field, talking to coaches,

823
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 1: kind of getting the field for the pregame warm ups

824
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: and talking to John Schneider and and the personnel guys

825
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 1: about what they see and the Cowboys or whatever. So

826
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: it's it's it's so different even here at home away

827
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 1: it becomes very much like I used to do for

828
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 1: my thirty eight years in television, and that as you

829
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: walk into the studio and you do your job, and

830
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: you know that there are people out there either viewing

831
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: and or listening, but right and in that particular moment,

832
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: you're it's you and that monitor and the guy standing

833
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: next to yeah, and the producer. You're in your ear

834
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 1: and you still call the game the way you see it,

835
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 1: but there are just so many more things that are

836
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: that make it a little more difficult. That make it

837
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: challenging to do it by looking at the monitor, not

838
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,239
Speaker 1: the least of which is how good of view do

839
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: they give you on what yard line you're on. I

840
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: can see that in the stadium. I can't always see

841
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: it on TV because they just don't show it sometimes,

842
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,919
Speaker 1: So you know, the little things like that that kind

843
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: of hinder you a bit. But it is different. I

844
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: missed the travel with the team, but then again, I

845
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: don't want to be in any situation where we could

846
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: be the catalyst for upsetting the bubble. And I think

847
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: they've got it figured out and that's good and we'll

848
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:48,280
Speaker 1: just do our jobs, all right. Speaking of being in Miami,

849
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 1: I just unearthed an interesting little factor. Somebody texted in

850
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: that the Seahawks have not won at Miami since October

851
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,680
Speaker 1: sixth of nineteen ninety six, which is true. Now I

852
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: want to ask you a little trivia question here, because

853
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,320
Speaker 1: you were there, I presume do you know who quarterbacked

854
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: the Seahawks that day October sixth, nineteen ninety six? Ninety six?

855
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:19,399
Speaker 1: I don't remember what I did this morning, nineteen ninety six.

856
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 1: Could it have been John Freeze? Oh? Yeah, look, well

857
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: it was kind of that in between period there, and

858
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 1: you know, if we were going through some issues as

859
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,840
Speaker 1: a team and I couldn't remember quite if it was

860
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: John at that point, or or you know, we had

861
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: some quarterback injuries. So that was kind of the first

862
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: one that came to mind. But yeah, it's you know,

863
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,080
Speaker 1: we don't get back there very much. I mean, we've

864
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: played in it seems like we played in New England

865
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 1: or or other players. Of course, we haven't played in

866
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo in forever either until this year. The last home

867
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: game for Buffalo was actually in Toronto a few years ago.

868
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: But the thing I always remember about Miami, and it

869
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: goes back to when I played back there, back in

870
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 1: the leather helmet, Dave. And we're gonna see it again,

871
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: at least right now, it looks like we're gonna see

872
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: it again this week. And that is if you ever

873
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:19,720
Speaker 1: wanted weather conditions absolutely polar opposite from Seattle, go to Miami.

874
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: It's going to be eighty seven degrees with almost eighty

875
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 1: percent humidity and a fifty percent chance of rain. At

876
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 1: least that's what I saw as of the last night

877
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 1: the weather report in Miami. It is difficult. It's like

878
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: playing underwater. By the end of the game. So your guys,

879
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: I can't. You can't use it as an excuse, but

880
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: you have to be ready for that and you better

881
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 1: have a lot of good rotation going, especially for that

882
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: defensive front. A fun trivia fact I learned Tom was

883
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: that alligators aren't really outside of Florida or the southeast.

884
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: That's just a basic fact everyone should know. But I

885
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: don't know why I thought there were maybe something like

886
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 1: I don't know Idaho or something. Anyways, Yeah, I haven't

887
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: seen an alligator in Ido in a long time. You

888
00:47:04,719 --> 00:47:06,480
Speaker 1: let me know if you do. Okay, I thought I

889
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:10,720
Speaker 1: thought maybe. I thought maybe there could be I promise.

890
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: I was writing down some keys of the game, and

891
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 1: when I took a step back to look at it,

892
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: I realized I wrote, win the game, get better on defense,

893
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: and then stay really good on offense. Like that was

894
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: the simplified version of it. And what is this tell

895
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: me you have a better key to the game. It's

896
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: the challenge that Dave and I go through every week.

897
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 1: We text on the weekend and then we talk about

898
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: it Sunday morning as to what our keys to the

899
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: game are going to be for the game. And you know,

900
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: It could always be pretty much the same three or

901
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 1: four with maybe one extra here or there. But it's

902
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:46,919
Speaker 1: always going to be you know, russ keep a hot

903
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,879
Speaker 1: hand defense, figure out how to stop the long pass.

904
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 1: I mean, these are things that are pretty obvious. So

905
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: now you have to kind of burrow down on some

906
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 1: of the things that are really particular about why aren't

907
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 1: they doing something, or why is something successful? And why

908
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 1: because it's successful do they need to change things just

909
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: a bit because the other defense knows? You know, we

910
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: love running that deep crossing round, and we love running

911
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:18,760
Speaker 1: DCA on a go round, and we love doing certain things.

912
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,280
Speaker 1: So what can you do differently that can take advantage

913
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,320
Speaker 1: of what the defense is preparing for? Steve? You know,

914
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,720
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is explainable, but it people

915
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: have tried to. I think a lot of times in

916
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:32,879
Speaker 1: football people try to connect the dots, you know, like

917
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: you have to sort of, you know, organize it in

918
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: your mind. There has to be something that explains it.

919
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: And you know, the thing that we've been people have

920
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: been trying to do. I don't think it's explainable, is

921
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: why are the offenses so much better than the defenses

922
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:48,879
Speaker 1: right now? And why are we seeing, you know, this

923
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: amount of yardage giving up giving up in the NFL

924
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 1: just in general. And you know it's the scoring is

925
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: way up. If you look at the over under, which

926
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 1: is the batting line anyway, the numbers are up like

927
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: in the fifties instead of like the forties. But I

928
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 1: don't know that you can explain that. It might just

929
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: be you know, a blep who knows, But does it

930
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:15,279
Speaker 1: make any sense to you? Well, you know, I was

931
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,879
Speaker 1: thinking about this the other day, and you're right, you could,

932
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: you can, you could burrow down and try to figure out. Okay,

933
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: the defense has the advantage after they get to see

934
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: a season or so of read option and that sort

935
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 1: of thing. And now with the fly sweep motion, the rams,

936
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,319
Speaker 1: that's all caught up with them. I think one thing

937
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:37,359
Speaker 1: is pretty simple, and it was going the other way

938
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: for a long time, where a lot of your very

939
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: best athletes were on defense. And now look at where

940
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: the best athletes are. Look at the wide receivers that

941
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: they're growing, like DK Medcalf and Julio Jones and DeAndre

942
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,560
Speaker 1: hop could look at those guys physical specimens that could

943
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 1: have been defensive ends back in the day that I

944
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: played or outside linebackers. Look the quarterbacks, the skills that

945
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 1: are Russell Wilson, Patrick Mahomes, look at the skills that

946
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: they have. I think it's as much as anything, it's

947
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: just great athletic ability and coaches being able to now

948
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: harness that and game plan that into something that's successfully.

