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Aden Durde Discusses Red Zone Defense, Byron Murphy II's Recent Performance · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So Red Zone hasn't quite got where you want it
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  Speaker 1: to be, even though there's a lot of other numbers
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  Speaker 1: that are. Any new information that you guys are looking
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  Speaker 1: at and say, okay, that's a different thing that we
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  Speaker 1: can work on this.
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  Speaker 2: Week than last week? Yeah, I think we just have to,
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about it the last few days, we
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  Speaker 2: really have to understand where the breakdowns are, how are
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  Speaker 2: they happening, and kind of just attack those things. And
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  Speaker 2: I think it's kind of like, not a mantra, but
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  Speaker 2: it's the way Mike creates our way of life here
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  Speaker 2: is that you set intentions and you have to go
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  Speaker 2: follow them up. And, and that obviously that's a big
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  Speaker 2: intention for us. We have to improve in the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: When you've got a situation like Sunday where, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one player, Mike Evans is getting a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of targets.
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  Speaker 1: How do you balance like deciding if it's a personnel
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  Speaker 1: thing and we're going to give, you know, another player
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  Speaker 1: a chance there versus a scheme thing versus like, you
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  Speaker 1: got to let the guy work through it. And those
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of different possibilities.
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  Speaker 2: How do you kind of balance all those? Yeah. I
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  Speaker 2: think you look at like, how does it affect the structure?
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  Speaker 2: When is it happening? Like, quite a few of his
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  Speaker 2: targets came on one drive. So like that's, that's when
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  Speaker 2: you reconvene and you want to adjust, those are kind
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  Speaker 2: of areas that you have to really look at. And
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  Speaker 2: you also have to look at like, how are they happening?
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we kind of went back. Are there
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  Speaker 2: some things you would want to do differently? There's some
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  Speaker 2: things we'd all want to do different, but I think
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  Speaker 2: that's how we look at it. Takeda will decide. He
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  Speaker 2: feels like he's really taking the game to another level recently.
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  Speaker 3: Would you say that's a fair observation or is this
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  Speaker 3: been pretty good?
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  Speaker 2: No, he is. He's a he it's I think you
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  Speaker 2: see the fruits of his labor on Sunday. But to me,
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  Speaker 2: the big changes are like how he's approaching the game.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like his confidence. I talk to you guys
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  Speaker 2: a lot about every week, but his confidence is growing
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  Speaker 2: and he's really taking the kind of the classroom and
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  Speaker 2: the field practice. How am I attacking my situation? And
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  Speaker 2: when do I deal? And he takes that approach. The
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  Speaker 2: information he gives me during the week, it shows up
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday and they're exciting things to see. What else
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  Speaker 2: is happening for Byron Murphy to have success with the
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  Speaker 2: other players around him? Because it's not just the one person. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think the edges, they're really emphasizing getting off the
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  Speaker 2: ball and understanding how they press their lines. I think
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  Speaker 2: that always helps with D-tackle because you want to set
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  Speaker 2: on different levels and you can push, you can, really
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  Speaker 2: a part of how the edges play and understanding how
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  Speaker 2: we all work as one. Him and Leo and Jay
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  Speaker 2: Reid have a great relationship. Riley's part of that. And
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  Speaker 2: when do they work together? When do they work separate?
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  Speaker 2: How does their separate work help each other? And those
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  Speaker 2: feeding into each other have helped him grow. He's like
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  Speaker 2: our North Star. He controls the defense and he gets
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  Speaker 2: everyone lined up. How did you feel Josh Joe played Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: I thought he played well I thought like there's obviously
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  Speaker 2: like to me that's one of the hardest positions in
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  Speaker 2: football you know it's like on offense it's like a
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  Speaker 2: left tackle you know it's that you're playing a position
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  Speaker 2: that when you get beat in a big situation or
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  Speaker 2: you get beat a couple of times in a big
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  Speaker 2: situation it's there forefront and I think the thing we're
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  Speaker 2: most proud about Josh is his mindset he just goes
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  Speaker 2: back out there and goes again are there a couple
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  Speaker 2: of things we could have done yeah and I think
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  Speaker 2: we look at ourselves and we go through that but
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  Speaker 2: I think those of the person, Josh done a great job.
