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

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Speaker 2: Presented by Hung Services and Pacific Lambings APT.

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Speaker 3: You are listening to the world famous Huddle with Dave Wyman,

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Speaker 3: Michael Bumpus, and Stacy Ross getting you guys ready for

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Speaker 3: a Week two matchup between the Seahawks and Patriots. This

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Speaker 3: one on the road at ten am. Kickoff local excuse me,

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Speaker 3: not local time, Seattle time. First, we're going to recap

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Speaker 3: quickly the win over the Broncos in week one, and

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Speaker 3: then we're going to be joined by center call Connor

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Speaker 3: Williams in segment. So I'll interrupt us when Connor comes in.

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Speaker 3: But whyman, I'll start with you. It feels like what

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Speaker 3: stood out from this day easily was the defensive performance.

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Speaker 3: Would you make of what what Mike McDonald was able

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Speaker 3: to construct?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was well, first of all, tackling was really good.

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Speaker 4: I mean I think I think we saw maybe one

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Speaker 4: open field mistackle and then somebody was right there and

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Speaker 4: they kind of kind of carried the team there for

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Speaker 4: a while while the offense struggled. So yeah, I just

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Speaker 4: I just thought, especially the way the linebackers packed the

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Speaker 4: line of scrimmage and the way that they took shots,

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Speaker 4: they weren't worried about missing tackles. I felt like it's

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Speaker 4: a kind of we've been talking this week about the mentality,

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Speaker 4: the tackling mentality, and it's kind of like special teams

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Speaker 4: where if you're the first guy there, you can take

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Speaker 4: a shot and then if if it doesn't work, then

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Speaker 4: there's somebody and you know where your.

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Speaker 5: Help is too.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I thought that that looked really good. And

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Speaker 4: you know it's funny like Leonard Williams didn't really have

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Speaker 4: like a big statistical day or anything, but the way

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Speaker 4: he controlled the line.

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Speaker 5: Of scrimmage was was pretty awesome.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I just thought defensively, it was just markedly

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Speaker 4: different from what we've seen over the I think Salk

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Speaker 4: said that like that was the best defense we've seen

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Speaker 4: in five years.

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Speaker 5: Maybe.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I loved the passion that defense is playing with.

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Speaker 6: I mean, the very first play, I think Jay Love

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Speaker 6: makes the play he's hyped. We saw Jenkins get down

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Speaker 6: the hill, he's hype. I saw Witherspoon just take a

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Speaker 6: route away, went even throwing his way, just took it away,

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Speaker 6: and the excitement was crazy.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 6: I think there's like a validation I think that happened

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Speaker 6: with those guys, Like they knew they were going to

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Speaker 6: be a good defense, but to go out there and

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Speaker 6: actually do it, it has to be a great feeling.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, and just yeah, the way they the way

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Speaker 4: they're playing, man, it's just it's so fast and I think,

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Speaker 4: you know, and we'll talk about the offense. I felt

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Speaker 4: like that was one of the problems, like there was

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Speaker 4: too much going on, so they weren't able to play

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Speaker 4: fast like Lake and Thomlinson. How do you get beat

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Speaker 4: when their guys lined up in an outside gap and

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Speaker 4: he beat you to the inside gap. I think they

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Speaker 4: were thinking too much. I think there was too much

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Speaker 4: in our defense last year. You could see guys thinking

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Speaker 4: and it kind of had a ripple effect and made it,

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Speaker 4: you know, on the back end, so guys weren't sure

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Speaker 4: where they were going and the defense just right from

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Speaker 5: Offense finally repaired.

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Speaker 4: And got going, but as far as the defense goes,

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Speaker 4: it was just you can tell they're guys that have

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Speaker 4: turned their brains on because they are off I should say,

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Speaker 4: because you don't want an entire turn your brain off,

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Speaker 4: but you want to know, you know that you are

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Speaker 4: confident in where you're supposed to go on every play.

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Speaker 3: Connor's walking over now, so Bump, I may have to

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Speaker 3: interrupt you here, but uh, they had a slow start

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Speaker 3: on offense. The Seahawks did a pretty bad first half.

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Speaker 3: What adjustments did you see in the second half, because

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Speaker 3: obviously they were able to pull away.

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Speaker 7: Well, schlare say there were no adjustments made? Yes, can

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Speaker 7: I say you're right?

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Speaker 6: They didn't say, look, guys, we're just gonna we're gonna

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Speaker 7: Game plan and start elsewhere.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and uh, it all started with the man who's

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Speaker 6: with us right now, so you.

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Speaker 7: Know, let's get it.

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Speaker 3: It's exactly right obviously, Connor Williams, Seahawks center joining us

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Speaker 3: right now, coming off your very first game with the

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Speaker 3: Seattle Seahawks and Connor, this one was in front of

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Speaker 3: fans at Luomenfield. How'd it feel out there?

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Speaker 8: It was exactly special? Oh, hey, guys, it was definitely special.

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Speaker 9: I mean I've played there multiple times and being on

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Speaker 9: the opposing side, you definitely feel what it what it

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Speaker 9: means to come to Seattle and play, and so just

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Speaker 9: being able to see it as a home crowd and

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Speaker 9: have them back in you. It's definitely a different experienced.

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Speaker 4: They were kind of cooperative as far as keeping it

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Speaker 4: quiet for you. And then on defense, how loud was

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Speaker 4: it down there when when those guys were on the field, When.

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Speaker 9: They were on the field, Oh, I mean, it definitely rocks.

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Speaker 9: I mean, I've been in that situation. You can't hear

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Speaker 9: the man next to you, So it's definitely an advantage

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Speaker 8: It goes a long ways.

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Speaker 6: What was the the off season life for you? When

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Speaker 6: did Seattle kind of come into the mix? And then

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Speaker 6: what was it like for you just going out there,

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Speaker 6: you know, without really playing much and just getting thrown

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Speaker 9: It was definitely towards the end of the off season,

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Speaker 9: and so it's been I mean it was developing probably

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Speaker 9: a couple of weeks before I even signed, and so

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Speaker 9: it all definitely came quick. I was actually driving home

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Speaker 9: yesterday and I realized that it had been a month

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Speaker 9: since I arrived, and how much happened in a month.

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Speaker 9: And you know, I'm just getting adjusted to the building

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Speaker 9: and just to the guys, getting kind of finding my

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Speaker 9: niche in the team and my place in the team.

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Speaker 9: And but definitely an amazing experience and amazing first game

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Speaker 9: under my belt, and just being able to know what

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Speaker 9: to work on. You know, it puts all out there.

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Speaker 9: It's on a window now, it's transparent, So just being

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Speaker 9: able to see what to work on and how to

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Speaker 9: grow and how to grow as a team together.

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Speaker 3: Connor, it's probably also about getting adjusted to playing again.

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Speaker 3: Both of my co hosts have been former players and

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Speaker 3: both have had to bounce back from injury. You obviously

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Speaker 3: getting back out there playing a full game, you have

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Speaker 3: that under your belt. Was there a point in the

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Speaker 3: game where you thought like, Okay, I feel pretty good,

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Speaker 3: Like how'd you bounce back after?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it definitely took a series or two.

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Speaker 9: I mean, it's been a long time since I'd been

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Speaker 9: out there, and I mean definitely last year was a

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Speaker 9: short season for me, so it was definitely a It

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Speaker 9: was definitely a lot, but just it came quickly. I mean,

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Speaker 9: it's like riding a bike. So it's nice.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for not looking over at me and going you

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Speaker 4: played in the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Ten years, ten years.

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Speaker 4: Hey tell us about the little meeting on the sidelines

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Speaker 4: after I think it was maybe in the first quarter

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Speaker 4: where Gino brought everybody together, and he looked very calm,

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Speaker 4: and I just he just seems like such a great leader.

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Speaker 4: Tell tell me what your impressions of him.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean obviously I've seen him play around the league,

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Speaker 9: but never been on his team.

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Speaker 10: Yah.

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Speaker 9: And so definitely to have that experience, and I mean

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Speaker 9: it was it was clear, it was clear what was

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Speaker 9: being able to re align the offense and re align

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Speaker 9: all of us together on the same mission, same plan,

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Speaker 9: and just kind of tune it up and definitely earned

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Speaker 6: You know, I think a lot of people overblow halftime adjustments.

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Speaker 7: There are things that you guys talk about right when you.

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Speaker 6: Got into the locker room and you're you're talking to

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Speaker 6: Grub or are your position coach. Are you guys telling

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Speaker 6: these guys like, look, we can run all these guys,

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Speaker 6: we can move these guys, because clearly in the second

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Speaker 6: half you came out and started to run the football

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Speaker 6: bit more at least to start the series.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, and definitely our first game together, just learning where

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Speaker 9: that lies and everything. But I mean at the end

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Speaker 9: of the day, I think the biggest thing was our

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Speaker 9: approach of I mean, just being able to set the

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Speaker 9: tone together, especially as an offensive line, being able to

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Speaker 9: set the tone and dictate the game on our terms.

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Speaker 11: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Kind of a silly question, but I was thinking of

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Speaker 3: it as I was thinking of the three of you.

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Speaker 3: As my last question, I said, I'll both my co

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Speaker 3: hosts played you. Guys all played different positions. Connor, do

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Speaker 3: you think like you have the attitude the mindset of

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Speaker 3: like I am an offensive lineman or are you convinced that, like, no,

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Speaker 3: I could be a defensive back, Like, do you have

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Speaker 3: an attitude that would that would translate to playing another

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Speaker 3: anything physically, like you could make yourself play that position,

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Speaker 3: what would it have been?

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Speaker 9: Oh, I mean that would have had to take place

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Speaker 9: in high school at this point. Yeah, I'm down a

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Speaker 9: long road that's.

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Speaker 12: Turned into we're not making you.

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Speaker 3: Wide receiver one now, Connor.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 9: I was a tight end in high school, and I

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Speaker 9: think that was I had a few offers as tied

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Speaker 9: in so that was probably my dream position. But as

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Speaker 9: slowly so it's sucking me in closer and close to

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Speaker 9: the ball.

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Speaker 4: So did you play other sports when you were a

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Speaker 4: young guy growing up or did you were you always?

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Speaker 5: Did you know you're going to be a football player.

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Speaker 9: I played basketball on track, But I mean growing up

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Speaker 9: in DFW and in Texas you.

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Speaker 8: Kind of kind of pushed one way. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a huge deal down there. Right, I'll take

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Speaker 6: text football. I'm from Cali and I respect it. You know,

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Speaker 6: football is different down in Texas. We always try to

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Speaker 6: claim Cali in Florida, but we know, I mean, the

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Speaker 6: culture of football is just great down there. So you

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Speaker 6: probably went to college already played in front of ten

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Speaker 6: thousand people.

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, you're playing.

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Speaker 9: I mean you're playing D one guys every week and

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Speaker 9: there's D one guys all over your team.

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Speaker 8: And you go to college and I.

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Speaker 9: Mean I started as a as a freshman, and I

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Speaker 9: always say, like there was no drop off from DFW

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Speaker 9: football that college football like it was.

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Speaker 8: It was a smooth transition.

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Speaker 4: That's how I wouldn't like that in Marina, Nevada, No

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Speaker 4: the game.

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Speaker 3: Maybe does that mean you grew up watching the Cowboys uncles?

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Speaker 7: Did?

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Speaker 8: I didn't grow up watching too much football?

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Speaker 3: You did it? So you played football? Were you like

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Speaker 3: a fan of some college teams? Did you just kind

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Speaker 3: of play it because you loved it, but not follow

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Speaker 3: too many teams?

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Speaker 8: Because I loved it.

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Speaker 9: I mean I was a fan of Texas football obviously,

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Speaker 2: This this is the Huddle presented by Hunt Services and

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Speaker 3: You are listening to the Huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpus,

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Speaker 3: Stacy rostin Us right, now Mike Morris, Mike, how's it going.

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Speaker 10: Oh, it is going amazing. It's going amazing. Thank you

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Speaker 3: We're happy to have you. I need to start not

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Speaker 10: It's always cool to go through a body transformation and

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Speaker 10: Things just you want to just feel good when you're

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Speaker 10: It was crazy because like I was literally in the

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Speaker 3: Did you had you been telling other players because obviously

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Speaker 10: But I was just like, bro, if we get him,

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Speaker 5: In a lot of football games.

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Speaker 4: What's different about Mike McDonald The thing I've said about him,

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Speaker 10: even like on the field, but off the field, he's

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Speaker 10: Austin powers man he loves.

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Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, I was gonna say Mike career twenty

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Speaker 6: You guys came out last week and uh and played

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Speaker 8: Man.

