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This is Bump and Stacey.

On Seattle Sports.

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Now, here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross.

Happy Friday, starting with the Seahawks.

We'll get to the Mariners.

Don't worry.

We're having Mike Varell join us coming up at one. Mike Vrable? Varell. Varell? No, not Mike Vrable. Yeah, we got Mike Vrable in studio. He's telling all. I don't know what we talk to him about even. I know what we talk about. How do you have an interview with him right now? Is that your baby? If you're sports radio in Boston or if you're a reporter, how do you have an interview with Mike Brable with just that elephant in the room and goes, so OTAs, what you see from your rookies? I don't know how you talk about it. Anyways, no, Mike Rable will not be joining us. I'm so sorry. Mike Varell, local triplet in Seattle Times columnists, will be joining us, though. I hope that isn't a letdown. I'm sorry to Mike Varel. And coming up at 11, we'll jump into the Mariners. But we're going to start Seahawks here because we all consume sports content all the time, right? We work in sports. We love sports. We're sports fans. But when it comes to stuff you've been hearing a lot in your consumption of sports content. A lot of it is about how the Rams are better than the Seahawks. Rams are better. The Rams are separate themselves. The Rams are so far ahead. And it had you wondering a few things. What were they? Yeah. I'm not mad at anyone who thinks that the Rams are better. I think you should be. I feel some type of way, but everyone's entitled to their own opinion. If we all thought the same, then this world would be boring, right? We wouldn't have things to talk about. But I'm like, all right, well, what makes them better?

What separates a good team from a great team? And I will say this. When people do mention the Rams, they do throw the Seahawks in there too, especially when you talk about the NFC. Look, two best teams, Rams, Seahogs, but they lean on the Rams. So it had me thinking, okay, what is it that the Rams have that makes people just jump on that bandwagon after you saw the Seahawks beat them two out of three times?

So then I start thinking, what is it?

And I started just writing words down that I think makes a good organization.

It's coaching, culture, resilience.

I got a lot here, okay, bear with me.

Personality of a team, the personnel on the team,

luck, veteran leadership, role players,

rookies, and the rest of the staff.

I think with all those things combined,

and let me throw out there, a quarterback,

you need your quarterback, With all those things combined,

I think that is what makes, separates the good and the great teams or even great teams, right?

You have two great teams and what's going to be the separator. And I think about how McVeigh leads,

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