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Sam Darnold: "We Have An Opportunity To Do Something Special" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, this is exciting. This is full house,
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  Speaker 1: This is great. So I appreciate everybody coming in and
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  Speaker 1: uh spending the time with us, but really excited to
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  Speaker 1: introduce Sam. Darnold's a new quarterback and this is exciting
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  Speaker 1: times man. Just uh, you know, it's been been a
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  Speaker 1: whirlwind couple weeks here, as you guys well documented, but
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  Speaker 1: as this thing started to come together, it feels similar
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  Speaker 1: like the way I felt, you know, introducing Clint was
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  Speaker 1: just you know, looking into Sam and obviously going against
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  Speaker 1: him in my career and here here last year at
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  Speaker 1: Luman against the Vikings, you think about I just want,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, is just a tremendous human being a
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  Speaker 1: great leader. We had a lot of people in our
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  Speaker 1: building that have the history with Sam, that have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of respect for him as a person, as a leader,
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  Speaker 1: as a football player.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm really excited to get our relationship.
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  Speaker 1: Started and getting to you know, introduced themselves to the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the team and the city and the twelves.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're going to be really proud of of
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  Speaker 2: our quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Here and then obviously as a football player and as
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback, just a heck of a player, just tough
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  Speaker 1: as nails from my opinion, great, arn't mean you go
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  Speaker 1: through all the talent and all we can talk about
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  Speaker 1: that to we're blue in the face, but just really
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  Speaker 1: excited about what Sam's gonna bring to our football team
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  Speaker 1: and just an exciting time. So yeah, without any further ado,
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  Speaker 1: to introduce Sam Darnold is their new quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it, guys, Appreciate that coach first and foremost. I'm
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  Speaker 3: just excited to be here. Uh, excited to you know,
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  Speaker 3: get to know this organization. I've already met, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think most of the people, not most of the people,
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  Speaker 3: but some of the people will be dealing with on
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  Speaker 3: a day to day basis. I'm so excited just to
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  Speaker 3: meet that my teammates. I've met a couple of the
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  Speaker 3: new ones already, uh you know, d Lodge. You know,
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  Speaker 3: just just very very excited to to get to meet
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  Speaker 3: everyone and just about this organization.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: I've you know, I've heard so many, so many good
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  Speaker 3: things about this organization from you know, different guys that
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  Speaker 3: have played here, retired and still playing in the league.
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  Speaker 3: You hear nothing about great things, nothing but great things
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  Speaker 3: about this organization. And man, I'm just so excited to
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  Speaker 3: be a part of it. I'm excited to meet some
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  Speaker 3: of the fans, the twelves you.
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  Speaker 2: Know playing here.
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  Speaker 3: I think I've played here a total of three times,
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  Speaker 3: actually played twice. I was a backup in San Francisco
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  Speaker 3: working with Clint here one of those times. And it's
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  Speaker 3: an unbelievable atmosphere at Lumenfield. And uh, I'm so excited
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  Speaker 3: to finally have those those twelves on my side this time.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, man, just just really looking forward to this
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to to be here with with my teammates, with
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  Speaker 3: these coaches. I think we have an opportunity do something
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  Speaker 3: very very special here. But it's gonna it's gonna take
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  Speaker 3: a lot of hard work and we know that. I
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  Speaker 3: know that going in and uh. Yeah, just very excited
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  Speaker 3: to take this one one day at a time and
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna be That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: put my head down and go to work, and uh
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  Speaker 3: just excited to do that.
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  Speaker 5: Sam. Can you just take us through kind of the
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  Speaker 5: process for you of I guess what you learned your
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  Speaker 5: working to stay with the Vikings, I guess, and that's
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  Speaker 5: kind of how the Seahawks got into it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, just kind of talking through obviously heard
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  Speaker 3: the Geno news when that broke. I kind of understood
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  Speaker 3: that this could potentially be a spot for me. And
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  Speaker 3: then you know, what was it Monday, just kind of
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  Speaker 3: you know, letting, letting my agents and these guys kind
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  Speaker 3: of figure out, you know, what would be a really
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  Speaker 3: good fit for me, and that kind of you know,
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  Speaker 3: came to fruition a little bit, and and then finally
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  Speaker 3: on Wednesday, you know, finally get and getting to talk
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  Speaker 3: to some of these coaches and you know, even have
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  Speaker 3: some of the players reach out to me, guys that
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  Speaker 3: I play with at USC, having Jackson reach out as well.
