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Sam Darnold: "That Was A Really Good Team Win From The First Snap" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hold on guess obviously, Uh, you know, a good team win,
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  Speaker 1: really good team win. From the first snap. Uh you
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  Speaker 1: know the kick off, that guy taking it to the house. Man,
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  Speaker 1: that was that was special to hear that. That stadium
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  Speaker 1: to rocking the way Lemon was tonight. Unbelievable. Man, the
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  Speaker 1: twelves came out, it was it was fun. Our defense
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  Speaker 1: doing their thing and as an offense to like the
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  Speaker 1: ball control, I feel like that was that was huge
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  Speaker 1: for us all game and finishing in the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: We harp on that, you know, these last couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks of working and uh, you know, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we just controlled the football and finished in the red
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  Speaker 1: zone and that was a story tonight. Oh oh great, great.
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  Speaker 1: Can you just take us through kind of what your
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  Speaker 1: pregame room the team like it seemed like it changed. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: So obviously I didn't go out for the uh non
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  Speaker 1: padded warm up. I think that kind of stirred, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some questions, which was funny. But now I got to
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  Speaker 1: throw in here and uh, you know, didn't did the
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  Speaker 1: same thing, did my oro teine in here, But just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to throw and make sure that I was you know,
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  Speaker 1: once I put the pads on and got that first,
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  Speaker 1: like that padded warm up. I wanted to be rolling
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't want to, you know, waste any time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting warm on the field and coming in
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  Speaker 1: having forty minutes to get warm again and then go
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  Speaker 1: back out Like I just wanted to get warm once
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  Speaker 1: and then go back out there in the pads. And
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  Speaker 1: so that was kind of that was why I did
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  Speaker 1: it that way. So you grew in here. Where is
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  Speaker 1: it here in the locker room? Yeah, in the locker room,
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  Speaker 1: we have a ton of space. And I was just
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  Speaker 1: throwing back and forth, got got warm and I was
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  Speaker 1: able to go out there, like I said, in pads
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  Speaker 1: and throw it. And what is meeting? What is winning
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  Speaker 1: your first playoff game meet? To you? I mean I
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  Speaker 1: always only been to but you've been in the league
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  Speaker 1: for a few years. Yeah, No, it's it's huge. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't take it for grant whatsoever. You know. The
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  Speaker 1: it's just a special group. I think that's the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why it means so much, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: just the way those guys are in the locker room
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  Speaker 1: ever since I got here. You know, they were tight,
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  Speaker 1: you know, before I got here, obviously, but just the
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  Speaker 1: way that you know, they took me in as one
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  Speaker 1: of their own, you know, and that's that's so special
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  Speaker 1: about this league in general, Like you make so many
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  Speaker 1: great relationships throughout this whole process, and you know that
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  Speaker 1: locker room and these coaches, you know, just the way
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  Speaker 1: that we play together. That's the reason why I played
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  Speaker 1: this game. And uh, you know, they've made it really
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  Speaker 1: easy for me to come in here ever since I
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  Speaker 1: did in April, to be able to, you know, help
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  Speaker 1: lead this team and drive the ball down the field,
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  Speaker 1: score touchdowns all those things. So I'm sorry, do you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you do everything you normally do or were
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  Speaker 1: you limited at all? No? No, I felt really good,
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  Speaker 1: felt really good, you know, and uh yeah, supremship for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. Now, what would it mean to have
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  Speaker 1: this be at home? I mean, you you're obviously some
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  Speaker 1: teeth into this place. So yeah, I mean I think
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  Speaker 1: for me, I'm just taking it one game at a time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, That's what I've always done my entire career.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I'm not gonna look past that. Was
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  Speaker 1: there any hesitation when you wind some of the throws early?
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  Speaker 1: Or it was like I can let it frail no
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  Speaker 1: matter what. No, I was gonna let it rip, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what. You know. Uh, that was never a question
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  Speaker 1: in my mind, was you know, because if I, if
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't able to give it one hundred percent, then
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think I would be doing this team
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  Speaker 1: of disservice. So I was gonna go let it rip.