949
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: You also have very smart offensive minds these days, and

950
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: he read among the smartest. So I think it could

951
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 1: be something as simple as that day that you just

952
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,919
Speaker 1: have some really great athletes playing on offense right now

953
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: and they have the advantage. He is the voice of

954
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 1: the Seahawks, Steve Rabel. Steve, You're the absolute best. We

955
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: can't wait to hear you this Sunday and talk to

956
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:44,439
Speaker 1: you next Thursday. Thanks days, appreciate it. Thanks guys. Yeah

957
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 1: all right. Dolphins head coach Brian Flores spoke with reporters

958
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: earlier today and had some very interesting things to say

959
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: about a local star and the Seahawks offense. We'll take

960
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:59,400
Speaker 1: a listen next on the Huddle. This is the Huddle

961
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:04,240
Speaker 1: Thursday from noon to two on seven ten ESPN Seattle.

962
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,240
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Huddle with Dave Wyman, Jake Keeps,

963
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: Tom Wassell, and Stacy Ross getting you guys ready for

964
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: the Seahawks Week four matchup against the Miami Dolphins. This segment,

965
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 1: we're going to take a listen to head coach Brian Flores,

966
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 1: head coach of the Dolphins. He had a couple of

967
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: really good things to say about Seattle's offense and some

968
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,839
Speaker 1: good things to say about a former local star. Let's

969
00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 1: start right there, cut number eight right here, here's Flores

970
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: talking about what he's seen from Miles Gaskins is really

971
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: everything we're looking for and a Dolphin's He's tough, he's smart,

972
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:40,640
Speaker 1: he's competitive. You know, he loves to play, loves to practice.

973
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: Team first guy. I mean, he's he's done a really

974
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: nice job, especially making a year one of year two

975
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: lead great teammate, and he's really he really works at

976
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 1: his craft. So I think one of the best things

977
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,879
Speaker 1: to see see from him, you guys, has been him

978
00:51:54,920 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: getting involved as both a receiver and in the run game.

979
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 1: He's got one hundred and fifty two rush yards, but

980
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,240
Speaker 1: almost hundred receiving yards as well. I know the Dolphins

981
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 1: offense Dave you mentioned isn't necessarily explosive. They're in the

982
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:08,359
Speaker 1: bottom throw of the league. In most categories, but they've

983
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 1: been finding ways to integrate him more. Yeah, and you know,

984
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: I think it's really smart to use your running back

985
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,399
Speaker 1: as as a target, kind of like the Seahawks are

986
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: doing with with Chris Carson. So the weird one to

987
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: me is Jordan Howard. Um that you know, pretty good player,

988
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: but he's got like sixteen carries for twelve yards, but

989
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: he scored three touchs. No, yeah, yeah, I'm not sure

990
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 1: how they're they're using him. But um, the other guy

991
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:39,439
Speaker 1: that's really jumped out is this Jisecky Ji Sicky Mike

992
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 1: Gasicky tight end, yeah, tight end from Penn State, and

993
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,280
Speaker 1: he was a second round draft choice back in twenty eighteen.

994
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 1: But man, he made his unbelievable one handed stab, you know,

995
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: catching a pass. I think he's their first or second

996
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 1: leading receiver. So yeah, he's a you know, look, every

997
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: week you're gonna have guys like that, and every week

998
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: you go I was telling the story of the day.

999
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,399
Speaker 1: The only time I ever looked at another NFL player

1000
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 1: and went that guy stinks was Tony Mandridge and he

1001
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: was the number one pick in the draft and he

1002
00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: was playing for the Packers, I think, and I just

1003
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:16,879
Speaker 1: remember going, geez, this guy can't block anybody. But I mean,

1004
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 1: for the most part, you get into camp and you know,

1005
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:22,399
Speaker 1: I'm sorry the week of practice and you start looking

1006
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: at these guys and going, yeah, individually, maybe they're not

1007
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: playing together as a team, but you see the talent

1008
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: is there, and Gaskin is one of them. Ryan Fitzpatrick

1009
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: we talked about and they're tight end as well. That's

1010
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:38,280
Speaker 1: when you look at this game. You know, Jim Kidd

1011
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:40,399
Speaker 1: throw out trap game. We talked about a trap game

1012
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 1: as a show yesterday. And the thing is when you

1013
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 1: look at this group and you talk about injuries, do

1014
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,799
Speaker 1: you rest guys? Do you not rest guys if they

1015
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,400
Speaker 1: decide to end up resting a lot of these players,

1016
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: which I do think is the best move to make.

1017
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: You still got to come up and ready to go.

1018
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: Every single Sunday in Miami is no different. Like you mentioned,

1019
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 1: they've got some players that can really make plays and

1020
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:10,479
Speaker 1: create disruption on the defensive side of the ball as well.

1021
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 1: And Brian Flores, he's a guy that really likes to

1022
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 1: make things difficult for a quarterback, for an offensive line

1023
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,760
Speaker 1: in terms of trying to generate pressure. He's not afraid

1024
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 1: to call cover zero in the middle of the field

1025
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: and call it often. He's not afraid to mix things

1026
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 1: up at the line of scrimmage. And so these guys

1027
00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 1: for the Seattle Seahawks, you know, both offensively and defensively,

1028
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 1: they need to be on their p's and ques because

1029
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: Miami definitely can hurt them in a variety of different ways. Now,

1030
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 1: Seahawks fans speaking of definitely shouldn't jump the gun thinking

1031
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick is going to bring any kind of easy opponent.

