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Seahawks get it done at home twenty four to three. Geno Smith has a decent day twenty six to thirty four for two hundred and eighty nine yards, one touchdown, two interceptions. On the ground, the Hawks rush for one hundred yards. Zach Sharbone has ninety one yards and two touchdowns. If you started him on your fantasy team, you doing okay. DK Meck have had four for one oh four and one touchdown. A long a seventy one second game in a row with over one hundred yards and tight ends got involved today. No ofhfense six catches sixty yards. You got Tyler Lockett five for forty six, Jackson Smith and jigueb three for thirty nine. I talked about those tight ends. Rookie AJ Barner contribute. He have three for thirteen. Defensively, ray Shawn Jenkins led all tacklers with Tim Tyree Knight, the rookie got the start today. He had six and one TfL. Derek Hall had two sacks, Draymond Jones had a sack. Jay Reed had a sack. Boy A Ma Fame had a sacked as well. The offense got going early, stalled a little bit late, but it still found a way to get it dumb. The Hawks are three for eleven on third downs while keeping the Dolphins one for two. Overall, the Hawks had three hundred and seventy yards average six point two per play. We got lots to do when we get back. Mike McDonald's gonna step up to the podium, so are the players. It's me and Ray Robbers.
Today.
You get the old line and you get the wide receiver. All that and more coming up next on the Umpquall Bank Radio Network. Seahawks went at home and they are now three and ozho and we are joined by the voice of the Seahawks, Steve Rabel. Now we're always joined by Rabel, but this is the first time in eight seasons I've been covering this team that he is sitting here and I get to look him in his eyes and really get his facials.
You know, sometimes you might be hiding them, right, it's how you doing.
I'm good, I'm You'll also see that I get worn out after a game too, and especially one like this was such a kind of a weird game at times. But happily the Seahawks come out on the winning end of this one and pulling away at the end, as you would expect a team to do when the other team is on its third quarterback. You know, you wish no ill for for any players, but boy, it's this is gonna be a tough road to ho for the Miami Dolphins here going forward.
But that's them.
We win, as you said, three and oh, now, first time since twenty twenty, and only the eighth time in franchise history. We were talking about it on the air. This team is this is a forty ninth year, so to just have eight times starting three and oh, that's a little surprising to me.
Yeah, they're down to the third quarterback the Dolphins. I'm already hearing rumors about who they should be looking at. But we're not going to talk about them. We're going to talk about us, and in these the Seahawks man Geno Smith twenty six to thirty four two eighty nine, one touchdown, two interceptions. I give them one interception. I think he tried to save the sack and get into his running back Zach sharbon name. The second one was just unfortunate. How would you assess the way he played?
I thought he played pretty well.
You know, he made a you know, not a very smart move, but he was just trying to get the ball out of his hands and get called for grounding when he was in the grass, but literally going down and side armed it. I think he hit one of his guards right in the shin pad or something with the ball, but he felt like, you know, I need to get the ball out of my hand.
So I don't take the sack.
So he was under some duress for a while, and really it wasn't until we just buckled down and that ninety eight yard drive at the end of the game there where you take it literally the length of the field and a lot of it on the run and you could finally start to wear that defense down.
But they played pretty well on defense.
They're fast on defense, just like they are on offense, and they brought a lot of pressure against Gino today.
Yeah, how do you feel that the Silks, you know, brought the pressure to the Dolphins. So I think we had four or five different dudes with sacks. They had multiple tons of hits on the quarterback, which you know contributed to them having to go through their their number of quarterbacks.
Right, you know, And it is a plus that you're playing against first Thompson who is the backup, and then going against the guy just off the practice squad and boil. But you know, the Seahawks got what six sacs today, I think. But still those guys, you know, at times had some chances to stand in there and throw.
They just weren't very accurate. And I know what we're going to hear.
People are gonna say, well, yeah, but if Tula was in there, Tua would have made a lot of completions. Well, Tua would have tried to throw the ball downfield, no question. But I didn't see anybody covering Tyreek Hill or letting him run free. He was always covered. So with one exception, I think on a crossing round. So I think the defense played pretty well. They just stopped the run. Chen had what fifty yards or something thereabouts.
He didn't do rushing up.
Yeah, so they didn't do much on the ground either. So I think the defense, the thing that kills you is all those penalties. Everything in this game is going to be skewed because of the penalties. And I know Mike is going to be at the podium and he's going to talk about a great win. And it was and it makes you three and zero, and that's great, but there is so much to clean up in the way of penalties. You just against a good team that has its starting quarterback, you can't do that. You've got to play well and you can't make those silly mistakes.
Well.
Speaking of the you know, playing against the backup quarterbacks, what do you what do you say to the fans, the skeptics that they're saying, like, what a three? And oh but but if you're owing three, you know they'd be crushy.
There are no if sands or butts, you know if in in football, you're playing against the team you're playing against, and those guys get paid just like our guys do.
And we lost two defensive linemen during the course.
Of the game, two guys that are really important cogs to this defense. Uh and came in without a couple of other starters so you know you can play that game. Of all, we don't have this guy and we don't have that guy. But ultimately, as a coach, you have to get ready the players that you need that are going to be out there, and then those guys have to just take that responsibility on themselves a to prepare and be to go out there and give their team a chance to win.
And our guys did a better job of that today.
Right.
So I'm looking at this this box and I'm really I feel like a proud uncle watching Derek Hall have two sacks, watching Boy and Mafe continue to grow.
He had three tackles, one sack at TfL.
Two QB hits, and and then I start to think about the possibilities once at Chennona Wolsu was there.
How good was this box today?
Oh my it was? It was good.
And and let's get some of those guys healthy again. Back inside, let's get let's get a big cat healthy.
We hope it's not too serious. He was back on the sidelines.
He looked like he wanted to come into the game at one point as he was standing right next to the defensive coaches helmet on, ready to go. But I think they decided, you know, let's just be careful here. And then Murphy, we're not sure about uh, the big guy, so we'll see on those. But just the way that those young guys are coming together Hall and boy as you're talking about, and a couple of those young inside linebackers were making plays. Drake Thomas, and it's fun to watch these guys. Dots and of course is the leader out there along with Julian Love. The secondary is lights out.
This can be a really good defense.
Raves.
As always, we appreciate your time, enjoy your coffee, and get home to your bride.
Man.
Okay, brother, thank you?
All right?
That was Raves, the voice of the Seahawks.
When we return, more analysis and players as they step up to the podium on Michael Bamas with Ray Roberts. The Hawks get it done at home twenty four to three. Seahawks improved to three and er Li's here from Mike McDonald.
He's at the podium.
Now was ours today?
To where you want to be?
Mike?
I thought we took a step forward today.
You know, the run game, I think they popped a couple runs, but overall, I thought we tackled very, very well didn't feel like the catch and run stuff and me is such a dangerous team, you know, the usual suspects when they get their hands on the ball. You gotta to take great angles, you gotta you need inside out pursuit.
You gotta set the edge. I thought our our thought, our our front.
Played incredibly hard getting to the ball with a sense of urgency, which was which was really really fun to watch and be part of.
You your run game than you did last What would you feel like was working there?
Yeah, we just stick to it. I mean, these are this is us, you know. I mean, I think that's the message throute the week. I mean, definitely you want to improve on the run game numbers from.
Last week, but you can't panic.
You gotta you gotta stay poise, you gotta you gotta stick to the process, and there's always going to be things that you're chasing from week to week. So again, we're just I thought it was a step in the right direction run game wise. I thought our guys tried to play physical, but I.
Thought they did a good job, especially at the end several times.
And trading came about the growth and your halls shown here early in your time as a coach, But what are you seeing now these last few games today felt like he was lifting the backfield.
Yeah, Derek played a tremend his game. I really I felt the whole front on how fast they were playing, but playing incredibly physical, incredibly hard, playing smart, you know. And how we're hitting the quarterback I mean no no quarterback penalties just but hitting them legal. And he's playing I mean this is kind of this is the type of player that you envisioned. He's a physical guy with that can set the edge and can drop one necessary. I mean, he's just uh, he's playing at a high level right now. So we're excited about.
Derek defensive front twice already for those guys to get the job done minus Leonard and firing for a lot of.
Them, Yeah, speaks of their speaks of their depth resiliency. Again, I thought that the front, I thought they played a tremendous game. So all those guys coaches included a D and CP and Hines, I thought they did.
A great job getting the guys ready to ready to play.
Guys lots Leonard and firing up front there too, to continue to play that kind of level from upfront, given that they weren't out there, how would you see out of the guys that had Yeah.
I mean that's the expectation.
I mean I think, you know, you just go down the line, the guys are suited up. That's you know, that's how we expect our defense to play. And there's it's just it's just kind of like, okay, so they're down, next guy's rolling.
Let's let's uh, let's go back to work.
What do you know about the severity of Leonards injury.
I don't know the severity of it. It's like a like mid section thing. I don't know if it's a ribs or whatever.
But I think we got it.
I think we got a picture of it. I don't know what the results of that are. So we'll see here in the next couple of days. Iron Byron he got a hamstring on a double team. Again, not not.
Sure of the severity. So we'll look at this week.
You know, I think after the first quarter interception.
It's big time. That's a big time.
I mean, it's just our red zone defense I thought was poised, we communicated well.
Just it. I mean the red zone, that's what games.
I mean, those critical situations, high leverage, high leverage downs.
But our guys have a great mentality.
You know, when again when they get in the red zone, it's not the reason is not good. So you have to have the mentality if we're defending the blade of grass, about the ninety.
Eight yard drive for Charbonay to get going there at the end of the kind of styal of runner he is.
Is he a guy that can that's him, That's Zach Sharbonay. That is finest.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, it's a four quarter game.
So if the run, you know, just stick to the run game, you know, keep treat, keep trying to move him, keep running the rock. Speaks to his mentality, the offensive mentality to go out and close it out.
Being out he got to watch Tyree's play a lot.
But Ray Thomas, Yeah, how did you feel bout the.
Way that those two played with having there?
I thought they did a nice job. I thought it was great to see Drake get some action. He felt like he made some plays. I felt those guys, I thought, you know, it's like tight, he's just a poised dude, man, like he's he's a rookie.
But you don't look at it. You don't.
You just don't feel it like that when when you look in his eyes, it's not too big for him. But he took a step you know from the from from the New England game. So he'll keep getting better. He's doing he's doing a tremendous job and played so too.
Yeah, it kind of mixed some things up.
Yeah, hey, look man, if you're if you're doing a great job in practice and and and kicking butt, then we're gonna find a way to get you on the field. So just speaks to Kobe and his work ethic and just keep keep working at a hammer at at one play at a time, let the production speak for itself, and we'll figure out a way to get you out there.
Was there and at right guard he didn't end up rotating at all?
Was that?
Yeah, we just felt like throughout the week A B really earned all those opportunities. But it's kind of a weak to weak thing right now. You know, we'll see, we'll look at the tape. I know, you know we had a couple with there's a holding penalty that AB had. But I don't really want to speak to like how will he played, because I just I don't I don't know for sure right now, This is more of a.
General question, but as a defensive coach, teams are going more to light boxes to defend the pass, which is leaving off game. Outside of a couple of plays against pretty good at design runs with light boxes on the defense, how do.
You balance You're saying, we're on defense, we're good versus Okay, how.
Do you balance the the lighter boxes with still run effect?
Yeah, I mean it's that's the game, right, It's just you know, how many opportunities you want to get them on the perimeter. I mean, if you stick a guy in the post, there's less people on the edge. That's where the ball is probably going. We got two guys back there. You got to be better in the middle. If you can defend the run and split safety, that's some high powered stuff.
You know, it's not easy to do.
There's a lot of stress on the interior defense and on your edge with your edge mechanics. Guys have to play multiple gaps, so it's heavy lifting.
So we're you know, it's not easy.
