October 28, 2024 • 20 mins
It was a frustrating day at the office for the Seahawks as they fell to the Bills, 31-10. Michael Bumpus and Nasser Kyobe recap Week 8 at Lumen Field. Today’s show: Coach Macdonald game recap (01:35), What Had Happened Was (03:39), Playmakers (09:49), WR Round Up (13:06), Play of the Game (14:40), and Clock Ran Out (17:35).
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver
Michael Bumpus.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Why fake going to roll right?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Dumps it off into the right flasf to Michael Bumpers,
who bounces off a one tackler gets inside the forty
down of the thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Five yard line. Powered by Seahawks dot Com.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Matt Pumpfake's looking at the gold line.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
He throws it into the m zone. Touchdown, Say Hawks.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's Michael Bumpas with a diving catching the end zone.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
A ten yard touchdown reception for Bumpers, and a kid
out of Washington State has found himself a place.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
On this team. Now here's your host, Nasa Chobie.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Welcome into another edition of Hawk Talk. The Seahawks falling
at home to Luminfield to the Buffalo Bills thirty one
to ten.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
This audition Hawk Talk.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Unfortunately, Nasa is by himself today, No Michael Bumpus. Michael
Bumpus is feeling a little bit under their weather and
it was a tough day on Sunday, so he left
me all to my lonesome to talk about what had happened,
and it was tough. When I think about this game,
I think about just having a tough day at the office.
We've all had them, right, you know in baseball, sometimes
you don't have your fastball, you know, sometimes you wake
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up on the wrong side of the bed. Sometimes you're
just hurting. Sometimes you just have a bad day. And
Sunday was a bad day for the Seahawks. Things weren't
going well on most phases of the game, all three
and it just it was a really tough ball game.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It was a against a really good team.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It was raining, and uh yeah, there's not a lot
to say about what happened. It was tough. It was
really tough, and I'll leave it to coach McDonalds. He
addressed the media today kind of talking about his overall
thoughts and how and how the game went yesterday and
what he got from watching the tape.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
It confirms a lot of what we felt like durround
the game is, Hey, you know, we faced a really
good football team. We did We did not play our
best football by any stretch, all three phases, and you
go back and go with kind of the series of events.
It felt like in order for us to win that game,
you have to capitalize on the opportunities when they present themselves.
We didn't do that on offense or defense earlier in
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the game. Special teams didn't have as many opportunities to
the game until later, and you know, we got out
of whack there at the end. So and that's how
you know a game ends up thirty one to ten.
So disappointing obviously, you know, being at home, being two
and three at home throughout the year. Disappoint where we're at.
We definitely expect better. But meet with the staff this
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morning and watching the tape and have another plan of
attack this week. You know, just optimistic and just want
to everybody's there's belief. There is belief and a faith
in the men that we normally sit in this room
and on all of our coaches, and we're going to
attack the heck out of this week and we're gonna
have a great week and be ready to play the Rams.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
What I love about coach McDonald and just really his
personality in general, is how level headed he is all
the time when things are going good, when things are
going bad, when there's a great play, when there's a
bad play up and down, he's always kind of right here,
and he's just frank. He's to the point, it wasn't
where they wanted to be. But at the end there
he talked about the faith and the belief of the
guys in this building and on that coaching staff to
get this thing corrected. Because ladies and gentlemen, it's the
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National Football League. I know the Buffalo Bills are a
great team, and I think the Seahawks are a good team.
Sunday was not third day games can have a snowball
effect sometimes and things can get away from you, and
that's exactly what happened on Sunday. But I like where
coach McDonald's head's at. I like where this staff's at,
where the players are.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
They're gonna fix this.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
They have a couple of days to get ready for
the Rams, because that's the thing too. You can't feel
sorry for yourself. You're in a log jam in the
NFC West. Everyone's in it. Everyone has a chance to
win the division. So you got to get right back
after it this week, watch the film, correct things, and
get after those Rams because you're gonna need it next week.
But before we get onto the Rams, we obviously have
to take a look back at exactly what happened against
the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
See what happened.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
At first, what had happened was on hawked talk well,
not a great start offensively, as the Seahawks went three
and out on their first possession.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Then the Bills responded with a fourteen play ninety yard
drive that ended with a nice touchdown pass it keon Coleman.
Coleman's a he's an exciting player, right. He definitely has
a ton of personality. And they ran the play a
couple times. The first time, Tree Quillen made a great
play Riek, i should say, and knocked the ball down.
