Daniel Jeremiah: How #Seahawks Aggressive Defense Shutout Vikings | #SeattleSports

Daniel Jeremiah: How #Seahawks Aggressive Defense Shutout Vikings | #SeattleSports

I love watching him play football. I love watching him blitz. I love how aggressive he tackles. That was a complete dominant performance from all three levels of the defense. [Music] Can we get to the Seahawks? DJ, it’s not it’s not every day you get a shut out. How how rare and how impressive is it to shut a team out without inclement weather in the NFL? Yeah, it’s hard to do, man. And it wasn’t like there was a lot of close opportunities and like you know a ton of stops at the one yard line. I mean you had the interception the pick six down there but that I mean there was not a lot of uh plays called on the other side of the field in this game. It was completely dominant. It was fun to watch um the you had a collection of quick wins where the defensive line just won so fast u whether it was you know Leonard or whether it was Murphy late all the way across the board. Um, so it plays plays didn’t even develop. Plays didn’t even get started in this game. And then when the ball popped up in the air, it was up for grabs and you’re seeing playmakers at all three levels. And you know, it was an Ernest Jones game, not just the interceptions, but he was smacking people. He was, you know, playing downhill. Um, it was, you know, going back through my my notes on here, it was there was a lot of numbers. 07, 99, 91, 42, 8, 27. I mean, obviously 13, 21. Uh, you know, I love I just I’ve always had an affinity for him. I love watching him play football. I love watching him blitz. Um, I love how aggressive he tackles. Like that that was a complete dominant performance from all three levels of the defense. You know what’s interesting about Spoon? He didn’t put up numbers. So, so I think there’s a lot of it. It’s a little bit like right now Byron Murphy is leading the Pro Bowl voting over Leonard Williams. I think he’s leading the NFC. By Murphy is over Leonard. And it’s like, h I think people that watch the tape see 99 and people like you, DJ, that watch the tape don’t have to see tackles or interceptions or whatever with Spoon. What What is it? What is it that just jumps off the page to you? He plays so fast and there’s no, you know, a lot of times and they a lot of people teach it and I think it’s it’s a safe way to tackle, right? You talk about in scouting like guys that come to balance. So you’re going to close a distance as fast as you can, then you’re going to come to balance. Think of like a close out in basketball, guys at the three-point line. You want to sprint out there, then you got to come to balance and get set, you know, settled so that you can be able to adjust any movement. He just runs right through you. He does not He trusts his angles. Um, and he plays so fast and there’s just no I just love watching guys who have such confidence in what they see and in their ability that they never they never tap the break. It’s just it’s always always going. It’s fun to watch. Is that why you enjoyed Max Bromer so much? Yeah, my undrafted free agent grade held true for that one. Oh, that was a tough watch. That that might be and and we’ve seen some bad quarterback play over the years. Max Hall will forever be one of the worst I’ve ever seen. Poor guy had to take a crow hop to throwing out route. Uh Brooks Ballinger back in the day skipping passes at people. I mean, like there have been some rough quarterbacks in the NFL. I think what I saw on Sunday might have been the worst I’ve ever seen. Fair. Yeah, that’s fair. What I said, I would go on TV on on game day morning and they asked for my scouting report and I said he’s not a Tracy, not a Traitzy guy. And they were like, “Well, what does that mean?” I’m like, “Well, he’s not super big. He’s not super strong. He’s not super athletic.” But I said, “He did in college. He made, you know, he he saw the field and made good decisions, just real kind of efficient.” And then you get in this situation and the lack of tools and traits and yikes, processing or decision- making or he didn’t have much time. I didn’t have a whole lot of time. You have a no run game. You have no pocket. You have the air sucked out of you. You can’t think. I can’t even imagine. I had a game like that at Nebraska my my last year of school DJ where I could just I kept telling myself just slow down. Like just slow down. Like the game could not slow down. It was it was like they were all in fast forward and it was a blur. I can’t imagine what his eyes felt and saw Sunday cuz this defense let’s just go let’s just go there. I mean, th this defense