You gotta know how like who you're using in run fits and when you can use them. So it's it's uh, if you can do it, it just gives you such an advantage. Now there's times where you want to play single high and and you know we kind of call it accordingly there.
But I love the question, you know, more football questions.
Good picture.
You guys are three and now the rest of the divisions only wanted two and know it's early, but having such having two game leads to start.
That's I feel good, right, I'm glad we won today. It's like, yeah, it's a lot. We got a long way to go. It's a long season. We've got a big game coming up. But we like we're not talking about like division are. Our first goal is to win each game and the next goal is to get in the dance, and then the next goal.
Is win the division.
So we're a long way away from there.
So we can help our chances again next week if we go to Detroit and get.
A win today.
I thought he played pretty dang well. You know, there's again he's poised.
There's some things that weren't going our way offensively, and he just brings everybody along with him. And I think you speak like the drive at the end kind of speaks to our mentality. Offensively, wasn't our greatest day, but you know, getting at operating For the most part, I thought we did a great job getting in and out of the tempo stuff.
And yeah, I thought he thought he played really well as long.
As catch for DK. I mean just as an offense, to have a weapon like.
That that you can just even a day when things aren't going great, if to have him go like that was yeah.
I mean I feel like it broke a record with DK.
But I mean at any point in time, you can he can put points on the board wherever you're at.
So we love him. He's working his butt off and I'm just glad that we get fourteenth our side. I mean, he's just he's a problem.
He's he's a massive problem for for for defenses.
First interception.
You know, we're a little surprised that Ryan dialed up into empty play there back beck in the in the shadow of the gold post.
There when no we had gotten the ball out, you know, with enough space where we can pretty much run or there's some things you don't want to run in those situations.
But just a tough play.
To tough outcome, you know. Process wise, I think I think we're all right.
Like you're trying to challenge a play around the DPI and Julian, can you talk about what you saw of.
DBI helped me out there? Julian love the one that on on Spoon at the end of the quarter.
Yeah, yeah.
We we thought that maybe the clock ran out at the end of the quarter, and that's what we're going to challenge. So like the play would have been dead, but our guys were on it. Initially we thought we had a chance. We went back and looked at.
It, so we didn't challenge it anything else.
Thanks.
That was your head coach, Mike McDonald.
The Seahawks moved to three and oh for the first to see me the a time in franchise history. Last time was in twenty twenty. Anything stand out to you, big.
Ray, Well, I just think that the thing that stends out is just how I think he's very confident in what the.
Ray love you going back to the podium, d Lot, how far was.
Its on t Foller on that one sideline catch?
I mean it was just football.
Gino did a good job of extending to play and put the ball to where you know, only I could get it. So I mean just speaks to like I said earlier, his accuracy and knowing where to put the ball.
I mean, you're a big guy, You're obviously I've led it, But how much have you worked up for you catch wad he is to just become even more of a favoral target to report.
I mean, I'm a receiver, so I got to be able to catch the ball anywhere. So I'm always working on my catching ability.
There's kind of a little for the offense in the second third cards, but to be able to go ninety eight.
Yards late in the games? Would that do for you?
Guys?
Drive together?
Get Zach going right?
I mean the run game got going. Passing game, we were able to complete some passes. But I think the one thing that helped us on that drive was we we didn't put ourselves behind the sticks, so we we stayed out of penalty trouble. I think that that was the only thing that stopped us today with the stupid penalties that we had, uh false starts, holdings, But uh, good thing we won. Uh so you know we can clean it up on Monday Tuesday and uh.
Move on to the Lions.
Do you take take us through the long touchdowns?
Just kind of how you got to open none saw it was covered to Gino Uh, me and Geno have been working uh that certain route since training camp and uh, you know it just came to life.
Uh today, do you keep before.
That touch up in your office?
Plays show you're talking to the official there when you ch getting closification on something.
Yes, sir, I got called for uh OPI on our route uh the previous drive and I was just asking him, Uh, you know what can I do uh if my route stops right there? And he said, just g pick aside and go around him. So, UH, just gotta continue to work that. I've been called for a couple of opis this first, these first few games. So just tryna, you know, help the team and uh be better in the aspect.
Then but then the next offensive play you go out and get the seventy year a touchdown.
Is that how you're helping your team?
Then? Uh? I mean sh shit? By running my route? Yeah and catching the ball?
Yeah, K what your point feels better?
I know, it's just football.
You're receiver.
You're supposed to catch the ball.
Who feels better the post up or the long the long double move?
Uh?
Winning cause? And if we didn't win, we would have had a sour taste in our mouth. After uh the second and third quarter that we uh had out there. So uh, you know, winning takes care of a lot of mistakes, but uh you you can't overlook them or sweep them under the road. You gotta uh be professionals and uh you know, be the type of team that uh fixed those mistakes and uh you know moves on and improves throughout the season.
Defense had another stop after a turnover like they did in the openers. When the defense is doing what they're doing, just as an offenial.
Kind of confidence does I give you guys, Uh, it gives us a boatload of confidence when you know, you know, they always got our back, uh in that sense, and uh you know we're not gonna go out there and mess up on purpose by any means. But uh, you know, with the type of defense that we have uh on our team, I mean, it just gives us the most confidence to go out there and just play free to where uh we can always lean on them, and you know vice versa. It's gonna be you know, a game to where they have to lean on us and we got to you know, answer the belt like they've answered it the first three weeks.
What's the confidence level head to get to Detroit.
Uh, steady. We gotta we can't get too high, too low. Like I said, man, we gotta continue to iron out the mistakes and just continue to you know, lean on one another so we you know, we can improve from week to week and you know, hopefully beat the Detroit Lions. They since you guys really just feel used the right game on that last stratitude of it down there, right, Zach, Zach came alive, even Kenny in the four minute offense that we had to close the game out. The run running backs came alive, and you know they answer the call when we needed them the most.
D Yes, sir, Sure that was dk Metcalf had a big game four receptions, one hundred and four yards and one touchdown, had a seventy one yard touchdown, and now has seven career touchdowns of at least fifty yards.
That send it over to Curtis Rodgers for a scoreboard up there.
Thanks Bob.
Forty nine ers in Rams San Francisco with a shot to ice it, but Jake Moody missing a fifty five yard field goal with a little more than two minutes to play. Rams responded with this big shot from Matthew Stafford to to two out well.
Another play fake, another deep growl look dude four two time.
Side to five.
Fifty yard pass play that set up LA with a game tying touchdown from Kyron Williams, his third score of the day to a draw to Williams Stafford doing its arms in the other Williams is that I made a twenty four to twenty four to forty nine. Ers got the ball back but stalled out on third down. They punted to LA Xavier Smith, which proved to be a bad IDEA.
Forty three year put her Kim Smith.
Drey Goods Savior Smith the first touch of his after career.
The text to Leves.
Due big field, short field to work with for LA, they were able to get the chip shot go ahead field goal, putting them up twenty seven to twenty four.
Kurry come back wat Ram taking the lead with.
Two second times.
Forty nine Ers could not score on their last bit of desperation, Rams win at twenty seven to twenty four. Both teams moved to one and two Panthers and Raiders. Heck of a day from Andy Dalton and it's first start with Carolina.
Dalton puts an airline to it to the end to pick some perfect time from Dalton Today John.
S Pennon Panthers ate ten to lead Dalton, the only starting quarterback to have a game with more than three hundred yards and three touchdowns in the twenty twenty four season. Panthers put a herd on the Raiders thirty six to fifteen. Ravens and Cowboys. It was a blog until the fourth quarter. Dallas wins trail twenty eight to six, but this touchdown from dak to Camanti.
Turbin brought them to within three.
Time to.
Baltimore trying to ice the game. They were able to things to some slide of hand from Lamar.
Jackson's yeah it'll be on a jet shleep.
Ravens get their first win of the season twenty eight twenty five over Dallas Derek Henry one hundred and fifty one yards and two touchdowns. Lions and Cardinals. They got it going on the ground with David Montgomery and through the air with Aman Ross Saint Brown.
Tis time.
Sex next opponent. The Lions win at twenty to thirteen over the Cardinals. Seahawks now with a two game lead on everybody in the NFC, West. Let's get it back to our post game crew. Here's Michael Bumpers.
Thank you Curtis Rogers for that score board of day. Lots more to do when we get back. We'll hear from Derek Call. That is next on the up Quam Bank Radio Network. Welcome back to the Seawk post game show. They get a w twenty four to three at home against the Miami Dolphins and DK meck have had himself a day.
Geno Smith was decent.
Did have an intercession that I would put on him, but other than that, I think he was pretty efficient. You got the run game going, Zach Charbonnet ran the rock well, and then let's hear from QB one. Geno Smith is at the podium right.
Now kind of what that play was and how that broke so over the way.
Then, Yeah, that was a play that we have been repping all off season. You know, give DK the option to read that right there. If we get the coverage, we like, he's gonna you know, take the top off it. So you know they're playing low quarters on that side. They played half to the other side. We got the safety in the position we want him, and you know he really bit down on the dig route and then you know, DK was able to get behind him. I thought the protection was great, you know, allowed us that extra second we needed to get the ball downfield, and that was a big play for us.
It's the purpose to that have to put the safety spie.
You can't change positions when he when that chefs heads upfield that he's already waning.
Yeah, I mean just kind of knowing coverages. You know that you know that safety is gonna be in the quarters coverage. He's going to be more aggressive to any incuts or any underneath routes, and so we try to take advantage of that, you know. And the cornerback didn't overlap over the top, so we were able to get you know, the exact look we wanted, and like I said, DK read it perfect and protection was great and it allowed us to get the playoffs.
K how about the post he was posting?
Oh yeah, yeah, that was a great catch by him, A great great job to keep his toes and bounds. Anytime you got a dB with his back turn to uh, any of our targets, but especially a guy you know as tall as DK, you want to give him a shot there. And uh, he did a great job right there. I thought that was a great play, you know, like most.
Of the second half of it was a slogging penalties, setting guys behind the sticks. How impactful was it the ad to be able to overcome that and really put the game away with the run game, which had been stacked it frost the game, to be able to physically punish that that way and to send the tonal to really finish off.
Yeah, I thought coach McDonald did a great job throughout the week of talking about our run game and how you know, in his words, is a softening process. You know, it's not always gonna hit early in the game, but you got to keep wearing them down and you.
Gotta stick to it.
And I thought Grubb did a great job.
At continuing to call the runs that you know, we had advantaged looks, you know, and then our old line took over the game. You know, really in the second half. One of the things we got to get better at is, you know, just those laws, like you said, started out fast. We wanted to do that, you know, we wanted to come out and start fast. But then we say, you know, put our foot on the gas. And I think that's what we got to take the next step is where you know, we're up three scores or two scores, you know, let's keep pushing the lead. And obviously the their defense did a great job is stopping us to two turnovers that we can't have. I've got to do a better job with that. But overall, just like the way we finished and you know, really just gutted it out.
The other deal was it from the defense to hold the three points after.
The first interception and that that uh, you know those type of things when we talk about permentary football, those are the things we talk about. You know, situations aren't always going to be perfect. And again, we got to eliminate the mistakes.
And it starts with me.
I got to eliminate, you know, putting our defense in tough spots. But to see them go out and you know, not flinch, not bat and I go out there and put the clamps on that offense and you know, holding the three points us all the only points they got throughout the game. And then they had another big time stop late in the game, right before the big drive. You know, so the way they're playing the lights out, man, it's gonna give us a chance to win. Every single game we play. But as an offense, we left a lot out there. And I'm be honest with you, you know, I'm really pissed off with the way I performed.
I think we got to get better the first in something specific.
You feel like you said the shoot man just not through an interception.
I don't you know, I don't I don't you know, know exactly what to say.
They felt like the ball was just tipping up in the air to day. But still, you know there's something I can do to make sure that don't happen.
You can talk about what about the defending him a bigger option today and how import it.
Is that the film with people have that position.
