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Curtis, you brought this up in our show email.

We thought it was a really great point. Do you want to intro it? I feel like I'm featuring your version of it. Tell us about your take. So last off season, we wanted or we didn't want, we heard from John Schneider. I demanded, actually. Answers. We need answers now. But we heard from Mike McDonald and John Schneider all offseason long talking about how they

wanted to reestablish the run and reestablish home field advantage at Lumenfield.

That was like the two main points of their offseason that they wanted to make those things

happen so that the 2025 Seahawks could be the fullest version of themselves.

Well, and behold, they did both of those things and it culminated in a Super Bowl victory.

So now I'm thinking like, we've heard John Schneger every single week on the station.

We've heard Mike McDonald talk at the Combine.

We've heard him talk multiple times after the Super Bowl, just, you know, kind of talking about what they want to do this

offseason, but we've not heard them sort of offer up any sort of like lofty goal.

Right. Or like that same messaging. Like it felt like every interview was like the same

messaging. Yeah. It's like, I know what they're talking about. And so it got me wondering like,

well, what do the 2026 Cocks

want to be? And it got me also thinking, like, is it harder to then figure out who you want

to be in the next season when you experience such a massive high the season prior where

it's almost kind of like, well, I want to be what I was.

But then it's like, are you kind of in this vicious cycle of just kind of always looking back?

Sure.

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