Hello, everybody, welcome to another episode of HawkBlogger Mornings. I am Brian

Emhazer. You can find me and all that we do on YouTube and TikTok and Instagram, if you like

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at patreon.com slash hawk blogger. This episode is brought to you by prize picks, as are all of our

episodes. And today's a fun one. This is for everybody, not just for Seahawks fans. This is something where, man,

I keep hearing this common trope in the media about what it takes to win a Super Bowl,

how to build winning teams, and it's an echo chamber at this point about what that requires.

And Seahawks fans, those of us have been uh around for a while

have witnessed one two three four super bowl appearances since 2005 and two super bowl victories

and there's some things i've learned along the way but there's also also some facts, regardless of my opinion, that I will share that fly in the face of, I think, what the common narrative is about how to build a Super Bowl winning team. So I'm going to share all of that with you. And if you are joining it or not a Seahawks fan and are just wanting to skip to that, by the time this video is done, hopefully there'll be chapters in there and you can just

skip right to it.

I do want to get started, though, with some Seahawks news that has come out since yesterday

when we did the show.

As you know, we do this show every single day, number one Seahawks podcast for the number

one team in the NFL.

And that news, let's start with this.

We talked yesterday about some of the ownership news.

As soon as we finished the show, a new owner was reported or a new bid was reported for the Seahawks.

And this is coming from the same Sportico reporters who reported the first set of bidders.

So we know about with Grousebeck and about the Mattel family or Mattal family that was the part of the first bid. The next was

the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Vidan Vinod Kosla. And the interesting thing with Kossela is that he is

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