Yeah, I think you know the way that teams cover us.
Man, we got DK Metcalf, we got Tyler Lockett, Jackson, no offense. You know Ken Ken Walker, Zach Sharperonnay, you know Kenny McIntosh, pH Pharail Brown. You know all our guys. Man, They're all capable of making plays. And you know, the great part about my job is that it's easy because I just have to read the defense and get the ball into the hands of the playmakers, and I let the defense dictate you know what it's going to be on that day. You know, if they want to double DK, it's going to open up for other guys. If they want to double DK Lockett, then you got, you know, match up for Jackson and Noah. So I think all of our guys are more than capable.
And that's the beauty of it.
You know, we got some unselfish guys out there, and at any given time, you know, it could be a guy's day.
You know, what were you disappointed about you in your game?
Yeah, just the fact that we you know, we scored seventeen points right there in the first quarter. I felt like we came out great and then you know, for some reason, we couldn't just get over that hump, and I kept, you know, trying to you know, push the guys like, hey man, we got to you know, put our foot on the gas. You know, we got to score more points. And uh, you know, I'm I'm right at the forefront of that. You know, I don't you know, as I said, man like, whatever it takes to get it done. You know, I can't pinpoint it right now. I'll watch the film. But whatever it takes for us to get better and to push ourselves and to reach that next level with that next step that we're talking about. You know, that's something that you know, I laid right at my own feet, and you know, I take it real personal.
Ninety eight yard drive me to the offense that you guys had some challenges lost change from that position.
Yeah, I mean just the resilience that we have as an offense and really as a team. But if you look at this offense, man, like anytime you know we're we're stuck in the rut or you know, there's something negative that happens, right, throw an interception and the next play touchdown.
The DK Right, So we have a resilient group of guys. We knew right that at that moment.
You know, we hadn't been doing anything in the second half really after the first quarter. Our defense been playing lights out. We got to give them something, you know, we got to give them something. You know that we're backed up, but we got to flip the field. And I just thought we were determined to go out there and score, give us another lead and and you know, allow our defense to play, you.
Know, just with that much more of an edge.
They picture you guys are three and zero the rest of the divisions one and two. As you said, there's a lot of you probably get better at. Just how do you kind of feel about where you are right now?
Cause?
Yeah, I mean, anytime you can win the games that you play, that's that's what you play for, and that's all that matters, is that we win.
However we get it done.
You know, I'm not really you know, particular about that, but yeah, three and oh, you know it's a great start, but you know, we still got more games to play, fourteen more and uh, you know, we got to lock in going on the road to Detroit, another tough environment, but you know we've been there before, so we got to lock in and make sure that, you know, we put these games behind us because we already played them and get ready for the next one.
How far do you think you are as an offense? Where you may be you can't be.
I think we're right where we're supposed to be. I think we're right where we're supposed to be. I think we've won three games. We've had our ups and downs, we had our our great moments and then we had are not so great moments.
And I think that's that's a good sign.
For us because I know that we're gonna put it together and we're gonna start clicking here soon.
You're talking about resilience, but as a quarterback, and some quarterbacks that they have a bad player took kind of going through the spot down with Spiral. What is it about you from your experience where even if you just have to grind it out, you don't let those.
Bad players get you down?
Prettive pushing forward for Yeah, I just think process over results. So trusting my process. You know, I know I got three interceptions on the season that they've all been in the most fluctive ways possible. And I know I'm not, you know, being reckless with the football. That's never my goal. But I trust myself. I trust my preparation, I trust the type of player that I am, So my confidence never waivers at any time no matter what happens in the game, good or bad. But the process is what matters the most. And as long as I'm going through the proper process, I believe that you know, I'm doing the right thing.
Influence that.
Yeah, I'm I didn't have any already. I didn't have any down moments in my career.
Man, Like I said, Man, I've been blessed to be in this position for twelve years now. A lot of people would love to be in my shoes, and so that perspective, I think helped me not have down moments. And anytime I do, you know, throw an interception or have a bad play, I just think about, hey man, you're you so be you simple, thank you, Thank you guys man.
That was your quarterback Geno Smith, completing twenty six to thirty four passes for two hundred and eighty nine yards, one touchdown in two interceptions.
That is seventy six percent completion rate in today's game.
Our quarterback review is brought to you by t Mopele, exclusive wireless partner of the Seattle Seahawks Big Ray one. I just want to point out that Gino might be the most versatile player on the team when it comes to dressed because I've seen the seen the tie, I've seen the bomber jacket, and right here we got no offense at the podium.
Now then finished with that ninety eight yard touchdown, Drives, how do you assess the way it went for that?
Yeah, obviously, we you know, we know as the offense that we want to eliminate those those roles, a lot of penalties, a lot of self inflicted wounds.
That were killing our drive.
So we'll go back to the film and keep improving on that stuff. Just continue to del together and get better as a unit. So we were able to come out of the game with a win, but obviously we know that we have a lot to improve on and lots to still get better at it. But obviously gain those wins in the process and still being able to learn and fix those things is a good thing.
An emphasis was starting to fast and coaching staff this week.
I mean, yeah, that's been this emphasis from the start from game one, so hopefully we can keep that going. I think we jumped up on them a little bit, but we had the opportunity to being up seventeen to three. That next drive is like a real opportunity to kind of like put your foot on them a little bit, and we.
Fail to do that. But you know, we'll get it going.
We'll get it figured out.
There's some time with an injury in training, training camp.
You feel like you're at right now with this offense, and today seems like you were.
Much more active in passing. Yeah, do you feel like now that you're getting back into the swing.
Things at the first couple of meetings, Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. I mean, being out a little bit in training camp it didn't help me. I mean obviously I like getting reps. I like getting into a routine and things like that. But it's all, you know, missed a little bit of time. But you know, kind of getting back into the swing of things a little bit, which is which is nice to feel, and you know, getting involved in the off which is really cool. So I'm excited looking to keep building. Still have a lot to work on, so I have a lot to improve on and kind of get to where I want to be at.
But you know, today was a good start.
So good death Pharaoh back out there with your group helping up.
Oh for one hundred percent.
I mean Pharaoh, I mean, I mean you look at the first drive and he plans Jalen Phillips and past protection. It's like, that's huge to have that have that component him aj having you know, having a rotation and getting guys in and and especially in the run game, like Parrel's a maller in the run game and he he really puts it all out there. So I was super happy to have him back and you know, kind of release some duties in different places and you know, kind of exploit something that he's really good at.
So that was that was really cool.
Good thank you.
All right? That was Noah Fan.
He had six catches for sixty receptions on six targets.
Good day for him.
Man, we got lots more to do when we get back to Seahawks win at twenty four to three. Seahawks improved to three and oh twenty four to three against the Miami Dolphins. This is the Seahawks post game Sean Michael bumbis with my guy Ray Rober.
Ray.
It's been a while since we heard from You've got a lot of players stepping up to the podium.
What have you heard from these guys, anything that that stands out to seeing.
Well, the first thing is that when coach McDonald they asked them about, uh, you know, like all the things that they had to learn and things that they're trying to adjust to, and he said, well, the one good thing is that we're winning, like like learning how people I don't think people understand how hard it is to learn to.
Win, right.
And so even through all of the stuff that the team is going through the first half of the first I mean the first quarter of the first.
Game, the run defense in the second game.
You know, however it started in this game, it just seemed like you couldn't quite get the rhythm to kind of pull pull away in the game.
But they're finding ways to win. And uh. And as a coach, I mean as a player, that's why you play.
You play the game is to win. And so I think people, you know, like, yeah, there's gonna be some bumps in the road. And I think Paul kind of gave us a little bit of a warning at the pregame show when he said it it may not look pretty all the time, and it didn't look pretty all the time, but they found a way to win.
And then as it relates to the players, man.
I'm just super impressed with the poise that every dude that gets up there speaks with. No one seems to be in a hurry to kind of explain themselves. No one seems to be in a hurry to panic about what they're doing or not doing. No one seems too high or too low. And to me, that speaks to like the leadership and the team, and it speaks to like the confidence that the team has in each other. And one of the things I had written down was that they're playing complimentary football, not in like the styles that they play, but in how the offense is supporting the defense and the defense supporting the offense when they need it. They just stretches in the game where the offense needed to go on along drive put some points on the board, they did it. The defense needed to get off the field, and they did it.
And so it's.
A pretty interesting thing to watch as all this newness is learning itself and finding ways for or you know, whatever the defense or the offense and the philosophy is gonna be. But at the same time, you have a locker room that is focused on supporting each other.
And finding ways to win. That's kind of what I hear. And all of the you know, technical stuff that people are.
Saying, you keep winning, not too many people people are gonna remember the details of the win.
There's gonna see the record.
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I think that stuck out to me was the three points and Gino pointed this out and reminded me the three points that the Miami Dolphins scored came off for his interception.
After that, it was lockdown. Yeah, you know, the defense did a good job.
The offense came out in the second half and kind of struggled a little bit, but like you mentioned, it's like, all right, well, if you're struggling the other side of the football, I was going to step up and have each other's back.
And that's exactly what happened right there.
And also, yes, Gino had two interceptions, but he still completed seventy six percent of his passes. There were a couple of throws where I kind of winced a little bit when it came to Gino, but for the most part, it seemed like a Gino kind of day.
Yeah, it did.
And it's it's really hard to kind of always be in a rhythm and always be able to make the big play and stay like under control because some some guys will think like they have to do more than they have to do because the run game isn't working. And so maybe Gino took a few chances with the ball today, but for the most part, he's kind of played within himself and and and take the took the plays out of there. And if Gino plays that way, Gino's plenty good enough to do what he what he has to do. And then, like I said in the in halftime, the defense it looked kind of crazy, but really the Dolphins were just killing it between the thirties right like that was about it. That's kind of where they that was their sandbox today. But then when they got to the to the place, you know where it was time to like lock down and maybe you get into the zone, the defense defense stepped up and they either got the ball back or there was a penalty of sack you know what what have you. And people will say like, well, you know, I didn't have to it. But they still had all that speed on the field, and we saw at times like on the one little screen pass they threw to the to the right side and the dude reversed it back to the left side. It's like, how did he get away from all those people? Still pick up like eight or nine yards, so the spill, the speed was still on the field, but the defense was able to neutralize that and the coverage on the back end combined with the pressure on the quarterback from those front seven guys.
Speaking of reversing fields and high school, I did it all the time.
Yeah, in college. I did it a couple of times.
In the NFL, I tried once in practice and realized I ain't fast enough to do it. So whenever you see a grown man reverse fields in the NFL, you know he is extremely fast. There is a part of the offense that struggled a little bit, not a little bit, but it is struggled three four eleven on third downs.
That's something that you have to see improve. I think for the most part they've been okay on third downs, but today they struggled a bit.
Yeah, but they were like really the eight ball too. There's some third and long safe they were. They were not doing very well on first and second down because of the run game. But you saw like in that last drive I had mentioned at halftime, and they used to use the short passing game as a running game, and they started doing that and then they were converting those third downs.
Yep.
But on the other side, they held the Miami Dolphins to one twelve, one for twelve on third downs.
So yeah, you know this.
Every football game is going to be different. It has its own identity. The Dolphins were off also zero for three on third downs and only average three points seven yards per play. All right, man, this is me and you Big Ray. We in here getting it in. It's Michael Bumas is Big Ray. This is a Seahawk post game show. We got lots more to do when we get back. Hawks fans celebrate Blue Friday at your local Western Washington McDonald's with a free medium fries with any one dollar purchase every Blue Friday and only in the McDonald's app. When we come back. More interviews. Jen caught up with some players in the locker room. That is next on the Umpquad Bank Radio Network.
Scuffles of football.
On the ground.
They're fighting four down at the forty yard line of the Dolphins. I think the Dolphins fell back on it on a third down and five. It was Armstead, the big tackle Toron Armstead who fell on the football, but Skyler Thompson was chased from the get go, a loss.