They flipped the formation and run to the other side,
and Coleman made a great play because Reek was in
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great position, just unable to come down with it. So
that made the score seven to nothing. And man, the
Seahawks also got bit by the penalty bug was just
kind of a precursor for the entire ballgame on that drive,
so that didn't go well. The Seahawks would come back
and insult to injury, go three and out put that
defense right back on the field. But the defense came
out strong, got their first stop of the game, and
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that's when the offense kind of started to go in
and he thought, okay, this is where we're going to
figure things out. They had gains of ten, fifteen, seventeen,
and fourteen yards. They'd get all the way down to
the Buffalo Bills two yard line, and the red zone
was just a problem. On Sunday, on second down, center
Connor Williams snapped the ball over Gino Smith's head for
a huge nineteen yard loss. Can I picked the ball up,
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it would have been a twenty seven yard loss. Kind
of ran around, got off to the sideline make it
not as bad. But once you get there, you're behind
the sticks. I believe it went to like thirty nineteen
and the seahawkside is set for a field goal that made.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
The score seven to three.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But then on the next play, our guy Josh Job,
whom know a lot of Seahawk fans did not know
about a couple of weeks ago, makes a huge play
intercepting Josh Allen's running all the way back to the
Buffalo bill seven yard line. That was the first time
Josh Allen had been intercepted in his last three hundred attempts,
which is pretty nuts and pretty crazy to see. So
super happy about Josh Job doing that. But right there
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when that happened. I'm like, okay, we're in business. The
game is going to turn around, and unfortunately just didn't
go that way. Seahawks are in a great position to
take the lead, third and goal from the one yard line.
They get stopped there and they'd go for it, and
then it's just the case.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Of bad luck again.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You know, on the exchange, Connor Williams accidently steps on
Geno Smith's foot and it was really cool. I wanted
to see what that formation was going to be like
because you have Oluel Timmy in there reporting as eligible.
He goes in motion. I think it was going to
be a little bit of play action. Looked like he
had both tight ends leaking out. So unfortunately we didn't
get to see what that play could have been and
how good it was drawn up because the Seahawks had
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to turn the ball over on downs and from that
point on, man, it was tough.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The Bills really took it to the Seahawks. They would
go on.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
A twelve play ninety three yard drive ending with a
twelve yard touchdown to tight end Dalton Kinkaid that made
the score fourteen to three. But the Bills had so
much to go their way on that drive, and I'm
not taking anything away from them. They made plays and
they kind of made it happen that way, But the
Seahawks also hurt themselves as well. The first play that
I want to talk about early in that drive, it's
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third and five. Josh Allen is hit as he's trying
to scramble, is gonna be sacked, fumbles the football. The
Seahawks are gonna get a stop, but he gets lucky,
accidentally kicks the ball and the Bills recover.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That was just kind of how the day went.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That those fifty to fifty balls were not going to
the Seahawks way. While bounces, you know, twelve yards wherever
it was, they recover. They continue to drive later on
that same drive in seven and the Seahawks are going
to get off the field much need to stop. Bills
are probably out to settle for three. Nothing's guaranteed with
the kind of weather we saw that day. And as
Josh Allen's getting ready to throw the ball away, Derek Hall,
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who's a competitor, is doing his job, just trying to
get out to the quarterback a little over zealous, makes
contact with Josh Allen. He's called for roughing the passer
despite the illegal formation on Buffalo on that play. Now, fans,
if you remember we learned about this fifteen yard versus
five yard issue earlier in the season against the forty
nine ers. If there's a five yard false start or
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procedure penalty like that, but then the defense commits a
personal foul, so roughing the passer or anything like that,
that negates the five yard penalty, even if the play
should have been blown dead or whatever. And again, bad
luck for the Seahawks. The buff is not offsetting penalties,
they get a first down, they on that same drive
eventually go ahead and score. They go up fourteen to three.
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So at halftime the scores fourteen to three, you're still
in the game and you're hoping the Seahawks can stay
in it. Forcing the Bills just really took it to
the Seahawks in the second half. They would score in
their first three possessions field goal, touchdown, touchdown, and then
the Seahawks would throw an interception on the first drive
and then go three and out of the next So
it's pretty hard to dig your way out of that.
And then the wheels just really fell off. At one
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point four straight penalties and yeah, it was just tough man.
James Cook then gets in the end zone. Now the
score thirty one to three, and the game just clearly
got away from the Seahawks. Hawks would finally get in
the end zone with a nine play seventy yard drive
and when Zach Sharbonne a touchdown, that made the score
thirty one to ten, and that's how the game would end.
Final stats were not kind to the Seahawks. If you
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look into the box score, the Bills out gained the
Hawks four hundred and forty five to two thirty three.
The Bills had twenty nine first downs, the Seahawks had seventeen.
The Bills dominated time of possession thirty eight minutes to
twenty one. Bills were eight to fifteen on third down
and the Seahawks were just one to seven. The Hawks
were held to just thirty two yards rushing, the Bills
ran for over one hundred and sixty. The Seahawks were
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penalized eleven times, and shockingly enough, the Bills were actually
penalized more times than the Seahawks. A ton of laundry
on the field all the game long. But like I
said at the beginning, it was a tough game. The
Seahawks didn't have their fastball, they didn't execute, and it
just didn't go their way. And you can't do that
against a really good team like Buffalo. But everything that
I've seen this year, yes, it hasn't been great over
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the last little bit over a months, lost four or
five games, but they have the guys in.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
The locker room.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
They have the guys that can make plays. You're missing
a DK metcalf, a couple of things just don't go
your way. Don't get me wrong. They didn't play well
on Sunday, but they have the guys in the locker
room that if they were to play a Buffalo again,
or when they play another good team, I think we'd
get a better, better result because the effort was there.
