Hour 1 – Super Bowl Champion Seahawks, Bill Cowher

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Speaker 2: Hey, it's a Monday, our one back on the home Man Cave. We'll recap everything that we saw last night. Eight seven seven three DP Show email address Dpadanpatrick dot com, Twitter handle at DP show. Hall of Fame coach Bill Cower will join us, coming up, as will Ross Tucker. Your phone calls. It's a Monday, best and worst of the weekend. What you saw that you liked you didn't like? Eight seven seven three DP Show Operator Tyler sitting Ye. Good morning if you're watching on Peacock or the NBC Sports Network, and we say good morning to our radio affiliates around the country. This first hour brought to you by RK zero Proof, the world's first zero proof spirits with their patented warm molecule same fields, zero alcohol, all the cheers, none of the regrets. Try it at RKA r KAY zero proof dot com. Play of the Day, poll question, stat of the day, all of that forthcoming. Congratulations to the Seahawks who dominated the Patriots twenty nine to thirteen. Although it's an interesting way to say dominating the Patriots, because it certainly felt that way, but it was only nine to nothing, and you kept thinking, got ye, if they get a pick six, they get a fumble, they get maybe a long run, something here, and we kept waiting for something here. And then we had an exciting fourth quarter. But it was one of those games where I kept thinking, is New England going to steal this? This great defensive performance by Seattle will be wasted by a couple of plays. But give credit to Seattle. They came up with big plays when they needed to. Drake May was sacked six times. Sam Donald played okay, Drake May played okay in the fourth quarter. Kenneth Walker Junior, the third named Most Valuable Player. After the game, Sam Darnold talked about what this moment meant.

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Speaker 3: Sam, What does this want it mean?

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Speaker 4: It's unbelievable, you know, just everything that's happened in my career, But to do it with this team, I wouldn't want it any other way. I'm so proud of our guys, our defense. I mean, I can't say enough great things about our defense, our special teams.

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Speaker 1: I know we won the.

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Speaker 4: Super Bowl, but we could have been a little bit better on offense. But I don't care about that right now. It's an unbelievable feeling. Man, I'm just so happy for the guys in the locker room and the coaches that put in so much effort throughout the whole season.

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Speaker 3: That defense was spectacular. They were wonderful.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I think we all thought during the year that New England was going to be there a year earlier because it's a very young team. They got cap space, they got draft picks. I mean, they are set up for the future, and they did look like they were a year or two early there.

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Speaker 3: Seattle.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that was impressive really from start to finish, and I thought Chris collins Worth brought up a great point. New England's defense in the first half was so aggressive, overly aggressive, as if to say, we have to win it with defense. We don't have enough offense. And that's why I picked Seattle to win twenty four to thirteen. I didn't think New England could score twenty points. Therefore it came down to could Seattle score twenty points. They ended up with twenty nine. But Mike McDonald a lot of praise. He was calling the defensive plays while being the head coach, and that defense was everywhere swarming and even New England's Christian Gonzalezly he made some big plays, but you know, you had too many players on Seattle making too many plays. And Kenneth Walker when you're around running backs like that because he's not tall and you go, how is he so fast?

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Speaker 3: But he's so good.

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Speaker 2: And there's one play in particular, and Collinsworth even pointed this out. He was kind of walking up to the line of scrimmage. I mean, Leveon Bell created a whole new running style and here was Kenneth Walker just kind of walking up and then boom, he sees his moment and takes advantage of it. They had enough plays to be able to keep New England's defense honest, but it doesn't matter the stats for Sam Donald, and I know you.

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Speaker 3: Can be really picky.

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Speaker 2: We'll go back and look at Tom Brady's first couple of Super Bowls. Okay, they won with defense. They didn't ask much. Peyton Manning's last Super Bowl, he didn't do anything. Sometimes you're along for the ride, but what you did to get your team to that point where you can be along for the ride. Give Sam Donald a lot of credit because you get kicked to the curb. You've played for five teams and now you're a Super Bowl champ. The Seahawks head coach Mike McDonald on the decision to bring Sam Darnald to Seattle.

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Speaker 5: John deserves a lot of credit to that process, and that's kind of on chartered waters that you have to navigate, and uh, you know it. To the outside eye probably seem like it happened fast. But he did a great job of guiding us through all those decisions. We're on record with it. Clint had a relationship with him. There's a lot of people on our going that new Sam that.

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Speaker 3: Could vouch for who he was as a person. The tape backed it up.