Of fourteen.
Seahawks able to shut the Miami Dolphins offense down twenty four to three.
Let's go here from Dremid Johns. He's with Jim Mueler.
Jay, there were some.
Pretty impressive numbers in this game.
Are you most proud of the total rushing yards allowed which was less than one hundred or the fact that you guys.
Allowed less than one hundred yards in the first half?
A boy impressed about a three points? To be honest with you, it's hard to hold NFO any three points. And you know, we've been having close court games past couple weeks, and it's good to have a game.
We got some face you flustered teeth.
Skyler Thompson at least once forced that fullable. What did you notice about the way he was holding the ball and creating some opportunities for you guys.
I mean I felt out we had the ability and the ability to Russia. I mean, I definitely have more than one, but the one second I got I should add more. But I thought collectively we did a great job. But just flastering closing the.
Pocket, I think that's even harder to do when you're missing a couple of guys on the dan line. How did not have Leo and Byron Murphi and for the second half change things?
Oh, I mean, guys, go to the game. You gotta step up.
I mean, I think we're so nipan talented and like really feelt like you were gone. I mean, obviously they're hell of players. I'm not trying to gag them.
Their abilities are one of one both of them. But I think, you know, we just have that you.
Know that nip for you.
It has now been a couple of weeks. Is it safe to say that you are back to one hundred percent?
Oh?
No, I'm not, but I'm close. I feel I'm feeling more more comfortable. I know it was that was week three of the season, but week three camp for me.
You know, i haven't played ball up until the first week, so I'm still trying to get my footing.
I could be better, and uh that is a scary thought for any teams that are upcoming. Look, Mike McDaniel said at halftime that he was really frustrated that their offense couldn't get any big going.
Could you see that on the field in their faces?
Yeah, I mean I think I think it was a parent to the to.
Anybody watching the game, fans on TV and fans that are like President, So, I mean we knew they were struggling. Obviously we're not I want to say, you know, talking craft saying our office, he's just the book.
Step it up.
You know, we just encourage them later and if they were a team, you know, it's not easy. You know, everybody gets paid. Everybody's talented. We all here for you know, for a reason. So you know, when they struggling up there, we gotta pick them up.
Lastly, Derek Hall does get credit for a couple of accidents. Again, you mentioned everybody's meeting at the quarterback. What have you seen from d All this year?
Amic progressive? This confidence is growing, you know, the longer in the lead to more you gos a player. He's he's really learning how to be a.
True outside linebacker NFL. He's doing a heck of a job. You know, he gotta just keep going. He's not done yet. He's still early lock and change.
So and all right, there you go.
And Michael Bump is pointing out that the Seahawks allowing just three points at its type.
For these fust allowed this week in the NFL.
Thank you, Jen, that was dre Mont Jones had five tackles, one sack at TfL and two quarterback hits. Big Ray we saw a couple of names show up on the stat sheet that we weren't used to seeing show up so far this season.
Drey Jones is one of those guys with the stats ide is mentioned.
Yeah, you know, it's interesting because last week I was I wasn't as high on Draymond Jones, but then he just reminded me that he missed most of camp, you know what I'm saying, And so he's just kind of jumping in right as the heat was getting hot. And so today he looked like a like the type of player they need to have playing on the edge that way, he was super disruptive in the backfield, doing a good job of setting the edge with all that speed, attacking the quarterback, you know, hitting the quarterback, all those types of things. So you look at man like when a utena comes back, Oh my goodness, like, yeah, four outside linebacker d defensive end dudes that can all get to the quarterback consistently, and then you you know, if the interior guys are getting that push, it's gonna be it's gonna be tough to deal with this defense man, especially thinking in the run game. Keep those linebackers clean because they're very good tacklers, you know when they're when the linebackers are clean and able to run, if they can keep them clean and they put pressure on people to to uh uh in the pass rush like that, and the defense can go a long way and given this offense time to find itself.
We have some injuries to this defense this week, so guys like Drake Thomas had to step up and do their thing.
He's standing by with Jim Mieller.
Draick, let's start with this. What did it mean to get some meaningful snaps today?
And then a lot?
Honestly, it's been on a long journey.
I know it's only been you know, my second year in the league, but it's felt like a long journey at this point.
It just super blessed and thankful.
You know, all credit and glory to Mike Ordon saving Che's cards.
And we saw you in on a couple of big plays.
The first one I'm thinking about is water like that was fourth quarter and that was a drive where they got no points off of that. How did you read that play?
You know, honestly, just great coaching, you know, just listening to my coaches.
Through the week, knowing what they're trying to do in different looks, how they're trying to isolate the defense, and where they're trying to throw the ball.
Got that look.
I know exactly what they're trying to do and I know how to play thanks to my coaches. So just honestly, just listen to the coaches.
We knew without Baker in there that there was an opportunity for different combos. So who did you lean on most during the week when you knew this was a possibility.
Like I said, my position coach, my assistant position coach, t do and Bake all.
You know, we're a group.
They helped me out whatever question I have. You know, I know I can.
Always take it to them and they'll, you know, answer it. You know, you can give me where I needed to get up.
This is a team they can run the ball, but they couldn't do it today. What got short up in that run defense.
It's just a mentality.
And coach Mike, he's like an ad or just it's important that they've preached the mentality that we did to take the field every single day.
No one runs the ball on us.
That's the mentality we take and it's really a mindset that we have to get into when we get.
On the build.
Lastly, what is being three and zero meaning the context.
Of the season.
It feels great, Honestly.
Three wins.
It's hard to come by in this league, and.
We're thankful for each one because people are taking week by week trying to get.
Better every soon we all right, and certainly they did when you look at those numbers that Miami put up this week.
As we get it back to your bumb Thanks Jen. You're gonna need guys throughout the season like Drake Thomas. A step of this is football. I've never seen a team that went every single week with their starters healthy and ready to go.
What did you think of the opportunity that Drake took advantage of?
Well, I think the thing that's important is that he came in and was ready. Sometimes when you're not the starter, it's easy to kind of lose focus and concentration. But when you hear these dudes talk about this prep and they're talking about practice and their and their readiness to come into games, man, it's just a reflection of Mike McDonald I mean like it, that's how he is. This dude seems like he's super uh you know, informed and uh prepared for every single thing he's gonna do.
And you can hear that in the players.
And so to hear him talk about, you know who he turns to to make sure he understands what he's doing and he's ready. You may not get all the reps and practice and then you may come into a game in a weird situation.
But he came in and was prepared and was able to contribute.
And to me, when you're building a team that when people are trying to figure out what their roles are, it is important to do that. My son Price is a back up at Portland State, and so I've noticed during the game he was standing near the end of the benches.
So I'm like, dude, like go find out what the play is. Watch what the defense is doing to that certain play. Watch how that that defensive lineman is playing the offensive tackle us in front of you. So if you get in the game, you kind of have information to work with. And so it sounds like that's how these dudes prep, you know, all all for the whole practice during the game and so when you come in, you're ready to make a playing contribute. I think that's so important. Man.
The mental reps, Yes, people either don't know about it or take it for granted. There's a couple of times when I was injured in the NFL, I get the script for practice and I'm just standing back there. Okay, this is the defense we're seeing. If I were in there, how would I attack this? And then I'm learning from the legend Bobby Ingram. Okay, that's how he did it. Would I do the same and what would I do differently? So no, I think that's great. You're gonna need your twos and your threes prepared. We saw some activations this week. McClinton was activated. You got O'Connell who was activated. The last week we saw Marquis Blair who was activated. There's always going to be some rise and some falls throughout then NFL season.
But like that whole phrase like if you stay ready, you don't have to get right, and these dudes seem like they're staying ready all right.
I like it.
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Seahawks get it done against Miami. Seahawks win twenty four to three at home. Tight ends got involved, that's here for one of them. Farrell Brown is with Jim Mueller, Pharaoh.
You have played in plenty of games before, but I know we've been waiting to make your season debut.
Were there any nerves, any butterflies before this way?
I think I'll have nerves all the time. I got ahead trainer Toby, I'll just get nervous, dumbas. I'll tell him that I don't need a deal before the game service.
I never eat it.
Then, I like Thorowell and stuff like I got involved in any stomach. So yes, I think I still get nerves.
Well, you were involved in that opening drive. Tyler Lockett has a nineteen yard reception.
You were blocking. What did the offense do to set the tone in this way.
I think we've been Harvard or like started pass the first couple of games, we got like sloth stars minute skill shot and could just put a full game together right now.
Yeah, Miami is known as being an explosive team, but it was your offense today that comes through with those big plays.
Was that schemed up that way or was it a matter of taking when the defense was giving you?
I mean we just.
Miami has you know what I mean?
And what does it do to have what was it four tight ends stressed for today's game? I think three of you caught passes today. How does that change what's.
Available for Tina?
The gods of the Moor, everybody can get you.
There were points scored in the first quarter, then there was a little bit of a scoring drought until the fourth.
What happened? Was it a matter of something that Miami had changed defensively?
I was saying earlier, just trying to put that more game together. That's what you're starting to do the first couple of games, but I wasn't there.
It was like so starved.
The step from the guys later today was a fast started coming.
But it's good that.
Lastly, are you paying attention to anything the defense is doing? Like, did you realize how many times they've kept them off the board?
Man, I'll be kind of in a zone. I like to go back to Washington when I wasn't playing the last couple of weeks.
If going to Washington or show, I'm gonna go.
Home right now in Washington.
Yeah, okay, well I would have chosen a different way to watch it. For sure.
Here's what else he is gonna suit bof that Seahawks offense had had at least fourteen plays by my account of ten yards or more.
Today as we get that back to you, thank you Jin. Yeah, when you were putting together plays like that, you should be good to go.
Just the longs, right, the long plays in the receiving game, you got eighteen yards by Jayson, eighteen by Tyler Locket, sixteen by Noah Fans, seventy one by your guy DK. Then when it comes to running the rock, you have thirteen yards by Zach Sharba.
Name.
At times in the second half the offense stalled a little bit, but you can make up for that with explosive plays.
Yeah you can, and they and you just named all the weapons.
I think in the pregame, we listened to DK and they were asking DK about Jesm's breakout, and he was like, well, man, we have all these other guys and so once they get going, he would just imagine, you know, imagine what this offense can be. And they have a lot of dudes that can be explosive and all the different ways. And you're not even talking about K nine.
That's not back.
And Kenny Mack got a chance, he's an explosive dude, didn't get get a real chance that one play was called back. But yeah, it's it was interesting that how explosive Miami is known to be and the like. It seemed like every play they ran you were kind of like going, like holding your breath, like are they going to find one of those fast dudes wide open down the field. But however, the defense was able to get pressure on the quarterback and keep them from that. And then you look at the Seahawks and they were having these these opportunities to have explosive plays. It's great to see DK get out, stretch those long legs out and speed past everybody. And then Charbaay finished up strong. You know, jas An had a nice catch across the middle and turn it in some yards. So this offense, like I said before, even though there's a lot to work on, and coach McDonald has acknowledged that too, they're finding ways. And then when you look at Grub you talked about I talked about this in the pregame about his bag. He just has he has things to go to when things aren't working. So you saw in that that ninety eight yard drive, like at first they were just these a little five and six yard dump passes and then like the last four or five or six of the last six or seven plays were run places. So he kind of found a way to loosen the defense up and then was able to run the football. And so I like that that he's can that he can do that, and the offense can respond to that as they're still trying to figure out their identity.
You talk about being explosive.
Man, I'm looking at the Miami Dolphins and in the past game their average pass play nine point three yards. To go over to the Seahawks, their average pass play eleven point one yards. Obviously, the seventy one yard long game by DK Metcalf helps that average, but if you would have told me that the Seahawks will be this much more explosive than the Miami Dolphins. I would say they're for sure winning that ball game.
Right, Yeah, absolutely, it's uh.
