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Mike-Shawn Dugar

Sportswriter at The Athletic covering the Seattle Seahawks, co-host of the "Seahawks Man 2 Man" podcast, and author of "The Franchise: Seattle Seahawks" and "12 as One."

Aug 28, 2025

57:03
Carolina scored back-to-back touchdowns in the final four minutes to win it in Seattle.
57:08
And I think they went the length of the field multiple times, too, which was very hard to do against that Seahawks defense.
57:14
Now, the touchdown to Olsen is because of a busted coverage, but I don't think Sherm got the call.
57:20
Somebody didn't get the call on that side of the field.
57:22
But I think it would have been hard to beat that Panthers team today.
57:26
I think they would have beat the Broncos, though, if they did beat the Panthers, for what that's worth.
57:30
But I think they would have had a psychological advantage over Peyton Manning, too.

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9:00
But do you think that disappointment was a factor in the Ryan Grubb decision? Like, was there a feeling of something needs to change? Or was it just a kind of general, we could have done more sentiment?
9:12
I kind of view the Grubb decision just purely as a Mike McDonald thing.
9:17
Like, you know... yeah, this ain't it.
9:19
Like what you want to do, Ryan, and what I want to do.
9:22
We're just, we are clearly not on the same page.
9:24
And it, you could feel it, you know, during late in the season where Mike McDonald was like, yeah, we probably should run it more.
9:29
And I think one day he got asked about like play action.

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I think

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