NFL Daily: Super Bowl LX Recap with Sam Darnold, Mike Macdonald and More!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alani in the backfield. Now play fake to him. Sam
stops little strows.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Got a man wide open touchdown. Say Hawks, it is
a Jay Farner. He could not wait to get out
of that hotel. Talk to him yesterday. He said, I
gotta go hit somebody. Hey, j how about catching a touchdown?

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Two?

Speaker 4 (00:21):
He does.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
From sixteen out they continue to live first and ten
at the Seattle forty four. Here comes the blitz may Hood.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
He tries to throw ball, comes down, going the other
way with it turning up field.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
It's chatting along too. Man. He scores. Cut it down,
Sahawks not Sayhawks defense.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
They have done it again.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Three two one touch Seahawks. They're bringing it home again
for the second time in less than twelve years. The
Seahawks wins Super Bowl sixteen. They are bringing ulla party
back to the Northwest. Tramo party begins and Levi Stadium

(01:09):
and in Seattle any Hole Shop.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Four games.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
That party is just getting started.

Speaker 5 (01:18):
The Super Bowl sixty champions twenty nine to thirteen, Seattle
Seahawks over the Patriots.

Speaker 6 (01:25):
That's Steve Rabel.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
We gotta give the voice of Kiro and the voice
of the Seahawks the first word in our Super Bowl
recap show. We are in a trailer outside of Levi Stadium.
We're near the substation. So if Nick Schuk or Jordan
Rodrig or I get injured on the way out of
this this thing, blame the substation.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
What a performance and fitting there that Nuosu gets the
final touchdown because this defensive performance and this defense is
something we're gonna be talking about for a long Oh no.

Speaker 7 (01:58):
I just pulled a hammy on the way the trailers.

Speaker 8 (02:00):
Kidding, but this is a performance deserving of nothing more
than Holy Catfish.

Speaker 9 (02:06):
Holy Catfish, she says.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Oh.

Speaker 9 (02:08):
I mean, it's the defense that dominated all year and
they showed up in full force the dark Side as
their nickname, and man, they blotted out the sun for
the Patriots today.

Speaker 5 (02:17):
It was a rough night for Drake May and for
this Patriots offense who stays scoreless until about twelve and
a half minutes left. They end up getting two touchdowns
in the fourth quarter, but it was way too little
and way too late. And I think that last touchdown
is actually a good place to start because it's a
Devn Witherspoon blitz. It's a Devin Witherspoon quarterback hit it's

(02:41):
nuosu capitalizing it and.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
Taking it the other way.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
But it felt like the turnovers were gonna come eventually,
And as Drake May was just frozen and taking hits,
and as the Patriots offensive line was not really ever
getting a beat on where it was come from, Witherspoon
had a couple great blitzes in the first half as well,

(03:04):
you just felt like, eventually this was gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Eventually it did.

Speaker 5 (03:07):
Let's actually listen to the first turnover by this Seahawks defense,
the strip sack by Derek Hall late in the third quarter.

Speaker 6 (03:15):
Steven shit in the backfield.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Now with a wide slot to the left side, May
steps up in a bucket.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
He gets checked, bows on the.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Ground prehowks fall on it, Murpy murpy chreeowks have it.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
And that was just part of a game where it
May looked flummox and and part of it was the
game plan by our guest on NFL Daily, I should
have mentioned Mike McDonald's coming up on the show. Sam
Donald's coming up on the show. We have a future
Raiders coach, Clint Kubiak, who he talked to on the
field afterwards. But it really felt like McDonald was in

(03:51):
his bag with some of these blitzes early Jordan, using
the guys from his secondary and getting home on Drake May.

Speaker 9 (03:57):
He doesn't blitz a ton typically, but when he does,
it's these really well intended, like well executed, perfectly designed
blitzes that also use the fact that the quarterbacks looking
at every other player along that front wondering what they're
gonna do as a leverage point. And that play was

(04:18):
so impressive obviously the way that it was orchestrated and
resulted in a turnover, obviously, but there was also one
right before that which got Drake May worrying about where
pressure was coming and doing so almost immediately when he
rushes two interior defensive linemen. As well as sending the blitz,
the defensive tackles get initial push and penetration against that front,

(04:42):
and then they all of a sudden shed and drop
back as fast as they possibly can. So it's basically
like forgive the phrase greg a riptide, basically flowing in
and then sucking out, and then there's Witherspoon flying around
the edge to hit him. It's just and to force
a an Erran throw. It just was a masterclass early

(05:03):
on from Mike McDonald, who I thought Nick was in
his flow immediately in this game, and you could see
Drake May felt it.

Speaker 8 (05:10):
Yeah, this is a team that he said that doesn't
blitz a lot, and actually, if you look at the numbers,
they didn't blitz a lot, and the only blitzed seven
times the whole game.

Speaker 7 (05:15):
But it felt like they were blitzing all the time.

Speaker 8 (05:17):
Because of the way that he designed the pressure and
it showed up early. And we only got like one
normal sack in this game, and it was when one
of the rookie defensive lineman just went right through the
chest of Jared Wilson and bent him backward and then
grabbed onto Drake May and sacked him.

Speaker 7 (05:31):
Otherwise, everything else was the product of design.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Riley Mills career sack.

Speaker 7 (05:36):
Fifth round pick.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
I think he had about three tackles on his career
for this game.

Speaker 8 (05:42):
And he picked a perfect time to get his first
career sack. Other than that, it was all about stunts.
It was about bringing blitzer from different areas. And this
this offensive line which we you know, I discussed it
cover it all week with the Patriots, which is veterans
on the right side.

Speaker 7 (05:54):
Morgan Moses and and Garrett Bradbury at center right, and.

Speaker 8 (05:59):
You continue down the line Michael Owenu at guard, and
then you have the two rookies on the left side.
It was very clear from the jump that they were
going after that inexperienced left side. They were going to
bring the pressure off the edge. They were going to
bring Devin Witherspoon, and then by the time you got
to the second half, they had no idea where it
was coming from. With all the stunts, the twist what
you just described, which in a stunt situation would be
called a flash where guy hits and then disappears maybe

(06:21):
twists around, in this situation was a little bit different.
It confuses them and they could never get settled as
an off.

Speaker 9 (06:26):
Can we call it?

Speaker 7 (06:28):
Can please?

Speaker 5 (06:31):
Confusing word. Look, we're we're watching this game and you're
thinking like this is historic performance and we're watching at
the very end. I called, you know, the first three
quarters on talkSPORT, but then we run down. We watched
the end in the green room with the rest of
the NFL network people, and Judy Batista, who has an
MVP vote, is kind of canvassing. You know who, Guys,
who would you think and you're thinking, like someone from

(06:52):
the defense deserves it. Ken Walker obviously ends up getting it,
but at the time it's like only a hand, like
each person on the defense contributed, but it was tough
to know who to choose. Derek Hall does end up
getting two sacks in this game. Byron Murphy was coming
up on the show, does get two sacks in this game.
But as always, the pressures are just so evenly distributed.

(07:14):
Lawrence with seven, Hall with six, Nuosu with five and
that touchdown, Mafe with five, Witherspoon with three quick pressures,
four for Byron Murphy, three for Jaron Reed. And it's
just like the answer to who's great is just everyone, yes,
and anyone that watched this game and thought it was
a little boring or thought it was, you know, slow,
and it was kind of the what the worst case

(07:36):
scenario would have been, certainly for the Patriots, but also
in terms of just entertainment value, is like, hasn't watched
enough Seahawks game? I guess to be surprised, because that's
what this reminded me of. If so many Seahawks game,
the Falcons game where they blew them out in the end,
that was six six at halftime that Colts game against
Philip Rivers, right they're trailing. That wasn't against Rivers. That

(07:58):
was forty nine when they played the Colts. They're down
thirteen n late in the third quarter, don't have a
touchdown to the fourth, but their defense just keeps getting
stop after stop after stop and waiting for the offense
to finally do something, and then they do it. The
Panthers game in the regular season, I think was three
to three or six six at halftime before they kicked
the doors in in the second half and just ran
away with it. Even that forty nine Ers Week eighteen

(08:20):
game is a thirteen to three game.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
Like they're playing.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
Football in a way that we just haven't seen teams
play football since those Ravens teams and those Bucks teams
and those Rams games kind of get stuck into our minds,
but those were the anomalies from the rest of the season,
and they've just had a way of getting stop after
stop and almost betting the other defense who's playing well

(08:44):
in this game. The Patriots defense, I think had a
championship effort basically in this game, and it just didn't
matter because they were very good defense. But they're not
a special defense like the Seahawks.

Speaker 9 (08:55):
Yeah, the Seahawks defense what it has become its calling
card all season long, and certainly the last two years
it's evolved into what it is in this form right now.
Is it smothers you in a way that and suffocates
you in a way that a lot of our best
and most favorite offenses have over the last couple of years.
It just has this inevitability to it that just feels

(09:17):
like it will just keep like just pushing against you.
And immediately it was so fascinating to watch Drake May
quite literally look for different pockets of the field that
he could attack. In the passing game, the run was
not working, and he was every possession it felt like
they came out and they they didn't have a lot

(09:39):
of bites at the apple in terms of actual throws
and snaps there because they kept going, you know, three
and out and punting and all of these four and
out and punting, and but he was looking. He would
he would try to attack the flats one time, and
then he would try to throw it deep another time,
and there just was no space on the field from
defined because that's what this defense does. And then they

(09:59):
will also get into your face and make you afraid
of them as the quarterback, and as they do it.