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Speaker 7: I saw you drop into the flat.

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Speaker 6: And I've seen big boys drop into the fight and

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Speaker 10: Like and what's crazy is I did not do that

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Speaker 10: So it was it was it was nice to have

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Speaker 13: I was so tired.

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Speaker 5: I need to celebrate.

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Speaker 7: Everybody was like, Mike, why'd you celebraty? I was like, bro,

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Speaker 10: Everyone talked about him. I think that's gonna be really cool.

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Speaker 10: One of my best friends he graduated from from Holy Cross.

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Speaker 5: Man, I think that's that's scary, you don't know what. Yeah,

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Speaker 10: But certain areas you kind of have to just like

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Speaker 6: With us, the anticipation to watch this defense was just

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Speaker 6: We want to see what it looked like. And y'all

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Speaker 7: To your zones and whatnot.

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Speaker 10: No, I think it was an amazing feeling. I think

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Speaker 3: He is Mike Morris, Mike, good luck and week two.

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Speaker 3: We're all very excited to watch you guys, and you

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Speaker 3: you go. Don't waste time watching Austin.

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Speaker 7: It's a horrible movie.

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Speaker 10: Tell you, I've watched it in a long time, but

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Speaker 10: it's been a great movie.

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Speaker 3: And Mike, it's a bad movie. Horniness of it. You're

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Speaker 3: you know what, Mike, you could go Mike Morris, you guys, Mike,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much. You're very generous with your time.

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Speaker 3: Let's take a listen to Gino speaking with reporters.

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Speaker 11: kind of handle over versus kind of happens.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we want we want to.

447
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Speaker 14: Not have that happen going forward.

448
00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:14,560
Speaker 15: But anytime you have adversity and you're able to overcome it,

449
00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,760
Speaker 15: it always speaks well for your team, for the guys

450
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Speaker 15: on the team. But obviously we'd like to start a

451
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Speaker 15: lot better. And uh, you know that's been the emphasis

452
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Speaker 15: all week. It's starting fast and uh, you know, obviously

453
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Speaker 15: sustaining it throughout the entire game or you do that

454
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Speaker 15: or do you just clean up not making mistakes, not

455
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Speaker 15: uh having those self inflicted wounds, you know, penalties, turnovers, uh,

456
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Speaker 15: those type of things, and then obviously going out there

457
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Speaker 15: having fun and executing. You know, that's the main thing,

458
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Speaker 15: is that we're just out there doing our jobs. I

459
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Speaker 15: thought we did a better job at that in the

460
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Speaker 15: second half, and then you could see the consistency in

461
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Speaker 15: our drives. And so I think, if we just do

462
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Speaker 15: a better job at that, we'll have a.

463
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Speaker 16: Shot and Walker force to a mistack will help give

464
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Speaker 16: the offensive track in the second half. What is it

465
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Speaker 16: about either his style of running or the way he

466
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Speaker 16: sees the field that leads to those miss tapitals?

467
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Speaker 15: Man, that that guy is Uh, Ken Walker phenomenal. I mean,

468
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Speaker 15: I can't expressing enough words just how good he is

469
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Speaker 15: with the ball in his hands. One of the best

470
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Speaker 15: I've ever seen. I mean you've seen him. I've never

471
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Speaker 15: seen a running back, suplexa defensive lineman with the ball

472
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Speaker 15: in his hands. I mean, just think about just how

473
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Speaker 15: much fight that kid has. And then obviously, man, just

474
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Speaker 15: the things that he does on the field. He's a

475
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Speaker 15: leader on our on our offense. We need him to

476
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Speaker 15: do well, and uh, that's that's something that we expect

477
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Speaker 15: from him. And so Ken's been doing a great job

478
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Speaker 15: since he's gotten here. Uh, He's only been getting better

479
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Speaker 15: each and every year. And so uh for us man,

480
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Speaker 15: I'm just happy to be his teammate. He you know,

481
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Speaker 15: I get a couple of blocks in here and there

482
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Speaker 15: whenever he cuts it back, So I'm able to put

483
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Speaker 15: some of that on tape as well.

484
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Speaker 16: And how much I guess grace or leeway does his

485
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Speaker 16: vision give you when you call a play or when

486
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Speaker 16: you see pressure.

487
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Speaker 17: From the defense.

488
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Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, the thing about Ken is he he

489
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Speaker 15: understands this reads and he's always reading his keys. We

490
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Speaker 15: expect the line to obviously, you know, block up front

491
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Speaker 15: and give him lanes to run through, but at times,

492
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Speaker 15: you know, things happen, and you know, some guys get

493
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Speaker 15: through there. And the great part about Ken is that

494
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Speaker 15: the first guy is never gonna bring him down. You

495
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Speaker 15: see that every single week. You know, anytime he's got

496
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Speaker 15: that first guy, he's going to either run him over

497
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Speaker 15: or make a missing space. And then if we can

498
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Speaker 15: block down field, if we can spring him to the

499
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Speaker 15: second level, you can see his explosiveness and just how

500
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Speaker 15: he can finish runs and as well as he can

501
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Speaker 15: pull away from defenders. And so like a guy like Ken,

502
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Speaker 15: like I said, one of the best backs in the league.

503
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Speaker 15: I've said that, you know, since I've been getting up here.

504
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Speaker 15: We have a great running back room led by him,

505
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Speaker 15: and shoot, man, I'm just happy to be his teammate.

506
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Speaker 18: Do you know at a lot of folks talk with

507
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Speaker 18: quarterbacks about arm strength, accuracy, decision making seems to be

508
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Speaker 18: a big separator for the best qbs. Is there a

509
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Speaker 18: part of your decision making you feel like it's improved

510
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Speaker 18: and a part where you're still wanting to improve?

511
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Speaker 15: Yeah, always improving. There's always room for improvement as far

512
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Speaker 15: as that. As far as that goes, you know, for me,

513
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Speaker 15: it's about just doing the next right thing, you know,

514
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Speaker 15: obviously reading the reading the defense, and taking whatever they

515
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Speaker 15: give me, not trying to force things. I think that's

516
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Speaker 15: where decision making comes in, is when you just kind

517
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Speaker 15: of take what they give you, make the right read

518
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Speaker 15: and allow the system to work for you. And then

519
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Speaker 15: there's times where obviously you gotta you know, go above

520
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Speaker 15: and beyond the exits and o's and you got to

521
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Speaker 15: make plays when sometimes they aren't there. And so having

522
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Speaker 15: that that balance of the two is very important.

523
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Speaker 19: You've played against Belichick defenses before. Does this look like

524
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Speaker 19: a carbon copy of that or are there some differences

525
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Speaker 19: to it.

526
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Speaker 15: Or Yeah, it looks like a you know, Belichick defense. Obviously,

527
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Speaker 15: they want to be physical upfront. They want to you know,

528
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Speaker 15: muddy up your run game. They want to give you

529
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Speaker 15: a bunch of different looks as far as fronts go.

530
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Speaker 15: And then you know, having those thumpers that linebacker, you know,

531
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Speaker 15: you know, one of them is two fifty, the others

532
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Speaker 15: like two forty. You know, So they want to go downhill,

533
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Speaker 15: they want to attack your offensive line, they want to

534
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Speaker 15: you know, press the line of scrimmage. And then they

535
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Speaker 15: want to be you know, play man coverage in the

536
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Speaker 15: back end. They want to get hands on guys.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 15: They trust their guys to to you know, run with

539
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Speaker 15: any receiver. And you can see that man Coach Mayo,

540
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Speaker 15: I think he's doing a great job with those guys

541
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Speaker 15: they got, having them believing in themselves and in the system.

542
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Speaker 15: And so you can see that on tape from week one.

543
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Speaker 15: And you know, for us, it's about just taking advantage

544
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Speaker 15: of our matchups.

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Speaker 13: Uh.

546
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Speaker 15: And then obviously, you know, blocking him up front.

547
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Speaker 20: You know, that was your first chance to play with

548
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Speaker 20: Connor Williams in front of you. How'd you feel that

549
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Speaker 20: guy played out through the sixties STAPs of the game

550
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Speaker 20: or so when you guys kind of getting that chance

551
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Speaker 20: for the first time.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I thought Connor did a great job overall, just

553
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Speaker 15: right off the bat, thinking of his leadership, just he

554
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Speaker 15: was very vocal in the huddle we were doing some

555
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Speaker 15: tempo when he was getting gods to the line of scrimmage.

556
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Speaker 15: He has the right demeanor, he's got the right tone

557
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Speaker 15: when he's in there. I thought, you know, for a

558
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Speaker 15: guy who's only been here for three or four weeks

559
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Speaker 15: picking up the system and just allowing us to operate

560
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Speaker 15: smoothly when we're out there, I thought it was very impressive.

561
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Speaker 15: Really think the world of him, just the way that

562
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Speaker 15: he approaches the game and every single practice, practice matters

563
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Speaker 15: to him. And so that's something that you know, we

564
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Speaker 15: enjoy around here, love having him as a teammate, and

565
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Speaker 15: I think it's all gonna get better.

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Speaker 11: Any thinks then that about how the Patriots use their dbs,

567
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Speaker 11: maybe like kind of interchangeable, perhaps the same way mich

568
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Speaker 11: McDonald's vision kind.

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Speaker 8: Of is for his secondary.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, they're very multiple with their personnel. So you'll see

571
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Speaker 15: dime defense, you'll see nickel defense, they got penny you know,

572
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Speaker 15: they go five down linemen where they've got you know,

573
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Speaker 15: pretty much all DB's in the game. One linebacker and

574
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Speaker 15: they can you know, get to pretty much any front

575
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Speaker 15: you'll see at times. You know, you know Pepper's number five,

576
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Speaker 15: you know, he can line up anywhere from a linebacker

577
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Speaker 15: to a safety, to a corner to a d N

578
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Speaker 15: and they're all interchangeable. Like you said, I think they

579
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Speaker 15: do a great job at mixing up the looks and

580
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Speaker 15: just making you think a little bit out there. And

581
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Speaker 15: so for us, communication is gonna be key. Uh, it's

582
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Speaker 15: gonna be a loud environment, and so we've got to

583
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Speaker 15: overly communicate and make sure everyone's on the same page

584
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Speaker 15: and then just blocking the looks that we see.

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Speaker 18: You know, the Broncos blitz a lot, Patriots don't blitz

586
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Speaker 18: as much. How does that change your approach?

587
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I think like when you say blitz with the Broncos,

588
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Speaker 15: I mean they just brings and five D linemen. So

589
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Speaker 15: that's considered a blitz or a pressure, but it's really

590
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Speaker 15: not a blitz.

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Speaker 8: You know.

592
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Speaker 15: The Patriots are more of a four down scheme, and

593
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Speaker 15: if they do blitz, they'll bring us safety or Nickel

594
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Speaker 15: and so that's that's more of a blitz to me,

595
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Speaker 15: and you got to be aware of those things, and

596
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Speaker 15: you gotta have your eyes in the right places, reading

597
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Speaker 15: the right keys to know you know which guy is

598
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Speaker 15: gonna be blitzing and where your hearts are if there

599
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Speaker 15: is any but overall, man, you know, yeah, different scheme. Uh,

600
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Speaker 15: they run a few different coverages, but that's just the

601
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Speaker 15: way they do it, you know, you know, compared to

602
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Speaker 15: the Broncos.

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Speaker 14: So I talk with the Charles Crossed yesterday. You spoke

604
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Speaker 14: about that the offensive.

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Speaker 21: Line just is wanting to finish plays in the physicality.

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Speaker 14: Can you speak to that and what you've seen from

607
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Speaker 14: that line.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I think Charles alone did a great job at

609
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Speaker 15: what exactly what he said, man like, he was finishing

610
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Speaker 15: plays all game, and you saw in that second half,

611
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Speaker 15: you know, you know, from Ab to Lake and Connor

612
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Speaker 15: up front, I thought Stone did a great job. The

613
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Speaker 15: run blocking was phenomenal and that really got us. And

614
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Speaker 15: when when we're led by that offensive line, when they're

615
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Speaker 15: in their groove and you know they're in there, they're

616
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Speaker 15: moving the line of scrimmage, we're pretty dangerous. And I

617
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Speaker 15: think that's something that we've got to continue to harp

618
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Speaker 15: on They've got to be the strength of this offense,

619
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Speaker 15: the strength of this team, and that'll take us where.

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Speaker 10: We want to go.

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Speaker 12: Tyler, excuse me, Tyler and Mike Pifield are both the

622
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Speaker 12: raven about DK and some things he does away from

623
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Speaker 12: just catching the ball and then in that last third

624
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Speaker 12: down we got to set that up. Have you seen

625
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Speaker 12: DK grow in the last few years a player like

626
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Speaker 12: doing the little things like that.

