Recap: Seahawks beat Patriots in season opener

Welcome to the Athletic football show brought to you by the US bank smartly visa signature card. I'm Robert Mayes. Game one is in the books to see Hawks somehow pull this one out despite losing Sam Darrell on the first drive some inexplicable decisions by Drake May in the fourth quarter. We dug into all of it with me Derek and Dave. Let's get to that conversation right now. Football is back, baby, and did not disappoint seem like we might get a little bit of a stinker early on, which drew a lot coming in. Sam Darrell going out on the first drive and then we get a pretty exciting game with some very questionable choices and some curious moments there in the fourth quarter. It was a rock fight for a lot of it, but at least it came down to at the end. It was like JS and makes a crazy play. It still comes down to the final drive really for both teams having like really impressive or really important drives there at the end. It started off slow. The same Darrell injury was weird, but it became a game that reminded me by this sports awesome. I don't want to be the ungrateful person like we waited nine months and then and there was a lot to like about this game, but that was so stupid like everything we just saw was so stupid from the Darrell injury to whatever the hell Drake May was doing in the second half of that game. Like just just a bizarre way to get back into it. Like a very a very sick start to the 2026 season. I mean, I can't believe that just happened. It's I was right. I was I was ready to just walk off and overtime. I was like, all right, well, you know, yeah, they'll get they'll get to feel go. We'll go to overtime. Let's see. And then I looked up and as the play was finishing, I cannot believe he just did that. Everything like okay, that the pick is is one thing and we can talk about it and it was really dumb and Drake may just worst worst game of his career. That is the worst game of his career. At least that was probably the people too. Well, yeah. Yeah. The Super Bowl, they felt somehow more outgunned than they were. I think they were completely outmaned in the Super Bowl, where the past protection plan is completely fell apart and like they were just yeah, there was where some dead scattered issues against pressure looks today, but they weren't completely overwhelmed up front the entire game like they were in the Super Bowl. Yeah. My memory of watching the Super Bowl was like, well, this is ugly, but what do I expect Drake may to do in this game? I was like the Drake may could have done more than he did in this game. Yes. But what I also wanted to mention is and I know AJ Brown got hurt, but Mac Collins is your go-to guy all the way down the field to try to get a win against the defending champions. It's so bleak that that's where the Patriots were at the end of this game, even if there was a good reason for it in the AJ Brown injury. After the AJ Brown injury, we get to an unfortunate place where the offense felt very similar to what we were dealing with last year where they couldn't run the ball consistently throughout this entire game. And so that last drive, there we get pumped on the ground being higher. They might have had more successful runs on that drive than they did for the entire rest of the game before that. They ended at a 24% rushing success rate per next gen. I'm looking at the stats right now with 723 left in the third quarter. They had two successful runs on 12 running back carries. It was 12 carries for 22 yards. And then you throw on the ball to Mac Collins because weirdly Romeo Dobbs was not involved in a lot of the game before AJ Brown got hurt, which dropping a one of what would have been probably three explosive plays might do that to you. That was a swing play for New England. If he catches that ball, they probably wouldn't this game because May throws the pick right on the next play. It was in the next play on that third and 14. He throws the pick. But the intersect. I mean, let's just yes, that play doesn't happen if Romeo Dobbs catches the ball. When you look back at a box score and you see a game where the inner the quarterback threw three interceptions. A lot of it is there were two bad plays. There was one tip to ball, whatever. All three of these. There was a tip to interception. But the decision that led to the tip to interception was completely indefensible. Like all three of these are balls is should not be thrown. And I think they got like progressively worse. The first one is they're trying to last was the worst one. And the first one they're trying to throw this like play action shot play down the left hand side. And they're playing cover two to that side. They hadn't thrown a shot all game. Sometimes you call it. You just throw it. It's never open. He throws it up for Romeo Dobbs. It's intercepted. It's it's a bad play. The check-downs were like wide open on that play too. I think he probably just tired of checking down in this. I think that is exactly what happened. Yeah. When you watch the first half when he was picking on things underneath. They did a really good job against the blitz on those third and shorts and mediums throughout the entire first half. They had quick answers. Even on plays. There was one specific third down where Spoon was untouched. They got rid of the ball so quickly that it didn't matter. The shutdown to Steven sent up the left side line in the second half. Like when they were taking what was there underneath. They were