1032
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 1: He can certainly be a challenge. Cut number seven right

1033
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: here is Flora's talking about his veteran quarterback, Thank you

1034
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:51,719
Speaker 1: Burn's leadership. I think he burns experience. I think he

1035
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: brings great energy, He's competitive, and you know, he loves

1036
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: to play. I mean, I think you know our players

1037
00:54:57,120 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 1: feed off of that, and you know, his leadership has been,

1038
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: has been are important to this young team, these young

1039
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: receivers obviously the two behind him, as well as some

1040
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 1: of the guys defensively. So we're happy to have him

1041
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: and we just you know, continue to hopefully build and

1042
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: grow and prove as a team. Tom, does Ryan Fitzpatrick

1043
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: make you nervous? Well? A little bit. I mean they

1044
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:21,000
Speaker 1: planned it this way, right, It's not like they had

1045
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: him on the bench and he had to come in

1046
00:55:23,080 --> 00:55:25,319
Speaker 1: because their young guy got hurt him and they planned

1047
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 1: it this way for him to at least start. You

1048
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,800
Speaker 1: heard Joe shadd before saying maybe November for two of

1049
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: but there's no rush on that. Look. Then this occurred

1050
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 1: to me the other day when I was watching Dallas.

1051
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:43,400
Speaker 1: You know they've got in They've got Andy Dalton on Dallas.

1052
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,920
Speaker 1: He's a good backup Ryan Fitzpatrick here in Miami. So

1053
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:49,399
Speaker 1: those are you know, two of those situations where if

1054
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:52,359
Speaker 1: you're a head coach, you're pretty dar uncomfortable because rich

1055
00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: Patrick can play. It's not like you're going up against

1056
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 1: a backup. With all due respect to the guy we

1057
00:55:59,800 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: got here. If I were a fan of another team saying, oh,

1058
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,879
Speaker 1: Gino's going today, not Russell, that gives you a lot

1059
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: of confidence, with all due respect to Gino. Okay, but

1060
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 1: you know Fitzpatrick is a player. He's a borderline starter.

1061
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,440
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean he's smart, he's a good communicator,

1062
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 1: he is a good mentor, and he can play. So

1063
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: the Dolphins really couldn't have worked their quarterback situation any

1064
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 1: better in my mind. Yeah, Fitzpatrick with four touchdowns to

1065
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 1: three interceptions, but important to note that some of those

1066
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: stats are weighed toward a tough week one. He was

1067
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 1: great last week completing I think almost ninety percent of

1068
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 1: his passes, had two touchdowns, ran in another one. Let's

1069
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: take a look at the Seahawks side of the ball though.

1070
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 1: This is what flora is and cut number six had

1071
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: to say about what he's seen from Russell Wilson. He's

1072
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:45,919
Speaker 1: a fantastic player and he's improved really every year since

1073
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: he's been in the league. I think one of my

1074
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 1: first my first year as a position coaching twelve was

1075
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: his rookie year. Played great in that game when we

1076
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 1: went out to Seattle and now I was coaching the

1077
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: safety as I came out of that game feeling like

1078
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 1: he's a young guy. He was just kind of coming along.

1079
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:00,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if that was a third were starting,

1080
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: but he played really well in that game and that

1081
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 1: was my first impression of him. And he's been at

1082
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:06,879
Speaker 1: a tremendous player since. But he's grown a lot over

1083
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: the years. You know. The thing that's really uh, he

1084
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: causes a lot of issues the most guys scrambled a run,

1085
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 1: some guys scrambled a throw. He's really a true dual threat. Yeah,

1086
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 1: I think that he has gradually gotten better, except for

1087
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: this year, he's taken a huge leap. And the well,

1088
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 1: one thing Jake am I seeing things is he throwing

1089
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,840
Speaker 1: the ball harder. It seems like he has got a

1090
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: little bit of extra zip. But but again, you know,

1091
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 1: and I've been saying this whenever I'm on Q thirteen everything,

1092
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:40,680
Speaker 1: like you know, somewhere Patrick Mahomes is making Russell Wilson

1093
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:44,320
Speaker 1: like throws because I'm tired of hearing about Mahomes and

1094
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: his throws only Mahomes. Yeah, I know the first touchdown

1095
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 1: that he threw in that Patriot game. I talked about

1096
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 1: it last week on the huddle. But I mean, he's

1097
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: he's scrambling, he's running to his right, he finds him

1098
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 1: locket sitting down in his zone. He throws across his

1099
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:02,120
Speaker 1: body and the ball had a ton of zip on it.

1100
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: So I just think his whatever he did this offseason,

1101
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 1: it's it's remarkably different this year. I mean, it's been

1102
00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:14,920
Speaker 1: gradual in the past, he has truly stepped up to

1103
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 1: be what at the end of the year, could we

1104
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: could easily say that, you know, I think he has

1105
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 1: a better chance than not that this is the best

1106
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:26,440
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league. Yeah, for Russell, I think that

1107
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 1: this has been a consistent process really, you know, just

1108
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: speaking to it, you know, now here in year three

1109
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 1: of dealing with an offseason with him, you know, it's

1110
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: been a gradual process. You know, he's already one of

1111
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:41,400
Speaker 1: the best in the world and just incrementally getting better

1112
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 1: and working more and more on you know, little things

1113
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 1: in his mechanics um. And then also I think more

1114
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 1: so than anything else, he's always been able to rip

1115
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 1: the ball the way that he has, but it's more

1116
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 1: of the conviction in which he is throwing the football.

1117
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 1: And I also would say that the way that this

1118
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 1: offense is geared up out towards him, everything that was

1119
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:06,920
Speaker 1: centered around basically for the for the majority of Russell's career,

1120
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 1: they've had no intermediate pass game. They really have had

1121
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 1: a very limited short pass game as well. Everything has

1122
00:59:13,560 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 1: been deep play action pass, getting the body, your hands,

1123
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 1: you know, deep down the field. And now this offense

1124
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 1: is really about, you know, attacking every phase of the

1125
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 1: field and allowing Russell early in games to get hit,

1126
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:30,520
Speaker 1: the bad of his hands, to distribute quickly, and I

1127
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 1: think that where he's at mentally, he's processing everything. The

1128
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:38,320
Speaker 1: game is just in slow motion for him, and I

1129
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 1: think that that is the part that is really shining

1130
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 1: through to everybody, and that is also coming out physically,

1131
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 1: but mentally is I think where the fun part of

1132
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: it is for Russell Wilson and how he's playing. We'll

1133
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 1: talk with someone who knows his quarterback pretty well. That's

1134
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: left tackled Dwayne Brown. Next on the huddle. This is

1135
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:04,920
Speaker 1: the hot every Thursday from noon to two on Espncattle.

