December 5, 2024 • 34 mins
The Seahawks fly south for a critical rematch with the Cardinals. Michael Bumpus and Nasser Kyobe preview Week 14 at State Farm Stadium. Today's Show: What’s on Tap (01:58), Know Your History (07:27), What’s the Word in the West (09:11), Man Up (15:05), and Path to Victory (30:47).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver
Michael Bumpus.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Playfake, gonna roll right, dumps it off into the right
flat to Michael Bumpers, who bounces off of one tackler
catch inside the forty down of the forty five yard line.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Powered by Seahawks dot Com.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Matt pumpfakes looking at the gold line. He throws it
into the en zone.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Touchdown Seahawks.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's Michael Buffas with a diving catching the end zone,
a ten yard touchdown reception for Bumpers, and the kid
out of Washington State has found himself a.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Place on this team. Now here's your host, Nasa Chobie.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Welcome into another edition of Hawk Talk, the Seahawks getting
ready to take on the Arizona Cardinals, second matchup with
them in the last three weeks. We are broadcasting from
the Seahawks Podcast Studio, presented by Sony, the official partner
of the Seattle Seahawks. Bump We're gonna kick this thing
off with some good news. Okay, always got good news. Today,
the Seahawks are bringing back U Chennan Nuosu. He's back
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on the roster, coming off ir He's been one of
the best defensive players since he's been in Seattle. He's
had a tough go though this year. Right, Yeah, he
gets cheap shotted at the end of the last preseason game.
There's a flag on the play, hurts his knee. He
goes IR, comes back and then immediately gets hurt in
that first game. I believe it was a thigh injury
to put him back on IR. He's now back, he's
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in the lineup, so I'm excited for him to be back.
What he can do to this defensive line group. Bump,
it could be scary.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
It's nice, man, because the d line group is playing
at a high level already.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Right, So now you're like, you.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Know, you're sitting back, you're chilling, you're feeling the vibe.
Bottle White number ten is coming back, and we know
that he's an emotional leader, he's a baller.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I'm excited, and he doesn't need to be a hero.
That's what's most important.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You don't have to come in and have three or
four sacks and have an outstanding game.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
You come in, listen to your body and just lead
these dudes.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
No, it should be great. Anytime you add something like that,
that's like adding an All Pro Pro Bowl player. So
big ups to Chennan Wilks, who coming back. He also
is the Seahawks nominee for Walter Payton Man of the Year,
so big ups him for everything he does off the field.
But let's get into these Arizona Cardinals. What's on tap?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
What's untap?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Cardinals bump six and six second place in the NFC West.
They've lost to the Bills, the Lions, the Commanders, Packers, Seahawks,
and Vikings. They did have a four game win streaking.
They're beating the Chargers, Dolphins, Bears, and Jets. They also
beat the Niners in the Rams. So but when you
look at this team, they've been up and down for
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a while. We didn't know what to say about them.
Are they good? Are they bad? What's going on? Then
they win four games in a row. We start watching
the film. Tough game against Seahawks. They're a good football team.
They definitely good football team, and they for us, good
thing for us, but not for them. They were not
unable to pull it out against the Vikings last week.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, the Rams are a good squad. The last couple
of weeks they've turned the full ball over excuse me.
Cardinals thinking they've turned the football over and they haven't
been great in the red zone.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
You do that, you kick field goals, You're gonna lose
ball games. But you're right.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Let's focus on their game against the Vikings. The Vikings
rally from a thirteam from thirteen points down to beat
the Cardinals twenty three to twenty three on Sunday night for.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Their fifth straight victory. I would say big ups.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Vikings were in the same conference, so y'all can chill,
but it helped us out on the division.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Though the game came down to the wires the wire.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
The Cardinals took the lead twenty two to sixteen with
three minutes and twenty seconds left in the game after
a sixteen play sixty six yard drive that ended up
with a Chad Ryland field goal. Trailing by six, Sam
Donald took the football and led the Vikings on their
hate played.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
My dude, I've been talk about them all year. Man,
give him some talent.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
A play seventy yard drive ended with a five yard
touchdown and Aaron Jones that made the score twenty three
to twenty two. Sam Donald, I've been saying this for years.
Put him around some talent and some things are gonna happen.
I love the old heads balling this year.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Hey, yeah, he's back. He's got these boys ten and two,
you know. To finish that game though, Bump Donald did
his thing and Kyler Murray did have a chance at
the end of that game, got the ball back and
minute thirteen seconds on the clock, but it was eventually
picked off by former Seahawks Shaquille Griffin that ended the game.
Cardinals lose. Murray. He's had interesting couple weeks. He finished
the day thirty one to forty five, two hundred and
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sixty yards, one touchdown, two interceptions, forty five times in
the football. I don't think it is Kler Murray's game.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
It's a bit much.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Not that he can't do it, throw it through the air.
I just think that's too much for what they want
to do, especially being a top ten rushing attack. James
Conner let all ball carriers with sixty eight yards and
seventeen carries. Trey McBride, dude, we're gonna talk about that boy.
Twelve receptions for ninety six yards.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Still ain't touched in zone. Though still ain't touched.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
In Yeah, so he does have one touchdown rushing it's
a rushing touchdown, and he got one off a fumble,
but through the air zero, which is pretty.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Wild, it is.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
But then the Vikings, now they got the second best
record in the NFC, only trill the Lions by one game.
As much as we've talked about the Lions all season,
the Vikings are pretty good too. They are coming to
lum Midfield in a couple of weeks, so we'll definitely
be ready for that matchup. But Cardinals, they're in first
place two weeks ago and now they are not setting
up a crucial game with the Seahawks. It's definitely big
in the standings to go either way for the Seahawks
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or the Cardinals. But Bump, when you look at his
head to ad match up, what stands out to you?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
All right, let's look at the numbers head to head off,
you got the Seahawks sixteenth overall, the Cardinals are eleventh.
When it comes to running the football, the Cardinals took
a step back. Last time we saw them. They were
fifth overall. There now sixth averaging one hundred and forty
one per game. The Hawks are twenty eighth, averaging eighty
eight yards per game. When it comes to pass offense,
the Hawks are number two, two hundred and fifty yards
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through the air. Then the Cardinals are twenty second, two
hundred and five yards through the air. I don't know
if that's a lot or a little, but it seems
like forty five yards is a lot to separate number
two from number twenty two.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Just my opinion. Don't know what history says.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
All right, points per game, the Hawks are fifteenth, averaging
twenty two points per game, and then the Cardinals are
right behind them seventeenth, averaging twenty two points per game.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Pretty even on offense.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
If you just switched the run game in the pass game,
it's like, Okay, you're pretty even everywhere else, but when
it comes to running pass, there you go.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, each team clearly has a strength, at least when
it comes to the box score. Here Seahawks passing, Cardinals running,
So that'll be a different thing that stands out. Moving forward, defensively,
it's pretty close. Seahawks are climbing out. What I love
is to see under twenty. Right, the Seahawks are now
eighteenth in total defense. For a while, Bump we were
doing this, they are twenty eight. Yeah, twenty nine bottom
of the map, so they're definitely making strides there. The
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Cardinals just above them at seventeenth rush defense, the Seahawks
are climbing there too. They're still allowing one hundred and
twenty seven yards per game, twenty first in the NFL.
They've been really good the last four weeks. Cardinals little
above them as well, allowing one hundred and seventeen yards
on the ground. That's thirteenth in the NFL. Pass defense.
The Seahawks are twelfth in the NFL allow on two
hundred ten yards and the Cardinals are eighteenth allowing two
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hundred and seventeen yards. They're right there on points per
game allowed, Seahawks is on twenty two. They're allowing twenty
one points per game. The Seahawks, though, definitely they've been
sacked more times forty to twenty one, so that's a
little bit. It's a little bit more, and the Seahawks
have been penalized a lot more than the Cardinals, but
the Seahaws have been really good in a lot of
those categories as of late, so definitely should be a
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fun matchup. By the numbers, so these teams are pretty
close the last three games.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
The Hawks have the number six defense overall last three games.
I think their top twelve when it comes to score them. So, yes,
you have to look at who they've been over the
duration of the season. That's what these numbers are. But
if you break down the last three games, man, they're
playing at a high level.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, should be fun. I think they want to continue
playing that, so we'll see that goes coming into this matchup.