It just we didn't execute. The Seahawks just didn't do
what they needed to do to win the game. But
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there were a couple of plays that were made. Yesterday
I was talking about the playmakers.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Playmakers is totally.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Well, we'll start where we normally do and that's the
Gino Smith at the quarterback position. He didn't have the
greatest game. He didn't have a game like he had
in Atlanta. He was twenty one to twenty nine for
two hundred and twelve yards in the one interception QB
rating of seventy eight point five. Now, Gino has been
under a lot of pressure this entire season and for
the most part has done such a good job. I mean,
came into the game leading the league in passing, leading
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the league and topson completion percentage, in yards attempts, all
that stuff. And you know, he didn't throw for over
thirty times, but it just wasn't couldn't get into a rhythm, right.
There were some really good throws, like on that drive
when the Seahawks were it looked like the tide was turning,
and a bunch of big completions down the field, but
it just couldn't get into a rhythm and things couldn't
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really get pieced together for him.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
And it's just it's frustrating, man.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
You know, on the tip ball on the screen again,
just bad luck baby Gino should throw it into the
ground there, but it's hard to tell us for the
defenders right there in the throwing lane, it could have
been a really good call luck, which is honestly, it's
unfortunate for him successfully because especially I should say because
most of his interceptions this year have been that have
been tipped or something's been influenced where he's been hit
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or pressured. So he made some good plays. It just
wasn't the best game bo him. So we're hoping he
could bounce back against the Rams coming up Jack and
Smith and Jig. But he had six receptions for sixty
nine yards, team high. He also had an eighteen yard reception.
AJ Barner had two receptions for thirty four yards and
then shout out to Ernest Jones who came over. Had
essentially one real practice with the Seahawks, and he led
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the team with fifteen tackles. And that's just for a
guy to be traded twice in a year and to
be in Tennessee on Tuesday, to get to Seattle on Thursday.
Practice once, have a walk through, a couple walkthroughs. Then
you're playing in a game against a really good Buffalo
Bill's team and it's tough. But love the effort I've
seen from him. I think he's going to get more comfortable.
I promise you he's going to be an impact player.
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Just when you look at the tape, his resume doesn't lie.
I think when he gets his feet under him, gets
really in this defense. I think it's going to be
really good for the Seahawks. Then our guy Josh job
I mentioned him earlier. We're going to talk about his
play specifically here in a second. But seven tackles, one
pass defended, one interception broke up Josh Allen's interception list streak.
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So really good to see a guy that you know
was in two different spots just do his thing and
really excited about what Josh Joe has been able to
bring the last few weeks. Kobe Bryant had six tackles
and one big pass defense. And Michael Dixon. You know,
we don't talk a lot about the punters, but we
can show the punters a little bit of left here.
Michael Dixon four punts two hundred and forty five yards
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sixty one yard average. He had one punt that went
sixty eight yards. And let me tell you something. Okay,
people voting for the Pro Bowl and All Pro I
don't know how Michael Dixon continues to get snubbed every year.
It makes no sense. He has one of the best
averages in the history of the National Football League. He
continues to do his job each and every season and
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it's super disappointed that he doesn't get the recognition that
he deserves. So Mike, I'm giving it to you right here.
Michael Dixon had a solid day. Just taking a look
at the receivers, I mentioned some of them here in
the receiver roundup, No DK Metcalf. So anytime you don't
have one of the league's best receivers. He was number
three in the entire NFL going into that game. He
was number one in completions over twenty yards hanging into
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that game. So when you take a guy that can
take the top off the defense, that can run by you,
that can run over you, that can block you with
one hand or onto the sideline, it's gonna be tough.
He's gonna have an impact on the game. So the
one good thing that we heard from coach McDonald today
was that he's optimistic that Gino will make his return
this week, but again optimistic. He has to see how
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the week goes. Way too early to decide what's gonnappen.
They're gonna have to monitor that, really look through the
injury reports to look on Friday. I'm assuming if he
might be someone that goes up to game time We
just don't know, but it seems like Coach is optimistic
that he could make his return this week. Big thing
in that sentences could so we'll keep an eye on
that so hopefully will get there. I mentioned six for
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sixty nine, Barnard two for thirty four, ken Walker four
for thirty three, Noah Fan three for twenty two.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
He had a huge streak.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I believe it was twenty one straight attempts or completions
to him without any completion. That did not continue on
Sunday because he did have one target that he did
not catch.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
But he's been killing it.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Sharponne was three for twenty, Jake Bobo one for fifteen,
Lavistika Chandal one for ten, and Tyler Lockett one for nine.