consistently finding positive plays every single time he tried to bite off a little bit more in the second half with three straight drives and with interceptions for the exact reason that you're talking about. When you get bored, this team wants you to get bored. Yes. That's exactly what they're trying to do. They want to put you in a spot where we're going to stop the run and we're going to put you in disadvantage down in distance situations. We're going to make you consistently can make completions underneath. And as soon as you get bored doing that, the past rush is either going to get home or we're going to force you into a bad decision. They forced them into three of them. I would also like to say and Drake may deserve the criticism that's coming his way. If this is how you're going to start your season after last year, but our line on the Seahawks heading into the year was secondary's a little thinner than you would prefer. Nicki Minaj didn't play in this game. Granted, it's one week, but my last thing memory of Neha Maya Pritchett from last year was not being ready for prime time against the Buccaneers. Well, he had a phenomenal game and came away with that weird bobbled pick and was just generally very good. You want to play with Brown at her? Very good contesting plays. Yeah, I mean, it sucks that Brown got hurt, but that was a sick play by Pritchett. And then Rodney Thomas, who got called up from the practice squad because him and worry couldn't go had a fan because I kind of couldn't go. Oh, sorry, not even worry. Fantastic night from Seattle's quote unquote, no name DBs in this game. And that doesn't mean this isn't something we have to keep our eye on, but very encouraging if you're Mike McDonald watching those guys in this spot. And then the front. I don't think the four man pack, the pressure numbers are going to look okay. I think that's a combination of some of the actual blitz and pressure looks and may holding out of the ball a little bit. He had answers as a scramble or at times on the pot later lapsing, but other than the Byron Murphy play where Leo, Leonard Williams picks up the sack in the second half, there were not a lot of very quick four man pressures in this game, but you felt that front against the run. You felt that front against the run the entire game. I mean, you I rared in having to their little split zone or he's having to kick out you trying to also when I think the second drive of the game that that front when you're having to try to run the ball against them, even if they didn't take over his past rushers today, they made their presence known throughout the entire game. And then they piece it together on the back at well enough. No, so you might have been the player of this game for them. Like he was phenomenal. He has that that play against rared in where he, I mean, it was like, yeah, second and third play of the game. That was a welcome to the NFL, buddy. And then early on in the third quarter, Wilson had an insane two play run where they tried to run outside run his way. He explodes hunter Henry and the play is just like dead in the backfield. And then the very next play after that, they run this like, it's kind of a gun toss, it's kind of like they're throwing it and it ends up being ruling complete. But and Wilson has a hand on the running back like as the ball is arriving, like he almost gets a hand on it and like puts it down like just that what he was doing for them, especially in run defense in this game was it's phenomenal. He's like the unsung hero, I think of that front. It was really fun to see them kick into high gear in the second half of this game. Not that they were bad in the first half. I mean, the score was seven to nothing. But they just, they were humming the way we remember from last year from like the mid third quarter on. And then even, you know, the Patriots managed to string together, which ironically, I love the way the Pats played that drive. Like it was so mathematical. They were so liberal with the clock. They were like, they got the ball with five and a half minutes to play. And we're going to have that drive be the end of the game one way or the other either over time or we win. And then, you know, Drake may kind of derailed it with that decision making there. But I guess, to your point, Derek, I mean, he gets paid a lot of money to do this. But watching to Marcus Lawrence hurt all an offensive tackle. Maybe that short circuit at his brain. I don't know. Morgan Moses, yeah, tries to cut block the Marcus Lawrence coming off the right edge. And Lawrence just like hops right over him and just gets a hand and makes May's face and Lawrence. Throw the ball out of bounds. Well, that's just, we can't act in that situation. That's the thing. I don't mind him trying to throw to the end zone and giving Matt Collins a chance. Matt Collins is like six four. If you're going to miss, you have to miss out of bounds. You cannot miss a yard inside of bounds where a guy like who was at Joe by thinking of making that play, which you can't give the DB a chance there. If you want to throw it fine, but leave it three feet over his head. I meant to shout out, Joe, when I shouted out the younger guys. I mean, he gave up the DPI on the under thrown fleeflicker. But to come back and he's got to be the guy this year. He got the money and Tareq Wolland didn't. And that's a, that's a hell of a way to start your first, you know, your season as, as, as the guy that needs to step up in the secondary. Those corners