Speaker 8 (10:04):
I felt, you know, by the time we got to halftime,
I was thinking, this is one of Josh McDaniel's most
challenging and perhaps worst performances in the play car And
then what I came to realize is that he's trying
and he's just a step behind this defense because they
can bring it to you from so many different directions,
which is what we talked about with this defense, is
that they're unique in that they have the personnel to
do something that basically any of the defense except maybe
Baltimore when Mike McDonald was there, when Kylie Hamilton.

Speaker 7 (10:26):
Is healthy, can do.

Speaker 8 (10:27):
And there was a perfect sequence in the first half
where I thought it illustrated just how.

Speaker 7 (10:34):
How the Patriot's hands were tied.

Speaker 8 (10:36):
Yeah, because they're bringing pressure off the left side, they're
bringing pressure from different areas. They're bringing pressure without manufacturing,
you know, not having to blitz. And Drake May's head
is in a blender, like he's just having a really
hard time figuring out what to do, like you just described,
and the sequence was, Okay, we're just gonna try and
if the blitz is there, dump it off the flat
because if they're bringing these guys from the left side,
there's got to be open space, and there's a slant

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coming in from the left side. There's one defender out there,
it's Julian Love, and they try to dump it off
to Remandre and they dump it off to Remandre and
Julian Love's right there to tackle in the flat for
no gain. And it was an incredible play by Love
to ride with the slant then immediately double back and
take down the flat because he knew that they were
going to force him to throw there. They were a
step behind this defense. The Seahawks dictate to them on
both sides of the ball all night.

Speaker 5 (11:18):
It was crazy. I wouldn't and I wouldn't say on
both sides of the ball. I mean on offense certainly, well.

Speaker 8 (11:22):
Well except for when ken Walker would rip off some
nice fat We'll.

Speaker 7 (11:25):
Get to that, and they just didn't finish drive.

Speaker 9 (11:27):
We'll get to that in a minute. But I do
think that it just was one step forward, like five
steps back for this Patriots offense, where a first down
to twenty one yard I think pass gets them a
really positive conversion there's we're in an open air press box.
There's Patriots fans. It was a Seahawks crowd for sure.
There's a smattering of Patriots fans in front of me
and Eric Roberts losing their minds just for a second.

(11:50):
And then it's tackle for loss, tackle for loss, sack
for minus ten, it's minus fifteen yards. You only get
six net yards in the entire possession. It's like you
had something and then all of a sudden they just
decided they're gonna snuff it out because they just have
more areas of the field covered than you can.

Speaker 5 (12:07):
Yeah, it's like three three or four straight drives in
the first half where they they move the ball a
little bit and then they get a huge negative play
and they can't overcome that.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
And all that's true.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
And it's because like they had one point three yards
per past pretty deep into the third quarter, which is
just insane. All that's true of how great Seattle was.
But Drake May was awful in this game, Like I mean,
I mean, it's.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Not like.

Speaker 9 (12:30):
I mean, I know it's late that I go, oh.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Greg like Drake, Drake maybe I was.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
We were talking about it with Ross, like is this
great offense or is it bad I mean great defense
or is bad offense?

Speaker 4 (12:44):
And the answer is a lot of ball on both sides.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
Did Seahawks offensive line couldn't identify anything? Uh, there was
like a two play sequence where Will Campbell, you know,
they try to take a play action shot late and
Will Campbell just gets beat so fast that Drake May
can't get rid of the ball fast enough and he
gets hit.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
Wally tries to throw it late.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
But the play before, Drake May holds onto the ball
forever and just doesn't scramble. He was absolutely frozen. There
was many, you know, plays in the game where Drake
May was so hesitant to scramble, or even while he
was scrambling, he couldn't get away from the guy because
he didn't do it with authority. And he also just
like missed wide open throws. That the the sack that

(13:28):
you're mentioning earlier, where the rookie you know, just walks
walks the center back Jared Wilson and ends up sacking
Drake May for a negative I mean, that was one
hundred percent on Drake Many.

Speaker 7 (13:39):
He's just his guy's eyes down the field, he's feeling,
he's just.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
He has so much space on both sides, and he
has no feel and he's and he's so locked into
his own head. He could have gone either way and
just moved in the pocket. The first turnover after what
was I think eight or nine straight punts, the Derek
Hall play like that was ninety percent on Drake May.
He just sp right into pressure. There was like some
pressure on the outside coming in, but then he just

(14:05):
kind of gets his eyes down and he runs forward
right into Derek Hall. So it's a game and a
postseason that does change what Drake May's season was, because
if you put this four game stretch in the middle
of the season, think how differently you feel about his
regular season. And it happened like there's no weather excuse here,

(14:26):
and there's just misthrows and there was not being able
to like get out of bad plays that we've seen
from him. You give a lot of credit to Seattle,
of course, but it was the combination of like a
quarterback who was pretty lost.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
And in a defense that was firing on all and
I think it actually.

Speaker 8 (14:44):
All goes back to how Seattle approached it from the
very beginning, because there's a sequence where the Patriots actually
moved the ball into the edge of Seattle territory, and
you have the Witherspoon pressure off the left side that
forces me to immediately bail out of the pocket and
just chuck it away. On third down they have to punt,
they have a sack in a similar situation where Wetherspoon
comes off the edge, gets his sack and it backs
him out of Seahawks' territory again. And I think from

(15:05):
that point on they were always that step behind because,
like I said, his head was in a blender because
he had no idea where this pressure was coming from,
and I think that affected his entire process. We talked
this week about how his clock's been a little bit slow.
It wasn't slow to night, it was broken, yeah, because
of what Seattle's defense did to him. And then by
the fourth, by the second half, you kind of don't
see him really become himself again until there is no tomorrow,

(15:26):
there's nothing to lose, and then just start chucking it down.

Speaker 9 (15:28):
You you could see there there. And let's be clear too,
the Seahawks are only up six and oho at the
time I'm about to talk about here six to zero.
At this point where we're in the second quarter, and
Drake May is running sort of a long boot and
boy and Mafe is chasing him down, and Boy and
Mafe is so quick off the boot that he just

(15:50):
knows he cuts it off immediately. And you see Drake
May looking at him like you are here right now,
and its a quarterback when you see they know what
you're going to do before, yes, you actually do it.
And your solution again to mitigate pressure those long boot
actions and the nakeds and stuff like that, is that

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he's right there. He's in your face immediately, and then
it rattles the entire rest of the group. Will Campbell
has a false start right after that, so you got
two negative plays and then a deep shot to Mac Collins.
It's in complete, but it's a desperation. He've Let's try
to draw a pi like it just was, so we
think we might have an answer. Oh crap, we don't.

(16:34):
Oh gosh, okay, let's just try to, you know, sling
it like down the field.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
You Patriots All Pro twenty twenty six guard Will Campbell
left guard.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
I mean, I'm telling you it was. I'm telling it was.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
On one hand, disappointing to you know, see them get
waxed in the Super Bowl. On the other hand, like
it was there to see history.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
His last game is.

Speaker 8 (16:52):
Yeah, well, what if I said, since Indianapolis could be
a very great guard and he's just a very average tackle.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Look.

Speaker 5 (16:58):
Sorry, I give more credit obviously to the Seahawks that
I do, just just saying it's a bad Patriots performance.
And what you give the most credit to is McDonald
and his not just game plan of this game, but
kind of like a season plan and a multi season plan,
and how he's added all the layers to this defense

(17:19):
and with John Schneider added the right rookies and the
right free agents and everyone playing their role, and it
all came together tonight. And I don't mean on the field,
I mean after the game, when he got to talk
to us. And most importantly, I think there's at least
a chance that Jordan rod Rieg is responsible for this

(17:39):
Super Bowl championship for the Seahawks. After we get done
with the interview, you're about to hear I really should
have led the show with this. Mike McDonald tells Jordan
that he listened to the play Callers series about you know,
Sean McVay and Kyle Shannon and that tree. And what
did he say to you?

Speaker 9 (18:00):
I said, no way, did you really? He goes, yeah,
I took some notes and it was I immediately started
crying first of all, but I also was like, my
heart stopped. That's the coolest thing that dude just won
a super Bowl. He took the time, Greg, like, he
pulled me aside to say that, right, but.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
You also cost the team. You recover your rams the
super Bowl. We're going to pass that because.

Speaker 5 (18:25):
Mike McDonald's taking notes and he's figuring.

Speaker 9 (18:28):
Out going to cry again.

Speaker 4 (18:29):
You're arrived here.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
To be the McVay and the Shanahan stopper. And that's
how he got to this super Bowl was getting through
those those two men by cribbing the notes that Jordan
was taking. My only problem with it was he didn't
say it on the show.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
I said that to him. I don't know if he
heard me. I was like, I wish you said this
on the show.

Speaker 9 (18:47):
But here is that was That was Greg's takeaway from
the entire thing.

Speaker 5 (18:51):
Here here is what McDonald did say on the field
just a little while after winning.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
The Super Bowl.

Speaker 5 (18:58):
We are here with the newest Super Bowl winning head coach,
Mike McDonald, Mike, you obviously come up with this plan,
you practice it for a couple of weeks. What about
what they did tonight were you most proud of in
terms of how they executed.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
We came out and we were us.

Speaker 10 (19:15):
You know, in games and stages like this, it's easy
to try to be extra or you know, maybe try
to do something that you haven't done all year. But
our guys really believe like that their very best was
going to be good enough. It was very evident early
in the game that they were playing that way, and
at that point we made some adjustments, but the guys
just kept playing. I'm really proud of them. I mean,
they just they made it happen. It was really incredible.

