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Julian Love: "A Few Critical Plays Turned The Tide For Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean obviously they had a great drive, we
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  Speaker 1: had bad draft defensively, and you know, we gotta stop uh.
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  Speaker 1: And it was fourth down going for the field goal,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't usually go to the block side, but
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  Speaker 1: something in me just told Jakes, hey, let me get
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  Speaker 1: this one. So literally we just swapped sides for one
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  Speaker 1: play and I just shot the gap, skinned up, got
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  Speaker 1: my hands up, got a block jenks rashon ye uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, just kind of how we were playing them.
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  Speaker 1: We were playing them a little loose, uh, not as
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  Speaker 1: aggressive on them inside, but we should have known that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, uh seven was getting his quick game rhythm going,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's a lot of quick throws inside. Uh
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  Speaker 1: so tight end to a lot of receptions. That tight
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  Speaker 1: end screen I kind of for a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: yards and then that kind of loose uh kind of slip.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who caught it, but a tight end
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  Speaker 1: kind of going in the other way. And so two
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  Speaker 1: big plays by the tight ends. Yeah, we gotta clean
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  Speaker 1: that up, but we will. You had uh. You know,
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  Speaker 1: just I think in that moment, I just feel like
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go get it. I felt good. Uh. I
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  Speaker 1: was looking at my guys obviously, it was a long drive.
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  Speaker 1: They retired, but I felt energized in that moment and
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  Speaker 1: just something just told me to switch. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if anybody's gonna do, I feel like I should be
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  Speaker 1: doing it. And so thankfully Reek was coming off the
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  Speaker 1: edge all day, dre Mont Jones had great pressure inside.
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  Speaker 1: Our interior was getting after we were close a few
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  Speaker 1: times and so something just said, Hey, I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: able to come loose and just jump the thing. And
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  Speaker 1: so I did, uh, you know, just kind of one two,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of gliding skinny up across it. However I can, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and thankfully I'm skinny enough, and so got my hand
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  Speaker 1: up and got it first one, the very first one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: first one ever. Uh, you know, you kind of black out,
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  Speaker 1: will hurt, I'm sure, jam I think a couple of fingers,
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  Speaker 1: But you just try to sell out in that moment.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're defending points, you're making a field goal
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  Speaker 1: game to a touchdown game, and so yeah, as to
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  Speaker 1: sell out and then you'll feel it later. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: It.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, No, anyone could come free, you know, if they're
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  Speaker 1: honoring Wreek outside usually reaks pretty close because he flies
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  Speaker 1: off the edge interior can block it and it's just
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  Speaker 1: just a loaded block. And so thankfully our interior is
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  Speaker 1: getting pressure. So the tackle or the tight end blocked down,
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  Speaker 1: the wing blocked out, and I was able to squeeze through,
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  Speaker 1: and you guys, you guys had the right before that.
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  Speaker 1: Did that change anything for sure? I mean it was
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  Speaker 1: I think probably like a uh yeah, what was the
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  Speaker 1: field goal? Probably close to fifty Yeah, so forty eight. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: those kicks, you know, I know Joey slider pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's gonna be a lower trajectory and so you
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  Speaker 1: have a higher chance of a block when you push
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  Speaker 1: him out. So everything after, especially that drive, they hit
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  Speaker 1: a few big ones that drive. Just being resilient and
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  Speaker 1: just a few critical plays turn the tide for us. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: something that you saw or is it just kind of
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  Speaker 1: doing what they were? You know, honestly, defensively, we're just inconsistent.
