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Cooper Kupp: "There Was Great Execution Across The Board" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You guys have been struggling on third down for a
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  Speaker 1: good chunk of the season. To see you guys go
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  Speaker 1: out and go 11 for your first 15 converting tonight
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of those being longer situations, what were
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  Speaker 1: you seeing working so well for you guys in those
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  Speaker 1: situations tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we distributed the field well.
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  Speaker 3: I think Sam did a great job getting through progressions
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  Speaker 3: and taking advantage of the looks that the defense was
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  Speaker 3: giving us. guys just playing fast, decisive football. Some of
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  Speaker 3: those conversions are Sam's fifth read, getting the ball in
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  Speaker 3: one of the playmaker's hands and letting them go use
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  Speaker 3: their legs to get the first down. Great execution across
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  Speaker 3: the board there with that. Plenty of stuff to grow from.
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  Speaker 3: We'll watch the film and make the adjustments.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great That's what we expect.
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  Speaker 3: That's how we expect to play this game. And there's
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  Speaker 3: a good foundation, but certainly a lot to build on, too.
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  Speaker 4: Overall, this team has lost two games in a row
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  Speaker 4: since before you were here.
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  Speaker 1: What is a win like this?
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  Speaker 4: Not just a good win, but to play three phases
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  Speaker 4: like you did.
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  Speaker 2: What does this do for you guys? Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the thing.
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  Speaker 3: I think more than anything else is just regardless of
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  Speaker 3: what happened before, it's about going out there and playing
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  Speaker 3: Seahawks football. We've been talking about it and talking about
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  Speaker 3: it and putting in so much work to see it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, not happen um has been tough but we
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  Speaker 3: just continue to you know man just be at the
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  Speaker 3: grindstone um you know coming to work each day with
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  Speaker 3: an expectation and an intention to get better and um
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  Speaker 3: was great to see that you know that you know
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  Speaker 3: materialized finally um where you are seeing um complimentary football
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  Speaker 3: and guys playing off of each other.
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  Speaker 2: Point of an opposing.
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  Speaker 4: Defense and still be able to shine and have record
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  Speaker 4: settings to protect the season to see what jackson's doing
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  Speaker 4: right now over 200 yards from anybody.
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  Speaker 2: Else in the league in the season.
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  Speaker 4: He's kind of putting together what do you.
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  Speaker 3: Say yeah man he's just he it's uh he's playing
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  Speaker 3: one play at a time and he's doing an unbelievable
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  Speaker 3: job of it knowing that there's going to be you
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  Speaker 3: know plays that you know it's an uphill battle when
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  Speaker 3: they've got those doubles on him and things like that
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  Speaker 3: and teams are going to continue to find ways to
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  Speaker 3: try to take him out of the game, but his
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  Speaker 3: ability just to stay engaged in one play after the next,
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  Speaker 3: and when that opportunity comes, just continue to play high-level football.
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  Speaker 2: It's really hard to do. It truly is a really
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  Speaker 2: hard thing.
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  Speaker 3: To do, to stay engaged through a whole game when
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  Speaker 3: a defense is trying to take you away. But he's
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  Speaker 3: done an unbelievable job of that, and making the plays
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  Speaker 3: when the ball comes his way and doing some pretty
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  Speaker 3: cool stuff with it.
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  Speaker 2: What do you have to... not do or guard against
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  Speaker 2: when that happens? Well, I think it's the complacency, right?
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  Speaker 2: It's like, well, they're going to take me away.
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  Speaker 3: You start to kind of take a step back and
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  Speaker 3: you just say, well, they're taking me out of the game.
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  Speaker 3: And it's hard to get into a rhythm sometimes that way.
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  Speaker 3: And the other side of it is you start pushing.
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  Speaker 3: You start feeling like you have to play outside of
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  Speaker 3: what the offense is. And he's done an unbelievable job
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  Speaker 3: just staying engaged and exactly executing his job and knowing
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  Speaker 3: that Sam's going to do a great job of going
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  Speaker 3: through his progressions. And if you're in the right place
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  Speaker 3: at the right time, creating separation, Sam will eat the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he did an unbelievable job out there.
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  Speaker 4: His command, his ability to get plays in and out,
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  Speaker 4: just his command of the huddle.
