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Sam Darnold: "I'm So Happy To Be A Part Of This Group" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So great team win, great team win. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: came out, we did exactly what we want to do
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  Speaker 1: on offense. You know, I thought that was a great
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  Speaker 1: first touchdown drive and then kind of hit a loll
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  Speaker 1: you know in the second third quarter, got things going
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  Speaker 1: a little bit there in between those lowles, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: But just a total complete team win. Special team stepping
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  Speaker 1: up on the muffed punt, Derek, you know, recovering that
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  Speaker 1: was huge for us, especially going into into half so
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  Speaker 1: and then getting the ball back. You know, our defense
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  Speaker 1: just playing lights out that fourth down they hit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was fourth and fourth something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Just an incredible stop by our guys. So just to
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  Speaker 1: like I said, complete team win and very proud, very
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  Speaker 1: proud of this group. Say that last drive he guys
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  Speaker 1: had second and six down to your shadow of your
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  Speaker 1: goal line, and then he gets another second down that
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  Speaker 1: you guys threw it on hit a boot leg. How
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  Speaker 1: much confidece that inspired for the entire offense in that
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  Speaker 1: situation where a lot of teams might just run run
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  Speaker 1: to put the ball in your hands, in the receiver's
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  Speaker 1: hands to go win the game. Yeah, I mean we
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  Speaker 1: practice these situations all the time. I feel like I
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  Speaker 1: say that, you know, whenever we do really good things situationally,
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  Speaker 1: you guys ask about the situations, and it's just because
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  Speaker 1: we practice it all the time. We practice it every
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  Speaker 1: single day almost so our coaches are really confident, not
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  Speaker 1: only in myself but in our entire offense to just
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  Speaker 1: go out there and execute whatever play is called. And
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  Speaker 1: they know in those four minute kind of situations that
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take care of it and you know, keep
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  Speaker 1: the clock running. If I have to, have you ever
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  Speaker 1: practiced less over for a week and then played, it's
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  Speaker 1: a great question. I don't know. I don't think so. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you concerned it all about the lack of practice time,
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  Speaker 1: Not really, I think, you know, I've actually talked to
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  Speaker 1: my teammates about this, but you know, I think we,
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  Speaker 1: you know, middle of the season, week nine or ten,
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  Speaker 1: I think it might have been a bigger problem, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but with all the reps that we've accumulated throughout the
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  Speaker 1: season and throughout training camp, ota is all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't really concerned about, you know, timing or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that on on certain routes. I feel playing through
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  Speaker 1: the injury for a second straight week Yeah, I felt good,
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  Speaker 1: you know, felt good poetic for Cooper Cup the way
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  Speaker 1: that wounded up is that gratifying for you and knowing
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  Speaker 1: what he's meant for the team, you know what. I
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  Speaker 1: know Coop doesn't think about it like that, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: just for him to just be able to step up
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  Speaker 1: on a day to day basis for us, not only
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  Speaker 1: in games, but in practice in the facility, like he's
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  Speaker 1: a he's a true leader for us. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I say that all the time when I talk about him,
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  Speaker 1: but it's true. You know, he's he's a great leader
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  Speaker 1: and someone who's just going to continue to do his
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  Speaker 1: job every single day. Let's say about just d White,
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  Speaker 1: Jacks played the one handed cash that keep all over
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  Speaker 1: the middle of he kicks a picked up yeah, in
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  Speaker 1: one handed catch. I mean, I'm not really surprised at
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  Speaker 1: this point anymore about you know, some of the stuff
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  Speaker 1: that Jack says on a football field. But yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: a great player, and you know, I can't give enough
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  Speaker 1: kudos to the guys around him as well in this
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  Speaker 1: in the skill group, you know, the other receivers, she'd
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  Speaker 1: stepping up, Bobo having a good game. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: talk about all the running backs that stepped up, George
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  Speaker 1: Lawanne stepping up for Sharps the way that he did
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  Speaker 1: tonight was huge. Obviously Ken doing his thing, and our
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  Speaker 1: tight ends, our tight ends do it all. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously the offensive line as well. Uh, they do a
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  Speaker 1: good job. But yeah, just our entire offense has been clicking,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, we're a tight group, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, you can kind of see that with
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  Speaker 1: the way we play. So the way the way your
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  Speaker 1: teammates talk about you, the way your coaches talked about you,
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  Speaker 1: stand up for you. How rewarding is it in the
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  Speaker 1: biggest game of the season to have a huge performance
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  Speaker 1: the way you did sort of validate all that, you know, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that they support you with Yeah, you know, it's great.
