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So you can consume all of that. However, and whenever you please, ladies and gentlemen, beautiful gambling people, NFL fans, anybody I haven't mentioned yet. Welcome in once again, episode one, 16 of the talking the line podcast. I am your humble host, Colton, cold 45, Soroka.
And I can't tell you how excited I am to talk about the Seattle Seahawks today and also dish out some college football picks for you guys. I cannot wait. We have a loaded tab yesterday, Jacksonville State and UAB went our way in a couple of bets, not in some other areas. However, we have nonstop football until late Monday evening college football.
That being it is time it is here. It is now. I got my partner. He's got some picks too.
He's got some information and some knowledge that he's got to share with us about the Seattle Seahawks. So without further ado, let me bring in the resident. She said the man, the myth, the degenerate gambling legend himself, Mr. Riley, our Max Magus.
Brother, I do know that it ain't well. My man, I could not be better. The feeling of football is in the air more and more by the day. You know, the weather cooled off.
It's certainly not fall type weather, but walking into the studios. There was just that tiny little bit of September crisp in the air. It feels like football season, man. Had a little, not even an appetizer, whatever you get before an appetizer.
That's what last night felt like and tonight is going to be a schmorgasbord. I'm an appetizer. So I can't wait, man. We've got a load of football coming up on deck and we're going to be right here with it all.
Yes. The cocktail waiters and waitresses are officially. Out with your dirty ladies gentlemen. It is hot and heavy and I'm talking about we're at a fucking five star dining facility, ladies and gentlemen.
So we have plenty of picks to give out, talk to you about at the end of the show when we have some banter stuff like that. If you guys want early access to them, they're already out on our website and on the action network app. So check it out there outside of that yesterday's game. Catch the under 51 and a half.
Nice and easy. However, I was on as well as Max Jacksonville spread and then took a little sprinkle on the money line. They had a very solid shot, could have pulled it off there in the second half, but they just kept shooting themselves too much. And not a great showing for Jacksville State, but outside of that, once again, we got plenty of opportunity.
The cash and grid iron tickets tonight. We'll save all of that for the end of the show. Once we get to our Max sidebar, all of our usual banter right before Colts motivation minutes got kind of a continuation on today with my motivation. Minutes, some of the messages I've been giving you this week, another little mental image for you.
If you've been following along, we're walking down that path again. So get ready for some good motivation minutes. Get you through your Thursday here, but you know the drill, ladies and gentlemen, it's time to really cut all the nonsense, cut all the drama, cut all the banter. Let's get into today's team of the day, the 12th man, the Seattle Seahawks.
We have a lot of questions and I say we because me, my partner have briefly talked about this. I don't know where he stands on a lot of spots, but offensively, there's a lot of concern for us defensively. There's even more concern for us. So we have a lot of questions to answer, a lot of questions to ask and we're not going to hesitate.
We're not going to delay. So get ready, strap in. It's about to get hot heavy with the first segment of the day. The full Seahawks team breakdown as always, we will kick things off offensive side of the ball and then work our way over to the defensive side of the ball.
Start with key losses and additions. Talk about some 2020 numbers and talk about our overall thoughts and opinions outlook and some key ranking. So let's get right on into it. I'll kick things off as always with the offensive losses for the Seahawks going into 2021.
They let Carlos Hyde running back go. We talked about him in Jacksonville. He definitely looks a lot more valuable now to the Jaguars that Travis ETN is out for the season. They let two wide receivers go, talked about David Moore already and then also Philip Dors set three Titans in general overall.
I mean Greg Olson, the old dog. He is maybe finally out of the league for good. Who knows? I think he will finally be out Jacob Hollister tight in as well.
And then Luke Wilson, let a few linemen go as well. Mike Iupadi, Chance Wormack and Chad Wheeler. So not the biggest hits overall, but some of the key names you definitely are going to miss. I think a little bit there in Seattle.
We're going to be Carlos Hyde, that production of David Moore on the opposite side of either DK. Well, typically it would be DK now all the time at this point. So nothing major to write home about. I think they'll be OK.
But as I said, we got a lot of questions to answer here before we do partner. Can you enlighten us on the key additions offensively for the Seahawks? I know there was just a boatload of them going to 2021. Oh yeah, you have a monster list here.
It's a laundry list. Hold your breath. Don't hold your breath. But it's actually pretty quick.
Couple of guys that I do like the additions. But a few holes that you mentioned as far as the depth that they didn't really fill. But Gabe Jackson, they picked up right guard going to be on that starting offensive line. That's a nice little pickup, not world changing, but it is a nice pickup on the last Gerald Everett tight end going to be competing for time with Will Dizzly.
Should have a nice little impact for this offense. That's about it. As far as the offensive side of the ball, as far as the draft partner, they only have three draft picks in total this year. Two of them were spent on the offense.
Second round wide receiver Dwayne Escridge. He's actually going to be playing a nice little role. We shall see potentially Tyler Lockett, Jr. Five nine speedster.
So interesting to see where he's going to line up. Not so much of a plug and play as to fill that David Moore hole on the other side of DK Matt Cackity's more of a skill. You know, skill skill play is kind of like Tyler Lockett. So it's going to be interesting how they use him.
