CROSSOVER: Patriots Look To EXPLOIT Damaged Seahawks Secondary In Super Bowl Rematch

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1:00You are locked on NFL crossover part of the Lockdown Podcast Network. 14 every day. What's happening? I am your host of Lockdown Patriots Nick Cattles. I will be bringing in shortly the host of Lockdown Seahawks new host of Lockdown Seahawks Dan V.N.s. But at first, I'll tell you what we're going to talk about today's crossover, the game plan for each side to walk away with a significant statement win to begin their season. In the second segment, the marquee matchups that the football world will be paying the most attention to on Wednesday night. First, we start with storylines. Today's episode is brought to by CalShi for a limited time. Download the CalShi app and use code Lockdown to get $10 when you trade $10. Here's the aforementioned Dan V.N.s joining me here for this crossover edition of our first crossover edition in the 2026 season lockdown Patriots, Lockdown Seahawks. Of course, Dan, we know what happened last year. Patriots fans don't want to think about it.

2:00They don't want to talk about it. Turning the page to 2026. So I ask you getting ready for this game to start this season. What is the biggest story in Seattle as they start to defend their title? Well, unfortunately, now it's shifted in the last 48 hours. It's injuries and in particular, it's injuries in the secondary, a decimated secondary. We were all kind of scratching our heads a little bit when they set the initial 53 man roster because there were only three safeties on it. The two starters, Julian love and tie Okada and then Nick M. and Worry who let's face it. First of all, we didn't know if he'd be healthy enough to play and I don't think he's going to, but he's not really a safety either. And so they got a couple guys back in the practice squad, but we really had no feel for which of those would be elevated on game day or it would be part of the plan. Well, now, tie Okada pops up on the injury report on Sunday. Hasn't practiced this week with a hamstring. Doesn't sound like he's going to be able to go. And so the sea ox are going to likely have to elevate two players from their practice squad just to fill out the safety room.

3:01And then that's in addition to the cornerback room, which is healthy, but there's lots of questions about the depth behind Evan witherspoon and Josh Joe because there's a lot of uncertainty, a lot of unproven players in that depth. Yeah, I'm sure we'll attack that secondary a little bit later on during this episode because I do have questions and I do think that's something the Patriots can look at attacking on Wednesday night. But I saw the Nick Eman-Warrior news and at first, it's like, again, PTSD from the Super Bowl, all the talk about Eman-Warrior missing that game leading up to the game. Of course, he played, he played pretty well for my eyes and what they told me, but it does sound like he's banged out. But the Patriots, I think there's a couple of different things to look at here, Dan. First, I'll say the intangible story, which is just how does this team respond? Right? I mean, the last time they were on the field, they got their butts whipped by Seattle. Now they have to go back and play Seattle in Seattle. It's a Wednesday night, which is just funky to begin with. You travel across the country with that funky schedule. Seattle's going to be loud. They're always loud and they're going to be even louder with the celebration of the title.

4:06If you look back to past 20 plus years, I think it's like 16 or 17 times these Super Bowl champions have won an opening night. So the history tells you that it's very, very difficult for any team to walk into that stadium and do much of anything. The tangible though, I hate to sound like you, but it is a health situation and it has to do with Traveon Henderson. Traveon Henderson has not practiced since August 24th. So it's been a couple of weeks. I would not expect him to play where recording this just past four o'clock Eastern time. So maybe there's news that comes out after we're done here, but I would not expect him to play and it gets very interesting, Dan, of how the Patriots are going to handle the responsibilities in that backfield without Henderson. Yeah. Remondor is Stevenson is a legit back. I have a lot of respect for him, but Traveon Henderson has the juice. I mean, he has that element where he can really make guys miss and make things happen in the open field. And as much as Seattle is going to try to pressure Drake May again, I'm sure we'll talk some