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  Speaker 1: And if my body said no, you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: do that, then I would have told my coaches and
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  Speaker 1: and we would have gone from there. Watching this defense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to have touchdown in any quarters now if
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  Speaker 1: you're watching that defense operate. Our defense has been amazing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, throughout the entire year. You know, they've had
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  Speaker 1: our back. You know, we've had their back in certain situations.
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  Speaker 1: Our special teams, you know, I can't say enough great
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  Speaker 1: things about them, but yeah, it's it's really fun to
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  Speaker 1: play with the defense like that behind you know that
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  Speaker 1: has your back, you know, throughout the entire season, and
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  Speaker 1: especially when you get big, big games like this one. Damn.
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  Speaker 1: I know you said you're gonna let it rip no
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  Speaker 1: matter what. But when you took that kind of first
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  Speaker 1: big hit and hear your sideline, do you feel anything
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  Speaker 1: or did No? No, I you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I felt good. And you know, if if anything was
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  Speaker 1: gonna you know, if I did get hurt, I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, y'all would have probably known about it. So no,
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  Speaker 1: I felt really good the entire game, and any hits
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  Speaker 1: that I did take, I didn't feel it. You know.
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  Speaker 1: On that side, Coobert, let you guys, let you're in
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  Speaker 1: receiving this game that hasn't always been in the roles
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  Speaker 1: this season, But what what has he meant to you
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  Speaker 1: in this offense? Even at the games that he's not
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  Speaker 1: put enough to number. Yeah, he's been great. Man. He's
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's obviously such a great leader for us.
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  Speaker 1: But the way that he's stepped up, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think you know, people realize what he does in
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  Speaker 1: the run game as a blocker. He's he's one of
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  Speaker 1: the best, if not the best run blocking receiver that
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  Speaker 1: I've ever seen or in the NFL throughout his entire career.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, with the accolades and everything that he's
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  Speaker 1: done in the NFL, to to be able to be
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  Speaker 1: unselfish like that in the run game, it's it's something special.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, he's obviously been showing up, you know, throughout
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  Speaker 1: practice and training camp, all those things as a receiver,
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  Speaker 1: you know, catching the rock and so for him to
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  Speaker 1: just do that, you know in a game and in games,
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  Speaker 1: especially in big time games, that's huge for us. You
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  Speaker 1: consider you're surprised through the past ages and how covered
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  Speaker 1: he was. Why did you decide with the touchdout? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just felt the safeties, the safety's demeanor. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like he wasn't running full speed and Jackson was, and
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  Speaker 1: I knew Jackson was gonna outrun him to the corner
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  Speaker 1: of the end zone. Sam, what does it mean to
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  Speaker 1: you to have the opportunity to play for an NFC
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  Speaker 1: champion game? Yeah, it's big, you know for us to
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  Speaker 1: especially to play here, you know, an NFC Championship at
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  Speaker 1: Looman with the twelves behind us. You know, it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get any better than that. You guys got the lead
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  Speaker 1: and then you're able to run the football with such
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  Speaker 1: a you know, kind of physical brutality. What does it
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  Speaker 1: feel like out there? And can you feel the defense
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  Speaker 1: like wearing down and how much confidence the teach overated? No,
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  Speaker 1: it's just you know, I think for us as an offense,
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  Speaker 1: like we understand what we're capable of. You know, we've
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  Speaker 1: showed glimpses of it throughout the season, and I think
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  Speaker 1: these last few games we've kind of proven our offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: our tight ends have proven kind of what we can
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  Speaker 1: do running the football. So we're just going to continue
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  Speaker 1: to you know, watch the tape, get better and see
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  Speaker 1: where we can go from here. Is need like something
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  Speaker 1: you like you're gonna have to continue to manage for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the playoffs. Yeah, absolutely, all right, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Thanks guys. Thanks so