Hour 4: Ted Nguyen on the Patriots Being an Overlooked Team
Bump and Stacy
Seattle Sports
4.5 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We dive into Bump’s film study and see what he has seen from the Patriots defense and how the Seahawks should adjust and attack them. // Four Down Territory: 1st Down: What Patriots player has impressed you on film? 2nd Down: What team may have a bounce back season in 2026? 3rd Down: What has social media told you about the Patriots and the Seahawks? 4th Down: Anything stand out from Matt Harmon? // Ted Nguyen of The Athletic joins the show to talk about the Seahawks being the favored team, what people are overlooking when it comes to the Patriots, his thoughts on Sam Darnold and if he saw enough from him in the NFC Championship game. // What I Need To Know
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| 0:00.0 | From the Quantum Fiber Studio. |
| 0:02.9 | This is Bump and Stacey. |
| 0:04.9 | On Seattle Sports. |
| 0:06.5 | Streaming through the Seattle Sports app and at SeattleSports.com. |
| 0:11.1 | Now, here are your hosts, Michael Bumpus and Stacey Ross. |
| 0:15.8 | All our coverage this week presented by WGU. |
| 0:18.8 | Let's Talk Defense. |
| 0:20.1 | In this case, it mean the Patriots defense. |
| 0:22.0 | Aaron Schott's chief analytics officer for FTN Fantasy. |
| 0:25.7 | It was on with us yesterday, and he talked about the Pat's defense. |
| 0:30.0 | Play action passing, right? |
| 0:31.9 | Obviously. |
| 0:32.4 | I want to preface that this starts with him talking about the Seahawks' strength of play action against their strength of play |
| 0:38.2 | action defense. |
| 0:39.1 | Huge part of the Seattle offense. |
| 0:42.3 | Donald was like second or third best quarterback in the league this year on play action |
| 0:48.1 | passing. |
| 0:49.4 | The Patriots are the number one defense against play action passing since week 10, including the playoffs. |
| 0:57.9 | So that is a real strength against strength that kind of surprised me that the Patriots are actually number one since week 10. |
| 1:05.1 | A lot of these defensive stats for the Patriots look very different. |
| 1:09.6 | If you look since week 10. |
| 1:11.9 | I'll give you another example. |
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