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Mike Macdonald: "We're Very Excited About Where We Going" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good to see everybody that made the trip.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, going in today, our our goal
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  Speaker 2: is to get great work. I think we accomplished that goal. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be it's awesome, awesome opportunity to have a
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  Speaker 2: pretty heavy practice in this heat and humidity. I think
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  Speaker 2: they said it's a little bit cooler than it's been here.
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  Speaker 2: Just kind of crazy. But so we had some guys
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  Speaker 2: go down with some cramps and things like that, but overall, great,
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  Speaker 2: great work day. Hart goes out to you know, Jake Bobo, he's,
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  Speaker 2: he's it seems like it's gonna be a serious knee.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna get an image, but early returns, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just looks like it's a long a long term injury.
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  Speaker 1: So that's unfortunate. But go ahead, Joe. You guys talking
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  Speaker 1: about what he brings.
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  Speaker 2: Thee Uh, he's he's a beast man. He's just a great,
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  Speaker 2: great football player, great seahawk. I think hopefully we reflected
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  Speaker 2: that and you know, our investment in him, but we
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  Speaker 2: love him. We'll be there beside him, you know as
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  Speaker 2: he recovers and pray it's a speedy, speedy recovery.
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  Speaker 1: So but we love them. Yeah, we did we just say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we set a prayer for him.
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  Speaker 3: You know, just.
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  Speaker 2: Hate to see it. I think everything else is heat related. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but everybody's stable and yeah. Yeah overall with this and
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  Speaker 2: travel across the country, just the people behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: Are making it happen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, thanks for bringing up John. Our ops folks
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  Speaker 2: are are just off the chain equipment people Jeremy would travel. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: they've just doesn't They've done a tremendous job Andrea and
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  Speaker 2: all the all the food nutrition and then really just
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  Speaker 2: from our leadership just you know, the investment it takes
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  Speaker 2: to to basically move move a club across the country
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  Speaker 2: for a good two hour and you know, two and
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  Speaker 2: a half hour session to really invest in our team.
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  Speaker 2: So we really appreciate it. We definitely became got better today,
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  Speaker 2: which is which is great. So uh, very just very
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  Speaker 2: excited about where we're going.
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  Speaker 3: We have the fins come down for the scuffle between
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  Speaker 3: I think cowboys and the sets. There may have been
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  Speaker 3: one little scuffle today. How do you like the way
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  Speaker 3: things came in and do you what do you like
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  Speaker 3: about what.
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  Speaker 2: You get out of the joint practice. I thought our
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  Speaker 2: guys handle it really well today, you know, there's there's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be some them some you know, there's some excess
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  Speaker 2: energy at some point. But it's it's how well you
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  Speaker 2: kind of collect yourself, take a deep breath, and get
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  Speaker 2: to the next play. So our guys knew that we
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  Speaker 2: we it was really important for us today to get
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  Speaker 2: great working and so that was really our focus and
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  Speaker 2: I think I think we hit that target for the
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  Speaker 2: most part, which is great.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we.
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  Speaker 2: Got we got a lot of reps in if you
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  Speaker 2: play starters in a in a preseason game, you're looking
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  Speaker 2: at maybe upwards of twenty reps, but now you're getting
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  Speaker 2: you know, upwards a four year fifty really good physical reps,
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  Speaker 2: but in a little more controlled environment, which is which
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  Speaker 2: is a positive for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: So, but you got to nail the execution.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it takes both clubs to work together, it
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  Speaker 2: takes both teams to work together. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: logistics involved in So that's that's why I think why
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  Speaker 2: I'm so pleased, it's just it took everybody kind of
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  Speaker 2: pushing the same direction to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Today.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't talked how can you put Yeah, we're getting
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  Speaker 2: him up to speed. He's on kind of a ramp
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  Speaker 2: back into practice mode. So you know he didn't do
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  Speaker 2: he just working on his conditioning right now and then
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  Speaker 2: he'll be out to practice at some point next week.
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  Speaker 2: I think compared to what you saw from Camboardon's rookie
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  Speaker 2: last year, are there areas or is there anything you're
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  Speaker 2: seeing from him?
