Sept 9th - King 5 Seattle Sports Anchor Paul Silvi

0:00You're listening to Jason Greggershow presented by play Alberta dot C a remember if you gamble use your game sense Stay within your limits go to game sense dot a b dot C a Join this Paul good afternoon. How you doing? Good man. How you doing? Hey, I'm excellent. Is this the first ever Wednesday NFL game? Has there been one? No, no, okay. No, there has been one you might remember I was a Christmas day games when Christmas fell on a win today. Oh, okay. All right Nice See yeah, that's good. I have anything more exciting than that, but but there's a lot of fired up people down here for a win today Yeah, yeah, no, that's fair So you look at the Seahawks and I've been talking about it for the last few weeks and hey I get the Rams made some moves and everything but the Seahawks were the champs and they're still really good Obviously, you know, there's a change at running back, but Seattle's bringing back a pretty deep roster and a lot of the guys who helped them win The Super Bowl, you know only seven months ago

1:00Yeah, that's a great point man. They're bringing back everybody but five guys so defensively they're stacked the biggest question mark going into this game is their secondary because they're beat up They got some injuries to Nick even worry who's a young star in the making and you know a lot of pressure on Julian love back there safety and Devin with her spoon at corner So this is where it's gonna be a real interesting matchup tonight with with Drake May and his new receivers and Enromio dobs and of course AJ Brown so that that that a Patriots passing game against the fiat secondary is one to watch tonight When you look at the Patriots and like they had a great year last year You know a lot of people wonder if they can live up to it again Seattle really dominated that game and like I don't know you think much has changed like when you look at I think there are only three three and a half point favorites tonight going in but I almost seemed like that It should be more based on how that Super Bowl game went and when I look at their two rosters today Yeah, yeah, when a home team gets three

2:02It's basically like a pick him because You know very home team seems to get three if they're you know They the CRS have a slight edge going into this game But I'll tell you the biggest difference I think for the Patriots and you know their fans and their franchise I'll tell you the same thing by the time they got to the Super Bowl last year their quarterback was beat up They're big left tackle was beat up so they had some guys playing on one leg and So so you heard a lot about that but on the flip side the sea ox really dominated that football game So going into this game tonight you're gonna see a much healthier Patriots team. I think they're gonna challenge the sea hawks Even with all the pomp and circumstance going around this game and raising the Super Bowl banner Man, this is there should be a good game tonight I think the sea ox will be tested I talked about the sea ox secondary, but I'll tell you right now that running game concerns be big time because they're first round Draft pick did Aryan price did not take one snap in the preseason So you have no chance to learn his offensive line and they didn't have a chance to learn him and that's gonna take a few games

3:03So that running game for the sea ox tonight. I think it's gonna be just suspect at best What about the offensive coordinator shift from Kubeyak to flurry? I think There you know Sam Donald talked about it a lot the fact that they've been in communications in day one and he said Brian Flurry's gonna last word on everything But fam talked it to flurry about what has been working well for this team and what work well for them last season So it's not like Brian's coming in and changing a bunch of things, but he is adding a lot more use of the tight ends He's gonna want to get that running game going I just don't know if it if he has the horses out of the gate to do that But look for the sea ox to try to establish a run and grind it out more than they have in the past and The other thing is that this team this offensive team on the flurry Even the sea horse defense which is practiced against them for the last several months will tell you that there's a lot more Emotion over there. There's a lot faster You know play calling and just a whole tempo is quicker

4:07So this is gonna that's gonna be the biggest difference of the sea-hawked offenses They're gonna move the ball and there's a lot more tempo everything's gonna be a little bit quicker Paul Sylvie joining us here on the Jason Greggershow taking a look at the Seattle sea-hawk to kick off their season tonight hosting the New England Patriots And one of the players I'm really excited for Paul going back to last season was Rashid Shaheed when they dropped him And they're bringing him in from the New Orleans Saints But I think now with a full camp under his belt a chance to make a real big contribution on this offense as a guy who could be a threat To take it to the house at any point at how is he looks so far in the preseason and his first full offseason in Seattle That's the beauty of it. That's the beauty of it is that he has had his first full offseason One of the things that Sam did with Rashid They didn't quite get it all together last year because of sheet speed the fact that he's so fast Sam had to get used to throwing in the football So they met earlier in the summer around around July before they went into training camp And they threw the ball down in California and gave him a chance to catch up to his speed So they worked a lot together during that week of how to just how to read each other and and Sam to put the ball

