Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Julian Love: "We Have A Room That Can Get It Done"
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's going on?
- 0:02Speaker 2: Julian, how are you feeling?
- 0:04Speaker 1: Feeling good. Yeah, kind of a random thing last week.
- 0:08Speaker 1: But just attacked it. Training staff did a good job,
- 0:11Speaker 1: so I'm feeling good. What was it that happened? Just
- 0:14Speaker 1: kind of my calf just kind of went on me
- 0:16Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, I kind of really just wasn't
- 0:19Speaker 1: doing anything too crazy. So, yeah, just kind of starting
- 0:22Speaker 1: having Thursday with the flight, the quick turnaround, just things
- 0:25Speaker 1: just kind of weren't able to progress quick enough to
- 0:28Speaker 1: get out there. Uh, yeah, I was kind of, as
- 0:32Speaker 1: we were kind of doing our walkthrough, kind of warm up.
- 0:35Speaker 1: So you're expecting to play Sunday? Uh, yeah, I feel good.
- 0:37Speaker 1: I'm going to try to push, obviously keep working and
- 0:40Speaker 1: see how practice goes today, tomorrow. Um, I feel pretty good.
- 0:43Speaker 3: You were really active.
- 0:44Speaker 4: On the sidelines talking to the safeties last week.
- 0:46Speaker 2: What did you see from those two?
- 0:48Speaker 1: I think they did a good job. I mean, AJ
- 0:50Speaker 1: Finley is a guy we trust and I really believe in. Um,
- 0:53Speaker 1: and he brought a nice calmness to everybody. Uh, I
- 0:56Speaker 1: know it's, it's, it's a, It's a big undertaking in
- 1:00Speaker 1: this defense, kind of filling in, kind of on short notice.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Rod Thomas has been doing a great job. And just
- 1:06Speaker 1: so me communicating to them is just like, keep playing ball.
- 1:08Speaker 1: I thought they were playing cleanly. A few things didn't
- 1:10Speaker 1: go our way in the game, but just making my
- 1:12Speaker 1: presence felt in any way I could. Is it the
- 1:15Speaker 1: same leg that you dealt with the hamstring injury last
- 1:17Speaker 1: year or not? No, no, no, no, unrelated. the chargers are.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Trying to find their way on offense mike daniel being
- 1:25Speaker 2: the coordinators there now but yeah justin herbert's got a
- 1:27Speaker 2: history of of being able to use that pump fake
- 1:31Speaker 2: and get some of those double moves going to receivers
- 1:33Speaker 2: downfield how big of an emphasis is that for you
- 1:36Speaker 2: guys the safety position this week and how much strain
- 1:40Speaker 2: does that put on you when you have a quarterback
- 1:41Speaker 2: that has the ability to be able to do.
- 1:43Speaker 1: That yeah he's a quarterback who can do everything he
- 1:47Speaker 1: has every throw um And you've seen it. You've seen
- 1:50Speaker 1: sometimes he may throw completely across the field, off his
- 1:53Speaker 1: back foot. He has the arm strength and kind of
- 1:55Speaker 1: the accuracy to make every throw. So you've got to
- 1:58Speaker 1: play true to your rules. Not every quarterback is like that,
- 2:01Speaker 1: you would think, but he can do all the things.
- 2:04Speaker 1: And so it puts stress on us to make sure
- 2:06Speaker 1: we're sound across the board. You might feel like your
- 2:09Speaker 1: guy is not in the progression or he's kind of
- 2:11Speaker 1: outside the play. He's not with Justin Herbert. He's going
- 2:14Speaker 1: to make every throw. Will the 3-team feel more dangerous
- 2:17Speaker 1: than any other team, or do you guys not look
- 2:18Speaker 1: at that? I would say they feel dangerous in the
- 2:22Speaker 1: sense of, like, yeah, they're continually working for a win.
- 2:28Speaker 1: And I don't know. I feel like the narrative of–
- 2:32Speaker 1: when I watch them on tape, like, they do a
- 2:34Speaker 1: lot of good things. And so, yeah, we're not falling
- 2:37Speaker 1: into kind of that trap of what the media says
- 2:40Speaker 1: about them, what the record shows, because what we see
- 2:42Speaker 1: on tape is a good team with talented players. And
- 2:45Speaker 1: so we're going to, you know, do our best to
- 2:47Speaker 1: prepare for them.