Speaker 9 (19:36):
One thing I really appreciate, and I have appreciated, about
how you call games and how you sort of feel
that game flows. You clearly feel so connected with them quickly. Yeah,
and they you and today you're dialing up those corner
blitzes early And what about what they were showing you
and what you felt from your guys made it clear
to you that this was the A plus plan ready
to go.

Speaker 10 (19:56):
Well, they do agree. They always have my back. They
always say, look, you know, dial up, we got your back,
And I'll tell you what. It's not just me saying
the words. It's our coaches from down in, down out,
from series to series. Understand what we're going to do next,
prepping the guys. It's really a team effort and uh
makes it. Hey, look when they when they play the
way they did tonight, you know you pretty much call anything,

(20:16):
They're gonna make it come to life.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
Second year head coach and here here you are kind
of at the forefront of the league. Like, what about
connecting to your players? Did you learn this week? Because
because I think I think fans that are just learning
about you saw you on the stage after the NFC Championship,
see you on the sideline and joining yourself after this.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
What has that been like for you as a young coach.

Speaker 10 (20:36):
Well, you know, I always use this example, but it's
not like I came in with a you know, a
big head coaching book, say's what we're gonna do. Anytime
we go into a new experience, we're doing it together.
And I think they feel that for me, and it's
real and it is real. That's how we that's how
we roll. And now we have some experience to draw
and so it's pretty cool.

Speaker 9 (20:53):
Yeah, just like how you call a game, it seems
like you go off what you feel. And I think
for a guy we know, is like sort of a
scheme wizard, right, that's a cool thing too. You have
that connectivity, that emotion with it too.

Speaker 10 (21:03):
Yeah, sometimes you just got to trust it and that's
easier said than done.

Speaker 6 (21:08):
So you did a great job of justin during the game.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
Any adjustments you need to make as you go out
into the night here and celebrate your first Super Bowl championship.

Speaker 10 (21:15):
Right now, I'm gonna hydrate, so make sure we have
a good night, all right.

Speaker 6 (21:18):
Thank you, Mike McDonald.

Speaker 5 (21:21):
Very cool that we are in the position to talk
to McDonald, who does give off great, great energy.

Speaker 9 (21:29):
I'm in for life now obviously. Yes, like that that
was first of all great that we got to hear
from him, right, Like, but who does that just takes
a moment to say something incredibly kind to a complete stranger,
Like that's.

Speaker 7 (21:42):
Like somebody who just won a Super Bowl d it
on his own villa.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
And look, he is the vanguard right now of defensive
coaching in the NFL. Like he is that dude, And
if you look in the history of the NFL. Most
of guys who become that ude like a Sean McVay, like,
most of them aren't like McVeigh. They they don't. It
doesn't take them a while to win it. They win
it pretty early. Like usually if you're gonna win a
Super Bowl with your quarterback in this case at Sam Donald,

(22:11):
you win it early on as everybody catches up exactly
and I and I stopped myself from asking that question,
like just saying, like, you know, everyone's just gonna be watching,
and everyone's gonna be copied. Everyone's looking for their n
everyone's looking for their Mike McDonald's stopper now whereas he
was the stopper before and he has this system, but
he's gonna have great continuity. He's gonna have his quarterback.
Let's talk Sam Donald's moment. Wasn't his best game, wasn't

(22:36):
his worst game. It was a Sam Donald game. And
and what he did, what I mean by that is
like he is part like it's not all about the
quarterback in the NFL. Sometimes it is, like in the
NFC Championship game, but this team can win games in
different types of ways. And in many games this season,
Donald hasn't had to be at his very best. And

(22:57):
and you'll hear in a second he was even hard
on himself for missing his some throws in this game.

Speaker 4 (23:03):
He was part of this game plan and yet like he.

Speaker 9 (23:09):
The substation just hit us by the way.

Speaker 5 (23:11):
No, like Donald was just making sure he didn't make
any big mistakes.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
There was a couple plays early where he was close
to it.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
But what stands out to me most is one of
the most turnover prone players in the NFL. I think
he finished second right in the regular season, didn't turn
the ball over once in the postseason, and they were
more or less unstoppable this season. If Donald didn't make
a big mistake and if they could run the ball
and like check check, even if it wasn't an explosive
offensive performance, it was more than effective enough to win

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this game.

Speaker 7 (23:45):
Going yeah, And that was the key.

Speaker 8 (23:46):
And that's kind of what I was alluding to earlier,
is that like Sam missing throws early, he also made
a couple.

Speaker 7 (23:51):
Of really nice throws very early in the game.

Speaker 8 (23:53):
But it was very clear to me and I think
to everybody else there, that Okay, we're not going to
put this game necessarily win or loss on Sam. We're
gonna use Sam to compliment what else we're going to do,
because we know our defense is going to play very well,
and if we can run the ball effectively, then we
don't need him to go out there and throw the
ball over the yard to win. We don't need him
to play like they did against the Rams the NFC
Championship game. We need him to play like they played
the week prior against the forty nine ers. We need

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him to play like he did down the stretch of
the regular season, which they ran twice on third and
long exactly avoid mistakes. Which, by the way, that's the
team that runs on third and sixteen against the first down.

Speaker 7 (24:23):
It's this Seahawks, that's the team.

Speaker 8 (24:25):
They avoid mistakes by sticking to the run, being able
to balance it out enough excepting that, hey, we're taking
field goals right now. Because as we talked about in
the preview show, I remember, you just harp it on
this repeatedly. You give him an edge, you give him
a three point edge. He can now play his A
plus plan. He played his A plus play in the
entire game. Yeah, And it wasn't until they kind of,
like they admitted afterward. I think It was Devin Witherspoon
who admitted afterward that, like, yeah, we kind of took

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our foot off the gas in the fourth quarter because
we had that lead, and we were still mad that
we gave up those two touchdowns, but they were in
control on that side of the ball, and it allowed
them to just kind of balance things out offensively. Don't
ask Sam to do much because at one point Sam
was twelve for twenty seven. I looked Sam's line, I
looked at Drake Main's line, and I looked to our
editor at NFL dot com, Brooks Brooks or Sosomo, and
I said, well, both of them are playing pretty poorly,
but the Seahawks are clearly dominating this.

Speaker 5 (25:08):
Garnut is winning the game by two scores, and he
was five of sixteen at the time. Through I think
it was their you know, eight drives something like that.
For the Seahawks, they had twelve points, which is, you know,
one point five points per drive. That's what like the
twenty twenty five Jets offense would have. But again, they
weren't turning it over, and in the end they did
capitalize on that Derek hall uh turnover and then scored

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a quick touchdown to the barnyard dog. Heck, let's let's
listen to the call on Talk Sports.

Speaker 10 (25:39):
Joined the back field and huns off to Hellani No,
it's a fight, He's the.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Such Enzode takes about a bottle.

Speaker 7 (25:44):
Hold it in touchdown.

Speaker 6 (25:47):
Seawks, the biggest one on the field for Seattle, breaks
out of the fullmaction into the back.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
Corner of the enisode. I'm on the playofction fight.

Speaker 11 (25:59):
Sam Donald finds his man, maybe brings a second title
to Seattle.

Speaker 9 (26:05):
A J.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
Barner is a walking mismatch.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
He gets right past Jack Gibbons, the Patriots linebacker, and
into the red zone.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
So much of their offense is around that man. And
I don't know if anyone could cover that man in
the Patriots one.

Speaker 9 (26:18):
On one I couldn't tell you first, did your voice
like change? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (26:24):
But might be the sound there, you know.

Speaker 9 (26:27):
And also kudos to our really good friend Will Gavin,
because when we were at the Green Day concert earlier
this week, I did I was worried that he had
lost his voice. We were screaming the lyrics sound so
you know what, I love love that call. I know
you had a blast doing that and we Eric Roberts
and I were sitting next to each other in the
auxiliary press box, and we went and found you. We
sort of scoped you guys out in the booth, and

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we're just really proud of you, Greg and like that.
That touchdown was so cool to me because it was
the defense setting up the offense, which is exactly how
this team has played so well, setting them up, especially
with a short field right, not making Sam Darnold have
to do too much, not making this offense have to
do too much. But then right at the exact perfect moment,

(27:11):
have Clint Kubiak dial up something so simple and so
effective that they'd been setting up all game, and that
is those escort motions with the tight end that make
it look like they're going to run the ball, or
because of the way that he's coming across the stack
from the left side, moving over to the right, pausing
for just a second to where he's legally set again,

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which makes you think it is going to be a
run play, which means the running back one right behind
where aj Barner was just blocking open a gap, but
instead having him sift instead of escort, the runner sift
into the opposite side of the field, wide open behind
three different defenders who clearly were loaded inside the box
thinking that it was in fact going to be a

(27:54):
run play. So simple, so effective. That is how the
biggest man on the field gets behind the entire defense.

Speaker 8 (28:01):
And what's the beauty of the sift. It's the sneaking
through the Yes, don't be noticeable. I'm the biggest man
on the field, but nobody look at me because I'm
just gonna happen to go get open in the corner
of the end zone. So it's so wide open that
all have to do is catch this ball that's not perfect,
but it's good enough for me to catch for a touchdown.
And then it makes me text Jordan A J Barner
because I sneaky AJ Barner MVP moment, baby, Baby. He

(28:23):
was the first one on the en zone for the
Seahawks today.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
I don't know if I don't think he deserved MVP.
I know I'm gonna say I don't know if he
won MVP. Now he did not win MVP, but it
is fun to watch him in person. He reminds me
a little bit of Darnel Washington for the Steelers, and
just that so much of the foundation of the offense
is built around his movement and his versatility, the type
of guy that, like, I know, it doesn't he doesn't

(28:47):
light up the box score when he had five six hundred.