were tackling too. Like Joe had one on. They threw a check down to Stevenson in the right and he just blew him up. And then they have to play, they have to play that way, right? Yeah. Because they're trying to make sure where they're trying to make you get rid of the ball quickly in this game. And if you're going to play like that, your guys in the second and third level have to tackle. And this team does exactly that. It's just so awesome seeing literally guys who were not supposed to be week one starters for them, especially like Pritchie had one on the final drive. where it was third and two, and they throw a fly out to Mario Douglas, he just stops him in his tracks. And it's they force a third and one. And obviously, you know, they still end up converting, but just incredible how well this team tackles on the back end. You mentioned the flea flicker. It's an important play to point out just because that was the only play down the field that the Patriots had the entire game. They may finish all four with three interceptions on passes of 20 plus yards per next year. They had nothing down the field this entire game. That was the one play where they had a positive outcome while trying to push the ball. And it was on a trick play. Yeah. I mean, he had a couple darts that were probably like 16 to 18 yards. The decent and intermediate area. Yes. But yeah, like anything beyond that, nothing to and whatsoever. Those were all three interceptions came on deep throws. And again, just two of them were in to cover six looks. The one you said that that was the corner sinking underneath it when he tried to throw like the de facto whole shot the dobs. And then the one to Julian love is just there's nothing going there. I mean, that scene ball spoon does a great job of carrying it. And then as soon as it gets into the middle of the field, Julian love is able to clamp down on that thing. And it's just the decision that can't happen. And it's it's frustrating because Mayas at his best last year, it was so methodical and his ability to just create positive plays over and over and over again. We've seen him do that for long stretches. And then you get to a game like this and you just watch him press way more than he needs to in some of these moments. This was a game where the sea ox tried to beat themselves pretty often for two thirds of this game. When you think back to some of those moments, the fall start or the landing up off sides on the sneak and what should have been a huge third like third third into fourth down conversion. You have multiple other penalties that the drive that probably should have put it away when they kicked the field goal to go up 13 to 10. They have the delay of the delay of game there. This is a brutal game to lose when the other team loses at start and quarterback on drive number one. And then throughout the game has four or five notable mistakes that should put you in the driver seat. And then you consistently fumble this thing away. I'm not going to say gift wrapped because you still have to go against that defense. But this is a unique opportunity where no matter how good the Patriots might be, you're just like defending champions almost never lose these games anyway. And this is a loaded team playing in that building. Even if the Patriots are great, I don't like their odds of winning this game. And then you lose Sam Donald on the first possession of this game. It is absolutely brutal to lose that opportunity knowing that the schedule on paper at least looks a hell of a lot harder this year. All right, let's take a quick break here and then come back and chat a little bit about the Seahawks offense in this game. Obviously, the Seahawks defense deserves a ton of credit for keeping them in this game and really making sure that they were around at the end not only with the way they played down to down, but obviously taking the ball away three times. But enough moments from Drew Lock in the Seahawks offense in this game to get things over the finish line. I was worried early on. The couple third downs we saw and Seattle or New England mostly played a ton of zone on early downs and then it was playing men on third down early in the game. And the first couple of third downs, I think the second and third drive. We have, well, there were multiple kind of flubs on third down for this first Seattle in the first half. That second drive that they had, they had a second and two where price bounces it and probably easily could have gotten the first down if he had just hit the whole. He bounces it outside, gets stuffed on third and two. Krishna Ellis makes a great place screaming downhill. They force a punt there. Third and five on the next Seattle drive. Lock is nearly picked by Gonzo and man coverage. And then on the first drive, I'm pretty sure that was when Donald was still in. Gonzo, they had a bunch on the right side with JSN and it's always had fantastic coverage on in there. So you had three third down failures for Seattle in their first three drives. Then you get the Barnor sneak with the off side. And then in the second half, I mean, the biggest play of the entire game is obviously the fourth and one to Jason. Like that, that is the biggest play of the entire game, where that's a good call to get a conversion. That a great player turns into a play that breaks the game. It was such a cool call because it's, it's, they really just end up running spot where Jason's running the little snagging, but they run it with like a, like a boot action