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Ernest Jones IV: "It's Going To Be Tough To Run The Ball Against Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Why have you made such an emphasis the home be
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  Speaker 1: better than.
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  Speaker 2: I think. It's just from kind of when I got here,
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  Speaker 2: those first couple of home games I played, I noticed
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  Speaker 2: like that, you know, I've never heard noise or fans
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  Speaker 2: make as much noise. I mean, then we get into
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  Speaker 2: this year, I kind of noticed on the record like, bro,
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  Speaker 2: we're not playing too well at home. On the road,
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  Speaker 2: we're kicking butt, but we got to win games at home.
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  Speaker 2: And when you have a crowd and you have fans
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  Speaker 2: that show up like the twelves, do, you gotta go
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  Speaker 2: win at home and you gotta put emphasis on when
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  Speaker 2: you do get a home game, you go out there
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  Speaker 2: and you ball out and you feed them chaos.
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  Speaker 3: How much easier is that to do?
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  Speaker 1: Is a defense when it's twenty one, like the league
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  Speaker 1: is building like that and the fans are getting into it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I was telling the guys on the sideline like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many times since I've been here,
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  Speaker 2: we've we've played with that much of a lead. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think so. So when we get those leads like that,
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  Speaker 2: pin your ears back and let's go hunt, man, Let's
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  Speaker 2: go get after the ball, get out to the quarterback
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  Speaker 2: and they get nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Alvin Kamara has been the Seahawk killer over the years.
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  Speaker 4: How nice was it for you guys to be able
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  Speaker 4: to set the tone right away with him? He'll be
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  Speaker 4: having one catch the entire game. Yeah, under two point
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  Speaker 4: nine yards per carry and then getting taken out by
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  Speaker 4: the lead that was giving you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nice when you have a good back
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  Speaker 2: like that. I mean, I think for this defense, we
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  Speaker 2: kind of heard the noise earlier in the week. I
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  Speaker 2: believe one of their coaches were excited about the challenge
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  Speaker 2: of you know, having him and them, you know, thinking
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  Speaker 2: they were gonna run the ball on us. So we
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  Speaker 2: took that personal. You gotta man, listen, it's it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be tough to run the ball against us, just because
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  Speaker 2: the mindset and and the physicality that we play. And
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  Speaker 2: from after that, honestly, it's just this, We're gonna make
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  Speaker 2: it hard on you to run the ball on us,
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  Speaker 2: and if you do, good luck to you.
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  Speaker 1: What do you say about all the different guys in
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  Speaker 1: the secondary stepped up the last couple of weeks with
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  Speaker 1: filming for inert.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a preparation.
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  Speaker 2: I think is kudos to the coaches, they're able to
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  Speaker 2: get guys ready. I'm also kudos to those players. They
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  Speaker 2: come in, they dominate, they they come in and who's
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  Speaker 2: who's ever up? We have the utmost confidence in whoever
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  Speaker 2: that is.
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  Speaker 3: What was that first half like for you guys when
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  Speaker 3: you're able to put together such a quality thirty minutes
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  Speaker 3: and have everything go kind of clicking all three phases
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  Speaker 3: the way it is. What's that kind of like for
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  Speaker 3: you guys in the field, one of the games going
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  Speaker 3: like that?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Man, I mean, uh, of course, there's a good feeling,
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  Speaker 2: but there's always always that feeling. You don't wanna get relaxed,
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  Speaker 2: you don't wanna get complacent. You wanna you wanna keep
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  Speaker 2: you know, to keep your foot on the gas. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was proud of how we were able
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  Speaker 2: to do that, Like coach Mike was saying defensively, we
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  Speaker 2: have such a high standard. Guys in that locker room.
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  Speaker 2: We're we're we're pissed off, we we let up. You know,
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  Speaker 2: a few drives get extended. So we're excited about working
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  Speaker 2: through that and getting to Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: What's that Dari kid?
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  Speaker 3: Very much? Oh yeah, ck yeah, what have you thought?
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  Speaker 1: Of this for a couple of games.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I I I'll say this. When I got
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  Speaker 2: there in La Well, DK was coming in. You could
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  Speaker 2: tell he was still trying to find find not only
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's himself, but the maturity aspect of it.
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  Speaker 2: And for the two weeks that I've been around him,
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  Speaker 2: two three weeks, the guy's a different, different dude now.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's credit to the guys in the
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  Speaker 2: locker room, who's in his position, who's in his ear,
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  Speaker 2: and DK's a ballers, DK's of bonafide ballhag put him
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  Speaker 2: in great positions. He's gonna go out there and make plays.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm proud of him. I'm truly proud of him.
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  Speaker 4: How much do you think the position change has helped
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  Speaker 4: with that finding that identity because he hadn't really played
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  Speaker 4: in the slot until training camp in preseason this year.
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  Speaker 3: I think it just it just goes.
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  Speaker 2: It just shows his versatility, how he's able to help.
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  Speaker 2: He can go out there and play outside and lock
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  Speaker 2: up the best guys. But for this team, for this defense,
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  Speaker 2: we want him on the inside, running with guys and
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  Speaker 2: you know, being where the ball is going to come
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  Speaker 2: to so we can get those play making plays that
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  Speaker 2: he's been making.
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  Speaker 1: You guys being frustrated for touchdown and what does that
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  Speaker 1: tell you about the standard when you're up you know,
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  Speaker 1: thirty one, ever and you're still upset about that.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that's it's more so we work so
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  Speaker 2: hard throughout the week. I kid y'all, not like this team.
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  Speaker 2: We work hard, and for us, we expect the results
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  Speaker 2: when we go out there, and most of the time
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  Speaker 2: we expect the good results, and for them to get
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  Speaker 2: some plays when they shouldn't have that just kind of
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  Speaker 2: just frustrates frustrates us. But we'll be better.
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  Speaker 3: Ernest, what do you make of the fact that you know,
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  Speaker 3: you've done a few guys in the back end today
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  Speaker 3: high and dry on and you know, a couple of
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  Speaker 3: different people d Anthony come in and kind of able
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  Speaker 3: to keep you guys rolling like you were.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like I was saying earlier, it's just it just
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  Speaker 2: goes to these coaches. They get us ready to play
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  Speaker 2: and then we come in game plans is laid out
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  Speaker 2: for us is pretty simple. After that, you you just
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  Speaker 2: got to go out there and execute. But also you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to let your brothers down. So those guys
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  Speaker 2: are coming in with with belief from us, and we
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  Speaker 2: just got to They just got to go out there
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  Speaker 2: and play and make plays.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you Turn