Broadcasting live from the Seahawks Podcast Studio presented by Sony,
the official partner of the Seattle Seahawks Bump and I
feel like we just played these guys.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
It feels familiar.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, let's know the history.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
No, your history.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yes, it was less than three weeks ago Seahawks took
on these same Arizona Cardinals. Overall, the Seahawks lead the
all time series twenty eight to twenty one, and the
Hawks have won six in a row in seven of
the last eight.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Doing that thing against the Cardinals for sure. And last
game it was. It was a hard fought win. It
was a great win by the Seahawks. They didn't really
they did enough offensively when they had to down the stretch,
sated the other thing. They won sixteen to six. Obviously,
the biggest play in that game was Kobe Bryant's pick six,
which got him Defense Player of the Week. Huge play
in that game, Seahawks called time out to play before
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Evan's all up in arms. Next play, Devin withersmon force
is a bath throw from Calamarray, Kobe Bryant runs it back,
you know the rest of the deal. And then in
that game, the Seahawks, when they absolutely needed it most,
didn't have a great game offensively, but they did have
a thirteen play, forty nine yard drive that took eight
minutes off the clock in the fourth quarter. In the
Seahawks hold on to win that game sixteen to six.
So the defensive showed up. So it's gonna be interesting
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to see if that's gonna be similar game down in
the Desert coming up, and I'm excited for it to
see what Leonard Williams, the Big Cat can get done
against these guys.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I feel like that game was, you know, you proved
it against the Rams, like all right, the defense is
doing some things. But then theirs on A Cardinals come
into town and they just made it official, like we
are here.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
We understand we are moving. Then you handle the Jets.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
But it's so weird playing a team twice in three weeks,
like not a lot has changed. You can literally go
to the Scotten Report and say, Okay, this is who
they are, guys, ain't too much change.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
But let's look at this Bikings film. So it should
be a good one.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, I mean you can only I mean you're not.
You can roll out a couple other little wrinkles things
like that, but you kind of are who you are
at this point. You put out a lot of film
this point in the year, so should be interesting to see.
But let's check in and the rest of the NFCUS
what's the.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Word and the Seahawks or the NFC West champs again.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
What's the word?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
In the west On Hawk top the NFC West. You
can look at this division in two ways. It's either
the most competitive division in all the game or you're saying,
what the heck is going on over there?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Why there's so many losses? I don't care.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Seahawks at the top seven and five of this division,
Cardinals right behind them six and six, and the Rams
are six and six in the San Francisco forty nine
is at the bottom at five and seven. Now, they
were technically already in first place, but the Seahawks are
now all by themselves. They got a one game lead
over the Cardinals and the Rams with with a win
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on Sunday, it's essentially becomes a three game lead on
the Cardinals. The Rams have to play the Bills on Sunday,
bless you, and the Seahawks have a huge opportunity to
be in the driver's seat for a home playoff game
come January.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I love this game. I love I love it. I
like the ups and the downs.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I like the the moves being made by teams, the
schemes being tweaked. Right, this is this is what football
is all about, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
This point in the year, I mean a couple of
weeks ago, a month ago, it was it was the
end of the world. At the end of that Rams game,
it was that feeling. And just a couple of weeks later,
man in the NFL bump winning cures all though.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Sure it was great, all right, so let's focus on
these Niners. They played the Bills and it didn't look good.
I've never played in snow, I have practiced in snow.
It looked horrible. The Niners didn't look comfortable. The Bills
were like this, this is what we do. It's like
a regular Tuesday for us. What are you guys talking about?
But it was a lot. It was a lot when,
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like I mentioned, one team looked like they were preparing
for a stretch run of the season deep into the playoffs.
We talking about the Bills. The Bills look like a
well oiled machine. They were good to go. They're at home.
The stadium they're building. Is it gonna be covered? Are
they keeping it outside? They better cover that thing in Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
They're not. They're not renderings. They're gonna They're gonna have
it where a lot of the fans are covered. But
like that feels still gonna be exposed. They want that
home for the vantage. All right, are the first half
of all Bills in this game. They led out twenty
one to three.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
They had a sixty five yard touchdown run by James
Cook looking fast in the snow man tiptoeing on that thing,
and at ninety seven yard touchdown driving the forty nine
Ersmiths two field goals.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Moody is the kicker's name. I believe he had. It
was in a bad mood the four nine.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
His only chance to get back in the game was
on the first drive of the second half. It was
first and goal from the Buffalo four yard line, but
the Niners fumbled and that was that.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, when you looked at it, just didn't look comfortable.
They looked like they were practicing in seventy five degree
weather all week and showed up there. And now, granted
they didn't have Nick Bosa. Yep, I think that had
Trent Williams. They're totally banged up. Party came back. But
when you looked about those teams, one team looked like
they want to be their one team. Yeah, and it
was a beat down. And I'm and this isn't me
throwing shape. The Bills are a really good football team. Yeah,
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we saw what happened. We saw it first up close
and personal. The Bills are good football see alive. I
would love to play them again, though, the way this
event is playing, I promise you would not look as
bad as it did.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
But it won't be thirty one to ten, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
No, And well, things got a little worse though for
the Niners. We happened Christian McCaffrey Jordan Mason. Yeah, on
I ar, that's tough.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
That's their season. That's their season in the nutshell. You
get guys back, you're getting healthy. Maybe there's a chance
and then they get banged up. But to lose your
number one and your number two is unfortunate. I thought
it was going to be a reaggravation of the maybe
the Achilles when it came to McCaffrey ended up being
a PCL. Did you see the slow motion of it happen? Man,
So unfortunate, big as Christian McCaffrey. He's had a good
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season or good, good career up to this point and
just just not as year.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Man, so good healthy and get back.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, and well their thirst string running back Grendo is
actually pretty god.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Oh yeah a seventy six yard against Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
He did, and I don't forget that anyway. But yeah, no,
they're there. We'll see what happens there. But I'm just
with everything that's happened there, it feels like it's just
so round end of the road and we can say
whatever you want. They're not playing again this year. Yeah,
there's that elsewhere in the division, the Rams, in the Saints,
it's the only one that didn't go the Seahawks way.
The Saints were able to stay in the fight. They
played this they played hard. Four and seven ball club
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gave the Rams all they could handle. They were up
six zero at halftime, but two fourth quarter touchdowns by
Matthew Stafford was a difference. Trailing twenty one fourteen under
two minutes left, the Saints drove all the way inside
the Rams ten yard line, but were stopped on fourth
and three when Derek Carr's pass was deflected by Jared Verse,
who's a baller.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Baller.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Rams hold on for the win. Knen Williams had one
hundred and four rushing yards on fifteen carries in a touchdown.
Puka and de Marks Robinson Eith had each had touchdowns.
Stafford pedestrian fourteen to twenty four one eighty three, two touchdowns,
no interceptions. Kamara had one hundred and twelve yards and
twenty three carries for the Saints. Saints did it was
tasting hell for the season with the torn acl So.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
He just got paid to was it this year he
got paid or last year?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I think it was last. Either way, he's got money.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
He just got his money.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Unfortunate for them, but right now. I mean, it's back
to the division standings. The Rams aren't going away, so
I would love and this is just kind of pieing
this guy for me. I would love for that Week
eighteen matchup to not matter.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I'm serious, roll up like whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I want the Seahawks to just going to run. I
hope on the day after Christmas, this is my Christmas miracle.
The Seahawks are beating down the Chicago Bears, whether the
snow's coming down, all that stuff, and they're locking up
the division title that night.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Granted, that would mean they'd have to be two games
better than the Rams. A lot of things got to
happen for that.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
So have you taken your family to see Santa yet?
I have not, So when you do, whisper to Santa.
I got I got baby girl, I got her gifts.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I need you. Yes, yes, I'm all for that. Saks
can wrap up division title means we're playing football and
womenfield in January all four. But let's get back to
these Arizona card knows. Man up, Hey, who you got,
who you got? You know what time it is?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Man up?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Man up, brother, man up, man up on Hawk Talk.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
But Kyler Murray. Coming to the last matchup, Kyler Murray
was playing some of the best football of his career
and it wasn't close. He was the reigning Offensive Player
of the Week. You get twelve touchdowns to just three
interceptions and two hundred and seventy six attempts. Last two
weeks haven't been as good. Okay, I've been a little
bit of struggle. Two game losing streak. He's thrown three
interceptions and attempted more passes than he's had all season,
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so he's had a season hind attempts back to back weeks,
thirty seven against Seahawks forty five against the Vikings. He's
also been sacked six times in the last two weeks,
five of those coming in the Seahawks game. Previous six games,
he'd only been sacked five times, So overall, they're doing
a good job protecting Kyle. They've only given up twenty
one sacks, which is six in the NFL. He ranked
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six in completion percentage. He also has the highest QBR
in the season overall stats fifty eight, six hundred three yards,
thirteen touchdowns, six picks. Also has four hundred and twenty
yards and four touchdowns on the ground, so bub when
you look at Kyler, what's the key to get him stopped?