5:07more about that to in part make up for some of the uncertainty on the back end, like having a guy like that that you can just get the ball out to in space and he can make a guy miss and come up with a couple of explosive plays is a huge miss. Plus he's really good on third down as well. So yeah, if there's anything to exploit there or anything, I guess that swings in the favor a little bit, try to even out this injury thing. That would be the one. You know, it's I'm glad you brought up the third down thing with Ramondra Stevenson because he's really good on third down. He's really good at protecting the quarterback. And this is something that I've discussed a lot on lockdown Patriots all last year, all last post season, all off season, all throughout training camp. And now as we get ready for week one, I'm still talking about it till I'm blue in the face. And that's, you know, can this team at the running back position on third down, protect Drake May? And I think they have to stick with Ramondra Stevenson, especially on Wednesday night. Look, Travian Henderson, he came out in the draft and that was supposed to be one of his calling cards. He was supposed to be great in past protection.

6:07He wasn't man. He wasn't at all. And in camp, he did not look, you know, markedly improved in that area. So I think you're going to see a lot of Ramondra Stevenson on third down, of course, without Travian Henderson. If he doesn't play, you're looking at Corey Keiner, who the Patriots just traded for right before they made their final cut down on cut down day. So I mean, you'll get Corey Keiner. He's been in New England for like a week, a week and a half. How much do you trust him? I think I believe they would bring up Landlarrison off the practice squad because Landlarrison, who is a UDFA from the 2025 class before he got injured, which took his rookie season. He's more of the third down gun run type back. So my guess is Larison is the guy. And then you also think about, Dan, that third down past protection. And Corey Keiner has been there for just over a week and a half or so. Landlarrison, UDFA from last year, missed all of last season to throw those guys into the deep end and allowed stadium at Seattle. Your explosivity, as you said, takes a hit without Henderson.

7:10So you don't really know how those guys are going to react. I do want to ask you, since you brought up the secondary, brought up Ty O'Cotta, you brought up, obviously Bud Clarkson. Other guy will talk about it a little bit later, but he's done for the year after he was drafted in the second round. So what are the Patriots? Let's say, O'Cotta's out. Let's say, even Waris out. Who is Drake May looking at across the field, aside from the guys we already know in that secondary? It's really hard to tell because Mike McDonald has gotten really good in now his third year in the NFL at playing the game behind the podium, right? And saying only what he has to and being really coy when it comes to injuries. I mean, he makes people care, look transparent when we look back now about how he talked about injuries. It's, so we just said, all we have to go by is connecting dots, reading tea leaves and trying to parse some of his words. I think the next guy up, especially when you talk about replacing O'Cotta, being the free safety and a guy that can cover deep, probably Rodney Thomas, who they brought over

8:11from Indianapolis as a free agent this off season, outstanding athlete has some corner safety versatility, unless, and Seattle does stuff like this, Mike McDonald will do stuff like this. It's what brought us Ty O'Cotta from the undrafted ranks. Unless a guy like Maxson Hook, the Toledo undrafted free agent in his second year who, when I went back and visited camp last month, I thought might have been the best of that group. He's just not as experienced. Could be him. I think it's going to be some combination of Rodney Thomas playing free safety and then probably DeAnthony Bell, who spent a good portion of last year on the roster. They just brought him back to the practice squad Saturday after he had hoped to find a 53 man roster spot elsewhere. He's more in that Nick Eman-Wary mold, certainly not the player, Eman-Wary is, but he can play that big, nickel, dime linebacker sort of hybrid role if that's going to be part of the plan with Eman-Wary out. One more quick note on the injury stuff.

9:11Christian Barmore heavily managed throughout camp, especially late in camp. So I'm fascinated to see how much Christian Barmore plays alongside Milton Williams on Wednesday, night in the Patriots, of course. I'm sure we'll get to it. The past rush questions and can you get to the quarterback? They need those two guys, Williams and Barmore on the interior to do damage if they want to impact the quarterback consistently. All right. Dan and I will have our marquee matchups coming up next as we continue with this crossover episode of Lockdown Patriots and Lockdown Seahawks. We are part of the Lockdown podcast network. Now, the number one sports podcast network, your team every day. Support for today's episode comes from Quo spelled Q.U.O. The business phone system built so you never miss a call for businesses. Every call can be an opportunity and missing one can mean missing a customer. Quo brings calls, texts and voicemails together in one place so teams can see the full conversation, respond quickly and stay organized. Quo helps businesses stay reachable and professional without being complex.