- 2:49Speaker 5: What kind of receivers do you have in Kahnke?
- 2:51Speaker 1: That dude has juice. In my mind, that means he
- 2:56Speaker 1: has a quick change of direction, quick change of direction.
- 3:00Speaker 1: He's kind of like an artist in his routes, yards
- 3:04Speaker 1: up to catch. He does a lot of good things
- 3:06Speaker 1: very well. And so, yeah, you've got to know where
- 3:08Speaker 1: 15 is. He's a real deal player. He's been definitely–
- 3:13Speaker 1: the go-to guy for them these first few weeks.
- 3:15Speaker 5: Are you saying he's a City of Angels route artist?
- 3:19Speaker 2: No.
- 3:20Speaker 1: There's only one Emerald City route artist. All right. But
- 3:23Speaker 1: he's a good player, young, talented player. And so, yeah,
- 3:27Speaker 1: he's a real deal.
- 3:29Speaker 3: Julian, with tie-down the first four weeks here and you
- 3:32Speaker 3: missing last week, Rodney and A.J. have had to come
- 3:34Speaker 3: up and step in and play some big roles. What
- 3:35Speaker 3: have you kind of thought of them big picture and A.J.
- 3:38Speaker 3: obviously coming off of his first start last week?
- 3:40Speaker 1: I think big picture, we have a room that can
- 3:42Speaker 1: get it done. I think Rod has stepped up in
- 3:46Speaker 1: a big way for us these first few weeks. We
- 3:48Speaker 1: know when Ty gets back, he's going to get back to,
- 3:51Speaker 1: you know, doing his thing. And AJ, yeah, man, it's
- 3:54Speaker 1: just like, it's, we just don't blink. Like no one
- 3:59Speaker 1: really looks around like, oh man, like I wish it
- 4:01Speaker 1: was this way. I wish it was this way. It's like, okay,
- 4:03Speaker 1: who's up for us? Let's roll. That's just kind of
- 4:05Speaker 1: conducive to, I don't know, winning culture, how you want
- 4:08Speaker 1: to do it. Things are going to happen throughout the year.
- 4:10Speaker 1: but you just have to stick with who you got
- 4:12Speaker 1: out there, and so for me, I make sure I'm
- 4:14Speaker 1: on that field. To be there for my guys, I
- 4:17Speaker 1: don't like seeing that stuff on the sideline on Sunday,
- 4:20Speaker 1: and so, yeah, I think as a group, we've done
- 4:23Speaker 1: a good job so far. What about what Rodney has
- 4:26Speaker 1: done has impressed you most? I think he's made plays.
- 4:28Speaker 1: I think he has incredible closing speed. We knew he
- 4:31Speaker 1: was a really athletic safety, and I think he's had
- 4:35Speaker 1: a few moments of like, making a huge play in
- 4:38Speaker 1: each of the games so far in the year. And
- 4:40Speaker 1: so I know in his mind he's like, okay, I'm
- 4:42Speaker 1: going to make some of these big plays and just
- 4:44Speaker 1: change a game for us. And I think it's on
- 4:47Speaker 1: its way. I think it might be this weekend, it
- 4:49Speaker 1: might be next weekend, whatever it is. Rod's about to
- 4:52Speaker 1: make a big play. You can just feel it. There's
- 4:53Speaker 1: like a buzz about kind of his game and how
- 4:56Speaker 1: his confidence is.
- 4:58Speaker 3: You out there Sunday, but for AJ, like missing all
- 5:00Speaker 3: of last year while you guys did what you did
- 5:02Speaker 3: and to come back off the injury he had and
- 5:05Speaker 3: now be a part of this and be able to
- 5:07Speaker 3: get an opportunity like that. How happy are you for
- 5:09Speaker 3: him in that way?