Now I alluded to it a little bit as I've
talked about it throughout this episode.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It's Josh show.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
He's been a good story, but he turned a good
story into a playmaker as he had this interception on
Josh Allen.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
As Johnson decided him in the backfield wide split to
the far side a test. I got to intercept it.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Pick up It's dope goes.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Stay all away down to the thirty twenty five fifteen
ten not golfer speed outside the five, Josh Allen coast
it up for the first time this season. He tries
to throw a slam right side, and.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Josh Job jumps in and the youngster takes it all
the way down inside the five, and the Seahawks are
set up to take a lead here in this second quarter.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
We thought it was gonna happen. It's the first career
interception for the Job and the first one thrown this
year by Allen.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
What I love about that is I heard boy Mafe.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
He joined the huddle this week and he said, we're
talking about turnovers, and he talked about, you know, there's
always these conversation about turnovers coming bunches or like, man,
that person got lucky buck in that turnover, or he's
always in the right place at the right time this
and that.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
No, no turnovers are.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Created because you're prepared, because you playing good defense, because
you get to the football and you are in the
right place.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
At the right time because of your preparation.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And Josh Job on this play, Mariy Cooper's just running
a little slam his third and three, throwing a little
sticker out there, and Job is in the right spot.
Cooper's slips a little bit on the wet turf, but
Joe's in the right spot kind of stems in there.
Boom catches the football, runs it back all the way
seven yard line, setting up a potential seaw score, what
we thought at the time.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Huge thing about him.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
And just for those who don't know a lot about Josh,
he played four seasons at the University of Alabama, including
helping him win a national championship in twenty twenty. So
he's not, you know, shy or not familiar with the
big stage after he playing big time college football there,
and then he goes undrafted to Philadelphia and they really
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liked him in Philadelphia. He was they are kind of
special teams ace. He in two years there. You know,
he started three games last year. He played a team
high three hundred and twenty three special team snaps, ranking
second on the Eagles and special teams tackles with six.
He was an ACE on special teams for there as
a gunner. So he's been around the league a little bit.
Great job on the personnel department, John Schneider knowing Teasley
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the rest of the guys to bring him in here,
and you know, essentially starting two games in a row,
had a good game against Atlanta and had a another
great play against the Bill. So obviously you're hoping Trey
Brown comes back and the secondary continues to get a
little bit healthier. Riekol And made his return this last week,
so you're hoping Trey will come back and they can
all be at full strength.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
But the cool thing about Josh is he showed you
know that he can play.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
He can play in this league, and there's a reason
he's up and again a great story. I love to
see it, and you know, to transition from just being
a good story to a guy that's actually making plays
for the Seahawks on the field. Well, like I said, man,
it was not pretty. The Seahawks lose thirty one to
ten to the Buffalo Bills, and the clock just ran out.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
On me.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Taken fine, Hundley, They're just gonna let the clock wind down.
I'm not even gonna bother taking that last time out.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Tough day at the offense for the Hawks just couldn't
get out of their own way. The Seahawks had the
ball inside the Bill's five yard line twice, only walking
away with three points. That's not gonna get it done
against a really good team like Buffalo. The Seahawks also
lose the turnover battle and were dominated in time of possession.
The Bills became the first team to have two touchdown
drives of ninety yards in one half since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
The Hawks were.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Penalized eleven times, and each one felt like the game
at the worst time.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
It just wasn't a good game.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But the Seahawks are in a spot now where obviously
they can't feel bad for themselves. They have a huge
and I mean huge divisional game against the Rams at
Lumenfield this Sunday. Every NFC West team right now has
four losses. The Rams are three and four because they
already had their buy but to me, that just means
this division is wide open. The Niners had a big
winning It's the Cowboys last night, but everyone's in it.
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The Seahawks have the Rams, there's a bye week, and
they have the forty nine Ers, so they have two
huge inner division matchses with in the NFC that are
really going to decide their fate later in the season.
So this is a huge game and I think the
Seahawks are gonna be game. They lost the last two
games to the Rams last season. Obviously, new team, new
coaching staff, The Rams are getting some of their guys back.
But I promise you I think the Seahawks are going
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to be ready for that battle because it's so and
I hope the twelves are ready for it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Two.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Me and bump will be back on Thursday getting you
ready for this matchup. And I'm excited because when you
have a clunker in this game of football, you just
cannot wait to get back there on the field and
show who you really are. And that wasn't the Seahawks,
And I know they can have better performances. They're not
quite to where they want to go, but they're going
to continue to process it.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Every day.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Coach McDonald talks about stack and wins, and they're gonna
do that every single day as we lead into Thursday.
So thank you for bearing with me. Without Michael Bumpus
the real guru here. But yeah, the Seahawks taking on
the Rams this Sunday. It's gonna be a huge one.
