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There are not enough words to describe how big or maybe how fun this game is going to be against the Rams on Sunday.

But John Boyle, I know that you are going to come up with some words that we can just really hang on to to describe the magnitude of what we expect to see between these division rifles.

Oh geez, I know you're gonna put me on the spot for my vocabulary.

Writer, Josh, you're a writer.

In front of a laptop, and I contemplate coming up?

Should we call it momentous?

How's that momentous?

Is?

I don't know.

I mean, I don't want to be all cliche, but you can't.

I guess as fans and media we can blow it up bigger it is, But for the team, it's got to be like, you know what, we gotta do a goddess here.

Mike loves to talk about his process, but yeah, I mean, these are arguably right now, the way they're playing, the two best teams in the NFL.

Neither of these teams has trailed since Week six.

They've won four in a row.

They're blown people out, they're getting a done offense and defense, the only two teams in the NFL and the top five and points scored end points allowed, Like these look like a couple of real heavyweights, and it's going to be a lot of fun.

And see, that's what I was going not that it's not that it's a bigger game than any others, right, because everybody's going to tell you just got to win the game that's on the schedule.

But John, there was a point on Sunday where the Hawks and the Rams were leading their opponents by a combined score of fifty six to nothing.

That's what we were looking at.

And oh, by the way, the Rams were playing the forty nine ers, So it was a pretty big matchup.

Right, It's gonna be a lot of fun, and you know, we'll get more into this player.

But it's such a fun coaching matchup.

It really is.

I mean I wish that both sides would give in just a little bit more to the like, yeah, no, I really like scheming against the best offensive mind are the best defensive mind.

But they have a process they can stick to it.

I will respect that.

Here's what I'm really hoping for.

I am hoping that Matthew Stafford has the kind of week that I have had.

Meaning I hope nothing goes the way that he had planned.

John from an emergency sewer repaired to a flat tire and four new tires needed and not a single thing on my schedule going right.

I hope Matthew Stafford knows exactly a way when the time he gets to the end of the game.

Right, I mean, yeah, we don't need him to get a flat tire on the way to work.

But I mean.

Maybe because nobody's hurt in the process and he's safe, maybe I don't have a rush to day against the Seahawks pass rush and get after him a little bit.

Look, that's where you have to start the conversation.

Because he has been remarkably good and the numbers, that's one thing.

It's also another thing when Mike McDonald's just kind of taking a look at that and trying to figure out how to slow him down.

Obviously a great player, only gone against him a few times in my career, but this is probably the best I've seen him.

He's he's playing great football.

Decisive, They're put him in great situations, diagnosing defense at a really high level, handling the protections at a high level.

They're really explosive right now in their past game.

And then they're converting in some of those and a lot of those conversion downs to which keeps drives extended.

So yeah, he's playing great football.

Yeah.

I mean, Matt Stafford is on quite a heater right now.

He's thrown thirteen touchdowns with no interceptions in the last three games.

And we think of you got to get after a quarterback, Well, they's got to figure out how to get after him with four because you don't want to blitz Matthew Stafford.

Which is kind of a funny thing to say, especially with a guy who John we were talking about a back injury before the season started, and you're like, there's no way he can put up numbers.

There's no way he can move, there's no way he can be mobile.

Right, is he even going to make it to the season.

And now when you say you don't want to blitz Matt Stafford, like the numbers just prove it.

It's ridiculous what he has done when teams bring extra pressure.

Yeah, I mean last week he's thirteen for eighteen fo one hundred and sixty one yards and four touchdowns win Blitz.

Those thirteen touchdowns we mentioned last three games, every one of those has been in the or been against the Blitz.

Teams have been thrown a lot at him in the red zone and it's just not working.

Now.

The good thing for the Seahawks, they've been we think of Mike McDonald and think of all these pressures, but they get a lot pressure without bringing extra guys.

They might do some simulated pressure and you don't know, you might have seven guys line of scrims, you know which four coming, but very frequently it's only four.

The Seahawks are blitzing on nineteen point four percent of dropbacks, which is the second lowest in the NFL, and yet they have the third highest pressure rate in the league, and they are tied for second in sacks.

