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

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

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Speaker 2: 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?

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Speaker 3: Two?

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Speaker 4: He does.

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

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

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

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Speaker 3: They have done it again.

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Speaker 2: 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 and in Seattle any Hole Shop.

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Speaker 3: Four games.

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Speaker 4: That party is just getting started.

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

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Speaker 6: That's Steve Rabel.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 7: I just pulled a hammy on the way the trailers.

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

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Speaker 9: Holy Catfish, she says.

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Speaker 4: Oh.

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Speaker 9: 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.

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Speaker 5: 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 nuosu capitalizing it and.

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Speaker 4: Taking it the other way.

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Speaker 5: 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, you just felt like, eventually this was gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: Eventually it did.

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

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Speaker 6: Steven shit in the backfield.

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

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Speaker 4: He gets checked, bows on the.

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Speaker 2: Ground prehowks fall on it, Murpy murpy chreeowks have it.

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Speaker 5: 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 his bag with some of these blitzes early Jordan, using the guys from his secondary and getting home on Drake May.

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Speaker 9: 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 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, 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 on from Mike McDonald, who I thought Nick was in his flow immediately in this game, and you could see Drake May felt it.

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Speaker 8: 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.

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Speaker 7: But it felt like they were blitzing all the time.

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Speaker 8: 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.

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Speaker 7: Otherwise, everything else was the product of design.

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Speaker 4: Riley Mills career sack.

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Speaker 7: Fifth round pick.

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

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Speaker 8: 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.

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Speaker 7: Morgan Moses and and Garrett Bradbury at center right, and.

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Speaker 8: 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 twists around, in this situation was a little bit different. It confuses them and they could never get settled as an off.

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Speaker 9: Can we call it?

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Speaker 7: Can please?

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Speaker 5: 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 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. 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 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 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 game is a thirteen to three game.

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Speaker 4: Like they're playing.

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Speaker 5: 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 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.

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Speaker 9: 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 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 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 will also get into your face and make you afraid of them as the quarterback, and as they do it.

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Speaker 8: 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.

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Speaker 7: Is healthy, can do.

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

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Speaker 7: How the Patriot's hands were tied.

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Speaker 8: 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 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.

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

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

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

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Speaker 9: 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. 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.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 4: And all that's true.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 4: Not like.

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Speaker 9: I mean, I know it's late that I go, oh.

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Speaker 4: Greg like Drake, Drake maybe I was.

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

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Speaker 4: And the answer is a lot of ball on both sides.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 4: Wally tries to throw it late.

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Speaker 5: 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 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.

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

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Speaker 5: 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 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, 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.

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

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Speaker 8: 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 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, there's nothing to lose, and then just start chucking it down.

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Speaker 9: 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 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 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. Oh gosh, okay, let's just try to, you know, sling it like down the field.

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Speaker 5: You Patriots All Pro twenty twenty six guard Will Campbell left guard.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm telling you it was. I'm telling it was.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 4: His last game is.

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

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Speaker 3: Look.

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Speaker 5: 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 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 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?

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Speaker 9: 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.

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

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Speaker 5: Mike McDonald's taking notes and he's figuring.

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Speaker 9: Out going to cry again.

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Speaker 4: You're arrived here.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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

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

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

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Speaker 4: The Super Bowl.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 3: We came out and we were us.

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Speaker 10: 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.

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Speaker 9: 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.

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Speaker 10: 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, They're gonna make it come to life.

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Speaker 5: 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.

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Speaker 6: What has that been like for you as a young coach.

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Speaker 10: 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.

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Speaker 9: 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.

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

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Speaker 6: So you did a great job of justin during the game.

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

00:21:15
Speaker 10: Right now, I'm gonna hydrate, so make sure we have a good night, all right.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, Mike McDonald.

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

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Speaker 9: 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.

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

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Speaker 5: 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, 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 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 and you'll hear in a second he was even hard on himself for missing his some throws in this game.

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Speaker 4: He was part of this game plan and yet like he.

00:23:09
Speaker 9: The substation just hit us by the way.

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

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Speaker 4: There was a couple plays early where he was close to it.

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Speaker 5: 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 this game.

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Speaker 7: Going yeah, And that was the key.

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

00:23:51
Speaker 7: Of really nice throws very early in the game.

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Speaker 8: 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 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.

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Speaker 7: It's this Seahawks, that's the team.

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Speaker 8: 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 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.

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Speaker 5: 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 a quick touchdown to the barnyard dog. Heck, let's let's listen to the call on Talk Sports.

00:25:39
Speaker 10: Joined the back field and huns off to Hellani No, it's a fight, He's the.

00:25:42
Speaker 2: Such Enzode takes about a bottle.

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Speaker 7: Hold it in touchdown.