- 5:09Speaker 1: I'm real happy. I mean, Finn goes down, you know,
- 5:12Speaker 1: last year with the knee in camp and we were
- 5:15Speaker 1: all pretty devastated because he's just a really, he's just
- 5:17Speaker 1: one of the special locker room guys that everyone really
- 5:19Speaker 1: vibes with. There's not a single person who's not a
- 5:23Speaker 1: fan of AJ in that locker room. And so we
- 5:25Speaker 1: were devastated for him last year and he just had strong,
- 5:28Speaker 1: throughout the season. And then, yeah, getting his chance, having
- 5:31Speaker 1: a great camp this year, it's like you feel confident
- 5:33Speaker 1: in him. I thought he did a good job in
- 5:35Speaker 1: the game. And so, yeah, it's cool. It's a testament
- 5:38Speaker 1: to if you do the right things, if you are
- 5:40Speaker 1: a good person, this building will find a way to
- 5:43Speaker 1: kind of keep you around and reward you and give
- 5:45Speaker 1: you a chance for real.
- 5:46Speaker 5: No, he didn't play in this game, but pass rush
- 5:49Speaker 5: didn't get home as much, but it was actually getting
- 5:51Speaker 5: pretty quick pressure. What are you seeing that the secondary
- 5:54Speaker 5: and coverage can do to help maybe create some more turnovers?
- 5:57Speaker 1: I think have a better idea of just kind of
- 5:59Speaker 1: getting our cleats in the ground and going. I think,
- 6:02Speaker 1: you know, we were just talking about it today. Like,
- 6:05Speaker 1: it stinks because we didn't get the result we wanted. Like, yeah,
- 6:07Speaker 1: we want to come through and like how we've done,
- 6:10Speaker 1: win the game at the end. But kind of regardless,
- 6:12Speaker 1: like we attack the process of everything the same way
- 6:16Speaker 1: if win or loss. And so I think that's given
- 6:17Speaker 1: us like a mindset to like, okay, if we win
- 6:20Speaker 1: this game, we're still going to be coming in and
- 6:22Speaker 1: do these same coaching points, go over the same things,
- 6:25Speaker 1: really turn over no– turnover every stone. And so from
- 6:28Speaker 1: the game, it's like, okay, we're like one playoff here
- 6:30Speaker 1: or there from it shifting. You know, we got to
- 6:34Speaker 1: win on defense on short yardage. We got to create
- 6:37Speaker 1: some more turnovers. We got to just balance this thing out.
- 6:39Speaker 1: And so it's like a few plays here or there,
- 6:41Speaker 1: but all in all, when you watch the tape, a
- 6:42Speaker 1: lot of guys played well. And so we got to
- 6:44Speaker 1: just stack that and go forward. Mike makes that point
- 6:47Speaker 1: a lot.
- 6:48Speaker 4: It's kind of week one and week three, a good
- 6:49Speaker 4: example of that. Like you pull off a close one
- 6:51Speaker 4: against Patriots and then it's like, either way, you're going
- 6:54Speaker 4: to have things to look at and Yeah, I.
- 6:56Speaker 1: Think a bad culture is, like, looking straight up the
- 6:59Speaker 1: result and thinking that you've made it. I think in
- 7:03Speaker 1: my career, like, you fall in that trap of, like,
- 7:05Speaker 1: we won some games. Like, we're really good. But if
- 7:07Speaker 1: you're not really attacking the process of everything, it's such
- 7:10Speaker 1: coach speak, the process, the process. But it's like, yeah,
- 7:13Speaker 1: you can win a game, but still, if things aren't
- 7:15Speaker 1: just right, it's going to fall apart at some point. Versus,
- 7:18Speaker 1: you know, you could lose a game and you feel
- 7:19Speaker 1: like you played pretty cleanly. It's like, okay, how can
- 7:21Speaker 1: we stack off of that into next week and not, like,
- 7:24Speaker 1: just lick your wounds and so on. That's kind of
- 7:26Speaker 1: the mindset. I think Mike embodies that really well. I
- 7:29Speaker 1: think every player in here feels that way.
- 7:31Speaker 3: Julian, we've seen the start of the year that Jackson's had.