1136
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 1: Welcome back into the huddle with Dave Wyman, Jake Keeps,

1137
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,200
Speaker 1: Tom Wossele, and Stacy Ross. We're waiting to pull Dwayne

1138
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 1: Brown off the practice field here Seahawks still wrapping up.

1139
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: Until then, let's talk a bit more about this offense

1140
01:00:17,760 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 1: ranked number two in the league and points with thirty

1141
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:23,840
Speaker 1: seven per game. Russell Wilson, leading all quarterbacks with fourteen

1142
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: touchdowns through three weeks, sets an NFL record. I'll start

1143
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 1: with you, Dave. Did they have a chance to repeat

1144
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 1: this kind of trend against the Dolphins? I know it's

1145
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:35,400
Speaker 1: any given Sunday in the NFL, and I know Russell

1146
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 1: Wilson is playing at a clip that's really hard to replicate,

1147
01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: but it sure feels like with a banged up defensive backgroup,

1148
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 1: there's a chance. Yeah. Well, and then they pride themselves

1149
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 1: on their corners. I mean, Xavian Howard seventy six million

1150
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 1: with forty six guaranteed, Byron Jones eighty two million, fifty

1151
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:54,440
Speaker 1: seven million guaranteed. And then they draft the guy Igno

1152
01:00:55,760 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 1: Bohogany part. Yeah, by Sunday he's gonna be ready to roll.

1153
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:06,640
Speaker 1: Got the bad one out of my system. But no,

1154
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:09,640
Speaker 1: he was a first rounder. So you know, they liked

1155
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:11,880
Speaker 1: their corners. And I've seen them play a lot of

1156
01:01:11,960 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 1: Cover one where they've got a deep safety back there

1157
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: and they're relying on their corners to man up on

1158
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: those guys. Look, they went and did it against the

1159
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 1: best team in the league as far as defensive backs go,

1160
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:27,560
Speaker 1: and the Patriots, so I don't see why they wouldn't

1161
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: do it here. And you know, and the other thing too,

1162
01:01:30,200 --> 01:01:33,800
Speaker 1: is the checkdown is always available. With Chris Carson, what

1163
01:01:33,880 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 1: did he have? I think he only had two or

1164
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 1: three uh throws his way last week, so you know,

1165
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:43,360
Speaker 1: maybe they up that a little bit. So um, yeah,

1166
01:01:43,440 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 1: there's I don't always expect it, but you know, we're

1167
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 1: starting to get used to russ having these huge games.

1168
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:58,040
Speaker 1: Are offense good, Jake, I was just gonna say, I

1169
01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:00,919
Speaker 1: think we certainly are, and you look at the way

1170
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: that this is shaping up. I mean, it would not

1171
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 1: surprise me if they were, if they ran the ball

1172
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Carlos Hide just trying to really

1173
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:11,000
Speaker 1: control the game in this one. But you know, so

1174
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:13,320
Speaker 1: far they have really been aggressive and I don't see

1175
01:02:13,360 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 1: them really changing, especially with the secondary group against you know,

1176
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:19,600
Speaker 1: the offensive weaponry for the Seahawks. I think it's a

1177
01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:22,439
Speaker 1: clear mismatch and you know it's gonna be a fun

1178
01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: one to watch to see how they handle it and

1179
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: how how well they're able to start. I think this

1180
01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: offense is extremely portable, Like I think that even when

1181
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:36,840
Speaker 1: the weather gets called. The only thing that I'm a

1182
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 1: little worried about, only because it's come up in years

1183
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 1: past and it's already come up like Flats week, is

1184
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 1: Chris Carson's health. Right. I know that Russell can throw

1185
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 1: the ball over the place. I know we got a

1186
01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:52,919
Speaker 1: million options but they do still need the run game.

1187
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 1: Remember they haven't abandoned the run game. They're still using it.

1188
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:00,760
Speaker 1: I mean, at worse or at its least, it's a

1189
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:03,080
Speaker 1: decoy and at its best, it's a huge part of

1190
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 1: what they do. So they're still gonna need Carson there.

1191
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:08,680
Speaker 1: I'd keep an eye on his health. But if everything's there,

1192
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 1: if everybody's on the field functioning, I don't see any

1193
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:17,160
Speaker 1: reason why this offense can't work in any venue, in

1194
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 1: any weather. I mean, I don't think that any of

1195
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 1: that stuff bothers Russell or Lockett or metcalfein even though

1196
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 1: how did Rabel put it before? He said in Miami,

1197
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 1: by the end of the game, it's like playing underwater,

1198
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:30,840
Speaker 1: especially on that field. It's always real muddy down there.

1199
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: I think that they're they're gonna be fine either way.

1200
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:39,000
Speaker 1: I'd expect this offense help, notwithstanding to keep it up

1201
01:03:39,040 --> 01:03:41,680
Speaker 1: all year long. Yeah and there. They've had a couple

1202
01:03:41,720 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 1: of games where they ran for one hundred and fifty

1203
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:46,360
Speaker 1: four against New England. They're like middle of the pack

1204
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:49,320
Speaker 1: right now throwing running it for about one hundred and twenty.

1205
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 1: But I feel like they could have that kind of

1206
01:03:51,840 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 1: running game where you see him run for it against

1207
01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: the Rams a couple of years ago, where they ran

1208
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:59,360
Speaker 1: for over two hundred yards, you know, and Russ a

1209
01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:02,480
Speaker 1: little part of that. And he's run that option which

1210
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:04,360
Speaker 1: we haven't seen lately, but we saw it in the

1211
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:07,200
Speaker 1: Atlanta game. So yeah, I feel like they can. But

1212
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 1: I'm with you Tom that I do worry a lot

1213
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:14,120
Speaker 1: about Carson's health. So especially with the buffoonery that was

1214
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: going on out there in the Dallas game with the

1215
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: guy with the alligator role. Geez, I'm seeing anything like

1216
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:21,440
Speaker 1: that since like the sixties. I mean, is this the

1217
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:25,760
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five Oakland Raiders out here? Is ridiculous? So

1218
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 1: but yeah, I do think that, but they haven't really

1219
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:33,400
Speaker 1: proven that they can be this hugely explosive running team.

