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

This is the Bump and Stacey show.

We got Curtis Rout is filling in for Stacey.

We are joined now by the Seattle Times Bob Condota. Bob, how are we doing? Good. Hey, yeah. How are you guys doing? We're doing good. It's feeling more and more like football season, which is always a plus for us over here. And Bob, I watched and listened to Mike McDonald's post-practice conference, whatever you want to call him.

And there's a, he's always been confident, but there's a different type of confidence that I was getting from him.

Did you have the same feeling?

Yeah, maybe I didn't.

I just think he's, I mean, certainly, certainly they now know for sure that everything

they do works, right? But I feel like Mike was always pretty confident in his ability and,

and what he thought he could do as a head coach here. So, you know, I don't know that he,

he went from like really feeling like, man, I don't know what I'm doing tonight. Like, now I do.

I think he always had kind of innate confidence in himself and that he would figure it out.

But certainly they know that they're that in general, I mean, obviously he knows

his defensive schemes work.

You know, that's the side of the ball.

He obviously is most in charge of it.

And, you know, and they know that their overall team building and

kind of the atmosphere they want to try to set there is also a good one and can be a winning

one. So certainly, I guess, from that standpoint. But, you know, I think Mike right now is, you know,

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