And then six round offensive tackles stone force like not quite sure if we're going to see too much of him this year. But as I mentioned, and as we joke, that is about it. Partner not too much else coming in this offseason. Yeah, nothing offensively really nothing defensively either.
We'll talk about that a lot. However, sticking with the defense, I am a little bit concerned about that addition of D wide receiver. You talked about their. Oh, ask her.
Escridge. I've played ice. Gwayne. That's good.
He goes by DS switch. So I am too a little bit concerned. Obviously, Tyler Lockett is that solidified slot guy. I don't think they're going to move him out of that spot.
But my partner just mentioned D Dwayne does mean lack a lot of that elite height and also wait. So not too sure where they actually see him lining up if they are truly going to have him opposite of D K. But we'll talk about that a little bit more in depth here. Let me give you some key 2020 stats before we do the Seahawks on offense average 5.7 yards per play.
They rush the ball 40.4 1% of the time and past 59.5 9% of the time. Complete percentage across the board was at a 67.63 clip third down conversion rate was at a 38.4 to clip. Definitely want to see that come up. But Red Zone was rather solid.
They converted at a 73.68 clip. So I think they remain rather dominant in the Red Zone. They did bring back Chris Carson who is a very good gold line back as well as it pretty much seems that any time they want to score with D K or Tyler inside of the 10 yard line. They can definitely do so at will.
But we'll talk about some more outlooks here in just a second. Let me tell you about this projected week one starter list as far as the offensive line goes. Got Brandon Shell, Gabe Jackson, Ethan Piotchitz, Damien Lewis and Dwayne Brown as far as the man either lining up to the right of the left of them. Sometimes black and sometimes catch him passes looks to be willed this lead.
But they also brought in Gerald Everett as my partner mentioned from LA. So I think Gerald Everett definitely makes the impact sooner rather than later. As far as the wide receivers go, they still got D K Metcalf, Tyler Locket and Dwayne Escrowage we've already talked about. Looks like to be the main three guys.
However, behind them Freddie Swain and Benny Hart could definitely work in. I'm not too certain what kind of workload we see from them early on in the season. But I definitely think they're going to have to depend on that depth there because Dwayne Escrowage just becomes a little bit more and more of a problem for me as the days go on. If they didn't have Tyler Locket, I wouldn't be worried about it at all.
I'm excited. I would be extremely excited for them. It may be another elite weapon for us. But I'm just very concerned with that being his go to position.
They're not moving lock it. So I don't really know how much production we really see out of this passing game this year. I'm a little concerned about that. As far as the running backs go, they got Rashad Penny RB two and then already talked to you guys about the Chris Carson, Affirmant Chris Carson, then Russell Wilson hashtag let us cook and then Gino Smith QB two.
So that is projected week one starters as far as it goes in my mind. I'm not very high on this defense and I are offense and I really really hate to say that. And I think it comes down to a couple key things for me. This offense offensive line is lackluster.
I don't have the biggest names in the league and they definitely don't have the best cohesion in the league. I'm a little concerned about how well they can protect Russ and we saw the sacks go through the absolute ceiling last year with Russ and that became kind of a media thing and always there an issue with him and Pete Carroll and the offensive line. And we remember that was old dog on thing. So you think about that.
Okay. Are we going to have issues there? Are they going to continue to let Russ get hit or have opportunities where these backs are getting hit at or before the line of scrimmage? I think it comes down to the offensive line and if the offensive line struggles in any capacity, then that passing game is going to struggle.
I mean, it's simple deduction. However, at the beginning of the year, they passed really, really, really well and at a very early and often rate in 2020 and then things got to went south. So then Pete Carroll said, Hey, we're going back to run the ball. This is what we're doing and ended up winning a bunch of games at the end of the season.
However, it was just because they were able to hang their hat on the defensive side of the ball and they played terrible, terrible offense in third string quarterbacks. So I'm very concerned that Pete Carroll sees the end of how last year or how last year ended rather. We'll talk about it more in the coaching breakdown, but I'm very concerned that he is very good at the end of the game. It is very, very adamant about opening the opening this season running early and often.
What do I mean by that? On early downs early in the game and at a very high frequency. I'm very concerned that that is Pete Carroll's mindset and Russ doesn't have enough opportunities to cook. However, new OC Shane Waldron should give him enough opportunities.
We'll talk about that too here in just a minute. However, enough of my blabbing on the offense partner. What are you thinking about the Seahawks in 2021? You I kind of echo almost everything.
I might be a little more optimistic on the offense as a whole. I think I'll just a little bit, but I do think we kind of see a little bit of regression or kind of a mixed bag of what we saw last year because I don't really know. I think you're right that Pete Carroll is Pete Carroll and he's stuck in his ways. He might try to hammer that run a little too much.
You mentioned it, man, but people totally forgot how muddy this looks. Russell Wilson sounded like he might not be in Seattle. Then the Aaron Rodgers saga happened in John Watson. We totally forgot that that was an issue.