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Speaker 5: I think people made too big of a deal of him of like the last two games in the season, which I thought was as dumb, like watch the whole season. The guy played great all year. He came into Limit and beat us. They won like fourteen games. So Clinton knew he could do the stuff that we want him to do in our offense. And then how's the rock and roll.

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Speaker 2: I think it's kind of sloppy take if you say it was not a good football game, because then you're missing out on the dominance of that Seattle defense. I mean, you can go back to the eighty five Bears against the Patriots. He might say that wasn't a good game. You're missing the point. You're watching a historical performance by the defense. And that's what you had with Seattle, the fourth Super Bowl team in history to allow fewer than fourteen points, get six or more sacks, and score a defensive touchdown. The Broncos did that in Super Bowl fifty when they dominated the Panthers. The Bears did that when they beat the Patriots forty six to ten, and then the Raiders, going back to the Jack Squire pick six on Joe Thiisman that was thirty eight to nine. That's pretty good company there with some great defenses. And I know, and it comes down to, as I tell you every single year at this time, if you can run the football and play defense, you can win the Super Bowl. If you get to this point this game, and given all the tension and how Super Bowls get out of hand one mistake and then it leads to another, if you can run the football, be as close to turnover free, and play great defense, you'll win. And that's what happened again last night. So all the fanfare for throwing the ball wide open offenses. It came down to Kenneth Walker running the football and that defense being unbelievable. All right, Seaton Poll question for hour one is going to be what.

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Speaker 3: Got a couple options here for you?

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Speaker 6: Sort of off that topic, which unit deserves most credit for Seattle's win? The pass rush, secondary, run game or special teams.

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Speaker 2: Special teams, special teams. I mean, everybody was really good that you mentioned, But when they place such an emphasis on special teams in Seattle, and when your field goal kicker and your punter are changing the game, they're making their field goals and their punts are inside the ten yard line, huge, massive, and what that does psychologically when you had the ball at the twenty or twenty five, or you have it at the one and you're not moving the ball at all and you have no big play capabilities. I thought that was just devastating for the Patriots. But that pass rush, if you don't have to blitz man, is that an advantage? And Tony Dungee talked about that. We've seen these moments where you go, they don't even have to rush another guy, they just have four and that allows the secondary. If you got four going, you got a bunch of guys back there, and you had nobody who was going to beach over the top. Seattle never worried about getting beat deep. It was all right in front of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Paul Michael Dixon the punter for the Seahawks. Seven punts forty eight yard average, three of them down inside the six yard line, two returns for a total.

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Speaker 3: Of four yards.

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Speaker 7: He also was the holder on all the kicks, and he got a couple of bats snaps, but to.

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Speaker 2: Be able to pin them back. I don't think he had a touchback in the playoffs. Seattle didn't have a turnover in the playoffs. I mean, those things don't happen. And I think with Sam Darnold you were probably waiting for now. He didn't play good in the first half, and I thought New England had a couple of chances, certainly for interceptions, maybe a pick six. But that Seattle defense was fun to watch, dominating, and that left side of the Patriots offensive line, two rookies over there. I was fixated on that side of the ball for the first I was just I kept watching and those guys were drowning. They were drowning there in Seattle, Green and you could tell Drake May. I mean, that's where you see ghosts. Sam Darnold famously said he saw ghosts. I'm gonna guess Drake May saw some ghosts and will continue to see some ghosts. And I know afterwards he talked about his shoulder. There was talk about the shoulder during Super Bowl week. He got it shot up to play. Might be one of those where he gets it cleaned out in the off season. I don't know how much of a factor that had. I don't know if it would have mattered if he was completely healthy. Just there was no time to think when he went back there. All right, So we got a pull question on the part of the Seahawks team that stood out the most.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and then this is sort of cut from the same cloth though, But what actually decided last night's game? Was it the Seahawks pass rush and the Patriots offensive line, special teams or coaching?

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 8: You got it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's all of the above, Like that was total team total and the only dip was really JSN wasn't a fact. I mean, imagine that if I said, yeah, they won and JSN wasn't a factor at all, and he wasn't and Sam played subpar, but they ended up dominating, you know, to win it in double figures. And you kept wondering, if you know, is there something more that New England can do. And here's Josh McDaniels, who has more experience than any other offensive coordinator in NFL history in the Super Bowl, and I kept thinking, I want Drake made to get the ball and get it out of his hands, like right away, you know, almost a Brady like playbook of just get it out. I don't care where it's going, get it out, because if you go back and you're seven steps back and you got that rush coming off the edge, you're gonna have a lot of company all night long.