into it, which you don't see a lot. But the whole defense is fast flowing. They're seeing boot. They're seeing the fullbacker running back into the flat. They're seeing a guy running a deep corner and everyone just kind of clears out this little space for, yeah, that should be a conversion and a, I don't know, 12 yard completion. But Craig Woodson is the safety who's trying to come down from depth and make that tackle making an attack on depth from JSN is really hard. He's really quick. And so he misses that tackle. And then AJ Barnor just goes up and finds Kevin Byard, who I thought could have made a play and made a little bit of a squeeze on that tackle attempt. And he kind of lets Barnor get into space. And then JSN's just, it's the gas. I watched a lot of Kevin Byard last year. I watched a lot of Kevin Byard tried to make plays in space last year. The interceptions are cool. A lot of the other stuff can be frustrating. That's all sick. As somebody who watched a lot of Kevin Byard football last season, the idea that they were upgrading its safety by moving on from Joe and Hawkins to getting Kevin Byard. I never really understood that. And we're one game in, but just that's, that play right there. I think is a very good encapsulation of the 2026 Kevin Byard experience who is now how old. Oh man. I mean, if you're having Google it, it's a problem. 33. I was going to say just turn 33, 1617. So just just thrown it out there. I thought, and this might have been the plan for Sam Darnold as well as Drew Locke, but with Drew Locke in there, the amount of boot stuff or the threat of play action, like it seemed like it did a lot to mitigate what the Patriots were able to do and like attacking the flat, like on the JSN play, you can see them crashing on the route to the flat because the Seahawks did that so many times in this game. I thought they did a really great job of keeping the Patriots off balance enough to give Drew Locke easy throws. Doesn't mean it always worked, but although I will say like in this, he found a really nice rhythm there, which ironically was disrupted by the penalty that screwed up. That was the best drive in the game that they had. Yeah. And so one that got stuck when they kicked the field, when he when he got the snap off correctly, he was fine. They just had three different procedurally. That was definitely a week, a game one from a new play collar performance today with the back of procedural stuff that was happening with the back of quarterback. But that drive specifically that you're talking about, they have barner kind of blocking down, sneaking into the flat for an easy completion. They did the same thing with JSN on the next play. The play after that, the completion that they had, a little quick motion of the flat with the back, it essentially turns into flat flat with Cooper Cups sitting down in that hole. That's an easy completion. And so just making sure, all right, how can I consistently find those easy options for my backup quarterback? I think they really did a good job of tapping into that during that drive in the second half. And they should have put it away right there. And then again, this was a game where just too many self-inflicted moments from Seattle that ended up not mattering, but it was a frustrated game overall. You could see like the scene coming out of my McDonald's ears at a certain point with all of these things that were just stacking up over the course of the game. Drew, Drew Lockton played poorly. All things considered, but his, if you're just box score watching his stat line. Oh, that's fantastic. It's a nice one, JSN. Yeah, when Jay had completion. And then the other big completion that I'm going to give more credit to the receiver on that play in the quarterback, the Cooper Cup. Yeah, no, that slot fade to Cooper Cup. I think it was a slot fade. But that, like, you're in like a deep corner. Yeah, but just a deep corner of a bunch, but that's a play where that's really good coverage by Marcus Jones. And it just doesn't matter. Cooper Cup makes an incredible play on that ball. All right. Before we move on, let's take one more quick break. Are you the kind of sports fan that wants to dig into the story behind the stats? 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But good stuff happened when they gave him the ball, the vast majority of the time. Yeah. I would like to see a little bit, especially if we're going to have to spend any extended time without saying, I don't know, I would like to see a little bit more Jadarian price. I want to hit eight carries in this game. One successful run on eight carries. Jadarian price had five on his 10. Yeah. So I knew you just feel it. You just feel the difference in the effectiveness when he is in the game right now. And so I would like to see them lean on him a little bit more. I guess we have to talk about what the outlook would be for Seattle without Sam Darnold. I mean, there's a chance that it sounds like a hip injury. He was limping very noticeably when he was walking off. And the fact that he was already getting X-rays on it. And I think he was taken somewhere for more testing that genuinely concerns me. Like, there is a chance that he has a serious hip injury and is going to miss a ton of time. Yeah. And even if you're excited about what Seattle's defense can be and they do a good job of pulling out a game like this, the outlook drastically changes. If Drew Ocas the play for any extended period of time, it just does. It absolutely does like