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  • Matt.

  • I just want your take on the Seahawks.

  • Are they a mess right now, or is this just a bad game this season?

  • I mean, listen, really disappointing finish, Really disappointing season.

  • Couldn't stop the run yesterday in that offense.

  • No tempo.

  • Didn't have the running game going.

  • Couldn't find completions, Couldn't find check downs, Guys.

  • We said it before the show check downs, air sac beaters.

  • And then what happened instead?

  • Five more sacks.

  • That field position.

  • Game it just as an offense that looked out of sync.

  • And I think the word is identity.

  • I think they got to go figure out this offseason.

  • What's their identity gonna be?

  • Because that's the thing that this year was a rollercoaster.

  • Yeah, we saw multiple identities from that team, but let's talk about the Rams.

  • They have been impressive, especially on defense.

  • Rex still questions on offense.

  • What's going on at quarterback there?

  • Jared Goff, obviously was ready enough to play to get in there, but still couldn't use the other hand like it's not a great situation on offense for them right now.

  • Is their defense, though good enough to win a championship?

  • Sam, they that this team reminds me of the 2000 Ravens, which I was a part of it.

  • So the answer.

  • The oh, yes, and the reason I'm saying that is this this team you can still win if your average on one side of the ball and dominant on the other?

  • All right, this is an average offensive football team of the brilliant coach, so they're always be competitive offensively.

  • But it's that defense, and to me, this the most dominant unit in the National Football League Right now, you can say Kansas City's offense and I get it.

  • Absolutely, they are.

  • But this defense is head and shoulders better than any defense in the league.

  • Yes, they have to be healthy.

  • Aaron Donald has to be playing because if he's not not so dominant.

  • But I'm just telling you this how how far can you ride this defense?

  • I think I picked them, didn't we?

  • Samu and I gave Why stop?

  • It still wins in the playoffs.

  • There's something you, Randy, stop it.

  • You're upset.

  • Record it more than guys.

  • It's more than just the top two players to I mean, Jalen talked about all year.

  • Aaron Donald, all of this, but I mean, Darius Williams.

  • We're learning about the players that they're making a name for themselves in these playoffs.

  • Darius Williams.

  • Alright.

  • Johnson.

  • The safety trapping Troy reader.

  • Leonard Floyd came off the edge.

  • Donald goes down alright.

  • They still get after Russell Wilson.

  • He still looks perplexed.

  • He still looks confused and they still get him to the ground.

  • And they get it done without.

  • Probably the defensive player of the year, in my opinion.

  • So that's when you know you got a good unit now.

  • 2000 Ravens.

  • I don't know if I wanna pump the brakes on your Yeah, but look, we went five straight games in the regular season without scoring an offensive touchdown.

  • So I'm telling you, their offense is better than that.

  • And the fact this defense Yeah, it's not the 2000 Ravens, but it's so much mawr.

  • I mean, it's the most dominant defense in the National Football League right now.

  • And when I look at it, you got the two very best defensive players on one team.

  • Jalen Ramsey and Aaron Donald.

  • Not not order, but those two guys.

  • I'm gonna tell you what's scary.

  • We're looking at the Los Angeles Rams.

  • You just talked about a player.

  • You know Darius Williams?

  • I said earlier in the season.

  • No sloppy play, sloppy route running against this secondary.

  • We already know what Jalen Ramsey Jalen Ramsey stands for, But when you have a young savvy ah, little net, you know, always talk about those Nets.

  • That's what I look at his Darius Williams.

  • When you look at the play that the Seattle Seahawks ran, they put D K Metcalf in motion.

  • We talk about motion here because it gives the offense the indication.

  • Is that man or is it zone?

  • Matt?

  • Well, guess what Corner states.

  • So that zone there is.

  • Williams came up in their zone coverage.

  • The responsibilities of the wide receivers was supposed to change.

  • The Seattle Seahawks got a lot of cleaning up to do, but I want to just focus on the defense for a minute.

  • The big play that Darius Williams was able to make.

  • He's been making him all year, not saying it.

  • I'm gonna keep saying it.

  • Any wide receiver offense going going up against this Rams defense?

  • No sloppy routes, no sloppy payer.

  • They're gonna make you pay.

  • Yeah, and a lot of Credit Thio Jared Goff, 12, 12 days ago.

  • He had surgery, two pins in his thumb.

  • Wasn't expected to play gritty performance.

  • And I thought, Sean McVeigh, this happens in the playoffs.

  • You got a coach around injuries.

  • Okay, guys, Air banged up.

  • He coached around that thumb injury.

  • They ran the ball eight times to the left, 19 times to the right.

  • Can hand it off with his right hand as well as he can to the left.

  • They use play action.

  • I thought Sean McVeigh did a great job, but he's gonna have to keep finding ways to be creative.

  • Because if we know that, obviously their next opponent knows that.

  • You know, I've been hard on Jared Goff.

  • I have fun with his name.

  • Call him God awful at times.

  • But I'm gonna tell you this man hats off to you.

  • You are one tough cat.

  • I mean, what an impressive performance that was.

  • It was funny watching the game with Rex yesterday.

  • The first half, you know, he's giving him a hard time saying all this bad stuff about Jerry.

  • By the end, he was like a little quiet While you're gone, that dude is tougher on the most impressive thing about the Rams right now, I think is showing they can find different ways to win.

  • They can handle adversity, and we all know that is a huge in the playoffs because you never know what's gonna happen.

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