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  Speaker 3: Just so eager, you know, I met Jackson at the
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  Speaker 3: Pro Bowl, and just so eager to to to get
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  Speaker 3: to know each other and uh, you know, get get working,
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  Speaker 3: you know, talking about when we're gonna throw each other
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  Speaker 3: and stuff like that. So just very excited man about
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  Speaker 3: this opportunity and just to just to go to work,
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  Speaker 3: go to work with these guys in the building every
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  Speaker 3: single day.
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  Speaker 6: You worked with Sam in twenty twenty three, obviously saw
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  Speaker 6: what did last year? What about his game fits what
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  Speaker 6: you want to do on offense?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Sam is extremely talented, obviously a great thrower of
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  Speaker 7: the football. His mobility sticks out, his toughness, his maturity.
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  Speaker 7: I think the thing about Sam that really sticks out
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  Speaker 7: is just he's an A plus teammate, you know, elevates
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  Speaker 7: those around him, and the guys he plays with respect him.
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  Speaker 7: Because when you're you know, your best players are your
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  Speaker 7: hardest workers. That's what you really strive for. It's what
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  Speaker 7: you want as a coach, and Sam has that in spades.
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  Speaker 8: Why is this a scheme good for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, you know, working with Clint a little bit in
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco, very familiar with the scheme, ran some very
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  Speaker 3: very similar concepts last year in Minnesota as well, and
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  Speaker 3: uh yeah, just you know, even getting to talk to
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  Speaker 3: Clint a little bit, you know, on Wednesday, just being
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  Speaker 3: very very excited just about this opportunity and just to
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  Speaker 3: just to be able to collaborate, I think is the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing. Like, you know, there's variations of the same
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  Speaker 3: system that kind of go around the NFL, and being
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  Speaker 3: in one of those last year and kind of getting
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  Speaker 3: to morph a little bit of that with obviously most
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  Speaker 3: of the stuff that that you know, we did in
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco and then I know he grew on his
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  Speaker 3: system a little bit last year in New Orleans. So again,
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  Speaker 3: just just very I know I keep using this word,
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  Speaker 3: but very excited to to just get rolling on on
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  Speaker 3: kind of what this system with the offense is gonna
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  Speaker 3: look like next year.
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  Speaker 9: About the system Sam Pitcher skills.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, first and foremost.
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  Speaker 3: I think maybe Clint could talk a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: about that in detail, but I know it. Foundation is
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  Speaker 3: the run game and we're gonna we're gonna run the rock.
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  Speaker 3: I know Clint's big on running the rock and you
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  Speaker 3: got to do that and building that off of play
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  Speaker 3: action keepers and dropping back when you have tow.
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  Speaker 9: Which was the system and attraction to signing.
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  Speaker 2: With Seattle, Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was definitely one of the things that I factored
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  Speaker 3: into into signing here, and again just being able to
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  Speaker 3: work with Clint and having talked with Clint a ton
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  Speaker 3: in San Francisco about kind of what we like dislike.
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  Speaker 3: We have so much in common when it comes to
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to football, and yeah, just very you know,
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  Speaker 3: very uh, very pumped to get this thing going.
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  Speaker 10: What do you think things clicked for you in Minnesota?
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  Speaker 10: The way they did last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for me it was.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think the biggest thing was just consistent,
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  Speaker 3: playing consistent football and then it's a lot easier than done.
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  Speaker 3: But not turning the football over.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 3: Is like kind of understanding when it plays dead, especially
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  Speaker 3: on first and second down and then third down, Like
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna have some plays where you know, the d
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  Speaker 3: line might might get a good rush and they might
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  Speaker 3: get in there and you got to take a sack
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  Speaker 3: and keep two hands on the ball and let you know,
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  Speaker 3: you know, let uh you know, what's his dixon, our
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  Speaker 3: punter do his thing back there? You know that's one
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  Speaker 3: uh and uh yeah, just just very you know, being
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  Speaker 3: very smart, situationally aware, I think is the biggest thing
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  Speaker 3: that kind of you know, you know, turned my game
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  Speaker 3: into into being kind of you know, here and there
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  Speaker 3: hit and missed to to playing consistent football. What was
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  Speaker 3: I think just situational awareness and understanding within the scheme, uh,
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  Speaker 3: kind of where my outlets were.
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  Speaker 6: You had more.