I think sometimes I think even Mike McDaniel, the Dolphins coach, gets caught up into the big play too much and forgets to coach the rest of the game a little bit and and kind of playing that cat and mouse game. But that offense is built. I mean, when you have all that speed, it has to be built around the big plays. It's not going to be the most patient offense. And so today they were being forced to be patient and have to kind of din't conduct their way down the field with backup quarterbacks and with a secondary that.
Can run with some of the receivers you have.
So I think the Seahawks did a good job of making it tough for them, making them have to drive the distance of the field. I think a couple times they started drives near midfield, but for most of the time they were like on their negative twenty yard yard lines starting from there, and so they.
Were having to put a lot of drives together.
They couldn't hit you with the big one bomb, the big the one big play put points on the board and then give you the ball back. So a good defense, good scheme by our defense attacking a backup quarterback if you want to call it that, but a team full of speed, and then great for our offensive respond in a way that they can put points.
On the board. Yeah.
I also think the defense did a great job, like you mentioned, putting pressure on the quarterback. Twelve quarterback hits and you had six sacks. So when you're doing that, and we feel like the Mammi Dolphins, they're made objective was to get the fullball out quickly, and you're getting touched every now and then, you're going to be hesitant on your throws and you're liable to make more mistakes. So that's why it's so important that you see some of these young guys kind of step up with Tyree's Knight with at TfL, Derek Hall Dotson, Draymond Jones, there's a plethora of gods who are getting after that quarterback and it's causing havoc in the back of.
It reminded me of like this defensive front has a chance to overwhelm offenses. So like when you're playing, when you're running the football on offense, you don't necessarily feel this as much as when you're throwing it. But when you're running the ball, you can feel like you're running downhill on the defense, and you can tell that they feel like you're running downhill against them. And this pass rush, especially with Jones and Hall and Mafey and Leonard Williams and u Chenna when he comes back, all those dudes, man, they can really really get after the quarterback and they can feel as if they're overwhelming the offensive line. My rookie year, we played the Dallas Cowboys and they probably had four or five Hall of Famers in their front seven, and I don't know if we got to the fifty yard line the whole day, and it just felt like like you're blocking and you're sending a quarterback get sacked. You're like, man, did they bring fifteen more dudes on the field, Like it just seems like there's more guys than you can block. And to me, something the Seals defense has a chance to do that.
Yeah, that defense has shown some growth over the past three weeks, especially after that one hundred and eighty five yards that they gave up on the ground. All Right, let's go back to Jim Miller. She's standing by with Lake and Thomlinson Blake, and let's start.
With a run game.
What wasn't happening early in the game then happened in the fourth quarter.
I mean, shoot, I can only go back to you know what coach Mike said to us yesterday.
You know, the run game. It's a softening process.
And all I gotta do is just just keep chopping wood and just keep believing man, that that you're gonna fall.
You know.
So we went out there.
Uh, Gino did a really good job of bringing the team together lay in that third quarter, and I got us together and I kept us, kept us our mentality, right.
I mean, we just went out there and did it.
Man, we went we went for it, and man, Shary was doing his thing.
So that's interesting because I heard that conversation and one of the things that Gino was saying was get back to the run game.
And that then you can came out and I think get through it like seven straight times. How was that part of the softening process.
I mean, you know, like especially when you get their run game going, you know, he opens up a lot of a lot of different things. But honestly, the way Gino was doing doing his thing too kind of our scheme defense. It's hard for defense to adjust to that. So when you know where group sees that, put the you know, put the ball in Gino hands.
He could do some work.
Does it amaze you how many different players touch the ball in this offensive scheme?
Yeah, he really does.
I mean it just makes there our opponent's defense like scheming different things. You know, it confuses them and they can't get.
Through their checks.
And then you know, we take advantage of that.
That's our scheme.
What happened there in the second and third quarter when there weren't any points.
I thought this was going to be like a huge shootout, all these points on the board, and then kind of stalled out there.
I mean, you know, it's just like little things, a little things, you know, shooting ourselves on the foot. But I'm so proud of the guys, the way we responded, the way Gino his leadership, getting the guys together, and really prouduct how we finished.
How much credit does Charbona get for continuing to run and to force the issue in the.
Fourth quarter, Man, I'm turning credit, turning credit to him man. You know, as offensive lineman, you love when a guy's on fire like that, and you know it all starts, you know, he all starts up front.
You can say it.
But when you guys have a guy like that who was really dominant and then getting yards not to hit man, that's awesome.
And because of Kenny McIntosh, you guys do get to one hundred rushing yards.
He runs over the cornerback.
Did you see that?
What you say?
He ran over the cornerback?
Like just ran through macintosh?
Really, that's crazy.
I'm gonna take that as a good side. Look, you have been around this league a long time.
It is far too early in the season to be counting, you know, like wins and projecting.
But what does a three and oh start do for this team?
Man, it's an amazing opportunity.
But you know, I'm saying, like the.
Guys, they understand what kind of position we're in. You know, we got to get back to work and you know at the running football and I feel like we left out there and we can be so much better. And you know, just as an offense, I still I don't feel like we played like a complete game at it, you know, but that's that's what we're hunting every day every week, and we're gonna get back to work. You know, we're gonna come out of tomorrow or Tuesday. We're gonna get back to work. When I watch this film break down, this film down, and we're gonna bring it to Detroit, I.
Was gonna say, and they get to show it off in primetime.
Michael Bumpus as we get that back to.
You, Thank you.
Jim Miller is always nice when the offensive line mean gets excited.
You go for one hundred yards on the ground, big raid, that's all love.
Well.
The cool thing.
I don't know how about the running backs are like here, but every running back, every block for when we rush for one hundred yards, that was free food. Really yeah, yeah, you're gonna get taken to dinner somewhere during the next week.
It's so uh uh. That's always good. But it also is like it.
I love throwing the football. I love you know, you know, big plays down the field of DK Metcalf up man. It is something different when you're running the football and you you're imposing your will on another grown man and you're saying, like there's nothing you can do that's gonna stop us from getting two yards at five yards or just running back getting to one hundred yards.
Le's getting too the end zone. There's just a different energy that comes with that.
So like even hearing, you know, hearing toomains woo like yes, like all of that, because.
You just sleep differently at night when you have a game like that. Big rad never been big enough to dominate a man like Vats.
But my kids in the living room when we playing tackle football, I would imagine I feel something like that Big d.
They cannot handle me. Get off me, little Michael.
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It's not like we're just all zoned in on one person. We got a few options.
You can go at different angles, man, and let me know who you think is the difference maker of the game.
Who you got.
Well, I feel like pulling a turbo right now, because there's like a there's a position group that dominated the game to me, and that was those outside linebackers.
They had a between Jones, Hall and MafA.
They had a total of twelve tackles, four sacks, three tackles for losses.
And six quarterback hits.
And so you could almost just say that whole group in itself could be the difference makers.
But I'm gonna go with with Hall because he I thought he would have at least a sack today.
But it seems like every game, this dude is just getting better and better and more confident, really understanding how his skill set fits in listening, learning, fitting into the offense well, and doing what he's asked to do. But he had he had four of those twelve tackles and two of those four sacks, and he had a tackle for a loss and four quarterback hits.
So I'm going with my man, Derek Hall.
Derek call as All, our producer said, they go, look, man, that's the guy everyone's been waiting to see. Derek Hall. Man, he had himself a dave. I'm going with a difference maker that I don't know. Maybe a few people would choose him, but you could go Gino, you could go DK because they responded after that the interception that produced the only three points of the game.
I'm going Zach sharper name. I think that he did enough and it's weird.
I'm saying ninety one yards and two touchdowns is just enough to get her done. But when you needed some tough runs, it felt like he started to get into a groove a little bit and he put points on the board. And it's when you're losing, or we don't have a guy like Ken Walker back there as that number two back. You gotta feel that pressure, especially after that first start that he had, and we heard him speak after the game and he didn't have like the confidence he goes, I gotta play better. So you know, throughout the week he put some restaurant on himself and said, I got to go out there and play better.
You can't do it by yourself as a running back. You need an offensive line.
Your coordinator has to set up the scheme so to where it's not a predictable running situation. But I'm gonna go zach scharbaday Man. I think this is gonna do a lot for him and going forward the rest of the season.
Yeah, I can roll with that because you know they were they're talking in the post game about this idea of the softening process and if you don't understand that, that's just kind of like the body blows or the jabs. You know, they may you may not feel the effect of them early in the in the fight, but later in the fight you start to fill it then and you can see on that ninety eight yard drive that they had, like I think what I say one two, there's like four six of their last eight plays were runs, and that was him like with you know, coming through they had soften him up and he was I think there was a run for one or two yards and it was a run for twelve yards, A run for eleven yards three yards and then the touchdown and so they softened them up and then he you know, knocked finished the finished a deal with a touchdown.
There it is I like our two two young men in their second year in the league, starting to figure it out and understand who they are what they can do for this team.
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Gino out of a shotgun back in tagh in the game and now he swings out for the left side.
Gino steps up in the pocket, looks hold.
Thro got DK open thirty twenty fifty ten dot run Toway for Fay touchdown. Oh Shehay Hawks a seventy one yarder.
The DK.
Gino waited, waited, great ground and then DK just popped into the secondary open. Gino laid it up there and the secondary never had a chance to catch DK.
Gino responded in a big way after throwing that interception, allowing three points to get put on the board. He finds DK on a slant and go and tosses it out there. Big play right there. But now it's time to focus on the Detroit Lions.
Man.
The Hawks have won the last six games against Detroit and won the last three in Detroit in the last two years, it's been a shootout. The thing that concerns me the most about the Detroit Lions big rays that I'm looking at their stats today. Stats today against Arizona Cardinals, they rushed for one hundred and eighty seven of them things on the ground. We know last week against the Patriots, the Hawks gave a wint eighty five. Jared Goff was eighteen of twenty three for one hundred and ninety nine yards, two touchdowns and one interception. So we know when you play at least it's crazy we're talking about the lines the way we talk about them now.
You know, like, well, back in your day, y'all, y'all was something special.
But it's been a while. It's been a while over here, like it's been a while.
It's been a while since we talked about the Lions like this man, and and that's a that's a a good thing for the Allions fans, but uh, an interesting thing for the Seahawks fans because you know, it's going to be a fight on prime time.
Yeah, you know, to me, I think almost the Seahawks will look across the field and see what they want to be right because uh, you know, Dan Campbell has a different personality than than coach McDonald, but they have the same approach to football, which is fast, which is physical, you know, Like I mean the dude's press conferences that we're gonna be biting kneecaps off, whatever.
That meant, you know what I'm saying.
So and uh and so they and in the town, the city seat of Detroit's just a tough, hard city, and so the team is kind of taking on that persona.
So it to me it's gonna be a sluck fest.
Yeah, there's there may be some some big plays things like that, but it's gonna be a lot of hard hitting, a lot of hard tackling or a lot of hard blocking. Probably some chest pumping and bumping and fighting and all that other kind of stuff because they played football the way that I think Mike McDonald wants this team to play football.
And so it's gonna be interesting to go and get.
You know, they have, you know, a couple of good tackles that they have their uh seen uh pa seol so from a yeah from Oregon's a really good uh young tackle does a lot of cool things. He's kind of like the second coman to Trent Williams. To me, he's very mobile, uh you know when he's running.
Uh.
They put him a lot on run blocks and things like that. Uh.
He's called a touchdown pass I think in his career, like those types of things. So it's gonna be interested in watching these two teams who want to play similar styles of football, you know, go at each other. And so it's gonna be it's gonna be a challenge on the road in Detroit. You know that the crowd will be loud and you know, seventy thousand people there uh, and then they're gonna be they're gonna want to knock the young you know, up and coming quarter uh, you know coaching team, you know, off the block. So it's gonna be a tough, physical football game.