you hope it's just a short term thing because in the short term, they get Arizona in Washington. They can survive those games with just about anybody a quarterback, I think. After that, it gets really hard. You get the chargers. you get the Niners, you get the Broncos, you get the Chiefs, you get the Bears. Like it does get difficult after that, where some of those you might have to win some games where you're going to have to score more than, I mean, they needed what 13 today. You're going to need more than that against the majority of those teams. And so I do think that there's a chance that you get to relax and practice reps. You still have a guy like JSN, if Gidearing Price gets a little bit more comfortable and pop a couple of explosives, I think they can live through it. You just hope that it's not a multi-month issue here for San Bernard. And he broke a sip, he's out for the year. Yeah, he broke it. If he did, I was like, whoa, if we already got there yet, but no, if he did, he's, yeah, he's done. You can't do it. You can't play quarterback without a hip, that's why I don't want to, I don't want to forecast too much all the, Oh, Tom Pellicero. We're just, we're just live right now. McDonald's said that they got to do is on Sam Donald. So I can't, I don't know. I, it's hard for me to imagine that means he'll be ready for week two. But I mean, your breathe right sigh of relief if it's like a month or less. That's totally the fact. I mean, he's that ruled out of fracture with that. Okay. So the fact that we've ruled out, that literally just happened, that's coming across the time. My eyes were sitting here right now. Pellicero, careful, Brian M. House are all tweeting. I mean, you're doing live from the press conference. And so that's fantastic. That would be because it's huge. And then if it's a couple of weeks and you just say they play Arizona in Washington, you can survive that stretch. I was going to say, though, without trying to forecast, Sam Donald, like in the first half of that game, it's easy to sit there and say like, okay, what trades can you do? Who's available? Like what, what might the Seahawks need to do? But by the time you get to the end of the game, you, you give Drew Lock the starter reps in practice. And this defense is going to drag almost everyone they play into the deep water. And like, that's just how it's going to have to be. Like I, obviously the ceiling is lower without Sam Donald. But I think the way they're built, they're going to try to be a 10 or 11 win team with Drew Lock. Like I don't see a more realistic path forward than that. I think that's right. I'm not sure that there is like a better option out there than Woodrow Lock can give you especially for a short stint. And the idea that it's not broken and then he might be back sooner rather than later, we don't have to have that conversation. I think that's, can we get by for a couple of weeks? I think the answer is absolutely yes, based on everything else that you have. Do we want to, is there any need to have like a broader Patriots offense conversation after a game like this or we just off of a, it's one game stacked onto four games against really good defenses. Those are the last five glimpses we've gotten of the Patriots. It's really disappointing that Drake may played this way. But and like, I don't want to sound like I'm letting Drake may off the hook because I'm like, I'm deeply disappointed by some of the decisions that he made. And he clearly played a really poor game, but I expected this to be a slog. Like you're going into Seattle to play this defense. Even Rick willen's not there. I get it, but this is still a fantastic unit. We were concerned going in about the Patriots offensive line. Even Derek and I who were bullish on the Pats, I knew they were losing this game. And like granted, I thought Sam Donald would play all 60 minutes. But I'm, I'm not going to drastically change my opinion just yet. Unless, which now it would be really great to get some good news on AJ Brown. Hopefully he's not out for a prolonged period of time. If he missed, if he misses a significant amount of time, I'm pretty worried because the schedule is tough. Like it, I think it's Pittsburgh next and Jacksonville after that. Like the Patriots schedule doesn't let up. And so if, if we're throwing a Mac Collins in crunch time for the foreseeable future, I can't say I like that very much. Yeah, then you're very close to again, what they were at the end of last season. The offensive line theoretically is better. I think the run game will probably look better than it did tonight. But it wasn't good tonight. I mean, if you had any concerns about the Patriots, this was like worst case scenario in every way. And I think I'm with Dave with may specifically, I mean, I do think he's very good. This is probably the worst game he's ever played. But I expect him individually to be better and smarter than he was, especially in some of these critical moments, but some of the other worst stuff. Like Josh McDaniels, I thought clearly outgunned in this game. And Mike McDonald is going to do that to a lot of people. But it just did not look like they had learned a lot of lessons. I mean, even though a lot of those back up and, you know, guys like Joe, who is a starter, but not necessarily a star cornerback, that to me feels like if you have AJ Brown, and I know he went out, you know, relatively early in this game and you sign Romeo, dobs, let's like drop back a little bit more and like try to target