Speaker 7 (28:49):
Yard but he's also the type of guy.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
But you can just see like if you didn't have him,
they would not be the Seahawks.

Speaker 8 (28:54):
Yeah, I mean even earlier it didn'tven amount to anything,
I think in the long run. But there was a
third down where Sam Dronold's like under a little bit
of pressure and he he's under durest and feels it
and he looks for aj Barner, hits him, Barnard takes
makes the catch, spins around a defender, breaks a tackle,
gets the first down. It's the small things like that
that then open.

Speaker 7 (29:09):
Up the ability to make a big play.

Speaker 5 (29:11):
And I don't know if if I sounded like I
was hard on Donald, because I think he played a
good enough game and I think it's kind of like
may in their performances where they won in the AFC
playoffs early there actually were a number of plays where
Sam Darnald's evasiveness to the pass rush got them a

(29:32):
first down. Milton Williams won clean like four times in
this game against Anthony Bradford. He got one sack, but
on a couple others, Bradford makes a miss, makes a
completion to get a first down, to get three points
on that drive. Another one where he makes Milton Williams miss,
he scrambles, gets a first down. They get three points
on those drives. Now he was the reason in part
that they didn't get seven. Like he misses the throw

(29:53):
to Cup pretty wide open, right.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
In the red zone. Like there was a couple of
throws that he did miss.

Speaker 5 (30:00):
But I thought he played loose for what it's worth
for the whole night and like played his normal game.
Let's listen to Sam Donald on the field. Colleen's guy,
I mean a lot of people's guy, but a man
that we've had a sound drop for a long time
on this show that I got to try to say
live to the man himself. We are here with super

(30:23):
Bowl champion Sam Donald. Unreal run.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
How does that feel to hear that Super Bowl champion
Sam Donald?

Speaker 12 (30:31):
Yeah, it's pretty special, man, you know, just the crazy
ride that it has been for myself. You know, I
can talk forever about my teammates in that locker room,
but yeah, I mean it feels pretty pretty good.

Speaker 6 (30:44):
People want to hear about yourself.

Speaker 5 (30:46):
Now you talk about yourself, because I feel like people,
whether it was with the Jets throughout your career like Minnesota,
certainly like they feel invested in you because I think
they like you as a person and that your teammates
like you as a person. So give yourself maybe a
little bit to talk just about like maybe what that
means for all of them to get to watch you
do this too.

Speaker 12 (31:05):
Yeah, it's uh, you know, I think hopefully it just
inspires them, not only them, but other people you know,
in the NFL, in the world, just to be able to,
you know, keep your head down and go to work.
And you know, as long as you work hard, you
know good things will happen. And even if they don't,
just continue to put your head down and go to work.

Speaker 9 (31:22):
Sam, I think, speaking as someone who just watches on
the outside, you have been the guy who has taken
some adversity and just kept on showing up. When at
what point did you realize in your career not only
you were going to be that guy and continue to
be that guy, but also to be here right now
when at a certain point maybe it felt like it
might never happen.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
For you.

Speaker 13 (31:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (31:44):
Again, like I said, I just kept my head down.
And you know, even this whole season, you know, it's
a long season. You know we had to buy going
into the playoffs that felt like forever. And then you
know this too, these two weeks leading up to the
super Bowl, that felt like forever. So it was just like,
as a team, like we just stuck with our process
and we did what we do throughout the week and

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we looked up. We were Okay, we're here, We're playing
the game. Now we can focus on the game and
everything because there's a lot that comes with this game, obviously,
with media obligations and things like that. But it was
just a once we got to the game and we
were able to kick the ball off, it just felt
like we were doing exactly what we were supposed to do,
and you know, that's uh, that's why we do it.

Speaker 5 (32:25):
The first couple of throws that you had, that that
throw to CuPy, even the first down that you had
before that, I was thinking early on, we're gonna get
to see, like how you're feeling. How did those particular
throws feel on that first drive.

Speaker 12 (32:38):
Yeah, it felt pretty good. I think there were definitely
some nerves, but that's like any any other game. But yeah,
the throw felt pretty good. I think Coop made a
heck of a play on that to come down with it.
But yeah, I think also I missed a few throws
that I'd like to have back. But again, every single
every single time we feel like we needed a you know,
a jolt, our defense was able to step up and

(33:00):
make a big play for us.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (33:01):
I was gonna say, it's nice to say. I know
you mean it when you say it, too, but you'd
like to have some of those back. But you're the one.
You're wearing the hat right now, my friend, so you
maybe not this game back. Overall, I want to know
what did you learn about your teammates getting to know
them this year? I know you want to talk about them.
What is the thing that resonates to you when you
the first thing you think of when you think of them.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
Shoot, that's a great question. I think.

Speaker 12 (33:23):
Just resilient, Like we've all we've all been here.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
You know.

Speaker 12 (33:28):
Our coach put up a slide last night getting ready
for this game, and he just it was actually Ai.
It was all these different roads going to Seattle, and
Seattle was like surrounded by a lake, which it is,
but it was just it like clicked for me. It
was like all all these people in this room, these

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defensive guys, everyone in the building has had different paths
to get them to this moment, and you know that's
just it's special to be able to play with a
lot of guys where you know this, this means something
to guys. I feel like sometimes you can come to
work and it's just another day at work, and you
know you get to go home and be at home
after that. But it's like, no, we give one hundred

(34:08):
percent effort every single day for our teammates, and you know,
I think that's why it means so much to be
able to play with guys like that.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
I have the best question for you all night, because
it's the last one. I have it on good authority.
You're getting out of here right now. So what's that's
what Sam doing right now?

Speaker 3 (34:22):
Are they yelling at you again?

Speaker 6 (34:23):
I mean they said, this is it, this is the
last one and we're getting them out of here.

Speaker 12 (34:27):
Oh no, man, drink some beers, drink some tequila.

Speaker 7 (34:32):
Oh is this supposed to be PG?

Speaker 6 (34:35):
I said, tonight, you better going home.

Speaker 12 (34:37):
Yeah, I'm probably just gonna go home after this and
watch the office. You know, I'm going to celebrate with
my teammates and my family and friends that were able
to come to the game.

Speaker 6 (34:45):
Enjoy it. Thanks Sam.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Easy to feel just happy for the guy that, like.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
Everyone that's played with them probably loves them for a reason,
Like they're they're not all lying, you know. They they
love this dude, and he's a Seahawks legend forever, Like
he's a super Bowl winning quarterback forever, and they're thrilled
to have him, and he's got to be the guy
that leads their team for a while.

Speaker 4 (35:12):
So shout out to Sam Donald. I doubted you, you know.

Speaker 5 (35:16):
I did not think that he could get to this
moment necessarily, and he did it. And I believed in
this team all year, which the head of their you know,
press department, the PR department reminded me on the field
right before giving us McDonald and donald that, hey, man,
you've been picking us all year. You've known since October

(35:38):
you've been with us. I've really appreciated that. Why did
you pick us against us tonight?

Speaker 9 (35:44):
Dave Pearson kind of a big deal was standing a
good fifteen feet away from Greg and pointed at him.
It was incredible.

Speaker 4 (35:52):
I watch you. I watched you on game debut in
the picture. You knew, you knew we were good. You
actually got us, and then you don't pick us now.
And I'm like, did you look at him?

Speaker 7 (35:59):
And I'm sorry, I'm a mask.

Speaker 6 (36:01):
I said.

Speaker 5 (36:02):
I grew up there. I had to go there. I
had to go with the heart. But look, it wasn't
the head. The Seahawks deserve it, champions. Let's take a
quick break and we'll come back with more.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
After second down and three steps up in the pocket,
gonna let one fly down the seamen.

Speaker 3 (36:24):
It's intercepted coming.

Speaker 6 (36:26):
Back near side forty forty.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Five midfield Julian Love forty steps out of bounds on
the near sideline in front of the Patriots bench.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
Julian Love.

Speaker 5 (36:39):
So that interception by Julian Love really is what ended
the game.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
It's with eight minutes and forty nine seconds to go.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
The Patriots did worse pun than score a touchdown in
the fourth quarter. That there were so many points heat
in the fourth quarter of this game. We entered at
what twelve to nothing, and then the seventeen to thirteen
score in the fourth quarter May throws probably the best
two balls that either quarterback threw all night, back to

(37:09):
back out of nowhere, Like a pass over the middle
that was what to.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Digs over the middle.

Speaker 5 (37:16):
That I just was like a C and I hole
shot was like, oh, there's the Drake May and then
a bomb to MATC Collins for the touchdown. You're like, Okay,
they cut it to two scores, they get a stop,
they get the ball back. In another world where the
Patriots offense was actually playing like, well, down two scores,
ten minutes to go. Isn't that crazy? That Julian love

(37:36):
Thing puts it away. And one of the reasons why
like the game was out of reach at that point
is because the Seahawks were able to get explosives on offense,
and they did it with Super Bowl MVP Ken Walker.
How about that man making some money tonight and one
of the most fun running backs in the league to
watch kind of having his moment in the biggest of stage.
At one point he had as many he had more

(37:59):
yards than the rest of his team combined and the
Patriots combined.