1220
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 1: They've been good, you know, like I said, about one

1221
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen a game, but you know, if they

1222
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: can do that for a couple of games, I would

1223
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 1: love to see that, because then you know, you would

1224
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:45,680
Speaker 1: know because we've been saying, hey, they can always go

1225
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 1: back to the run. They're a good running team. Do

1226
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 1: we really know that yet? Not quite? You know, maybe

1227
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 1: we've seen a little bit of it. But but if

1228
01:04:54,360 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 1: they're gonna be really good as good as Hide is

1229
01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: and Homers look good lately. I think it's got to

1230
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:03,960
Speaker 1: be because of Chris Carson. Dave, what would you say

1231
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 1: about Chris Carson this week? Because he did practice, it

1232
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 1: was limited, but he did practice yesterday. Is that one

1233
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 1: of those where, hey, he's got the knee sprain, you

1234
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 1: should rest him or is it Hey, if he's telling

1235
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 1: us he's ready to go, then we're not going to

1236
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: hold him back. Yeah. I feel like there's less than

1237
01:05:23,800 --> 01:05:26,320
Speaker 1: a ten percent chance that he's going to play. I

1238
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 1: just think the way they're treating well, especially him. I mean, look,

1239
01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 1: remember after the twenty eighteen he had what thirty two

1240
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:36,919
Speaker 1: carries against the Cowboys, then he couldn't go the next week,

1241
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:40,000
Speaker 1: and you know he has he has. They kind of

1242
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 1: treat him that way, and I think they should. So, Yeah,

1243
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:46,640
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna he's gonna be playing this week,

1244
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 1: just based on what we saw too. And I was

1245
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 1: surprised at it was just a spring because if you

1246
01:05:50,560 --> 01:05:52,880
Speaker 1: go back and look at that, he's got his leg

1247
01:05:53,040 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 1: turned all the way around and Chris is still on

1248
01:05:55,760 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 1: the ground face down and he had to kind of

1249
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: flip his body, so it wouldn't, you know, torque his knee.

1250
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,400
Speaker 1: So I hope you got like an apology or something

1251
01:06:05,440 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 1: from that guy something. I haven't seen any kind of

1252
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 1: fine or anything yet, but yeah, well we'll see. But

1253
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:16,360
Speaker 1: it's ridiculous, is that a football player should handle that,

1254
01:06:16,440 --> 01:06:19,880
Speaker 1: by the way, like behind the scenes, like, hey man,

1255
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:26,000
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have done that. I was gonna say, yeah right,

1256
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:28,400
Speaker 1: I mean I was gonna ask Dave, like, did you

1257
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 1: ever get a call from anybody or a work maybe

1258
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:33,520
Speaker 1: back in your day it was Pony Express. Yeah. Well,

1259
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 1: I got kicked out of a game, and and if

1260
01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:40,840
Speaker 1: you see the footage, it looks bad, it really does.

1261
01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:43,760
Speaker 1: I was going to block it ended up being Jeff Hostetler,

1262
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 1: and he moved out of the way. Yeah, he moved

1263
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 1: out of the way, and then I put my elbow

1264
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:53,360
Speaker 1: up and and you know, if that hurt him, then

1265
01:06:53,720 --> 01:06:57,200
Speaker 1: he sure didn't show it, because he jumped on top

1266
01:06:57,240 --> 01:07:00,800
Speaker 1: of me and started screaming, you know, curse words. That

1267
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:02,720
Speaker 1: was the weird thing about it. It was calling me

1268
01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:08,040
Speaker 1: a sucker. Yeah yeah, So and then you know, I

1269
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:09,800
Speaker 1: got thrown out of the game and it looks terrible

1270
01:07:09,800 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 1: and everything but I called him afterwards, you know, my

1271
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:15,000
Speaker 1: agent set it up and I tried to call the Raiders,

1272
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 1: said hey, I'm calling to apologize. Never got him on

1273
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:20,840
Speaker 1: the phone, but you know, told him to Yeah, I

1274
01:07:20,920 --> 01:07:23,320
Speaker 1: just passed it on to whoever. It was like, okay, yeah,

1275
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 1: well we'll tell them. They weren't, you know, too happy.

1276
01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, I never I never got a chance to

1277
01:07:28,120 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 1: actually speak to him, but I did try to, you know,

1278
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:33,600
Speaker 1: say hey, look look I was trying to hit him,

1279
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:36,480
Speaker 1: but I wasn't going to try to injure him. So

1280
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 1: and there's some controversy as to whether the hit that

1281
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:42,760
Speaker 1: I had was the one that that hurt his throat,

1282
01:07:42,880 --> 01:07:45,600
Speaker 1: but anyway, it was, you know, it was a bad

1283
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 1: situation and I was embarrassed. I mean, look, I was

1284
01:07:48,720 --> 01:07:51,640
Speaker 1: on some of the halftime shows the next week and

1285
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:54,400
Speaker 1: I had three Hall of Famers called me a cheap shot,

1286
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:56,600
Speaker 1: you know, and it was just it was awful. I

1287
01:07:56,640 --> 01:08:00,000
Speaker 1: hated it. I felt like I was infamous instead of famous,

1288
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:02,400
Speaker 1: you know, and I'd never been that guy, you know,

1289
01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:05,000
Speaker 1: So it was it was it was a bad deal.

1290
01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:06,840
Speaker 1: But if I was this Tristan Hill, it's a lot

1291
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 1: easier now, Like I had to call the training room

1292
01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:11,920
Speaker 1: of the Raiders in order to try to get a

1293
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 1: hold of him. Now, these guys, you know, they have

1294
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 1: text and all that Twitter everything. Yeah, he can he

1295
01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:21,160
Speaker 1: can do that, and he certainly should because that was

1296
01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 1: really a bad look. You know, I don't mean to

1297
01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 1: start out our interview with Seahawks left tackle Dwayne Brown

1298
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 1: by asking him about a defensive play. But Dwayne, thank

1299
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 1: you for joining us on the huddle. Uh, what did

1300
01:08:33,760 --> 01:08:36,719
Speaker 1: you make of that play of Tristan Hill on Chris Carson.

1301
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:38,519
Speaker 1: I don't mean to being to pitch you in a

1302
01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:40,880
Speaker 1: weird spot, but I mean we were just talking about this.