those guys. And they just did not really do that. It seemed like they were, that's probably them being scared of their offensive line. But that's the other issue. They made some investments and shuffles on the offensive line. And they still kind of got pumped in this game, not as much one on one, but still just not being able to pick stuff up. So I think I'm weirdly encouraged by the offensive line in this game compared to what it looked like last time. I kind of agree with Dave. I don't know. I'm not saying it's good, but it's, I think it was planning to leave something to be desired. But when they brought for it was not a situation where he was under siege in this game. I will say Campbell looked like what you wanted him to look like. I thought he looked more like the player he did for a lot of his rookie season. I was like, sure, some of the elite guys are going to nuke him a little bit, but he was a good pass protector for a lot of it. I was still concerned with how bad the run game looked and then still get a different conversation. Yeah, to me, it's more about holding up and pass protection when they only brought for it. I think they did a fine job doing that today, but I've talked about this like it. And the only thing I would say is somebody, I think the one of the three of us who's been the most bearish on the Patriots offense and the Patriots offensive line, I'm not going to have any strong reactions until I see them play a front that doesn't involve these dudes. Where you shout out to osu is the backup edge that you're having to deal with. Like it's just a different sort of beast. Unfortunately, any line they're going to play. I mean, it is the and the sea hawks are on a different level, but it's Pittsburgh and Jacksonville. Like it doesn't necessarily get easier. Yeah. And that is the exact perspective, right? Like, run defending edges, those are some big. Yes, yes. Yeah. Jacksonville specifically, yes, it's, it's too early for me to panic unless AJ Brown is going to be out for a lot of time, which I really hope is not the case. Just a brutal game to lose if you're the Patriots, just an absolutely brutal game to lose. Beyond the Darnal stuff, just how many times Seattle tried to let that game out of their grasp in the first half and the fact that you couldn't take advantage of it and credit to the sea hawks. I mean, again, this is a team that just never goes away, never goes away. It doesn't matter what type of game it is. It doesn't matter how the first three quarters went, they just never go away. I'm glad you said first three quarters because, and if this sounds like cope, I'm sorry. I'll say it one more time, Drake may have played like shit, full stop, but heading into the fourth quarter, he was doing just enough to get an ugly win against a great defense. I thought he was actually playing fine. And like, I mean, he finished by then, he only had one bit of interception, right? He hadn't, he didn't throw his first pick until the fourth quarter, but they all in the fourth. They're the final three drives. He was doing enough in the passing game. He had 50 rushing yards. I think he had the Patriots. Remondri had one late in the game, but he had one of like two explosive runs. I thought he was handling a lot of the situations very well. Like all of those third downs, what he was doing against the blitz, what he was doing with his legs, the, it's indefensible what happened in the fourth. Of course, but I don't think he played poorly for most of the game. The Patriots go up 10 nothing with seven minutes to play in the third. And it was like Drake May is going to do just enough to eek out the ugliest win ever. And everybody's going to hate it because Sam Darnold wasn't there. And, and you know, Drake, the schedule may rides again. And then the Seahawks, man, they, like I said, they just kicked into a different gear. Like immediately when that happened, not only did the offense get its first scoring driver the night, but the defense just started looking like the Super Bowl team. It was, it was really, like I said, it was really cool to see them. You could just kind of feel them like tighten their chin straps as, as we inch toward the fourth quarter. We also did not mention the fact that the Seahawks had a roughing the ponder penalty in the second half of this game. Just throw that on the pile. I mean, there were just so many moments that the Patriots could have taken advantage of and did not. Mike McDonald is going to be furious when he, like when he's done breathing a sigh of relief that Darnold's injury might. In fact, they won the game. Yeah. Yes. There's enough good, I think, for him to get through the night. But going back and watching this one, I think their elements of it are going to be frustrating. But you'll take this one every single time, considering how things started for Seattle, especially with the quarterback stuff. All right. That is all we've got. Game one is in the books. If you're listening to this on the podcast feed, you'll be able to listen to this and shows like it all season. All of our live recaps will be in the podcast feed over the course of the year. That includes the Rams Niners recap that will be in your feeds tomorrow. We'll be recapping that one live on YouTube right here tomorrow night. Please come back and check that one out for now. That's all we got. Appreciate you guys listening. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks for tuning in. 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