Speaker 9 (38:02):
It's so crazy, And Greg, we were talking about this
when we were kind of waiting to go on to
the field in the fourth quarter and in the bowels
of the stadium. Their success rate was pretty bad, like
he was. He was pretty bad success rate wise, It
was just a twenty nine point six percent success rate
running the ball per next Gen Stats. But the thing
that really differentiated Ken Walker tonight was the explosive runs,

(38:23):
which really set Sam Darnold and the rest of the
offense up to get those field goals and to put
it go ahead twelve nothing in the first place. And
then also the way that he moves. It's so crucial
to like the ethos of what this offense wants to do,
because he will be patient, he'll almost wait and almost

(38:46):
just like hold the ball in one hand and then
he'll stretch you to the side, or he'll stretch you
to the other perimeter. He can run between the tackles,
we know that. But the way he just like sort
of flows side to side and back and forth when
he's trying to hit these perimeter runs in particular, really
sets the stage for those play action shots over the

(39:06):
seam that Sam Darnold came out swinging later in the
game after a couple possessions. Tried to hit that one
to Rashid Shaheed that Christian Gonzales broke up by like
a fingertip, and all of that was set up by
the fact that they had been flowing the Patriots defense
from side to side and because of the way that
Kenneth Walker was running and when he would hit hit

(39:28):
those explosives, it immediately set them up for success, at
least for a field goal.

Speaker 8 (39:32):
Yeah, it was so funny how they came out with
that intent offensively from the beginning. It was getting the
run action going early, whether it was handing off Kenneth Walker,
having the fake on the reverse, somebody coming around in motion.

Speaker 7 (39:44):
And still going through that.

Speaker 8 (39:45):
In fact, they essentially did that type of pre snap
motion and postnat motion as well, where they're handing it
off to him, but that guy's still coming around the
backside multi times.

Speaker 7 (39:53):
They're never really tossing it to him.

Speaker 8 (39:54):
Then they toss it to him once, but before they
toss it to him, they were goun a play action
where they fake it to ken Walker and the toss
and then Darnold drops back and tries to throw a pass.

Speaker 7 (40:01):
There.

Speaker 8 (40:02):
They had so many avenues that they could travel with
this offense, and it all starts with Ken Walker and
The thing about this that to again back to our
previous show where we thought about, all right, what's the
real difference between these teams, because they're both very sound
and they both have, you know, pretty solid schemes, but
there was a talent difference, and I felt like the
Patriots sound tacklers felt like they were just disclosed and

(40:25):
couldn't close the deal defensively all night. And it was
because of ken Walker's running style, where he's sneaky, elusive,
He's able to go one way, bend it back the other.
He's able to take a handoff that's a designed misdirection
or it's a design situation which he's running inside and
he's got to read which way he's going, and kiris
Tonga tries to shed this way, And as soon as
kiris Tonga tries to shed this way, ken Walker goes
the other way and rips off a nice little chunk

(40:46):
up the middle. No matter whether it was wide, it
was inside. His ability as a runner, his vision, his
explosiveness elevated that offense and really powered him to the
MVV performance.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
Look, the first play of the game was a ten
yard run by by Walker. Yeah, I just felt like, oh,
that's a bad sign.

Speaker 6 (41:02):
That was a.

Speaker 5 (41:04):
Yeah like that, that was that was an omen And
there was a drive where he hits a thirty yard
run and then a twenty nine yard run back to back,
the one where he goes up the sideline and keeps his.

Speaker 8 (41:15):
And on that play there, I thought Barber was gonna
cut it off in the backfield. He's this close, he misses.
You think he's gonna get cut at the edge. He
gets around the edge.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
I mean, he so often goes against the grain of
what's blocked and doesn't do what's called that. It cracked
me up that there was a play in the second
half where he did exactly that, except the Patriots like
didn't even go where the play was going to go
because they were waiting for him to go where the
play wasn't supposed to go, and he ran into like
a three yard loss. They were all waiting for it.
It's like, we're on to you. But by then it's

(41:44):
too it was too late. He had made too many
big plays. I do think we should give the Patriots
defense some credit because, look, Christian Gonzales had a an awesome.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
Team touchdowns, you know, three passes defense.

Speaker 5 (41:57):
Some of the you know, most beautiful like diving past
defense that you ever want to see. He traveled with
Jackson Smith and Jigba for much of the game. JSN
had twenty seven yards on ten targets. So one of
the least effective things that the Seahawks did tonight was
throw the ball to Jackson Smith.

Speaker 8 (42:15):
In legacy Patriots defense, going back to the Belichick days,
sometimes he would go into these matchups to just eliminate
the best receiver from the game.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
Though it wasn't like that complicated for the most part.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
It wasn't always it wasn't always Gonzales, but that that
play at the end of the half, which maybe that
was one of the throws Sam Donald was talking about,
But I actually think it was just a better defensive
play than it was a bad throw by Darnald.

Speaker 4 (42:35):
Oh.

Speaker 5 (42:35):
It was a fantastic third of the field to cover
and no one else is over there the whole time, and.

Speaker 9 (42:41):
He took a hit. Welly threw it too. Yeah like
it he you are talking about the pass breakup that
Christian zalesh Yes.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
But also just like the fact that you know he
has a third of the field to cover with JSN,
who tries to put the move that he's going to
go to the outside. Goaz Alas never bites on it,
and it's just there aren't many cornerbacks in the league
that could do that.

Speaker 9 (42:58):
Yeah, it just it was really cool watching him play.
And then really the Patriots defense, you said at the
very top of the show, Greg, I do think that
they showed up like a championship caliber team would show up.
They it was clear from the beginning that and you
mentioned the perimeter run with Kenneth Walker and we were
kind of laughing about it because it's like, yeah, of

(43:19):
course you're gonna run away from where Milton Williams is
right and where that great defensive interior is right. And
they were getting pressure on Sam Donald. They were blitzing
a ton, which they've been doing at about a forty
percent rate since Week fourteen. Anyway, they were up to
like seventy percent at one point during the game. Dipped
a little bit back down Sam Donald. Really Sam Donald

(43:41):
was really struggling against the blitz in the first half.
He was blitzed on twelve of twist twenty two dropbacks
per next Gen pressured six times total, completed just five
of those blitz dropbacks, and there were nine. He was
pressured nine total times at half, with six of those
coming off the blitz. So yeah, it got to him
and it has now. He wasn't sacked during that time,

(44:03):
but it did hassle him. It did get to him,
and you could tell that this was something that the
Patriots were just going to be as aggressive as they
possibly could, knowing that they had guys like Christian Gonzalez
who could cover so well, it's excited.

Speaker 5 (44:14):
It's a team game, like when the Patriots defense was
on the field and the Seahawks defense was on the field,
if this was a boxing match, like there was no knockout.
But in the end, like the judges scored it to
to one for the Patriots, the Patriots won that battle. Ultimately,
they gave up one touchdown in what thirteen drives, and
that one touchdown was a thirty seven yard drive, Like

(44:37):
they just gave up field goals and most of.

Speaker 4 (44:39):
Them weren't even long drives.

Speaker 5 (44:40):
But ultimately, like, yeah, it's all for you units and
including special teams, which wasn't a huge factor today, that matters.
And on the other side of the ball, it was
a second round knockout, and maybe not even second round, Yes,
it was Mike Tyson versus Michael Spinks, and they just
wanted to get out of the ring as soon as possible,
and you know, if it was the boxing match, collect

(45:01):
their paycheck. Let's talk to some of the defenders that were,
you know, knocking.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
The Patriots out.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
We got to talk to one of the best young
defensive players in the league in Byron Murphy, and we
also talked to Jaron Reid. I really enjoyed both of
these interviews. Let's listen to the read one first. So
you're going to hear these back to back. Jordan and
I talking to Reed and Murphy on the field after
the game.

Speaker 6 (45:27):
I got a mic for you.

Speaker 9 (45:29):
Hold it a little higher because it's a little quiet,
little further so we're not.

Speaker 5 (45:35):
All right, we are here with Sharon Reed of the
Seattle Seahawks, a big part of tonight's dominant defensive line performance.
At what point in the game did you realize that
you had the number of the men across from you and.

Speaker 11 (45:52):
I mean, look, we were speaking now, well, we knew
from the beginning we just go out to NBLS, then
we could dominate this game.

Speaker 14 (45:58):
What's that feeling like? Collect you guys rushed with violence,
with purpose, with a little joy too. I like to
think what when that all connects?

Speaker 9 (46:06):
What that feel like?

Speaker 11 (46:07):
Man?

Speaker 3 (46:07):
Feels good. It's just a testamate to how we work
every day.

Speaker 11 (46:10):
You know, we're well connected off the field, and we
talk with each other every day. All we gotta do
is be us, rush together, talk, communicate. We'll have a
great game.

Speaker 5 (46:17):
You've been a long time sea hockey, You've been there,
you've been Elsa and now you're back. What does it
mean to you to win this title as a guy
who stayed with the Seahawks all this time?

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Hey, man, it means everything.

Speaker 11 (46:28):
Man, being drafted here in twenty sixteen, you know I
was going for two years, but this is where my
heart at. Man, this is my home. You know I
belong here, and to bring the super Bowl back here
means everything. Like, I got so many emotions, I overt
know what to feel right now?

Speaker 14 (46:40):
Well, we can see it in your eyes now, how
powerful this this feeling is, Because there.