So they're able to get pressure with four quite frequently, and they're gonna need to do that against Stafford.

It reminds me of the conversation that we had with Leonard Williams earlier this year where.

He said this is part of practice.

Right, it's the blitz bandit bluff period of practice.

Yeah, who's dropping?

Who's coming yet?

Right?

And it's not just that practice.

In case you forgot or just did not listen to that episode of the Seahawks Insiders podcast, how dare you?

I know?

But sometimes it happens, John, people get very busy.

What they then do when they go to watch film is the guys in the room have to guess, and you're trying to guess, right, and if you can identify off the jump, then you didn't do a good enough job disguising it.

And so this is not something that they just kind of hope works later in the year.

This is something that is drilled every single week.

And it's DeMarcus Lawrence talked about it was it was a little bit of a learning curve for him.

He referred to as the Harvard playbook.

And just you know, we're not talking about Harvard football team.

He's just talking about the workload that it requires to learn, because yeah, it's you know, they dress up a lot of stuff and that is part of what makes Mike McDonald such a great defensive coaches, Like he's keeping quarterbacks guessing.

Part of me really wants to see the playbook because if you've got DeMarcus Lawrence, who has been in the league, yeah, defend, and he's saying, boy, I'm sitting there looking at this and I can't.

It's almost like you can't really study it until you do it on the field, because you said the calls are so similar, but until you have any sort of experience, it all just kind of runs together on that front.

And you know, when you think about this and bringing the pressure, here's the other thing.

It's not just Matthew Stafford.

And we're going to hear from DeMarcus Lawrence in just a second, but I was looking at some of the numbers here and this Rams offense it runs.

Exactly how you would have expected.

DeVante Adams is dealing with an oblique injury, but Sean McVay is hopeful that he is going to be able to play on Sunday.

But I'm thinking about Stafford getting the ball out quick.

If your pressure doesn't get there, or if you're sending extra guys, you're going to get Kyron Williams.

In the run game, Phokannakua not only leads the Rams in total receiving yards, John he has two hundred and ninety three yards after the catch.

It's that is unbelievable.

Now, a lot of that is short motions and it's fly sweeps, and it's exactly what you expect from McVeigh.

But you have to make sure you get home or that you stay home in the bat.

That's such a staple of Sean mcvay's offense.

I mean, that was Cooper cupt for a long time.

There is you get guys in space who are good run after catch guys, physical, you know good, you know, good with the ball, all that stuff, and yeah, you can't give him space not just to catch the ball but when he's going to get his catches.

But you got to get him on the ground.

Yeah, it is interesting to see how that just keeps going.

And we mentioned you have arguably the best defensive minded coach in the league going against the best offensive minded coach in the league.

I was really hoping that Mike McDonald would lean into that.

I knew that he wasn't going to.

I was hoping he would lean into it.

But as he points out, this is no different than any other week for him.

My job is to help design a plan and coach the heck out of it with our guys and organize it with our staff and so they can go play great football and keep it simple and keeping our keeping our wheelhouse and against anybody we play.

Seawan's a tremendous play caller.

He's a great offensive coordinator.

They got they got a great they have a great offense, but they approaches the same every week.

I did like that he wouldn't talk about it, but ask Cooper Cup about it, because look, Cooper Cup's got the very unique perspective of playing for Sean McVay for a long time.

Who By the way, did you like his description of Mike mcaoald as a virus because the way he's the way he's trying to like adapt, I loved that.

Yeah, Yeah, I mean he is.

You should probably, John, you should probably explain a little bit more because if folks just care.

He wants to ad Mikeconny says he's a virus.

He wants to adapt, Yeah, meaning you know, like he wants to figure out how to attack an offense and then adapt to what they're doing, which like viruses unfortunately can do us.

But yeah, he did refer to it as a chess match.

He used that term on his own with these two coaches, and again, he has such a unique perspective of his whole football life before this year was playing for an offensive coach, talking offense all the time with your head coach, and now all of a sudden, your offensive coaches on defense.

But I think it's it's a cool, you know, change of pace for Cooper Cup, and Cooper Cup has been very valuable to that coaching stuff as well.