We'll be back on Thursday giving you a preview breaking
down everything and you know about the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
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This has been HOWK Talk? Did you never know where
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The
You're listening to Hawk Talk with former Seahawks wide receiver
Michael Bumpus.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Why fake going to roll right?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Dumps it off into the right flasf to Michael Bumpers,
who bounces off a one tackler gets inside the forty
down of the thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Five yard line. Powered by Seahawks dot Com.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Matt Pumpfake's looking at the gold line.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
He throws it into the m zone. Touchdown, Say Hawks.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's Michael Bumpas with a diving catching the end zone.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
A ten yard touchdown reception for Bumpers, and a kid
out of Washington State has found himself a place.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
On this team. Now here's your host, Nasa Chobie.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Welcome into another edition of Hawk Talk. The Seahawks falling
at home to Luminfield to the Buffalo Bills thirty one
to ten.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
This audition Hawk Talk.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Unfortunately, Nasa is by himself today, No Michael Bumpus. Michael
Bumpus is feeling a little bit under their weather and
it was a tough day on Sunday, so he left
me all to my lonesome to talk about what had happened,
and it was tough. When I think about this game,
I think about just having a tough day at the office.
We've all had them, right, you know in baseball, sometimes
you don't have your fastball, you know, sometimes you wake
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up on the wrong side of the bed. Sometimes you're
just hurting. Sometimes you just have a bad day. And
Sunday was a bad day for the Seahawks. Things weren't
going well on most phases of the game, all three
and it just it was a really tough ball game.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
It was a against a really good team.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
It was raining, and uh yeah, there's not a lot
to say about what happened. It was tough. It was
really tough, and I'll leave it to coach McDonalds. He
addressed the media today kind of talking about his overall
thoughts and how and how the game went yesterday and
what he got from watching the tape.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
It confirms a lot of what we felt like durround
the game is, Hey, you know, we faced a really
good football team. We did We did not play our
best football by any stretch, all three phases, and you
go back and go with kind of the series of events.
It felt like in order for us to win that game,
you have to capitalize on the opportunities when they present themselves.
We didn't do that on offense or defense earlier in
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the game. Special teams didn't have as many opportunities to
the game until later, and you know, we got out
of whack there at the end. So and that's how
you know a game ends up thirty one to ten.
So disappointing obviously, you know, being at home, being two
and three at home throughout the year. Disappoint where we're at.
We definitely expect better. But meet with the staff this
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morning and watching the tape and have another plan of
attack this week. You know, just optimistic and just want
to everybody's there's belief. There is belief and a faith
in the men that we normally sit in this room
and on all of our coaches, and we're going to
attack the heck out of this week and we're gonna
have a great week and be ready to play the Rams.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
What I love about coach McDonald and just really his
personality in general, is how level headed he is all
the time when things are going good, when things are
going bad, when there's a great play, when there's a
bad play up and down, he's always kind of right here,
and he's just frank. He's to the point, it wasn't
where they wanted to be. But at the end there
he talked about the faith and the belief of the
guys in this building and on that coaching staff to
get this thing corrected. Because ladies and gentlemen, it's the
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National Football League. I know the Buffalo Bills are a
great team, and I think the Seahawks are a good team.
Sunday was not third day games can have a snowball
effect sometimes and things can get away from you, and
that's exactly what happened on Sunday. But I like where
coach McDonald's head's at. I like where this staff's at,
where the players are.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
They're gonna fix this.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
They have a couple of days to get ready for
the Rams, because that's the thing too. You can't feel
sorry for yourself. You're in a log jam in the
NFC West. Everyone's in it. Everyone has a chance to
win the division. So you got to get right back
after it this week, watch the film, correct things, and
get after those Rams because you're gonna need it next week.
But before we get onto the Rams, we obviously have
to take a look back at exactly what happened against
the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
See what happened.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
At first, what had happened was on hawked talk well,
not a great start offensively, as the Seahawks went three
and out on their first possession.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Then the Bills responded with a fourteen play ninety yard
drive that ended with a nice touchdown pass it keon Coleman.
Coleman's a he's an exciting player, right. He definitely has
a ton of personality. And they ran the play a
couple times. The first time, Tree Quillen made a great
play Riek, i should say, and knocked the ball down.