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12:16Patriots. It was obviously a big storyline, big problem in the Super Bowl. Seattle tons of pressure. They only blitzed 11 times. They got pressures on 86% of those blitzes. We'll see how aggressive Mike McDonald wants to be with some of those questions on the back end as far as blitzing goes. But what are Mike McDonald defenses known for? It's getting pressure with four without blitzing up front. One of the lowest blitz rates in the league last year. They held all four of their top edge rushers out of preseason, put them in bubble wrap. So we, we really don't know what that group looks like, but that front is completely healthy. The entire front seven is healthy. And I know Wil Campbell healthy now that was a big factor in the Super Bowl. Eliza Vera Tucker left guard Jared Wilson back to his natural position at center. Ironically enough, all Seahawks fans wanted the Seahawks to draft Jared Wilson after Grace Able and doubled down on the interior offensive line in the draft a year and a half ago. I think that's going to be the storyline again. How much better can Drake may be with those new weapons around him in handling that kind

13:19of pressure, deciphering it, making the quick reads, getting rid of the ball and being more efficient in the passing game against that Mike McDonald defense. Yeah, man. You and I on the same page. Look, I look at one of these marquee matchups and I say, well, Campbell versus that past rush. Campbell gave up what was like 14 pressures in the Super Bowl, which is just an ungodly number. I mean, I can't even comprehend that number. It's absolutely ludicrous. But I will say, you know, a lot of eyes will be on Will Campbell. He has had a really good off season. He had a very strong camp. He was not be often at all. Now some of that is the Patriots past rush questionable, obviously, but even when he went against the Colts and joint practice and when he went against the Eagles and those two joint practices, he accounted for himself very well. So he's had a strong camp. He looks bigger. His anchor is stronger and he has also kind of added some versatility to his technique. So a lot of talk about what he was going to do during this off season. Obviously, night one week one is one of the biggest challenges he'll face all year.

14:22And it's a different kind of challenge in Seattle. He can't have that PTSD. He can't be thinking about what happened during the Super Bowl last February. He's going to be facing a mix of talent, a mix of scheme and all of that noise I brought up earlier, which could result in a nightmare. And this offensive line and totality has to protect and give Drake May time. I am intrigued to see if the secondary questions, as you mentioned a minute ago, Dan, if that changes a little bit of the approach from Mike McDonald because one of the things that drove Drake May crazy and that Super Bowl was the blitzing of the corners and the blitzing of the secondary. And will the Seahawks do that? We'll see Markey match up number two for you, Dan Viennes. I think it's it's Brian Flurry, new offensive coordinator going up against a very underrated, very good New England defense. People forget how good that defense was in the Super Bowl. Only allowed Seattle to convert 12 out of 16 first downs, only one of four in the red zone

15:24was the Seattle offense. So that shines even brighter light on bar more potentially returning and playing in the interior of that line tomorrow. We really don't know what we're going to see from Brian Flurry. Same scheme. It still comes from that Kubeak McVeigh, Shanahan DNA, worked under Shanahan, of course, in San Francisco for seven years. I'm incredibly impressed. I got to go back and have some access first week of August and I happened to be there on the day that they gave us all the coordinators behind the podium listening to him talk about football. Incredibly intelligent. You can see why Mike McDonald was drawn to him and went outside the organization to hire him and there are things that I hear that maybe he has an elevated view of how to operate this scheme and that might even be a little more complex than Kubeak, more under center, more play action, more motion. We'll see. We can't tell anything from the preseason, right? 70% he ran the football on first down. That's not going to happen. That's not going to happen tomorrow night.