Yes, and he does enjoy finding the little nuances from the defensive side of things.

And he had said, look, you are so far ahead.

Of things now with a coach who is trying to prevent and I think we heard this from multiple guys.

Sean McVay and Mike McDonald are not stealing plays from anybody else.

Teams are stealing from them, and they are so far ahead of the curve.

What you're actually seeing is the next wave of the NFL, which is kind of an interesting way to look at that and to see that, and it's why it's so effective, because you can't catch up with this style of defense, right, just like nobody's been able to match Sean mcmvagh and the offense.

When we think about Cooper Cup.

This is certainly a homecoming of sorts for him.

I love the fact that he said, look, I cannot make this game about me.

That wouldn't be fair to anybody else.

And there's far too much that's going into the game.

But when you go to what Mike McDonald appreciates about Cooper Cup, and I'm sure he's learned some things.

Well, here's what he said about the wide receiver.

Yeah, it's great.

I mean it's another example that you can show, like, look, this is how you do it, you know, as a team player, as a person.

I can't say enough great things about Coop.

I just we love him.

So I'm so happy he's here.

I'm happy as a Sea Hawk's He's a force multiplier.

I think he's made a huge tremendous impact on his receiving room, the offense, and the team in general, and just terms of our attitude and how you just approach, you know, our business every day.

We've started to learn over the last couple of years, force multipliers a big compliment.

That is a huge commerce, Like that's.

These are the guys that he really feels like.

It's what he says about Devin Witherspoon.

It's what he says about Leonard Williams and Cooper Cup's doing.

A good player on the field.

He's made some really big third down catches.

You know, we had the big catch and run, but he hasn't been you know, what he was statistically early in his career.

But man, I don't know that you're going to find a guy that coaches and teammates speak about is highly and like such just you know, just heaping praise on him for what he's meant to this team in the locker room, in the meeting rooms.

We hear about him in the quarterback rooms.

It's like he's challenged everybody with his football and mauled And I think, you know, maybe at least I think within the building is very much for sure, but probably from a big picture, you know, national Samwaite.

People are undervaluing what a big signing that was for the Seahawks.

Right, I mean, you're focusing on Jaysn who goes over one thousand yards and just nine games, which is really impressive.

Now he's able to do that because you still do have Cooper Cup as a threat on the other side of the field.

The other thing that Mike McDonald pointed to and whenever this season ends, and however cohesive this team looks on both sides of the ball, Cooper Cup gets a lot of credit because.

He specifically said, you know.

It's a Tuesday during you know, many camp, and you're doing installed this is back in what May, and you're trying to maintain this level of energy and enthusiasm and attention to detail knowing that the season is months away, and what you want to do is go out there, have a good day of work and actually enjoy being around your teammates.

And he said Cooper Cup was all part of that, Like it's it was part of his energy, It's part of his approach, and you get that buy in, and you needed the buy in on the offensive side of things.

With as much change, you can point back and say he's the one that helps bring.

It all together.

Yeah, I mean, he's yeah, just such a huge part of what this team is doing.

And it's you know, I think again, sometimes we just look at the statuet on Sunday and say, eh, he's fallen off or whatever.

It's like, no, he's he's not getting the opportunity.

He's like you look at the rate he's getting targeted compared to when he was in LA.

But he's actually efficiency wise, he's better than he has been in years in terms of you know how you define success, right in all these different things, it's just the ball's not finding because you happen to have one of I mean this year the best receiver in the NFL playing next year.

But yeah, just a huge addition for this offense and really the whole team.

And you only threw the ball twelve times last game, so there's only so many touches.

Sam Darnald like didn't even qualify for weekly Like if you see a chart of like weekly quarterback performances, he's not even on it.

Didn't qualify How many times did we?

Because I shart all the plays on the sideline, so I could tell kind of where the trends are.

And I'm like, when was the last time he threw the ball?

That was the few past attempts in the team history?

I withoke that up.

Never had it?

Yes, yeah, and eight of those are in the first quarter.

They through four pass I know it was.

Yes, it was crazy, weird game.

