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Sam Darnold: "There's A Lot Of Football Left And We Need To Get Better" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no way to sugarcoat it. That one sucked. You know,
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  Speaker 1: can't turn the ball over. You know, that's obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: at the forefront of my mind. But there's just a lot,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a lot we can do better. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously we're driving, we're running the ball and, You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're dropping back and having some things work in the
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  Speaker 1: drop-back game. Some of the play-action stuff was a little
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  Speaker 1: iffy tonight. But, yeah, we just got to be better
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  Speaker 1: all around, and it starts with me. So we just
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  Speaker 1: got to, you know, look at who we are as
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  Speaker 1: an offense, look at kind of things that we do well,
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  Speaker 1: things that we don't do well, and go from there.
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  Speaker 1: What do you feel like you do well at this point? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, I pretty much said it. I think, like,
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  Speaker 1: our run game, is good at times, and then there's
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  Speaker 1: some times where it's not so good, but that's how
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  Speaker 1: it goes. Like, sometimes you're not going to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get five or six yards every single time you run
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  Speaker 1: the football. But, you know, I felt like our run
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  Speaker 1: game was pretty good at times tonight. And then, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like, again, it's just one of those things. Like,
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  Speaker 1: when you have a defense and a special teams group
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  Speaker 1: that's playing the way that they are for us, like,
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  Speaker 1: for me, I just got to protect the football. And
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  Speaker 1: dropping back and taking what they give me, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I did a pretty good job of that in
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  Speaker 1: the first half. And then late in the second half, man,
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  Speaker 1: those two plays, it's just can't have it. You got
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  Speaker 1: hit like I think 17 times today. Was that something
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  Speaker 1: Debra was doing? Was that protection or how would you
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  Speaker 1: sum up that? Yeah, again, you got to give credit
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  Speaker 1: to those guys. You know, they got a really tough defense,
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  Speaker 1: really good defensive coordinator in Vance. And, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: obviously things that we can do better, but it's tough
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  Speaker 1: to say without looking at the tape yet. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think the biggest difference has been since last year?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not going to compare last year and
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  Speaker 1: this year. It's the 20-26 Seahawks. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things that we need to get better at, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: just leave it at that. What did you see on
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  Speaker 1: the two picks? Yeah, I think the first one, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I had Coop in the flat, thought his
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  Speaker 1: man might have been driving it, just wanted to progress
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  Speaker 1: and felt like I had some good options, especially in
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  Speaker 1: their man coverage on that play specifically. And just got
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of pressure and forced me to make
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  Speaker 1: an errant throw. And, yeah, just guy made a good
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  Speaker 1: play as well. But, you know, and then the other
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  Speaker 1: one just got greedy. You know, they did a good
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  Speaker 1: job in their, you know, cover two type defense. Got
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  Speaker 1: greedy in choosing Shaheed or throwing it on the line
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  Speaker 1: or both? No, just, I mean, you know, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like that play specifically, I should have just gotten it
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  Speaker 1: down to Koop. Koop ran a really good route, you know,
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  Speaker 1: right under the sticks. And I feel like he would
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  Speaker 1: have caught it and got the first down. So. Just
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  Speaker 1: got to continue to go through my progressions and trust it.
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  Speaker 1: You told us back in Renton you wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: more decisive. How did you move in that regard? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I was pretty decisive, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: first and second, you know, first half, first and second quarter.
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  Speaker 1: You know, really the whole game I felt like I
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  Speaker 1: was really decisive. I just, you know, there's a couple
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  Speaker 1: plays I'd like to have back. And, you know, unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: sometimes that's how football goes. But, you know, it's not
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  Speaker 1: acceptable for us to– for me. to keep turning the
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  Speaker 1: ball over that way. We have told us that you
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  Speaker 1: talked to the team right away and kind of put
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  Speaker 1: it on you. Why was that important to you to
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  Speaker 1: do that? I just think it's BS, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: me to keep turning the ball over. And it's not
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  Speaker 1: fair to our defense, not fair to our special teams group,
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  Speaker 1: not fair really to the entire team. So, I've got
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  Speaker 1: to be better that way. Are you, like, right physically?
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  Speaker 1: You had the injury or whatever. Are you okay physically? Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I feel good. He's 15 hits. At one point it
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  Speaker 1: was 15 hits anyway. I mean, how was that kind
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  Speaker 1: of dealing with that and the constant pressure that they had? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, again, like I said, you know, they have
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  Speaker 1: a good defense, you know, and really good pass rushers.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else? When you take a step a little bit
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  Speaker 1: back and say we're 3-3, is it a solace that
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  Speaker 1: you guys know why? If you cut down the turnovers,
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  Speaker 1: you cut down the penalty mistakes on the one hand,
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  Speaker 1: you're probably losing. Is that a loss or still a loss?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you can look at it however you want.
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  Speaker 1: We're 3-3. There's a lot of football left, and we
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  Speaker 1: need to get better. You've been sacked 10 times the
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  Speaker 1: last two weeks on your end. What is the game
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  Speaker 1: contributing to that even? Yeah, I think, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: could do a better job of getting the ball out. Thanks, guys.