Now we think that things are business as usual. I think things should be fine. Obviously, Russ is still there. He's a competitor, but I don't think it's going to be 100% hunky-dory.
They're going to be holding hands out there. I'm a little concerned. I think DK and Tyler Lockett are still going to produce with Russell Wilson. I think there's still going to be some success, but like you mentioned, I think there's still going to be points where you're scratching your head at some of their play calling.
All in all, I think there's going to be some good times and bad times this year. I think we see kind of a roller coaster this year for this offense. I think we do too. I'm actually glad you mentioned that off-season drama with Russ in the front office.
Aaron, Pete Carroll too, I guess. I guess I'd forgotten about that myself. If I had forgotten about it, then you guys definitely did too. Maybe things aren't as in your terms hunky-dory as it appears to be in Seattle.
I sure hope so, but man, when the Aaron Rodgers stuff happened, the Russ news was the news of the off-season. Oh my gosh, he might not be a Seattle Seahawks. And then as soon as the Aaron Rodgers stuff happened, it just got all swiped under the rug and nothing has been said about it since. I mean, he even laid out a few teams that he would be okay with being traded to.
I would like to think they got that meant to be something fixed, but at the same time, I don't have all the faith in the world that they were able to get that done. And it'd be a different story if, you know, Gabe Jackson is the only offensive line edition, they made a nice edition, but it'd be a different story if they revamped the entire one and it looked like a top ten offensive line, but it's not quite the case here. No. And they had the Least draft capital in 2021 of any team since at least 1999.
Right. So not good at all. Let's keep this steven on down the tracks. I know we could continue to talk about this all for the next 20 years.
I get one point on it. I just, I'm worried about the depth of this receiving core even with or without asker. If any, I love meck half and lock it, but if anything happens to those guys, man, this offense is actually in some deep shit. I'm glad you did say it because it is very much the, what is it?
Swain heart. I have no confidence in those guys whatsoever. Yeah. The wide receiver room can definitely take a hit if anything would happen to lock it or meck half.
So I definitely creep with you there too. Let me give you some key rankings before we keep it. Steven on down the tracks with the defensive side of the ball. Quarterback room comes ranked as the third unit in the league.
Obviously with Russell Wilson, you can't really argue that at all. Offensive line 18th ranked unit in the league running back 16th overall and then receivers fifth in the league. So obviously the guys at SFA don't have the most faith in the offensive line either. They have a little bit more faith in, I think these rankings are actually just coming from some of the names.
Chris Carson, DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, Russell Wilson. We're talking about that. I mean, they're premier names, but God forbid anything happens to any of those guys. Then they are in some hot shit and it might go south real fast in Seattle.
The birds might be flying to hibernate sooner rather than later. I hope that doesn't happen, but let's keep it moving into the defensive side of the ball. As always, Key Losses, Key Additions, Sparta, if you can be so kind as to indulge us who the Seahawks will let walk going into 2021. Alrighty, so not the biggest name, not their star players by any mains, but a few guys that played some key roles, whether it's last year or the last few years Delano Hill, Safety played two games last year, but he did spend four years in Seattle.
Jaren Reed, Interior Defense line played 16 games last year, had six and a half sacks, spent five years there. Tough loss as far as their interior depth, Quentin Dunbar, Cornerback played only one season, but he played six games last year. They wanted him to be more last year and he just wasn't. But the Griffin brothers, both of them out of town.
Shaq Griffin, Cornerback played 12 games for season. Jackson Vell, Shaqim Griffin, linebacker 14 games. He's actually free agent now cut by Miami. Don't think they'll be bringing him back.
However, Brandon Jackson, Edge, Rush, or 15 games, and then KJ Wright actually 16 games last year played 10 season with this team. Production fell off though, and he's actually still on the market, still free agent. So, you know, he wasn't a big factor the last year or two, but obviously a nice long career there in Seattle. So I know the 12th man is sad to see him go.
Most definitely. I appreciate you dropping those down for me, part of it. We'll talk about those guys a little bit more in depth once we get to the outlook portion here. But as far as the Key Additions defensively, they really didn't do much overall here going into 2021.
They picked up four guys overall, be the trade market or free agency. They got a Kellow Witherspoon, defensive back who looks like he will be getting the immediate start there in the secondary. Gary Heider, Edge Rush, as well as Alden Smith, Edge Rush, so excited to kind of see what Alden Smith. He obviously had the comeback year in Dallas, but I'm not 150% sure if he did officially make the roster.
I'm not saying on the side right now. He made the roster, so that you can discount everything I said. But Al Woods, interior defensive lineman, he does look like he will be making the week one start. We'll talk about him here in just a minute.
As far as the draft goes, they only picked up one defensive guy. It was a defensive back straight Brown out of Oklahoma. Boomer, sooner. It does not look like he will be getting any immediate impact here.
He could be adept at. He's not going to be able to get a defensive one, but really nothing to write home about in that category. That all be in set. Let me give you the key defensive stats rather than not the names quite yet.
We'll talk about the stats before we do that. As far as yards per lego, the Seahawks allowed opponents to average 5.4 yards per play last year. The opponents opponent completion percentage across the board was at 66.09%. On third down opponents converted at a 45.3, a clip, and in the red zone opponents converted at a 61.67 clip.