Because he's played some really good football last couple weeks.
He's been sacked a lot, and he's turning the football over.
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What's the key to continuing this streak for Kyler?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well, he is one of the most athletic qbs in
the game. And I was sitting there talking to Dave Wyman.
He brings up a good point, he said, you got
a bull rush. He goes going underneath and over the top.
It allows Kyler to kind of see what's going on
and find those lanes and to go. Kyler Murray running
the football is kind of like when a shooter is
off and he needs to see the ball go through
the net.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
What do you do.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You get to the free throw line, you see the
ball go through the net, You find your rhythm. That's
what I feel like a scramble does for Kyler Murray.
He finds the lane, either he runs or he throws
the football. It gets him back into his rhythm. Easier
said than done. Contain him. What do you have like
nine rush yards against the Seahawks the first time? Yeah,
I doubt he's going to be held to just nine.
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But you can't have those explosives. Hey, let's let's do
that and not let Trey McBride. But did he have
a buck fifty five against the Seahawks the first time around? Yeah,
something crazy like that. They understand you're gonna take something away.
But let's not let McBride just go nuts like he
did last time.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, no question about it, And I'll read his staff
for the first matchup. It was twenty four to thirty
seven to eighty five, no touchdowns, one pick that was
pick six, and two carries for nine yards. So he
if the seawkson repeat, it looks pretty good. Holding out
to six points pretty good.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
If he throws the ball forty times, I'm good with
that because that means the run ain't there.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
And when you put the ball in the air like that,
bad things tend to happen.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
That's why he had two interceptions last game against the Vikings.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Let's look at our quarterback.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
G No.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Smith had another solid game twenty of thirty one, two
hundred and six yards and one touchdown, but no turnovers
come on son first time he had been turnover free
since Week seven against the Falcons. Gino's looking to continue
his dominance against the Cardinals. Since becoming the starter in
twenty He's five and zero against az He's one hundred
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and two for one forty eight that's sixty eight percent
completion percentage, eleven hundred and thirty four yards, seven touchdowns,
three interceptions. Last game against these guys, he was twenty
two or thirty one two fifty four, one touchdown, one interception.
Coming into this game against the Cardinals, Geno still needs
one three hundred yard passing game to ty Russell Wilson
for the most three hundred yard passing games in a
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single season in franchise history with five. Right now, Gino's
in fifth place in franchise history in attempts, completions, passing yards,
and passing touchdowns.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
He got sixty six of them. Things.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Man, I like Gino. I like where he is. Last week.
He was responsible with the football. He puts together a drive.
I don't know if we can qualify that as a
game winning drive, but it it set things up all right.
He put his team in position and win. He just
needs to be the guy that we've seen over the
past few weeks. I like where he is. He's gonna
need some help in the run game, obviously, But he's
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doing all right.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Man.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Through eleven weeks in the NFL, he's third in passing yards,
fifth in completion percentage, second in completions, second in attempts.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah, he's there his thing, and the most important thing
you said there was taking care of the football. You know, honestly,
for me, you've said it, You've described I've heard you
describe it for years. If he's thrown about twenty five
to thirty times for two fifty couple touchdowns, that's the
perfect game because that means we're balanced or running the football,
we're doing different things, and we got to get the
run game going. For the Seahawks team, definitely, they're close
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the guy to get it done against his Cardinals team.
So we'll see what happened there. Speaking of the running
games and running backs, James Connor, now we got a
break down their rushing attack because it is one of
the best in the league. James Connor himself having a
great year. He's got seven hundred and seventy three yards
on the ground, fifteenth in the NFL. He's already got
four games three he's rushed row for one hundred yards.
Cardinals three and one in those games. And honestly, if
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guys like Sakuon and Derrick Henry weren't having these resurgent
years coming back, we probably been talking about a guy
like James Connor Moore. But those guys have really taken
all the shine for running backs this year, rightfully, So
I'm not saying that they earned it, but I'm just
saying Connor is a good back. Twenty twenty four marks
the fifth time in his career where he's posted a
thousand scrimmage yards, fourth time he's done that in four seasons.
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In Arizona Cardinals talking about their whole team rushing attack,
obviously you include Kyler Murray and that they've rushed for
sixteen ninety seven twelve touchdowns on three hundred and thirty carries.
They're averaging five point one year for per carry. Arizona
sixth in the NFL and rushing and second in the
NFL and rushing average at five point one at carry.
So they're doing the thing and facing the Vikings, who
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were number one rush defense in the league. They had
a pretty good game. They rushed one hundred and fifty
four yards on thirty one carries, more than double rushing
yards the Vikings were allowing per game at seventy four.
So they did that against the number one rushing defense.
So that again reminds you that they're a good football
team at running boss what they do. But hold on
a minute, what happened last time the Seahawks shut them down.
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James Conner probably had the worst game in his NFL career. Okay,
he was held to just seven yards pump.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
That's nuts.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
I mean, that's a typle that ain't really sorry, eight
yards on seven carries.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
That makes sense.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Now give you the one. There you go now and
James Gunner can do the thing. And the Seahawks held
them to forty nine yards rushing as a team. So
the Seahawks have the blueprint. It'll be really interesting to
see what they do schematically offensively to try to figure
some stuff out, because they just got dominated up front.
Lennard Williams, boy Mafe, all the guys were getting in
on the action. So we'll see if the seahawksin have
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an equal performance up front.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Equal will be great somewhere near that.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah, Alex Sequel might be a little greedy greed And
you mentioned their run game against the Vikings, They just
do a good job implementing their tight ends in their
run game, right, whether they're on the wing, pulling a
guard in a tight end, another tight end in the
backfield leading the charge as a fullback, something that we've
seen the Hawks try to do. Their gap scheme is great,
which allows Kyler Murray to run that RPO system, influence
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the backers and throw the football they got to going.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
I had a check and make sure I wasn't tripping.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I'm watching the film and I'm thinking the Vikings are
great against the run. Maybe I misremembered that, but no,
you're right, man, Vikings won the best against run and
the Cardinals handled them when it came to that.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Still lost the game, but ran the football. All right.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Let's look at another matchup, Trede McBride, Marvin Harrison junior
against that secondary man. Coming into this year, most of
the attention was on Marvin Harrison. He's the son of
a Hall of famer, he has that pedigree, went to
Ohio State University wide receiver. You were thinking, all right,
he's gonna be great, and he has been good. Leads
the team in touchdowns with seven of them. Things, But
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Trey McBride. He's been great. But I see. I knew
this though because I watched I watched college football Colorado State,
and when they drafted him, I go, you guys better
watch after this young man. So far this year, he
leads the team in receptions with seventy three yards with
seven hundred and eighty one. He's one of the best
tight ends in the games right now, second amongst tight
ends when it comes to receiving yards and third when
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it comes to receptions. McBride has at least five receptions
eight of eleven games played in twenty twenty four. Only
Brock Bauers has more production than that. And Brock is
a good, good ball player, and you can play. He's
a different kind of tight end. You see Brock play.
He moves a bit different. But McBride can do his thing.
McBride has two one hundred yard performances this season and
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four in his career.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
This young man can go.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Not only is he deceptively quick, he can move a
little bit, but he's he's a great blocker, and that
is influences defense. I was talking to what's I talking
to Stacy Ross and I said once aj Barner is
just a dominant blocker. His pass numbers are going to
go up to because he's a key linebacker. Safety is
thy keen on tight ends at times and say, all right,
what's he doing down blocking?
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Boom? Okay, I'm gonna play the run.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
And now you slip him out in the flat or
an over route and he's wide open. I think that
is what helps Trey McBride get the ball and he's
wide open sometimes.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Well you mentioned that, Yeah, it's definitely your run key.
If you're looking at him, your eyes come off and
now you're in trouble.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
And he gave the Seahaws trouble. The Seawks shut the
Cardinals down last week or two weeks ago, but him
specifically was a problem. And here's the thing, man. In
Week twelve against the Hawks, he alled in twelve receptions
for a season high one hundred and thirty three yards.