The call of the game is brought to you by a beacon plumbing stop freaking call beacon, and we're hoping that the Seahawks have a few calls of the game to where our producer has to go through and say which play do we want to make the call of the game. And I think that's gonna be crucial against this Detroit Lions team. You're going to have to have some explosive plays. I don't expect a seventy one yard or by DK, but you're gonna need a ten to fifteen plus run a couple times in a drive like the one we saw for ninety eight yards, You're going to need a big reception by DK, maybe twenty twenty five yards because you look at the personnel of the Detroit Lions and they are capable of doing the same thing.
Yeah.
Absolutely, I think, you know, the controlling the time of possession is going to be important, So finding a run game early so that you're not you know, just doing the softening process and you're not gaining any yards because if you don't, I think, you know, Detroit has the ability to explode and put up points that you know, it's gonna be hard for us to play from behind that way. So I do think it's going to be I'm almost certain. I'm pretty confident in how the defense is gonna show up, how the Saaloffes defense will show up, but the way the Seahawks offense shows up, the posture to approach, the physicality, the having success in the run game. Hopefully Kenny Walker is back so you can have some of the explosive element to it. But I do think they're gonna have to find their run game earlier in order to be in this game in a way that they can control the outcome. Better agree one hundred percent.
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The Seahawks win twin prove to three and zero on a season, twenty four to three over the Miami Dolphins. Geno Smith has himself a decent day, twenty six to thirty four, two eighty nine yards, one touchdown. And two interceptions. The run game guy going to bid there. Big Ray twenty three carries for one hundred yards. Zach Sharbonay has ninety one yards and two touchdowns. DK Metcalf has another explosive day for the second week in a row. Four receptions, four hundred and four yards and one touchdown on six targets. The tight ends got involved ten receptions when you combin them three tight ends, no ofh fense led the way six catches on six targets for sixty yards. And defensively, this team got after it hit the quarterback twelve times, sacked them six times, had seven TFLs.
It wasn't always smooth ceiling.
There were some times where the offense stumbled a bit, and there are some times where the defense.
Dan did they stumble a bit?
I mean it did.
It didn't.
It didn't feel like they only gave up three points. It felt like they left some out there. But as I talked myself through a Big Ray, the defense was it was all right.
Well that's what I was saying.
It was.
It was easy to watch the game.
Like even sitting in the press box, I was like, man, like they need to It seems like the dolphins are gonna just explode it all of a sudden. But you just realized, like, man, they're just killing it between the thirties, like they're not when when they get to the to the plus thirty, it seems like the defense, you know, buckle down, shut them down, got a sack, gotta turnover, you know, force of penalty, what have you, and then kept them out of out of scoring range. And so like Gino said, like he's responsible for the three points.
That they that they did.
They did, they did it, they did give up, So it's gonna be ah. I thought it was a when you look.
At the numbers, the feel of the game wasn't reflective in the numbers of the game. Like the numbers of the game was like, yeah.
You pretty much shut these dudes down, But feeling the field of the game is like, man, like they were just felt like one play away from like time the game up, you know what I'm saying. So uh, but no, I thought that the defense is still growing and still learning and finding the right pieces and the right places. But men that are playing with the right approach, they're playing with like, uh, the intensity to speed this is this looks more like what they looked like in the first week when they're playing fast, you know, hitting hard, getting after the quarterback. You know, you got Boye Mafe. You know, it's one of the top pressure rate defenders in the league.
Uh.
And so he just kept showing himself to be that again.
Derek Hall, were just talked about, you know, we're talking about the off the mic here that he looks like to do that.
You thought he was going to be like this dude.
I remember Clint Hurt saying that he was a different breed of pass rusher because of the physicality that he brought. Strong hands, plays real physical football, and now he's learning how to put that together with pass rush moves that will get him off the offensive lineman and to the quarterback. And it's a beautiful thing. So they they have some dudes that can get after the quarterback. Draymond Jones, it just, you know, like I said, just reminded me that he had missed most of the training camp, so he's just kind of getting into his rhythm and getting into his groove.
Had a big game today. So they have some dudes and can get after it. You know, if those interior defensive linemen stay healthy. Jay Reid.
He was doing his thing today, you know, Byron Murphy and Bigcat got nicked up a little bit. So hopefully they can be back for the last game because they're gonna need him. But man, the defense looked really, really good, and then the offense, you know, they just kind of hung in there and did what they had to do to close out the game. And then that ninety eight year drive is I mean, there's nothing better than being an offensive lineman ninety eight yards away from the goal line and going like, we need this drive to just put this thing away.
And then you were able to produce it. And you did that throwing and running.
The football, big Ray, you can only go two more yards, I mean ninety eight yards.
Oh my heels are in the end zone, right.
You gotta feel good about that woman. And last week they gave up one hundred and eighty five yards on the ground. This week moster wasn't in the backfield, we know that, but they gave up sixty five yards on the ground. And when you're playing with a backup quarterback and then you get to your back goes back up, you would assume they're going to run the football a bit. When it got to the back goes back up. They were down and have to throw the football. I thought the Dolphins would try to establish a run early because of what they saw on film from last week.
Yeah, I thought so too, And they did have some success running the football, but for whatever reason, they got to a point where they could then you know, you know, get the ball closer to the goal line, they started wanting to throw the football, and then you had your second and thirteen quarterback in there with this pass rush, it just it just was not working. And then sometimes, you know, when you have the backup quarterbacks in there, sometimes those other positions rise to the occasion and they just the seayoffs did a good job of just taking those explosive dudes on the outside out of the game, whether it was one on one or a group effort, or the pressure you know that the that the defensive line was getting, it just didn't allow for uh those uh, for those dudes to take over with the with the track meet that that they like to play on the outside.
Well, let's hear from this young man.
He had five tackles, two sacks, one TfL and four quarterback hits.
As Derek Hall was that it.
These last couple of.
Games at three games and you get three sacks now didn't have any last season.
What do you feel like is really coming to.
Life now for you in this defensive scheme to accentuate your strengths.
Oh yeah, I think the big part of it is just knowing what I had to attack going into the offseason and really honing in on that, being able to develop my pass rush and take it to that next level, having to get under my belt, knowing what to expect, you know, knowing how things are going to flow, having gods that trusted me like Chinnel boy A. And then obviously, like you said, the scheme that that coach Mike is put in place for us on defensive side of the ball. I think it allows the entire defense, but specifically outside back to be really really effective a game in the game out.
Emphasis Derek started fast from coaching.
Staff on downs man, that's infati. I mean that's a big emphasis every single week. I think every single day we go out to practice, you know, the biggest thing is to start fast and you know, continue to play on and then close it out at the end. So I think that show really really well today just being able to go out start fast, playing through our keys, and we knew that we're gonna tack the edges and the alleys. So being able to play confident and not let the eye candy body even go out and play physical and I think, you know, we're accomplish it really well.
And the off season help your counters. Did that help you see that count in the game?
Man?
Yeah, you know, just trying to figure out every little caveat that I can to be able to help me react quicker. And uh, you know, I think Boxton was on one of those really really big things. I did a little bit of it in college, but not the way that I did this offseason. So it's definitely starting to pay off.
At sack at the end of the half, I think the entire stadium kind of saw you closing in, but the quarterback then, how big were your eyes.
Getting as you were kind of closing in there and he didn't see the kind of sense you're coming there?
Huge?
I think initially just being being blocked by the tight end Ben Chip and then the tackle coming back blocking me to and I turn around and I'm just I'm coaching him like he still has the ball, and then just you know, taking that bee line and just the extra effort be able to go and chase him down there in the end.
You know, that's what it takes.
And that's part of the Seahawks g and a that we lived by every single day.
Fay, what kind of made a big year or two leave?
Is that something you talked about if you got any tips from him?
Kind of what he was able to do from yere one year two And it seems like you're.
Kind of doing the same thing now yourself. Yeah, me and boy are really close.
He' the one who helped me through all the the rookie growing pains last year, you know, giving giving me the way I mean with the little things where it come to get into God's food and you know, how to prepare, how to take care of my body, and you know, just being able to still lean on him a lot this year, and uh, he talked to me a lot, still talk about, you know, uh, the different things, especially when it comes to the game and being able for me to see different things now and being able to translate that to him and him get me input back. I think that's the biggest thing. Just being able to feed off each other. So you know, yeah, He's definitely helped me out a lot.
Was the hardest part of your adjustment?
Uh?
Yeah, I think the biggest thing was just really the the the speed of the game wasn't a big of a deal, but really understanding the game. Uh, you know, coming from Callus, I thought I was a really really smart guy, and uh, but you don't have all the shifts and motions and different things that you have now. Just learning personnel and different guys and different things that you know are put in place to be successful in those players and picking up on those and going out in every single week and trying to hone in on that and you know, little tips and tendencies to go out and be successful.
So I feel like that's the biggest difference.
You any different with such success he's out on the other side.
Uh, I don't feel like there's any difference in the blocking, you know. I feel like there's definitely gonna be something now. Uh, you know, just going out and having you know, having a solid game like like the way I did, so being able to you know, expecting you know, tippers and six math protection, seven may protection with the with the front that we have in general. So I don't think there was anything before, but I feel like now there there's gonna be changed that teams are gonna have to make across across uh, you know the league with the defensive front that we have.
You mentioned that the.
Physical improvement has been talking about the mental aspect of the game. But where do you feel like your confidence is at right now compared to last year?
How much is this coaching staff helped.
Really boost that confidence in terms of being able to pick up on tendencies from tackles and the mental aspect.
Of the game in general.
I think it's not in day Uh.
You know, last year I would say I was watching film more than studying film.
Uh.
And then coming into this year on on April eighth, you know, first day we got back coaches.
I believe in you. You know you're gonna have a really really good years.
Just continue to work, continue to put your head down, continue to prep and you know, just having that belief and hearing that, you know from a new staff who know it's nothing about me.
They don't know me from a canapaign.
I don't know them from a canapign and then coming out and seeing them trust me, you know, day end and day out to go out and do my job and be successful. I think that's huge playing in my confidence. And then, like I said, the mental side of the game, as far as studying, I think it's not in there as well. You know, being able to look at different things, to see things that I think is gonna help me have as successful and then those conversations across the front with the guys like boy A and Jay Reid and different things like that as we go through the game.
Does it change a quarterback?
Does that change a lot?
And you just stay with the sheet. What effect does that happen?
I'm sorry, Can you change a quarterback?
The team changes the quarterback?
Oh? When the team changed the quarterback? Oh?
Yeah, I think that's that's something you have to pay attention to. Obviously, we wish the best for Tour, but you know, he wasn't able to play this week. And then you got scholar Thompson coming in, who's who, who's been in the league and you know has experience of being able to try to contain him.
And then you have Boil come in and.
Uh, you know, a solid guy who holds the ball a little bit more, you know, not as fast, so being able to pick up on those things and knowing who's at that personnel at the point in the game.
I think it's really really big for us.
You guys, you have what success called his today and you've done it all with did you feel like your past rush?
When he gets back, I think you be great.
One thing I can say about him, that guy still comes to work every single day and does everything he can to help the defense be successful off the field, you know through our practice, you know, d Hall, what are you seeing here?
What are you seeing there?
Like?
How can I help you?
And throughout the game today he's coaching me talk about every single time you know what you see, well, I think you can do this, I think you could do that. And that's just across the front. I mean that guy's a leader. He's our leader on the defense and across the defensive line. And he's somebody also that I've really really leaned on coming into my second year and just trying to have a success And you know, yeh Chin is a great guy, great leader, great teammate, and I feel like when he get back, it's just gonna take another step.
Appreciate y'all, Thank you have a great.
Even Derek Hall putting together the game of his career so far, two sacks, one TfL and four quarterback hits. He goes, look, they haven't changed anything up yet when it comes to how they're gonna block me.
But it's on film now you're gonna have to count for that man.
And when you add Derek Hall and boy A Mafey into the mix, you got two young guys getting after the quarterback like that is going to be real difficult for teams moving forward.