627
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Speaker 15: I mean, I think it just starts with his preparation.

628
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Speaker 15: You think about a guy who's taking vigorous notes. Uh,

629
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Speaker 15: he's studying his opponent, he's studying the game plan.

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Speaker 17: Uh, he's on.

631
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Speaker 15: Point with everything that he does. Talk about his leadership

632
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Speaker 15: has grown, He's grown physically mentally as well. I think

633
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Speaker 15: that's a testament to the type of man that he is,

634
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Speaker 15: the type of player he is, and like I said,

635
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Speaker 15: I enjoy playing with playing with him. Man, he's one

636
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Speaker 15: of the best receivers in the game. Uh. He shows

637
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Speaker 15: it every single week. And it may not always show

638
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Speaker 15: up in the box score, like you said, it may

639
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Speaker 15: not always be the ten catch game or the eight

640
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Speaker 15: catch game. You know, sometimes he's you know, just being

641
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Speaker 15: a weapon by you know, being himself and getting double

642
00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 15: and allowing other guys to work one on one. So

643
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Speaker 15: the things that he's doing is phenomenal and I just

644
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Speaker 15: enjoy having him.

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Speaker 14: As a teammate.

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Speaker 18: You know, you get to play the music in the

647
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Speaker 18: locker room. How do you make the choice of what's

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Speaker 18: gonna play.

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Speaker 15: Any given dame, h I just kind of go with

650
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Speaker 15: whatever whatever we're feeling that time. I get a lot

651
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Speaker 15: of requests and so it's usually whatever they request, But

652
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Speaker 15: you know, I just kind of go with whatever we're feeling.

653
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Speaker 15: You know, if if we need to pick me up,

654
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Speaker 15: you know, I'll go with some some pick me up

655
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Speaker 15: songs and you know, just go from there.

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Speaker 8: Exacts.

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Speaker 14: I mean, can just practice yesterday.

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Speaker 2: So we don't know.

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Speaker 11: But if Zach has to play with your confidence level

660
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Speaker 11: and him, you know.

661
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Speaker 15: Driving on Sunday, extremely confident Zach, like I said, since

662
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Speaker 15: he's gotten here, he's been the consummate professional.

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Speaker 22: Uh.

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Speaker 15: He does all the little things right. I know, he's

665
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Speaker 15: gonna be prepared with the ball in his hands. Like

666
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Speaker 15: I said, you can see him on on tape. Man,

667
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Speaker 15: he's phenomenal. Uh, he finishes runs. Having him can k

668
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Speaker 15: Mack even even Georgie in the in that room, and

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Speaker 15: I think we have a really great room. But Zach

670
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Speaker 15: is a guy that we're going to continue to count on.

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Speaker 15: He's always gonna, you know, do his thing when he's

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Speaker 15: out there, and I expect him to play well.

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Speaker 11: We think post game you had mentioned Grubb trusted the

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Speaker 11: old line and like staying.

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Speaker 14: With the run game you're really happy about that.

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Speaker 11: Was that something he had mentioned to you or are

677
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Speaker 11: you just kind of feeling that based on what he

678
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Speaker 11: was saying in your ear, like, oh, we're.

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Speaker 15: I mean if you just watched the game and like

680
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Speaker 15: just looking at the places he was calling in second half,

681
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Speaker 15: like we called a few run plays back to back,

682
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Speaker 15: and you know, they really got us going. And so

683
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 15: you know, as as the player, as the quarterback out there,

684
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Speaker 15: kind of like the coach on the field, you get

685
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Speaker 15: a feel for, you know, what we need at the time,

686
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Speaker 15: and at that time, you know, we weren't really moving the.

687
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Speaker 14: Ball executing well.

688
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Speaker 15: And then once the run game started, everything else kind

689
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Speaker 15: of you know snowball from there. So just overall, just

690
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Speaker 15: I think Grubb did a great job is just sticking

691
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Speaker 15: to the game plan and just trusting the guys, and

692
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Speaker 15: I think guys did a great job of settling down

693
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Speaker 15: and then getting things moving.

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Speaker 23: Could you feel the run game kind of slow down

695
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Speaker 23: their pass rush and the second half.

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Speaker 15: For sure, for sure you could our tempo the run game.

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Speaker 15: You can see how those guys were, you know, getting

698
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 15: worn down, getting tired, and then the pass rush you know,

699
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Speaker 15: it wasn't as as effective as it was in the

700
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Speaker 15: first half. And so I think that's gonna be a

701
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Speaker 15: weapon for us. You know, We've got to mix it

702
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Speaker 15: up and use it when we can. But I think,

703
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 15: you know, definitely was able to see that.

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Speaker 5: You go, hurry up.

705
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Speaker 13: Is that your call?

706
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Speaker 5: Or is that Ryan?

707
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Speaker 15: Or can it be either? One could be, it could

708
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Speaker 15: be out of the one, but we we we pick

709
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Speaker 15: and choose our times when you do.

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Speaker 12: So that was your first time going through the game

711
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Speaker 12: with Ryan in your ear the whole time. Just what

712
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Speaker 12: what was that process like?

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Speaker 8: You know, doing all that time felt smooth.

714
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Speaker 15: You know, coaches called games before and I've played, you know,

715
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Speaker 15: in games before, so it felt smooth. It's kind of

716
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Speaker 15: like we we you know, we go through that process

717
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Speaker 15: and practice all the time, so it's not like a

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Speaker 15: new thing. And we also had the preseason, uh, the

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Speaker 15: one drive where we were able to, you know, get

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Speaker 15: some of that going.

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Speaker 12: What's he like just like demeanor wise, maybe when things

722
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Speaker 12: aren't going good in the first half.

723
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Speaker 15: Same guy, you know, coach Grubs, the same guy every day, good,

724
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Speaker 15: better and different and that's what we love about him.

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Speaker 3: Coming up next, Seahawks safety ray Sewn Jenkins, who's save

726
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 3: what could have been a touchdown on the Broncos first drive,

727
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 3: talks about a week one win. This is the huddle.

728
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Speaker 1: This, this is the huddle every Thursday from noon to

729
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Speaker 1: two sports all.

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Speaker 3: Right, ra Sean Jenkins speaking with reporters right now.

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Speaker 16: How'd you learned about your defense last week? That might

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Speaker 16: have been unexpected even given the amount of time you

733
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Speaker 16: spent together in the preseason.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know.

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Speaker 24: I can't really say it was anything like to unexpected.

736
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Speaker 24: I feel like we just did what we normally do

737
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Speaker 24: every single day, which is we run to the ball,

738
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Speaker 24: we give relentless effort, we tackle well, we practice on tackling.

739
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Speaker 24: I mean, I want to say almost every day we're

740
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Speaker 24: out there, you know, we got some form of tackling

741
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Speaker 24: circuit or tackling drill.

742
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Speaker 14: So I don't think anything really too much to prise me.

743
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Speaker 14: But it was good to just see like.

744
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Speaker 24: Everything come into fruition, like everything we've been practicing and everything,

745
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 24: you know, just kind of go from the practice field

746
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Speaker 24: to the game.

747
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Speaker 12: Stylistically, How much different is a challenge with doing what

748
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Speaker 12: they wanna do versus what you saw we.

749
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Speaker 24: Call Yeah, they're I mean they're not trying to hide

750
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Speaker 24: anything that they tell you everywhere in the media whatever.

751
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Speaker 14: They're just they're trying to run a run the ball.

752
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Speaker 14: You know, that's what they're trying to do. Uh, they

753
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Speaker 14: got a good bat in thirty eight, so.

754
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Speaker 24: You know, uh, as well as we tackled last week,

755
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 24: last week is last week, and.

756
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Speaker 14: You know every week is is a new opportunity.

757
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Speaker 24: So we have to come out there and uh showcase

758
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Speaker 24: those same abilities and skill again, especially against a runner

759
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Speaker 24: like this.

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Speaker 23: In your experience, you you played for a couple of

761
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Speaker 23: different teams. Was that more practice in tackling it over

762
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Speaker 23: the offseason than you've been used to?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 24: Absolutely, Yes, I would definitely say so. I mean, uh,

765
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Speaker 24: of course there's a big emphasis around the league just

766
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Speaker 24: because they.

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Speaker 14: Hitting yardage is in the tackles, you know.

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Speaker 24: Tho, those three four yard games, especially after contact, really

769
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Speaker 24: adds up over a course of a game.

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Speaker 7: But here we we.

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Speaker 24: We really paid attention to that and that's what that's

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Speaker 24: why our coaches just to make us practice tackles all

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Speaker 24: all day.

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Speaker 23: I'm sorry, you're talking about like the different drills where

775
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Speaker 23: you have the fats and everything, not so much live tackling.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah, just different drills.

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Speaker 24: Yeah, not so much live tackling, just different just drills

778
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Speaker 24: that we just continually just get coached on.

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Speaker 25: Have you ever been on a team that does does

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Speaker 25: the circuit drills of tackling the one punch out and

781
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Speaker 25: move to another form tackling in every position that you've

782
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Speaker 25: been doing that, if you've been on a team, because.

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Speaker 7: It's that way.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, but we don't do it every day. We used

785
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Speaker 14: to didn't do it every day, but here we, I

786
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Speaker 14: mean we do it every day.

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Speaker 24: So it's like, you know it, it's definitely a point

788
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Speaker 24: of emphasis.

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Speaker 21: And then is it fair to soon I'm sure to

790
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Speaker 21: hear that in your practice that there's just there's a

791
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Speaker 21: sense of trying to get multiple players there and then

792
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Speaker 21: when the first person hits, you eliminate them being able

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Speaker 21: to get an extra three.

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Speaker 14: Or four yards. There's the first hit stops in there. Yeah, absolutely,

795
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Speaker 14: I mean, that's the ideal of it.

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Speaker 24: You know, in the perfect world, you want to get

797
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Speaker 24: the guy down on the first you know contact, but

798
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Speaker 24: we run to the ball well here, so it's you know,

799
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Speaker 24: even if the first guy then make the tackle, at

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Speaker 24: least he gets the runner to stop his feet and

801
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Speaker 24: then you got the pursuit from you know, the entire

802
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Speaker 24: defense is pursuing the ball carry.

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Speaker 18: Chrishan, you flashed time it again with the three safeties

804
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Speaker 18: caveon coming on.

805
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Speaker 8: You gave it again.

806
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Speaker 18: Able to be more down in the box that a

807
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Speaker 18: place where you feel best or do you not care

808
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Speaker 18: whether you're back or or in the box?

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Speaker 24: I mean, I would prefer to be toward a line

810
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Speaker 24: of scrimmage, just because that's what I've been doing for

811
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Speaker 24: the past three years. My first four years in the NFL,

812
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Speaker 24: I played primarily the free safety position, which you know

813
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Speaker 24: I loved at the time because it was like everything

814
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Speaker 24: I've known, so I'm like, okay, I love it. But

815
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Speaker 24: then when I was, you know, kind of forced to

816
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Speaker 24: move down to the strong safety position due to injury,

817
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Speaker 24: I fell in love with that because I'm like, man,

818
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Speaker 24: it's action down here every play, whether it's the run

819
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Speaker 24: game or the pass game, the free safety, I mean

820
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Speaker 24: you more so just back there just looking for anything

821
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 24: that will break. The ball goes up in the air

822
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 24: every once in a while, you gotta attack it, get

823
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Speaker 24: the ball carrier down if it's you know, a busted

824
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 24: gap or anything like that. So I mean you may

825
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 24: as a free safety get ten twelve opportunities in the game.

826
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Speaker 24: Strong safety just in so much action, you know, it's

827
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Speaker 24: just endless opportunity.

828
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Speaker 19: Their first play the game, you might have saved the

829
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Speaker 19: touchdown there?

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Speaker 14: What did you see there on that player before the play?

831
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Speaker 24: Honestly, I knew they were going to run it there

832
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Speaker 24: because I seen just two gaps open, so I'm like,

833
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Speaker 24: I might as well just getting ready.

834
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Speaker 14: It's coming right here. But you know, just that having

835
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Speaker 14: that in my mind, it allowed me to close.

836
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Speaker 24: The distance between me and the ball carrier much faster.

837
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Speaker 24: So I didn't give him a lot of room to

838
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Speaker 24: work with. So he had to make his decision right now.

839
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Speaker 14: And I just shot at him.

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Speaker 12: Playing with Julian Love now for you know, an offseason

841
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Speaker 12: in the first hand, what have you seen him bringing

842
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 12: this defense?