He followed that up with twelve receptions ninety six yards
against the Vikings. With those two outings, McBride came the
first tight end in the history of the National football
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with twelve receptions and back to back games.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Crazy.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
So, yeah, he's doing his thing. To your point, he's
a complete nightmare. Coach McDonald spoke about it a lot
this year that like he unfortunately was on the receiving
end of his coming out party last year when he
was defensive coordinator of the Ravens, so he knows what
this guy can do. He still had a great game
the first time, so it'll be interesting to see how
the Seahawks kind of account for that bump. And at
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some point, if you're shutting Connor and Murray down of
the run game, you can't stop everything. If McBride gets
out a couple times, it's not gonna be into the world.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Yeah, now you're not stressing it.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Like even the first time they played, when McBride did
have his his day, the defense was like, look, we
got to give something. We're gonna shut down the run.
I guess we'll give it up to the big boy,
all right. Finally, we finally get to talk about the
number four pick in the draft, Marvin Harrison, who's having
himself a good season as well. He's first when it
comes to TV receptions on this team with seven. He's
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tied for second when it comes to one hundred yard
games with two. He's fifth in receiving yards six hundred
and six and tied for fifth in receptions with forty one.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
He came in polished and ready to go.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I think the struggle with him were the off field stuff,
trying to get his deal done with fanatics and finding
his way into this offense. And it's been a rough
transition for him, but you can see he's starting to
settle in.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Man.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
He leads all rookies the season with seven touchdown receptions
and tied for six in the NFL. Overall, he's the
cardinals second leading receiver and he's doing it. He settled in.
He has a nice relationship with Kyler Murray. He had
a big game we had with three or four touchdowns
one game. He's going to be just finding this league.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Yeah, those are two guys you're gonna have to shut down.
And looking at the Seahawks secondary, the confidence they're playing
with right now, Julian Love, Kobe Bryant, Devin Witherspoon, Rieg
Woolan is having a lot of quiet, really good football games.
Then you add in you know, different things that we're
doing in all these packages. I feel good about it.
Ray Seon Jenkins coming in, I like, I think they're
up for the challenge, especially the Seahawks twelve in passing
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defense a line just two hundred and ten yards per game.
So I like what we're doing there. Broadcasting live from
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to the last matchup here. Seahawks receivers DK Jayson Tyl
Lockett taken on Buddha Baker in this secondary jssen Week
after week after week, stacks stack Stack. Coach McDonald talks
about stack and wins. Jayson has been stacking weeks. He's
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been killing the game. During weeks nine through twelve, Jason
has three hundred and sixty seven yards, which third most
in a three gamespan in franchise history. Jaysn leading the
Seahawks in receptions yards and receiving touchdowns. He's eleventh in
the NFL and it comes receiving yards at eight twenty nine,
ninth in the NFL, and comes receptions at seventy. He
needs just one receiving touchdown to set a career high.
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He also needs just one hundred and seventy one yards
for his first career one thousand yard season, and he'd
only be the tenth receiver in the history of the
Seahawks will do that. So once you start doing that,
you're in some special company. He's ready to set a
singles season high and receiving yards and reception. So jaysn
doing his thing. I expect him to continue to do
what he's been doing all year.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, keep rolling, and they're designing plays to get him
the football. That's how you know they're loving what he's
doing at practice in the film room obviously on Sundays.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Keep feeding this young man. DK. He's back.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
His production slowed down a little bit, right, fiften receptions
and one hundred and ninety five yards in three games.
He hasn't been lighting it up, but he's had some
crucial catches man last week, a couple crucial catches. He's
averaging fifteen point three yards per reception, which is seventh
in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
That lets you know that he is a deep philed threat.
He might not.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Get the deep ball, the deep reception, but he's putting
pressure on those safeties. Hola at DK fifty receptions, seven
hundred and sixty three yards and three touchdowns on the year.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
What about Tyler, Man? What you seen out of Tyler?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Tyler still Tyler. It's just I think the way things
of shaking out with the mergens of JSN and DK
and different things that we're doing. And the offense has
played okay, they haven't had long possessions, they haven't dominated
on the score. So Tyler's his production has slowed down
a little bit this year. He's not having a bad
year by any means. Forty receptions, five hundred eleven yards,
two touchdowns. He's he's second every single category in infu
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yea like, he's him his standing here. He's a Ring
of honor guy. And that's that's all established, said and done.
But the crazy thing is last three games, Tyler's only
had seven receptions for fifty five yards and zero touchdowns.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Wild it is.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It is because we've seen that in a half however,
many times, so it'll be interesting to see what Tyler
is able to do the next couple of weeks. I
know he is due for a big time performance because
he's just too good to do that. So I would
love to see him get involved a little bit in
the past game this weekend. We've seen him do damage
against these Cardials before. We've seen him now and get
a two hundred yard game a couple of years ago,
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So we've seen it. We now get his I'm excited
to see hopefully Tyler can kind of get back and
do what we're used to seeing from him.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Yeah, Tyler, he's he's due for a game and why
not this week?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
And why not do it against the Washington native Buddha Baker.
As much as you don't want to like him because
he plays on a different team, you like him. Respect
This dude man obviously went to Bellvy, went to you
Dub and now is a top three safety in the
league this year one hundred and fourteen tackles. It's second
amongst dvs and six in an NFL overall. This will
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be This is his fifth one hundred yard our one
hundred tackle season, Buddha Baker. He flies around, he plays big,
he's not very big. He will blitz from depth ten
to twelve yards and get to your quarterback.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
The intensity and just awareness that he plays with you
hardly see on the football field and he's doing it
against the best in the world.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Their color analyst Ron wolf Ley joined the pregame show
last time he played them, and he talked about his
motor and how you will get his stature of his size.
I'm bigger than Budda Baker. Yeah, but they're like when
you're on that team and you feel like if this
guy is throwing his neck out there for everything, like
I have no excuse, none at all. And he's just
the energy he plays with. We've seen that. If you're
familiar with but Baker, you watched him a lot of that.
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So he's the guy at the Seahawks offense definitely needs
to know where number three he's at on the field.
But we've come to that time of the show. Let's
tell you how the Seahawks run and get it done again.
Pat the victory.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
At the forty five waits for the staff packet.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Vicky puts it down that kick is away.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
If that kick is gone, good, say aw quinn fit gun.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
It's a test to victory. On Hawk Talk, we know what.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
It is, bump. We started the show talking about it.
The Seahawks have an amazing opportunity to take control of
the NFC West with a win on Sunday, and it's
pivotal bump because you win this game, you have the
tiebreaker over Arizona and you essentially create a three game
lead over them, and it's just checking off boxes, kind
of making up for a gaff against the Rams during
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the year early against the forty nine ers. So they
have a huge opportunity on Sunday to really take control
and we can really start thinking about hosting a playoff
game in January.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Come on, come on. And it's not on accident. It's
been mayrining.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
The defense has been molding and starting to figure out
what McDonald wants since Week nine. This defense, they're fifth
in the NFL in points allowed seventeen point five, fifth
when it comes to yards allowed, right on the three
hundred and fifth when it comes to yards per game,
rush shards per game eighty four and six when it
comes to first downs allowed eighteen point eight come on now,
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who you've been since week nine?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, and honestly it's more of the same. I mean,
how are we gonna do it? What we talked about
the first matchup? What did you do? You shut down
Kyler Murray? You gotta swaw him down. You gotta contain
be really disciplined in how you rush that man. We
talked about it earlier, talked about bull rush and interior
up front, fade that pocket down. If you're someone likes
spoon and you're gonna blitz them blitter at the right angle.
Having all the speed that Spoon has definitely helps with that.
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But no, keep forcing them into bad decisions right If
they're gonna throw the ball that many times, he's bound
to have a couple of interceptions. He had a crazy
street coming into it, has turned the ball over the
last couple couple weeks. So that's a big thing there.
And then you got to stop the run. It's a
tall task asked to stop them the way you did
last time again on the road, but you need a
similar effort, maybe not forty nine yards, but they definitely
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can't have a resurge into what they did yet last
week against Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
No more McBride.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
He will make some plays, but come on, twelve receptions,
let's limit that.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
I'll take eight. I'll take seven.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Go at this for forty eight.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Yeah, and offensive line, let's see your thing. Some changes
on that offensive line. Guys are getting healthy. Maybe you
put together another good game, but the offensive line, we're
still winning. For that massive run game to get going,
it is there, it is close.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
I believe in you. Let's get that going.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Come on, need it, we need it. It's gonna happen
the last couple of weeks when they really need to
get a couple of run successful plays. They've had it,
so it's definitely there. It can be had. The Seahawks man,
a win here can really get you in good position
for the NFC West title. That's gonna do it for us.