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  Speaker 11: Explosive passes than any quarterback in the NFL last year.
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  Speaker 11: Oh right, Uh, you know what about your game allows
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  Speaker 11: you to to excel on those those deeper passes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's you know, it doesn't happen by a mistake.
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  Speaker 3: I work on that a ton have worked on that
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  Speaker 3: the last few years in the off season, being able,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's mechanics and mentally just understanding okay, like leverages
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  Speaker 3: of safeties. You know, how are we gonna going to
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  Speaker 3: attack this guy? How are we going to attack the
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  Speaker 3: post safety this week? When they do play split safety?
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  Speaker 3: Is it you know, cover two quarters? Like, there's so
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  Speaker 3: many different variations of too high that you can play.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just kind of understanding who we're playing, where
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  Speaker 3: the weaknesses are in that defense, and how we can
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  Speaker 3: take advantage over the top. And then I again like
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  Speaker 3: the biggest thing is if it's not there, understanding where
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  Speaker 3: my outlets are.
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  Speaker 6: Mike, you game planned it for Sam last year.
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  Speaker 2: He coached to get to it.
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  Speaker 6: Now that he's on your side of what excites you
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  Speaker 6: about his game?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think I think I think Sam's best days
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  Speaker 1: are ahead of them, and I think you've seen that through.
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  Speaker 2: The course of his career. I was able to h
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  Speaker 2: to grow as a player.
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  Speaker 1: Can sure you you know, talking to some ore defensive
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  Speaker 1: guys like we felt him out there like you want
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  Speaker 1: when you play quarterbacks or quarterbacks and your team, you
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  Speaker 1: want to feel them in the game, and you definitely
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  Speaker 1: feel Sam's presence and poise, competitive of miss I mean,
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  Speaker 1: accuracy all the like, the downfield threat that's definitely that's
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  Speaker 1: definitely a part of it. And then being able to
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  Speaker 1: run the show too operationally. Sam can do it with
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  Speaker 1: the best of them as well.
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  Speaker 12: Like maybe the flip side of Bob's question, getting to
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  Speaker 12: the point you guys did where you made the decision
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  Speaker 12: you did with Gino and then targeting Sam is where
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  Speaker 12: you were going to go next, and you kind of
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  Speaker 12: walk us through that process and how you got.
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  Speaker 1: To the well, yeah, I mean it was you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was interesting series of events for sure, But when
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  Speaker 1: you know became a parent that we were gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to pivot away from Gino, then you know, I'm definitely
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  Speaker 1: hoping that it was gonna with Sam. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: some time there, but everyone involved in the process was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: John was awesome, Joey Lane was awesome, all of our
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  Speaker 1: pro pops and old people were on it. So just
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  Speaker 1: really fortunate that it worked out the way it did.
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  Speaker 1: And there's some great there's great quarterbacks out there that
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  Speaker 1: you know that we looked into, but it really apparent
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  Speaker 1: that Sam was our guy.
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  Speaker 9: Well, what did dynamics have it to make that choice?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would say like once once, once we decided
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  Speaker 1: to make the drink the move with Gino understanding who
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  Speaker 1: was out there. Definitely, you know, Sam became you know,
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  Speaker 1: the number one focus pretty quickly as a Minnisota, partly
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  Speaker 1: to think smart and not turned it all over.
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  Speaker 11: But it was more than just that he thirty five
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  Speaker 11: touchdown passes.
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  Speaker 13: He didn't move forward to three that are passing yards statistically,
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  Speaker 13: just think downs better than previous years. Do you feel
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  Speaker 13: like you found something in your game going to that
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  Speaker 13: year or did was there film or coaches that you.
