A good morning, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Hock Blogger Mornings.

I am Brian Nemhauser and you can find me at all the places, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram,

at HockBlogger.

And congrats to everybody as last night we crossed an important threshold, at least, you know, somewhat important.

25,000 subscribers here on YouTube.

Really, really grateful and a little bit humbled by all the growth we've had here since we started

hot blogger mornings and started doing this full time just really like not that long

ago about a year ago. I think when I started Hawk blogger mornings in like April of

24 we were around 7,000 subs or so, maybe 7,500, something like that.

So a lot of growth since then, and I think hopefully a lot more to go.

And really, really grateful to have all of you along for the ride.

As we talk about the Seahawks.

And every Wednesday, I will be going through first look with you.

I will be going through deep diving into this matchup between the Seahawks and their opponent this week, the New Orleans Saints.

When possible, I will be bringing in guests to get the viewpoint of the opposing team and get some insights

there. I think we've had some really, really good ones so far. You can't beat Grant Cohen. I thought

Nick Farabaw was excellent last week. I learned a ton about the Steelers from him. Got a chance to

meet Nick in Pittsburgh, a great guy and certainly a must follow for me going forward in terms of everything Pittsburgh Steelers related.

This week we'll be welcoming in Matthew Paris from the New Orleans Times Picayune, who is the beat writer for that paper in New Orleans.

Matt does some great work over there and looking forward to hearing from him.

That'll come up here at about half past the hour before.

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