843
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 24: His IQ of the game is, you know, really high.

844
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 24: He really understands the game. Of football. He's on the details,

845
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 24: the ultimate professional, and then you know he's a playmaker

846
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 24: at the end of the day. So just having a

847
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Speaker 24: guy like that to be back there, which you just

848
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:15,240
Speaker 24: makes it that much more easier.

849
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Speaker 23: Is Kevon Wallace as talkative during games as he is

850
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 23: during practice?

851
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Speaker 5: Yeah?

852
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 14: Absolutely, that's kaveon his game.

853
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 24: He's gonna call things out before you know they even

854
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 24: get to their looks. Whatever he's thinking, you're gonna know

855
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 24: about it. Very vocal player, which from the safety position,

856
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 24: you want a guy like that.

857
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Speaker 20: You're trying to have three turnover sports and another tumble

858
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:41,720
Speaker 20: on the ground. How encouraging is that for you guys

859
00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 20: to see that kind of turnover production potential in the

860
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Speaker 20: first game out.

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Speaker 24: Yeah, I mean, just like tackling, it's a point of

862
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 24: emphasis here and I'm pretty sure it's appointent emphasis around

863
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 24: the league because the ball is at the end of

864
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 24: the day.

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Speaker 14: That's the most important thing on the field. You know,

866
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 14: you got to take the ball away. So I mean,

867
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Speaker 14: very encouraged.

868
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 24: But like I said earlier, this is a this is

869
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 24: a week to week league, and you got to continue

870
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 24: to come out here and every week prove yourself.

871
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 19: We've seen Richard Sherman and Camp Chancellor. Guys like that

872
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 19: come around a little bit, and a lot of the

873
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 19: alums were there, so they's what's it like, I guess

874
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 19: kind of in your first year with the team getting

875
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 19: to know.

876
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 14: Some of those guys and learn some of the history

877
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 14: of this team.

878
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 24: Yeah, it was cool because I mean those are guys

879
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 24: that I watched, you know, growing up.

880
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 14: You know, I was in college watching these guys.

881
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 24: So it was it was kind of cool just to

882
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 24: be around those guys, you know, Marshawn Lynch, Cam Sherman,

883
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 24: guys like that. You know, I actually chopped it up

884
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 24: with Cam and kind of picked his brain on on

885
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 24: a few things, and you know, it's it's great to

886
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 24: have just have you know, people that played this game

887
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 24: at a high level come back to the team.

888
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 14: You know, it's cool to be around out Their advice.

889
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 16: Still holds up, Like when you when you chop it

890
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 16: up with Camp, what about what he says still holds

891
00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 16: up even though he.

892
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 25: Hasn't played it.

893
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 24: You got you gottap prove yourself every week, no matter

894
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 24: what you did last week, come out here, try to

895
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 24: be better the following week, and so on and so forth.

896
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 16: When you watch those games, and when you watch school

897
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 16: in the field, what.

898
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 14: Did you like most.

899
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 24: Every player had their own style that they brought to,

900
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,439
Speaker 24: you know, the table, to the game, and they made

901
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 24: sure the way they played the game, they made sure

902
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 24: it looked like that on film every single Sunday. You know, Uh,

903
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 24: you had Sherman locked.

904
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 14: Down on the corner.

905
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 24: You had uh Cam, big hitter, you know, big presents

906
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 24: on the field. Earl he's back there. He was back there,

907
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,240
Speaker 24: just really controlling the airwaves, controlling the middle of the field.

908
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 24: So and making making those erasers tackles that you know,

909
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:41,879
Speaker 24: his team didn't make.

910
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,479
Speaker 16: So did you change your mind at all or change

911
00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,240
Speaker 16: your idea of what it looked like to play football?

912
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 9: For high level defense?

913
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 24: It was very encouraging to watch, cause, I mean I

914
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 24: came from Miami and as we know, we have a

915
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 24: uh a extensive history of you know, great dbs that

916
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,760
Speaker 24: that came from the hurricane. So you know, just watching

917
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 24: that and then uh looking at here as well, just

918
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,439
Speaker 24: just really upholds the standard that you know that any

919
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 24: defensive back that plays this game really wants to, you know,

920
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 24: live up to.

921
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,279
Speaker 23: What was it like communicating on defense before the snap?

922
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 23: For the first time at the stadium.

923
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it was loud.

924
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,359
Speaker 24: That was I mean, it's I always tell people that's

925
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 24: top two loudest places I've ever played in, you.

926
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 5: Know, in my career.

927
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 24: So going into the game, we really emphasized that hand

928
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 24: signals will. I mean, we have to just be on

929
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 24: those because we're not going to be able to hear

930
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 24: each other out in the field. I couldn't even hear

931
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 24: you know, my teammate who's maybe six feet away from

932
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 24: me at some points in the game. So it was

933
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 24: just really huge with just being on point with the

934
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Speaker 24: hand signaling in the game.

935
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Speaker 3: We are going in the trenches with Ray Roberts next.

936
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Speaker 7: Every Thursday from Mune to Chu.

937
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: The Huddle.

938
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 3: You are listening to the Huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bumpus,

939
00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 3: and Stacy Ross joining. Now you can hear him on

940
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 3: the Seahawks pre and post game show. It's former NFL

941
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,439
Speaker 3: offensive lineman and current NFL analyst Ray Roberts. Ray, how's

942
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 3: it going.

943
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 17: It's all right, sitting here in the airport in Philadelphia,

944
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 17: trying to get my way back to Seattle.

945
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, where are you coming from?

946
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 17: Philadelphia? I had to attend a special Olympics conference all

947
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 17: week Philadelphia and deal with the debate, crowd and all

948
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 17: that kind of stuff.

949
00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 3: So just you're chaos. Yeah, well, we're excited to get

950
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,800
Speaker 3: you back here, and I know Bump is excited to

951
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 3: have you back on for the pre and post game show.

952
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 3: But let's look back to week one quickly.

953
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 17: Ray.

954
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 3: It was a slow first half of the Seahawks offense,

955
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 3: and you know what I saw at false stars holding

956
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 3: calls wasn't great. Tell us what you saw early from

957
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 3: the offense and then what changed in the second half.

958
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 17: Yeah, well, I'll be honest with you, I was surprised

959
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 17: that they came out throwing the ball. Even in our

960
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,319
Speaker 17: pregame show leading up to the game, you know, we're

961
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 17: highlighting that Grubb had, you know, called the meeting and

962
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 17: told the guys they're going to run the football and

963
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 17: how DK had gotten behind the whole idea that they're

964
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 17: going to run the football first and then create the

965
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,399
Speaker 17: opportunities to throw the ball. So when they came out

966
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 17: throwing the ball, it was kind of surprising to me.

967
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 17: And then it was a little bit more surprising that

968
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 17: it didn't seem like either guard was came ready to play.

969
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 17: They didn't seem like they were a focused and played

970
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 17: with intention in the first half, and it just didn't

971
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 17: look very good. And if I can speak for any

972
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 17: excuse they could have, you know, as an offensive line

973
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 17: and in training camp, you don't get to hit people much,

974
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 17: and so you're just biting at the bit to get

975
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Speaker 17: at it on the first game and you come out

976
00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 17: throwing the ball. That would have bothered me a little bit.

977
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 17: So there's a lot that was going on there. But

978
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Speaker 17: I'm glad that they kind of rite a ship in

979
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:51,959
Speaker 17: the second half. It seemed like they got a little

980
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 17: bit more focused and played with some intention and awareness,

981
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 17: and I think that was pretty much what changed the

982
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 17: game up for the offensive line.

983
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 16: I know this is.

984
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 4: Sorry, big big ray Uh. I know this is kind

985
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 4: of a broad question, but what did you see different?

986
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,560
Speaker 4: You know, they always talk about making adjustments or or

987
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 4: different things, and I know that there's a lot of

988
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 4: different little individual things that that happened, But what what

989
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 4: was the biggest difference that you saw in how they

990
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:21,720
Speaker 4: adjusted after those first couple series.

991
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 17: Well, you will, you know, I really do think that

992
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 17: when that they tried to show up the way that

993
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 17: they said they wanted to show up, which was they

994
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 17: wanted to run the football and uh, and so in

995
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,240
Speaker 17: doing that, I think that the uh that the guards

996
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,200
Speaker 17: like I'm telling you that if you watched just the

997
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 17: body language between the two guards in the first half

998
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 17: and the two guards in the second half, the body

999
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 17: language is totally different. Uh, you know, like like even

1000
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 17: on one of the on both of those safeties, it

1001
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 17: wasn't a matter of physically getting beaten. It was a

1002
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,359
Speaker 17: lack of awareness and it was a lack of playing

1003
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 17: with intention. Because if on the first safety, uh, the

1004
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 17: defensive tackle is already one gap towards where the floor

1005
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 17: of the play is going. So Bradford has to know

1006
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 17: that he's gonna have to run like hell to get

1007
00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 17: him get himself to a place where he can, you know,

1008
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 17: stop this guy from crossing the line of scrimmage and

1009
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 17: get into the end zone. Well he didn't, so he

1010
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 17: ended up having to hold the guy. And then in

1011
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 17: the second one, Thomlinson, the defensive event, the defensive tackle

1012
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 17: was on his outside shoulder, the safety walks into the box,

1013
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,799
Speaker 17: the linebacker over him, slides over towards the defensive end.

1014
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 17: All of a sudden, in your mind, you know that

1015
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 17: someone has to replace where the linebacker's coming from. That's

1016
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,280
Speaker 17: gonna be the defensive tackle, so he's gonna slant inside,

1017
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 17: so different little like having awareness of that. That's like

1018
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 17: elementary stuff, Dave, like that stuff you call you tell

1019
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 17: the defense, Oh, I see what you're doing and it

1020
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 17: ain't gonna work. And that's stuff that that Thomlinson probably

1021
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 17: have seen a million times. And so for him to

1022
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,399
Speaker 17: lack the awareness of that and then have that guy

1023
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 17: slant inside and make the tackle of the backfield, that

1024
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 17: to me, it just it was like one of those

1025
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 17: moments where you just show up and think you're gonna

1026
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 17: roll your helmet out there and the things are things

1027
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 17: are gonna work, and uh, it just wasn't. Just there

1028
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 17: was just no awareness and attention, uh and uh to

1029
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 17: the details of what they were doing that was going on.

1030
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 17: And I don't know what they said in the second half,

1031
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 17: because if you look at the first half that Charles

1032
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 17: Cross or the whole game, the way Charles Cross played it,

1033
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 17: This dude played with focus and intention and purpose. And

1034
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 17: if the if those two guys would have showed up

1035
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 17: the same way, those first few players wouldn't happen in

1036
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:27,280
Speaker 17: the first half, in the first.

1037
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 7: Quarter, Big Ray, You're you're right.

1038
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 6: When we we talked in the pre game, we were

1039
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 6: highlighting how we expect them to run the football. They

1040
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 6: came out and tried to toss it. Then they make

1041
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:41,279
Speaker 6: the switch. People asked Stacy and I during our show, like, okay,

1042
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 6: why weren't they able to toss the ball down the field?

1043
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 6: I said, all right, well, if you can't protect, you're

1044
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 6: not gonna have time to throw the ball down the field.

1045
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 7: Is there anything that you would do with this protection?

1046
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 5: Would you would you.

1047
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 6: Get the running back involved on on one side of

1048
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,000
Speaker 6: the ball rather than the other side of the ball, Like,

1049
00:42:58,120 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 6: how would you attack it?

1050
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 17: Well, the thing I think with George Sant may not

1051
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 17: plan and you're having to play stone for sights, I

1052
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,720
Speaker 17: think you're going to have to consider keeping a running

1053
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 17: back in or keeping a tight end to at least

1054
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 17: chip on that side to give them a little bit

1055
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 17: more time. But also we didn't see the full compliment

1056
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 17: of plays that they run in the running game with

1057
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 17: this offense, because there's so many things that they do

1058
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,399
Speaker 17: where the run play and the pass play looks the same.

1059
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 17: And then that little bit of hesitation helps both the

1060
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 17: run game and the passing game. So I think if

1061
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 17: they can get to their running game early and be

1062
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 17: effective with it, then it allows them to kind of

1063
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 17: buy some time to take those shots down the field

1064
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 17: because the play design and play calling also helps protection

1065
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,880
Speaker 17: and if you're running the football and you're creating, you know,

1066
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 17: ide distractions for guys in the second level. We saw

1067
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 17: that in the run with Kenny McIntosh had in the preseason.

