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Brock Eward and Mike Salk. Man, we've had so many conversations brought over the years about stars. How much of a difference do they make?

They sure seemed to matter yesterday. They came up big when they needed to Jamal Adams, certainly high among them,

Tariq Wolland, DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, big players making big plays at the end of the game when they mattered most and the Seahawks get a win at home. They're now in first place ahead of the

Niners. That's a pretty good win for them. Yes, stars, good team stars. Are we talking about stars? We are. We're not going to star power stars. Yeah. Oh, you're all in the stars. I'm in a rookies. I'm in a

Jackson Smith and Jigba. I'm into those guys in the biggest moment of that game. Salky delivering and doing their jobs phenomenally well as, you know, yes, stars do matter. I'm not going to minimize that point. They absolutely do matter.

And typically you're a star and you're a known commodity because you've been there and you've done it before. That's how you become a star at the NFL level. Not a high school star. The Chris Peterson was talking about not a four star, you know,

the did it against and I'm sorry Clover Park or Foss or, you know, some of these other schools where you build up lots of attention and a lot of hype and all these stars. No, you become a star. Joe Burrow at the NFL level because you've been there and

you've done it consistently. Peyton would say that all the time. Again, anybody can play a great game. Anybody in the NFL almost at any single position. So I can go out there and on any given Sunday, go out and perform. But to do it over and over again, to do it season in, to do it season out, to gain that

kind of a claim to be a star in this league. You have got to have a lot of sustained success. Stars. Is that another Joe question? Yeah, I'm really impressed with a lot of their stars.

Well, I was pretty impressed with the sea ox stars yesterday, more so than the ones from Cleveland and they got the better of them laid.

The other thing I found myself doing yesterday, Brock. I don't know about you. I found myself rooting real hard against the Giants and the commander.

Tennessee also, although will Brock will have us. He had a great day. Who did you say? I was trying to remember all day. Blaine Gabbard, right? Yep. And Blaine Gabbard had four touchdown days. He did. Yeah. Not in his debut though. No, probably not. Best rookie debuts.

He looked. He he can throw at 80 yards. It was like one of the best rookie debuts ever. Was it really? Yeah, I saw some of the numbers. I guess one of the best ever.

Yes, rookie. Good for good for male love us, man. He is a good kid. He really is a good kid. So hopefully he can he can find and can have consistent success as well.

But I was rooting hard against the Giants. I was rooting hard against the commanders because I want that defensive line market to be as robust as possible before tomorrow's trade deadline.

I watched that game yesterday. And I think, man, you add Leonard Williams to this defense. Yes. You add a Jonathan Allen. Maybe a lot less likely. But okay, Jeffrey Simmons, which is why I was sort of rooting against Tennessee. A little bit like, hey, you add one of those guys to this defense.

And I think you're going to have a top five defense in the full in football. Yeah, because you saw Cleveland yesterday. They were committed to running in screen game. Right. That was going to be their commitment without a star quarterback and with a backup and a guy that.

You know, we talked about last week's all eventually the turnover faucets going to come. If you create three on the road and three on the road, eventually that zero that had sat there for three home games was going to change.

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