Speaker 9 (46:45):
Must have been a time where you wonder if it
would ever come right. I know you're standing here, looks
behind you right now.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
Oh yeah, that's.

Speaker 11 (46:53):
A beautiful feeling, man, That's a beautiful feeling everything.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
We work for.

Speaker 11 (46:56):
Man, we work so hard. People don't understand how we
work and we deserve it. A man every bit you uh, you.

Speaker 5 (47:02):
Put a defensive performance, really a season that everyone's gonna remember.
What what are you gonna remember most about this group
of players?

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Man, just altogetherness, believe it or not.

Speaker 11 (47:12):
The way we shadow box our lingo, how we talk
everything is it some of the lingo?

Speaker 3 (47:17):
I cate, Man, I ha't you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 11 (47:20):
It's just an inside thing. You gotta be inside the walls.
But you know it's a special scene.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Man.

Speaker 11 (47:24):
What connected on all levels from the quarterback to the
D line to the office of line, so the seavers
DB's Man, we are a true family.

Speaker 6 (47:31):
When did you.

Speaker 9 (47:31):
Guys turn from This is a really great defense to
the dark Side.

Speaker 11 (47:36):
That happened Now, I think we knew it all alone,
and like I said, everybody always you know, we had
a groove chat called the dark Side, but we had
an identity.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
We had to put a name to it. And now
you see why.

Speaker 5 (47:46):
Yeah, John Schneider drafted him in twenty sixteen, brought him back,
and now forever he is a super Bowl champion. Jared
Reed tell us about what it is like to be
a super Bowl champion.

Speaker 11 (47:58):
Man, I can't even put it into words. It's the
best feeling in the world though, I'll tell you that much.
And I just want to give our word to God.
You know, without him, none of this is not possible.
So I just want to give a shout out to
God my family for you know, to support me, you know,
being on his journey with me. And man, I'm gonna
it feel good. It feel good to be a super
Bowl champ.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
You're two. It's a blessing.

Speaker 14 (48:20):
This team felt so connected all year and obviously that
the defense has led the way and been such a
backbone for this entire group.

Speaker 9 (48:29):
But the connectedness on in every phase. What's that been
like for you?

Speaker 14 (48:33):
And seeing it, I mean most behind you right now,
like seeing it manifest like that.

Speaker 9 (48:38):
What is it like right now?

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (48:40):
Man?

Speaker 11 (48:40):
Oh, it's a great feeling, especially when we know, we
know you put in the work you know, to to
you know, to be to be in this moment.

Speaker 3 (48:48):
You know, since throughout all seasons, throughout is.

Speaker 11 (48:51):
Trying to count you know, just what we trained for
and you know we got when the opportunity to present
usaid we know we took it. Now we're Super Bowl chuns,
man So and all the gods. You know, I feel
like everybody had one goal. We all bought in, we
all bought into the program. You know, everybody wanted to
win a Super Bowl. Everybody put all their eggs in
one basket.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
We just rolled.

Speaker 6 (49:10):
Man, You're like a kind of serious defensive linement.

Speaker 13 (49:14):
Like everyone knows Byron Murphy, like he's better even than
the Numbers show.

Speaker 6 (49:19):
But tonight you got to have some numbers.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
Go get the quarterback out of that feel on the
biggest game?

Speaker 11 (49:23):
All right, so good, you know, getting you know, getting
two sacks and the biggest, you know, the biggest game
in the world.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
That's something I'll never forget, man So.

Speaker 11 (49:31):
And also to I just want to give a shout
out to my shout out to my teammates and the
guys that I was rushing with, man so if it
went for them, I would be able to get them
two sacks.

Speaker 3 (49:39):
So just rushing as one.

Speaker 14 (49:40):
Hey, I want to I want to ask you about
some of these really funky, cool pressures that you guys
have been drawn up all year. There was one tonight
that got spoon free off the edge for a pressure,
and it was too defensive.

Speaker 9 (49:52):
Lineman, you guys looking like you're gonna go in and
penetrate up up the middle and then popping back the
athleticism that you guys collected, we have to be able
to do something like that kind of everybody eats, even
if it's a corner. Who's you know, finally getting his
time to do it too. What are those designs like
for you and and really thriving with those athletics athleticism.

(50:13):
Mike McDonald loves to build created.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Yeah, Hey, I call him Mike. I called Mike the Wizard.

Speaker 11 (50:18):
You know, I feel like he'd be you know, he
put us in the best positions to make plays and
also so I just feel like he'd be knowing to
play before it happened.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
So, man, when.

Speaker 11 (50:26):
School came free and you know, and got the second,
I don't even surprised, Like I know when it when
he died, when he downed up, it's gonna work one
hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
You know.

Speaker 11 (50:35):
I don't never have no doubt, you know, in his
play calls or anything. So when you know, when when
he called, when the play call came in, I knew
something was gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (50:44):
What did it feel like tonight in the huddle on
the sideline.

Speaker 6 (50:48):
You know, I know they got a couple of scores.

Speaker 13 (50:49):
Lately you have them with no no points on the
board through three quarters? Like, what was that feeling amongst
you guys and as you're trying to pull off history?

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Oh, I just felt good.

Speaker 8 (50:57):
You know.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
We just kept telling, you know, just up telling each other.

Speaker 11 (51:00):
You know, the defense. You know that no, we're not
gonna allow them to you know, to pistol drop. You know,
we want to come out here. You know, obviously we
didn't get the shut out, but you know that's what
we want it. But man, just just playing great defense
and playing great team ball. Man, that's that's all we
wanted to come out here and do it, just you know,
ap proofs of the world, you know, with a defense
in the world.

Speaker 14 (51:17):
Man, and you're you're so young, Yeah, to contribute the
way that you did tonight. I mean we talked about stats,
but even the unseen things, you know, the pressures and
getting other guys free, building as a team to contribute
like this at such a young age. Does it feel
like the rest of the world is open to you
now at this point?

Speaker 9 (51:35):
What does this feel like.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
It feels amazing just be able to you know, contribute,
to contribute to the team and help my team win. No,
that's all I care about.

Speaker 11 (51:44):
You know, I don't care about none of the personal
stats or anything like that. I know that's gonna come.
I just cared about my team and help my team win.
That's all I care about. That's all that matters to me.

Speaker 9 (51:54):
Oh yeah, yes, we did.

Speaker 6 (51:57):
We did, Murphy. You wanted to be with the best
the world. They are the best in the world tonight.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
Just an awesome performance by that defense on the field
and in front of the microphone.

Speaker 9 (52:09):
Yeah, and for the listeners. Greg does often remind me
that this is some for many of you in audio medium.
Uh we they these guys are understandable, They're they're really
emotional when they when they come talk to us. They
just won the freaking Super Bowl. So of course we
have this massive graphic banner behind us on the JumboTron
that says Super Bowl sixty champion Seattle Seahawks. So I'm like, man, look,

(52:31):
can you look at that for a second as you're
talking and then realizing after the fact that our listeners
are not aware of what's happening, and they're just I'm
just telling guys to turn around and look at something
behind themselves. Don't watch the YouTube, go watch the YouTube
of the mind. But it was it was a really
cool thing. And I really like talking to Duran Reid
because it was like he didn't think that this would

(52:54):
ever be possible for him at a certain point, and
he could feel you could see it all over his
face as he kind of processed it.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
He's a guy too that you know, has been a
role player. He's kind of one of those guys that
Seahawks fans know that will always hold him in a
special place, a role player for a long time that
they gave like a smart, short, pretty sizable term contract
to keep him around, kind of as like a seventh
defensive lineman. And and that's why you give John Schneider

(53:21):
so much credit for building this team. You know, DeMarcus
Lawrence leads them in pressures tonight as a as a
free agent pickup, and uh, just just all the.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
Moves that that came up big.

Speaker 5 (53:31):
And in the end, when you look back at at
like how this season played out, how we were kind
of like, man, was that NFC championship?

Speaker 4 (53:38):
The Super Bowl is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it.

Speaker 7 (53:40):
Was, and we knew it in the moment.

Speaker 8 (53:41):
But I got to give a shout to DeMarcus Lawrence
because well, you're right, but we'll move past that. DeMarcus
Lawrence who leaves the Cowboys and leaves with the parting
shot of yeah, Dallas is my home. I love everybody there,
but I knew I was never gonna win a super
Bowl with them. Immediately goes and wins to the Super
Bowl with the Sea. Congrats to you, sir for dunking

(54:02):
on the.

Speaker 9 (54:02):
Cowgary love good manifestation right there, big victory.

Speaker 7 (54:05):
Yes, yes, that's on his vision board.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
And it's true.

Speaker 5 (54:07):
If like, if people are going to give titles so
much weight when doing quarterback, hell, let's let's make defensive
end wins a thing. Marcus Sorence's Hall of Fame candidacy
should should go up quite a bit after.

Speaker 8 (54:20):
I got After this, I gotta give another shout out
to in a losing performance, because I'm sitting there up
in our press seats that are getting roasted by the
sun for the first quarter and a half. It's a
miracle as a bald man that I don't look like
a tomato right now. For those of you watching on
YouTube for those of you listening, just imagine it. But
I'm sitting there thinking, you know, Craig Woodson's having a

(54:41):
pretty good first after Yeah, and I think ken Walker
might have had a rushing touchdown or two if it
wasn't for Craig Woodson. And so even in a losing performance,
a hell of a rookie season by that guy. Somebody
who one of his teammates said on opening night, if
there's one household name that becomes a household name during
the Super Bowl from that defense, it would be Craig Woodson.