- 7:34Speaker 3: Whether it's him, Puka, Jamar, number one receivers that are
- 7:38Speaker 3: falling out, what kind of a vortex do those guys
- 7:41Speaker 3: take in planning to try to figure out a way
- 7:44Speaker 3: to stop them? And then when they still are able
- 7:46Speaker 3: to do it anyway, what does that kind of say
- 7:49Speaker 3: about them as players?
- 7:50Speaker 1: Man, it's pretty cool to see Jackson, who he is,
- 7:55Speaker 1: You guys know who he is. He's just a good person.
- 7:58Speaker 1: And yeah, the Emerald city route artist, he's, he's, he's special.
- 8:02Speaker 1: I get home from the game and my wife's like, wow,
- 8:04Speaker 1: so they really can't cover Jack's. And if she's mentioning
- 8:07Speaker 1: something about football, I'll tell you, no, it's like, it's,
- 8:10Speaker 1: it's real. And so I don't know, Jack, he just,
- 8:13Speaker 1: he could do everything well, like, and you can scheme
- 8:16Speaker 1: for it all you want, but then you, you know,
- 8:17Speaker 1: you see the kind of the red zone touchdown coop, like, okay,
- 8:20Speaker 1: you can double Jack's, but we have other weapons. And so,
- 8:23Speaker 1: I think Fleury's doing a good job of just spinning
- 8:25Speaker 1: the wheel. And we're going to continue to progress on offense. But, yeah,
- 8:30Speaker 1: I mean, 11's a real deal player. And he's special.
- 8:33Speaker 1: He's so humble about it. I say the best thing
- 8:35Speaker 1: is about being with him each day. He attacks his work.
- 8:39Speaker 1: And you would not, if you couldn't follow us around
- 8:42Speaker 1: for the whole day, you would not know he's as
- 8:44Speaker 1: special as he is. Just how humble he is.
- 8:46Speaker 3: Is that the most unique thing about him? Because guys
- 8:48Speaker 3: that are doing things that he do, they tend to
- 8:50Speaker 3: be pretty loud about it.
- 8:51Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. No, he's not flashy. He has his own
- 8:54Speaker 1: swag to him, but he's just like, again, he's just
- 8:58Speaker 1: no one in here is going to say, and that
- 8:59Speaker 1: guy has a lot of ego. He's just one of
- 9:01Speaker 1: those guys. He's a star, but he's kind of not
- 9:04Speaker 1: one of the guys. Jax is the complete opposite. He
- 9:07Speaker 1: is one of the guys, whether you're number one spot
- 9:10Speaker 1: on the roster, the quarterback, whoever, or a P-Squad guy,
- 9:13Speaker 1: there is no line there. He treats everyone the same,
- 9:15Speaker 1: and so Yeah, I think that's why we all really
- 9:17Speaker 1: rock with him and really love him. Why do you
- 9:19Speaker 1: think he's able to do what he does despite, like,
- 9:22Speaker 1: you know, he's not, like, the biggest or the fastest guy, but, like,
- 9:25Speaker 1: just the skill? What do you think about his skills
- 9:27Speaker 1: stand out? I think we even haven't talked about it.
- 9:30Speaker 1: We kind of relate in the sense of, like, you're
- 9:33Speaker 1: just a ball player. Like, yeah, whatever, 40, vertical, all
- 9:37Speaker 1: the things. It's like if you were good– Playing pickleball
- 9:42Speaker 1: when you were nine years old, you didn't think about
- 9:45Speaker 1: how fast the kid was. You were just like, see ball,
- 9:47Speaker 1: get ball. That's kind of how Jax is. He just
- 9:49Speaker 1: is a natural, true ball player. He was born to
- 9:53Speaker 1: do this thing. I think that's what makes him special.
- 9:56Speaker 1: There's no weakness to his game. He can go out routes,
- 9:59Speaker 1: he can run, he doesn't have to catch hands, all
- 10:02Speaker 1: the things. He's a natural football player.
- 10:04Speaker 4: We've asked you about Leo a lot over the years.