So obviously, I think we're going to see a lot of uptick in those red zone numbers just across the board, just with the new style of offense, just with all the different types of things and some of these elite receivers who are just so damn good in the red zone. I think across the board it's going to be right around 55 to 60, so it's going to be hard for a lot of these teams to get any better than that. Obviously, you would like to see better than 61% Bo up a little bit around 50, but not too bad overall. And then third down conversion, if they can stay pretty consistent there at 45.3, not too bad, but I do think we see a little bit of regression in that department just based off of how difficult their opponents are and how hard their schedule looks.
We'll talk about that here in just a little bit in the next segment as well. As far as the projected week one starters here for the Seahawks, defensive line, they got LJ Collier, Pune Ford, Al Woz, and Carlos Dunlap rounding out the front seven and linebacker Jordan Brooks and then Bobby Wagner. He's still Bobby Wagner regardless of age, regardless. He is the ageless one at this point, still making huge plays for the Seahawks, captain for them still.
A Keller Witherspoon, over to the secondary now, Keller Witherspoon will be playing one of the outside, the opposite side will be Trey Flowers. Inside looks like to be Ugo Amati, and then deep secondary, you have Jamal Adams who obviously is more of kind of like a hybrid linebacker, Edgerusher, what the hell is Jamal Adams? He's made a pick. Obviously one of the better names on this defense and the Quadrate Diggs free safety.
He definitely plays that deeper field while Adams, as we know, kind of plays more in the box and can definitely blitz whenever he wants, can definitely coverage whenever he wants. So I think that this defense struggles, and I hate to say that, but I just don't know that we are going to see enough production from the defensive line in order to help the production of this secondary improve. And I think that's the biggest thing. The secondary really struggled last year.
I mean, they had flashes here or there, but I am just not high on them with a lot of improvement. And if this front seven can generate a lot of pressure and do a lot of things defensively, then I would be a little bit higher on the secondary, but I just don't think that they can do that. They have great names. LJ Collier, Puna Ford, Alwood, Carlos Dunlap, but in over the course of the last few years, they just haven't generated those big name numbers, like their big names would ensue.
So I'm a little bit tentative. I obviously talk about a little bit more as we go on through the show here, but I'm a little bit concerned about this front seven and really concerned about this secondary, especially with some of the offensive opponents that they're facing. As my thoughts defensively, where you lying in 2021 part, I'm very similar to you. I won't waste too much time here.
I'm really concerned about the pass rush here. Bobby Wagner and Jamal Adams are absolute studs. They could be despite what we think about this defense. They still could be first team on defense and then that type of players, but, you know, I can see that making some few plays and having a few games with this defense looks alright, but I'm really concerned about this front seven with the pass rush and it's going to make that secondary look bad, much like you said.
So like I said, I won't waste too much time here, but because we're very, very aligned on this defense partner. Alright, well, let's see if the guys over at SFA are as well. Well, hell wouldn't you know it. The front seven comes in ranked as the 24th unit in the league and the secondary comes in ranked as the 20th unit in the league, obviously a little bit higher on the secondary and lower on the front seven just as me and mags.
So I think the front seven stays right around there and the secondary could decline right around to the 25th mark. I'm a little worried about this defense, boys and girls, and it's going to hang a lot of pressure on the offense and it's going to make those stars decay. Russ Tyler, we keep saying that because they are so important and it is going to put so much on their shoulders with the defense struggling this year. And if one of those guys goes out, anything happens whatsoever, it is going to be an early exit stage left for the Seattle Seahawks.
Yeah, I hate to use it. This is a weird analogy, but I mean Bobby Wagner and Jamal Adams too, if anything happens either, those guys, this defense is going to be one of the worst units in the league. It's almost like Jenga. You pull out one of these guys and that sounds stupid, but obviously Russ and then the two receivers and then these two defenders, you pull out one of these guys and it really, really drops the floor out on this entire team, not just their unit.
So, well, I'm a gangster at Jenga. So I'm not so there you go. So that's just the way I see it, man. I see if anything happens to one of these guys, things are going to be looking ugly for the entire team, in my opinion.
Yeah, I definitely agree. That is one of many red flags. And I think that might be the biggest red flag of any type of injury or any type of, I don't know, cause somebody on this team to sit out. It's going to be rough sledding for Seahawks.
That'll be in set. So, as the coaching staff goes, same old guy, Pete Carroll coming on in for his 12th official season in the league. So definitely, and 12th with the Seahawks. He's been a league much longer than that with the Seahawks.
So he's definitely starting to get up there with the Bill Belichicks, the Mike Tomlins and Sean Patons. We already talked about him too. So obviously guys that are sticking around for a while now, I don't want to say Pete Carroll seats hot by any means, not at all, but they're going to have to be in the league. They're going to have to start winning some games to start doing something here.
I mean, it's just been kind of a little bit of a wheel spinner for the last few seasons. A bad season would make the seat not hot next year, but he would, it might seem a little warm right now. And that's kind of what it would. Well, I know I know you see it.