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Speaker 6: This time we're gonna stop him. Yeah, let's just run it again. This time we'll stop him. Hell, dude, what are you doing.

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Speaker 3: I think we're tiring them out.

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Speaker 2: Now we can throw that pass and then you're going, Okay, who's their deep receiver and they don't have one, And it goes back to it wasn't a great offense, and Drake may what he did during the regular season, I still would look at him as the MVP because of what he did during the regular season and that's what the vote is. You know, they tabulate that before the postseason starts. He did not have a good postseason at all, sacked fumbles, did not play well at all, but they somehow got to this point. Give credit to Vrabel, he did a wonderful job. He's your coach of the year. But man, oh man, Mike McDonald had a game plan. Yeah, seedon.

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Speaker 6: I love the Sam Donald redemption story. And it's unfortunate that Drake May had a terrible postseason but really played a terrible game. And I do think it's funny though that Drake May threw for more touchdown passes last night than Sam Donald, and Sam Donald resurrected his career off of this run. Andy's got to go back to the drawing board. Well, like things that don't add up when you look at them on paper, got to get some weapons, Yeah, gotta get some weapons. And I thought that they were going to be able to run the football. I really did, and then all of a sudden, Drake May sprinkles in some passes and that's all you want.

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Speaker 2: Keep the defense honest, and they couldn't do that. That defense basically said, we don't care what you're doing. We're coming after you every single play. Yeah, Pony, I.

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Speaker 7: Know the first three quarters were rough, but there was a point in the fourth quarter they were down the Patriots down nineteen to seven. They had the ball with ten minutes and forty seconds to go. They go on a seven play, forty yard drive. They're across the fifty. It's second and three, and they took that shot downfield that was intercepted. I mean, there's a lot of time left. I think that interception there was eight forty nine on the clock. If they somehow get that to nineteen fourteen, the pressure changes quickly.

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Speaker 2: I was wondering, and I kept thinking I'd be passing on first down. I would be passing on the non passing downs because I just have to switch this up. And Josh McDaniels did not have a good night calling plays. It just felt like Seattle kind of figured out there was no rhythm with New England, and you're and you know, Tariko and Collins were at one point thought that the Patriots were gonna get some rhythm. Then I think they had a turnover right after that. You were just waiting for something where you'd go. I mean, their drive would be like seven plays forty yards that would be a sustained drive for New England. And you know, meanwhile, Kenneth Walker, you know those chunk plays played great, but it still comes down to no turnovers, playing great defense and making them make mistakes.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Tom, I.

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Speaker 9: Was wondering at halftime, as good as a coach as Mike Rabel is or appears to be, what do you do at halftime when a team's got that good of a defense. You know, you always say like you got to make the necessary adjustments. Is there anything he really could have said or done that would have significantly changed is what they did in the second half.

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Speaker 2: I would have said, we're down nine to nothing. All we need to do is go out there, we get the ball, start second second half. Let's let's go down there and score touchdown. Worst we get a field goal. Now we're down six, let's put the pressure on them. But I just kept waiting for some kind of rhythm there and it never happened. It just felt like they were like, I don't know what are we doing. I don't know, what do you think? I don't know, Hey, we better block that side of the line.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And that second half opening drive I think is just another three and out. Yeah, well that was crucially important to at least move the chains, get a first down.

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Speaker 3: Coach. Your reaction overall to the game last night.

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Speaker 8: Well, then I think it was a game to me that you just stated it was a defensive battle. I thought even the New England Patriots for the first three quarters really they kept him in the football game and it was it was a series of field position back and forth, not making mistakes. But I think obviously Kenneth Walker had a couple of big runs. I felt like Newly maybe gone away from the running game a little bit in the third quarter when the game was still there. I think a big play also was the end of the second quarter with Christian Gonzalez made a great player on Jackson Smith and a jigba and just dropped that ball near the goal line, which they could have come away with just being down a six or three nothing as opposed to six to nothing at the halftime. So it was it was a game again, and I thought two great defenses had a great game for fans, and they wouldn't joined offense. But it was a game that the defense of Seattle was very, very stout, and I think again Sam Donald, as he's done in these playoffs, did not turn the football over, made good decisions, his elusive He was very elusive in the pocket. I think he negated a lot of sacks that Newton thought they would have had a converser. On the other side, Drake May had a very tough time stand in that pocket.

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Speaker 2: What's it like going into halftime? Now you're down nine nothing, and it's a halftime that's three times longer than a normal halftime. So how do you make adjustments, keep your team focused and you know, go back out on the field after a long delay.