00:25:47
Speaker 6: Seawks, the biggest one on the field for Seattle, breaks out of the fullmaction into the back.

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Speaker 3: Corner of the enisode. I'm on the playofction fight.

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

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Speaker 9: A J.

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Speaker 4: Barner is a walking mismatch.

00:26:08
Speaker 5: He gets right past Jack Gibbons, the Patriots linebacker, and into the red zone.

00:26:12
Speaker 4: So much of their offense is around that man. And I don't know if anyone could cover that man in the Patriots one.

00:26:18
Speaker 9: On one I couldn't tell you first, did your voice like change? Yeah?

00:26:24
Speaker 4: But might be the sound there, you know.

00:26:27
Speaker 9: 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 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, 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, 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 run play. So simple, so effective. That is how the biggest man on the field gets behind the entire defense.

00:28:01
Speaker 8: 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 was the first one on the en zone for the Seahawks today.

00:28:25
Speaker 5: 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 light up the box score when he had five six hundred.

00:28:49
Speaker 7: Yard but he's also the type of guy.

00:28:50
Speaker 5: But you can just see like if you didn't have him, they would not be the Seahawks.

00:28:54
Speaker 8: 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.

00:29:09
Speaker 7: Up the ability to make a big play.

00:29:11
Speaker 5: 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 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 to Cup pretty wide open, right.

00:29:57
Speaker 4: In the red zone. Like there was a couple of throws that he did miss.

00:30:00
Speaker 5: 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 Bowl champion Sam Donald. Unreal run.

00:30:28
Speaker 4: How does that feel to hear that Super Bowl champion Sam Donald?

00:30:31
Speaker 12: 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.

00:30:44
Speaker 6: People want to hear about yourself.

00:30:46
Speaker 5: 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.

00:31:05
Speaker 12: 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.

00:31:22
Speaker 9: 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.

00:31:43
Speaker 4: For you.

00:31:43
Speaker 13: Yeah.

00:31:44
Speaker 12: 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 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.

00:32:25
Speaker 5: 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.

00:32:38
Speaker 12: 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 make a big play for us.

00:33:01
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:33:01
Speaker 9: 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.

00:33:20
Speaker 3: Shoot, that's a great question. I think.

00:33:23
Speaker 12: Just resilient, Like we've all we've all been here.

00:33:28
Speaker 1: You know.

00:33:28
Speaker 12: 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 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 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.

00:34:15
Speaker 5: 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?

00:34:22
Speaker 3: Are they yelling at you again?

00:34:23
Speaker 6: I mean they said, this is it, this is the last one and we're getting them out of here.

00:34:27
Speaker 12: Oh no, man, drink some beers, drink some tequila.

00:34:32
Speaker 7: Oh is this supposed to be PG?

00:34:35
Speaker 6: I said, tonight, you better going home.

00:34:37
Speaker 12: 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.

00:34:45
Speaker 6: Enjoy it. Thanks Sam.

00:34:47
Speaker 4: Easy to feel just happy for the guy that, like.

00:34:53
Speaker 5: 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.

00:35:12
Speaker 4: So shout out to Sam Donald. I doubted you, you know.

00:35:16
Speaker 5: 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 you've been with us. I've really appreciated that. Why did you pick us against us tonight?

00:35:44
Speaker 9: Dave Pearson kind of a big deal was standing a good fifteen feet away from Greg and pointed at him. It was incredible.

00:35:52
Speaker 4: 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?

00:35:59
Speaker 7: And I'm sorry, I'm a mask.

00:36:01
Speaker 6: I said.

00:36:02
Speaker 5: 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.

00:36:13
Speaker 1: After second down and three steps up in the pocket, gonna let one fly down the seamen.

00:36:24
Speaker 3: It's intercepted coming.

00:36:26
Speaker 6: Back near side forty forty.

00:36:28
Speaker 2: Five midfield Julian Love forty steps out of bounds on the near sideline in front of the Patriots bench.

00:36:36
Speaker 4: Julian Love.

00:36:39
Speaker 5: So that interception by Julian Love really is what ended the game.

00:36:44
Speaker 4: It's with eight minutes and forty nine seconds to go.

00:36:47
Speaker 5: 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 back out of nowhere, Like a pass over the middle that was what to.

00:37:15
Speaker 4: Digs over the middle.

00:37:16
Speaker 5: 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 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 yards than the rest of his team combined and the Patriots combined.

00:38:02
Speaker 9: 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, 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 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 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 those explosives, it immediately set them up for success, at least for a field goal.

00:39:32
Speaker 8: 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.

00:39:44
Speaker 7: And still going through that.

00:39:45
Speaker 8: 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.

00:39:53
Speaker 7: They're never really tossing it to him.

00:39:54
Speaker 8: 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.