Glad you got that warm over here. So then new offensive coordinator Shane Waldron coming in from the Rams. He was their past coordinator. I have some faith in him and actually one key thing that I wanted to mention.
I think that we could see some consistency, maybe a little bit of improvement offensively. I don't know how much you can improve off of last year. They were really, really solid in a lot of spots. However, if they don't take advantage of that and they run the ball, I just meant once again, it's a huge, huge concern if they are not able to implement some of the things that they should and they go to stubborn Pete Carroll offense.
Right. I'm a little worried about it. And then also defensive coordinator coming in for his fourth season Ken Norton here with the Seahawks. Obviously he's got the prowess.
He obviously has the ability, but and he obviously has the names, but I'm still not high on this defense. I don't think he does enough form this year. Yeah, I'm right there with you. You know, the only thing I was going to say is a lot of what my concerns is I don't know about you and we'll lead it into this next segment here.
But if they were playing the exact same schedule as last year, my concerns will be a lot lower. I can see them being another double digit team, but a lot of my concern is also cooked in with the schedule that we're about to talk about being a lot harder than it was last year. Yes, I do agree with you on that. And that's a hell of a segue.
We'll just get right into the second segment of the day. The full. The full schedule breakdown. Now you guys know we skipped the week by week.
All that jazz. We save that for the full betting preview. We just give you our full record predictions and kind of some of the key things you should know about some of their opponents and their rest and prep advantages and disadvantages. So without further ado, we will just get right into a no delay, no hesitation, no wasting time.
You guys want to know you need to know. So let's get after first things first. We got to talk about the NFC West again. She gets harder and harder every time I talk about it because I don't know more and more as we get closer to the season.
Somebody gets hurt. Somebody comes back. There's a rumor that somebody's going to light it up. There's a rumor that the defense is going to be electric against here.
Who knows? I think these are going to be the best match ups to watch all season long and they're going to be absolutely insane. Now I'll start with Cardinals. I do believe that the Seahawks could get both over the Cardinals this season.
However, I definitely would lean more to a split. Obviously the the one loss that they had the Cardinals last year wasn't over time. I don't know if it shakes out like that again, but just with how difficult I foresee everything being. I'm going to give them a split there with the Rams.
Very interesting to see what's actually going to happen here with Jared Goff out of town, definitely eliminating a lot of the mistakes that defense seem to always have golf numbers. So I think that the Rams get both of those. But again, because of just how sheer difficult the schedule is and how this division is, I think I got to go with a split there as well. The Thursday night football game is the first time they played them in week five.
So I would give that then that game that is at home. Actually, the second time through the first five weeks that the 12th man is actually going to be present. So give me them and that when I'll give them another split there. The Cardinals are later on in the season.
So I will definitely give them after their five week too. So I'll keep the split there as well. And then might as well stick with the same tune. I think that they get the split over the 49ers as well.
They got that Sunday night football game that I think, you know, it's going to be a toss up. Week 13 is a Sunday night football game against them. And then week four is just a regular Sunday game against them. So either one of those could kind of go either ways.
And if San Francisco steps up on defense and Kyle Shanahan hammers down on offense, it could go to a no San Francisco because we gave the 49ers a split with them yesterday. I will also give them a split. So another team out of the NFC West, I see going three and three in the division. What the fuck are they all going to go three clean split here?
I am going to go a little different than you. I am leaning towards two and four actually. I'm going with a split to the Cardinals and a split to the 49ers. I mean, we talked about the Niners yesterday gave him a split and I'm going with the Rams getting both games this year.
The one, you know, I mean, you mentioned it week five in Seattle that I do believe it might be the Seahawks only lost at home this year. I'm high on at home. They've got a decently easy schedule. At least in some spots.
But I talked about it with the Rams preview. This Rams team, they played in the playoffs also. So they played three times. The Seahawks didn't score more than 20 points in these games last year.
They did win one of them in 20 to nine. But kind of like you mentioned without Jared Goff, I think the Rams don't have that same issue. I look back at the box or Jared Goff was absolutely brutal in that game. So I really do think this Rams team is going to have their number.
The Rams offense at the very least. So maybe we see a couple shootouts or at least one, but I'm giving the Rams both of them in a two and four for the Seahawks in this division. All right, two and four for the Seahawks out of the division. Three and three for me.
You heard me also kind of lean a little bit to the Rams there, but I just can't. Not a little double negative for you there back Russ in Seattle in week five on a Thursday night football game. The 12th man is just going to play too large in my mind this year. So I'll stick three and three.
Harder, stick in two and four. Now, as always, we got to talk about the eight main non-divisional games. They got same as the 49ers from yesterday because they obviously do play in the same division themselves. So that all being said, I want to get your opinion here.
Right. Because I got to fix something with my mouse kind of goofing up over here. Fair enough. So first round of four out of the AFC South.
What are you feeling out of the Seahawks? So I'll save some time and say a quick two wins against the Jags and the Texans. They do get the Jags. They doesn't see at all though.
