487: Seahawks Shut Out Vikings and Prepare for Falcons Showdown

Sea Hawkers Podcast: for Seattle Seahawks fans

Brandan Schulze

Sports, Football

4.7 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Did the Minnesota Vikings find a way to solve the NFL's Jaxon Smith-Njigba problem? Or were there a combination of factors that simply kept the ball from going JSN's way. We talk about some of the strategies Minnesota used -- from pressuring Sam to their use of linebacker and safety to send some extra attention toward the NFL's leading receiver. Ernest Jones earned NFL honors for his game on Saturday, but DeMarcus Lawrence should have been in consideration for two of the biggest plays of the game.

The Atlanta Falcons are on deck for Seattle and may be the last "easy" game on the schedule. But should we ignore the fact they've either won or played their last four losses close? Bijan Robinson could pose a challenge for the Seahawks defense, but is there anyone else on the Falcons offense to be concerned with? Sam Darnold may have another week where he'll be challenged against the blitz, but we could also see more success on the ground than we saw against Minnesota. Seattle could continue to lean into the run game and protect the football.

In the second half of the show, we take a look at aggregate power rankings for all NFL teams and the Seahawks find themselves in the top 5 across most of the rankings. We take a look at some of the other teams and which one could be best to challenge the Rams (apart from Seattle). The NFL Hall of Fame selection committee needs to do better and so does society (apparently). Better at life honors go to an NBA coach for having the back of some arena staff members and to one state's wildlife conservation commission for their fight against invasive snakes.

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0:00.0	This is the Sea Hawkers podcast.
0:09.0	Episode 487.
0:11.0	I'm Brandon Schultz and I am joined by my good buddy, Adam Emmert.
0:16.0	Adam, it's been a few days now coming off of the shutout of the Minnesota Vikings.
0:22.7	How are you doing, buddy?
0:23.7	I'm doing great, man.
0:25.2	You know, 487 episodes into doing this show and shutouts are never sweeter.
0:30.6	Like, I love it very much.
0:32.6	And then I continue to hate the Atlanta Falcons with a passion of a thousand burning sun.
0:36.9	So this is a great week for me.
0:38.6	I'm having a blast.
0:40.6	I'm having a blast,
0:41.8	too,
0:42.0	having a blast along with some folks who are joining us live.
0:44.9	I see William.
0:45.6	I see Marlon and chat.
0:46.8	Thanks for joining us live on a Wednesday night.
0:50.8	And I want to talk about a couple things with regard to this Vikings game because I think one of the things that people have been talking about coming out of it is what exactly happened with JSN.
1:00.6	So I want to dive into that.
1:01.8	Of course, I want to preview the matchup with the Atlanta Falcons.
1:05.6	And Adam, I don't know if you've been seeing some of these power rankings and that sort of thing about where the Seahawks sit
1:11.1	with regard to the rest of the NFL.
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