00:40:01
Speaker 7: There.

00:40:02
Speaker 8: 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 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 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.

00:40:55
Speaker 5: 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.

00:41:02
Speaker 6: That was a.

00:41:04
Speaker 5: 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.

00:41:15
Speaker 8: 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.

00:41:22
Speaker 5: 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 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.

00:41:54
Speaker 4: Team touchdowns, you know, three passes defense.

00:41:57
Speaker 5: 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.

00:42:15
Speaker 8: 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.

00:42:22
Speaker 4: Though it wasn't like that complicated for the most part.

00:42:24
Speaker 5: 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.

00:42:35
Speaker 4: Oh.

00:42:35
Speaker 5: It was a fantastic third of the field to cover and no one else is over there the whole time, and.

00:42:41
Speaker 9: He took a hit. Welly threw it too. Yeah like it he you are talking about the pass breakup that Christian zalesh Yes.

00:42:48
Speaker 5: 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.

00:42:58
Speaker 9: 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 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 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, 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.

00:44:14
Speaker 5: 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 they just gave up field goals and most of.

00:44:39
Speaker 4: Them weren't even long drives.

00:44:40
Speaker 5: 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 their paycheck. Let's talk to some of the defenders that were, you know, knocking.

00:45:05
Speaker 4: The Patriots out.

00:45:07
Speaker 5: 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.

00:45:27
Speaker 6: I got a mic for you.

00:45:29
Speaker 9: Hold it a little higher because it's a little quiet, little further so we're not.

00:45:35
Speaker 5: 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.

00:45:52
Speaker 11: 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.

00:45:58
Speaker 14: 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?

00:46:06
Speaker 9: What that feel like?

00:46:07
Speaker 11: Man?

00:46:07
Speaker 3: Feels good. It's just a testamate to how we work every day.

00:46:10
Speaker 11: 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.

00:46:17
Speaker 5: 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?

00:46:27
Speaker 3: Hey, man, it means everything.

00:46:28
Speaker 11: 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?

00:46:40
Speaker 14: Well, we can see it in your eyes now, how powerful this this feeling is, Because there.

00:46:45
Speaker 9: 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.

00:46:52
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's.

00:46:53
Speaker 11: A beautiful feeling, man, That's a beautiful feeling everything.

00:46:55
Speaker 3: We work for.

00:46:56
Speaker 11: Man, we work so hard. People don't understand how we work and we deserve it. A man every bit you uh, you.

00:47:02
Speaker 5: Put a defensive performance, really a season that everyone's gonna remember. What what are you gonna remember most about this group of players?

00:47:09
Speaker 3: Man, just altogetherness, believe it or not.

00:47:12
Speaker 11: The way we shadow box our lingo, how we talk everything is it some of the lingo?

00:47:17
Speaker 3: I cate, Man, I ha't you know what I'm saying.

00:47:20
Speaker 11: It's just an inside thing. You gotta be inside the walls. But you know it's a special scene.

00:47:23
Speaker 3: Man.

00:47:24
Speaker 11: 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.

00:47:31
Speaker 6: When did you.

00:47:31
Speaker 9: Guys turn from This is a really great defense to the dark Side.

00:47:36
Speaker 11: 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.

00:47:44
Speaker 3: We had to put a name to it. And now you see why.

00:47:46
Speaker 5: 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.

00:47:58
Speaker 11: 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.

00:48:18
Speaker 3: You're two. It's a blessing.

00:48:20
Speaker 14: 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.

00:48:29
Speaker 9: But the connectedness on in every phase. What's that been like for you?

00:48:33
Speaker 14: And seeing it, I mean most behind you right now, like seeing it manifest like that.

00:48:38
Speaker 9: What is it like right now?

00:48:39
Speaker 1: Oh?

00:48:40
Speaker 4: Man?

00:48:40
Speaker 11: 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.

00:48:48
Speaker 3: You know, since throughout all seasons, throughout is.

00:48:51
Speaker 11: 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.

00:49:09
Speaker 3: We just rolled.

00:49:10
Speaker 6: Man, You're like a kind of serious defensive linement.

00:49:14
Speaker 13: Like everyone knows Byron Murphy, like he's better even than the Numbers show.

00:49:19
Speaker 6: But tonight you got to have some numbers.

00:49:20
Speaker 4: Go get the quarterback out of that feel on the biggest game?

00:49:23
Speaker 11: All right, so good, you know, getting you know, getting two sacks and the biggest, you know, the biggest game in the world.

00:49:29
Speaker 3: That's something I'll never forget, man So.

00:49:31
Speaker 11: 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.

00:49:39
Speaker 3: So just rushing as one.

00:49:40
Speaker 14: 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.

