Week 16 Recap: Old-School Seahawks Win the West, Packers Roll in the Snow | NFL Deep Dive

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🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Jenny and Gary break down the Week 16 action, including the Seahawks defense stepping up in a victory over the Rams. Plus, the Packers smash the Titans and remind everyone of their Lambeau advantage, the Steelers finally start throwing downfield, the Chiefs wait until the last minute to beat Atlanta, the Browns playoff hopes are in danger after a farce of a game against the Jets, the NFC East race gets wacky, FitzMagic on Saturday night, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the MMQB Monday morning NFL
0:06.9	podcast I'm your host Gary Gramling I am joined by Jenny Brentus of the
0:10.6	Weekside Podcast Jenny we are we are 15 games into Week 16 here. And in the show,
0:17.6	we're going to talk about those games, those first 15 games, but we're also going to take a
0:22.4	terrifying look into the future.
0:25.0	Wow and it's not even the Oracle like on the Weekside Podcast.
0:30.0	I know. I would I would steal the name but I know Connor is very litigious and I just don't want to take that risk so
0:39.0	We are gonna like is ever gonna run through all the games here and we are going to where we can do our best to hit the playoff scenarios or in some cases to maybe hit the draft order implications because Lord knows everybody loves talking draft order implications because Lord knows everybody loves talking
0:53.9	draft order implications out there. But we are starting in Seattle where the
0:58.7	Seahawks, the Seahawks really turn back the clock over the last like five or six weeks here.
1:04.0	This is kind of back to sort of the, you know, it's not Legion of Boom level.
1:10.2	The defense isn't that good, but stylistically, it's like they're winning, they're winning with D. well defense
1:15.2	and and and more of a run heavy attack at this point and the let rust cook days of September and October have sort of
1:22.3	I don't know we'll remember them fondly, but they're kind of not here anymore. But this game was, I thought, by far, the best performance by the Seahawks defense this year and if you are going to be
1:35.2	optimistic about this team going into January this is probably the game you're going to point to
1:41.1	yeah I agree, Gary.
1:42.8	This was kind of one of those Slugfest performances between the Seahawks and the Rams, and
1:48.0	there were just so many plays that showed up from a defensive perspective that the Seahawks just hadn't been able to make in the early weeks of the season.
1:56.5	And when Russ was cooking, he had to cook because the defense wasn't making any stops, but you saw them getting consistent pressure on
2:04.1	Jared Gough in the second half the goal line stand and setting up the goal line
2:10.1	stand was that remarkable play by Jamal Adams to chase down Malcolm Brown
2:14.0	to prevent him from getting in the end zone. So there were just a number of
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