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Place on this team. Now here's your host, Nasa Chobie.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Welcome into another edition of Hawk Talk, the Seahawks getting
ready to take on the Arizona Cardinals, second matchup with
them in the last three weeks. We are broadcasting from
the Seahawks Podcast Studio, presented by Sony, the official partner
of the Seattle Seahawks. Bump We're gonna kick this thing
off with some good news. Okay, always got good news. Today,
the Seahawks are bringing back U Chennan Nuosu. He's back
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on the roster, coming off ir He's been one of
the best defensive players since he's been in Seattle. He's
had a tough go though this year. Right, Yeah, he
gets cheap shotted at the end of the last preseason game.
There's a flag on the play, hurts his knee. He
goes IR, comes back and then immediately gets hurt in
that first game. I believe it was a thigh injury
to put him back on IR. He's now back, he's
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in the lineup, so I'm excited for him to be back.
What he can do to this defensive line group. Bump,
it could be scary.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
It's nice, man, because the d line group is playing
at a high level already.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Right, So now you're like, you.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Know, you're sitting back, you're chilling, you're feeling the vibe.
Bottle White number ten is coming back, and we know
that he's an emotional leader, he's a baller.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
I'm excited, and he doesn't need to be a hero.
That's what's most important.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
You don't have to come in and have three or
four sacks and have an outstanding game.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
You come in, listen to your body and just lead
these dudes.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
No, it should be great. Anytime you add something like that,
that's like adding an All Pro Pro Bowl player. So
big ups to Chennan Wilks, who coming back. He also
is the Seahawks nominee for Walter Payton Man of the Year,
so big ups him for everything he does off the field.
But let's get into these Arizona Cardinals. What's on tap?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
What's untap?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Cardinals bump six and six second place in the NFC West.
They've lost to the Bills, the Lions, the Commanders, Packers, Seahawks,
and Vikings. They did have a four game win streaking.
They're beating the Chargers, Dolphins, Bears, and Jets. They also
beat the Niners in the Rams. So but when you
look at this team, they've been up and down for
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a while. We didn't know what to say about them.
Are they good? Are they bad? What's going on? Then
they win four games in a row. We start watching
the film. Tough game against Seahawks. They're a good football team.
They definitely good football team, and they for us, good
thing for us, but not for them. They were not
unable to pull it out against the Vikings last week.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, the Rams are a good squad. The last couple
of weeks they've turned the full ball over excuse me.
Cardinals thinking they've turned the football over and they haven't
been great in the red zone.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
You do that, you kick field goals, You're gonna lose
ball games. But you're right.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Let's focus on their game against the Vikings. The Vikings
rally from a thirteam from thirteen points down to beat
the Cardinals twenty three to twenty three on Sunday night for.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Their fifth straight victory. I would say big ups.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Vikings were in the same conference, so y'all can chill,
but it helped us out on the division.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Though the game came down to the wires the wire.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
The Cardinals took the lead twenty two to sixteen with
three minutes and twenty seconds left in the game after
a sixteen play sixty six yard drive that ended up
with a Chad Ryland field goal. Trailing by six, Sam
Donald took the football and led the Vikings on their
hate played.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
My dude, I've been talk about them all year. Man,
give him some talent.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
A play seventy yard drive ended with a five yard
touchdown and Aaron Jones that made the score twenty three
to twenty two. Sam Donald, I've been saying this for years.
Put him around some talent and some things are gonna happen.
I love the old heads balling this year.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Hey, yeah, he's back. He's got these boys ten and two,
you know. To finish that game though, Bump Donald did
his thing and Kyler Murray did have a chance at
the end of that game, got the ball back and
minute thirteen seconds on the clock, but it was eventually
picked off by former Seahawks Shaquille Griffin that ended the game.
Cardinals lose. Murray. He's had interesting couple weeks. He finished
the day thirty one to forty five, two hundred and
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sixty yards, one touchdown, two interceptions, forty five times in
the football. I don't think it is Kler Murray's game.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
It's a bit much.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Not that he can't do it, throw it through the air.
I just think that's too much for what they want
to do, especially being a top ten rushing attack. James
Conner let all ball carriers with sixty eight yards and
seventeen carries. Trey McBride, dude, we're gonna talk about that boy.
Twelve receptions for ninety six yards.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Still ain't touched in zone. Though still ain't touched.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
In Yeah, so he does have one touchdown rushing it's
a rushing touchdown, and he got one off a fumble,
but through the air zero, which is pretty.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Wild, it is.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
But then the Vikings, now they got the second best
record in the NFC, only trill the Lions by one game.
As much as we've talked about the Lions all season,
the Vikings are pretty good too. They are coming to
lum Midfield in a couple of weeks, so we'll definitely
be ready for that matchup. But Cardinals, they're in first
place two weeks ago and now they are not setting
up a crucial game with the Seahawks. It's definitely big
in the standings to go either way for the Seahawks
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or the Cardinals. But Bump, when you look at his
head to ad match up, what stands out to you?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
All right, let's look at the numbers head to head off,
you got the Seahawks sixteenth overall, the Cardinals are eleventh.
When it comes to running the football, the Cardinals took
a step back. Last time we saw them. They were
fifth overall. There now sixth averaging one hundred and forty
one per game. The Hawks are twenty eighth, averaging eighty
eight yards per game. When it comes to pass offense,
the Hawks are number two, two hundred and fifty yards
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through the air. Then the Cardinals are twenty second, two
hundred and five yards through the air. I don't know
if that's a lot or a little, but it seems
like forty five yards is a lot to separate number
two from number twenty two.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Just my opinion. Don't know what history says.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
All right, points per game, the Hawks are fifteenth, averaging
twenty two points per game, and then the Cardinals are
right behind them seventeenth, averaging twenty two points per game.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Pretty even on offense.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
If you just switched the run game in the pass game,
it's like, Okay, you're pretty even everywhere else, but when
it comes to running pass, there you go.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, each team clearly has a strength, at least when
it comes to the box score. Here Seahawks passing, Cardinals running,
So that'll be a different thing that stands out. Moving forward, defensively,
it's pretty close. Seahawks are climbing out. What I love
is to see under twenty. Right, the Seahawks are now
eighteenth in total defense. For a while, Bump we were
doing this, they are twenty eight. Yeah, twenty nine bottom
of the map, so they're definitely making strides there. The
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Cardinals just above them at seventeenth rush defense, the Seahawks
are climbing there too. They're still allowing one hundred and
twenty seven yards per game, twenty first in the NFL.
They've been really good the last four weeks. Cardinals little
above them as well, allowing one hundred and seventeen yards
on the ground. That's thirteenth in the NFL. Pass defense.
The Seahawks are twelfth in the NFL allow on two
hundred ten yards and the Cardinals are eighteenth allowing two
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hundred and seventeen yards. They're right there on points per
game allowed, Seahawks is on twenty two. They're allowing twenty
one points per game. The Seahawks, though, definitely they've been
sacked more times forty to twenty one, so that's a
little bit. It's a little bit more, and the Seahawks
have been penalized a lot more than the Cardinals, but
the Seahaws have been really good in a lot of
those categories as of late, so definitely should be a
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fun matchup. By the numbers, so these teams are pretty
close the last three games.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
The Hawks have the number six defense overall last three games.
I think their top twelve when it comes to score them. So, yes,
you have to look at who they've been over the
duration of the season. That's what these numbers are. But
if you break down the last three games, man, they're
playing at a high level.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, should be fun. I think they want to continue
playing that, so we'll see that goes coming into this matchup.
Broadcasting live from the Seahawks Podcast Studio presented by Sony,
the official partner of the Seattle Seahawks Bump and I
feel like we just played these guys.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
It feels familiar.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, let's know the history.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
No, your history.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yes, it was less than three weeks ago Seahawks took
on these same Arizona Cardinals. Overall, the Seahawks lead the
all time series twenty eight to twenty one, and the
Hawks have won six in a row in seven of
the last eight.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Okay, I like that.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Doing that thing against the Cardinals for sure. And last
game it was. It was a hard fought win. It
was a great win by the Seahawks. They didn't really
they did enough offensively when they had to down the stretch,
sated the other thing. They won sixteen to six. Obviously,
the biggest play in that game was Kobe Bryant's pick six,
which got him Defense Player of the Week. Huge play
in that game, Seahawks called time out to play before
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Evan's all up in arms. Next play, Devin withersmon force
is a bath throw from Calamarray, Kobe Bryant runs it back,
you know the rest of the deal. And then in
that game, the Seahawks, when they absolutely needed it most,
didn't have a great game offensively, but they did have
a thirteen play, forty nine yard drive that took eight
minutes off the clock in the fourth quarter. In the
Seahawks hold on to win that game sixteen to six.