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  Speaker 2: Know unlock something? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think you know, you learn from experience, you know,
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  Speaker 3: good or bad. You know, I learned a ton being
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  Speaker 3: in New York, learned a ton being in Carolina, learned
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  Speaker 3: a ton you know, going obviously going to San Francisco,
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  Speaker 3: and Clint was a huge part of that, just kind
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  Speaker 3: of understanding okay, like and and I I really you know,
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  Speaker 3: thank Brock a ton rock party for you know, just
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  Speaker 3: his style of playing and how he kind of described
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  Speaker 3: his style as like, we got a ton of great
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  Speaker 3: playmakers on offense, Like my job is just to play
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  Speaker 3: point guard and get the ball in their hands and
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  Speaker 3: let them go do great things with the rock. And
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  Speaker 3: when I started to change my thought process as a
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  Speaker 3: quarterback to kind of just getting getting the ball in
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  Speaker 3: my guy's hands, then that really that's that's kind of
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  Speaker 3: where it unlocked for me a little bit. And then
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  Speaker 3: obviously the coaching I got in Minnesota, you know, it was, uh,
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  Speaker 3: it was an incredible experience, you know, Ko, Josh, Wes Grant,
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  Speaker 3: all those guys. I can go on and on obviously
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  Speaker 3: the players that we had in Minnesota as well. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's a it's a credit to everything. Man, It's I
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  Speaker 3: can't necessarily point to one thing, but you know, my
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  Speaker 3: entire journey has been about growing as a person and
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  Speaker 3: as a player, and that's kind of where you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm just so so thankful that it's led me
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  Speaker 3: to this point here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 10: After the Where was your head at in terms of
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  Speaker 10: possibly returning to Minnesota or testing free agency?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we were kind of looking at all
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  Speaker 3: all possibilities, to be honest, and uh, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 3: just very happy that all roads kind of led to Seattle.
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  Speaker 5: You guys obviously made some big moves with DK and Tyler,
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  Speaker 5: so I said, as well, I know you're not done,
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  Speaker 5: I guess, but the offense right now, kind of what's
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  Speaker 5: your vision for that going forward with the changes you've made,
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  Speaker 5: but without having DK.
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  Speaker 1: And Tyler, Well, I think I think the vision for
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  Speaker 1: offense has stayed the same. There's those are those are
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  Speaker 1: big shoes to fill and he can't do it just
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  Speaker 1: by like one person. But I think like the synergy
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  Speaker 1: involved that that we're gonna that's gonna be needed in
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  Speaker 1: order to do it is exciting. You know, as we
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  Speaker 1: start to build this, the guys that are in the building,
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  Speaker 1: the possibilities of people that we can either acquire in
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  Speaker 1: the draft or you know, throughout the whole process. So vision,
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  Speaker 1: vision maintains the same, and uh excited, just like like
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  Speaker 1: Sam's talking about his mentality with of this growth mindset
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  Speaker 1: of like trying to build our football team and take
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  Speaker 1: it to the next level. That's there, man, Like we're
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  Speaker 1: just I mean, this is this is great. I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: everybody's here. Can't wait till you know, we actually start
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  Speaker 1: doing some real football have been months.
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  Speaker 9: Ago, Sam, when you were in Minnesota and they draft
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  Speaker 9: JJ McCarthy tenth overall. And if someone had told you
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  Speaker 9: you'd have thirty five hundred yards or forty three hundred
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  Speaker 9: yards of thirty five touchdowns and now a contract with
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  Speaker 9: Seattle and be the franchise, what do you have said
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  Speaker 9: then eleven months ago?
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  Speaker 3: It's tough, man Like, whenever you get into hypotheticals, that's
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  Speaker 3: always kind of a world I try to stray away
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  Speaker 3: from a little bit or stay away from. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I knew the possibilities of going there, and
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  Speaker 3: you know that's that's one of the reasons I signed there,
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  Speaker 3: was the potential to you know, to have success and
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  Speaker 3: not just have success. But you know, again, like this
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  Speaker 3: whole journey's been about for me, it's it's been about
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  Speaker 3: learning and growing. And I knew I was gonna have
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  Speaker 3: a chance to do that there, you know, and was
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  Speaker 3: able to just play, like I keep mentioning, I was
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  Speaker 3: able to play consistent football on a weekly basis, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, just happy to be able to do that
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  Speaker 3: here now.
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  Speaker 10: And you mentioned learning from experiences. What did you learn
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  Speaker 10: from the end of last season or do you feel
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  Speaker 10: like you can grow from just from having that success
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  Speaker 10: and then reaching that hurdle and not being able.
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  Speaker 4: To get over that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know again, I was waiting for someone to
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  Speaker 3: bring that up. By the way, I appreciate appreciate that now.
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  Speaker 3: That's it's fair man. Like, you know, you get all
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  Speaker 3: the way to that point, you have the season that
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  Speaker 3: we had offensively as a team, and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: you run into at the end of the day, like
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  Speaker 3: only one team can can win the Super Bowl, and
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  Speaker 3: unfortunately we weren't that team. But I learned a ton
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  Speaker 3: from those last two games, especially playing Detroit and play
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  Speaker 3: in LA. You know, we're gonna c l A twice
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  Speaker 3: a year obviously playing in this division and.