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  Speaker 3: At the line of scrimmage, getting things fixed, getting guys organized,
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  Speaker 3: and then obviously, like I said, playing decisive. All those
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  Speaker 3: third downs that you guys have talked about, he's really
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  Speaker 3: clicking through his progressions and going through it one at
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  Speaker 3: a time and playing in rhythm with his feet and
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  Speaker 3: his eyes all in one.
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  Speaker 2: It's really good. It's really cool. That's who he is.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we expect from him, and that's who he's
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  Speaker 3: going to continue to be because that's who Sam is.
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  Speaker 4: With all the.
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  Speaker 1: Weapons that they have on that Chiefs offense. What is
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  Speaker 1: it like being on the sideline and seeing your guys'
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  Speaker 1: defense hold them to 11 first downs of the fewest
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  Speaker 1: they've had in a Patrick Holmes-started game?
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  Speaker 2: No red zone trips?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was some lights-out defense. It's really cool to
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  Speaker 3: watch those guys go to work.
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  Speaker 2: I see it every day.
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  Speaker 3: I see it every day in terms of the way
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  Speaker 3: that they compete in practice.
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  Speaker 2: We get the.
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  Speaker 3: Pleasure of going up against them. And, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: always a great challenge. I mean, it's just those guys,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think, you know, first off, they really
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  Speaker 3: love one another. And, you know, a defense like that
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  Speaker 3: that plays for one another, plays off of each other
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  Speaker 3: so well, it's what makes defenses great.
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  Speaker 2: And, you know, they're doing something really special, and they're
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  Speaker 2: going to continue to do it. or that post-interception scramble,
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  Speaker 2: you and George were able to.
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  Speaker 4: Slow him up enough for Charles to come get him.
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  Speaker 4: In retrospect, how.
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  Speaker 2: Big a moment is that for you guys to make.
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  Speaker 4: Sure they don't turn that into points and you're able to.
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  Speaker 2: Come out and score to start the half? Yeah. George
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  Speaker 2: probably gets the credit for that one.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how effective I was tackling there. That's
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  Speaker 3: a big-time play in terms of momentum at the half,
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  Speaker 3: being able to keep them out of field goal range.
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  Speaker 3: We talk about it all the time. Every yard matters,
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  Speaker 3: and we would like to do a better job of
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  Speaker 3: If it is going to happen like that, that you
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  Speaker 3: get that guy on the ground because you don't want, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: to give them an opportunity to score. But we talk
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  Speaker 3: all the time about give our defense every chance. If
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  Speaker 3: we give our defense a chance, we know they're going
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  Speaker 3: to go out there and make a play for us.
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  Speaker 3: And whoever it was that you said George got him down?
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  Speaker 3: Charles got him down.
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  Speaker 2: See, that's big. That's an offensive tackle down there. It's
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: You guys have been chasing a complete game like this,
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  Speaker 4: probably since February. Is it reassuring, or what's the mood
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  Speaker 4: or tone or vibe of a.
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  Speaker 2: Game like this against an undefeated team?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it feels good. But, I mean, it
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  Speaker 3: feels good because this is part of the journey. This
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  Speaker 3: is part of the vision. This is what we work for.
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  Speaker 3: This is what we come into work every day to
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  Speaker 3: make this come to life. This is who we are.
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  Speaker 3: And we've talked about it over and over this week.
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  Speaker 3: This is an about us game. It's about going out
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  Speaker 3: there and playing our football. And, you know, this week
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  Speaker 3: I've been, for whatever reason, diving into more of what,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Frosty Westring was a legendary coach here. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he used to talk about a team comes in,
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  Speaker 3: another team comes in to beat you. Another team comes
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  Speaker 3: in to beat us, but our job is to be us.
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  Speaker 3: We come on, step on the field, just be who
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  Speaker 3: we are. That's been Mike's message from day one. It's
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  Speaker 3: about us and who we are. We put in all
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  Speaker 3: this work. We do all this stuff all throughout the week.
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  Speaker 3: You get to go out there, and it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 3: who's across from you.
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  Speaker 2: It's about actually doing your job. It's how do you
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  Speaker 2: do your job over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 3: When you handle that side of things, the results are
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  Speaker 3: going to end up in a good place most of
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  Speaker 3: the time anyway. That's been our focus, and it was
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  Speaker 3: great to see all of that come to life today.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. Thank you guys.