1303
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't mind. Hum. I thought it was

1304
01:08:44,720 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: I thought it was intentional. I didn't see it when

1305
01:08:47,280 --> 01:08:49,960
Speaker 1: it happened, and it's probably a good thing I didn't,

1306
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 1: because I would have for sure reacted. Um, But after

1307
01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:57,360
Speaker 1: seeing a replay after the game, uh, it was clear

1308
01:08:57,479 --> 01:09:00,519
Speaker 1: that he had him tackled and he continue to roll,

1309
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 1: continuing to twist his ankle, and you know, within a

1310
01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:08,519
Speaker 1: couple of plays later he hit Russ late. So you know,

1311
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:10,880
Speaker 1: it was a string of plays that you know, made

1312
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 1: me feel like it wasn't any remorse there and it

1313
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 1: was intentional. Yeah. Well, and Dwayne, it just seems like

1314
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:21,680
Speaker 1: I was saying that it looked like something out of

1315
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 1: like the nineteen sixties or seventies. You might have seen

1316
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:27,160
Speaker 1: something like that then, but now isn't There's more of

1317
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:30,439
Speaker 1: a brotherhood of Hey, look, you want to make somebody

1318
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:32,160
Speaker 1: feel it when you hit him, right, but you don't

1319
01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:35,400
Speaker 1: want to injure anybody. And everybody is pretty aware of Look,

1320
01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:37,720
Speaker 1: this guy's you know, you don't want to jeopardize a

1321
01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:42,720
Speaker 1: guy's chance to make a living in the NFL. Absolutely. Um.

1322
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:44,960
Speaker 1: You know, I've been in a a league a long time,

1323
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 1: and there's always that competitive nature to want to dominate

1324
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:51,000
Speaker 1: your opponent, to like I said, you know, make yourself

1325
01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 1: felt and make them remember a certain hit or a

1326
01:09:54,479 --> 01:09:57,000
Speaker 1: certain play. But we all respect each other. We all

1327
01:09:57,080 --> 01:09:59,400
Speaker 1: noted as our livelihood. We're trying to pro bude for

1328
01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:02,160
Speaker 1: ourselves and our families, and you never want to do

1329
01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:05,680
Speaker 1: anything that could uh intentionally stop when someone doing that,

1330
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:09,439
Speaker 1: you know, So I don't respect it, you know, and uh,

1331
01:10:10,720 --> 01:10:12,639
Speaker 1: you know, I think there should have been or should

1332
01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:19,240
Speaker 1: be some some sort of counsequence sort Dwayne, you're you know,

1333
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 1: you're the one of the older vets here on the team. Um,

1334
01:10:22,800 --> 01:10:25,680
Speaker 1: you're talking about, you know, keeping yourself healthy. You know,

1335
01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:28,520
Speaker 1: I know that you work extremely hard in the offseason

1336
01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:31,519
Speaker 1: to keep yourself in the best physical shape possible. What

1337
01:10:31,720 --> 01:10:33,840
Speaker 1: is it like at this stage in your career to

1338
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:37,599
Speaker 1: manage yourself and to have the discipline to manage yourself

1339
01:10:37,600 --> 01:10:39,559
Speaker 1: the right way so that you can be available for

1340
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 1: your team each and every single week. It's Uh, it's

1341
01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:46,000
Speaker 1: a full time job, you know what I mean. I think,

1342
01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:48,000
Speaker 1: you know, not only for myself, but I think everyone,

1343
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 1: especially this year considering you know, just the restrictions we've

1344
01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:54,280
Speaker 1: had and just kind of the the change in the

1345
01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:56,680
Speaker 1: sudden change in tempo, going from you know, practicing the

1346
01:10:56,720 --> 01:11:02,160
Speaker 1: training camp a full four quarters intense, full speed football games. Um,

1347
01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:05,160
Speaker 1: you know, so it's a it's a it's a daily ground,

1348
01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:07,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, from you know, stretching to

1349
01:11:07,160 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 1: just maintenance on different body parts, to recovery after practice,

1350
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:13,479
Speaker 1: recovery after games. You know, it's a lot, you know,

1351
01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:15,720
Speaker 1: but it's easy to stay discipline because you know, I

1352
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:18,200
Speaker 1: love what I do and there's nothing more important to

1353
01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:21,719
Speaker 1: me than being available, you know. So, Uh, it's it's everything,

1354
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:25,360
Speaker 1: you know, it's diet, it's enough proper amount of sleep. Uh,

1355
01:11:25,439 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 1: it's it's everything, you know. So um, you know, it's

1356
01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:30,719
Speaker 1: a full time job. It's not just about practice or games,

1357
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:33,240
Speaker 1: you know, it's everything you have to do um in

1358
01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:35,519
Speaker 1: between that time, you know, to make sure you're ready

1359
01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:39,600
Speaker 1: to go. And I know you've played in some excellent

1360
01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:42,799
Speaker 1: offenses in the earlier part of the decade with Houston

1361
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:46,519
Speaker 1: and then later uh as Watson came along. But do

1362
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 1: you think that the offense you got you're in right

1363
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:51,280
Speaker 1: now has the potential to maybe be the best you've

1364
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 1: ever been a part of. I mean absolutely, you know,

1365
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:57,559
Speaker 1: I think it all starts with you know Russ I mean,

1366
01:11:57,600 --> 01:12:00,400
Speaker 1: I mean he's playing lights out. He's a phenomenal talent.

1367
01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:03,840
Speaker 1: Um you know, Sidenhamer, He's doing a great job of

1368
01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:07,120
Speaker 1: dialing up different players and keeping defenses all balance. We

1369
01:12:07,160 --> 01:12:10,200
Speaker 1: have a lot of talent man our receiver group, running backs,

1370
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:12,439
Speaker 1: you know. You know, guy's up front have been producing

1371
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 1: and playing, you know, playing pretty well. And we're still

1372
01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:18,160
Speaker 1: trying to still continue to evolve and and find our

1373
01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:20,880
Speaker 1: chemistry as a line. You know, So we're just looking

1374
01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:23,000
Speaker 1: at we've been able to get accomplished so far, it's

1375
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:25,240
Speaker 1: been amazing, you know, and um, you know we've done

1376
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:28,640
Speaker 1: it against something pretty deep, you know, decent, decent defenses

1377
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 1: and pretty good players, you know. So we're just trying

1378
01:12:31,320 --> 01:12:32,800
Speaker 1: to keep it going. You know. Every week is going

1379
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 1: to be different. Um, you know, but you know, putting

1380
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: up thirty points a game is not easy in this league,

1381
01:12:39,360 --> 01:12:41,280
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm just happy to be a part

1382
01:12:41,280 --> 01:12:43,679
Speaker 1: of it. Dain, how does it You've probably been asked

