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Mike Macdonald: "That Was A Great First Start" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I just say, like, hey, great first start. Just proud
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  Speaker 1: of the mentality, you know, the focus that we had
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  Speaker 1: taking the game, you know, the intent. It felt like
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  Speaker 1: the guys played really hard, felt like they were focused,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to the first game. So just first time
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  Speaker 1: doing all the operation stuff for real. Uh So I
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  Speaker 1: thought our operation was cleaning for the most part. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure that. You know, I've got a bunch of notes
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  Speaker 1: written down as the game kind of unfolded. There things
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  Speaker 1: that we're gonna want to chase and kind of debrief on.
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  Speaker 1: But overall, I'd just say it's you know, it's a
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  Speaker 1: I'd say it's a foundational first game. You know, this
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  Speaker 1: is something we want to build on. Uh, there'll be
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  Speaker 1: plenty of details on tape that we're gonna you know,
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  Speaker 1: dive into. And I can't wait to watch the tape
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  Speaker 1: and see how the guys did. When you're trying to
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  Speaker 1: install a new defense and still mentality and all that,
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  Speaker 1: just how big is it for the guy's confidence to
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  Speaker 1: build off something like this. Well, we definitely wanted to
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  Speaker 1: you know, we played the most majority of our starters
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  Speaker 1: on defense, so we definitely wanted to start fast and uh,
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  Speaker 1: just get a feel for getting the calls in the
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  Speaker 1: subs situational ball for real, you know, and uh, the
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  Speaker 1: guys were locked in. I thought, I thought we did
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  Speaker 1: a good job of getting the calls in fact as
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  Speaker 1: and the guys communicated well in the back end, especially
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  Speaker 1: when they started going going faster there. And I think
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  Speaker 1: it was the third drive or so. So yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was very important expected. I mean, I always I always
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  Speaker 1: expect us to go out and play hard and play
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  Speaker 1: physical and be cleaned. And if it's not the way
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  Speaker 1: we want to look, then you know, we're gonna want
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  Speaker 1: to make that right. But yeah, I think you know
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  Speaker 1: there's something there. Again, it's not wasn't a perfect showing
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  Speaker 1: by any stretch, and but it was a solid start
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  Speaker 1: and I think the guys know that like we should.
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  Speaker 1: We should take it. We should be able to take
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  Speaker 1: a jump here moving forward. And we got a big
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  Speaker 1: week ahead of us, you know, practicing against Tennessee and
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  Speaker 1: then having another game against those guys, so we're looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to that. Man. I thought our front played really well,
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  Speaker 1: the back end was clean with the first couple of
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  Speaker 1: guys felt their presence back. I felt we tackled well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so all the all the fundamentals, all that
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  Speaker 1: type of stuff. First time tackling for real, especially with
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  Speaker 1: the ones and twos. Felt like I felt like the
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  Speaker 1: guys we had in the ball were taking good angles
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  Speaker 1: for the most part. What did you think of how
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  Speaker 1: Sam Howill played. I thought Sam played really well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: moving the offense. Not all the starters played. I think
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  Speaker 1: we had a couple of the interior tier line guys
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  Speaker 1: that were the only ones in there. Great to see
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  Speaker 1: him come back out in the second half and you know,
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  Speaker 1: move all the way down the field and you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously we want to close that drive out. But I
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  Speaker 1: thought we operated with that. I made some great decisions
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  Speaker 1: singing around. I'm sure there's some plays that we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: you know, he'd want back and that's good. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's never gonna be a perfect performance, but I definitely
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  Speaker 1: definitely pleased. Do you feel like you guys are in
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  Speaker 1: the ball? I felt us up up front again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll look at the schemes. We don't have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of schemes up We'll see how you know, we targeted
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  Speaker 1: some certain things, and but I felt like the guys
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  Speaker 1: were getting off the rock, and you know that that
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  Speaker 1: should go what it's expected, move forward. Good to see
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  Speaker 1: Byron Murphy again in the backfield. Yeah, it was great
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  Speaker 1: to see him make a couple of plays, you know,
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  Speaker 1: first first game action. He was all juiced and the
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  Speaker 1: guys were excited for him, so that that was cool
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  Speaker 1: to see. Kobe Bryant I get just said that whole play.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, capon I guess makes it, makes the big
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  Speaker 1: hit and Kobe makes the interception. There's yeah, team football man,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, good pocket, guys communicated, made the right
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  Speaker 1: checks in the back end. We're in our spots on
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  Speaker 1: play action, you know, at tack the football and then uh,
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  Speaker 1: when when it comes to us, let's go make the
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  Speaker 1: play and try to go score. Did you how you
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  Speaker 1: covered it? Yeah, I'd say, uh, from hot and cold.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of great things to show.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, uh, this is this is return was definitely
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  Speaker 1: a highlight. Uh, there's a couple of things where we
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  Speaker 1: got to look at you know, how we're blocking some
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  Speaker 1: certain things, especially when the ball is going across the field.
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  Speaker 1: But again, you know, I think it's it'd be fun
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  Speaker 1: film to watch and and hey, guys, you know that
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  Speaker 1: now we saw it for real. This is the temple
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  Speaker 1: of the play. Let's change our targets, our counts, things
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  Speaker 1: like that, make sure our angles are on point, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know we should take a big jump here and
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. Nick Carras started the center and then came
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  Speaker 1: in after that. Yeah, that was just the play and
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  Speaker 1: going into the game. But yeah, they're battling it out
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  Speaker 1: right now, and you expect Connor Williams on Monday or
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  Speaker 1: you know, he should be coming in town pretty soon. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because you mentioned you took a bunch of notes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the games going on, how did you
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  Speaker 1: feel about your process just being the head coach and
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  Speaker 1: how important are the visit game in the next two
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  Speaker 1: games kind of just figuring things out for the regular
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  Speaker 1: season start. Yeah, very important. I thought for the most
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  Speaker 1: part we were on point of that our decision making
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  Speaker 1: and gave Grub the necessary information. I thought all that
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  Speaker 1: stuff was about as good as expected. But yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's it's tricky. You know, you're you're calling
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  Speaker 1: the game on defense and you're making adjustments and you're
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  Speaker 1: back on off. I mean, you know, it's the way
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  Speaker 1: it goes. So you got to be good. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: be on point. So expected to be expected to be
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  Speaker 1: sharp moving forward, and uh, that's my responsibility. Grow upstairs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be up there. Was there anything you learned as
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  Speaker 1: a head coach before? Love our guys coach according to
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  Speaker 1: the season, what would you want your identity to be? H?
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  Speaker 1: I think, I mean we're on record with this, but
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  Speaker 1: just just just a a style that's really tough to play.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's all the things, all the edges that
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  Speaker 1: we're chasing. Our mentality. We want to be rock solid.
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  Speaker 1: We say twelve is one. We want to be together, connected,
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  Speaker 1: all those things. You know, guys, everybody pushing the same
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  Speaker 1: direction and we're not there yet, you know, but we're
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  Speaker 1: but that's the vision. The guys know it. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're on our way, and the you know, faster we
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  Speaker 1: could push together, the you know, the further we'll go.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, you know step one is that third and
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  Speaker 1: fourth and goal from the one coaching point, Yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: want to we want to close drives out for sure.
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  Speaker 1: The guys guys know that. You know. I'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 1: look at how we blocked it and all that, but
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  Speaker 1: it've been great to finish that drive out. Any enough?
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  Speaker 1: Thanks going all right? Thank you,