So the defensive showed up. So it's gonna be interesting
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to see if that's gonna be similar game down in
the Desert coming up, and I'm excited for it to
see what Leonard Williams, the Big Cat can get done
against these guys.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I feel like that game was, you know, you proved
it against the Rams, like all right, the defense is
doing some things. But then theirs on A Cardinals come
into town and they just made it official, like we
are here.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
We understand we are moving. Then you handle the Jets.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
But it's so weird playing a team twice in three weeks,
like not a lot has changed. You can literally go
to the Scotten Report and say, Okay, this is who
they are, guys, ain't too much change.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
But let's look at this Bikings film. So it should
be a good one.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, I mean you can only I mean you're not.
You can roll out a couple other little wrinkles things
like that, but you kind of are who you are
at this point. You put out a lot of film
this point in the year, so should be interesting to see.
But let's check in and the rest of the NFCUS
what's the.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Word and the Seahawks or the NFC West champs again.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
What's the word?
Speaker 4 (09:20):
In the west On Hawk top the NFC West. You
can look at this division in two ways. It's either
the most competitive division in all the game or you're saying,
what the heck is going on over there?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Why there's so many losses? I don't care.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Seahawks at the top seven and five of this division,
Cardinals right behind them six and six, and the Rams
are six and six in the San Francisco forty nine
is at the bottom at five and seven. Now, they
were technically already in first place, but the Seahawks are
now all by themselves. They got a one game lead
over the Cardinals and the Rams with with a win
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on Sunday, it's essentially becomes a three game lead on
the Cardinals. The Rams have to play the Bills on Sunday,
bless you, and the Seahawks have a huge opportunity to
be in the driver's seat for a home playoff game
come January.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I love this game. I love I love it. I
like the ups and the downs.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I like the the moves being made by teams, the
schemes being tweaked. Right, this is this is what football
is all about, no question about it.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
This point in the year, I mean a couple of
weeks ago, a month ago, it was it was the
end of the world. At the end of that Rams game,
it was that feeling. And just a couple of weeks later,
man in the NFL bump winning cures all though.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Sure it was great, all right, so let's focus on
these Niners. They played the Bills and it didn't look good.
I've never played in snow, I have practiced in snow.
It looked horrible. The Niners didn't look comfortable. The Bills
were like this, this is what we do. It's like
a regular Tuesday for us. What are you guys talking about?
But it was a lot. It was a lot when,
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like I mentioned, one team looked like they were preparing
for a stretch run of the season deep into the playoffs.
We talking about the Bills. The Bills look like a
well oiled machine. They were good to go. They're at home.
The stadium they're building. Is it gonna be covered? Are
they keeping it outside? They better cover that thing in Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
They're not. They're not renderings. They're gonna They're gonna have
it where a lot of the fans are covered. But
like that feels still gonna be exposed. They want that
home for the vantage. All right, are the first half
of all Bills in this game. They led out twenty
one to three.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
They had a sixty five yard touchdown run by James
Cook looking fast in the snow man tiptoeing on that thing,
and at ninety seven yard touchdown driving the forty nine
Ersmiths two field goals.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Moody is the kicker's name. I believe he had. It
was in a bad mood the four nine.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
His only chance to get back in the game was
on the first drive of the second half. It was
first and goal from the Buffalo four yard line, but
the Niners fumbled and that was that.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Yeah, when you looked at it, just didn't look comfortable.
They looked like they were practicing in seventy five degree
weather all week and showed up there. And now, granted
they didn't have Nick Bosa. Yep, I think that had
Trent Williams. They're totally banged up. Party came back. But
when you looked about those teams, one team looked like
they want to be their one team. Yeah, and it
was a beat down. And I'm and this isn't me
throwing shape. The Bills are a really good football team. Yeah,
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we saw what happened. We saw it first up close
and personal. The Bills are good football see alive. I
would love to play them again, though, the way this
event is playing, I promise you would not look as
bad as it did.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
But it won't be thirty one to ten, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
No, And well, things got a little worse though for
the Niners. We happened Christian McCaffrey Jordan Mason. Yeah, on
I ar, that's tough.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
That's their season. That's their season in the nutshell. You
get guys back, you're getting healthy. Maybe there's a chance
and then they get banged up. But to lose your
number one and your number two is unfortunate. I thought
it was going to be a reaggravation of the maybe
the Achilles when it came to McCaffrey ended up being
a PCL. Did you see the slow motion of it happen? Man,
So unfortunate, big as Christian McCaffrey. He's had a good
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season or good, good career up to this point and
just just not as year.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Man, so good healthy and get back.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, and well their thirst string running back Grendo is
actually pretty god.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Oh yeah a seventy six yard against Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
He did, and I don't forget that anyway. But yeah, no,
they're there. We'll see what happens there. But I'm just
with everything that's happened there, it feels like it's just
so round end of the road and we can say
whatever you want. They're not playing again this year. Yeah,
there's that elsewhere in the division, the Rams, in the Saints,
it's the only one that didn't go the Seahawks way.
The Saints were able to stay in the fight. They
played this they played hard. Four and seven ball club
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gave the Rams all they could handle. They were up
six zero at halftime, but two fourth quarter touchdowns by
Matthew Stafford was a difference. Trailing twenty one fourteen under
two minutes left, the Saints drove all the way inside
the Rams ten yard line, but were stopped on fourth
and three when Derek Carr's pass was deflected by Jared Verse,
who's a baller.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Baller.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Rams hold on for the win. Knen Williams had one
hundred and four rushing yards on fifteen carries in a touchdown.
Puka and de Marks Robinson Eith had each had touchdowns.
Stafford pedestrian fourteen to twenty four one eighty three, two touchdowns,
no interceptions. Kamara had one hundred and twelve yards and
twenty three carries for the Saints. Saints did it was
tasting hell for the season with the torn acl So.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
He just got paid to was it this year he
got paid or last year?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I think it was last. Either way, he's got money.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
He just got his money.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Unfortunate for them, but right now. I mean, it's back
to the division standings. The Rams aren't going away, so
I would love and this is just kind of pieing
this guy for me. I would love for that Week
eighteen matchup to not matter.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I'm serious, roll up like whatever.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I want the Seahawks to just going to run. I
hope on the day after Christmas, this is my Christmas miracle.
The Seahawks are beating down the Chicago Bears, whether the
snow's coming down, all that stuff, and they're locking up
the division title that night.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
I like it.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Granted, that would mean they'd have to be two games
better than the Rams. A lot of things got to
happen for that.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
So have you taken your family to see Santa yet?
I have not, So when you do, whisper to Santa.
I got I got baby girl, I got her gifts.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I need you. Yes, yes, I'm all for that. Saks
can wrap up division title means we're playing football and
womenfield in January all four. But let's get back to
these Arizona card knows. Man up, Hey, who you got,
who you got? You know what time it is?
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Man up?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Man up, brother, man up, man up on Hawk Talk.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
But Kyler Murray. Coming to the last matchup, Kyler Murray
was playing some of the best football of his career
and it wasn't close. He was the reigning Offensive Player
of the Week. You get twelve touchdowns to just three
interceptions and two hundred and seventy six attempts. Last two
weeks haven't been as good. Okay, I've been a little
bit of struggle. Two game losing streak. He's thrown three
interceptions and attempted more passes than he's had all season,
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so he's had a season hind attempts back to back weeks,
thirty seven against Seahawks forty five against the Vikings. He's
also been sacked six times in the last two weeks,
five of those coming in the Seahawks game. Previous six games,
he'd only been sacked five times, So overall, they're doing
a good job protecting Kyle. They've only given up twenty
one sacks, which is six in the NFL. He ranked
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six in completion percentage. He also has the highest QBR
in the season overall stats fifty eight, six hundred three yards,
thirteen touchdowns, six picks. Also has four hundred and twenty
yards and four touchdowns on the ground, so bub when
you look at Kyler, what's the key to get him stopped?
Because he's played some really good football last couple weeks.
He's been sacked a lot, and he's turning the football over.
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What's the key to continuing this streak for Kyler?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Well, he is one of the most athletic qbs in
the game. And I was sitting there talking to Dave Wyman.
He brings up a good point, he said, you got
a bull rush. He goes going underneath and over the top.