5:14Right on the mark for Rashid because he was just a fast receiver that Sam wasn't used to throwing to so that's one thing They worked on this summer and it's certainly showed during training camp. So it's just a great a great talking point The fact that those two got together and engaged each other a little bit better And so I think you're going to see a big difference and she will become much more of a weapon Not only of course on special teams but in the past again Yeah, it's been a crazy opposite for this Seattle sea ox team obviously winning the Super Bowl And then they've got the hard knocks true filming them What does Mike McDonald been saying just to kind of keep it the composer heading into this season where we know it's going to be a rock Is crowd in in Seattle tonight. They're allowed all the time probably even louder emotions are going to be all over the place right now Well, but what's been the message from coach McDonald? You know what his message is constant. It's it's it's almost boring to the media who listen to it But man Mike is all about just playing the game He even I asked about whether he's going to you know what the emotions will be like when they raise that Super Bowl banner

6:15And he's like I hope we're even out there when they do it because He could be running out of a tunnel that he doesn't even know But all he wants to do is play this football game And then when Monday you know Monday comes on a Sunday, but when when Thursday comes he wants to get ready for the arrows on a cardinal Like this guy is a machine when it comes to To coaching this team. So but his message is basically, you know He's been saying it throughout for any camp and in the offseason he wants to run it forward He doesn't want to run it back. He wants to run it forward He wants these guys thinking about winning the Super Bowl and forgetting everything they did last season because this is a whole new season And the players are buying in Paul one more for me here. I just want to ask you what the division obviously kind of nice for the Seahawks to have Two of your divisional rivals two really good teams in the Rams and the 49ers having to travel halfway across the world A play of football game But how do you think this division pans out this year with what the Rams have added and if the Niners can find a way to stay healthy Yeah, man. Really that's the biggest key You know the unfortunate 49ers. I mean every seems like every season they start they're starting

7:17hobbled and you know So again if the 49ers stay healthy, it's going to be a great another one two three finish You know in the N.S. West these three teams if they stay healthy are going to be in the playoffs no questions So just like last season. So I just This you know what everybody's got the Rams as the super team but a few years back when the Philadelphia Eagles built a super team They felt flat and I think there's a lot of pressure on the Rams team Yeah, there are number one and a lot of people's power rankings. There are the consensus favorite to win the Super Bowl But I just think that's just way too much speculation way too much optimism way too much hype around that Rams team So I like to see us to win this N.S. West again because they just continue to keep their nose the ground They love the fact nobody talked about him in the offseason and everybody was talking about everybody else and the Seahawks quietly did their thing So um their position very well to win this division again Well, it's going to be a tough division no question. I think the Seahawks look good

8:17There's I think the Walker absences definitely you know a cause for concern I will see what what price can do you know can their running game be as effective But that that being said I just wonder if we just see Sam Darnel throw the ball more early on this season I think you will see him You know using the the tight ends a little bit more in the passing game. I think the JSN You know is going to one of the things that was talked about in the out and the training camp and going into this season as JSN is now marked man Everybody has seen what he can do. They've got plenty of game film on what he can do and he's liable to be doubled up a lot And so when you know Cooper cup who's a veteran and a former Super Bowl MVP He's on this team as a coach as much as he as a player. He's so valuable in his experience that he's been laying on JSN he basically basically told us look this guy's going to have to learn how to play Covered and and learn how to play with a ton of attention on him That's going to be the next step for JSN

9:18So that will be interesting to watch this year and at the same time if he's getting all that attention That's going to free up guys like Cooper cup and AJ Barnard and Rashid Shahi Well, it should be a good season man. We really appreciate the rundown enjoy the game tonight. How long of a ceremony are you expecting? Ha ha ha Well, hopefully not long man. I hope they just get that banner up I don't mind but Donald sit there going get it over with man Yeah, we wanted but that was months ago. Let's play this game So that big Donald will definitely be shopping the bit waiting for that banner to go up and everything All that stuff to stop he just wants to play football. All right. We'll see how it goes. Thanks Paul. Appreciate your time You got a man. Thanks