1068
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 17: That little bit of hesitation creates a running room, and

1069
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 17: that little bit of hesitation creates enough time in the

1070
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 17: passing game to push a ball down the field.

1071
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 3: Hey, Ray, I wanted to get back to your comments

1072
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 3: about Charles Cross, which I thought were great, but just

1073
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,279
Speaker 3: to explore it a little bit more. We all talked

1074
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 3: about Charles Cross last year as though not that he'd

1075
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 3: taken a big step back, but maybe we're just waiting

1076
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 3: to see certain things when it comes to watching him

1077
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 3: closely this season, which I know you're going to do.

1078
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 3: What are you watching for from him in terms of development.

1079
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 17: Well, when he came out of college, he was always

1080
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 17: a really smooth athlete. As it came to like pass protection,

1081
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 17: his lateral.

1082
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:29,879
Speaker 8: Movement was good.

1083
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 17: His punch is good, he has long arms, all that

1084
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 17: kind of stuff. But he did sometimes lose focus a

1085
00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 17: little bit and drift too far up the field and

1086
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 17: get beaten inside like stuff like that. And so what

1087
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 17: I was looking for in the passing game, which is

1088
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 17: his attention to that like that, he was locked in

1089
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 17: on pass protection every single time. And then in the

1090
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 17: run game, that's the part where I thought he needed

1091
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 17: the most work. And watching him in preseason, it seems

1092
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 17: like Huff had him playing with more physicality and more

1093
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 17: violent with his hands and really finishing everything. When I

1094
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:07,160
Speaker 17: say finishing everything, when I look for a good offensive lineman,

1095
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 17: you look for their ability to stay connected throughout the block.

1096
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 17: There's some dudes that can fire off the ball, hitch

1097
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 17: in the mouth, knock you back two feet, and then

1098
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:16,720
Speaker 17: they fall to the ground or fall to the side

1099
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 17: you can run and make the tackle. The really good

1100
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 17: ones stay connected, and if you watch in this game,

1101
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 17: there's at least four or five or six plays well

1102
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Speaker 17: Charles stay connected in the run games, drove his guy

1103
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 17: ten fifteen yards down the field and then dumped them

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Speaker 17: on their back. He had more blocks like that in

1105
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 17: this one game than he's had in the previous years

1106
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 17: in the NFL leading up to this point, and so

1107
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 17: I saw that kind of materializing in training camp, and

1108
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 17: then it was realized in this game. So if this

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00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 17: dude can stay healthy and keep playing like that, he

1110
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,479
Speaker 17: will easily be in the top five or ten left

1111
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:52,399
Speaker 17: tackles in the league.

1112
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 3: Man, I really really hope we see that this year.

1113
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 3: Good stuff.

1114
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Speaker 20: Ray.

1115
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Speaker 3: You guys can obviously follow around xt dot com and

1116
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 3: hear him the Seahawks pre and post game show this

1117
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,279
Speaker 3: Sunday early start for you guys. Thanks so much, big Ray.

1118
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 17: Thanks right, Yeah, you guys have a good with you.

1119
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 3: Later see I have a safe flight. Okay, before we

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Speaker 3: move on, we're going to have a Voice of the Seahawks,

1121
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 3: Steve Rabel join us. Just kind of some final thoughts

1122
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 3: on the offensive adjustments and what we learned from Ray.

1123
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 3: You guys, I was so relieved you pointed out Connor

1124
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 3: Williams bump and we all talked about Charles Cross right

1125
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 3: here with Ray. I had kind of this defeatist feeling

1126
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 3: about the offensive line after the first half. Obviously the

1127
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,480
Speaker 3: second half hearing from you, guys, hearing from Ray, I

1128
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 3: feel a little bit better. Is there anything you're taking

1129
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 3: encouraging wise, or something to look forward to about the

1130
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 3: offense in particular for week two. Dave.

1131
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the fact that they were able to

1132
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 4: turn that around. I mean, not only are the plays

1133
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 4: going wrong, but there's also, like a ray would disagree

1134
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 4: with this, but a certain amount of momentum that you're

1135
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 4: trying to get and they got that back really fast,

1136
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 4: you know. And again, you know, like Lake and Tomlinson

1137
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 4: is a really good player, so they're just he didn't

1138
00:46:58,880 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 4: get beat physically.

1139
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 5: Now we did get beat.

1140
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 4: Physically a couple of times, and that's kind of discouraging.

1141
00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 4: And you know, sometimes some of the adjustments are, well

1142
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 4: we got to chip that guy, or we got a

1143
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 4: slide protection or keep a tight end in or something

1144
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 4: like that. But yeah, there's just no way. I mean,

1145
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 4: they looked confused. It was like they were trying.

1146
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:16,200
Speaker 5: To do too much.

1147
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:21,919
Speaker 4: So yeah, I love that they were able to turn

1148
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 4: that around, and in a pretty calm manner. Because again,

1149
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 4: like when I looked at Gino down there, when he

1150
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 4: brought everybody together, it was like you'd think he'd be

1151
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 4: like screaming and yelling, but he wasn't. He was like

1152
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 4: very calm and just sort of talking guys through it.

1153
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 4: And I just thought it was very impressive because you

1154
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 4: know you're going to go through that, so you might

1155
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 4: as well go through it in the first game and

1156
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:41,840
Speaker 4: be able to get a win out of it.

1157
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,839
Speaker 3: All right, still to come, we are going to get

1158
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 3: a preview, an opponent preview of the Patriots. But first,

1159
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:50,319
Speaker 3: the voice of the Saxty Brabel, joins us.

1160
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: Next this This is the Huddle every Thursday from noon

1161
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: to two on Seattle Sports.

1162
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 3: You are listening to the Huddle with Dave Whyman, Michael

1163
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 3: bump Us, and Stacy Ross. The voice of the Seahawks.

1164
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 3: Steve Rabel joining us right now, Raves.

1165
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:05,879
Speaker 22: How's it going great?

1166
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 3: Guys, good, very excited coming off a week one win.

1167
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 7: And Raves.

1168
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:12,760
Speaker 3: We actually opened to huddle with this. But it feels

1169
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 3: like the number one thing that stood out to us

1170
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 3: was defensive play, specifically tackling What about you?

1171
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 22: Oh yeah, I don't think there's any question. Dave and

1172
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 22: I during the breaks and even during the broadcast itself,

1173
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 22: I mean, we both I think raved about the fact

1174
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 22: that not only was one guy getting there, but there

1175
00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 22: were a half a dozen guys getting there and the

1176
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 22: more hats you get to the party, as somebody once said,

1177
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 22: the better shot you have at stopping a play. But

1178
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 22: also just the open field tackles. I mean, as a

1179
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 22: you know, Davids, a linebacker would know this. I had

1180
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 22: a few opportunities as a special teams player to tackle

1181
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 22: a guy like Terry Medcalf and the open field who's

1182
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 22: returning a kick, and it's difficult because that guy knows

1183
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:59,440
Speaker 22: where he's going and you don't, And so our guys

1184
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 22: just make you have to play committing, making that first move,

1185
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 22: making the running back or the receiver alter their round,

1186
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 22: and then if you don't make the tackle, there's another

1187
00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 22: guy right behind you, it will So I was really impressed,

1188
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 22: especially for teams now that don't even get a chance

1189
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 22: to practice really tackling during preseason.

1190
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 4: What did you think about the turnaround offensively, Steve, I

1191
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 4: thought that was pretty impressive, and you know, luckily it

1192
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 4: was at home. Might have been a little bit tougher

1193
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 4: on the road with noise and whatnot, But yeah, it

1194
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 4: was kind.

1195
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:31,959
Speaker 5: Of a really bad start.

1196
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,399
Speaker 4: I guess I didn't recognize how bad it was till

1197
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 4: after the game, but the fact that they were able

1198
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 4: to turn that around.

1199
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Speaker 5: We've been talking a lot about that. How impressed were

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00:49:40,719 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 5: you by that?

1201
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 22: Very much so our great stats guy, and I don't

1202
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 22: say that just because he's my nephew, but Riley Mike

1203
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 22: threw together cats for me as we were finishing up.

1204
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 22: Just in the second half. We won the first down

1205
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 22: battle thirteen to seven, totally yards two hundred and two.

1206
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 22: This is second half two hundred two to one hundred

1207
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 22: and ten, ninety yards rushing in the second half of

1208
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 22: the Seahawks to just thirty nine for Denver. Denver had

1209
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 22: two turnovers in the second half, we didn't have any.

1210
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 22: We won the time of possession by four minutes and

1211
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 22: outscored them by ten seventeen to seven in the second half.

1212
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 22: I mean, it really was a real turnaround. And whether

1213
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 22: it's just getting the offensive guy's feet on the ground

1214
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 22: a little bit and everybody kind of pulling in the

1215
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 22: same direction. The defense played well. I think almost from

1216
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 22: the jump. They will put in to some really difficult

1217
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 22: spots early on, but I think you just saw a

1218
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 22: team that went into the locker room and calmly said

1219
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 22: here's what we need to do, and then they came

1220
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 22: out and did it.

1221
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 6: Raves you talk about them going into the locker room

1222
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:50,360
Speaker 6: and having that communication. I think that's big for the

1223
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 6: team to be able to execute like that, But how

1224
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 6: important is it for this coaching staff to be put

1225
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 6: in that situation and then be able to communicate and

1226
00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 6: have their guys go on next qute.

1227
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 22: I think they've had this kind of this ability to

1228
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 22: be in touch with their guys since Mike took over

1229
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 22: and hired the staff, and they started it at a

1230
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 22: very early time during the off season workouts than during

1231
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 22: the OTAs and then training camp, and so this message

1232
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,320
Speaker 22: of what the coaches want and how they want to

1233
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:23,240
Speaker 22: get it from their players has pretty much been ingrained,

1234
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,360
Speaker 22: I think, and I think one of the things that

1235
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 22: unless I miss my guest, I don't think we're gonna

1236
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,359
Speaker 22: I don't think we've we saw or heard a lot

1237
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,800
Speaker 22: of screaming and yelling and that sort of thing you

1238
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,360
Speaker 22: know from coaches that I think Dave and I have

1239
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 22: had in the past when we played, because it's a

1240
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 22: different time, players respond differently. But more important, this coach,

1241
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 22: Mike is so attuned to communication and so much into

1242
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:53,879
Speaker 22: that there will be no questions when we go over

1243
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 22: all this again and again and again you will know

1244
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 22: it because we will communicate it to you. And then again,

1245
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:01,959
Speaker 22: the other side of that is, we're not going to panic.

1246
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 22: You know, yeah, we didn't play very well in the

1247
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 22: first half. We know we can play a whole lot

1248
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 22: better than that in the second half. And here's what

1249
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:10,400
Speaker 22: we're going to do to help that along. You know,

1250
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:12,799
Speaker 22: the guy that's wearing the number nine jersey, he's going

1251
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:14,800
Speaker 22: to get the ball a whole lot here in the

1252
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 22: second half, and we're going to ride him. And they did,

1253
00:52:18,239 --> 00:52:20,879
Speaker 22: and I think it just opened up everything. It gives

1254
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 22: the offensive lineman that that confidence that, yeah, we're better

1255
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 22: than we were in the first half. Let's let's go

1256
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 22: prove that.

1257
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 3: It feels so hard not to try to read too

1258
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 3: much into week one because it's all the information we

1259
00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 3: have and we got six days to talk about it, right,

1260
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 3: So you just ruminate and you watch the film over

1261
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 3: and over, knowing that we're going to get another batch

1262
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 3: of information from week two. Is there a player or

1263
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,440
Speaker 3: maybe a position group that you'll be watching very closely?

1264
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:46,799
Speaker 7: Rapes?

1265
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 22: Wow, First of all, ruminate, I like that.

1266
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:53,240
Speaker 3: Thank you. I was an English major.

1267
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:57,880
Speaker 22: You obviously pass all your tests. Dave and I I

1268
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 22: don't think have used ruminate ever in one of our broadcasts.

1269
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 22: But maybe I'm wrong Day, Maybe you're a big Room

1270
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 22: and eight fan. I don't know.

1271
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 5: We'll have to work it into the broadcast this weekend.

1272
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:14,320
Speaker 22: Okay, we can do maybe rummy, we can figure in

1273
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 22: there somehow, maybe not ruminates. What do I look for

1274
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 22: in this?

1275
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 7: Uh?

1276
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 5: You know what? This is?

