Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Hawk Blogger Mornings.

I am Brian Nemhauser, and you can find me on all the places, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, ad hoc blogger.

And on this lovely bi-week Thursday, where the Seahawks get to rest, relax, and breathe in 5-2 record as everybody else has to play, we are joined for the first time by the other half of the PFF pod. We had Dalton on a little bit ago. And now we get the man the myth. Trevor Sycamah, Tampa Bay Trey, as he's known, online. How are you doing this morning? Brian, I'm doing great. Appreciate you having me on. What a great time to talk about the Seahawks as a team that's absolutely rolling right now.

So I know we got a lot of fun things to talk about. So I appreciate you having me.

You know, I don't want to get you in trouble with the FBI, Trevor.

But you could have made a lot of money, a lot of money if you'd put something down on the Seahawks as you had predicted that this team might just go ahead and win the NFC West before the season. Those are pretty long odds. How are you feeling about that bet now? I'm feeling pretty good about it. And to be honest, it's, I mean, it starts with the coaching staff that I have a lot of faith in. Honestly, I figured that Mike McDonald was going to take another step forward in his second

year as the head coach there.

I love the hire of Clint Kubiak, their offense coordinator.

He was doing a lot of really great stuff in New Orleans.

And you could kind of tell that he was rolling as a play caller.

The Saints just didn't have a lot of pieces to work with.

And it just wasn't as cohesive as it needed to be there in New Orleans.

But there were absolutely signs.

And so, you know, when I looked at the guys that were on that defensive side of the football,

the players that McDonald could kind of play around with,

some of my favorites like Devon Witherspoon and obviously like another young guy like Byron Murphy, how well Leonard Williams was able to play for them. Like it just those guys a figure was going to come together. And I knew it was going to be a really competitive division, but I had so much faith in, hey, you know what? If Sam Donald even just looked like what he was with Minnesota, right? Where it was just like, all right, you know, he was rolling with a really good coach.

And I know it didn't end well for him in those last two games.

And so everybody was like, oh, see, it was just a mirage.

This isn't the real Sam Thorne.

But I was like, man, I still like the coach that he's going to in Seattle.

And if it looks somewhat like it was in Minnesota,

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