They flipped the formation and run to the other side,
and Coleman made a great play because Reek was in
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great position, just unable to come down with it. So
that made the score seven to nothing. And man, the
Seahawks also got bit by the penalty bug was just
kind of a precursor for the entire ballgame on that drive,
so that didn't go well. The Seahawks would come back
and insult to injury, go three and out put that
defense right back on the field. But the defense came
out strong, got their first stop of the game, and
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that's when the offense kind of started to go in
and he thought, okay, this is where we're going to
figure things out. They had gains of ten, fifteen, seventeen,
and fourteen yards. They'd get all the way down to
the Buffalo Bills two yard line, and the red zone
was just a problem. On Sunday, on second down, center
Connor Williams snapped the ball over Gino Smith's head for
a huge nineteen yard loss. Can I picked the ball up,
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it would have been a twenty seven yard loss. Kind
of ran around, got off to the sideline make it
not as bad. But once you get there, you're behind
the sticks. I believe it went to like thirty nineteen
and the seahawkside is set for a field goal that made.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
The score seven to three.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
But then on the next play, our guy Josh Job,
whom know a lot of Seahawk fans did not know
about a couple of weeks ago, makes a huge play
intercepting Josh Allen's running all the way back to the
Buffalo bill seven yard line. That was the first time
Josh Allen had been intercepted in his last three hundred attempts,
which is pretty nuts and pretty crazy to see. So
super happy about Josh Job doing that. But right there
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when that happened. I'm like, okay, we're in business. The
game is going to turn around, and unfortunately just didn't
go that way. Seahawks are in a great position to
take the lead, third and goal from the one yard line.
They get stopped there and they'd go for it, and
then it's just the case.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Of bad luck again.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You know, on the exchange, Connor Williams accidently steps on
Geno Smith's foot and it was really cool. I wanted
to see what that formation was going to be like
because you have Oluel Timmy in there reporting as eligible.
He goes in motion. I think it was going to
be a little bit of play action. Looked like he
had both tight ends leaking out. So unfortunately we didn't
get to see what that play could have been and
how good it was drawn up because the Seahawks had
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to turn the ball over on downs and from that
point on, man, it was tough.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The Bills really took it to the Seahawks. They would
go on.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
A twelve play ninety three yard drive ending with a
twelve yard touchdown to tight end Dalton Kinkaid that made
the score fourteen to three. But the Bills had so
much to go their way on that drive, and I'm
not taking anything away from them. They made plays and
they kind of made it happen that way, But the
Seahawks also hurt themselves as well. The first play that
I want to talk about early in that drive, it's
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third and five. Josh Allen is hit as he's trying
to scramble, is gonna be sacked, fumbles the football. The
Seahawks are gonna get a stop, but he gets lucky,
accidentally kicks the ball and the Bills recover.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
That was just kind of how the day went.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That those fifty to fifty balls were not going to
the Seahawks way. While bounces, you know, twelve yards wherever
it was, they recover. They continue to drive later on
that same drive in seven and the Seahawks are going
to get off the field much need to stop. Bills
are probably out to settle for three. Nothing's guaranteed with
the kind of weather we saw that day. And as
Josh Allen's getting ready to throw the ball away, Derek Hall,
(07:11):
who's a competitor, is doing his job, just trying to
get out to the quarterback a little over zealous, makes
contact with Josh Allen. He's called for roughing the passer
despite the illegal formation on Buffalo on that play. Now, fans,
if you remember we learned about this fifteen yard versus
five yard issue earlier in the season against the forty
nine ers. If there's a five yard false start or
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procedure penalty like that, but then the defense commits a
personal foul, so roughing the passer or anything like that,
that negates the five yard penalty, even if the play
should have been blown dead or whatever. And again, bad
luck for the Seahawks. The buff is not offsetting penalties,
they get a first down, they on that same drive
eventually go ahead and score. They go up fourteen to three.
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So at halftime the scores fourteen to three, you're still
in the game and you're hoping the Seahawks can stay
in it. Forcing the Bills just really took it to
the Seahawks in the second half. They would score in
their first three possessions field goal, touchdown, touchdown, and then
the Seahawks would throw an interception on the first drive
and then go three and out of the next So
it's pretty hard to dig your way out of that.
And then the wheels just really fell off. At one
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point four straight penalties and yeah, it was just tough man.
James Cook then gets in the end zone. Now the
score thirty one to three, and the game just clearly
got away from the Seahawks. Hawks would finally get in
the end zone with a nine play seventy yard drive
and when Zach Sharbonne a touchdown, that made the score
thirty one to ten, and that's how the game would end.
Final stats were not kind to the Seahawks. If you
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look into the box score, the Bills out gained the
Hawks four hundred and forty five to two thirty three.
The Bills had twenty nine first downs, the Seahawks had seventeen.
The Bills dominated time of possession thirty eight minutes to
twenty one. Bills were eight to fifteen on third down
and the Seahawks were just one to seven. The Hawks
were held to just thirty two yards rushing, the Bills
ran for over one hundred and sixty. The Seahawks were
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penalized eleven times, and shockingly enough, the Bills were actually
penalized more times than the Seahawks. A ton of laundry
on the field all the game long. But like I
said at the beginning, it was a tough game. The
Seahawks didn't have their fastball, they didn't execute, and it
just didn't go their way. And you can't do that
against a really good team like Buffalo. But everything that
I've seen this year, yes, it hasn't been great over
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the last little bit over a months, lost four or
five games, but they have the guys in.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
The locker room.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
They have the guys that can make plays. You're missing
a DK metcalf, a couple of things just don't go
your way. Don't get me wrong. They didn't play well
on Sunday, but they have the guys in the locker
room that if they were to play a Buffalo again,
or when they play another good team, I think we'd
get a better, better result because the effort was there.