right now, which defensive personnel of all the tape that you watch, all these games that you see, is there a defensive personnel like grouping that you would trade the Seahawks for as a roster? No. I’ll tell you what, there’s some really good ones and and I will just give you a few just off top of my head. I see I’ve seen Denver um and they are very very fast at all levels and I would give them, you know, there’s Certan is kind of a one of one. So, that’s that’s kind of a chess piece that that Seattle doesn’t have. Um, but as a collective whole, I would probably still lean Seattle. You’ve got the Rams, you’ve seen them. Um, you know, physical they are. Uh, but I would still take Seattle. I said that game. They’re back in. No, but their front their front is real. So, then you get to to me Green Bay with their front seven and the athleticism and the speed and then having Micah Parsons thrown in there in the mix and their safeties are good. Um, that would be another one that would be in the conversation. But would I take any of those teams over Seattle? I would say no. I I can’t get over Demarcus Lawrence. I We’ve talked about him a couple of times and while my season started talking a lot about Leonard Williams and I’m not trying to ignore him. He’s obviously been great. There’s something about Demarcus Lawrence that maybe it’s that it was unexpected, right? You sign a veteran free agent like that and I don’t know, my my expectation was low. like, yeah, all right, we’ll see if he has anything left and maybe he’s here to kind of stop the run and get to the passer occasionally, but he seems to be a complete difference maker in every single phase of the game. And then you listen to the coach and the and his teammates talk about him and he sounds like another worldly leader and practice player and everything else. Should I have realized that he still had this much left? Did you? I mean, I he’s been a good player for a long time and he’s one of those guys where he’s always been more rugged than flash. He’s a he’s a physical player. He’s a power rusher. Um but I mean, yeah, he’s he’s just fit in so well into this group. He’s never played bad football, but I never thought that he, you know, he never really got the mention in with those top tier guys. And I think he’s just one of these guys who just he might be a B+ A minus player, but he is every like his worst play is a B+ play. Like he has he he has no ever any drop off in effort. Um he’s always pushing the pocket. He’s always setting the edge. And in that game, I mean, he has the the pressure that leads to the pick. He has a sack. Like he’s and he’s just making impactful plays. And I’ve I’ve always heard that, you know, even coming out that this guy was an incredible worker, an incredible leader. And that can be uh you know, that can be something that’s infectious when you’ve got a guy who’s been around as long as he has and is still going that hard. I saw that during my time with the Ravens when we had our old veteran guys. Um, there weren’t those uh there weren’t days where those guys took off. It was always 100 miles an hour. Uh, that probably speaks to this next question I have for you. And we chatted with Coach McDonald about culture. We started our show about brotherhood and love and c togetherness and all the all the tidbits and all the words you use for culture. Aside from your bigs running and littles tackling, which you dropped on us earlier this year and has never left the conversation, is there something else that you look at on tape where you just are like, “Oof, that’s culture. Woof, that’s culture. That’s culture. Anything else that just jumps off videotape in that regard? Well, two things I would say. Um, you know, when you’re watching the tape, I like to see, and this is just standard stuff, but just like how many hats are you getting to the ball? So, that’s everybody. That’s just not the bigs, the littles. That’s just everybody efforting to get to the ball. And u, you know, I’ll give you like a Chargers example from that in in the last game that they just played against a bad Raiders team. There’s a ball thrown to the sideline which is going to be caught. It’s going to be, you know, it’s either caught or dropped. he’s going to be on the lines out of bounds. Tony Jefferson’s in the middle of the field safety and he just sprints over there. The ball gets popped up in the air, tipped up in the air twice, he picks it off right on the sideline and that’s like an example of of guys that are always there. Nothing bad happens when you sprint to the football. And when you watch Seattle’s defense play at the end of every play, you see a whole lot of their jerseys