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  Speaker 1: As well as Nehemiah Pritchett's playing, he gets only a
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  Speaker 1: handful of snaps in this game. You guys got so
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  Speaker 1: many opportunities, there are so many players there. How do
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  Speaker 1: you kind of keep him chomping at the bit and
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  Speaker 1: also making sure the other guys that are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's easy. I think you see it with everyone
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  Speaker 2: on this defense that they understand how important reps are
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  Speaker 2: and you maximize your reps. And I think Nehemiah has
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  Speaker 2: been doing that all year. What was your view of
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  Speaker 2: the interception that he made? What do you think of
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  Speaker 2: that play? He's been working on that in practice. So, like,
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  Speaker 2: they're the things, they're the excitement that you get is
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  Speaker 2: like when something happens and we talk about it could
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  Speaker 2: happen and then it shows up and he executes in
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  Speaker 2: that moment because there's other times that you do it,
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  Speaker 2: not him personally, but you say these things are going
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  Speaker 2: to happen. And, like, the game flows so fast. And
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  Speaker 2: if you're not in that moment at that moment in time,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes those moments pass you by and he took it.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think, like, he made the big play on
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  Speaker 2: special team before that.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think something like that can give a player, like,
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  Speaker 3: more confidence when he goes out there on defense?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the, I think, yes, in a game,
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  Speaker 2: but you have to talk to him. But with Mighty,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just the everyday. I talked about him
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  Speaker 2: to the defense today. Like, he, when we talk about
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  Speaker 2: our way of life, he represents it because he is
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  Speaker 2: just improving day after day, and it's gone from when
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  Speaker 2: he was a rookie. And I think that's how you
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  Speaker 2: have to look at it. It's like that daily improvement.
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  Speaker 2: You ask about Byron, it's the same thing. Like, You
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  Speaker 2: go out, you practice, process over results, and you execute.
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  Speaker 2: And we keep pushing that. And when you get the
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  Speaker 2: outcome that you really want, it's an exciting time. Kyle
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  Speaker 2: Caldwell getting back out there from freedom. Had a great
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  Speaker 2: tackle on that TFL. Yeah, Ty's a pro. He was
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  Speaker 2: ready for the moment, and he came back in and executed.
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  Speaker 1: You saw Trayvon Diggs in Dallas, and now you see
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  Speaker 1: him here. How does he fit here, and how different
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  Speaker 1: or the same is he compared to when.
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  Speaker 2: You saw him? I would say... I know him, I
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  Speaker 2: probably know him better here than I did in Dallas,
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  Speaker 2: in Dallas I had a lot of personalities myself to
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  Speaker 2: deal with, but he, here, I think, is a really
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  Speaker 2: fun thing to watch Trey here, because he's just, we
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  Speaker 2: talked about it last week, he's just trying to do
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  Speaker 2: the normal things extraordinary, and he keeps pushing on that,
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  Speaker 2: and his chance will come, like it does for everyone
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  Speaker 2: in this league, and you'll see it when he goes
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  Speaker 2: out there, but he practices like that every day. He's
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  Speaker 2: locked in. He's ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see from this, uh, uh, Broncos offensive line?
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  Speaker 2: Good. They're a good offensive line. They work together. They're, um,
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  Speaker 2: they're aggressive and, um, they play well. It works out
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  Speaker 2: for us. Um, and then the quarterback behind, he makes
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  Speaker 2: it difficult because you're almost playing two plays with him.
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  Speaker 2: But in the league, you see that more and more
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  Speaker 2: these days, like Brock was like that last week. And,
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  Speaker 2: It's just emphasizing how we attack it and how we play.
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  Speaker 1: Small sample size, but do you see a big shift
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  Speaker 1: in change of playing.
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  Speaker 2: College for them? Such a small sample size that it's hard.
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  Speaker 3: Tyrese Knight, where do you feel like he's at in
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  Speaker 3: his development if he had drank in practice or was
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  Speaker 3: non-participant yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's the same team that we've been seeing.
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  Speaker 2: He's executing on special teams, and he's doing a great job. Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.