Speaker 7 (54:58):
We'll forget about it.

Speaker 8 (55:00):
In the footnotes, but his performance was deserving of that,
much like a lot of this Patriots defense that we
just covered already. They deserved better. But unfortunately for them,
football is a three phases game.

Speaker 5 (55:10):
Yeah, and it's a huge missed opportunity. They got to
this point there a lot came together for them to
get to this point. They were not a complete team.
Like if they are gonna be a great team under
Mike Vrabel, it might look a little more like the Sean.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
McDermott Bills build, where like you had.

Speaker 5 (55:30):
That first year, but you still had a lot of
pieces that you needed to add to that because a
lot of these guys are short term players and they
got to this point and they're gonna still have to
really build a nucleus that gets better. So this this
is not their final form. But they also had like
an incredible opportunity to just go win one game and
they learned they really weren't in the class of where

(55:53):
the Seahawks were at. And to me, those are you know,
as a fan, and I don't know if that were
as a player, maybe easier to swallow, just because I
think you looked at them tonight and you just kind
of accepted, like, yeah, they're not that good. They're they're
they're a they had a great season, but they weren't
like a super Bowl champion in waiting.

Speaker 4 (56:14):
The Seahawks have much more of that luck.

Speaker 9 (56:16):
Well, I think it's it's time for them to be
honest about all of that, right and it'll sting for
a while, but as they go into the off season,
be really honest about where the deficiencies actually were, the
difference between luck and schedule and and explosive moments that
that worked in their favor because they all executed at
the same time, very very well or all of these

(56:38):
little things, these little moments that happen in infinite fashion
over the course of a season. To look at those
things and say, Okay, this is actually a legitimate problem.
I would point to the offensive line here, the run game.
These are legitimate problems. Okay, maybe the defenses beyond expectations,
are above expectations. Certainly, the quarterback is who he is

(56:59):
as long as he doesn't have more repeat performances of
what happened to him tonight. It's one of those things
where the Seahawks were really honest with themselves last year.
The Seahawks were really honest with themselves when Mike McDonald
decided that he was going to fire Ryan Grubb and
bring in Clint Kubiak as his new offensive coordinator to
piece together little additions or cuts to the roster. They

(57:22):
cut their tight one of their long time not long time,
but it had been there for a couple of years
tight ends. At the beginning of the season, everyone lost
their minds. Well, they were moving in a new direction
with Clint Kubiak because of the vision that they had
and what they were not the previous year. And so
that's where the Patriots now have to go. They have
to look at the way that they got here and
it's great, and I think they can feel really good

(57:43):
about that. But similar to exactly what this super Bowl
winning Seahawks team did last year, really look at their
flaws or where they're at or below average, and I
don't think they're that far away from getting back here.

Speaker 4 (57:55):
You got to get more.

Speaker 5 (57:56):
Even though the defense played great, they got to get
you know, they need to find more core young pieces,
get more athletic on defense, They need to get the
offensive line, and they still need to upgrade the people
around Drink May. The best thing that they're going to
have to feel about Drake May, and this is going
to be a big thing for him to overcome, is
that he's twenty three years old.

Speaker 4 (58:14):
That he's two years.

Speaker 5 (58:16):
Younger than you know, Jayden Daniels and bow Knicks and
all these other compatriots. And he got to this place
a little ahead of schedule. But what is he going
to be like as a player when he is twenty
five twenty six, when he has more experience at the
pro level. And it's a lot to come back fromm
because he was not good in these playoffs, and I
think he'll own that.

Speaker 7 (58:36):
Yeah, I think you will.

Speaker 4 (58:37):
There.

Speaker 8 (58:37):
The beauty of life and the beauty of losses is
that you can learn a lot from them, right.

Speaker 7 (58:43):
And the two beauties in this is that.

Speaker 8 (58:45):
Drake May is on a rookie contract and you just
had the most cap space in the league that you
spent like crazy because you had to last year. And
it's also that you're all going to learn from this
experience Drake May, especially in how overwhelmed he was by
the defense that he faced, which we may look back
five ten years and I be like, that was an
all time great defense and it obviously you know, he
drowned it tonight, But looks.

Speaker 5 (59:07):
I don't need to look back like DVOA had them
going into this game as a top ten, top like
six overall team of the last thirty years.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
I do think it's historic defense.

Speaker 9 (59:16):
They went and spent, and they spent and they spent,
and one of the positions that they went and spent
on was at center, and Garrett Bradbury was not their
first choice at center. They went after Coleman Shelton, who
the Rams brought in to help take some of the pressure.
Looks that Matthew Stafford was starting to see a lot
of courtesy of what everyone had seen Mike McDonald's defense

(59:40):
due to him in the various pollinations of that defense,
due to him. They brought him back in because he
needed actually, and he would tell that say this to
you wanted. Just just because you can see all of
it and direct all of it, doesn't mean you should
always have to e Your center has to pick up
a lot of that stuff. And you think about these
little moments that happen when a team is being built
over the course of months and months and months at

(01:00:02):
a time. And I think that when you are looking
at that decision, you're looking at a couple of other
decisions here, and they're drafting Will Campbell's is one of them. You,
if you're the Patriots heer, Mike Varabel, you are putting
your Mike McDonald hat on right now and looking at
things multiple years in a row, and especially in a
game like this where you can point out specifically where
things went wrong. Oh, our quarterback's awesome. Maybe we shouldn't

(01:00:24):
ask him to handle those types of looks all by
himself as often as we do. You know that these
are the types of things to build off of.

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
So we talked about the changes in Seattle, and Clint
Kubiak was obviously one of the biggest ones. Both he
and Rashid Jaheed arrive in Seattle, you know about what
nine months apart. He comes during the season, Clint Kubiak
comes in January, and it ends up just one year

(01:00:52):
for Clint Kubiak with the Seahawks. He did confirm to
our Stacy Dales. Of course he is becoming the Raiders
head coach. And look, he's going to have a busy
week ahead. I don't know if he's even gonna find
time to go to the parade because he's got a
whole staff to hire. We talked to Clint Kubiak on
the field after the game. We are here with Clint Kubiak,

(01:01:13):
super Bowl champion, offensive coordinator of the Seattle Seahawks.

Speaker 6 (01:01:18):
You've obviously been in football, take a long time.

Speaker 5 (01:01:20):
How did you just hear it to here, to hear
the word super Bowl champion?

Speaker 6 (01:01:24):
Clint Kubiak, Yeah, really cool. It's a blessing.

Speaker 15 (01:01:27):
We're on a great team, great organization, so just really
fortunate to be able to work here this year.

Speaker 9 (01:01:33):
I want to start with Sam Darnold where we must start,
because what a journey for him. There was this like
radical positivity coming through your building all all this time
about Sam, about what he could accomplish in the belief
that you guys had in him. What does it mean
for you to see him on stage like that after
this Super Bowl win?

Speaker 15 (01:01:52):
This is good to see, you know, good things happen
to good people. Sam's been working his tailof He's been
through adversity, he kept fighting through it, and uh, he's.

Speaker 6 (01:02:00):
A world champion now. So uh, it's really fortunate to
work with him.

Speaker 15 (01:02:04):
He's a he's a stout of a player, and you know,
for the moment that he got here in April, all
he's done is elevate our team.

Speaker 6 (01:02:11):
So you know, I'm proud of him.

Speaker 9 (01:02:13):
He's just stud schematically. You guys won in so many
different ways this year on offense, and we love watching
your defense all year, of course, but you problem solved
a lot with your offense, whether it was first the
explosive pass game, off that play action, the run game
really getting going. You guys found some creativity with the
perimeter runs. What was it like to problem solve with
this group, with these players, with Sam and Ken Walker?

Speaker 15 (01:02:34):
Oh, I mean that's that's the name of the game,
you know. And every time you started doing something well,
someone takes it away and you gotta find new ways
to win. So we just have a really good roster.
I mean, John Snyder has a deep roster here with
a really great talent. And uh, you know, he allowed
allowed us to come here and coach, bring some coaches
from New Orleans, and uh, it's really grateful for him

(01:02:55):
and Mike bringing me here here.

Speaker 5 (01:02:58):
Your father obviously like experience so much, you know, as
a head coach. How is it gonna be to share
this experience for you with with him?

Speaker 15 (01:03:08):
Yeah, I just saw him on the field, you know,
ten years ago. You know, I got to give him
a hug after they want it all.

Speaker 6 (01:03:13):
And so the only only way.

Speaker 15 (01:03:14):
To describe that is is from God. You know, It's
a blessing. There's no other reason to describe all the
great things that happened this year.

Speaker 9 (01:03:21):
I mean, what kind of bragging rights do you have
over your brothers? Though at this point?

Speaker 15 (01:03:26):
Oh you know what, I saw my brother a minute
ago too, he was here supporting us. We know how
fortunate we are to get to grow up in this
in this business, and now to get to experience this
as a real blessing.

Speaker 9 (01:03:37):
Clinton, I know you you're gonna celebrate tonight all of that.
You know, I have to ask the rest of your life,
the rest of your head coaching career comes after this.
How are you feeling about it right now?

Speaker 15 (01:03:48):
Yeah, I'm a I'm gonna I'm an seahawk all night tonight.
I'm gonna celebrate with these guys because, uh, you know,
we deserve that. We worked our tail off and you know,
whatever happens next will happen. But I want to celebrate
with our guys tonight.