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  Speaker 1: A few series we were you know, quick three and
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  Speaker 1: now stopping the run. A few we were letting it split.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, that's a good thing to be
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  Speaker 1: an ugly game for us and get out with a
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  Speaker 1: win because time we could improve on it. But I
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  Speaker 1: would credit their backs you know, uh, three eight and four,
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  Speaker 1: we're really running the ball, running it strong. You saw
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  Speaker 1: them all day, and so we got to bow up,
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  Speaker 1: get our tackling right, get our fits clean, and just
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  Speaker 1: improve standard. How do you feel like you, uh, to
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  Speaker 1: our standard? It was it wasn't to our standard. We
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  Speaker 1: needed more energy, We need more juice. You know, these
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  Speaker 1: these East Coast games, you know, you gotta have energy,
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  Speaker 1: especially we're playing at ten o'clock or on our time,
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  Speaker 1: our body clock, and so we had to come out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, faster now. It can't be as sluggish, and
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  Speaker 1: so I think that's something we have to understand, especially
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  Speaker 1: when the weather is a little warmer. But defensively, we're
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  Speaker 1: always trying to raise that standard. And so I know
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna go in to next week fired up. You guys,
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  Speaker 1: just hand travel this Uh you know, I attention was
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  Speaker 1: put on just getting your sleep, kind of getting light,
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  Speaker 1: keeping your body on the West Coast clock, and just
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  Speaker 1: treat it like a ten o'clock game, So wake up earlier,
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  Speaker 1: kind of do all that stuff. And so I think
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  Speaker 1: that's how we were doing it last year and so
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  Speaker 1: nothing nothing too different. Yeah, this league to learn from platform.
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  Speaker 1: That's huge I mean, it's an ugly win. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: we we were trying to set the tone defensively, We're
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  Speaker 1: trying to create turnovers, we're trying to stop the run,
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  Speaker 1: limit explosives, and you know, some of those areas we
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  Speaker 1: didn't hit today, but in the moments that mattered most,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the overtime three and out at the end,
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  Speaker 1: I led to that block they hit a big run
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  Speaker 1: and we bowed up and let our offense have a
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  Speaker 1: chance to you know, win the game, more tie the game,
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  Speaker 1: and they did. And so it's just those moments. We
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  Speaker 1: have those little kind of finishing details. We were locked
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  Speaker 1: into those, but not just consistency, making sure when guys
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  Speaker 1: are subthing and out, they were playing at the high
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  Speaker 1: level that we need. And so I think, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I had never been around a quarterback who had as
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  Speaker 1: big as of a chip on his shoulder than Gino.
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  Speaker 1: I think that was evident when I first got out here,
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  Speaker 1: got to Seattle last year, I'm like, man, this guy
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  Speaker 1: he has some swagger to him. I've never been around
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  Speaker 1: that from a quarterback. You know, he talks, see, he's energy,
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  Speaker 1: he has energy. At halftime, he was just fired up
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  Speaker 1: and the whole game on the sideline. He was bringing
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  Speaker 1: juice and so people feed off that offense, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they go with him and defensively, I mean we try
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  Speaker 1: to fuel him up as well. And so yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: special and I'm grateful to have him. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: had a kick at no oh, I mean maybe literal league,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. But then when you know that little
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  Speaker 1: uh little tyke was kicking in addle now. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: first one trouble you guys still get first class. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so the new standard now is players get first class. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we have a game to play. It's a better for
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  Speaker 1: the players that have space. And so yeah, Mike did
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  Speaker 1: a great job of getting us an upgraded plane this year,
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  Speaker 1: and so there's a lot more space for the players
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  Speaker 1: that we had not just you know, there's multiple sections
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  Speaker 1: of guys that can you know, really spread out and
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  Speaker 1: not be so cramped going into a game. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: both first because both the ways. It's a giant plane,
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  Speaker 1: so there's multiple such a first class and so guys
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  Speaker 1: I know are liking it more. I mean we got
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  Speaker 1: we got bowing in our backyard.
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  Speaker 2: I mean yeah, over time, Uh yeah, I would say,
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  Speaker 2: so I uh, quick stop and just let our office
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  Speaker 2: know that, hey, you're in winning mode now.
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  Speaker 1: Anything you do field goal touchdown wins the game. And
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  Speaker 1: so we were excited. We wanted to be on defense,
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  Speaker 1: and we know we're gonna set the tone and thankfully
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  Speaker 1: quick three and now we did. I appreciate y'all, See
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  Speaker 1: y'all later.