1383
01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:45,400
Speaker 1: this a lot, but just as far as the lack

1384
01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:48,320
Speaker 1: of crowd noise, how has it made your job easier

1385
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:53,240
Speaker 1: or how has it made it tougher? It has definitely

1386
01:12:53,240 --> 01:12:57,439
Speaker 1: been h the communication aspect, it's been good and it's

1387
01:12:57,439 --> 01:12:59,479
Speaker 1: been bad because I think both sides of the ball

1388
01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:03,400
Speaker 1: are able to hear everything that's being said. So um,

1389
01:13:03,400 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 1: as a veteran somebody that you know, I kind of

1390
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 1: listen for keys anyway, you know, it makes it a

1391
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:10,840
Speaker 1: lot easier hearing guys you know, what they're trying to

1392
01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:13,160
Speaker 1: say and what they're communicating to each other. But on

1393
01:13:13,200 --> 01:13:14,880
Speaker 1: the flip side of that, they hear everything we're saying,

1394
01:13:15,000 --> 01:13:18,120
Speaker 1: you know, So um, you know, you try to, you know,

1395
01:13:18,200 --> 01:13:20,680
Speaker 1: cut down your communication as much as possible so they

1396
01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 1: don't get any key on it and start to pick

1397
01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:24,639
Speaker 1: it up as the game goes on. But it's hard,

1398
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 1: you know, because this is only only our you know,

1399
01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:29,439
Speaker 1: fourth third, fourth game coming up, and uh, you know,

1400
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 1: we have some young guys, some some inexperienced guys in

1401
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:34,840
Speaker 1: our systems, so um, we're having to communicate quite a

1402
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:37,360
Speaker 1: bit to make sure everyone's on the same page. And

1403
01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:39,160
Speaker 1: you know, but they're doing the same thing, so it

1404
01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 1: you know, it works, you know, both ways, you know.

1405
01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:46,599
Speaker 1: And so it's been, it's been. It's been kind of weird,

1406
01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:49,200
Speaker 1: but once you're out there playing, you don't really think

1407
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 1: about it so much. Dwayne, just real quick, Uh because

1408
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:57,439
Speaker 1: of that, have you found yourself trying to keep coming

1409
01:13:57,520 --> 01:13:59,720
Speaker 1: up with new code words? I mean that's something that

1410
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,439
Speaker 1: you know, as a former you know, quarterback, that you

1411
01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:05,080
Speaker 1: always worry about in two minute calls and signals and

1412
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:07,320
Speaker 1: trying to change things up. If you've you know, showed

1413
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: it on tape. Is that something that you guys are

1414
01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:11,519
Speaker 1: worried about? Or are you guys just you know, hey,

1415
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 1: we're rolling and they got to stop us. You're not

1416
01:14:14,960 --> 01:14:17,400
Speaker 1: too concerned. You know, you know, a lot of guys

1417
01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 1: that we played. Um, I try to look to see

1418
01:14:20,560 --> 01:14:23,920
Speaker 1: if they're engaging what we're saying, if they're listening, you know,

1419
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:26,000
Speaker 1: if they are, then you know, we make adjustments as

1420
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:29,040
Speaker 1: the game goes on. Um. You know, I played next

1421
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:30,680
Speaker 1: to Michael Potty for a while. He's played a lot

1422
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:33,760
Speaker 1: of football, so we're able to communicate, uh, you know,

1423
01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:36,519
Speaker 1: less than most. Um, you know, but if they're not

1424
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:38,000
Speaker 1: really pay attended to it because you know, they have

1425
01:14:38,040 --> 01:14:40,519
Speaker 1: to worry about their own stuff and so sometimes they're

1426
01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:42,400
Speaker 1: not paying atened to it as much. So you know,

1427
01:14:42,439 --> 01:14:44,240
Speaker 1: it's not a big deal. But you get some experienced

1428
01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:47,760
Speaker 1: players that start to catch on and you can hear

1429
01:14:47,800 --> 01:14:50,120
Speaker 1: them kind of communicate to each other as we're talking,

1430
01:14:50,200 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, if I see that, then you know,

1431
01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:55,720
Speaker 1: we'll switch some things up here and there. But um,

1432
01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:57,840
Speaker 1: for the most part, I mean, our offense has been

1433
01:14:57,960 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 1: has been good. We've been rolling, so uh, you know,

1434
01:15:01,080 --> 01:15:03,280
Speaker 1: it hasn't been a much of an issue yet. He

1435
01:15:03,640 --> 01:15:07,160
Speaker 1: is starting left tackle Dwayne Brown joining us on the huddle. Dwayne,

1436
01:15:07,240 --> 01:15:09,559
Speaker 1: we always appreciate how candid you are. Thank you so

1437
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:11,479
Speaker 1: much for giving us some of your time and best

1438
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:15,280
Speaker 1: of luck this weekend man, than all right, we'll see

1439
01:15:15,280 --> 01:15:17,599
Speaker 1: if we can get Alton Robinson next. This is the huddle.

1440
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:24,240
Speaker 1: This is the huddle every Thursday from noon to two

1441
01:15:24,400 --> 01:15:29,519
Speaker 1: on seven ten ESPN Seattle. Prescott takes the snap again,

1442
01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:32,240
Speaker 1: a three man rush, He gets hit, He gets hit

1443
01:15:32,320 --> 01:15:36,280
Speaker 1: and goes down. Robinson there to make the sack and

1444
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 1: about the twenty five yard line, and now the Cowboys

1445
01:15:39,479 --> 01:15:42,840
Speaker 1: used that final time out, the perfect time for a sack.

1446
01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:46,840
Speaker 1: Way to go, young man. Alton Robinson gets the sack

1447
01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 1: for the Seahawks, joining us right now on the huddle

1448
01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:52,679
Speaker 1: with Dave Wyman, Jay Keeps, Tom Wasastle, and Stacy ross

1449
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:56,320
Speaker 1: Is rookie defensive end Alton Robinson. Alton, I hope I'm

1450
01:15:56,320 --> 01:15:58,280
Speaker 1: saying that right, correct me if I'm not. How was

1451
01:15:58,280 --> 01:16:01,639
Speaker 1: your first career sack? What did that feel like? You're

1452
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:04,120
Speaker 1: definitely saying it right, And it was it was amazing,

1453
01:16:04,160 --> 01:16:05,360
Speaker 1: you know, to be able to get out there in

1454
01:16:05,360 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 1: my first game and make a play like that in

1455
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:10,240
Speaker 1: a time that I made it, It was a It

1456
01:16:10,280 --> 01:16:13,479
Speaker 1: was amazing, yeah, all And I I think my favorite

1457
01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:16,240
Speaker 1: play was the reverse because you know, you were kind

1458
01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:18,000
Speaker 1: of the trailer and I know the rule used to

1459
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:20,680
Speaker 1: be when I played anyway that you stay deep as

1460
01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:24,639
Speaker 1: the deepest and you you disrupted that play really well. Uh.