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Speaker 8: You know, it's one of those things there. It's funny because I think the first Super Bowl I was in nineteen ninety five, in the ninety five season, ninety six Super Bowl against the Dallas Cowboys. There was the time frame from there I did not give much thought of that didn't reach out to anybody. And this the ant national anthem was much later when he came out out of the locker room. And then all of a sudden, you're in the locker room. You're much longer the second time, having been there ten years later. I made sure after halftime number one, we took all our pads off. I said, take your pads off. We had some fruits, some oranges, some apples. Take some time, get away getting your locker. He has to have your own space and then let's come back together as we get back and have some final thoughts. Is what we want to do in the second half, Particularly those first series of the second half. I always thought they were the most vital of any football game, is a first series of defense in the first series of offense, because you either re establish a momentum or you change momentum and you come out of there with a sense of Okay, we got this thing, figure it out. So I think that's the biggest thing you did to me was that we almost treated like two different games. It's our first half and then there's a second half, and that's kind of like what we did, I know of going against the Seattle Seahawks back in the two thousand and five season. In two thousand and six Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: I was trying to figure out what they were going to do offensively, knowing that it felt like the Patriots left side of the line could not handle Seattle, and Seattle knew that, but I, Mike, I just kept thinking they would maybe subscribe to the Tom Brady playbook, just get the ball out, make short throws, maybe keep running the football a little bit. It just didn't feel like they were making adjustments in the second half.

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Speaker 8: You know, again I go back. I mean, if you've watched the Miudland Patriots through the course of that playoff run, it they've had number One, they've had trouble with their protection. They had five sacks in the three previous games, six in this game. So I think that somehow they got away from running the football or league let's throw on quick plays, screens of some nature where he didn't have to hold the ball for long periods of time. I even was going to think about to me at some point, is go no huddle, try to slow down that rush. You to do something to try to change the tempo of the game because you were you never could get into a field or a flow. And I think as a coach you want to constantly try to tweak some things along the way. Those the adjustments that you're trying to make, whether it be with your play calling, whether it be the sense of urgency we have coming out of the huddle, trying to do some things differently, whether it's a reverse or two at some kind of gimme plays. You know, we saw the fleet flicker be the big play that they had last week against Detroit. We saw a little bit that in the first series. I think Josh did a good job with that. I think they kind of got away from that because they couldn't get a first down, and so you don't get a first down, it's hard to get into flow on offense. And I think, again, I get a lot of credit to Seattle. I think Mike McDonald called a great game. He got a lot of pressure. Both teams blitzed very early in the game for both of these quarterbacks, recognizing it for both these quarterbacks as their first Super Bowl they experienced with minimal and I think they want to make sure they were uncomfortable, and I think they both did a great job of that. And then they got to the point where the Seattle didn't even have to rush with the blitz. They were able to get there with their four don linemen, and Drake May just never felt comfortable the whole game.

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Speaker 2: Mike McDonald calling the defense, how difficult is that to be the head coach but also calling the defense.

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Speaker 8: Well, I think you have a lot of trust in your offensive coordinator. And I think that's the one thing I think with Mike if you look at the fact after his first year he changed offensive coordinators, he goes again, Clint Kubiak, and I think that you have to have a large degree of trust while you're doing that because a lot of times when you're kind of the CEO, and I know, as I was for my time in Pittsburgh, I'm talking to what are we doing with the other side? When one side is calling the ball, I'm talking to the other side. Let me talk to the coordinator before you start talking to the quarterback. That'smember what we talked about last night. Maybe we can do this, Can we help our left tackle, can we do some things whatever we need to do with j justment wise and the course of the game, you just have an ability to talk to that coordinator to talk about what our options are at that particular time. But when you're call calling the game is Mike has done and he's done it for two years again, the trust he has to have on the other side of the ball that they're getting things figured out is going to be immense. And I think they obviously with Klink Kubiak and you just mentioned it going to the Raiders right now and you're first pick in the draft and we all know who that's going to be. An end us and I think it's that that's a good choice. And again now for for Mike McDonald's, it's gonna be his third coordinator in three years. As he's going up to Seattle.

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Speaker 2: Talking to Bill Cower, hall of fame coach the NFL Today analyst for CBS. Did the enormity hit you at any point coaching in the Super Bowl? And if so, when does the enormity of everybody's watching.