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  Speaker 2: Really looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just you know, continuing to learn, learn
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  Speaker 3: things about yourself, what they did schematically and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's basically all you can do is just learn
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  Speaker 3: from those experiences.
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  Speaker 11: But your oldest starter at least now is twenty.
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  Speaker 5: Seven and the longne years.
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  Speaker 11: Three years on the team. How important is the leadership
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  Speaker 11: you're gonna be looking for for Sam in this offense.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's very important.
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  Speaker 2: And Sam he's gonna lead through his production.
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  Speaker 7: You know, all the players are you know, they got
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  Speaker 7: a job to do, and they got they got to
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  Speaker 7: go play the game. And I want his natural personality
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  Speaker 7: to come out. And that's why he's here, because he
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  Speaker 7: has that natural ability to lead. But most importantly, he's
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  Speaker 7: a great player and he's gonna go lead with his production,
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  Speaker 7: and we're gonna help him as a staff and as
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  Speaker 7: a team. It's not all about Sam. It's about who
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  Speaker 7: the guys he's throwing to, the guys he's blocking for him,
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  Speaker 7: you know, tight ends running back. So it's all it's
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  Speaker 7: all a team thing. And glad that he's leading the charge.
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  Speaker 7: But we're going to have success when the team has success.
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  Speaker 6: You've coached, you've coached quarterbacks along time, Clinton just that
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  Speaker 6: position in particular, or people maybe too quick to just
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: kind of write a guy off when they've got you know,
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: just everything that goes into that, and then we see
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: someone like Sam do what he did that part of
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: his career last year.
• 15:42
  Speaker 7: No, I agree with that. You know, there's only uh,
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: you know, there's thirty two jobs, right, and then maybe
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: have a you get selected early, you get a couple,
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: you get a year or two maybe to prove yourself
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: and then they kick you to the curb. And then
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: some guys are mainly tough enough to come back and
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: fight through it, and I'm sitting next to one of them.
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: You go back to his twenty twenty two season where
• 16:02
  Speaker 7: you know, he didn't play at the end of the year,
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: the last six games. He goes four and two in
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: Carolina and then and then comes to San Francisco and
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: sits behind Brock and keeps growing as a player and
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: then goes and does what he does in Minnesota. That's
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: just really impressive to have that kind of a you know,
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: to be that kind of a fighter and to stay
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: in the fight and when you get your chance again
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: and be ready. And Sam was ready and Sam Sam
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: earned this job. Here can you talk.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: About the value of situal situational awareness and quarterback? I
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: know Sam talked about it, but as offensive cording.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: How important is that?
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: Well, it's critical, right, and Sam touched on it. You know,
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: that comes with experience, and Sam's had a lot of
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: experience and was really well coached in Minnesota. So having
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: a you know, you can only remind the quarterback so
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: much before that button goes off and you can't talk
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: to him anymore. So they got to have it ingrained
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: in them. Those are things you talk about in the
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: meeting room. But to have a guy that can go
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: execute that on game day with seventy thousand people screaming
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: at him, it's not easy to find. We got the
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: right guy here.
• 17:02
  Speaker 12: Sam Mike said, he thinks your best days are still
• 17:04
  Speaker 12: ahead of you. We're somewhere, you see, you want to
• 17:06
  Speaker 12: make a step forward and even beyond what you did
• 17:08
  Speaker 12: last year.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, I kind of look at
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: those last couple of games, you know, I think being
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: able to get the ball out a little bit quicker
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: on on some of the dropback stuff that we had
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: those last couple of games, and understanding where the outlets
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: are and even if a guy's covered, like even if
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: my back's covered on a checkdown, like just throwing it
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: at his feet. You know, I felt like I was
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: taking some unnecessary sacks last year, especially those last few games,
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: and just kind of continue to work that however I
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: can in drills and drill settings, you know, uh, you know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: early early April and even even you know later this March,
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: but you know, when we start to get into those
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: team periods and start to get into training camp a
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: little bit. I'll definitely be you know, thinking about that,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: keeping two hands on the ball in the pocket at
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: all times and just doing all the little fun fundamental
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: things you know. And uh and I think but that
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: it's a big one is being able to just get
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: the ball out on time.
