Daniel Jeremiah’s Biggest Takeaways from the Seahawks First Half of the Season | Seattle Sports

Daniel Jeremiah’s Biggest Takeaways from the Seahawks First Half of the Season | Seattle Sports

and he’s playing with with absolute trust and conviction. Um, that’s a that’s a fun place to build your offense from. [Music] All right, let’s talk some football, DJ. And and don’t I know what the easy answer to this question is, so don’t give me the easy answer. Okay. In the last three weeks, the Seahawks in the ESPN power rankings have gone from eighth to 9th to 11th. during that game, during that span, they’re 1 and0 where their defense put an absolute whooping on the Houston Texans without saying, “Well, power rankings are dumb and it’s just like without that, cuz I know that’s true.” Why are they slipping in the power rankings when they feel like they’re getting better and better and people should be recognizing this? I think power rankings are about the stage as much as they are about the team. I think it’s who’s on the who’s on, you know, the bigger stage at that moment. who’s who’s caught the most eyeballs with what they’ve done. And to me, like one of the compliments you could give a team is that they can be boringly good. Like you can dominate and be not be on center stage and not have everybody, you know, watching it and it can kind of slip under the radar. I just think power rankings are about what grabs your attention and that’s where you see the fluctuations, you know, with with some teams vaultting up over others. So that’s just my my take on it. I did do some homework, by the way, for you sulk. I I we had this conversation about the trading Rick Woolen. Oh yeah. And if you could get a if you could get a guard. So I said, “Okay, I need to see how desperate the need is.” So I went back and I watched a lot of Anthony Bradford, including all of his pressures that he’s allowed. Not good. Um it was tough. And I tried to categorize them when I was doing I was charting them and going through it and I was saying, “Okay, so there’s different ways you can get beat.” You know, a guy can, you know, change of direction. Guy could cross your face. Okay, that’s a that’s an issue. You could have a mental error where you just you’re not seeing a twist or you’re not picking things up. So, it’s a little bit of a mental bus. So, he has a couple of of each of those. You have some like on the edges where guys just kind of beat you right off the snap off off the edge a little bit. There was three of those, but man, I had six. Actually, if now if you add them all together, it was nine of those pressures were just pure power or him just lunging and ducking his head and getting beat right now. And that’s the that’s the worst way you can lose as an interior offensive lineman. Compare that. Now, I want let me look at Gray Zables because Grace Ael, I think, was second on the team with pressures. And when you watch his pressures, he’s attached at all times. Some of them, I think, shouldn’t even be labeled as pressures, but if he loses, he loses late. Um there was some mental errors early in the season which he’s he’s he cleaned up as you were going through it. But I you know it’s there’s different ways to lose is what I’m what I’m getting at and he is losing a way that’s not that’s no bueno uh going forward. So I would I would agree with you and see that as a maybe a little bit more of an aggressive move to try and shore up that position. And is anything going to be available? I mean that’s always the part of it, right? We do we do this all the time and in baseball especially in the off season and through the trade deadlines where there is so much more activity. Do you get any sense now one week away that then there is a solution on the other side of that equation? I think there’s and I don’t know the names but I I think there’s there’s opportunities to try and I think there’s you know there’s some that you can get for minimal you know on some bad teams take a shot. I I I’ll be honest with you that doing the Charger games, um if you’d have told me before the season that Bobby Hart was going to be starting games at right tackle, I would have said, “Oh man, this is sky is falling.” Like he’s he’s their sixth offensive tackle that they’ve played and in in in this year and he hadn’t played in a couple years and I’m watching him every week and I’m going, he’s hanging in there. He’s hanging in there. He’s actually played decent football, played solid football, more than decent. And I’m like, you know, sometimes you got to just give other guys a chance. You know, if you know what you have is not good enough, then you could say, “Okay, we’re trying to find this great upgrade.” Well, maybe just somebody new, new environment, new coach, and maybe you you you land on something there when you were going through the guards. And thank you for doing that. I appreciate it. That’s really That’s awesome. That’s the kind of love That’s the kind of love for you. I appreciate it. And and unfortunately, we showed you so much love last week that I think it worked against us. Uh I’ll get to that here or against you really. I’ll get to that in a moment. Oh boy. Um, as you were watching the guards, did you notice anything at center? Like did you were you able to pick Okay, so you have to really focus on one person at a time. I was I was I was locked in on those two guys. I’m just sort of curious like it’s so interesting watching this team like the one thing they really wanted to get better at this off seasonason was running the ball. It’s the one thing they haven’t gotten better at and yet everything else they’ve gotten better at which is awesome and it it sort of really made up for it. We were we were spending some time earlier talking about the absence of DK Metaf maybe being part of the reason that JSN has um blossomed this year the way