1277
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,480
Speaker 22: Where it's it's sort of like looking in the mirror

1278
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 22: this week? This this new England team looks a whole

1279
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,839
Speaker 22: lot like the Seahawks, at least of the second half

1280
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 22: that we saw against Denver. And that is they really

1281
00:53:32,239 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 22: want to run the football. Jacoby Brissett. I mean, he's

1282
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:39,040
Speaker 22: a veteran and he's a he's a serviceable quarterback, but

1283
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 22: I don't think he's going to be the guy to

1284
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 22: beat you. But Ramande Stevenson can run the football.

1285
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 2: Now.

1286
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 22: The wide receivers are kind of I don't want to

1287
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 22: say they're pedestrian, and they're all pretty good, especially Jalen Polk,

1288
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 22: former Husky, But I think this is going to be

1289
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 22: one of those knockdown, drag out kind of games. The

1290
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 22: key I think for me and who am I looking

1291
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 22: for here? Is you know the first day or so,

1292
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 22: Canine hasn't practiced or didn't practice, so we hope he's

1293
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 22: going to be okay to play, but we also know

1294
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,000
Speaker 22: that we can open this up a little bit too.

1295
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 22: This is a good defense for playing against. But they

1296
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 22: didn't really get a chance to see as much of

1297
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 22: Jackson Smith and Jigba and d K as we would

1298
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 22: like to, and I think we should and will see

1299
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 22: more of them on Sunday.

1300
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 4: Hey, you know, Tyrell Dodson has really been an amazing

1301
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 4: find for the Seahawks.

1302
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 5: He really should have had an interception.

1303
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 4: I think that was when I screamed out, oh no,

1304
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:45,600
Speaker 4: he's got Wyman hands, because he did knock an interception down.

1305
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 4: But man, that guy was all over the place Steve,

1306
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 4: and it just it was so impressive to see that,

1307
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 4: and I think maybe one of the biggest surprises. I mean,

1308
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:57,360
Speaker 4: we saw him during camp in preseason. We thought he

1309
00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 4: was going to be good, but I didn't know he

1310
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 4: was going to be that good. I thought maybe he

1311
00:55:01,520 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 4: was one of the bigger surprises out there on the

1312
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 4: field on Sunday. What did you think about him or

1313
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 4: did you think there was somebody else that was a

1314
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:12,439
Speaker 4: little more that surprised your caught off guard.

1315
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,719
Speaker 22: Well, I thought both those inside linebackers did a great job.

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Speaker 22: I thought Dodson as well as Baker, and mostly because

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00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 22: they just flew to the football. You know, we remember

1318
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,959
Speaker 22: that back in years past. We remember and we talked

1319
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 22: about it often watching Bobby Wagner when he was a

1320
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Speaker 22: younger guy fly sidelines and sidelines and I'll never forget

1321
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 22: a tackle he made on Cam Newton on the sidelines

1322
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 22: in Carolina years ago that he just had no business

1323
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 22: making that play, and yet he did. And that's what

1324
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Speaker 22: I saw out of these two guys. And they're not

1325
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Speaker 22: the youngest of guys, you know. Dodson's what half a

1326
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 22: dozen six years in the league, and Baker even longer

1327
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:51,240
Speaker 22: than that with Miami and seven years. So these guys

1328
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:56,839
Speaker 22: really were a well coached in understanding what does Mike

1329
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,839
Speaker 22: McDonald want out of his defense and what he wants

1330
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,880
Speaker 22: those big guys up front just kind of annihilating the

1331
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 22: blocking scheme and letting the linebackers run and make the play.

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Speaker 22: And they did that and they got into coverage too.

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Speaker 22: So it's really a treat to watch these guys play.

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Speaker 22: And then of course our secondary, the Reek and Spoon,

1335
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Speaker 22: and I mean, it's just there. It's just a really

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Speaker 22: well constructed defense. And as we always say this time

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Speaker 22: of year, especially if we can just keep everybody healthy

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Speaker 22: and get through the first third of the season, first

1339
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Speaker 22: half of the season with this group out there, they're

1340
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Speaker 22: going to be really tough. By the time they play

1341
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Speaker 22: together four or five games, think of how good this

1342
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Speaker 22: defense just might be.

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Speaker 3: He'll be on the call ten am start, Seattle time

1344
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 3: for this one. Seahawks taken on the Patriots, Boys, the Seahawks.

1345
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Speaker 3: Steve Rabel, Thanks.

1346
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 22: Rapes, We'll ruminate things good.

1347
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Speaker 3: Thanks Steve. All Right, you guys, we will try to

1348
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Speaker 3: get a few injury updates, particularly on Ken Walker from

1349
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 3: John Boyle, Seahawks reporter. He joins us in twenty minutes.

1350
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Speaker 3: But first, we've got questions about the Seahawks Week two opponent,

1351
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,200
Speaker 3: and we're going to get an expert on to answer them.

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Speaker 5: Next.

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

1354
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: two on Seattle Sports.

1355
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Speaker 3: You are listening to the Huddle. ESPN NFL Nation reporter

1356
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 3: Mike Reeze joining us right now for an opponent preview.

1357
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 3: As we step across enemy lines, let's first welcome you on. Hey, Mike,

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00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:23,440
Speaker 3: how's it going.

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Speaker 26: I'm doing great, Stacy, Michael Dave. Great to be with you.

1360
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Speaker 26: Looking forward to this weekend's game.

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Speaker 3: We are so excited to get right back into it.

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Speaker 3: It was a really fun week one for both of

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Speaker 3: these teams. Actually, I'm actually going to start though, with

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Speaker 3: your new head coach, because before we even get to

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Speaker 3: what happened for you guys against the Bengals, tell us

1366
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Speaker 3: what that off season of transition has felt like.

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Speaker 26: Well, it's been really a lot different with Gerard Mayo

1368
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 26: in for Bill Belichick after twenty four years of Belichick.

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Speaker 26: I think in some respects, you know, he's kept some

1370
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Speaker 26: of the Belichick sort of call it like foundational stuff,

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Speaker 26: you know, preaching a lot of hard work, long training

1372
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Speaker 26: camp practices. It was a hard training camp under Gerard Neo.

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Speaker 26: But he's brought in like a new fresh energy. I

1374
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 26: mean he's thirty eight years old. He's like coach McDonald

1375
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 26: who's thirty seven. This is like new identity fresh, a

1376
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 26: lot looser, So, Stacy, yesterday we're in the press conference room,

1377
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 26: Jacoby Brissett sitting down doing his press conference. JIWD Mayo

1378
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:31,479
Speaker 26: walks in with a University of Tennessee hoodie and tells

1379
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Speaker 26: him to put it on because he lost a bet.

1380
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Speaker 26: He's an NC state guy.

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Speaker 22: Bill.

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Speaker 26: Would Bill Belichick ever do that?

1383
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 24: You know what I mean?

1384
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Speaker 4: It highlights some of the differences, you know, tell us

1385
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 4: The guy that really interests me is on defense of course,

1386
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 4: Juwan Bentley. I mean, that guy was just all over

1387
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 4: the field and watched the game and I was like wow.

1388
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:55,320
Speaker 4: And he's listed at like six two, two fifty, but man,

1389
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 4: he he runs around the field like he's a two

1390
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Speaker 4: hundred pound guy.

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Speaker 26: Yeah, you have a great eye. I think he had

1392
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 26: twelve tackles in that opener. So he's an interesting story.

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00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 26: He entered the league as a fifth round pick of

1394
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Speaker 26: the Patriots out of Purdue, and I think you know,

1395
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 26: the book on Juwan Bentley is like he's a first

1396
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 26: and second down player. He's going to be a downhill

1397
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 26: run thumper. And he's really evolved over time. You know,

1398
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 26: he's a veteran now six seven years and he's a

1399
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:32,919
Speaker 26: three down player and he's the signal caller. He leads

1400
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Speaker 26: the huddle and Gerrod Mayo has said, like, this is

1401
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 26: one of the best linebackers in the NFL. That no

1402
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Speaker 26: one talks about. And now I'm gonna tell Gerrod when

1403
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 26: I see him tomorrow that that's not true because you're

1404
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 26: talking about him, and so Girod can't say that anymore,

1405
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Speaker 26: that no one's talking about Joan Bentley. That's a great gye.

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00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 7: Hey, Mike, my co host Stacey we do a show

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00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 7: throughout the week.

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Speaker 6: She hats to bring donuts in because I predicted that

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01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 6: A would be the number two and Perset would be

1410
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Speaker 6: the number one. And the reason why I thought that

1411
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 6: was just because the trouble I thought New England might

1412
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Speaker 6: have protecting the quarterback. You don't want to do that

1413
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 6: to a young guy, right, You put a veteran in

1414
01:00:12,600 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 6: there who can protect themself, slade protection or whatnot.

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01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:18,320
Speaker 7: Was that the thinking behind it? Or am I missing something?

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Speaker 21: Well?

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01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 26: So before I answered like how many donuts did you

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Speaker 26: get for being brought?

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Speaker 3: I brought in a dozen and he got a dozen donuts.

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01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 3: So basically everyone on the show and people that were

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Speaker 3: in the sports pit prepping for the next show's got donuts.

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Speaker 3: And what I should have done, Mike is just contacted

1423
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Speaker 3: you and asked what you think would happened.

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Speaker 26: I was a fool, but Stacey will get on that

1425
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Speaker 26: next time. We'll make sure that doesn't happen in my back.

1426
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 26: So that was part of it, but I would say

1427
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Speaker 26: not the only part of it, you know. I think

1428
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 26: the Patriots looked at Drake May. Now, remember he only

1429
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 26: played twenty six twenty six starts in college and he's twenty.

1430
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Speaker 26: He was just turn twenty two years old, So like

1431
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 26: compared to Jaden Daniels, Like, what was it like fifty

1432
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Speaker 26: six starts in college or something like that. Bo Nicks

1433
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Speaker 26: like at least like twenty four and like sixty one

1434
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 26: starts I think, and Caleb Williams, I believe, you know,

1435
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Speaker 26: maybe had more than twenty six if I recall, and

1436
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:22,560
Speaker 26: he's a little bit older if I if I have

1437
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:25,200
Speaker 26: it right. So I think this was as much about

1438
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 26: just the individual player, Drake May being a little bit

1439
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 26: younger and maybe a little more raw than some of

1440
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 26: these other prospects. Because I will say, like if they

1441
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 26: had drafted Jaden Daniels, it might not be the same answer.

1442
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 26: You know, it might have been Jaden because he came

1443
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 26: in a little more polished. I will say, like they're

1444
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 26: very happy with Drake May. They just want to be disciplined,

1445
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:52,720
Speaker 26: and they figured it's easier to go this way and

1446
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 26: put them in then start them and have to take

1447
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:58,440
Speaker 26: them out. Then you could really do damage, you know,

1448
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Speaker 26: to the long term prospects with him.

1449
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Speaker 3: As you know, I'm sure just from watching the league

1450
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:07,240
Speaker 3: last season and also from prep for this week, the

1451
01:02:07,280 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 3: Seahawks run defense was among the worst in football last

1452
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 3: year and the year prior. We saw a very improved

1453
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 3: performance against the Broncos. But we have no idea if

1454
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 3: it's real or not. And here I am looking at

1455
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:22,160
Speaker 3: ramondre Stevenson and whether it's like a jumbo package, you know,

1456
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 3: with the offensive line for the Patriots, or you know

1457
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:27,840
Speaker 3: what challenges they might present. Tell me what you saw

1458
01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:30,960
Speaker 3: specifically from the run game in New England in Week one.

1459
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Speaker 26: So this is fascinating to me because what the Patriots

1460
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 26: are doing this is a West Coast offense. So think

1461
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Speaker 26: like Cleveland Browns Kevin Stefanski, Nick Chubb, like when Chubb

1462
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Speaker 26: was healthy. Like that to me would be the best

1463
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:52,320
Speaker 26: comparison for what the Patriots are With offensive coordinator Alex

1464
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 26: van Pelt, who comes to New England from Cleveland under

1465
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Speaker 26: Kevin Stefanski, and they view Ramandre Stevenson as one of

1466
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 26: the best in the league, like Nick Chubb when when healthy.

1467
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 26: So I think that's the sort of summary they'll do

1468
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:10,320
Speaker 26: the wide zone, which is something Bill Belichick was actually

1469
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:12,480
Speaker 26: trying to implement here a couple of years ago. It

1470
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 26: didn't work out. mL Power. You know, they'll run power,

1471
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Speaker 26: you know, right down the middle. So so it it's

1472
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Speaker 26: the way they have to win.

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Speaker 17: So I will tell you I watched the Seahawks.

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Speaker 26: I thought that was a very good run defense, and

1475
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Speaker 26: I didn't have the context in my mind that they

1476
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 26: were so bad last year, and I just wonder if

1477
01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:35,720
Speaker 26: it's just I mean, isn't it like a different staff?