Which means that you know that might have really screwed up some fantasy numbers last week, I would imagine.

I would also imagine that people are starting to set that roster really look at the playoff push.

But I know that our fantasy insider, Scott Engele has a much better idea of what's happening.

Thanks Jenn and Johnny.

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Pittsburgh ranks twenty six, and fantasy points per game allowed to opposing quarterbacks in that same game.

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Well.

One of the reasons John, the Seahawks didn't have to throw last week is because they were ahead.

Buy a lot by a lots that helps.

Did you realize that this this year's team, first since the nineteen eighties, fourth ever to exceed thirty first half points three times in one season.

I did realize that only because I saw someone tweet about that.

After that, I was going to say it might have been here.

It was the other one that really impressed me is top three first half scoring performances.

Our top four this season three are the Seahawks.

They've had thirty eight twice and thirty one once and I think it was like the Vikings had a thirty four point a half.

Yeah, it is pretty impressive.

And Bruce Irvin stopped by practice this week.

It was really fun to catch up with Bruce, longtime Seahawk, one of the greatest laughs, always such a caricter.

So crazy, it's so great.

And we were watching practice for a little bit and he said it was like, look, nobody is going to be our defense, Like that was a really special group.

And he went on to say we were all a bunch of misfits that wouldn't have worked in any other team, and we just came together in a special way.

He goes, but the number one thing we had was confidence.

It's like we knew that we were going to win at home.

So that was eight wins.

All we had to do was get three on the road.

That's all you had to do, and it was pretty easy.

And he said, I'm starting to see that in this team, like you just know you're going to win when you take the field.

And I thought that that was interesting perspective from the outside.

And he watches games and he'll be around the team, but he's not plugged in on a daily basis.

And when it's that obvious to somebody who's been in that position, I thought that was a really cool to hear and really says a lot about how this looks to former players.

Yeah, and I'll add to that, even though this is't what Bruce said, like that group also had a special thing, like the connection that group had and just how like close those guys were off the field.

You know, they referred to as a brotherhood obviously, and you're seeing a lot of that too.

That's something you when you talk to these players on both sides of ball, but especially the defense.

He's veteran defensive linemen who've been around a lot of teams, like they sense it as well well.

And that's part of the conversation that we had with DeMarcus Lawrence this week.

And he of course gets into the end zone a couple of times.

Tyre SND just incredible to get the ball out twice.

You're never going to see that happen.

Same two guys, same two guys, It looks very similar.

Just it was really incredible.

But to hear DeMarcus Lawrence talk about coming into this team, and I actually asked the question, did you have any doubt that you were going.

To be able to fit in?

Because talent is one thing to your point, brotherhood is another.

And I love that he just laughed and he smiled and he's like, no, who wouldn't want to be my teammates.

He's great.

Yeah, he's awesome.

And from Mike McDonald's point of view, to see him work up close, well, it's really taken his respect and admiration up a notch.

Well, the football player, you know, the traits of how he plays is what we expected coming in, being a rugged, kind of dominant, disruptive player on early downs and then how we rushed the passer in terms of setting other people up pass rush games, things like that, that that's consistent, which is great.

Those are all great things.

How he gets it done, you know, you just you didn't know what his day to day approach was and the mentality that he had.

So I think I think that's really helped, and it's been a I wouldn't say it's surprised.

Is you just don't know, you know, you st't not familiar with the person that's just really appreciate the person that he is every day and the competitor he is.

One thing I really like about that is it takes him back to training camp.

It's really easy for coaches and players to all just very optimistic and say the best things about people in July, but it's really coming around with the Marcus Lawrence to be that too.

He is.

And I go back to the quote that got allt attention.

He said he might call him he's the best drill player I've ever seen in my life, meaning like you any drill are doing on defense.

This guy, you're twelve, thirty whatever years old, four time pro bowler, He's going to go through that drill like he's an undrafted rookie trying to make the team and lo and behold.

Ten weeks in the season, he's still putting in that work.

It's rubbing off on the other guys, the young guys there, and he's also producing at a really high level.

And much like we talked about Cooper Cup, he's been a really good player on Sundays, but like he's a guy that's also, you know, Monday through Saturday making a big impact on this team.