00:49:52
Speaker 9: 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. Mike McDonald loves to build created.

00:50:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, I call him Mike. I called Mike the Wizard.

00:50:18
Speaker 11: 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.

00:50:25
Speaker 3: So, man, when.

00:50:26
Speaker 11: 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.

00:50:35
Speaker 2: You know.

00:50:35
Speaker 11: 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.

00:50:44
Speaker 4: What did it feel like tonight in the huddle on the sideline.

00:50:48
Speaker 6: You know, I know they got a couple of scores.

00:50:49
Speaker 13: 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?

00:50:56
Speaker 3: Oh, I just felt good.

00:50:57
Speaker 8: You know.

00:50:58
Speaker 3: We just kept telling, you know, just up telling each other.

00:51:00
Speaker 11: 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.

00:51:17
Speaker 14: 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?

00:51:35
Speaker 9: What does this feel like.

00:51:38
Speaker 3: 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.

00:51:44
Speaker 11: 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.

00:51:54
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yes, we did.

00:51:57
Speaker 6: We did, Murphy. You wanted to be with the best the world. They are the best in the world tonight.

00:52:03
Speaker 5: Just an awesome performance by that defense on the field and in front of the microphone.

00:52:09
Speaker 9: 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, 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 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.

00:53:00
Speaker 5: 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 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.

00:53:29
Speaker 4: Moves that that came up big.

00:53:31
Speaker 5: 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?

00:53:38
Speaker 4: The Super Bowl is like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it.

00:53:40
Speaker 7: Was, and we knew it in the moment.

00:53:41
Speaker 8: 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 on the.

00:54:02
Speaker 9: Cowgary love good manifestation right there, big victory.

00:54:05
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, that's on his vision board.

00:54:07
Speaker 4: And it's true.

00:54:07
Speaker 5: 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.

00:54:20
Speaker 8: 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 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.

00:54:58
Speaker 7: We'll forget about it.

00:55:00
Speaker 8: 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.

00:55:10
Speaker 5: 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.

00:55:27
Speaker 4: McDermott Bills build, where like you had.

00:55:30
Speaker 5: 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 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.

00:56:14
Speaker 4: The Seahawks have much more of that luck.

00:56:16
Speaker 9: 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 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 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 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 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.

00:57:55
Speaker 4: You got to get more.

00:57:56
Speaker 5: 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.

00:58:14
Speaker 4: That he's two years.

00:58:16
Speaker 5: 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.

00:58:36
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you will.

00:58:37
Speaker 4: There.

00:58:37
Speaker 8: The beauty of life and the beauty of losses is that you can learn a lot from them, right.

00:58:43
Speaker 7: And the two beauties in this is that.

00:58:45
Speaker 8: 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.

00:59:07
Speaker 5: 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.

00:59:15
Speaker 4: I do think it's historic defense.

00:59:16
Speaker 9: 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 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 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 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.

01:00:31
Speaker 5: 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 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, super Bowl champion, offensive coordinator of the Seattle Seahawks.

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

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

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

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

01:01:33
Speaker 9: 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?

01:01:52
Speaker 15: 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.

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

01:02:04
Speaker 15: 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.

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

01:02:13
Speaker 9: 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?

01:02:34
Speaker 15: 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 and Mike bringing me here here.

01:02:58
Speaker 5: 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?

01:03:08
Speaker 15: 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.

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

01:03:14
Speaker 15: 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.

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

01:03:26
Speaker 15: 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.

01:03:37
Speaker 9: 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?

01:03:48
Speaker 15: 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.

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

01:04:07
Speaker 5: 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.

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

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

01:04:21
Speaker 15: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

01:04:59
Speaker 5: 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.

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

01:05:13
Speaker 5: 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.

01:05:21
Speaker 4: The TV.

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

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

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

01:05:31
Speaker 5: 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.

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

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

01:05:41
Speaker 8: 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.

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

01:05:55
Speaker 9: 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 like it was. It was an incredible sequence.

01:06:17
Speaker 5: 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.

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

01:06:34
Speaker 5: 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.

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

01:06:47
Speaker 5: 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 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.

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

01:07:18
Speaker 5: 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.

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

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

01:07:35
Speaker 5: 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.

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

01:07:46
Speaker 8: 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.

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

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

01:08:01
Speaker 9: 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 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 tonight when just things were flying around chaotically, and like, just there's a lot of people.

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

01:08:52
Speaker 9: 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.

01:09:03
Speaker 5: 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.

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

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

01:09:31
Speaker 8: 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

01:10:17
Speaker 4: Greg.

01:10:18
Speaker 9: 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 was loud.

01:10:39
Speaker 5: 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 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.

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

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

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

01:11:21
Speaker 5: 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 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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

01:12:41
Speaker 4: NFL Daily