1461
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:26,880
Speaker 1: You know we've been talking to Cliff Avril, who who's

1462
01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:29,000
Speaker 1: worked with you, and he said a lot of really

1463
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:31,280
Speaker 1: good things about you. But how much uh, how much

1464
01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:33,720
Speaker 1: has that helped you? You know, kind of soak in

1465
01:16:33,840 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 1: some some knowledge from a guy like Cliff. Uh, it's

1466
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:42,080
Speaker 1: helped me a lot actually, um throughout you know, the

1467
01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:44,160
Speaker 1: the draft process. You know, me and Cliff work together

1468
01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:46,639
Speaker 1: and um, you know he just shared you know, tidbits

1469
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:50,760
Speaker 1: throughout like in the game that you know helped me. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know throughout the game when I'm out when I'm

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01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:54,479
Speaker 1: out there, you know, it gives me certain things to

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Speaker 1: look for and things like that. Alson, it looks like,

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Speaker 1: you know, you came into this where you were a

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Speaker 1: little bit heavier, not in terms of being overweight or anything,

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01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:09,439
Speaker 1: but just came in health heavier, bigger than what you

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Speaker 1: were when you were you know, coming out of the draft.

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01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:15,479
Speaker 1: Was that intentional to to bulk up and play more

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01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:18,519
Speaker 1: of a five technique role? Was that just something that

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01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:20,679
Speaker 1: that naturally happened as you were training here at Ford

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01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:24,280
Speaker 1: Sports Performance what kind of went into that because you

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01:17:24,280 --> 01:17:28,000
Speaker 1: you seem to still have that explosive, you know, quick

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01:17:28,040 --> 01:17:31,600
Speaker 1: twitch ability off the ball. Um. I mean it was

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01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:34,960
Speaker 1: a little bit about Um. I mean, for some reason

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01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:37,120
Speaker 1: I thought I needed to get a little heavier to

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01:17:37,160 --> 01:17:40,720
Speaker 1: be able to play at this level because I imagine

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01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:43,960
Speaker 1: these guys being much bigger. But you know, once I

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01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 1: got up here, I realized that, you know, I don't

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01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:49,519
Speaker 1: want to sacrifice you know, some speed for size. So um,

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Speaker 1: throughout the natural process of camp, I dropped a couple

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Speaker 1: of pounds and I felt back fast and switchy. So um. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We talked earlier in the show Alton about whether or

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Speaker 1: not it's fair to expect a rookie to come in

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Speaker 1: and make big time impact. But you know, you're out

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01:18:08,280 --> 01:18:10,960
Speaker 1: there doing it. They put you on the field. What's

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Speaker 1: your expectation of yourself. My expectation of myself right now

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01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:18,519
Speaker 1: is just to you know, keep earning a respect of

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Speaker 1: my older guys, um to where they feel comfortable with

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01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 1: me going out there, because um, you know, that was

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Speaker 1: just one game. But you know I heard from a

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Speaker 1: great coach once upon a time that anybody can do

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Speaker 1: it once Um, So my goal is to just you know,

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01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:33,320
Speaker 1: keep proving myself to the other guys. Yeah, Alton, will

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01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:36,320
Speaker 1: just expect one soccer week out of you. That'd be great, man.

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Speaker 1: We really appreciate that. Not too much that yeah, but no,

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01:18:40,400 --> 01:18:42,880
Speaker 1: it's uh, who are some of the veteran guys on

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01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:45,720
Speaker 1: the team that that you've talked to and uh and

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01:18:45,800 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: have helped you out a little bit. Um, So the

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Speaker 1: veteran guys that are in my group, I got guys

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01:18:52,120 --> 01:18:56,080
Speaker 1: like Bensa Maoa, Jay Reid, and then um, I even

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01:18:56,120 --> 01:19:02,479
Speaker 1: look at like LJ and Um seen as like vets too,

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01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 1: Like I know they're not really like vet vets, but

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01:19:05,280 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 1: they're older than me, so that gives them credibility in

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01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:10,519
Speaker 1: my eyes. Um, as well as like you know, Bobby

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Speaker 1: kJ Um, you know you got mall in the back.

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Speaker 1: Like just any type of advice I can get from

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01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:21,559
Speaker 1: those guys, I try to, you know, hold the type. Now, Alton,

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01:19:21,600 --> 01:19:23,639
Speaker 1: what is what is this next week? As you got

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01:19:23,640 --> 01:19:27,000
Speaker 1: your first game action last week, that's that's done, it's

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01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:29,639
Speaker 1: over with. I'm sure there was a lot of nervous

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01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:32,759
Speaker 1: energy that you had. Now you're going into the second game.

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Speaker 1: You know, what is something that you're looking to improve

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01:19:35,200 --> 01:19:38,360
Speaker 1: upon here going into your your second start, you know,

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01:19:38,439 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 1: game playing, just not just not to leave any plays

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01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: out there. Um, you know, if I'm fortunate enough to

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01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,360
Speaker 1: be suited up again, I just don't want to leave

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01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:49,560
Speaker 1: any plays out there. Like you guys can mentioned the

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Speaker 1: reverse play and uh, to me, that's a play I

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Speaker 1: should have made and you know what I mean. So

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Speaker 1: I feel like I left that one out there. And

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Speaker 1: that's my biggest goal is to not leave anything out there.

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Speaker 1: That was defensive end Alden Robinson coming off his first

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Speaker 1: career game where he got a sack of Dak Prescott. Alton,

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. We're so excited to watch

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Speaker 1: you again this weekend. You have some fun out there

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Speaker 1: against the Dolphins. Okay, all right, thank you. All right.

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Speaker 1: This has been the Huddle with Dave Wyman, Jake Keeps,

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Speaker 1: Tom Wostle, and Stacy Roust. We'll be back next Thursday

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Speaker 1: with another preview of the Seahawks opponent. Until then, Tom,

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Speaker 1: Jake and Stacy's next