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Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "I'm Excited For This Upcoming Season" | Press Conference - August 5, 2024 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hello, back out there throwing it around again. Yeah, good
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  Speaker 1: to see you know out there. What did you see.
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  Speaker 1: We've heard you know, players on both sides of all
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  Speaker 1: kind of raving about his play this camps. What have
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  Speaker 1: you seen for you know, you know, coming this year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all off season, I've just seen you know, him pushing us,
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  Speaker 1: pushing himself first and then just pushing us to get
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  Speaker 1: to the next level, get to where we want to be.
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  Speaker 1: And he's been he's been the head guy, the lead
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  Speaker 1: at that and uh, you know, he's been coming out
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  Speaker 1: here every day and proving you know that he's ready
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  Speaker 1: and that you know, this year is gonna look a
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  Speaker 1: little different. So, I mean, we're all on board and
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  Speaker 1: it was it's good for him to be back and
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  Speaker 1: to get back with us and for us to get
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  Speaker 1: to get to rolling again. What do you feel like
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  Speaker 1: you truly get out of those offseason throwing sessions when
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  Speaker 1: you guys get together in Florida, Texas wherever it is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the best thing is just time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: spent together, you know, face to face, being able to
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  Speaker 1: really slow down and really calculate, you know, what he
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  Speaker 1: wants and what he expects and just hear him, just
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  Speaker 1: just talk, you know, honestly, and just get to get
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  Speaker 1: inside his mind and see what he likes, see what
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't like, and you know, just able to slow
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  Speaker 1: slow it down and you know, just try to reach
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  Speaker 1: perfection honestly. So it's good in the off season to
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  Speaker 1: have that time where no one's around and it's just
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  Speaker 1: us and we can just talk ball and how we
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  Speaker 1: can be better with him. Yeah. Yeah, he came to Texas, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: that nice. You know, he's not saying all you come
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  Speaker 1: fly out here like I'm gonna come to you that
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  Speaker 1: show you something bad and oh yeah, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, since I met him, I mean he's been,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of the hardest workers I've been around.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, every day I don't know how he
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  Speaker 1: does it, but you know he can sling the ball
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  Speaker 1: a thousand times a day, like literally, So it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter where we're at, what time of day it is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's always willing to work, and you know
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be, you know, next to him working always whenever.
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  Speaker 1: There is there an element of your game looking back
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  Speaker 1: at last season where you think, Okay, I have more
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  Speaker 1: in the tank in this area and you know specifically
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  Speaker 1: than I just showed to this point. Yeah, really just
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  Speaker 1: you know, slowing the game down and really making defenders
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  Speaker 1: feel my moves, just really understanding the timing and the
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  Speaker 1: progression of the quarterback. I feel like it's way better
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just my timing and you know things
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  Speaker 1: different things I can sell, you know, sell against you know,
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  Speaker 1: the dB. I feel like my mind has been you
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  Speaker 1: know better, and you know it's been We've seen a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of progress, but got to keep Working's what's
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  Speaker 1: Coach Grubb? You know, perfectionists. You know, he's he's a
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  Speaker 1: Since I met him, he's just been a good person,
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  Speaker 1: a good a good guy, a good leader. Good good
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  Speaker 1: for us to hear that that voice in our room
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  Speaker 1: expect he's he expects big things from us and puts
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  Speaker 1: us in the right position so far. So I'm excited,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for this upcoming season. Stands out for you
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  Speaker 1: about his playbook if anything, I mean when I when
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  Speaker 1: I see the playbook, you know, my eyes just you
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  Speaker 1: know get wide, and you know, I just see a
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  Speaker 1: lot of possible explosive plays. You know, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: answers to whatever the defense is in. So you know
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  Speaker 1: that always makes receiver feel good. So you think you
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  Speaker 1: could be used maybe in a few more ways this year,
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  Speaker 1: or a little more diversity to how you're used in
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  Speaker 1: the routes you run and things like that that maybe
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  Speaker 1: you were last say. Yeah, I mean, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think coach Grubb has been doing a good job. Our
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  Speaker 1: whole offensive coaching staff has been doing a good job
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  Speaker 1: of just mixing it up and really putting the best players,
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  Speaker 1: putting the best players you know at what they do,
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  Speaker 1: and just allowing them to do that. So I definitely
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  Speaker 1: feel feel good about, you know, where we're at, Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: understanding it's always going to be an ongoing process with
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  Speaker 1: the playbook and such. How close to feeling like you
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  Speaker 1: guys have a full handle on the whole thing at
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  Speaker 1: this point? Detail you are, We're getting there, We're getting there,
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  Speaker 1: We're not We're not there yet, but I would say
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  Speaker 1: we're there, we'll we'll we'll have the chance to be ready,
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  Speaker 1: you know, game one or a week before game one
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  Speaker 1: to really feel feel good about it. All good, right,