It allows Kyler to kind of see what's going on
and find those lanes and to go. Kyler Murray running
the football is kind of like when a shooter is
off and he needs to see the ball go through
the net.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
What do you do.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
You get to the free throw line, you see the
ball go through the net, You find your rhythm. That's
what I feel like a scramble does for Kyler Murray.
He finds the lane, either he runs or he throws
the football. It gets him back into his rhythm. Easier
said than done. Contain him. What do you have like
nine rush yards against the Seahawks the first time? Yeah,
I doubt he's going to be held to just nine.
(17:01):
But you can't have those explosives. Hey, let's let's do
that and not let Trey McBride. But did he have
a buck fifty five against the Seahawks the first time around? Yeah,
something crazy like that. They understand you're gonna take something away.
But let's not let McBride just go nuts like he
did last time.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, no question about it, And I'll read his staff
for the first matchup. It was twenty four to thirty
seven to eighty five, no touchdowns, one pick that was
pick six, and two carries for nine yards. So he
if the seawkson repeat, it looks pretty good. Holding out
to six points pretty good.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
If he throws the ball forty times, I'm good with
that because that means the run ain't there.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
And when you put the ball in the air like that,
bad things tend to happen.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
That's why he had two interceptions last game against the Vikings.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Let's look at our quarterback.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
G No.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Smith had another solid game twenty of thirty one, two
hundred and six yards and one touchdown, but no turnovers
come on son first time he had been turnover free
since Week seven against the Falcons. Gino's looking to continue
his dominance against the Cardinals. Since becoming the starter in
twenty He's five and zero against az He's one hundred
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and two for one forty eight that's sixty eight percent
completion percentage, eleven hundred and thirty four yards, seven touchdowns,
three interceptions. Last game against these guys, he was twenty
two or thirty one two fifty four, one touchdown, one interception.
Coming into this game against the Cardinals, Geno still needs
one three hundred yard passing game to ty Russell Wilson
for the most three hundred yard passing games in a
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single season in franchise history with five. Right now, Gino's
in fifth place in franchise history in attempts, completions, passing yards,
and passing touchdowns.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
He got sixty six of them. Things.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Man, I like Gino. I like where he is. Last week.
He was responsible with the football. He puts together a drive.
I don't know if we can qualify that as a
game winning drive, but it it set things up all right.
He put his team in position and win. He just
needs to be the guy that we've seen over the
past few weeks. I like where he is. He's gonna
need some help in the run game, obviously, But he's
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doing all right.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Man.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Through eleven weeks in the NFL, he's third in passing yards,
fifth in completion percentage, second in completions, second in attempts.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah, he's there his thing, and the most important thing
you said there was taking care of the football. You know, honestly,
for me, you've said it, You've described I've heard you
describe it for years. If he's thrown about twenty five
to thirty times for two fifty couple touchdowns, that's the
perfect game because that means we're balanced or running the football,
we're doing different things, and we got to get the
run game going. For the Seahawks team, definitely, they're close
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the guy to get it done against his Cardinals team.
So we'll see what happened there. Speaking of the running
games and running backs, James Connor, now we got a
break down their rushing attack because it is one of
the best in the league. James Connor himself having a
great year. He's got seven hundred and seventy three yards
on the ground, fifteenth in the NFL. He's already got
four games three he's rushed row for one hundred yards.
Cardinals three and one in those games. And honestly, if
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guys like Sakuon and Derrick Henry weren't having these resurgent
years coming back, we probably been talking about a guy
like James Connor Moore. But those guys have really taken
all the shine for running backs this year, rightfully, So
I'm not saying that they earned it, but I'm just
saying Connor is a good back. Twenty twenty four marks
the fifth time in his career where he's posted a
thousand scrimmage yards, fourth time he's done that in four seasons.
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In Arizona Cardinals talking about their whole team rushing attack,
obviously you include Kyler Murray and that they've rushed for
sixteen ninety seven twelve touchdowns on three hundred and thirty carries.
They're averaging five point one year for per carry. Arizona
sixth in the NFL and rushing and second in the
NFL and rushing average at five point one at carry.
So they're doing the thing and facing the Vikings, who
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were number one rush defense in the league. They had
a pretty good game. They rushed one hundred and fifty
four yards on thirty one carries, more than double rushing
yards the Vikings were allowing per game at seventy four.
So they did that against the number one rushing defense.
So that again reminds you that they're a good football
team at running boss what they do. But hold on
a minute, what happened last time the Seahawks shut them down.
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James Conner probably had the worst game in his NFL career. Okay,
he was held to just seven yards pump.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
That's nuts.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
I mean, that's a typle that ain't really sorry, eight
yards on seven carries.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
That makes sense.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Now give you the one. There you go now and
James Gunner can do the thing. And the Seahawks held
them to forty nine yards rushing as a team. So
the Seahawks have the blueprint. It'll be really interesting to
see what they do schematically offensively to try to figure
some stuff out, because they just got dominated up front.
Lennard Williams, boy Mafe, all the guys were getting in
on the action. So we'll see if the seahawksin have
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an equal performance up front.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Equal will be great somewhere near that.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah, Alex Sequel might be a little greedy greed And
you mentioned their run game against the Vikings, They just
do a good job implementing their tight ends in their
run game, right, whether they're on the wing, pulling a
guard in a tight end, another tight end in the
backfield leading the charge as a fullback, something that we've
seen the Hawks try to do. Their gap scheme is great,
which allows Kyler Murray to run that RPO system, influence
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the backers and throw the football they got to going.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
I had a check and make sure I wasn't tripping.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I'm watching the film and I'm thinking the Vikings are
great against the run. Maybe I misremembered that, but no,
you're right, man, Vikings won the best against run and
the Cardinals handled them when it came to that.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
Still lost the game, but ran the football. All right.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Let's look at another matchup, Trede McBride, Marvin Harrison junior
against that secondary man. Coming into this year, most of
the attention was on Marvin Harrison. He's the son of
a Hall of famer, he has that pedigree, went to
Ohio State University wide receiver. You were thinking, all right,
he's gonna be great, and he has been good. Leads
the team in touchdowns with seven of them. Things, But
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Trey McBride. He's been great. But I see. I knew
this though because I watched I watched college football Colorado State,
and when they drafted him, I go, you guys better
watch after this young man. So far this year, he
leads the team in receptions with seventy three yards with
seven hundred and eighty one. He's one of the best
tight ends in the games right now, second amongst tight
ends when it comes to receiving yards and third when
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it comes to receptions. McBride has at least five receptions
eight of eleven games played in twenty twenty four. Only
Brock Bauers has more production than that. And Brock is
a good, good ball player, and you can play. He's
a different kind of tight end. You see Brock play.
He moves a bit different. But McBride can do his thing.
McBride has two one hundred yard performances this season and
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four in his career.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
This young man can go.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Not only is he deceptively quick, he can move a
little bit, but he's he's a great blocker, and that
is influences defense. I was talking to what's I talking
to Stacy Ross and I said once aj Barner is
just a dominant blocker. His pass numbers are going to
go up to because he's a key linebacker. Safety is
thy keen on tight ends at times and say, all right,
what's he doing down blocking?
Speaker 5 (23:41):
Boom? Okay, I'm gonna play the run.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
And now you slip him out in the flat or
an over route and he's wide open. I think that
is what helps Trey McBride get the ball and he's
wide open sometimes.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Well you mentioned that, Yeah, it's definitely your run key.
If you're looking at him, your eyes come off and
now you're in trouble.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
And he gave the Seahaws trouble. The Seawks shut the
Cardinals down last week or two weeks ago, but him
specifically was a problem. And here's the thing, man. In
Week twelve against the Hawks, he alled in twelve receptions
for a season high one hundred and thirty three yards.
He followed that up with twelve receptions ninety six yards
against the Vikings. With those two outings, McBride came the
first tight end in the history of the National football
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with twelve receptions and back to back games.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Crazy.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
So, yeah, he's doing his thing. To your point, he's
a complete nightmare. Coach McDonald spoke about it a lot
this year that like he unfortunately was on the receiving
end of his coming out party last year when he
was defensive coordinator of the Ravens, so he knows what
this guy can do. He still had a great game
the first time, so it'll be interesting to see how
the Seahawks kind of account for that bump. And at
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some point, if you're shutting Connor and Murray down of
the run game, you can't stop everything. If McBride gets
out a couple times, it's not gonna be into the world.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Yeah, now you're not stressing it.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Like even the first time they played, when McBride did
have his his day, the defense was like, look, we
got to give something. We're gonna shut down the run.