1478
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 26: And and by Byron Murphy look good, right, I mean

1479
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 26: he looked like he helped him a little bit in

1480
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:44,919
Speaker 26: that game, so I know he's part of a bunch

1481
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:48,440
Speaker 26: of linemen. So I wrote, like for the Patriots, this

1482
01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:52,400
Speaker 26: is gonna be a much more difficult challenge than I

1483
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 26: thought they had last week against the Bengals.

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Speaker 4: Hey tell us about Kyle Dugert. We also have a

1485
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 4: Leonora Ryan Product here and Derek Young. But I always

1486
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 4: love the small school guys, and you know, he was

1487
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 4: all over the field, forced fumble pass defense. Tell us

1488
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 4: about Kyle Dugger.

1489
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Speaker 26: So Kyle Dugger a twenty twenty second round pick, high

1490
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 26: second round, and so that was the COVID year. So

1491
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:22,640
Speaker 26: that's you know, for a lot of those young guys,

1492
01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:26,040
Speaker 26: they didn't have the benefit of like the traditional offseason,

1493
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:29,440
Speaker 26: but that was Belichick had actually traded out of the

1494
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 26: first round that year and would have taken Dougger at

1495
01:04:34,040 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 26: twenty three. Ended up getting the might to get thirty

1496
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:38,880
Speaker 26: seven because he was a little bit older coming out

1497
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:42,880
Speaker 26: of Lenore Ryan and he's just a hard hitting safety.

1498
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 26: He was their transition tag player in the off season.

1499
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:51,000
Speaker 26: They ended up getting a long term extension with him

1500
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Speaker 26: and paired with Jabriel Peppers. Those two are hard hitting, aggressive,

1501
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,440
Speaker 26: you know safeties that really set a tone for the defense.

1502
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 3: He is ESPN NFL Nation reporter Mike Reese kind enough

1503
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 3: to join us for an opponent preview. A good look

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01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:10,840
Speaker 3: at these Patriots. Mike, thank you so much for your time.

1505
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 26: Hi, thanks so much for having me. Looking forward to

1506
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 26: the game.

1507
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:16,840
Speaker 3: Thank you, Mark see yeah again, thank you to Mike

1508
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 3: Reese for joining us for us for an opponent preview.

1509
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:21,600
Speaker 3: Excuse me, coming up next, We're going to get a

1510
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:24,840
Speaker 3: preview of the home team, John Boyle, Seahawks dot Com

1511
01:05:24,880 --> 01:05:26,320
Speaker 3: reporters going to join us, see if we've got some

1512
01:05:26,360 --> 01:05:28,680
Speaker 3: injury updates here, and guys like Ken Walker don't go anywhere.

1513
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 1: This This is the huddle every Thursday from noon to

1514
01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:34,440
Speaker 1: two on Seattle Sports.

1515
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:38,240
Speaker 3: You are listening to the huddle with Dave Wyman, Michael Bompis,

1516
01:05:38,240 --> 01:05:41,439
Speaker 3: Stacy Rost and joining us right now, John Boyle, John,

1517
01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:44,760
Speaker 3: what a week one A win which I guess we

1518
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 3: might have been able to predict against the Broncos, a

1519
01:05:47,280 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 3: team that's clearly in transition rookie quarterback. There were opportunities here.

1520
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:53,520
Speaker 3: I still was so surprised by the defensive performance.

1521
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:55,400
Speaker 13: What about you that you was so fun to watch?

1522
01:05:55,480 --> 01:05:57,880
Speaker 12: I mean, I think we all expected them to play well,

1523
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 12: But at the same time, it's you know, when you

1524
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 12: have that much newness, both in terms of some key

1525
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:06,080
Speaker 12: personnel changes, you know, linebackers, safety very different, and then

1526
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Speaker 12: a totally new scheme. I think I maybe expected there'd

1527
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:11,080
Speaker 12: be a few more you know, growing pain, so to speak,

1528
01:06:11,120 --> 01:06:13,440
Speaker 12: But it looks so good. Just how fast guys are playing,

1529
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:15,880
Speaker 12: just how well they were tackling, you know, just all

1530
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 12: those you know, Denver's game was a lot of short

1531
01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:21,160
Speaker 12: passes and you rarely saw one anybody get any extra

1532
01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 12: yard after the catch.

1533
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 4: You know, sometimes out of disaster comes something really good.

1534
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:34,320
Speaker 5: Bet that wow ruminate she used that word earlier.

1535
01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:38,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought like after the game, I was like,

1536
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 4: that was necessary that they went through that offensively because

1537
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:45,360
Speaker 4: it was really bad, and and for them to come

1538
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:47,160
Speaker 4: come back the way they did in the second half,

1539
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:49,240
Speaker 4: it's almost like you look at that and go, I'd

1540
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:53,760
Speaker 4: much rather that that happened actually than didn't happen, because

1541
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:55,439
Speaker 4: it could happen somewhere like on the road.

1542
01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:56,280
Speaker 13: Yeah, for sure.

1543
01:06:56,280 --> 01:06:58,040
Speaker 12: I mean, obviously, in the moment you don't want to

1544
01:06:58,040 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 12: see safeties and penalties and all that. But after the fact,

1545
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 12: it's like, Okay, you face some real adversity right off

1546
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:06,280
Speaker 12: the bat, first game in the season.

1547
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 13: That helps guys. And we heard a couple of players

1548
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 13: talk about that. DK Metcalf talked about it yesterday.

1549
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:13,440
Speaker 12: I talked to Laken Tomlinson about it a little bit,

1550
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:15,200
Speaker 12: and he's like, you know what, sometimes I've been on

1551
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:18,640
Speaker 12: teams where teams don't respond well to that, and for

1552
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:21,040
Speaker 12: them to bounce back, the offense played really well. In

1553
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 12: the second half they got the win. Like I think

1554
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:24,160
Speaker 12: that's going to help them going forward.

1555
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:28,920
Speaker 6: First time for Mike McDonald being officially well coaching in

1556
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:30,280
Speaker 6: a game that means something.

1557
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 7: But now he gets to go on the road for

1558
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:32,640
Speaker 7: the first time.

1559
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:35,040
Speaker 6: And remember Pete had things dialed in when it comes

1560
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:37,320
Speaker 6: to guys going on the road and being ready to go.

1561
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:40,280
Speaker 6: Do you know or think if he's using any of

1562
01:07:40,360 --> 01:07:43,160
Speaker 6: that Pete Carroll stuff or is it completely his own doing.

1563
01:07:43,320 --> 01:07:45,560
Speaker 12: No, I mean, he talked about this yesterday, but they're

1564
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 12: definitely keeping a lot of the same travel plan that

1565
01:07:48,840 --> 01:07:51,600
Speaker 12: Pete Carroll and company used before because it worked really well.

1566
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:54,320
Speaker 12: As it's twenty four of the last thirty five games

1567
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 12: at ten am they've won, They've been, you know, one

1568
01:07:57,200 --> 01:08:00,400
Speaker 12: of the better road teams in the NFL period really

1569
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:02,680
Speaker 12: over the last decade. And that's hard to do when

1570
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 12: you're the most geographically isolated team in the league. You're

1571
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:09,040
Speaker 12: traveling more miles most years than anybody in the league.

1572
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:09,480
Speaker 13: Or close to it.

1573
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:11,880
Speaker 12: So yeah, I mean, you know, Mike Mandaugh's not just

1574
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,720
Speaker 12: come in and blindly accept everything that was here before,

1575
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 12: but he's also not going to change just to change things.

1576
01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:19,240
Speaker 12: So he talked it over people, he said, they you know,

1577
01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:22,719
Speaker 12: they talked to some different experts, you know, sleep, sleep studies,

1578
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:25,000
Speaker 12: all that, and found out like, hey, this, you know,

1579
01:08:25,160 --> 01:08:27,519
Speaker 12: what's working in this case is working pretty well, so

1580
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:28,080
Speaker 12: why change it?

1581
01:08:29,360 --> 01:08:31,519
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of changing things in the second half of

1582
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:33,479
Speaker 3: this offense, the run is what really took off. It

1583
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:36,920
Speaker 3: allowed them to separate themselves. We've got some questions about

1584
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:39,360
Speaker 3: ken Walker's health, so looking for a quick update from you,

1585
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:41,599
Speaker 3: just the latest on that. And then also as far

1586
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 3: as the offensive attack in this one, yeah, you can

1587
01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:46,000
Speaker 3: kind of, you know, still lean into the run and

1588
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:47,720
Speaker 3: just go with what worked. But man, I'd love to

1589
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:49,760
Speaker 3: see them throw down field just a bit more. What

1590
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 3: do you think in there?

1591
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:53,000
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean, first of all, with Walker, we don't

1592
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:55,000
Speaker 12: know a lot other than that, you know, they they

1593
01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:56,800
Speaker 12: said he's day to day. Is I think the term

1594
01:08:56,880 --> 01:08:59,880
Speaker 12: that McDonald used Wednesday and he didn't practice Wednesday. We

1595
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:02,160
Speaker 12: don't know yet about Thursday's practice because they're out there

1596
01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 12: on the field right now, so you know, kind of

1597
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:07,639
Speaker 12: wait and see. But yeah, I mean, they're gonna want

1598
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 12: to run the ball no matter what. But I would

1599
01:09:09,439 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 12: think that they do want to get a little more

1600
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:13,479
Speaker 12: dynamic in the passing game, get a few more shots.

1601
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:15,120
Speaker 13: They tried to take a couple of shots, but you know,

1602
01:09:15,240 --> 01:09:17,240
Speaker 13: the pass protection wasn't holding up as well early.

1603
01:09:17,320 --> 01:09:20,000
Speaker 12: And I think if they could get that dialed up,

1604
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:21,920
Speaker 12: and especially you know, if ken Walker can't play or

1605
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:23,600
Speaker 12: if he's limited, then you might want to lean on

1606
01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:25,760
Speaker 12: the passing game a little bit more. So we'll see

1607
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 12: how they dialed up, but yeah, I think they'll take

1608
01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:27,799
Speaker 12: their chances.

1609
01:09:28,360 --> 01:09:33,200
Speaker 4: How was DK's performance according to him and coach McDonald,

1610
01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 4: I mean, he drew a couple of penalties. Yeah, and

1611
01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:37,439
Speaker 4: then he had a couple of penalties, and you know,

1612
01:09:37,520 --> 01:09:39,679
Speaker 4: he's going up against one of the best cover corners

1613
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:40,240
Speaker 4: in the league.

1614
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:42,519
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, the stats don't jump out at you

1615
01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 12: by any means, but as you mentioned, he drew a

1616
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 12: couple of key penalties that you know, those more or

1617
01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:48,640
Speaker 12: less are the same as yards in terms of the

1618
01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:51,280
Speaker 12: you know, how it helps the offense. And then we heard,

1619
01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:53,840
Speaker 12: you know, Mike McDonald, Tyler Lockett, different guys talked about

1620
01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:55,360
Speaker 12: kind of the little things he's doing in the game

1621
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:57,600
Speaker 12: that you don't really notice, like that the route he

1622
01:09:57,720 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 12: runs on that last third down, the Tyler Lockett ca

1623
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:03,200
Speaker 12: should clinch the game, Metcalf has kind of running interference on.

1624
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:04,400
Speaker 13: That to make that route work.

1625
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 12: So things like that are just you know, if a

1626
01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 12: team's dedicating their best defensive back to DK all day,

1627
01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:12,240
Speaker 12: as the Broncos were, it might limit Kay's production, but

1628
01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:15,600
Speaker 12: it does create opportunities to other guys. So, you know, statistically,

1629
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:18,599
Speaker 12: not his best game, but I think that internally they

1630
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:19,400
Speaker 12: like what he should.

1631
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:21,760
Speaker 6: I love that last one. The mesh coan said. He

1632
01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:24,919
Speaker 6: even flinched at the guy to make a move. Imagine

1633
01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:27,880
Speaker 6: six three two twenty five flinch Netche. As you're running

1634
01:10:27,880 --> 01:10:29,599
Speaker 6: cross the field, you're not to react.

1635
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:32,080
Speaker 13: I wouldn't try to run through that, No, I hed.

1636
01:10:32,160 --> 01:10:35,519
Speaker 7: No. What about Gino? I think it was such a

1637
01:10:35,600 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 7: crazy start when I'm sitting there next.

