Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Hock Blogger Mornings.

I am Brian Mouser.

You can find me all over the place that you get your content, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram,

at Hock blogger.

And later today, I'll be back at the VMAQ talking to Sam Darnold and

Clint Kubiak and Adden Dirty and the whole crew as they get ready for what is going to be a

Titanic matchup between the Rams and the Seahawks. Today is a special day. It's not just because

it's Thursday. It's not just because it's raining here in Seattle, as it always does. It's because we get to welcome, I think, the preeminent voice of the NFL right now. Brian Baldinger, Baldi, to the show for the first time. Man, welcome to the show, and how are you doing? Thanks, Brian. No, I'm doing great. I mean,

honestly, I'm as excited for this game, you know, as any Seahawk fan or Rand fan is. I mean,

you know, we get a collision course of, you know, a game that is for first place, it's for

playoff seating, it's for bragging rights. It's everything. And I've done enough games

in SoFi's game to know that this is going to be largely a Seahawk crowd, you know.

Yeah, well, I mean, I was talking to you before we got on that, that you and I ran into each other at

the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama. And I feel like a lot of what's going on right now for the Seahawks started all the way back then.

When Mike McDonald was down there with John Schneider on the field, watching Gray Zabel.

And I know you saw that performance.

And now here we are, all these months later, him starting for the Seahawks.

You know, it's interesting because I was watching Gray last week. He was going up against Walter Nolan.

And, you know, we saw that matchup. We did. Mobile. I don't know how many times it went against.

He went against everybody. And it was a great, as we know, it was a great defensive line class. And, you know, I saw John down there. And, you know, there was, you know, gosh, there was like every single coach. You know, John Lynch was there. And, you know, you saw Pittsburgh was there. I mean, they were all there, and they all saw it.

And, you know, Zabel, he'd lined up at center.

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