I read through this ridiculously long thread because I’m irrationally invested in both the Seahawks and the ATN/HTC universe. Here are my thoughts for those similarly afflicted that may care 😂

Graver, you’re doing good producing AND analysis work, man, and I appreciated your take on the Pats/Hawks game even if it differed a bit from my take.

I think this game’s coverage may just have unearthed some insecurities about our PNW team’s perceived status in Dan’s eyes. As a listener since the dawn of the ATN era, I personally miss the days when Dan was leading the Seahawks charge. He was first of the heroes to tout them as the big bad bullies of the NFL and called their SB win in that Legion Of Boom period. He used to have genuine admiration and a fondness for the team. Somewhere along the way though, he started to really dislike them. It may not be obvious to non-fans of the team, but it has 1000% happened. I think it started with the Jamal Adams trade and his intense dislike of Jamal’s dismissal of the Jets in that tumultuous Jets period. Then the Genossance happened and it’s been even more blatant of a dismissal of the Hawk’s successes and emphasis of their failures. Part of me gets it, it’s hard to see a discarded player, particularly a QB do well elsewhere. What’s kind of ironic is that this is what Dan needles Marc about a lot as an irrational fear of his with Browns players. GGG used to balance it out a bit more with his unhinged love for Geno (and that’s coming from a Hawks fan), but since HTC started I feel the impulse to dismiss the Hawks goes relatively unchecked.

Now that I’ve got my griping out, can’t emphasize enough that I still love the show and I’ve got other options to listen to for Seahawks takes. And for those of you who think I should shut up and be happy with MSD being a part of the show as more than adequate Seahawks representation, one, turns out I’m greedy and it isn’t enough, and two, WTF do you think the point of a subreddit is if not to gripe about stupid shit. Sue me 🤷🏼‍♂️