- 10:06Speaker 4: You guys have played together for a bit. 32 years old,
- 10:09Speaker 4: I think it was his year 12. He's got three sacks,
- 10:12Speaker 4: five tackles for a loss. What does it say about
- 10:15Speaker 4: him that he's playing this well this stage of his career?
- 10:17Speaker 1: I think the city just like I don't know. This
- 10:20Speaker 1: city supercharged Leo. He was always a good player. I've
- 10:24Speaker 1: always thought he was one of the best players I've
- 10:25Speaker 1: ever been with. Then he gets to Seattle, and, like,
- 10:28Speaker 1: I don't know. It's the crisp air that just, like,
- 10:32Speaker 1: charges him up. Like, he is playing at such a
- 10:35Speaker 1: high level. He's only getting better. Like, every single year,
- 10:38Speaker 1: he's getting better and better. It's, like, it's incredible. We
- 10:40Speaker 1: talk about it. And, like, he's such a humble guy
- 10:42Speaker 1: as well to where I told him, like, last year,
- 10:45Speaker 1: two years ago, I'm like, Leo, you got to start
- 10:46Speaker 1: talking your shit, dude.
- 10:47Speaker 4: Like.
- 10:48Speaker 1: You are too good for people not to realize who
- 10:50Speaker 1: you are. And so it's like, thanks, man. Like, I
- 10:53Speaker 1: appreciate that. If anybody's going to do it, I'm going
- 10:55Speaker 1: to gas him up. He's, I mean, the best D
- 10:58Speaker 1: tackle in the game right now. And so, yeah, I
- 11:01Speaker 1: don't know. That's my guy. You know that. But the city,
- 11:04Speaker 1: let's charge him up.
- 11:06Speaker 2: Based on what you just said there with, like, you know,
- 11:08Speaker 2: JSN's ability to, like, on offense just to be able
- 11:11Speaker 2: to completely, you know, oh, it doesn't matter what scheme
- 11:13Speaker 2: you guys are doing.
- 11:14Speaker 1: I'm still going to do what I do. Yeah.
- 11:16Speaker 2: But then, you know, Leo's talked about the scheme here,
- 11:19Speaker 2: helping him get to another level. Like, what are your
- 11:21Speaker 2: thoughts on that balancing act, like the X's and O's versus, like.
- 11:24Speaker 1: The pros-Joes argument?
- 11:26Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 11:26Speaker 1: What really wins games.
- 11:28Speaker 3: In the NFL?
- 11:28Speaker 1: That's a great point. I think you're at your best
- 11:32Speaker 1: when everyone can just do what they do best. Like,
- 11:35Speaker 1: I talk about that all the time. It's like, what
- 11:36Speaker 1: makes Mike special? Like, yeah, he's a good scheme. He's
- 11:39Speaker 1: a good coach. But, like, you need good players in
- 11:42Speaker 1: good spots to make it come to life. And having
- 11:45Speaker 1: Leo in the middle is like that. For me, I
- 11:49Speaker 1: might not have a very physical game because runners might
- 11:52Speaker 1: not even get to the second level, definitely not the
- 11:54Speaker 1: third level, because of how Leo's playing. It all builds
- 11:56Speaker 1: off of each other. And so because of how he's playing,
- 11:59Speaker 1: I can free up and make some plays on the
- 12:01Speaker 1: deep part of the field. And so, like, that is
- 12:04Speaker 1: kind of the special part. Just be you to the fullest.
- 12:07Speaker 1: And with our front, that's kind of the heart of
- 12:09Speaker 1: our whole situation on defense. Him, Byron Murphy, the ends
- 12:12Speaker 1: we have. Jay Reed and Ernest and Drake, man, they just,
- 12:16Speaker 1: if you cut tape, you just have to look at
- 12:18Speaker 1: the box on our front seven because they make it
- 12:22Speaker 1: come to life. And so it's cool. And then Jax,
- 12:24Speaker 1: you know, Jax is a good run blocker. Jax obviously
- 12:27Speaker 1: is incredible in the pass game. But it's like, just
- 12:30Speaker 1: be who you are. Like everything else, Sam's going to
- 12:32Speaker 1: be Sam. Like everyone's going to do their thing. Just
- 12:35Speaker 1: be who you are. You don't got to be anybody else.