16:24He's not going to do that. We hope he doesn't do that. But just I do think it kind of hammers home the point that he's trying to establish that part of the game. If I had to boil it down to one thing, it would be Brian Flurry and that running game of Seattle. Can he get it going with a lot of new bodies in that running back room? Can he get that going? At least have it be consistently effective enough to take some pressure off Sandar. It's interesting you bring up the run game because I think the Patriots, you look at one of these marquee matchups and it's got to be Krishen Gonzalez, the newly signed, newly minted, highest paid cornerback in football right after your guy, Devon Witherspoon, got his deal a couple of weeks ago. And I looked at Krishen Gonzalez versus Jackson, Smith and Jigba and it was a matchup we looked at before the Super Bowl. I thought Gonzalez did a good job in the Super Bowl. I did think he got beat once and the ball wasn't there, which made it a little bit better. I'm not counting the whole breakaway play. That was kind of chaos with Donald Miss JSN deeper because, you know, the, the, the

17:25one in the end zone should have been a touchdown. That was, that was on Sam. That's, that's the one I'm talking about is the one in the end zone. So I do think some of the stats, if you look back at the Super Bowl, little misleading about how Gonzalez did, but I do think, look, he's one of the best corners in football. He gets that new extension. He has motivated to prove that he's a top two or three guy at that position. And I think in the other spots, the Patriots matchup pretty well, frankly, if they're healthy, they seemingly are. Carlton Davis and Marcus Jones, I think they match up pretty well with Cooper Cupp. And you know, she, he, yeah, you get it. I just slow down. Shea, yeah. They match up very well. Davis and Jones do. So I think, you know, if you're the Patriots, you go into this game and you say, look, she, she can't beat us. There it is. Cooper Cupp can't beat us. We feel good about Davis and Jones, respectively on those two guys. If Christian Gonzalez can do the job on JSN for the vast majority of this football game, then it's going to be tough for San Donald to get going. And then you put it on JDRI and price and, you know, you don't know me well.

18:27I don't know you well, Dan, but I'm a Notre Dame fan. So I could tell you everything you want to know about JDRI and price. I love him. I watched him every single weekend in college. I think he's an excellent running back. I think he has a chance if he stays healthy to be the offensive rookie of the year. But if the Patriots can put it on price in his NFL debut in limit, Donald, I think they feel pretty good about that. All right. The third and final marquee matchup. I'm going to go Seahawks tight ends against those inside linebackers for the Patriots. Not the greatest reputation does either of them have in past coverage. I know Robert Spalane kind of middle of the pack. According to PFF last year anyway, Christian Ellis got better as the season went along in coverage, but still not his strength. Brian Flurry comes from a tight end coaching background. The Seahawks return their entire tight end room from a year ago, AJ Barner, who's going to be in line for a big extension a year from now and Elijah Aroyo, who's got the athletic upside, the ability to stretch the seam, almost an extra seaver playing tight end.

19:28Got to see a lot more usage of him in the preseason. He's healthy. He looks ready to go can Brian Flurry get his tight ends involved something. Clint Cubiak didn't always do on a consistent basis and maybe take advantage of that middle of field while all those matchups you talk about are happening on the perimeter. This is again, you and I on the same page somewhat here. We didn't even compare notes before we started looking at the looking at the Patriots all offense and I'm looking at the slot position because there's some questions, right? You brought it up the idea of even worry with the nickel back, likely not playing. You know, what do the safeties look like? How do they mix and match? And the Patriots, the thing with their offense and the thing with their receivers, all six of those guys can play in the slot. Every single one of them, AJ Brown and Mac Hollins can play big slots so can Romeo dobs. And then you go down the line of pop Douglas that quicker, more electric, faster guy down field out of the slot. You've got Kyle Williams who they haven't put in the slot a lot, but he's capable of doing it and even F didn't chism who's the final guy on the deck chart at that position to play

20:32the slot. So I think Josh McDaniel's is going to play a lot of games in the slot for this offense. And I think he's going to look to target, you know, the safeties, the linebackers try to get that nickel back situation figured out early and whether or not he can attack it. And I also would not be surprised if you see some hunter Henry and Eli Rairden sprinkled in there. So I think you're going to see a lot of mixing and matching from the receiver position from McDaniel's move guys around and try to take advantage of any mismatches that he thinks exists, especially given the secondary questions that we brought up earlier in the episode. Dan and I give you our things that each team has to do rights to walk away with the W on Wednesday night. We're part of the lockdown podcast network. Your team every day. The season is about to kick off, which means everybody is making predictions on CalShi. America's number one prediction market platform. You can trade predictions in a live market. Let me give you one. That's perfect for opening night.