And when you talk about the impact that he makes so in the locker room.

DeMarcus Lawrence's locker is on the same side as Leonard Williams, so you will frequently see those two talking.

And it's right next to Byron Murphy, so you always see those three.

And Jared and Jared there right.

So you've got your veterans that are kind of anchoring that corner of the room.

Here's what you don't always see Gray's Abel talking to those two guys Leo and d law coming off the field after practice.

At games, he'll go down to the other side of the bench and talk to those guys during the game to get perspective on what he needs to do.

You know what somebody said about Gray's Abel last week.

He takes every single rep in practice as if it is a game m HM.

And Bruce Servin said that is amazing to hear because you generally have to teach that to rookies.

To Marcus Lawrence is going against him in practice, it's taught him how.

To do this.

Yeah, and again that's the thing that goes back to training camp.

I remember they were doing the you know those exciting first days and pads.

We're watching the one on one drills and you have Leo, you know, one of the best interior linemen in the last decade.

Call it, and he's pulling this rookie aside and they're working through stuff.

That's that's a real valuable thing to have as a team.

Yeah, you kind of forget about some of that and you kind of take it for granted, but when you continue to see it during the course of the year, boy, it really does show how special this team is.

Now we know that this is going to be a big game just based on the matchup.

I am really excited about this.

If you were to say that this is a test, and we did a little brainstorming, right, Yes, I do think that this is a measure of success and a version of a test, because John, the game that comes to mind that would be this big in the regular season for me was the Saints.

Yeah, we both came up with in twenty thirteen.

Right.

I don't know that there's that many other games that you would call a true measuring stick over the last yeah, ten twelve years.

Yeah, I mean you can always pick late season regular season games is bigger of like, okay, twenty nineteen, you're playing for the division, or a lot of years you're playing for a playoff berth at the end of year, but in terms of like mid season where either team could still win the division and do lots of things win or lose this game, but just in terms of like a measuring stick of where are we amongst the NFL's elite.

I think that twenty thirteen game against the Saints is a great one.

You can even go back a year before twenty twelve against the forty nine ers, whereas like they had been the team, you know, they actually end up going to Super Bowl that year, but the Stacks went out and smacked them pretty good.

So yeah, this is a big opportunity really for both teams, but I think especially a young Seahawks team that finished behind the Rams vision last year that's trying to really show they are that type of team that can compete with anybody in the league.

This is a great opportunity.

You know, who agrees with you?

You I do.

I'm not nearly as important as the head coach agreeing with John.

I'm going to say yes, but I'm going to say if you had asked me that last week, I would say yes.

Every time we go out there, it's going to be a test of what kind of team we can become.

This is a different scenario that we haven't necessarily been in yet, But last week is a scenario we haven't been in.

We haven't we haven't been in a situation where we're coming off with decisive victory and coming back home.

So that was kind of an you know, that was last week.

This is week's.

Now we're going to play the Rams on the.

Road for the first time this season, so it's just every week's a new challenge.

The guys have been up for up Form's talking to a couple of guys this week and I was asking about like big plays in a game or like big games, like do you want to know the significance of each play because it's not until hindsight, right when we realize, oh, that was the biggest play of the game.

And they said, no, I actually don't want to know.

And it goes besides that, once you break the huddle and you get to the line of scrimmage, that's like the zen moments, and all of them were like, no, that's just the next play that we're playing.

We don't have time to think about it.

We don't want to think about it.

It can't be the biggest game, and I just wanted to point that out because we'll talk about that.

And the guys are like, that's not actually how it works, right.

And they turned the question back on me and they're like, what would you want to know?

It's like, no, yeah, every time you do an interview, you're like, it's just it's just my job.

Right, They're like, well, see, there you go, it's just our job.

Yeah, we can hype this game up.

We can talk about how important is out of these players is like you know, Mike talked about this on Money.

It was like, right, we just gotta go out Wednesday and have a good walk through and then have a good practice and then they're you know, do our install and that's if you mess that, step up, steps up, that's how you have a bad day Sunday.

And if you do all that well and then you go win on Sunday.