And the Jags are coming off their body. So the Jags get a nice eight day rest of advantage, but I don't think that should matter in Seattle. I'm giving the Seahawks that one. And then they get the other two teams.
The Colts and Titans week one and two. Week one is an indie, but too much uncertainty with the Colts week. The first few weeks, especially week one who they're going to have available. And if it's not Carson Wentz, give me the Seahawks by a lot.
So I would give the Seahawks the win in India. And that one, and then I mentioned it. They get the Titans at home. I mentioned, I think the Rams are their only home loss.
So it was in Tennessee. I think I'd be singing a different tune, but I would go with the Seahawks getting that win in week two in Seattle. So give me four in a lot of this division. Four and oh, out of the AFC South.
All right. Well, hey, producer Colt has now left the studio back to now host gold. And I got some opinions here on the AFC South too. And I was kind of leaning right where you were predicted.
However, I'm a little concerned about how this team comes out in week one against the Colts. That is in Indianapolis. It doesn't look like they'll have Carson Wentz. Maybe they do have Carson Wentz.
There is a lot of merkiness. So maybe that leans me away a little bit. I think it's going to be a shootout. And sure, I'll give it to the Seahawks.
Give them a little bit of an edge out there. Yeah. Same exact thing with you with the Jags and Texans. I'm not wasting breath.
I went back on my deathbed with those two teams. And then as far as the Titans go, that is also in week two, as my partner said. So going back home, start the season two and oh, would be extremely electrifying for the Seattle team. They need it.
They want it. I'll come also clean four and oh, sweet. OK. All right.
Nice. All right. Moving on to the NFC North. I am going to do it this time.
I don't give a damn. OK. What you guys have to say? What you guys think you can all pound sand.
The bears are beating the Seahawks this year. The bears are beating the damn Seahawks this year because I envision something very, very similar happening to the season long script as we saw last year. OK. Ross comes out.
He's the fucking MVP. He's hot. Let Ross cook. Let Ross cook.
Mr. Unlimited. I'm telling you, the man was hot. He was early MVP candidate of the fucking year.
Sir. Then. A couple of little ooze. Little interception.
Little things here. It happens. Well, Hummin beans. Those things happen.
But Pete Carroll said, Give me the reins back. I'm taking over this offense. We are knocked out the headphones. We are going back to running the football.
And I think that's what happens again. And I think they get to the bears and they're playing that bullshit game script and the bears lock it down. And then the Seahawks have to start playing some particular games. I think that's a very valuable football and bomb in it deep.
And even though we don't have any cornerback signed right now, I would hope by week 16 we do. So then the cornerbacks will have a lot of successes when I'm predicting. So all of that encompassing. I think they get the win over the bears there.
The bears get the win over the Seahawks. I apologize. So one one there. The in my opinion, easy win over the Lions and then the Vikings.
It's going to be kind of a toss up to me. But I do think that they start their season 3 and 0 and then it's kind of a downhill slide from there once they get to week 4. I think they can take care of business against Minnesota. It is always very, very interesting for Seattle going into the bank.
And I lean that way last year. Obviously the Seahawks won by one point. So we got to think about that too. In Seattle.
In Seattle. So it's always interesting. You always know that it's going to be some type of shootout. But I will give it to the Seahawks once again this year.
I just think that they start the season 3 and 0. They shock the hell out everybody. Everything's going great. And then it kind of falls off the face of the year.
And then they run on the Niners and Rams. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. My thoughts exactly.
So then I will close it out with a loss to the Green Bay Packers. Get your lick back. You guys absolutely destroy them. No question in my mind.
And the Seattle Seahawks go 2 and 2 in the NFC North 2 and 2. Okay. I am. I think I'm also going to go 2 and 2.
I'll say lost to my pack and win over the Lions. And then I'm kind of going to toss up either the Vikings or the Bears. When I first talked about it, I was leaning towards win over the Vikings loss over the Bears. But I'm not going to say emphatically one way or another.
So I'll say one way or another. They get 2. I kind of like that matchup with the Bears. If it is Justin Fields.
I don't think there's going to be the teams that I'm worried for your Bears sake. Whoever is quarterback. So the teams that are going to have a lot of pass rush pressure. And I mentioned that I don't think the Seahawks are going to be that team.
So I'm kind of giving a toss up to both these games. If it was in Seattle again against the Vikings, I'd probably say the Seahawks. But going into Minnesota, I'm leaning towards the Vikings. But it was a one point game last year.
I think it's going to be another crazy game and it's going to be toss up. Same with the Bears game. So I'm going to Crisp 2 and 2. And I'm not going to say which game they get there.
All right. One way or other. So we are aligned in the eight main non-divisional games, both the AFC South and the NFC North. How about the remaining remaining?
I was combining remainder and remaining in my head there in case you were wondering what that run on Word was. The remaining three games for the Seattle Seahawks. They got the Steelers, the Foosball team and the Saints. Oh boy.
You know, I love the football team, man. They're playing in Washington on Monday night football, opposite side of the country. Yeah. Not Washington State, Washington, D.C.
Give me the, I almost, wow, I just looked at their logo and I almost just said it. Oh shit. Give me the football team. I never realized that.