• 18:02
  Speaker 13: Mike.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: When you do something, assize me because trade your quarterback,
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: trade someone is productive and established a DK and cut
• 18:07
  Speaker 8: someone like Tyler. It can create the perception those things,
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: It can create the idea that you guys are rebuilding.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: How would you explain why that's not the case.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I don't think that really showed up
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: in our mindset throughout the whole whole process. I think
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: you're you're always looking at any all these all these
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: moves is as as serious as they seem to be,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: and they were as they happen. It's all through the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: lens of what's best for the team now.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: And in the long run.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: So just seeing that they happened all kind of sequentially
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: back to back to back, which was necessary at the time.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: But we're rocking, man, we're rolling. I think we're really
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: really excited about our future. And I mean these are
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: like the kind of the dull days of March with
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: your team. You know, it's a dead period and all that.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: So we're building right now behind the scenes. So when
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the guys show up, you know, we hit the ground
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: run in one hundred miles an hour in April, Like, how do.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: You the defense? You got Jaron and Ernest re signed
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: and DeMarcus Lawrence, how do you kind of feel about
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: those moves?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: And what I feel tremendous about those moves.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean we got to meet those guys
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: today or meet d law today and uh man just again,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: like just getting those guys back.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Jay Reed such a such a great leader on our team.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: We all saw what happened to our defense when when
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Ernest walked in the door.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: There's no secret about it. I mean, the guy is
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: a force multiplier.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: And then uh you've seen the tape with with with DeMarcus,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: He's he's a dynamite player. We obviously have a relationship
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: with him in a d being from Dallas, so with
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of respect for him. I know Clint's had
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the game plan against him, which probably isn't a pleasant experience.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: So I think we're building something really cool on defense,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: like where are you on.
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: The offensive line and a wide receiver? From where you
• 19:48
  Speaker 9: want to be right now?
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, will we ever be where we want to be?
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Probably not.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I mean as a football team, we're never going to
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: sit up here and be like, hey, we're satisfied. You know,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: that's that's not going to be our our mentality. But
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: it's an ongoing process about where we're at. It turns
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: out I don't think we have to play for another
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: five months or so, so there's plenty of time to
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: develop the guys we have in house, and there's gonna
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: be opportunities to to add guys when necessary that fit
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: us and are the right moves in those times.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: So that's where, right Sam?
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: I know you like to score, But which would you prefer?
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Long six minute drive or a quick strike? Say that
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: one more time in score, which which is your preference?
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: A six minute drive or a quick strike with the
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: clock being all things?
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, I mean I feel like that. I don't
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: know it's scoring a touchdown is I mean, you'll take
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: it however it comes, whether it's a long you know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: like like you mentioned, like if it's a six minute drive,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: fifteen to sixteen play drive, those are great I know
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: the big boys up front might not appreciate that answer,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: but that's that's always a fun one coming off to
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: the sideline and some of those guys getting oxygen and
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: but those are always fun drives for me because you
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: know you're handing the ball off, you're just methodically moving
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: the ball down the field, maybe converting a few third downs,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: but then you know you have sometimes the ninety eight
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: yard touchdowns that happen, and those are always fun too,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: when you get to run down the field with your
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: boys and celebrate as you're running down the field, hearing
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: the echo and your helmet. There's nothing like it, man,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: There's nothing like scoring a touchdown, whether it's me throwing
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: it or whether it's you know, someone, whether it's a
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: running back, fullback, whoever running the ball in. There's nothing
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: like hearing that noise, especially in a place like loomen
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: to be able to hear that after a score. There's
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: nothing like it in the world.
• 21:43
  Speaker 11: Sam was one of the best play action passers in
• 21:45
  Speaker 11: the game last year. Talk about how important that is
• 21:48
  Speaker 11: for for your offense.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely stands out on tape, you know, seeing Sam
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: turn his back to the defense and find deep crossers
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: and hit guys in stride. It's definitely a strength of
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: his game. One of many strengths throwing on the run.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: And but you know, to be an elite quarterback, you
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: got to be at your best on third down in
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: the red zone. I think that's two we're saying really
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: makes his stride. So that's that's part of We're most
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: excited about.
• 22:12
  Speaker 11: What you remember specifically about the Wayne Seattle last December
• 22:16
  Speaker 11: and and how satisfying was it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that question. I'm excited to talk about this.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: How long have we got?
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Got an hour?