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Speaker 8: The enormity hits you in the pregame? I feel like the lead up to it, you can try to keep things as normal as possible. Certainly the night before, you know, the day out, as you sit there in your hotel, we're ready to go to you know, on a bus. At least when you're on the West coast, it's not as long as a day when you're on the East coast and you have to sit there till like five o'clock or four o'clock, and it's like you're looking for a movie. You're looking for something. I didn't want to watch anything else, and so it does become that. And when you get to the stadium, you can just feel the buzz. There's more people on the sideline. You know, the finality that's going to take place at the opportunity, how close they are to make a history and it's real. And I think again it's real. And particularly I know for us when we went into the Dome in Detroit, I could just the Dome in itself was just a buzz and so that took another level of noise that we had to kind of deal with. So I think once the game gets underway, yes, you kind of start to play the game and you fall into whatever the feel of the game is, but the lead up to it is real. It's the biggest game of your career. You never know if you're going to get back there again. You may not think that way, but you know that's been the case. We've all seen the history of all the players who says, well, we'll be back and they never got back. And the people that who said, you have works out close to being to this Super Bowl and they never get there. So it's an opportunity of a lifetime, a chance to make history. And you understand that, particularly as it leads up to the game, and as you get to the stadium.

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Speaker 2: Did you see famous people on the sidelines when you were in the Super Bowl, You.

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Speaker 8: Know, there were so many people I did, you know. I did. I stayed on the field. It's like you walk between the lions. I mean, I think you know again, It's like you walk between the lines and you sit there and you just kind of stay and try keep things as normal. You try to keep things as routine as possible. And I think that's the biggest thing I didn't. I never got caught up with that. I tried to get the game going and make sure I look into the eyes of my players. I haven't worried about the eyes and people are looking at us. I want to make sure I look in the eyes of the guys that we have ready to play that game, and try to just tell them relax, have some fun. We worked too hard to get here not to enjoy it. And trust what you see and play fast, play hard, and if you make some mistakes, let it go and just go on to the next play.

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Speaker 2: It is amazing how many teams what they do to young quarterback. It just feels like more young quarterbacks are ruined than developed. And you know, Sam Donald was supposed to be the safe pick in that draft by the Jets, but the Jets weren't ready for Sam Donald. And you know, most teams give up on these quarterbacks after two or three years. Here's Sam eight years in and now he wins the Super Bowl. But can you can you be cautious at that position because it doesn't feel like coaches, general managers are well.

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Speaker 8: I don't know if cautious is the right word. I always thought this day. I think when you look at the Seattle Seahawks this year, I think they were the most balanced team in the National Football League. You talk about special teams, Jason Myers, and they got Dixon Dickerson, who's maybe the best punter in the National Football that we saw take play out yesterday with some of the the punts he had down on the ball inside the five yard line. Rashee Shaheed all of a sudden as a putt return. They pick him up at the draft he saw and solid defense, as we talked about, one of the best in the National Football League. And then you look on the offensive side of the ball Jackson Smith and Jigba I mean, one of the best receiver offensive player of the year. And then you have a two headed running back with Kenneth Walker and Zach Charbonney and don't forget about him. Through the course of that weekend that that helps the offensive line. So Sam Darnold became just a piece of that, and I think to a large degree that's where it was on the other side with Drake May you know, his legs got them there. But there was a defense, it was a running game, it was a special teams. They did all the little things that it took to get there. So I think if there was ever a message that said, you know, yeah, we don't have the quarterback, as we get the quarterback to win a championship, I think yesterday proved that it's more about getting a complete team and building a team and when that special guy comes along. I go back to the same thing that that's what we try to do in Pittsburgh, and we won some playoff games with different quarterbacks, but when we had a special guy come along like Ben Roethlisberger, that's when championships come along. So I think that's the biggest thing is along the way you build that offensive line, you build that defense, you get a special guy like Devin Wetherspoon who can play multiple positions and be kind of an impact player, and you get a running game with a Kenneth Walker and then a special number one receiver. So you build the things around to us. To said, if you build it, they will come and May maybe that quarterback that you're waiting for that can fill that void. And for sam Donold, he was that guy for them this year. And I think again for Drake May, a young quarterback they got there. His future is very bright ahead of him.