he has. Not that it hadn’t started before this season, but I wonder how much like being relied on to be the number one guy as opposed to maybe having to defer to someone like DK. I wonder how important that is for the development of a player like him. Um, I think that’s interesting. Um, here’s the comp. The comp I was making earlier is like every NBA team has a top scoreer. Everyone’s got somebody who scores 25 a game, even the bad teams. But if you’re 25 point a game score isn’t as good as my 25 point a game scorer, you’re not going to be as good. And maybe JSN is a better lead guy than DK Metaf is. Or at least for this team and this fit, maybe it allows him more space to grow into being that player. Yeah, I think you kind of you kind of open the lane, so to speak, and then see what you can do with it once you’ve had that lane. If you’re thinking about analogy kind of of a run around a track, you kind of open up that inside lane and see how fast you can go when you get down there. And he’s he’s been excellent. I I thought you were going to go somewhere with the run game when you were when you were talking about that because I I was curious a little bit of what they’re doing, you know, because you talk about that being a little bit disappointing. So, I went I I watched all their explosive runs and then I watched I I pulled up all their stats. So, they’re 60% inside zone, outside zone, which isn’t a surprise with with Kubak um with what they’re doing there. And uh you know, you’ll see some some lead stuff in there with the fullback. Um I wish they would run more, you know, pin and pull stuff and and toss and get him out on the perimeter. They a couple of those that have popped. I’d like to see some more of that going forward. But I was curious how that would compare to Indie. Indie, you know, just with Jonathan Taylor, looking at what he’s done and how successful he’s been with that group and it’s a little bit of a different makeup of that offensive line, they’re 37% inside zone, outside zone. So that, you know, there’s different ways to do it and that definitely is their scheme. Um, but you’ll see like Indie runs more traps. There’s some there’s some creativity and some some variety in how they kind of put their whole run game together. I just shot you a text. Did we play the DJ open? Did we Did we Ly, were we were we able to fire? Is that a one and done? Oh, no. I hope not. No, no, no, no, no. Marquee Dad. All in on you, DJ. They’re all in on DJ, by the way. What? What? What? What went bad for me? You Well, I’ll tell you here because it tease it. No, it plays into the open. It does play into it. If we if we want to fire the open, I just I I feel bad about this cuz we were trying to do you a solid, honestly. Like, this is legit. We were trying to do you a favor and I feel like it backfired. So yeah, let’s play the DJ opens and we know what we’re doing here. He’s Daniel Jeremiah. I think he’s really, really good. And he’s with Brock and Sulk every week during the NFL season. He could win an MVP. Daniel’s really smart. Daniel’s probably the best in the business. It’s time for the Daniel Jeremiah Show presented by Marquee Data. All right, so you you heard that sound from Joel Platt saying best in the business. So, we had Joel on after we talked to you last week and and we’re saying, “Hey, you know, DJ made this great point last week.” I think I said it of like when your bigs run and your littles tackle, it really puts you in a great position to succeed and how you were all excited about it. You know, your conviction of your team, all was great. And so, we told Joel about that and he waxed poetically about that for a little while, which was great. Um, and then unbeknownst to me, and I I feel bad, Brock was the only one who heard this. Brock saw I was watching I guess on Saturday during the second quarter, about second quarter, Indiana’s I think at this point 35 nothing, thrashing UCLA. He straight up dropped your line without any credit. Yep. Can Did do you have audio of it or No, I don’t. No, I don’t think there is audio. I don’t think anybody watches those games, so I don’t think there’s any audio of it. Can I can I tell you can I tell you the backstory? Oh boy. So uh so I talked to Clatt last week on the phone and uh I told him about I told him about that thing. I we had that conversation. So I think he got it from our I told him and he said, “Oh, that’s great. That’s great. Uh you know, really cool.” And then he asked me, “Can you come on my podcast?” I said, “I’m a little busy, but feel free to use that line on the air.” Oh, okay. Good. Yes. So he’s a man of integrity. he, you know, and I don’t I, you know, I don’t need attribution. We’re just trying to put good. We’re we’re trying to create little things and get like trust our eyes, trust our guys. Like these are our unique little things. We just want them to catch on, you know? We’re not I was sort of hoping it would be like I heard that from Daniel Jeremiah on the Brock and Sulk show. I mean, like, you know, it was really about us. I mean, like you were you were an unwitting participant, but make no mistake, still bust him. Still bust him the next time that he comes on. Um, in between his just it’ll be tomorrow at 8:30. We’ll have that conversation with him. Yeah, there you go. You know what else was fun, DJ? We had Hass back on yesterday and he went further into depth of what this system is doing and we kind of did our mid-season takeaways and it’s not quite mid-season, but it is for the Seahawks coming off of their buy and I’d be curious from your optics. You know, we’ve this our seventh show or eighth show this year. I’m just kind of curious if you were to give your two biggest first half takeaways, two or three of the Seahawks through seven games and heading into Sunday Night Football, what would be a top Daniel Jeremiah’s list? Uh, number