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Sam Darnold: "We'll Bounce Back & Be Better Next Week" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Obviously, uh you know, uh, not the start that we
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  Speaker 1: wanted obviously. Uh, you know, credit those guys. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought their defense came out and played played really well.
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  Speaker 1: They had some good scheme obviously, you know, Coach Shanahan
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  Speaker 1: and the guys over there are gonna be ready to roll.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, for us, it was just not
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  Speaker 1: enough today. And I felt like, you know, we weren't
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  Speaker 1: as efficient as we wanted to be on first and
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  Speaker 1: second down and third down. We got to be way
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  Speaker 1: better as well. So just yeah, not not our best
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  Speaker 1: day today, but we'll bounce back and be better next week. Lucas,
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  Speaker 1: it came out off somebody. I don't know who who
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  Speaker 1: hit it or what I think. Uh, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was off one of our offensive lineman's back. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't slip out or anything like that. I was
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  Speaker 1: just gonna check it down. Wish you had gone more
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  Speaker 1: than one at the nineteen. I mean, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: it's not my decision. Second of all, that's a that's
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  Speaker 1: a tough call. You know. I know, we're you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever whatever Mike you know wants to do in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: We believe fully in that. You know, if if we
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  Speaker 1: want to kick the field goal, great, if we want
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  Speaker 1: to go for it, great, But for us, it's just
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  Speaker 1: about going out there executing. And like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like we just didn't do a good enough job
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  Speaker 1: of that today. What did you the running game seemed
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  Speaker 1: like it was going pretty low early and then it
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  Speaker 1: kind of stalled a little bit. Did did they do
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  Speaker 1: something or what did you feel like happening? No, I think,
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah, I think for the most part, especially early on,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like we you know, we got some good
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  Speaker 1: runs in there, and and like you mentioned it, kind
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  Speaker 1: of you know, we got some you know, one two
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  Speaker 1: yard runs, but no, I think, you know, at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the game as well, in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like we were able to get some good
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  Speaker 1: runs in there. So I felt like the guys ran
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  Speaker 1: the ball well. Like I said, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously it wasn't the result we wanted. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the stats exactly look like, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if they're I don't think they're great, But
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  Speaker 1: we didn't. You know, I thought we ran the ball
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  Speaker 1: well early in the game, and then we ran the
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  Speaker 1: ball well at the end. You know, I think, for
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  Speaker 1: for me, personally, I think I just need to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of some of their looks on third down,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hit our guys and and you know, just
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  Speaker 1: be better overall and more efficient on first and second
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  Speaker 1: down with Jacks show you have the big game and
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  Speaker 1: he has to fumble then to come back and have
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  Speaker 1: to catch it l Yeah, it's resilient, man. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson is a you know, resilient player. He's been through
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  Speaker 1: a lot so far in his early career. You know,
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  Speaker 1: those are the things that we expect from him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: go out there, You're gonna play fast, and you know
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  Speaker 1: mistakes are gonna happen, but it's about how you bounce back.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought Jacks did a really good job of
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  Speaker 1: doing that. Else Sam, in terms of being efficient on
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  Speaker 1: first and second down, what needs to happen there? Haven't
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  Speaker 1: you haven't looked at the film? Yeah, I think when
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  Speaker 1: I say that, I mean just you know, getting three
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  Speaker 1: or four yards on first down, getting three or four
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  Speaker 1: yards instid of getting in those third and short manageable
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  Speaker 1: situations when you start to get backed up a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and the second and ten obviously you want
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  Speaker 1: to be able to get five, getting that manageable. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think just as a whole, I think we just
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  Speaker 1: got to be better, more efficient on first second, now
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  Speaker 1: they had to credit their scheme. Was there anything particular
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  Speaker 1: stoy you know, in particular they switched up some of
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  Speaker 1: the fronts. You know, obviously they got really good players,
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  Speaker 1: you know, fred Bosa. You know, I thought they they
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  Speaker 1: played really well today. Obviously they got other other really
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  Speaker 1: good players as well. So again, like I said, just
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  Speaker 1: credit to those guys. You know, I thought they prepared
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  Speaker 1: really well, they had a they had a good plan.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think I think we just got to
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  Speaker 1: play better as an offense. And we'll leave it at that.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy to say or ask this now, but do
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  Speaker 1: you think there's any connection to just kind of some
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  Speaker 1: of the offensive struggles today? And then, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you're, you know, installing a new offense
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  Speaker 1: and you only got one series in the preseason, none
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  Speaker 1: you have thereby joint practice, but just not not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of reps to that. No, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think for us, we knew right away, you know,
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  Speaker 1: after we came off the field, after I came off
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  Speaker 1: the field after the game, I knew that wasn't our standard,
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  Speaker 1: and that's not how we that's not how we do things.
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  Speaker 1: And we knew that. I knew that personally. I talked
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  Speaker 1: to some of the guys already, and we're just going
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  Speaker 1: to continue to grow and get better from it and
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  Speaker 1: we'll be all right. What's the process for you to
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  Speaker 1: to get to your standard? When you say today wasn't
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  Speaker 1: your sound? Yeah, I think the process is the process.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just going in tomorrow looking at the tape,
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  Speaker 1: understanding how we can be better, Understanding you know, every
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  Speaker 1: guy looking in the mirror and saying, okay, how can
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  Speaker 1: I be better? But nothing more than that, I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I thought we had a really good week
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  Speaker 1: of practice. I thought we came out with the right
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  Speaker 1: intentions every single day. You know, just it didn't, you know,
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  Speaker 1: work out the way that we wanted to on the field.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we'll be better that way and we'll
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  Speaker 1: grow and continue to you know, stride to be the
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  Speaker 1: best offense we can be. Seem what do you think
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  Speaker 1: of the protection throughout the day that goes as a
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  Speaker 1: sack at the end, but only one other day for you,
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  Speaker 1: only a couple of hits. Would you kind of that
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  Speaker 1: group held up. Yeah, I thought the old line protected
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  Speaker 1: really well all day. You know, I was able to
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  Speaker 1: go through my progressions get the ball out. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I thought they did well all day. And so bring
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  Speaker 1: big credit to those guys the work that they put
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  Speaker 1: in throughout the offseason. Appreciate it, guys,