The logo still there. That's a fake logo still there. Either way, it's a name. I almost said it.
Either way. I think the football team gets that win. And then the Pittsburgh Steelers, that should be a very interesting game. Week six on the road in Heinz Field for the Seahawks.
They do have three game rest advantage for that. But give me the Steelers in Heinz Field. Okay. And then, yeah, they're going to get smacked in the mouth right after they play the Rams and the 49ers.
And then they got to go into Heinz Field. Now, forget that. I'm not taking the Seahawks there. And then against the Saints, that one should be, no, it's a Monday night football game.
Oh my gosh. Am I about to give them Owen three and the remaining three? They play the Saints, 12th man. They do have that in their advantage.
But they play on a seven game rest disadvantage on Monday night football against those Saints. I think the Saints win it in a shootout. And James Swenson, no more surprises to hell out of the 12th man. So give me Owen three, but many three games.
Oh, and three. Wow. I am going to go a little more optimistically. I'm on the fence of one and two, two and one here.
I'm actually going to give him the win over the Saints at home. I don't like the rest of the Saints coming off that by my concern with the Saints has picked up even more now that they I don't know when they're going to be playing at home. Obviously, this game isn't at home, but my point is we've seen it over the last year or so with other sports. Obviously, this is totally different circumstances, but you look at teams like the Toronto.
Blue Jays that Toronto Raptors. They didn't play at home. Now the Blue Jays are home. They're playing a little better, but you know, the Blue Jays are a team that people were picking to come out of the AL or certainly make the playoffs.
They don't look like they're going to make the playoffs. The Raptors weren't a championship contender, but people certainly thought they're going to be a playoff team and they weren't. And at my point being these teams that have to travel weekend and week out, it hasn't been a huge list of success for them. So I'm a little concerned with the Saints, especially there in week seven.
Maybe they haven't figured out what in Seattle. Give me the Seahawks there. And then I'm a little split on these Steelers and football team game here. I kind of want to go to see how to get one of them one way or another just because, you know, I love that defensive matchup for the Steelers and the football team.
But I don't know what their offense does to the Seahawks team. So I'm going to give them a split one way or another. So give me two and one out of these last three, actually. One out of the last three.
All right, my friends. So that all being said, if you are rocking and rolling with me seven, eight, nine, and eight would be nine and eight for 17 games. And then if you're rocking with my partner over there, you got six, seven, eight wins, nine, ten wins. And that would be seven losses.
So very, very, very, very, very, very interesting because, Bartner, we've done it once again. Once again, my man will talk about it in just a hop, skipping a jump of time here once we get into the betting preview. But I wish we would have done this shit without looking at the total before. And then you have like, holy shit.
So I'm nine and eight, mags is 10 and seven. Whatever way you want to cut it. The Seattle Seahawks season win total is at 10 wins. And odds, I'm not going to tell you yet.
You're going to have to stick around for it, but it's even more laughable. So we'll talk about that here in just a minute. But there you go full record predictions for the Seahawks within the NFC West, their eight main non-divisional games, and then their three remaining between the Steelers, the Saints and the Foosball. All right.
Keep it moving and grooving my friends. One final pit stop before we move into the full betting preview. Let's give you some of the key rest and prep disadvantages advantages. Definitely will play large here for the Seahawks this year.
They have three games where they face an opponent that has over a week to prepare for them, but also three games where they face an opponent that has under a week to prepare. So kind of negated there, but definitely still something to think about with where they have opponents that have over a week to prepare for them. Never really good for the Seahawks when they face an opponent on some bad rest disadvantages. They have three games where they have a rest disadvantage and four games where they have a rest advantage.
So definitely think about those in the disadvantage department, and then they play zero short week road games. So you love to see that, but they do play two games off of a road Sunday night or Monday night football game. We already talked about those. Those are going to loom extremely large for them being successful.
And I think they lose some of those games coming out of the Sunday night, Monday nights, and some of those where the opponent has over a week to prepare and where they have rest disadvantages. I think those are going to be where the Seahawks struggle honestly, and I think this is going to loom large. So to some for you to think about there, definitely as your hammering in your best bets, you're looking at some futures, you're doing this, that in the third and speaking of best bets. Let's just get right on into it, my friends.
We are honorable degenerates at the end of the day. We love to hammer in bets left, right and center and give you our analysis behind it too. So hey, let's get into the full betting preview for the Seattle Seahawks. First things first, you know the drill, we got to make a quick pit stop here at the 2020 stat station.
Yes, sir. In 2020, they were favored on average by 4.8 points. It has dropped way down in 2021. They are now only a favorite by a point, point three, one point three points.
I was going to say point and a half, but not really applicable there. In 2021, they are favored in nine games. They were dogs in seven games and they have one pick them against the Rams in week five, definitely going to find some value in that game and talk about that game a lot lost my pin there, but in 2020, they had an ATS record of eight and nine and a straight up record or 12 and four that ATS record does include playoffs and these next ATS stats I will give you doesn't doesn't include playoffs as well or do include playoffs as a favorite. They were seven and eight against the number as a dog.