Yeah.
I think the important thing too, is the is that his openness to learn, because sometimes you get young guys in here who have had success in college and they think they have it all figured out and they think they know it all and they're not really open to hearing what an older or veteran type player, even it's just a year older type player that is trying to explain to you, but learning how to watch film. Because I think that's what caughedo with boy Mafey last year when he went on like the streak of like seven straight sacks, you know, seven straight games for the sack, and then you know your channa was out of the game and then people started game planning for him, right, So then you have to start learning how to watch film to figure out what it is they're trying to do to me so that I can have a counter to it. And he didn't really have a counter to it, and so this year he came into it with it differently. I think Derek Hall is the same way, and he has two dudes that you know, have been there and done that, so learning how how to I was just telling I say this all the time because I talked to my son Price all the time. It's a difference between watching the film and studying the film, because I remember I came to league. I would just watch the film. I'm just watching like I'm watching a game. And then one of the veteran dudes could tell just by my response to questions that the coach was asking that I'm not really studying the film.
I'm just watching the film.
And so he like brought me in and say, hey, man, like this is how you have to look at it down a distance, the time situation of the game stance to look at you know, beyond the guy you're you're you're you know, blocking, and look at the linebackers and the safeties and all the other and then like hoping up a whole nother world of like how to be prepared for a game. And so the fact that he's open for that, he's and he's seeking that type of stuff, UH, is important. And then and then even just listening to him, like it was just a small comment, but he said he did some boxing in the off season, and uh, and I did that when I was here with the Seahawks. I had a trainer over here in Seattle. I would come to a gym every day during the off season. Because this game is not all about just sides and speed and how fast and strong you are. You have to find all those little edges. So been physical with your hands, been viting with your hands, knowing I took karate lessons to learn how to stick fight so I could learn how to use my hands differently, because I realized when I came into the league, people were knocking my hands down. I couldn't get my hands on them, and that's how I was losing a lot of the one on one pass rushes and things and stuff like that. So all those little things contribute to him being in the place where he is now. So it's not just a matter of lifting the weights and running fast and I played in SEC It's about how are you gonna prepare yourself for now and what how opener you are to learning? And it sounds like he's been that way and it's kind of it's showing early in the season.
You gotta diversify that portfolio. Absolutely, that's what he's doing this offseason.
Man.
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You know from the shotgun, hands up to sharbon ain't weft side vison touchdown, Hey Hawks a four yard run and as Jim said, they're doing everything right on the left side of the offensive line, right over his left tackle, go Sharbonay, He's in for six.
The Seahawks are looking at a.
Nine to nothing start.
Zach Sharbonay before Tonight's career high was sixty yards against the Dallas Cowboys.
He goes for ninety one to night.
Let's hear from him, Zach, Given how much the running game struggled to kind of get going last week, to be able to almost get to one hundred yards today and sports twice, how.
Big was that for you guys performance today?
Yeah, that's on the coach McDonald and you know he's talking about just the run game is a softening process. So we kind of just stuck with that started a little stell in the first half, but you know, the line kept attacking and we're able to just keep it going. Yeah, just to be able to put together that ninety eight yard drive at the end, I mean, given how long it had been since you guys have kind of really got to drive going to be able to cap it and put the game away with that sort of a finishing touch on it, what was that like for you guys. Yeah, we always talk about closing the game, so you know, for the offense, that was kind of our moment right there to be able to close the gate and go put seven and you know, just be on the attack right there. And you know, I think we did a great job. Defense played a great game today. You know, even after that, they just continue to keep getting stops all day. So I give a lot of credit to the defense.
If you guys in the defense, happened in the opener too, where there's a turnover deep in your territory and your.
Defense just gets a quick stop. How much does that kind of lift everybody up?
Yeah?
Definitely.
I mean, like I said, I give all credit to the defense today. You know, they're able to just keep us in the game. And offense, you know, we just stayed poised, stayed with it. A lot of stuff we got to keep working on on the offensive side. But you know, like once again, I just want to give a lot of credit to the defense.
Or touchdowns in three games, you getting kind of used to finding the ins in there.
Yeah, that's the plan. You know, whatever it takes, you know, it's just my mindset.
Was it good for you to see Kenny get a couple carries late, given the struggles he's kind of had with the injuries and stuff last year, and to finally get a chance to play a little bit today.
Yeah, definitely.
I Mean, that's the guy who continues to work hard, and you know it keeps showing up every weekend practice. So you know, it's always great to see any running back get out there and continue to perform. So you know, I love Kennyhan, love the work he's putting.
So good to see that.
Zactly you run?
Just can you take us to that?
You go outside, did you see the end zone including nobody who's going to stop you?
On the second touchdown there?
Yeah, I mean we just had due a downhill and hit it out the front side and all to do is make one got missed. You know, as a running back, that's all you can ask for is on one on one. So, like I said, give a lot of credit to line and tight ends, especially in that blocking scheme right there, and just allow me to just get it one on one.
We there.
State of this teamer I mean three and now you guys probably feel like you haven't played yourst football yet.
It's still be three and know what's how you feeling about this team? Yeah, we feel really good.
But like we say all the time, you know, we just got to keep sacking and now we're looking forward to next week.
Anything specific about Ryan Grubbs run being it has a lot of your flourish if you have considering anything about Ryan Grubbs run concept, so they'll have a lot of you to flourish the.
Same as you have.
Yeah, I mean we got a lot of different stuff, a lot of different motions on top of that, so there's a lot of misdirect and you know that just allows us continue attack and go downhill.
You see guys more.
Getting this corrected with the season in the world last season.
I would say it depends on the situation, but yeah, definitely situational. Your coach said last week that you guys need to find your there calling part in the round, getting to.
Find out what you guys do best, to show you people what you do best today.
And that's I mean, I think we're still building on it. You know, there's still a lot we can get better on. I think I still missed a couple of reas as a collective. You know, we're just gonna keep pushing and keep getting better in that aspect.
Anything else. Thank thanks a appreciate it.
That was Zach Starba. They had a career at night.
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Big Ray five point one per clip ain't too bad. If we're talking about a running back, Zach Sharbonay.
What'd you see?
Yeah, you know, we we talked about this a little bit watching the game, is that sharbon Charbonne takes a little more time to kind of get up to speed and so his uh, his entry into into where they're trying to run the football, it takes him a little bit longer to get there. So as an offensive lineman, you have to know that, like, man, we're gonna have to hold this double team a little bit longer before I slide off to the second level to the linebacker, because charbon Ay is just gonna get there just a little bit slower than than Kenneth Walker would. And so I think in that those last couple of drives they were starting to kind of figure out that rhythm. And sometimes that can be some of the issues with uh, the two totally different types of runners, because you get into a rhythm with the offensive line of the timing of when to do things and uh. And so I think they're trying to figure that out with Sharbonay. And so you know, he's a very physical, punishing runner, and he looks for contact and then he and then the cool thing I like is that he'll set you up with that and then at that last run at the end, he like, whoop. He gave you the the the little lazy leg and it popped it to the outside and was able to make that guy miss. And so I just think he's more of a dude that is, like, not the same as a Chris Warren when I played here, but a bigger back like that that after maybe like fifteen or sixteen carries, that's when Chris was just getting warm. Like you made me hold him to like three or four yards of carry to begin with. Then those four yards become five or six yards, or six yards become seven or eight yards, and then he has these these big runs. And so I think Charbaty is a dude like that. You're not going to get the most out of him by giving him limited carries. You have to keep giving it. He has to be a major factor in that softening process that they talk about.
Man, I like that you said, gave him the lazy leg. When I was in college, there was a dance called the stanky leg. We said all the time, keep hitting him with his axt Scharberry Man, that drive that was eleven plays ninety eight yards. He had forty two rushing yards on that drive alone. All right, we got lots more to do when we come back. Highlight recap coming your way. That's next in your home for the Sea. Saudi Sports sending Kyra News Radio ninety seven three FM.
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You hear the music, you know what it is. It is time to relive some of the highlights of today's game. This first one grown Man cast Geno Smith fines DK Metcalf for or twenty two yard game.
Second down and seven.
Geno takes a shotgun snap, scrambles out of trouble, looks, throws downfield, back shoulder throw.
It's caught. It's caught.
Fuck.
DK Metcalf inside the five yard line.
You just couldn't throw it anywhere else.
And DK, with the late hands, reaches back makes the catch for twenty two yards.
It's first and goal at the four.
You know what I love when DK makes these types of plays, like even more like I love it to see how big he is and how fast he can run. But when he just like kind of Randy mosses people and then you just kind of look at him and he doesn't even have to do the little good too small, you just already you just turn around and walk away like this big old brother man.
I nothing I could know about it, you know what I'm saying. I just love the way it just looked when he just went up and was like give me that, you know, and just so good catch by the good throw by Gino, good catch bye by DK. It's just so aggressive, you know. It was so aggressive.
Give me that yetching out the air that was on second and seven, and then the Hawks waste no time In the next play they give it to Zach Sharbonay. This caps off a five play, fifty three yard drive ten zero Seahawks.
G you know, from the shotgun hands up to Scharbonay left side, he's in touchdown.
Shayhawks a four yard run and.
As Jen said, they're doing everything right on the left side of the offensive line. Right over his left tackle goes Charbona. He's in for six. The Seahawks are looking at a nine to nothing start.
Yeah.
I might be a little bit biased, but I like it when they say, you know, you're running to the left side over the left tackle for a touchdown. There's something that sounds really cool about that. But it also shows some more confidence said they have in Charles Cross. You know, I don't know that Charles came into the league as the world's best run blocker, but this season he has shown up as a really good run blocker.
And so they needed the yardage, they needed the touchdown.
They rent to the left side of a Charles Cross and they got it. Zach Charbadau gets an end zone. I was excited. I was excited because the Hawks went up ten zero. I was also excited because I started him on my fantasy football team. Let's go Zach Charvaday man with them. Disaster strikes. After the Miami Dophins to go five plays eight yards, they have to punt and in three plays, Gino, trying to avoid a.
Safety, throws interception empty backfield.
Gino had the goal line four man rush. Gino gets hit, Gino gets rid of the football, gets tipped. It's intercepted down at the five yard line. Everything that could go wrong there just happened. Cater Core gets the tip the interception deep in Seattle territory. As the flood gates opened on the rush, you don't have nowhere to go.
He gets hit, tries to throw it away, the ball is chipped. Yeah, you know that.
I don't know how they're gonna grade this in the Pro Football focus. But the guy that put the pressure on Geno was lined up over Charles Cross and as he came up the field, charbone actually gave him a chip, you know, chipped him to the inside, and then knocked him right across Charles's face, right over to Gino. And so it's gonna it's like one of those situations. As an offensive lineman, I would be like, nah, I don't want to chip, Like, just let me. I'm either gonna win or I'm gonna lose, because sometimes that'll happen when you're set up to punch the guy and then the timing of when the running back hits him, knocks him right across your face, knocked him right to Gino. Then Gino had to try to get the ball out to Charbonay, who the ball was a little bit high tipped it got interception.
I'm sure Zach Charbona is gonna look at that film and say, yeah, I can catch that. It was a difficult football was up above his head, but he is more than capable of doing that. So then you know they hold him to a field goal. The Seahawks get the football and they waste no time. Gino Smith finds DK metcalf or a seventy one yard touchdown, making the score seventeen to three.
Gino out of a shotgun McIntosh in the game and now he swings out to the left side.
Gino steps up in the pocket, looks, holds.
Throsy, got Dk open thirty twenty fifty kN dog runs away from any touchdown, say Hawks at seventy one yarder the DK, Gino waited, waited, great round and then DK just popped into the secondary open.
Gino laid it.
Up there and the secondary never had a chance to catch DK.
Yeah, it was really cool listening to Geno break that play down after the game and just how he and DK had to see it the same weight because it involved a double move, and.