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: No, it was. It's incredible.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Whenever you can come to an atmosphere like this and
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: and you know, everyone kind of goes quiet, you know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: I'm not hopefully that doesn't happen here anymore. Uh but
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: uh no.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Man, it was. It was a special, special game.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: I felt like we, you know, as an offense, we
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: weren't clicking the way that we wanted to, you know,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: And that's a huge credit to to coach and their
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: entire staff for putting it together a really good plan
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: for us, and we were able to stay in the
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: game just long enough to to make that comeback at
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: the end and and have that touchdown, and yeah, and
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: you know, our defense I feel like was able to
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: kind of put it away there with the late turnover.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: But yeah, that's that's pretty much all I remember. I
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: remember that touchdown. Uh the one to Jets down the sideline.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: That was that was one that will be in my
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: memory bang for as long as I live. So but yeah,
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: that was that was a no offense. Coach, but that
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: was I keep rambling about this. I asked you how
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: long I had because I'll keep going, But uh, no,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: it was it was just a special, special moment to
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: be able to to be able to win that football game.
• 23:30
  Speaker 13: Yeah, my same question for you, apologize, but can you
• 23:32
  Speaker 13: evaluate his performance in the fourth quarter of that game
• 23:36
  Speaker 13: and is there any extra weight that you put into
• 23:39
  Speaker 13: what you see with your own eyes in evaluating whether
• 23:41
  Speaker 13: you want to bring a guy in.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Versus what you see on film for the rest of.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: The Yeah, first part of the question is, you know,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: we talked about it, but definitely felt same throughout the game.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: And you know, you're calling a game against the quarterback,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the personnel, your people, the person calling the plays on
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: their team.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: So it was a heck of a battle.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was a to knockdown, drag out fight
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: to the end, and to Sam's credit, they kept just
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: like you, kept battling and found a way to win
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: in the end. So a lot of respect for obviously
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: what he did in the game.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: But the second part of the question was I.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Think absolutely, you know, to see it in person and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Sam performing and scout him throughout the week, you know,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: you're watching a lot of tape of you know, pretty
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: much every snap throughout theout the season, and so probably
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have had that exposure going into the whole thing
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: if we hadn't hadn't have played Sam.
• 24:29
  Speaker 10: The revelation that you had in San Francisco about being
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: the point guard, do you feel like earlier in your
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: career you put more pressure on yourself to be more
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: than that being the third overall pick.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: It wasn't necessarily, you know, being the third overall pick.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I think even going back to college, I felt like
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: if something wasn't there, like if a concept wasn't there,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: I was so eager to run get out of the pocket.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I'd been doing that since high school as well, and
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: it was always easier for me. I felt like I
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: could do that at ease and you get to this
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: level and it's not that easy, And you know, I
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: think that's that's where kind of the troubles came a
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: little bit early in my career, was just thinking I
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: could run around and make plays if something wasn't there.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think that's just kind of where that
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: stemmed from a little bit.
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: Sam.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Certainly we've talked about these moves over the last week
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: for this team.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: What does it mean, you know, for this city, for
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: its fans that you can help believe this new chapter
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: of Seahawks with.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Plum moving forward.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Again, I'm you know, I'm not necessarily I can't think
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: about the big picture like that. I'm really it's I
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: think it's a lot easier for me to think about
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: it as Okay, what do I have to do next?
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: And what am I doing right now?
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Like me and Clint were talking about certain plays and
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: you know, kind of getting the playbook and starting with formations,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: you know, And that's kind of where my mind's at
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: right now, is I'm I'm not too worried about the
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: big picture of things. All of that will kind of
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: take care of itself if I just do my job
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: and help this team the best I can just win
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: football games.
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: How much of what you're teaching him right now are
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: about to teach him is the same he learned in
• 25:59
  Speaker 9: San francisc Go two years ago.
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: I think I think we'll keep some common things. Those
• 26:04
  Speaker 7: are some conversations Sam and I will have going forward.
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: But like Sam said earlier, throughout the league, were running
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: a lot of similar things, right It's just about how
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: we how we deploy our five eligibles and getting getting
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: Sam on the same page with his receivers and tight
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: ends and running backs, and uh, you know, we're gonna
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: do do what Sam does best and what his teammates
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: do best, regardless of what may have been done in
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: the past. So it's just important that we we have
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: a heck going off season from middle of April through
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: June and get to know each other really well and
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: get our got our offense going beyond the same page.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: Anything else.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you,