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Speaker 3: Well what's it like after winning the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 2: That highest of highs and then you have to go back to just normal life.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, And that's why I said to me, losing the championship game was much harder. And I lost that four times. I've lost the Super Bowl once, won it once, but losing those championship games was harder because you know, you sit there for two weeks and you're looking at the team that you had a chance to beat, and you could have beaten them. Look at the Rams and they could have gone there to Denver if they had their quarterback. Did they get there? Do they have did a different outcome? So you watch it for two weeks, But after this game, everyone's next weekend. I was watching N State basketball. I mean so, I mean there's no where football there's finality to what you do. And I think that's the thing to me. I know, the day after we won a championship, I was in a basketball gym watching my daughter play basketball back in Pittsburgh, and so it was like, okay, now now it's off season comes and there's normality, and my wife is telling me where to go and what time I needed to be there, what time is the game and so so it's just like, you know, when the season was over, it's like the projects were thrown right in front of me. Okay, I know this is where I go. I do have the combine coming up. It's like, okay, but until you have the combine coming up, you got to at least a week of all these things we talked about doing. So it's just this talking to start to check them out of the off the list. You have some projects to do. And oh yeah, by the way, your daughter's playing a basketball game tonight. Gotcha, I'll be there.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us all season long. We appreciate your your insight, your sense of humor.

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Speaker 8: Yes, and I asked you a question, like, what's the story behind the bar?

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Speaker 2: This is Green Bay. We went up for the draft, and there is a place called the bar. Okay, and we held our we did our show up there a couple of days at the bar in Green Bay.

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Speaker 8: So, so what do you have outline for Pittsburgh?

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Speaker 3: Since I don't know, you tell me because we'll be off for the draft.

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Speaker 8: Okay, So so can I give you some suggestions?

00:29:20
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:29:21
Speaker 8: Okay, well I can't do it right now, and we're looking to see what's available, okay, and like what kind of like like do you have good company that comes with you or you guys not a rowdy group? Are you?

00:29:32
Speaker 3: What do you want us to be?

00:29:34
Speaker 8: Well? I think it a good like. I think you've got to be able to adapt and adjust. I'm not sure what kind of bar I can get you. So are you adaptable and adjustable?

00:29:42
Speaker 3: Yes? I am a five tool player coach.

00:29:44
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, whatever you need if.

00:29:46
Speaker 2: You want to get after it and and do some some drinking. Is that what you're saying you?

00:29:51
Speaker 8: No, no, no, no, it's just it's just the field for the just get the field for the vibe. The vibe. You got to be able to adapt. And it's take a game, damn like like you know, I don't know if it's going to be a high score most scoring, I don't know. We gotta be able to adjust you adjusted to the bar. I just want to know exactly that was what you came from. So I'm just You're going to Pittsburgh this year, so I just want to make sure I get you the right place. And I know that you're very adaptable, so I'm not going to concern myself with that.

00:30:18
Speaker 2: I'm from Cincinnati, That's okay, just like Pittsburgh, only nicer.

00:30:24
Speaker 8: Well, well, I love I love Cincinnati. Check my record, really really loves you, loves you guys, just loved you, guys.

00:30:37
Speaker 2: Will we'll see you in April, perhaps if you're in Pittsburgh there and give us some Fritzy will reach out to get some suggestions from you.

00:30:45
Speaker 8: I have Fritzy reach out. I'll make sure I give you some some some some locations that I think will fit the bube that you will bring to that that establishment.

00:30:55
Speaker 3: PAULI, do you have coaches record?

00:30:57
Speaker 7: Of course, we do, twenty two and nine versus the Bengals, and it's.

00:31:00
Speaker 3: Did you ever feel bad beating up on him?

00:31:04
Speaker 4: No?

00:31:04
Speaker 8: Okay, matter of fact, my last my last, my last win as an NFL head coach was down in Cincinnati and it was an overtime. It was a slam pass from Bren Broethlisberger at the Santonio Holmes and we walked off. We won that game. And when they said who day, I said, we day?

00:31:30
Speaker 3: Man? Okay, man picked on my Bengals.

00:31:34
Speaker 8: Okay, well, I you know I gave you Marvin Lewis, he was he coached for for Pittsburgh for a long time.

00:31:43
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, thank you, coach, I.

00:31:50
Speaker 8: Said, Dick Clebot too. Actually I got the club from you and send them back to you. And then he came back.

00:31:56
Speaker 3: Great, great man, great coach, good.

00:31:58
Speaker 8: Man, really good, very good coach, good man.

00:32:00
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, thank you, coach.

00:32:03
Speaker 8: Falk to you soon.

00:32:04
Speaker 3: That's Bill Cower. Yeah. I felt like he was challenging me a little bit there, like let me see what you got.

00:32:10
Speaker 2: We're adaptable. We can we can go in have an elegant dinner. We can go and slummet we can go to a pub, dive far whatever it takes, we do it all.