Now, okay, they accomplished something really cool, But it's the process to get there.

It's all about the process, doubling down on the process, trusting the process.

Following the process.

I can come up with all the processes, all right, all the processes, but what we are going to come up with next are two things the Seahawks need to do to get a win against the Rams.

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All right, John Boyle, what do you got for me?

I think I'm gonna kind of cherry pick a couple of the really easy ones.

But take care of the football.

Yeah, this team has done so much well this year, but sixteen turnovers that's way too many.

And look, you're playing well enough, You've got away with it a lot, and you think how well you have to be playing to turn the ball over twice, like right on the doorstep your own in zone and be like, eh, I mean the team wasn't exactly that way, but those of us watch you're like, oh, well, it doesn't matter because they're winning by thirty what river points?

But this game's gonna be way too tight to be given the ball away and be sloppy with the ball.

And the Rams have been really good at taking the ball away.

So you've got to be better with the football, whether that's Sam Darnald making good decisions getting the ball out when he's pressured, or whether it's just you know, ball carriers taking care of the ball when they have in their hands.

And then we talked about this earlier, but get pressure with four, Sam or I'm sorry, not Sam Darnald.

He's the Seahawks quarterback, Matt Stafford.

Yes, he is the Seahawks quarterback.

Matt Stafford, as we discussed, incredible against the Blitz.

And they've got some guys, you know, Devonte Adam and Puku and Akua are not easy covers, so you don't really want to be giving up guys in coverage to take care of them.

So figure out how to get home with four, which again the Seahawks have been very good at this year.

I think if you can disrupt Matt Stafford with four, you're gonna have a good Dan defense.

Yeah, I'm do.

While I totally agree with that, I'm going to go on the other side with Sam Darnold has only been sacked ten times this year, which is really good, very impressive.

But you've got two guys on that defense that they've got some sacks, including Byron Young with nine that is among the best in the NFL.

But both Byron Young and Jared Verse.

I thought this defense was supposed to be terrible without Aaron Dner.

I know it's not.

It's okay, maybe a little reprieve from the game wrecking lineman, but no, that's not the.

Case because Young and Verse they both have seventeen quarterback hits.

So it's got to be ball security and just keep Sam upright.

However you want to do that.

I think maybe we're gonna get a chance to see Rashid Shaheed a little bit in those situations.

Wouldn't that be fine.

I think we're gonna see a little bit more of him this week.

The other thing is this field position becomes even more important when you consider how much the Rams have struggled in the kicking game.

They have already said that the rookie Harrison MAVs MeVis Mayvis, I don't know how to pronounce his last name, he is going to be the kicker.

They signed him off the practice squad last week.

Now we only kicked to extra points.

That's how good the Rams were.

He was six for six on extra points, but they have had some trouble in that area.

He is not attempted a field goal in the NFL, so making sure that it is always from long distance.

If you can keep them to field goals, I think that could be one of those kind of sneaky ways to flip a field.

Can I give you one on field position and the kicking game, by the way, yes, that we you know, I don't think we give Jason Myers enough love for this at Obviously the field goals, we see the points.

But with the new kickoff rules, what that like?

That creates so many cool opportunities for kickers to shine and we don't you know again, you know, like, oh what an exciting kickoff that was.

But the touchdown in Pittsburgh's the obvious one.

But there's been a lot the way he's been going to land the ball just short of the end zone.

So if it goes in the end zone, they're going to take it out in thirty five and get it you know where it's hard to field, or you get it on the bounce the Seahawks are.

We had our friends and allies look this up because I was curious and I didn't know how to find it otherwise.

Starting average field position kickoffs only, not all plays, Seahawks opponents are starting at the twenty six point seven yard line.

That's second best in the NFL, behind only the Panthers, which that's you know, coverage matters a lot.

Our coverage teams have been great, but that's very much a Jason Myers stat as well.

He's doing some cool stuff in the kicking game.

It really is shout out to the special teams.

They are going to play a big role in this one.

We are excited to see how this plays out.

We will discuss this, talk about this, and hopefully be celebrating this one next week on a brand new edition of the Seahawks Insiders podcast