Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another episode of Hock Blugger Mornings. I am Brian Mouser.

You can find us all over the place at HockBlogger, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, all the places you get, your podcast, Apple Podcast, Spotify, and so forth.

And come this evening, you can find me in Nashville.

I'm going to head out as soon as we're done talking to our favorite Friday guest.

Mike Sando of the athletic.

Mike, man, how are you doing?

I'm doing great.

Thank you.

Looking forward to this week, although the CX only have the Titans.

It's not quite last week, but it's still

going to be fun. It is a little bit hard to, I mean, it's hard to transition from maybe the best

matchup of the year to maybe one of the worst matchups of the year. It doesn't matter how the Seahawks win. It does matter if the Seahawks

win, but there's not a lot the Seahawks can gain this week other than just a victory and,

and, you know, hopefully a little bit of stabilization after what happened last week.

Yeah, I think so. I mean, look, I think it's important for the offense to play clean, and I don't think that's a guarantee that it'll happen. You know, their defensive coach is a McDonald guy, you know, so they're going to, you know, maybe he's had this one circle to the extent that you can when your team like Tennessee. And, you know, I think Seattle still has to prove just be clean offensively. And we're going to talk about this, I know, with the turnovers and stuff. But I do think that each game is an evaluation for that. Like, if they win because their defense is great, but, you know, Donald throws three picks or something, I think that's more meaningful, you know, in a bad way. Yeah. And I mean, we're going to talk about this in a lot of different ways.

And you wrote a great pick-six column, as you always do, and talked to some coaches about

the interceptions that Sam Darnold threw.

And we're going to talk about some of the potential there.

But one reaction to this, Mike, would be kind of a peak carol reaction, circa like 2020 with

Let Russ Cook, which is, you know, Russ through a bunch of interceptions in Buffalo.

He had thrown some interceptions.

They had some turnovers.

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