Speaker 13 (01:04:01):
Speaking of celebrating like you're running back, Kenneth Walker is
going to be a Super Bowl MVP the rest of
his life.

Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
He also has an uncertain the future, but he gets
to enjoy us. What's it like coaching him? Because sometimes
watching him, he doesn't always run the same way.

Speaker 13 (01:04:14):
It looks like the play it's supposed to be called,
but damn that it doesn't work.

Speaker 6 (01:04:19):
A lot of the times, like tonight.

Speaker 15 (01:04:21):
Yeah, Well, I would say Canine is another great success
story because he was hurt, you know, in training camp,
and he really just played his best football towards the
end of the season. So we don't make this run
without him in the playoffs, and and you're right. He
has a crazy little running style, but he's a supreme athlete,
really gifted, and he's got a hard as big as
a stadium.

Speaker 6 (01:04:40):
So we all love him. We're all proud of him.

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
Klint Kobiak newly crowned champion. He's a seahawk for tonight.
Go enjoy it.

Speaker 6 (01:04:47):
Thank you'll appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:48):
Okay, we are wrapping up our twenty twenty five season
in this wild little trailer.

Speaker 4 (01:04:56):
Bigger than last year, next to the substation.

Speaker 5 (01:04:59):
Everyone did a great job setting up Bad Bunny thought
that was great, excellent, Not that I, you know, am
overly familiar, but just like the set design and everything
just kind.

Speaker 9 (01:05:11):
Of Lady Gaga came out.

Speaker 5 (01:05:13):
It's always like a better TV show than it is
like a live production. But the TV, you know, we
had the copy in front of us, looked absolutely great.

Speaker 4 (01:05:21):
The TV.

Speaker 5 (01:05:22):
Did doc get to see the streaker that my son
Walker videotape running onto the field.

Speaker 4 (01:05:28):
Maybe I'll put that one out.

Speaker 7 (01:05:29):
On a journalist Walker social.

Speaker 5 (01:05:31):
He apparently that was like, yeah, his favorite moment of
the entire game was Kyle Williams, you know, tracking down
that that streaker of the street.

Speaker 4 (01:05:38):
You can't really call him streaker because he.

Speaker 7 (01:05:40):
Was no actually, he wasn't a streaker.

Speaker 8 (01:05:41):
He was a shirtless man running across the field with
with remarkable speed for a quote unquote streaker and also
understands better than some quarterbacks who will not be named,
how to protect himself because as soon as he saw
Kyle Williams, he immediately slipped.

Speaker 7 (01:05:54):
To the ground.

Speaker 9 (01:05:55):
Yes, it was so funny, because he juked a security
guard to the ground and started running and lifted his
hands up in celebration. The crowd was going nuts for
him after he pulled that move, and Kyle Williams turns
around and he starts running after him. The guy sees
Kyle Williams of the corner of his eye and goes
it clearly goes oh f and slides to the ground

(01:06:15):
like it was. It was an incredible sequence.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
Of events, an incredible just end of the season sequence
for this Seattle Seahawks team, which you know, as recently
as that Thursday night game against the Rams.

Speaker 4 (01:06:31):
You know, entering the fourth quarter, it looked like they would.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
Probably be having to win three games on the road
in a brutal NFC and it all turns around with
that Rashid Shahed punt return touchdown.

Speaker 4 (01:06:46):
And it's crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:06:47):
Shed really only made a handful of plays since he
got to the Seahawks, and literally it feels like those
plays were like the difference between maybe them winning the
Super Bowl and not. And so he was just that last,
that last little land yap added to this mix, and
they will be Super Bowl champions. Rashid Jaheid forever. He's

(01:07:07):
a free agent. Ken Walker's a free agent. We're going
to be diving into that in the off seasons as
they start to finally lose my voice.

Speaker 4 (01:07:15):
We did it, guys. We got to the end.

Speaker 5 (01:07:18):
Any any final thoughts here from the season, not that
we're going away. It's in the title NFL Daily Shookie.
Appreciate you especially.

Speaker 4 (01:07:30):
Coming in off of I'm just saying on.

Speaker 9 (01:07:33):
Tonight, you out.

Speaker 5 (01:07:35):
There and we don't usually we don't usually have you
in person, So I'm just saying, like, it's nice that
you're here.

Speaker 4 (01:07:43):
Come on out to LA I.

Speaker 8 (01:07:46):
Would love to and it's been great to be here
and I can't wait to see how many commenters comment
on my size. I'm a large man in a small chair,
not that small this time.

Speaker 7 (01:07:55):
But I've been very happy to be here.

Speaker 8 (01:07:57):
It's been an absolute pleasure and couldn't do it with
two better people.

Speaker 9 (01:08:01):
Than Yeah, I can't believe we get to do this, honestly,
Like I have several moments every time over the last
couple of years that we've done this that I just
am standing there and thinking, how the heck did I
get to be standing here right now? And a lot
of it's so to you, Greg really and for you
putting a team together and taking a shot on us,
and a lot of people sitting in this trailer right

(01:08:23):
now in production, and and Eric Roberts who had to
listen to me yap the entire game and also freak
out over bad Bunny Billy Joe Armstrong and Lady Gaga
in sequence, and and just everybody excellent. The hair makeup
department really has taken care of us all year, including

(01:08:43):
tonight when just things were flying around chaotically, and like,
just there's a lot of people.

Speaker 4 (01:08:47):
There's just a lot of true that.

Speaker 9 (01:08:52):
There's just a lot of people, you guys, there's just
a lot of people who have taken care of us
all see and continue to do so, and we appreciate them.

Speaker 5 (01:09:03):
Very very much, including getting it's great guests to on
the field. So thanks to everyone who helped, especially with
that match, Schneider and Jay and Kleinman and we got
Drake here along with Eric of course, and Chris Pabona
back in LA getting it done. And yeah, I was
thinking about I'm with you, the excitement and just feeling
a lot of gratitude being able to do this.

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
Maybe it's just me. But what, like, the best part
I think is right.

Speaker 7 (01:09:28):
Before it starts, Oh, can I tell you a story?

Speaker 8 (01:09:31):
Yeah, So this was my sixth Super Bowl, Miami Chief
Centers fifty four was my first, and I'm sitting in
hard Rock Stadium and you feel the swell of energy
before that game and the national anthem plays, and it
hits me like, oh, I'm at the Super Bowl and
I start to get choked up and my eyes start
to water, and I'm thinking that's gonna be like a
one time thing. It has happened to me every super

(01:09:53):
Bowl since, including today, and today was a little bit
different because you know, I lost my dad and it's
the first one without him and everything else.

Speaker 7 (01:09:58):
It was Nick Sirianni big tears going down the face today.

Speaker 8 (01:10:01):
But I cannot express enough how in that moment, I
am just so thankful for having the opportunity to be here.

Speaker 7 (01:10:08):
And to do this with you guys.

Speaker 8 (01:10:10):
It's special and it's cool enough that I end up
on Denzel Warts story.

Speaker 7 (01:10:14):
My sister sends me a DM and that's all because
of you.

Speaker 4 (01:10:17):
Greg.

Speaker 9 (01:10:18):
It's great, that's great. I love it. Yeah, there's nothing
in the world like it, an open air press box.
Even though it burned our faces off, opener press box,
there's nothing in the world like it. It was incredible.
Shout out to the fans who came out. You know,
you worry that this is a corporate event every year.
Well the fans, but it leaned very Seahawks and it

(01:10:38):
was loud.

Speaker 5 (01:10:39):
I know, I was so confused by the week because
walking around San Francisco was so many Patriots fans, but
it was like, oh, no, Seattle. They were all just
flying down or driving down or coming down coming down late.
And because that thing was so loud. When the Patriots
had the ball, they were overwhelmed. I mean, frankly, they
wanted it more. But yes, your dad, right, your dad

(01:11:02):
would be really proud of you. Yeah, appreciate and yeah,
I was thinking that right right as it was getting going,
and and part of it, yes, is the flyover and
you know, the anthem and all that.

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
But it's more like we got here.

Speaker 5 (01:11:15):
Every year that we get to go do another one
of these games is a victory too.

Speaker 4 (01:11:20):
And I think it is a thing in life.

Speaker 5 (01:11:21):
It's kind of like, why when you get off work,
Let's say you have a long weekend, like a three
day weekend, what's the best moment of that three day
week And it's like when you have the most in
front of you, you know, it's Thursday afternoon, right when
you get home. It's why Week one is my favorite
week of the year. I don't care like the play
division on is great. Week one is great and you
get there and it's just the anticipation. It's like we've

(01:11:42):
been waiting all season. We've been waiting all week and
then you're just like, right there in that moment, what
is gonna happen? And what happened is Sam freaking Darnald
won a Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks, an all
time team. Like we'll see if they they back it
up and everything, but I don't need to see more.

(01:12:03):
Like this was a great Seahawks team worthy champions with
some of the best fans out there, and so this
team is going to be celebrating, as Sam said, tonight,
drinking some beers, drinking some tequila, and I know all
the Seahawks fans out there will be doing the same.

Speaker 4 (01:12:20):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (01:12:21):
Shout out to the lady with the square root of
one sign twelve she.

Speaker 5 (01:12:25):
Was a shout out to the guy with the June
minus one number ten Patriots jersey.

Speaker 9 (01:12:31):
Shout out to Mike McDonald's for a new core memory.

Speaker 5 (01:12:35):
Yes, thank you Mike for coming on the show. Thank
you everyone for listening all season.

Speaker 6 (01:12:41):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (01:12:41):
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