- 12:37Speaker 1: And it works. And so it's pretty cool. What's the
- 12:41Speaker 1: story behind the nickname, Jason's nickname? Emerald City Ride Artist? Man,
- 12:46Speaker 1: people have been calling him that for years, I feel like. No,
- 12:49Speaker 1: do you actually not know?
- 12:50Speaker 3: I don't think I've heard that.
- 12:52Speaker 1: Oh, really? No, Super Bowl Media, one of the folks
- 12:57Speaker 1: just said to him, whatever his nickname was, I've got
- 13:01Speaker 1: to find the video. He said, I have a new
- 13:04Speaker 1: nickname for you, the Emerald City Ride Artist. And Jack
- 13:08Speaker 1: is so cool. He's just like, Oh, cool, man. Thank you.
- 13:13Speaker 1: It's the funniest video. Like, oh, that is, like, cool. But, yeah,
- 13:17Speaker 1: that's how it started. And, yeah, we got his shirts made.
- 13:19Speaker 1: That is– he coined it, that guy, in the Super
- 13:22Speaker 1: Bowl media week.
- 13:24Speaker 3: Max and Hood played for the first time the other day. Yeah.
- 13:26Speaker 2: How have you gotten to know him and, you know,
- 13:27Speaker 2: kind of what has made him stand out?
- 13:30Speaker 1: It's been cool. I feel like Max came home from
- 13:33Speaker 1: Philly after camp maybe last year as a rookie. And– He,
- 13:40Speaker 1: I don't know what his situation in his past was.
- 13:42Speaker 1: I know he's a Toledo Rocket. But he was, like,
- 13:44Speaker 1: you know, kind of quiet at first. But when it
- 13:47Speaker 1: was time to hit go, like, he would run through
- 13:48Speaker 1: a wall. I think it's, like, this whole camp, it's, like,
- 13:53Speaker 1: in these preseason games, whenever he got action, it's, like,
- 13:55Speaker 1: go back and watch those preseason games of Max. He
- 13:58Speaker 1: is running through things. And so, like, just a good
- 14:01Speaker 1: dude has come into his own, confident in the locker room,
- 14:05Speaker 1: in the meeting room. And, yeah, he's one of those
- 14:07Speaker 1: guys who just will go– his head first and attack
- 14:10Speaker 1: each thing. And so I think that's when you keep
- 14:11Speaker 1: them around for a bit. We're all very excited for
- 14:13Speaker 1: him to get his first action.
- 14:14Speaker 2: Julian, with that Toledo connection, you guys have three DBs now.
- 14:19Speaker 2: And you've got a couple others in the league that
- 14:21Speaker 2: are big time players, Queen and Mitchell. What do you
- 14:24Speaker 2: see from those guys in terms of the way they've
- 14:27Speaker 2: been coached coming into the league?
- 14:29Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what Toledo has had going on,
- 14:31Speaker 1: but they've been producing these past bunch of years. And
- 14:35Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of the Maction. So Tuesday night,
- 14:38Speaker 1: Wednesday night, you got, you got Ohio versus Toledo on the,
- 14:41Speaker 1: on the TV. I've met one of those guys all
- 14:45Speaker 1: the time. The glass bowl. I've been to a Toledo
- 14:48Speaker 1: to see a game before. I don't know. It's really
- 14:51Speaker 1: cool to have kind of a smaller school, but you
- 14:53Speaker 1: guys were just tough and they have a good connection
- 14:55Speaker 1: and they have a good rapport. I think having those
- 14:57Speaker 1: three guys in the room together elevates them. I think
- 15:00Speaker 1: Avery's going to be pretty special as well. Once he
- 15:02Speaker 1: gets his shot, it's, it's really cool and it's special.
- 15:06Speaker 1: I mean, that's, there's more Mac guys in the room
- 15:08Speaker 1: than there are like SEC guys in our room. So
- 15:10Speaker 1: that's just like, it's crazy.
- 15:12Speaker 3: Anything else guys?
- 15:13Speaker 4: All right.
- 15:14Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Thank you guys.