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22:35His name is Rashid Shaheed. I was practicing it throughout that ad, making sure I got it right and not to disrespect the young man. All right, Dan, let's look at this match up on Wednesday night. And the question I have for you and I have a couple of things to hit here, but what has to go right to win for the Seahawks on Wednesday? I, you know, not to beat a dead horse and Seahawks fans are probably going to cringe a little bit when I start talking about this, but don't turn their ball over, right? Sam Donald led the NFL individually in turn over his last year, 14 interceptions. Now around those interceptions, he did a ton of damage. Top 10 in just about every explosive pass rate among quarterbacks in the NFL. So in between those interceptions, he was very effective, but you have to cut those down. The schedule is a lot tougher this year. You can't get away with those things as much against good teams. I do expect him to be better. Ten starters back on offense. It played 700 snaps last year. One's a continuity, same offensive line, same tight in group, same wide receiver group. And now he's had a whole off season to work with Rashid Shaheed.

23:36So that connection should be stronger, but he's got to show us now over a long sample size in season against good teams that he can limit those turnovers the way he did down the stretch last year. And then in the playoffs, zero turnovers on the way to the Super Bowl. I mean, you could be taught about Drake, man, with everything you just said, by the way, that the idea of the turnovers, the fumbles, staying steady in the pocket, making the right decisions, all those types of things. I look at this matchup and I got to start with Josh McDaniels. I just brought him up a few moments ago, but what would help the Patriots win on Wednesday night is if Josh McDaniels doesn't get his took his hand at to him like he did in the Super Bowl against Mike McDonald. I mean, Mike McDonald just torched Josh McDaniels and McDaniels brought it up over the past week and admitted it. Look, he wasn't good enough and that was obvious to anybody watching. So all off season Dan, all camp long, this offense has been structured to give Drake May more answers. They have worked on the tempo of the offense to keep the pace up.

24:37Some no huddle, I think you will see a lot more on the plate for Drake, man, the line of scrimmage this season. Second year in the offense should be much more comfortable. Can he see things before they happen? He had some issues with that against Seattle. Again, they surprised him with some of those, you know, secondary blitzes. He has the weapons that can win with their matchups. You know, AJ Brown, Romeo Dobbs, that wide receiver room is so much better than it's been in recent memory. And I know, look, Josh Joe, good corner, Devon, with a spoon, terrific corner. But if you're Drake, may you still got to trust your guys and you got to trust your offensive coordinator, but can you oh see win this thing? Can he or at least compete and fight back and not get beludged by Mike McDonald? Be ready. Be ready for Mike McDonald to spin that dial because you know it. I know it. The American people know it. It's going to happen. A second thing I would say for the Patriots to have to do right to win is cancel out the line of scrimmage. I'm not asking for them to win consistently because I know how good Seattle is in the trenches.

25:43But if your offensive line gets dominated, it turns into a bleep show, not only past protection, but you know, you got to give some room in the running game. I think if you do that, Drake, may is better than Sam Donald clearly. If he's given time and the Patriots need to limit the run, especially against the edge, create some third and longs impact. Sam Donald, you mentioned it, but the play action in the boot lag game, you know, try to get at least some wins on that defensive line to create some pressure. And if you get that done, then maybe as you mentioned, Dan, at the top of this, maybe Sam Donald does turn the ball over once or twice gives your short fields. And now you can win the football game. Anything else you want to get off your chest before we get to? Yeah, I got one more for you. And I don't think it's getting enough attention, at least not nationally. See, Hawk fans are are gripping about it. Jason Myers needs to make his kicks. Jason Myers made five field goals in the Super Bowl last year, really strong case. I'm not, I'm not so sure he didn't deserve MVP over Kenneth Walker. He's missed five kicks in this preseason and up through the first two preseason games,