00:32:22
Speaker 7: Yeah, Paul, we're hooked up now. Bill Cower vouching for us in Pittsburgh, I mean scholarship.

00:32:27
Speaker 2: I got to make sure he goes to Pittsburgh because he's in New York, so I need I need a hometown crowd there. But that's in April. That will be in Pittsburgh for the Draft. That's our next road trip. All right, let's take a break. Play the day up next. Also your phone calls as well. Back after this.

00:32:44
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00:32:56
Speaker 7: Oh my god, n he tutter, what's.

00:33:00
Speaker 5: Not on it?

00:33:02
Speaker 7: Play?

00:33:03
Speaker 2: This is the play of the day.

00:33:06
Speaker 8: Check this out first and ten at the Seattle forty four.

00:33:08
Speaker 1: Here comes the blitz man Hennedy ties. The throw ball cuts out, going.

00:33:13
Speaker 3: The other way with it turning up field.

00:33:16
Speaker 6: It's chena too hendy scores cut down.

00:33:21
Speaker 7: Sayhawks not Sehawks defense.

00:33:25
Speaker 1: They have done it again.

00:33:28
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00:34:19
Speaker 3: Let's see any surprises in there.

00:34:27
Speaker 2: You know, so New England's at fourteen to one, but Seattle at eight to one, and Seattle's I think Kenneth Walker Junior the third is a free agent. Like a free free agent, I don't know what kind of money he would command on the open market. You got Jack Zach Charbonay coming back Manhattan had to be tough. You're in street clothes on the sidelines and you're supposed to be you know that change up you go in there. I mean, it's better to be on the sidelines when your team wins than to be on the sideline when your team loses.

00:34:59
Speaker 3: But they seem to be set.

00:35:02
Speaker 2: It feels like and they made some real I mean, that's a great front office if you've done that with a couple of different incarnations, didn't Russ I think Russell Wilson said Gohawks was that his message after.

00:35:18
Speaker 3: They won, that was nice. Go Hawks.

00:35:21
Speaker 2: And I couldn't help but think of the trade. And I don't have the exact details, but the draft picks they got when they traded Russell Wilson to Denver, I think I think it might have been all four of those draft picks were on the defense last night, I think.

00:35:42
Speaker 8: So.

00:35:43
Speaker 2: I have it somewhere in my phone because I wrote it down as a message to me and then forgot to bring my phone out here. So if you see the draft picks that Seattle had in relationship to the Russell Wilson trade, yeah, Pauli, Devin Witherspoon, Yeah.

00:36:01
Speaker 7: That's one of them they got part of that trade. Charles Cross, Boye Mafe So starters, good starters, Yeah, depth.

00:36:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, So Russ's instrumental in helping the Seahawks with that defense. Lucas in Texas, Hi, Luke, what's on your mind today?

00:36:18
Speaker 3: Hey, DIY good morning.

00:36:19
Speaker 8: Hey.

00:36:21
Speaker 11: You know, Tarico had one little comment right at the end of the game yesterday that got me thinking. The Seahawks won their second Super Bowl, joining the tier of seventeen teams that have won multiple Super Bowls. Kind of made me think, though the NFC West is now one of three divisions that has at least three teams with multiple Super Bowls, so kind of the most historic, best overall divisions. Can you, guys, name the other one that has three winners? And can you name the one division that has all four teams with multiple Super Bowls? NFC East, they're four for four, that's the big one. And what's the one the other one with three?

00:37:02
Speaker 3: The other one with three that they won the Super Bowl?

00:37:08
Speaker 11: Yes, multiple super Bowl wins?

00:37:10
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, Paul, NFC South, Just the Buccaneers there, guys, Marvin, you.

00:37:20
Speaker 3: Got a guess.

00:37:20
Speaker 7: Not the Saints.

00:37:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Saints one.

00:37:25
Speaker 11: But three out of the four teams have won multiple Super Bowls.

00:37:29
Speaker 3: It feels like you're yelling at us, Lucas, all right, tell.

00:37:34
Speaker 11: Us the AFC West. Come on, Fritzy Broncos, Chiefs and Raiders.

00:37:41
Speaker 3: Thank you, Lucas. It's early. You know we're tired, a little heavy lifting. Come on, Lucas. You know.

00:38:02
Speaker 2: I'm still on West Coast time. Adam in La Hi, Adam, what's wrong? I mean, what's up?

00:38:11
Speaker 1: Well?