I guess we'll give it up to the big boy,
all right. Finally, we finally get to talk about the
number four pick in the draft, Marvin Harrison, who's having
himself a good season as well. He's first when it
comes to TV receptions on this team with seven. He's
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tied for second when it comes to one hundred yard
games with two. He's fifth in receiving yards six hundred
and six and tied for fifth in receptions with forty one.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
He came in polished and ready to go.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I think the struggle with him were the off field stuff,
trying to get his deal done with fanatics and finding
his way into this offense. And it's been a rough
transition for him, but you can see he's starting to
settle in.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Man.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
He leads all rookies the season with seven touchdown receptions
and tied for six in the NFL. Overall, he's the
cardinals second leading receiver and he's doing it. He settled in.
He has a nice relationship with Kyler Murray. He had
a big game we had with three or four touchdowns
one game. He's going to be just finding this league.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Yeah, those are two guys you're gonna have to shut down.
And looking at the Seahawks secondary, the confidence they're playing
with right now, Julian Love, Kobe Bryant, Devin Witherspoon, Rieg
Woolan is having a lot of quiet, really good football games.
Then you add in you know, different things that we're
doing in all these packages. I feel good about it.
Ray Seon Jenkins coming in, I like, I think they're
up for the challenge, especially the Seahawks twelve in passing
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defense a line just two hundred and ten yards per game.
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to the last matchup here. Seahawks receivers DK Jayson Tyl
Lockett taken on Buddha Baker in this secondary jssen Week
after week after week, stacks stack Stack. Coach McDonald talks
about stack and wins. Jayson has been stacking weeks. He's
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been killing the game. During weeks nine through twelve, Jason
has three hundred and sixty seven yards, which third most
in a three gamespan in franchise history. Jaysn leading the
Seahawks in receptions yards and receiving touchdowns. He's eleventh in
the NFL and it comes receiving yards at eight twenty nine,
ninth in the NFL, and comes receptions at seventy. He
needs just one receiving touchdown to set a career high.
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He also needs just one hundred and seventy one yards
for his first career one thousand yard season, and he'd
only be the tenth receiver in the history of the
Seahawks will do that. So once you start doing that,
you're in some special company. He's ready to set a
singles season high and receiving yards and reception. So jaysn
doing his thing. I expect him to continue to do
what he's been doing all year.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, keep rolling, and they're designing plays to get him
the football. That's how you know they're loving what he's
doing at practice in the film room obviously on Sundays.
Speaker 5 (27:52):
Keep feeding this young man. DK. He's back.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
His production slowed down a little bit, right, fiften receptions
and one hundred and ninety five yards in three games.
He hasn't been lighting it up, but he's had some
crucial catches man last week, a couple crucial catches. He's
averaging fifteen point three yards per reception, which is seventh
in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
That lets you know that he is a deep philed threat.
He might not.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Get the deep ball, the deep reception, but he's putting
pressure on those safeties. Hola at DK fifty receptions, seven
hundred and sixty three yards and three touchdowns on the year.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
What about Tyler, Man? What you seen out of Tyler?
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Tyler still Tyler. It's just I think the way things
of shaking out with the mergens of JSN and DK
and different things that we're doing. And the offense has
played okay, they haven't had long possessions, they haven't dominated
on the score. So Tyler's his production has slowed down
a little bit this year. He's not having a bad
year by any means. Forty receptions, five hundred eleven yards,
two touchdowns. He's he's second every single category in infu
(28:50):
yea like, he's him his standing here. He's a Ring
of honor guy. And that's that's all established, said and done.
But the crazy thing is last three games, Tyler's only
had seven receptions for fifty five yards and zero touchdowns.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Wild it is.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
It is because we've seen that in a half however,
many times, so it'll be interesting to see what Tyler
is able to do the next couple of weeks. I
know he is due for a big time performance because
he's just too good to do that. So I would
love to see him get involved a little bit in
the past game this weekend. We've seen him do damage
against these Cardials before. We've seen him now and get
a two hundred yard game a couple of years ago,
(29:24):
So we've seen it. We now get his I'm excited
to see hopefully Tyler can kind of get back and
do what we're used to seeing from him.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Yeah, Tyler, he's he's due for a game and why
not this week?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
And why not do it against the Washington native Buddha Baker.
As much as you don't want to like him because
he plays on a different team, you like him. Respect
This dude man obviously went to Bellvy, went to you
Dub and now is a top three safety in the
league this year one hundred and fourteen tackles. It's second
amongst dvs and six in an NFL overall. This will
(29:57):
be This is his fifth one hundred yard our one
hundred tackle season, Buddha Baker. He flies around, he plays big,
he's not very big. He will blitz from depth ten
to twelve yards and get to your quarterback.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
The intensity and just awareness that he plays with you
hardly see on the football field and he's doing it
against the best in the world.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Their color analyst Ron wolf Ley joined the pregame show
last time he played them, and he talked about his
motor and how you will get his stature of his size.
I'm bigger than Budda Baker. Yeah, but they're like when
you're on that team and you feel like if this
guy is throwing his neck out there for everything, like
I have no excuse, none at all. And he's just
the energy he plays with. We've seen that. If you're
familiar with but Baker, you watched him a lot of that.
(30:38):
So he's the guy at the Seahawks offense definitely needs
to know where number three he's at on the field.
But we've come to that time of the show. Let's
tell you how the Seahawks run and get it done again.
Pat the victory.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
At the forty five waits for the staff packet.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
Vicky puts it down that kick is away.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
If that kick is gone, good, say aw quinn fit gun.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
It's a test to victory. On Hawk Talk, we know what.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
It is, bump. We started the show talking about it.
The Seahawks have an amazing opportunity to take control of
the NFC West with a win on Sunday, and it's
pivotal bump because you win this game, you have the
tiebreaker over Arizona and you essentially create a three game
lead over them, and it's just checking off boxes, kind
of making up for a gaff against the Rams during
(31:21):
the year early against the forty nine ers. So they
have a huge opportunity on Sunday to really take control
and we can really start thinking about hosting a playoff
game in January.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Come on, come on. And it's not on accident. It's
been mayrining.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
The defense has been molding and starting to figure out
what McDonald wants since Week nine. This defense, they're fifth
in the NFL in points allowed seventeen point five, fifth
when it comes to yards allowed, right on the three
hundred and fifth when it comes to yards per game,
rush shards per game eighty four and six when it
comes to first downs allowed eighteen point eight come on now,
(32:00):
who you've been since week nine?
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Yeah, and honestly it's more of the same. I mean,
how are we gonna do it? What we talked about
the first matchup? What did you do? You shut down
Kyler Murray? You gotta swaw him down. You gotta contain
be really disciplined in how you rush that man. We
talked about it earlier, talked about bull rush and interior
up front, fade that pocket down. If you're someone likes
spoon and you're gonna blitz them blitter at the right angle.
Having all the speed that Spoon has definitely helps with that.
(32:23):
But no, keep forcing them into bad decisions right If
they're gonna throw the ball that many times, he's bound
to have a couple of interceptions. He had a crazy
street coming into it, has turned the ball over the
last couple couple weeks. So that's a big thing there.
And then you got to stop the run. It's a
tall task asked to stop them the way you did
last time again on the road, but you need a
similar effort, maybe not forty nine yards, but they definitely
(32:44):
can't have a resurge into what they did yet last
week against Minnesota.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
No more McBride.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
He will make some plays, but come on, twelve receptions,
let's limit that.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
I'll take eight. I'll take seven.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Go at this for forty eight.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Yeah, and offensive line, let's see your thing. Some changes
on that offensive line. Guys are getting healthy. Maybe you
put together another good game, but the offensive line, we're
still winning. For that massive run game to get going,
it is there, it is close.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
I believe in you. Let's get that going.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Come on, need it, we need it. It's gonna happen
the last couple of weeks when they really need to
get a couple of run successful plays. They've had it,
so it's definitely there. It can be had. The Seahawks man,
a win here can really get you in good position
for the NFC West title. That's gonna do it for us.
Remember you could catch us anywhere serious XM YouTube on
the Seahawks Presspast Channel, Seahawks dot Com, Apple Podcast, Spotify
(33:34):
and more. He's Michael Bumpus on NASA Troby. Thanks for listening,
getting you ready for hopefully a Seahawks win against the
Cardinals on Sunday. We'll be back with you on Monday,
breaking it all down. This has been Hawk Talk
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