So DK did what what Gino was expecting him to do. Ended up being wide open minutes.
Nothing like having a big throw read like DK out in the wide open using that speed and just looking like a big bulldozer.
With a Ferrari engine going down the field.
And the inside receiver had a dig which held the safety, so you got a dig in a slant. The safety is looking at that route combination and sitting there saying, okay, I'm in good position. But then when I left of his ground and DK snaps it up, you are in trouble.
If you have to.
Flip your hips and DK's already running full speed and he's within two or three yards, it.
Is a rap.
That's what happens right there. Hey, this young man had himself a day career day. Two sacks on the day. Here's one of them by Derek Hall.
A chen in motion out to the left side. Topsy seth stops, let's gets.
Hit, goes down.
Derek Hall comes around the corner from the seattle left side of the defense and.
He is there to add to his.
Sack total kind of half a week ago. A nine yard loss on the sack. Great play by Hall as he hustles around that corner.
Yeah, well, you can try to block him in with a tight end if you want to. It's gonna take a very good tight end to defend this dude, because not only is he a big, strong, dude, but his effort is off the charge. That's that's one thing that has really like that I've noticed. I don't know if it's my faith in that's kind of impacted some of these dudes, but the effort that they play with, not only do they have the talent and the moves and the power and the strength, but the effort is incredible. And so he showed great effort on that play and then obviously got the sack.
It's crazy when you see a young man start to speed up, his play means the game is slowing down, and I think that's what's happening with him.
I saw a feature on Derek Hall. Have you seen his lifted trouble.
He's got so dang lifted.
I got a ladder to climb up in that mug man thing, Derek Hall, I ain't match you at all.
That's a Mississippi. Yeah, A deep right.
Another young man having himself against season so far. We got Johnson with another sack thurd down at.
Two oh get again going down.
It's Tompson and.
He is really slow to get up this time, as it was Dodson te Don who came right up the gun and Skyler Thompson is walking.
Off the field, but he is not well.
Yeah, I mean, it looked like that was a pressure package that the Sea Hawks had, and I think they probably show some things at different times and doesn't don't bring it or whatever. But it seems like the offensive line didn't really respect the threat that he was gonna blitz.
And then he did right up the middle and slam the quarterback to the ground, which I think he eventually led to the quarterback's injury that had him out of the game.
The offense didn't respect the blitz. I respect Rabel for putting me on DOT haven't heard that yet. I'm feeling that dk raise put me on some game. Now, all right, this play right here, Geno Smith intending to hit Tyler Lockett, but it's intercepted.
So Gino from the shotgun Charmon Day stays in the backfield and slot to the far side.
Four man runs. Gino steps up, ball is tipped up in the air and it's intercepted.
It's intercepted by Dolphins at midfield and gets slammed straight up and Sealer picks it. So a succession of just awful plays for the Seahawks gives the Dolphins hope near midfield.
Yeah, on that particular play, Kalais Campbell, who's every bit as tall as a space needle, uh, was rushing over Anthony Bradford kind of got him down to the ground just as Gina was gonna throw the ball and he put his dick mid up and the ball got tipped and then caught by another defensive line. Which is interesting because this dude like, you should just catch the ball and go to the ground. But he in his head was like I think I can return it, and he tried, you know, he almost fumbled.
Trying to take off and run. It's like, no, dude, just get the ball.
Go to the ground.
You big, I know you ain't talking.
You got some receptions and you try to get money after you got the bottom.
I did.
I learned too though, like those dudes like when you have that ball in your hand, like they come to get you.
Oh dude, I had my knee blown out and everything. So I'm like, from now on, I'm just gonna let somebody else get that thing. I'm gonna say away.
From PSA, from big y big boys, if you get the football, go down, Just go down.
Bro, Don't don't try to get your highlight film. You're not gonna be on like, you know, farming with your rumbling, stumbling, bumbling, like not just go to the ground, all right.
This last play right here kind of put things away. Eleven plays ninety eight yards drive. The Hawks only saw one third down during this drive. Zach Charbone scores a second touchdown of the day, second down.
And seven, and he stays in the game to Charmoney and he gets the handoff and he looks for running room and he pops it outside. Your time down to the one pitn touchdown. Shay Hawks sat Charmona scores from thirteen out make it ten out, and a couple of players had to be pulled apart down the field.
But the big play made by Charmone.
Hits it up inside, bounces it outside to the right, and out runs under the end zone. His second touchdown of the game makes it twenty three to three.
Yeah, Well, we just heard this highlight just a few minutes ago, and we're gonna agree that he didn't pop that thing to the outside.
To cut it to the outside.
He's stanky legged, stanky leg thang like, Yeah, went off to the like kind of off the right side. A little bit and then there's a defender there, and I think the defender was kind of barn down for the power that he runs with, and he stanky legged it out to the outside and got to the m gon a little.
Tons s Thanky Man.
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Man showed today for Hawk Talk with Michael Bumbas with my guy Ray Roberts and the Seahawks get her done. They go three and oh man, it was a good game today and that was time for our unsung hero who should be getting some love that might not be getting the love that they deserve.
I will go first with this one, big Ray. That's right.
I'm gonna go with Drake Thomas. Going with Drake, there was an opportunity for him to get on the field and make some places. He probably have the biggest hit of the day too. It was a little what running back scream? He sniffs it out, boom pops, the running back gets up. The film room gets the most excited when twos and threes made big plays like that, you know, because no one's really expecting that, and he makes that big play and I got hyped. But I'm a professional. I was in the press box and I kept it all together. And big ups to the Miami media man. They kept together, ye because we've been in there for the last three times and it's mc conna rowdy, so us miamed office for doing that. But mine goes to Drake Thomas Man, the second year man. I like to see guys like him make plays.
Yeah, I thought that was a nice big hit. The big crowd, you know, kind of got into it. But uh, I think you know, in the pregame we were talking about and the last couple of weeks have been talking about how do we get the tight ends involved?
You know, we have you know, three really capable tight ends.
Pharol Brown was active today, had a couple of catches and some good blocking going on. But it was kind of cool to see no offense, like you you know, featured pretty prominently.
In that last drive.
You know, he became the running game basically, like there's four and five yard catches over the middle. Turn them up field, Like we just need to get him to get those shoulders up.
To field a little bit faster. Sometimes he wants to go to the sideline first.
In up the field. But uh, I think I'm gonna give it a no offense. I think he had six catches for like sixty yards I think it was, but they were.
On six targets, six targets, so after the drop sis for a couple of games, yes he did.
He did.
But uh, but you know, when you're doing all that dirty workman, you gotta you gotta feed this dude sometimes. And uh, he's a very capable receiver and he's he can be you know, dangerous after the catch. But I thought he played a pretty big role in that last drive to kind of secure the win because he essentially became the running game.
Bring our producer in, let's get one more. Let's get one more unsung hero. Since we got a two man show today, I'm sure Nasa Choby has one.
Who you got, Choby, I'm gonna do more than one. Okay, come listening, love you Turbo. I'm gonna start with Kobe Bryant. Kobe Bryant has had an interesting career since he's been here. He came in, was starting at Nickels, gone through a couple of things, moves to safety, but when he's on the field, Coach McDonald talked about it in the postgame press conference. He's making practice or plays in practice all the time, so he's earned this right and seeing him out there in those dime situations playing safety.
Then you got a shout out Pharrell Brown. It's been a long road f he gets here, he gets hurt in Tennessee. He's been working his tail off trying to get back to be able to play. So love seeing Pharil Brown out there, and honestly, man, I could go on for days. I'm just leave it to leave it to Kobe Bryant. Farell Brown.
I like the farall Brown because I watched him a little bit. This dude tries to play with nastiness. I can see like he get into it with the defenders. He's trying to you're back into the ground. He really truly is like an offensive lineman in the tight end body, and so I never knew much about him until he came here, and so just watching him today, I did see that kind of dog in him and I like that.
Yeah.
I also like Kobe Bryant because when you have three safeties in there, he was in the mix. Yes, And Kobe Bryant has found a way to add value to this team every single year. Started off hot his rookie season with the Force, fumbels and all that, and then kind of phase phased out.
A little bit, see him mainly on special team. So it's nice to see him.
Make him plays our producer with some nuggets that wasn't even on my radar right now.
He comes in drops some nuggets on it.
All.
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They get it done at twenty four to three over the Miami Dolphins here at home in Littlefield on Michael Bambas with Ray Roberts's time to put a bowt on Hawk Talk for the week and focus on the Detroit Lions. They win today twenty to thirteen against the Arizona Cardinals. Jared Goff eighteen to twenty three, one hundred and ninety nine yards, two touchdowns in one interception.
The run game was on point.
David Montgomery carried it twenty three times for one hundred and five yards and one touchdown. You got Jeremy Giz contributed. He had sixteen carriers for eighty three yards. Man this Detroit team, the Hawks have won six straight against them. They won the last three at home or in Detroit. But it just feels like you can never sleep on this ball club. Over the last couple of seasons, Big Ray, They've been one of the more complete teams.
And you're on prime time.
It's as close against as a as close as it gets two way playoff game during the regular season.
Absolutely, and even that team last year, I think Dan Campbell over coached the situation. But because they should have been in the Super Bowl, they should have beaten ahead of what fourteen point lead at halftime against the forty nine ers. If you just trade touchdowns in field goal the rest of the game you win. And so they but they kept going for it for touchdowns instead of the field goals. So but it's a very physical football team, is a very explosive football team, you know, the the Montgomery's a good running back. Gibbs is a very versatile running back, so those linebackers are gonna have to cover him out of the backfield. He does a good job catching the ball, He has some speed and those types of things. Jared Golf seems like he got shipped off to the Detroit to die and they just resurrected this. I don't even know if Detroit wanted him at the time, but they found a way to make it work.
And uh and he's kind of a you know, a focal point of that offense.
And then that defense tries to play fast, just like this one, fast and physical and create turnovers and things. So it's gonna be a tough, tough, tough game for the Seahawks. Like I said earlier, they're gonna have to really focus in and get that running game going early. I think they can't. I don't think they can be a one dimensional offense. Even with the explosion they have in the passing game and going and beat the Detroit Lions.
Jared Goff got shipped off the board in school and came back with firm Yeah yeah, and they gave him some weapons to work with. Man, and you know this team is going to be mentally and physically ready to go. You're catching these guys what week four of the regular season. Of course, every team is banged up at this point of the season, but expected goilwin, always expected goodwin when you're playing this version of the Detroit Lions. They allowed Kyler Murray to throw for two hundred and seven yards, one touchdown, one interception. The Cardinals ran the ball, okay against these guys, eighteen carries for seventy seven yards. Kyler Murray was the leading rusher. That's never a good thing when you have James Conner in the backfield. So if you can just be the versatile team that you have been, we finally saw a game where the tight ends contributed. Charbonne was maybe one or two runs for going over one hundred yards himself. Collectively, they go for over one hundred yards. DK has back to back games going over one hundred yards. This is this is set up to be the game of the week, and I'm excited for these guys to play on Monday Night.
Yeah, and you know they're gonna One of the other reasons they need to run the football is this kid, Aiden Hutchinson, who was their first one draphic a few years ago from Michigan.
This dude can really get after the quarterback.
I think he may have like five or six or seven sacks already in the season, and so the often line is gonna be challenged. He tends to play over our right tackle, So Stone Forsyth or Curtis or whoever they put in there, they're gonna have to probably give him some help with this kid, because he's a type of dude that's like in that same vein as like Watts, the Watts brothers and Bosas that can disrupt the entire game just from that position.
And so they're gonna have to have a plan for him. And part of that plan is they're gonna have to be able to run the football.
This guy has five and a half sacks on the season, So get after that, young man, all right.
Today's final score the Seahawks twenty four the Dolphins three. You've been listening to Hot Talk on Seattle Sports seventeen and KYRA News Radio ninety seven three FM.
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