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Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "I Had No Doubt That We Were Going To Score" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Jackson when when they tied the game is twenty, what
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  Speaker 1: was your infintion at that moment.
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  Speaker 2: I had no doubt we were gonna go down there
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  Speaker 2: and score, honestly, and then making a a huge penalty
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  Speaker 2: that you know got us on the forty yard line.
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  Speaker 2: I knew that, you know, we just needed one play,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of plays, and you know, Jason's gonna go
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  Speaker 2: down there and and seal the deal for us if
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  Speaker 2: not score on the last On the last drive, you know, Sam,
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  Speaker 2: Sam made a perfect throw, honestly, back shoulder ball. The
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  Speaker 2: corner was on top of on top of me, so
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  Speaker 2: he just put it, placed it perfectly, and you know
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  Speaker 2: it was an easy grap play to get out of balance.
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  Speaker 2: They they changed a call, but to get you know,
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  Speaker 2: the word of all of them know that you could
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  Speaker 2: get the sideline there or was that something on your
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  Speaker 2: mind as soon as you got the ball? Yeah, yeah, definitely,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just helped the team out. Like I said
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  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, I think our coaches put
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  Speaker 2: us in a great position. Uh, We've been working you know,
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  Speaker 2: concepts like that and and strategies like that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for a long time. So it was just another play
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  Speaker 2: new we had to do and just executed it. What
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  Speaker 2: about the throw Sam made the drive before that? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was a nicely, nicely placed ball, double move, got
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  Speaker 2: the corner on his toes and made a big play.
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  Speaker 2: Lost times. Sam played in the stadium sacked nine times,
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  Speaker 2: and there are a lot of narratives that he can't
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  Speaker 2: handle pressure, he can't play in the pressure. Uh what
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  Speaker 2: is performance today? Say to you and what have you
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  Speaker 2: seen from him in your experience? I think Sam is
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  Speaker 2: a great player, and I don't think any of that matters. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I think him being a seahawk and us just focusing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, week after week, as you know, our mindset
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  Speaker 2: and definitely his mindset and an approach. So yeah, three and.
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  Speaker 1: One had this little break here.
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  Speaker 2: How do you feel about where the teams at this season?
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  Speaker 2: I feel great, I feel great, But you know, this
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  Speaker 2: is the NFL. You know, you gotta take it week
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  Speaker 2: by week, you know, Sorry, three and Oh, I believe
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  Speaker 2: my rookie year or or so and or last year
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  Speaker 2: actually and you know things can turn. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: just gotta say focus and handle uh, Tampa Bay next week.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about just all the drives today?
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  Speaker 2: That didn't then end points certain, you know, the ones where.
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  Speaker 1: This field goal or where there's penalty. There was a
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  Speaker 1: lot there was mistakes out there.
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  Speaker 2: But does that.
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  Speaker 1: Excite you when you think about how much it's still
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  Speaker 1: kind of left on the bill into this offense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely not satisfied, you know with our performance. You know,
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  Speaker 2: definitely happy with the win though, you know, I mean
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  Speaker 2: it's hard to get wins in this league, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just proud of our guys and how we came
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  Speaker 2: out and yeah, but you know we'll get back, you know,
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  Speaker 2: next week and try to correct those things and get
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  Speaker 2: ready for Tampa Bay. Did you get any explanation for
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  Speaker 2: why they call the holding on that play? No? You know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, players make bad plays, you know, grass make
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  Speaker 2: bad plays, but you know happens. You know, it sucks
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  Speaker 2: for Charburnee. You know I wanted him to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get that touchdown. So you know, I just have to
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  Speaker 2: be be better. Where'd you get the cowboyd have cowboy hat?
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  Speaker 2: Where I get it? I got this one in Spain
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  Speaker 2: actually in Madrid.
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  Speaker 1: Defense the whole teams down the way they have when
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  Speaker 1: you guys do have those les, like if you did
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  Speaker 1: offensively one more time, Like you get your defense basically
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  Speaker 1: was killing the game. So when you guys did have loles,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like like the Cardinal was scoring.
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  Speaker 2: Nice to have a defense that's that good. Oh Man,
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  Speaker 2: feels great going out there with those guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on defense, I know they're gonna hold it down. We're
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  Speaker 2: very confident in them, feel like they're the best in
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  Speaker 2: the world. So you know, we know we're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: opportunities to win the game no matter what spot we're in.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's our mentality. So you know, love those
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  Speaker 2: guys and you know they played great tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, thank you, SA