26:45I was telling people, look, calm down. He's a veteran. He's 35 years old. He's been constantly coming off a historical season last year to lead the league and scoring. And he was just missing slight right. Like I do with my drives on the golf course, right? All he had to do was make a slight mechanical adjustment. He'd be fine. Well, then they go to Kansas City. He misses an extra point and a field goal. And they were ugly, ugly misses duck hook type misses, which tells me something's really going on there. And so he needs to correct that. If this is a close game, as it might be, when anytime two good teams get together, especially in week one, right? What to expect? Week one tells the most lies. He's got to be good, at least good enough, not missing a kicks tomorrow night, or it could be a rough debut for the Seattle Seahawks. You know, it's, it's always funky to do predictions week one because as you mentioned, it's a crazy week. The Patriots lost to the Raiders last year, week one, at Gillette Stadium. Okay. So I never know what to expect.

27:46And I don't think teams know what to expect because nothing, especially nowadays, is on film, like absolutely nothing that you've worked on during camp. So each side is walking into this, I would say borderline blind. I don't usually do a prediction during the crossover episode because I keep that for Friday's episode. But of course, it's a Wednesday night game. So I got to get to the prediction. You've got to get to the prediction. So I ask you, Dan Viennes of Lockdown Seahawks, what is your prediction for Wednesday night? Patriots, Seahawks, Super Bowl rematch. Yeah. And speaking of week one lying last last year, a week one, the debut of Clint Kubiak in Seattle, terrible game plan, horrible offense. They look sluggish. He looked like a bad hire by the end of the season. He was the greatest offensive coordinator of all time in some people's minds. I've been making this prediction over the last couple of days. I'm going to stick with it. I've gone back and forth on this one. Usually week one kind of favors the defense, the offense, especially the ones that don't play in the preseason and none of the Seattle starters did take a little while to get

28:48gone. I'm going to go 23 16 Seattle. I think it's going to be close. It'll be a one score game late. I think Seattle's defense ultimately, even with those questions in the secondary, Mike McDonald with the whole off season, nothing on tape is going to have some things cooked up that the Patriots aren't ready for. Watch for Tyree's night. The Seahawks third inside linebacker who lost his starting job last year to Drake Tom is at a phenomenal camp in preseason. They're using him as an edd russer and he may actually take some of those duties from Nick M. and Worry. If he's not able to go play some of that big nickel, he can be really explosive off the edge. Look for him as a wild card to make an impact. You know, these two teams, very similar path during preseason. The Patriots played pretty much nobody in the preseason games. Drake made it not get a single preseason snap. Now of course, he had three joint practices. But I think when you look at all these matchups, these two teams just didn't play really anybody in the preseason.

29:48So we really have no idea about how these guys are going to be deployed. Just get ready to the preseason already. Yeah, just get to get to the point of practices. It's useless. Yeah. But I tend to agree with you about this game, the way you kind of envision it playing out. I'm going to lean Seahawks. I do think it's going to be probably a close game. There might be some weirdness to it because it's opening night. But look, it's in Seattle. It's going to be an absolutely bananas atmosphere. I do think the Seahawks are better at the line of scrimmage and I think that could be the difference again on Wednesday night. So I think the Seahawks win in a tight game. All right. That wraps up this edition of Lockdown Patriots and Lockdown Seahawks. Reach out to us on Twitter and don't forget if you're watching on YouTube to like, comment and subscribe. And now on video, we're sending you to our 24 seven Lockdown NFL YouTube channel for the 2026 NFL season preview. All three episodes airing now until Sunday at 1 p.m. Eastern. If you're on audio, find it on the Lockdown NFL feed wherever you get your podcasts.

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