one would be um Sulk was way wrong on that one practice observation of Sam Darnold um during training camp and he is more than fine and and an upgrade over what they had previously at the quarterback position. They’re set. they’re in a good spot there. Um, so that would be the first one. And then the next one would be um I think you’re seeing this defense kind of really really emerge. And I, you know, to me it’s a the uh it’s just the sum of guys that they have, you know, the depth of guys that they have that they can roll out there. Um those would be kind of my two takeaways. Quarterback’s playing really well. Obviously JSN is a is a headliner, but I think um to me the more important thing is that Sam is has established himself in a consistent way. And then I to me it’s just that front so many guys they can roll through there. I’d agree with all that to be honest. I’m no joke. I would agree with you. I was absolutely wrong that that well not with what I saw that day. He was not good that day, but in terms of trying to read too much into it, yes, he’s a clear upgrade over Gino Smith. And that was something I really really like I was gung-ho on moving on from Gino. And what Darnold has done has been tremendous, man. I I it has really been fun to watch his ascension and just his fit. You guys have talked about fit a lot. It just feels like he fits very well with what Kubak wants to do. Yeah. I I just and we’ve used this word on here every week and Brock just mentioned it a minute ago, but um when you’ve got a quarterback that’s playing with conviction and you can live with a mistake here or there, but man, he’s playing with with absolute trust and conviction. Um that’s a that’s a fun place to build your offense from. You see it around the league with other guys who don’t have that and it makes it very challenging. Hey, real quick. Um what’s going on with the Commanders? That’s what you’re going to see on Sunday. Like they’re supposed to be good. They’re not. What What’s happened there? Well, I think last year, you know, and I think you’re going to see it a little bit this year. I was talking with with Brian Baldinger about this that man, sometimes the schedule in the NFL right now, just with the way it is with some teams being down like last year, it lined up beautifully for them. I mean, the Patriots are having a great year right now, but look at their schedule and look at what’s in like it’s just it lined up for them perfectly. They squeezed uh you know they squeezed everything out of a lot of rental one-year veterans last year that all kind of found a way to have a a year above what was expected from them. So, I think they were just way ahead of schedule with what they, you know, what they accomplished last year. And then you get Jaden Daniels who hasn’t been out there, hasn’t been healthy. And, uh, you know, the biggest takeaway for me is that if you look at their drafts before, you know, Adam Peters and Dan Quinn got there the previous four years. I mean, there’s not there’s no core. They had they had been so bad drafting that the guts of that place was not in in a good spot. So, they bring in all these outside rentals and it all worked for him last year. the schedule lined up, the quarterback was healthy, and I just think that was kind of a genie in a bottle type thing last year, and you’re seeing this is probably more the the normal course you would take with where they were. We got about a minute or so here, and where maybe Sulk’s projection was a little wrong on Sam, and that’s fine. You were absolutely right, Sulk, early on in reading Mike McDonald and how much he liked this team. And we’ve said it to him two or three, four times over the last month or so, you just feel like you you like this team. and he kind of hinted at it yesterday talking about the conviction they have, but he’s got a term and it wasn’t his term, DJ. And I’m just curious how important you think this is. It was the locker room that came up with mob mob ties. Mission over BS. And Oh, interesting. Yep. Mission over all the other stuff. And I don’t know how you quantify that, characterize that, and even from your optics, if you can see it through the game tape watching these guys this year. Yeah, I mean I think they play unselfishly, you know, and that goes back to, you know, the the line that that Joel stole from me, but the uh you know that that’s just uh that’s how they play. They play as a collective and in a uh you know a passion about what they do, a just try and do your job, not somebody else’s, you know, discipline from that standpoint. I think I just wrote that down. That’s I really actually like that mission over BS. But that’s a that’s a very fair No, it’s mob ties. It actually originated with Chanty Bilips. Um, and then the Seahawks ended up taking it and using it for themselves. All right. So, so, hey, by the way, we had uh in the pregame in the pregame we had a a break in it and and Money was doing a hit back into his radio show because it was a third day with Pro and I literally hopped on. I grabbed the phone from it. I said, “Petros, we still on for cards tonight?” [Music] DJ, we got to go. So do you. We’ll talk to you next week. Thank you, man, as always. There goes Daniel Jeremiah.

NFL Network Analyst and former NFL scout Daniel Jeremiah joins Brock & Salk for his weekly appearance to discuss areas the Seahawks could improve at the trade deadline, his overall takeaways from the first half of the season and preview the Seahawks vs Commanders matchup.

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0:00 – Intro
1:15 – Where the Seahawks O-line can improve
7:10 – DJ’s philosophies are becoming widespread
9:52 – Biggest 1st Half takeaways
12:11 – Commanders struggles ahead of Seahawks Matchup
13:30 – The Seahawks unselfish team culture

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