It just we didn't execute. The Seahawks just didn't do
what they needed to do to win the game. But
(09:46):
there were a couple of plays that were made. Yesterday
I was talking about the playmakers.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Playmakers is totally.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Well, we'll start where we normally do and that's the
Gino Smith at the quarterback position. He didn't have the
greatest game. He didn't have a game like he had
in Atlanta. He was twenty one to twenty nine for
two hundred and twelve yards in the one interception QB
rating of seventy eight point five. Now, Gino has been
under a lot of pressure this entire season and for
the most part has done such a good job. I mean,
came into the game leading the league in passing, leading
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the league and topson completion percentage, in yards attempts, all
that stuff. And you know, he didn't throw for over
thirty times, but it just wasn't couldn't get into a rhythm, right.
There were some really good throws, like on that drive
when the Seahawks were it looked like the tide was turning,
and a bunch of big completions down the field, but
it just couldn't get into a rhythm and things couldn't
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really get pieced together for him.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
And it's just it's frustrating, man.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
You know, on the tip ball on the screen again,
just bad luck baby Gino should throw it into the
ground there, but it's hard to tell us for the
defenders right there in the throwing lane, it could have
been a really good call luck, which is honestly, it's
unfortunate for him successfully because especially I should say because
most of his interceptions this year have been that have
been tipped or something's been influenced where he's been hit
(11:10):
or pressured. So he made some good plays. It just
wasn't the best game bo him. So we're hoping he
could bounce back against the Rams coming up Jack and
Smith and Jig. But he had six receptions for sixty
nine yards, team high. He also had an eighteen yard reception.
AJ Barner had two receptions for thirty four yards and
then shout out to Ernest Jones who came over. Had
essentially one real practice with the Seahawks, and he led
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the team with fifteen tackles. And that's just for a
guy to be traded twice in a year and to
be in Tennessee on Tuesday, to get to Seattle on Thursday.
Practice once, have a walk through, a couple walkthroughs. Then
you're playing in a game against a really good Buffalo
Bill's team and it's tough. But love the effort I've
seen from him. I think he's going to get more comfortable.
I promise you he's going to be an impact player.
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Just when you look at the tape, his resume doesn't lie.
I think when he gets his feet under him, gets
really in this defense. I think it's going to be
really good for the Seahawks. Then our guy Josh job
I mentioned him earlier. We're going to talk about his
play specifically here in a second. But seven tackles, one
pass defended, one interception broke up Josh Allen's interception list streak.
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So really good to see a guy that you know
was in two different spots just do his thing and
really excited about what Josh Joe has been able to
bring the last few weeks. Kobe Bryant had six tackles
and one big pass defense. And Michael Dixon. You know,
we don't talk a lot about the punters, but we
can show the punters a little bit of left here.
Michael Dixon four punts two hundred and forty five yards
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sixty one yard average. He had one punt that went
sixty eight yards. And let me tell you something. Okay,
people voting for the Pro Bowl and All Pro I
don't know how Michael Dixon continues to get snubbed every year.
It makes no sense. He has one of the best
averages in the history of the National Football League. He
continues to do his job each and every season and
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it's super disappointed that he doesn't get the recognition that
he deserves. So Mike, I'm giving it to you right here.
Michael Dixon had a solid day. Just taking a look
at the receivers, I mentioned some of them here in
the receiver roundup, No DK Metcalf. So anytime you don't
have one of the league's best receivers. He was number
three in the entire NFL going into that game. He
was number one in completions over twenty yards hanging into
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that game. So when you take a guy that can
take the top off the defense, that can run by you,
that can run over you, that can block you with
one hand or onto the sideline, it's gonna be tough.
He's gonna have an impact on the game. So the
one good thing that we heard from coach McDonald today
was that he's optimistic that Gino will make his return
this week, but again optimistic. He has to see how
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the week goes. Way too early to decide what's gonnappen.
They're gonna have to monitor that, really look through the
injury reports to look on Friday. I'm assuming if he
might be someone that goes up to game time We
just don't know, but it seems like Coach is optimistic
that he could make his return this week. Big thing
in that sentences could so we'll keep an eye on
that so hopefully will get there. I mentioned six for
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sixty nine, Barnard two for thirty four, ken Walker four
for thirty three, Noah Fan three for twenty two.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
He had a huge streak.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I believe it was twenty one straight attempts or completions
to him without any completion. That did not continue on
Sunday because he did have one target that he did
not catch.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
But he's been killing it.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Sharponne was three for twenty, Jake Bobo one for fifteen,
Lavistika Chandal one for ten, and Tyler Lockett one for nine.