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  Speaker 1: Just I know it's one practice, but does he look different?
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  Speaker 2: I can speak to how will he played today? He's
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  Speaker 2: in command of the offense. He's doing did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: We all saw the game last year. I thought, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was a pain in the neck last
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  Speaker 2: year too, So it seems like he's gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: really good season.
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  Speaker 1: Did you say mostly with your defense today? I did. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I like when we were done with defense, I kind
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  Speaker 2: of popped over offense when they were still going. But
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  Speaker 2: I think I think we're gonna watch the tape and
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  Speaker 2: like a lot of things we saw, and then we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna watch the tape and not some things. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of par for the course. But I think
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just a it's a great opportunity. You're
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  Speaker 2: going against a different operation, a different run, different run schemes,
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  Speaker 2: different past game.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, play our rules out, you know, just kind of
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  Speaker 1: go play ball.
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  Speaker 2: And so there's there's some things that they're off the
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  Speaker 2: top of my head that are are not above the line,
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  Speaker 2: which we'll attack those and get those things figured out.
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  Speaker 2: But overall, I thought it was a good day.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say, but apparently Ocata had a pick six.
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  Speaker 1: What was your view at that point?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, it was a great play. Just was in
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  Speaker 2: the right spot at the right time and caught it
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  Speaker 2: and took it to the house. It was pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 2: What was the period of practice you were most looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to seeing, like your defense catch up with those
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  Speaker 2: game situations, all the above and everything has an intent,
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  Speaker 2: you know, red zone period, we want to actually get
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  Speaker 2: our red zone defense. You know, like I think the
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  Speaker 2: scripted periods are good. You get to see some of
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  Speaker 2: the things, some things I call them like a probably
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't be uh probably not a good good defense to
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  Speaker 2: play these guys, so we're all learning. And then the
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  Speaker 2: two minute period, you know, we had a penalty there
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  Speaker 2: a DPI moved the ball back down.
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  Speaker 1: So but other than I thought the guys played pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: With the Sorry with Okada this time last year, he's
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  Speaker 2: competing for you know, maybe a third safety job roster
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  Speaker 2: spot all that to be like, what have you seen
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  Speaker 2: out of him?
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  Speaker 1: How he's progressed growing in the starting role and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's got a ton of confidence.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, and he's he's taken on more of a leadership
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  Speaker 2: role too, you know, in terms of really holding our
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  Speaker 2: younger guys to a higher standard, which is great. We
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  Speaker 2: need that right now from those guys. But uh, from
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  Speaker 2: my from from my stance, he's he's playing really good football.
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  Speaker 1: Look like a lot of how do you view that
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  Speaker 1: competition right now? Yeah, it's still rolling.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're we're trying to figure out what's the
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  Speaker 2: best combinations we have in our secondary going into the
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  Speaker 2: going into the season.
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  Speaker 1: So I know it's right there. Might he's right there,
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  Speaker 1: got a couple other guys.
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  Speaker 3: In the Bucks we haven't seen in a couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's still still working through.
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  Speaker 2: His his stuff. He's he's gonna be out for for
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  Speaker 2: a period of time. Sorry, I just I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to tell you. Looked like Juderia Price got some work
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  Speaker 2: with with you know, just kind of contact work today
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. Yeah, I mean he's he's ramping back,
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  Speaker 2: So it's not responsible to give him a thousand thousand
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  Speaker 2: carries or you know, after after being down for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm eager to watch the tape, so I was
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to see him play today. Any advice or.
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  Speaker 1: The tips he shirt with Robert tricks in the Trader. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: right now, Robert, Robert doesn't need my help, trust me.
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  Speaker 2: He's uh, he's doing We had great work today. So
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, they're it seems like they're doing a lot
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  Speaker 2: of good stuff. He doesn't need my help anything else.
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  Speaker 1: But Julian neil see any closer to getting getting closer.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting closer.
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  Speaker 2: If I knew the date, Bob, I would tell you
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  Speaker 2: that he is gonna be there at this day.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thank you everybody. Awesome, all right, thanks guys.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing a bit