They were one and one against the number at home. They were six and three ATS seven and one straight up as a home favorite. They were six and three ATS as well, never a home dog in 2020. And then on the road, they were two and six ATS five and three straight up.
They were one and five as an away favorite and one and one as an away dog little chuckle their misprint on the agenda, but you guys would never know about it either way. 21 and five that's what he's moving right along over under record for the Seattle Seahawks in 2020. They haven't had an average line of 51.1 A lot of shootouts that we saw that last year. The books have ticked it down this year to an average of 47.9.
They have a string about five 48's right in the row. So definitely a little interesting to see what we'll get from the Seahawks, but I can't really tell you if I call them an over team or I'll call them an team because they had an eight and nine overall over under record last year. That is also including playoffs four and four over under at home, five and four to the under on the road. One and one as a favorite and eight and seven to the under as an underdog.
Not really anything you can write home about there and I think it's going to take some really key spots and we'll talk about it as we break it down week by week to where you can really find the value to play a game. Total here for the Seahawks. So as teasers go though, you love him. I love him.
He loves him. Everybody loves him. We love building them on Sunday mornings and the Seahawks just are that team you should think about adding might not be the best on the regular spread lines, but you put him in a teaser. You're getting through some key numbers there.
Damn good. Six, seven and 10 point teasers respectively, 13 and three 14 and two and 14 and two. That does it. Full 2020 stats.
Let's go back to the future to the present short seven days before the NFL season kicks off. Let's break it down week by week here for the Seattle Seahawks. Now in week one, we've already talked about the matchup. We've already talked about the team and our thoughts.
But we've already talked about the team. But going into Lucas oil stadium, they play the Colts as three point underdogs. It has flipped to minus two and a half of the Hawks with the uncertainty of the Colts. The Seahawks are now minus two and a half point favorites and we too.
They are laying four and a half now four and a half opened up at three and a half to the Tennessee Titans. That game is at home in Seattle week three. They go into mini so as one and a half point dogs and then San Francisco cut you off guard there and then in San Francisco week four, they're getting a field goal and a half week five. That's that affirmation pick them against the L.
A. R. Los Angeles Rams has gone up plus one plus one now. All right.
So they are coming in as the puppies. I do like the Rams in that spot a little bit but per my prediction. The Rams are actually going to get that when that was my prediction. So yeah, I love the Rams in that spot.
Give me all of them. And then Pittsburgh. They play them in Pittsburgh in week six. They are getting two and a half points.
They're week seven. They're laying a field goal to the Saints at home week eight. They're laying a touchdown to the Jaguars at home. And then they go to Lambo field in week 10 after their buy in week nine.
So rough after buy week opponent and location to play that game. They are only getting a field goal against the Packers in Lambo. So very interesting there. I'm actually early.
Look, we're probably hammering the Packers minus three. In November, I might actually be at that game. Wow. How many know about that action?
All right. So you might have a little bit of some sound to look for their fans. So then week 11 Arizona. They are playing them at home.
They are laying a field goal and a half week 12. They go to Washington to play the football team. I already told you. I like the football team in that game.
Seahawks are the favorites, but only by two and a half points. So I've been saying it about 15 different times and I hope I ain't been beating this drum and I'm going to be at six. You need both. But give me Washington plus two and a half and hammer in equal unit on that Washington football team.
I love it there. Week 13. They're favored against the 49ers in Seattle by a point and a half week 14. They are on the road to Houston, but they are laying a touchdown to the Texans.
Week 15. They are getting four points against the Rams in LA. We both predicted that might be the game. They win either way or at least I did.
And then week 16, they're laying five and a half points to the Bears at home. It is pretty risky for the Bears going into Seattle. I will admit, but I think something happens. They end up pulling it off.
In week 17, they're laying nine and a half points against the Lions at home and then close out the season against the Cardinals on the road in Arizona as two points underdogs. Across the board. Man, oh man, I think there's going to be a lot of opportunities to be able to fade the Hawks. Okay.
And I don't know if I'm jumping the gun too much on that, but I think there is going to be a lot of times where their games end by one two points. And then if they don't, they're going to get blown up. So those smaller spreads where they're a three and a half point dog, three point dog. I would probably take the other side in those locations or those situations because I think those are going to be the blowout games where the Seahawks lose.
And then even you give me where they're the small favorites two and a half one and a half. I would probably gladly take the underdogs in that situation too. I mean, obviously a lot of those games are still a ways away, but not even necessarily with Tennessee coming up in week two minus three and a half. I almost plays right into it.
I potentially thinks that some could happen there. Who knows? But I think they also squeak it out. So maybe that's where you play them.
And then we get into week six, seven, eight out of the bye week week 10. Oh boy, it might start looking real sketchy against the number. That's kind of my thoughts. What's jumping off of me as I'm kind of seeing how these are priced right now.
Any thoughts for you, you. Yeah, as far as the season goes on, I think this is going to be a team that I'm going to be considering week out, but it's certainly not going to be a team that I'm like, oh, yeah, let me throw that in there. You know, I do that typically, but this team especially I'm going to have to think how I picked place. You know what I'm talking about.