Now I alluded to it a little bit as I've
talked about it throughout this episode.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
It's Josh show.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
He's been a good story, but he turned a good
story into a playmaker as he had this interception on
Josh Allen.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
As Johnson decided him in the backfield wide split to
the far side a test. I got to intercept it.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Pick up It's dope goes.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Stay all away down to the thirty twenty five fifteen
ten not golfer speed outside the five, Josh Allen coast
it up for the first time this season. He tries
to throw a slam right side, and.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Josh Job jumps in and the youngster takes it all
the way down inside the five, and the Seahawks are
set up to take a lead here in this second quarter.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
We thought it was gonna happen. It's the first career
interception for the Job and the first one thrown this
year by Allen.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
What I love about that is I heard boy Mafe.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
He joined the huddle this week and he said, we're
talking about turnovers, and he talked about, you know, there's
always these conversation about turnovers coming bunches or like, man,
that person got lucky buck in that turnover, or he's
always in the right place at the right time this
and that.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
No, no turnovers are.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Created because you're prepared, because you playing good defense, because
you get to the football and you are in the
right place.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
At the right time because of your preparation.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
And Josh Job on this play, Mariy Cooper's just running
a little slam his third and three, throwing a little
sticker out there, and Job is in the right spot.
Cooper's slips a little bit on the wet turf, but
Joe's in the right spot kind of stems in there.
Boom catches the football, runs it back all the way
seven yard line, setting up a potential seaw score, what
we thought at the time.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Huge thing about him.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
And just for those who don't know a lot about Josh,
he played four seasons at the University of Alabama, including
helping him win a national championship in twenty twenty. So
he's not, you know, shy or not familiar with the
big stage after he playing big time college football there,
and then he goes undrafted to Philadelphia and they really
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liked him in Philadelphia. He was they are kind of
special teams ace. He in two years there. You know,
he started three games last year. He played a team
high three hundred and twenty three special team snaps, ranking
second on the Eagles and special teams tackles with six.
He was an ACE on special teams for there as
a gunner. So he's been around the league a little bit.
Great job on the personnel department, John Schneider knowing Teasley
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the rest of the guys to bring him in here,
and you know, essentially starting two games in a row,
had a good game against Atlanta and had a another
great play against the Bill. So obviously you're hoping Trey
Brown comes back and the secondary continues to get a
little bit healthier. Riekol And made his return this last week,
so you're hoping Trey will come back and they can
all be at full strength.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
But the cool thing about Josh is he showed you
know that he can play.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
He can play in this league, and there's a reason
he's up and again a great story. I love to
see it, and you know, to transition from just being
a good story to a guy that's actually making plays
for the Seahawks on the field. Well, like I said, man,
it was not pretty. The Seahawks lose thirty one to
ten to the Buffalo Bills, and the clock just ran out.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
On me.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Taken fine, Hundley, They're just gonna let the clock wind down.
I'm not even gonna bother taking that last time out.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Tough day at the offense for the Hawks just couldn't
get out of their own way. The Seahawks had the
ball inside the Bill's five yard line twice, only walking
away with three points. That's not gonna get it done
against a really good team like Buffalo. The Seahawks also
lose the turnover battle and were dominated in time of possession.
The Bills became the first team to have two touchdown
drives of ninety yards in one half since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
The Hawks were.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Penalized eleven times, and each one felt like the game
at the worst time.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
It just wasn't a good game.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
But the Seahawks are in a spot now where obviously
they can't feel bad for themselves. They have a huge
and I mean huge divisional game against the Rams at
Lumenfield this Sunday. Every NFC West team right now has
four losses. The Rams are three and four because they
already had their buy but to me, that just means
this division is wide open. The Niners had a big
winning It's the Cowboys last night, but everyone's in it.
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The Seahawks have the Rams, there's a bye week, and
they have the forty nine Ers, so they have two
huge inner division matchses with in the NFC that are
really going to decide their fate later in the season.
So this is a huge game and I think the
Seahawks are gonna be game. They lost the last two
games to the Rams last season. Obviously, new team, new
coaching staff, The Rams are getting some of their guys back.
But I promise you I think the Seahawks are going
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to be ready for that battle because it's so and
I hope the twelves are ready for it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Two.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Me and bump will be back on Thursday getting you
ready for this matchup. And I'm excited because when you
have a clunker in this game of football, you just
cannot wait to get back there on the field and
show who you really are. And that wasn't the Seahawks,
And I know they can have better performances. They're not
quite to where they want to go, but they're going
to continue to process it.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Every day.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Coach McDonald talks about stack and wins, and they're gonna
do that every single day as we lead into Thursday.
So thank you for bearing with me. Without Michael Bumpus
the real guru here. But yeah, the Seahawks taking on
the Rams this Sunday. It's gonna be a huge one.
We'll be back on Thursday giving you a preview breaking
down everything and you know about the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
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