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Yes, hello, it is the Brock and Salk show on Seattle Sports 710.

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And we'll have some takeaways coming up at 830 this morning as well. Brock, we spent a lot of time in the last two weeks talking about

DK Metcalf. Some will say too much time, but a lot of time talking about DK and his confidence and comfort level here in Seattle right now

and how he's feeling about his coaching staff, et cetera. And I stand by every bit of that conversation.

Yesterday, first game back, after all of that debated, really started, right? No problems. Played a pretty good game.

Had a really nice catch, five catches in the game, big one on the final drive.

Yes, they may be targeted him a little bit, you know, unsuccessfully, although as you said, that wasn't really a DK problem.

No penalties, no late hits, no nothing. And in the biggest moment of the game, DK threw the game winning block and was celebrating like they had just gone to the Super Bowl.

So kind of hard to keep that conversation, at least for right now, because he seemed to answer every one of those questions yesterday.

Yeah, and this was one of those games that, you know, if you were going to, you know, stoke that emotional fire, if you were going to see some frustration mount, if you're going to see him start to kind of implode, there were enough triggers in this game.

Right? Here's a ball that sales out of bounds. Here's a ball that is like, even on his, you know, deep 40 yard shot, he's for four yards behind the guy. If that ball is out in front, you know, that is a house call.

So there were a number of times where it was like, okay, if I want to get furious here, if I want to start, you know, chirping in a genome, like, come on, man, here's a slight wrap. Put it on me. Don't throw it in the ground. Don't throw a three feet over my head.

Put it on me. Give me a chance. So none of that negative body language body language was awesome all day long, just continue to plow through, continue to fight through. And then to your point when the game was on the line, and I loved his explanation afterwards, they all knew the why.

Right? He was he was asked about that and what he saw and when did he know? And he's like, oh, yeah, man, I saw that that that Nicole Blitzen, right? I saw the edge pressure. I saw where the safety was lined up. And I knew that if I do my job, the Jackson's got a chance to not just catch us for a game, but he's got a chance to score and finish this sucker.

And I love that awareness, you know, to see the whole big picture of everything that's going on in the game and play it like a quarterback. That's when offenses tend to really get going. So absolutely dug every bit of his game, his toughness, his emotional stability. Yes, you're a good game.

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