in the frame. There’s a lot of guys getting to the ball. Uh so that would be number one. And the number two thing, this might sound kind of hokey, but I like seeing the the butt slaps and the back slaps and the and the encouragement going from teammate to teammate after plays. Like they get more excited when a teammate makes a play, maybe even than they when they make a play themselves. I’ve always thought that says a lot about the buy in and the uh the collective we over me. Yeah. Hey, so another week with Sam. Um he’s he’s good. like he’s really good and I I hate having to ask these questions because it makes it sound like I don’t like him or I want him out of here or anything like that. None of that is true. I I said it earlier, the accuracy, the the um the mechanics of running the offense and all that stuff. His play action game is fit with what they’re trying there’s so many really great things that he’s done and god do I I just love him so much more than Gino last year. The leadership, the just better. But I’m still not like convinced. And maybe these last, you know, they got four games down the stretch against what? Indie, LA, Carolina, San Francisco, and then probably playoffs after that. What can he do over those four games plus that make him a legitimate playoff winning quarterback other than the obvious win games? Yeah, I would say the two things that were in this game that I think you can you can clean up a little bit. Number one is just way too many tip balls where, you know, he’s got to figure out a way to get around that. Um, some of that’s on the back. Like there’s times where the back’s just got to, you know, you can’t really maybe you can’t cut quite like you used to be able to, but you got to get into their chest, at least try and get the hands down, but Sam’s got to do a little bit better job of finding lanes and not getting so many balls tipped. And then there’s also, especially in the red zone, um it’s happened a couple times this year where he’s just got to have his clock just to have a little bit better clock and a little bit better feel. You get to two hitches, man, like it’s time you got to you got to go, you got to take off and run or you got to throw the ball away and he’s getting hit from behind. You know, take taking a sack is one thing, but then you got to worry about protecting the football at that point in time. So, just a little bit more awareness in terms of that internal clock in some of these areas of the field or certain down and distances or certain looks that you get. And then to me, it’s just it’s just way too many tip balls. Um there were a couple drops in this game, too, which would have helped this line. And then really the score got to where it was. I mean, then they just played safe, you know, they just put pushing the ball out to the perimeter and didn’t really even have to throw it all that much. Yeah. But I th those fumbles. Is there anything you can do to teach not fumble? Because that’s been a problem for him since college. Yeah, I mean there’s always I, you know, keeping two hands on the ball, which I think he’s done a pretty good job of. To me, it’s it’s it’s more just the clock. It’s more knowing, okay, I’m not going to be able to see this backside pressure, but can I feel it? One, if I can’t feel it, I just have to know. And Brock, it’s hard. Brock maybe can explain it better than I can, but just where we are in the field, everything’s going to happen faster when you’re in the red zone. Everything’s condensed. You have to, you know, you don’t want to be sped up as a quarterback, but in these situations, you have to know, okay, I’m at the top of my drop. Hitch, hitch. It’s got to go. Like, I I can’t assume that I’m going to be able to sit back in here in a cocoon. Like, it’s it’s not going to happen. You’ve got to have a little bit better feel and timing there. What do we see from the right guard? What do we see from Man, I’ll tell you what, like I I was shocked because we talked about that how many like over a month ago. And I have your big binder of truth. You have your big binder of draft. Yeah. Um, can you go back three? Yeah. Three years ago. I said last hour as we chatted through this a little bit. We asked Mike and and it’s going to be a competition. You read between the lines and when Sundell comes back, maybe he plays a little more Hannes game with an elbow to Bradford, but clearly, you know, that door’s open. And I said to Mike, you know, the challenge is I bet you in in DJ’s binder when it comes with Anthony Bradford, the word inconsistency is going to or just a good play here. You know, you were talking about there’s no F plays with Demarcus