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  Speaker 1: It's great that you know, I feel that support, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not not with only their words, but you know, just
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  Speaker 1: with how everyone treats each other in the building. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of respect that goes around the building. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: respects the work that you know, we all put into
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  Speaker 1: this great game. And so you know, I'm just I'm
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  Speaker 1: happy to be a part of this team and this
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  Speaker 1: group and and this coaching staff is just uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really happy to be here, happy to be in
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  Speaker 1: this position. I'm just going to continue to do the
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  Speaker 1: best that I can to put this team in position
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  Speaker 1: in positions to win football games. But you reflecting the
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  Speaker 1: guy that we'll see it goes six years ago to
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  Speaker 1: gets Patriots, and I'm going to see him again the big,
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  Speaker 1: biggest game of your life. Just maybe maybe what you
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  Speaker 1: say to that guy back then or what the biggest
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  Speaker 1: evolution is that you over that period of time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I almost forgot about it. So thanks. Uh no, you're
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  Speaker 1: you're good. No, I think for me like I you know,
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  Speaker 1: there was a lot that I didn't know back then.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I'm just going to continue to to
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  Speaker 1: learn and grow in this in this great game. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of stuff that I can
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  Speaker 1: get better from today. Even you know, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I missed some throws out there that I that I
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't miss. You know, there there were some things offensively
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  Speaker 1: that I feel like we can do better. So we're
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  Speaker 1: always looking to to get better. I'm always looking to
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  Speaker 1: get better. So that's a great part of about this
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  Speaker 1: game is you know, you win an nf NFC championship,
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  Speaker 1: and you win games throughout the season, but there's always
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  Speaker 1: ways that you can look to get better. Bobo was
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  Speaker 1: always accurate for a lot of these games. Throw a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown pass, you know, your big situation, you do what
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  Speaker 1: you can catch them, right, Yeah, oh absolutely, Yeah. Bobo's
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  Speaker 1: a man. He's uh, you know, he's stepped up for us,
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  Speaker 1: you know in other ways throughout the season, you know,
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  Speaker 1: blocking doing his thing on teams. But you know, he
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  Speaker 1: came up big as well last week, you know with
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  Speaker 1: that third down conversion. So you know we you know
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  Speaker 1: me personally and I know the coaches and the other
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  Speaker 1: players as well, have a ton of trust in him
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  Speaker 1: that play. As you go to him back again, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they just brought you know, their uh there there too.
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  Speaker 1: There are two pressure, you know, the way they bring
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  Speaker 1: the corner and play cover two behind it. And Bobo
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  Speaker 1: ran a great route. You know, he ran a great
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  Speaker 1: route on the corner. Who ended up being that that
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  Speaker 1: half player and uh, you know, I just tried to
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  Speaker 1: put it in a position to where he could you know,
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  Speaker 1: put himself in between the ball and the defender. See,
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  Speaker 1: I were the first quarterback from your draft class. Draft
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  Speaker 1: class that includes Josh Allen Lamar Jackson, Baker may but
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  Speaker 1: the first one to make it to a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: What does it mean to you personally? Yeah, I actually
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  Speaker 1: made it in twenty three as well, when I was
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  Speaker 1: in San Francisco, So uh no, I'm just messing with you.
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  Speaker 1: Uh No, it's uh, it's unbelievable and just uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously those are great players, but you know, just it's
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  Speaker 1: it's more so the team, you know, just the hard
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  Speaker 1: work that we've put in throughout this season. OTA's training camp.
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  Speaker 1: I talked about it a lot, but and I know
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  Speaker 1: every team works really hard in that in that off
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  Speaker 1: season when we're just working together, and but to be
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  Speaker 1: able to go against that defense every single day, you
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  Speaker 1: know that that got us better as an offense. And
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  Speaker 1: I know they could say the same thing about us.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we just we take it day by day.
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  Speaker 1: And then that's the beauty about this team and and
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  Speaker 1: these guys in that locker room, this coaching staff is
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna celebrate tonight, We're gonna celebrate tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: in the meeting, and then we're gonna move on and
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  Speaker 1: everyone's gonna look to see how they can get better
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  Speaker 1: for this game coming up. In a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks guys, Thank you