00:38:11
Speaker 12: Good morning, guys, you know what's wrong. I hope you had a great trip. Good morning, I enjoyed the Super.

00:38:18
Speaker 8: Bowl week coverage.

00:38:19
Speaker 12: As always, I kept telling myself I wouldn't watch the game, being still sour over the Rams who as you know.

00:38:25
Speaker 3: He felt the same way.

00:38:26
Speaker 12: Whoever won that game in the NFC Championship probably was gonna win the Super Bowl.

00:38:30
Speaker 3: But we move on, you know.

00:38:31
Speaker 12: I thought the best part of the Super Bowl was the Bad Money halftime performance, which I thought was amazing.

00:38:37
Speaker 3: Love over hate everyone, And then the.

00:38:39
Speaker 12: Worst for me was watching that Seahawks team just dominate.

00:38:42
Speaker 3: I knew they would.

00:38:44
Speaker 12: Drake Made to me, I disagree with you, was not the MVP. He looked very flawed, whether he was injured or not. The easy way to say now after the fact, but I just.

00:38:52
Speaker 2: Felt like Drake May during the regular season was the MVP in my opinion. Is that also okay? No, you saw what he had to work with last night. I mean he I Stafford was wonderful, but he was loaded. I mean, Drake May made the Super Bowl, didn't play well in the postseason, but during the regular season, which the award is based on, Drake May to me was the MVP.

00:39:20
Speaker 3: It's all I have a good idea tap out.

00:39:27
Speaker 2: That's funny, and the Bad Bunny halftime show. You know, as I tell people, they were like, you're gonna watch the Bad Bunny? I said, if I'm in the room with my wife and two daughters, yes, I'll watch the turn it off for you know, leave the house if you want to. I thought the choreography was great. You give me Lady Gaga at any performance. Ricky Martin was a nice surprise, but I thought that it you know, there was a lot going on there. It was entertaining. I don't know his songs, but I was sure about it. It's not the end of civilization, like we all survived. It's okay, Yes, Paul.

00:40:07
Speaker 7: I nerd out with the production of the halftime show, no matter who's doing it. How they get everything logistically on the field and off. Do you see how there's hundreds of trees on the field.

00:40:16
Speaker 3: Those are people.

00:40:17
Speaker 7: I didn't realize that till the very end when I saw them from a top shop walk up. Those are people in tree outfits to make the process faster.

00:40:25
Speaker 3: Do you put it on your resume you were a tree during the half? Yeah? Yes, twenty one dollars an hour.

00:40:30
Speaker 2: Those guys, mate, But is it like Katie Perry when you had the shark like you put that on your resume.

00:40:37
Speaker 3: You were the shark in her video.

00:40:38
Speaker 9: Yes, Tom, and none of those people had a panic attack inside those tree costumes.

00:40:42
Speaker 2: Oh my god, imagine you in the tree costume. But if I said you could have been in the halftime show, you're going to be a tree, could you have done that?

00:40:51
Speaker 3: No, and I would have. I would have wanted to.

00:40:54
Speaker 9: But knowing from past experience, I wouldn't want to have to be rushed to some medical center outside the stadium.

00:41:00
Speaker 2: I don't know if you'd be rushed like they would think you were joking that you can't breathe inside you. Imagine bad bunnies walking around you here, Todd going, I can't breathe, can't breathe, mister bunny, can you me? You get out of his costume. I'm stuck in the branches, I'm stuck.

00:41:14
Speaker 3: In the brand, mister Bundy, mister bunny. I thought the commercials were kind of sad, kind of really sad.

00:41:23
Speaker 2: I know, and you know, my wife goes, hey, you keep getting up to go get a beer or I was smoking a cigar. She goes, don't you want to see the commercials? I go, no, It's like everyone collectively forgot. They're supposed to be entertaining.

00:41:40
Speaker 6: Like merrily, like you guy are supposed to think about these. It's supposed to be like something you look forward to and that, oh, I guess not.

00:41:44
Speaker 2: It's supposed to look like you put work into it, like some creativity.

00:41:48
Speaker 7: Yeah, Paul, he did feel like the overall tone was sentiment, not comedy or shock value.

00:41:53
Speaker 9: Yes, so I'm more sad super Bowl commercials or Patriots offense.

00:41:57
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say commercials because I had expectations for them, not the Patriots offense.

00:42:04
Speaker 3: One hour in the books on this Monday.

00:42:06
Speaker 2: Two more to go. Ross Tucker, he worked last night. He'll join us coming up.