Lawrence. They’re all B+ plays. It’s just been inconsistent with AB. Yeah. Um, so here we go. Uh, 6040, so 64332. He ran 508, which is a good time. So I said, right guard will test well, played heavy. He can anchor, he can position a wall off. He is not good in space. He’s played some left tackle. He will struggle versus speed. And when you watch them, it is like the worst thing you can do as an interior offensive lineman is lose fast. Like you can lose slow. You cannot lose right off the jump. And when you look at it, there’s backside, you know, whiffing backside, tackle for loss as a polar in space, whiff, tackle for loss. um when guys are lined up on him, like when he can get guys in his path, like we talk about a onetrack player as an offensive lineman. Like if you can keep that train on the same tracks, you don’t want to be in his way because he’s a big strong guy. He can knock you down. But anytime he has to deviate off that initial track, he’s in trouble and there’s just too many quick losses and the quick losses are just a killer inside, man. So what So what do you do? I mean, you know, the other options I mean, watching the tape, they I I’m assuming he wasn’t hurt. I didn’t He was He did get hurt at the end. He hurt. Okay. So I saw but we all assumed he had been benched performance based Christian Haynes is the other possibility who’s been unable to beat him out and then at some point Jaylen Sundell who’s been playing center will come back and you could leave Olivia at center and put Sundell at right guard. Is it time to do one of those things? I mean I think it’s it’s something I would want to experiment with when Sundell comes back because he’s obviously he’s in the lineup and he’s played really really well. It’s just man, you know, do you do you want to keep him at center? Then it’s just trying to find the best combination. Maybe that’s something they can, you know, work through. Maybe you you take a game and experiment with something. But I would like to see it, you know, coming down the stretch at least for a a look to see what it looks like with a different combination in there. And again, I don’t I don’t ever want to be I don’t ever want to have somebody talk about me like Jim Moore talks about Brock. I don’t I’m not trying to be a jerk. Trying to be mean. Trying to be mean. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. I don’t need that smoke. I’m just saying this team, we set it at the trade deadline. Like what could they do? And I’m like, okay, well that’s the one spot that would make some sense, you know, just off of the performance. A lot of textures. Matt in Oregon wondering, please ask DJ where Sulk falls on his list of nicest people. See, that’s unnecessary. You don’t need to ask that. That that’s we’re we’re not ask that question. You know how in baseball you have to have enough at bats to qualify? You have to show up for enough shows to qualify for the nicest guy. You know what I mean? That’s unnecessary. Uh, speaking of baseball, at some point, we don’t have time now. Next week, I got to ask you about my theory on offensive line. I don’t think I’ve ever asked you about this before because I really believe they should start doing platoon on the offensive line. I don’t understand why we have to play the same five offensive linemen every play of every game. Why not get the best players into the best position to have them succeed? So, we don’t have time. I talked to I I know, but I talked to a GM about that two days ago. Are you serious about hang on to that? I want to talk to you about it next week. It is my thing. No way. Sulk will remember to ask you, but yes. No, please remind me to ask DJ platoon. Rock, remind whoever is filling in for for Sulk to mention. I’ll be here next week. The week after that, not so much. But next week, I will be here. DJ, thank you as always. We’ll talk to you then. See you guys. All right, there you go. Daniel Jeremiah, we’ll be right back.

NFL Network Analyst and former NFL scout Daniel Jeremiah joins Brock Huard and Mike Salk (Brock & Salk) for his weekly appearance to discuss the Seahawks week 13 victory over the Minnesota Vikings in a stellar defensive effort, and what needs to happen with Seattle’s offensive line.

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0:00 – Intro
0:15 – How impressive is a shutout win
1:35 – Devon Witherspoon
2:50 – Max Brosmer’s performance
4:15 – Best defenses in NFL
5:24 – DeMarcus Lawrence
7:22 – How to spot ‘culture’ watching tape
9:00 – How can Sam Darnold elevate in the final 5 games
11:35 – Anthony Bradford’s day
14:10 – Experimenting with O-Line options

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