1638
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:40,120
Speaker 6: To palm Moyer and it's sack, it's interception, and then

1639
01:10:40,160 --> 01:10:43,280
Speaker 6: the next offensive play you get a false start. And

1640
01:10:43,360 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 6: I'm always looking for Gino's body language, and it seemed

1641
01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:49,720
Speaker 6: pretty good. What did he sound like after the game

1642
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 6: and then this week too?

1643
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:53,120
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, first of all, I think other than

1644
01:10:53,240 --> 01:10:55,200
Speaker 12: the way that game started, which is not as much

1645
01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 12: on him as the protection, I thought he played very

1646
01:10:57,200 --> 01:10:59,320
Speaker 12: well in that game. But it's less about to me

1647
01:10:59,439 --> 01:11:01,559
Speaker 12: what really out as less what he actually did throwing

1648
01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 12: the ball around, is just the leadership he showed. Like

1649
01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:06,800
Speaker 12: we've heard from multiple players both on Sunday and this

1650
01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:10,360
Speaker 12: week that were like he set that tone of like, Okay, guys,

1651
01:11:10,400 --> 01:11:11,880
Speaker 12: we're fine, we're going to get this going.

1652
01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 13: You know, not yelling at guys and screaminy guys.

1653
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 12: Were just you know, keeping everybody, keeping guys heads in it,

1654
01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:20,120
Speaker 12: keeping employees. So I think that's where, you know, going

1655
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:21,960
Speaker 12: into his thirty years a starter, he's getting more and

1656
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:23,760
Speaker 12: more comfortable in that role of like he's he's the

1657
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:26,679
Speaker 12: guy leading this offense. And I think he really helped

1658
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:28,040
Speaker 12: them weather that's storm early on.

1659
01:11:29,439 --> 01:11:32,960
Speaker 3: What's a challenge that in your mind the Patriots, who

1660
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 3: again we're kind of underestimated. They upset the bankers, But

1661
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:38,679
Speaker 3: what's a challenge they could present Seattle that Seattle maybe

1662
01:11:38,760 --> 01:11:39,639
Speaker 3: didn't face with Denver.

1663
01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:41,280
Speaker 13: I mean, i'd say their running game.

1664
01:11:41,320 --> 01:11:43,560
Speaker 12: I mean, Denver end the ball some and they you know,

1665
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:46,120
Speaker 12: had a little success but not much, but they also weren't.

1666
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:46,760
Speaker 13: That committed to it.

1667
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 12: And you're going to see a very different attack in

1668
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,040
Speaker 12: the in the Patriots that they're you know, that's what

1669
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 12: they're that's gonna be their bread and butter.

1670
01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:55,479
Speaker 13: They're going to lean on that. They got a very

1671
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:56,400
Speaker 13: physical running.

1672
01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:58,320
Speaker 12: Back who breaks tackles, So it's going to be a good,

1673
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:01,439
Speaker 12: very different challenge for this defense to show that they can,

1674
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 12: you know, step up and stop a physical run game.

1675
01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:07,680
Speaker 4: So what did you think about the way Mike McDonald

1676
01:12:08,360 --> 01:12:12,000
Speaker 4: reacted after the game, because he felt like before I mean,

1677
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:13,800
Speaker 4: I know how I would think. I would think, oh man,

1678
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 4: there's probably a bunch of stuff I didn't get to

1679
01:12:15,680 --> 01:12:19,240
Speaker 4: and needed too, But it seemed like he was he

1680
01:12:19,400 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 4: was pretty satisfied, and he's always very steady, and you know,

1681
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:25,120
Speaker 4: he's got a pretty decent sense of humor.

1682
01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:27,799
Speaker 5: Well, some guys think it's corny, I guess.

1683
01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:28,800
Speaker 13: But that's probably why I like it.

1684
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:29,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, he too.

1685
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 13: I've had the same criticism, but the.

1686
01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:34,519
Speaker 5: Dad jokes, Yeah yeah.

1687
01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:37,720
Speaker 4: But anyway, Yeah, what how do you think he held

1688
01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:40,639
Speaker 4: up and what do you think he was thinking afterwards?

1689
01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:40,960
Speaker 2: Good?

1690
01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:43,519
Speaker 12: I mean, I think it was exactly what from a

1691
01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:46,080
Speaker 12: little bit of time we've been around him. He was

1692
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:47,800
Speaker 12: exactly like I thought i'd be after the game, which

1693
01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:51,000
Speaker 12: is very poised not making too big a deal. And

1694
01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 12: he's already you know, talking about he loves his term

1695
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:55,720
Speaker 12: stacking wins. He's already thinking, Okay, that game ended, and

1696
01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:57,479
Speaker 12: he's talking about the next game and how do we

1697
01:12:57,560 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 12: get ready for that? So you know he did admit that,

1698
01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:01,640
Speaker 12: not a bit, but you just say that he you know,

1699
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:03,600
Speaker 12: did get to celebrate it with Frans and family in

1700
01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 12: town and enjoy it that night after you get back.

1701
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:07,800
Speaker 12: But right after the game, just talking to us and

1702
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:09,800
Speaker 12: in the game, he's not the kind of guy who's

1703
01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:12,599
Speaker 12: gonna go nut celebrating it. He's just like, Okay, that's

1704
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:14,320
Speaker 12: you know, they expect to one a lot of those

1705
01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:16,840
Speaker 12: games this year. So he's glad they got that one

1706
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:18,920
Speaker 12: out of the way, and now he's looking, Okay, what

1707
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:21,000
Speaker 12: can we fix that wasn't good in that game and

1708
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:22,040
Speaker 12: get ready for the next one.

1709
01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:22,640
Speaker 24: Oh.

1710
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,320
Speaker 6: I feel like the highlights of the defense was the

1711
01:13:25,400 --> 01:13:28,640
Speaker 6: back end to start. Yeah, But as the game were on, man,

1712
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:32,240
Speaker 6: those linebackers were playing with a speed that I haven't

1713
01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:35,240
Speaker 6: seen in a very long time. Were you surprised with Vager?

1714
01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:36,960
Speaker 6: I mean I saw his film in Miami, but we

1715
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:39,439
Speaker 6: didn't see much of them. Would you would you make

1716
01:13:39,479 --> 01:13:39,640
Speaker 6: of that.

1717
01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 7: That second level.

1718
01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:42,880
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean again, I kind of touched on this earlier,

1719
01:13:43,040 --> 01:13:45,160
Speaker 12: Like for for the fact that, like both those guys

1720
01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:47,120
Speaker 12: are new, two of the safeties are new.

1721
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:50,599
Speaker 13: The way they all played so well together was really encouraging.

1722
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:52,880
Speaker 12: Like you didn't see the oh we weren't on the

1723
01:13:52,880 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 12: same page between the safety and the linebacker, and this

1724
01:13:55,320 --> 01:13:56,920
Speaker 12: dude's running free over the middle of the field.

1725
01:13:56,920 --> 01:13:58,280
Speaker 13: They just they kept it really clean.

1726
01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 12: But yeah, I mean, those guys were all flying around Baker,

1727
01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:03,400
Speaker 12: especially like he for as much time as he missed,

1728
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:04,800
Speaker 12: he sure looked like he was ready to go.

1729
01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:07,280
Speaker 7: So it's Baker got a cowboy caller. That's what I

1730
01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:07,960
Speaker 7: knew he was real.

1731
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:11,639
Speaker 12: Yeah, well, okay, he's leg.

1732
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:15,479
Speaker 3: It's an advisor of uniform editions. One more injury I

1733
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:18,920
Speaker 3: completely glossed over, and I can't believe I did. George

1734
01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:22,439
Speaker 3: Fan obviously a non participant in practice yesterday. I'm not

1735
01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:25,360
Speaker 3: personally anticipating he's going to play. So maybe we just

1736
01:14:25,439 --> 01:14:27,600
Speaker 3: talk as though, Let's say let's say that they are

1737
01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:31,439
Speaker 3: hamstrung there. I like, hypothetically, what kind of options does

1738
01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:33,679
Speaker 3: this team have to make up for that absence?

1739
01:14:33,760 --> 01:14:35,880
Speaker 12: I mean, you have obviously Stone Foresight, the guy who

1740
01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:38,560
Speaker 12: stepped in, you would presume he's a starter, can't go,

1741
01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:39,080
Speaker 12: but then.

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01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:41,040
Speaker 13: You know, you look at you got the rookie Mike Durell.

1743
01:14:41,200 --> 01:14:44,560
Speaker 12: He's a guy that obviously is still very young, inexperience

1744
01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:46,240
Speaker 12: and coming from a small school, but he had a

1745
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:49,280
Speaker 12: really good camp. M clendon Curtis is another guy you

1746
01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:52,000
Speaker 12: know that's a lot of versatility they could do different

1747
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:52,280
Speaker 12: things with.

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01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:55,120
Speaker 13: So they got some options there for sure. But yeah,

1749
01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:56,760
Speaker 13: we'll see. I mean, we don't know yet about Fan.

1750
01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,559
Speaker 12: Obviously they would love to have him back, but it's early.

1751
01:14:59,600 --> 01:15:01,880
Speaker 12: You're not a rush a veteran player back from that,

1752
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:04,519
Speaker 12: so we'll see what they do there. But yeah, I

1753
01:15:04,560 --> 01:15:06,519
Speaker 12: mean they got some They feel like they i mean,

1754
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:08,200
Speaker 12: they kept eleven Lignement on the team and they have

1755
01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:09,679
Speaker 12: some of the practice squad as well, so they feel

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01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:10,240
Speaker 12: like they have depth.

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Speaker 3: Final forty five seconds to a minute here, I'll just

1758
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:17,240
Speaker 3: go to all three of you. Easy, easy question to

1759
01:15:17,320 --> 01:15:19,599
Speaker 3: wrap things up, but just to fill in the blank.

1760
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:21,759
Speaker 3: You two actually have time to think about your answers.

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01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:24,960
Speaker 3: John's gonna go first. It'll be so easy. The Seahawks

1762
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:25,960
Speaker 3: went on Sunday, If.

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Speaker 12: They just start on an offense clean, don't hurt themselves.

1764
01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:33,760
Speaker 12: All those dry every one of those drives that they

1765
01:15:33,800 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 12: didn't score in the first half, the very first play

1766
01:15:36,160 --> 01:15:38,840
Speaker 12: the drive was a negative play, either a sack penalty whatever.

1767
01:15:39,120 --> 01:15:41,760
Speaker 12: They went backwards on versun the times they didn't they

1768
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:42,280
Speaker 12: score points.

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01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:44,639
Speaker 3: Whyman Seahawks went on Sunday if.

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01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:46,920
Speaker 4: This was boring, But they ran for one hundred and

1771
01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 4: seventy yards, so you're gonna have to shut them down.

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Speaker 4: I don't think Jacobe Prissett beats them, kind of like

1773
01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:52,680
Speaker 4: I didn't think bon Nick's good.

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01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 5: So yeah, if you can, if you can limit the

1775
01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:56,479
Speaker 5: rushing yards.

1776
01:15:56,640 --> 01:15:58,720
Speaker 7: Well, you said every first play in the first half

1777
01:15:58,840 --> 01:15:59,360
Speaker 7: was a negative.

1778
01:15:59,439 --> 01:16:01,560
Speaker 12: Yeah, I can't remember win that's ed. But yeah, it

1779
01:16:01,680 --> 01:16:03,720
Speaker 12: was not everyone but the ones they didn't score, so

1780
01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 12: they had it was their first ten possessions. Six of

1781
01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:10,240
Speaker 12: them went backwards on the first play, and they didn't

1782
01:16:10,240 --> 01:16:11,160
Speaker 12: score in any form.

1783
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:12,200
Speaker 13: They didn't they scored all four.

1784
01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:14,880
Speaker 3: All right, bump bless word, just blessed me. Seahawks went

1785
01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:15,439
Speaker 3: on Sunday.

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Speaker 6: If if they just wear them down. The Bengals only

1787
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:21,759
Speaker 6: ran forty eight plays. I mean that's I mean Roncos

1788
01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:23,680
Speaker 6: had forty four in the first half of their own,

1789
01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:25,280
Speaker 6: so just be disciplined and wear them down.

1790
01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 3: This has been the huddle with Dave Whyman, Michael bump Is,

1791
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:30,320
Speaker 3: and Stacy Ross. You guys can hear Dave alongside Steve

1792
01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 3: Rabel on the call of the game, bump on pre

1793
01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:35,439
Speaker 3: and post game. Obviously, you could read John's coverage during

1794
01:16:35,520 --> 01:16:37,679
Speaker 3: the game on x dot Com at John P. Boyle

1795
01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 3: and read his coverage on Seahawks dot Com afterwards. This

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01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:40,800
Speaker 3: has been the huddle