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You're probably wondering why I'm doing this from home

because I did record a podcast from Seattle Stadium,

but something kind of got messed up with it,

so I'm re-recording it after landing on the red eye.

So if my thoughts sound

incoherent, just blame the six hour of red eye flight where I didn't get very much sleep.

So let's try to make sense of what happened yesterday. And I don't know what to tell you,

man, because this team, there's a lot of things that you say, okay, if let's go back to the beginning of the year, if someone had told you that Sam Howell

is going to be doing what he's been doing lately or he's put up the numbers that he has,

17 touchdowns, nine interceptions, last three weeks has been really good. What would you think their record would be knowing what the defense did last year?

They certainly wouldn't be four and six.

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