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Byron Murphy II On His Performance This Season: "I'm In A Flow State" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Byron, back in training camp, there was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: conversation from your teammates, and you said that you were
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  Speaker 1: expecting a big year.
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  Speaker 2: Given where we are in.
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  Speaker 1: The season, how would you say that you were measuring
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  Speaker 1: up to your expectations?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm doing a great job. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like right now I'm in a great place. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I'm heading in the right direction to have a
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  Speaker 2: good year, so I just got to keep doing me.
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  Speaker 2: Just keep working, you know, week in, week out. Just
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  Speaker 2: keep trying to get better, you know, keep trying to find,
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  Speaker 2: like Mike say, chasing edges. So instead of trying to find,
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  Speaker 2: you know, edges, chasing edges, you know, find little niggas
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  Speaker 2: in my game or pick something, you know, just always
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  Speaker 2: trying to improve and get better. But I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I'm heading in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: Now you've got a good sample size under your belt
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  Speaker 1: for this season. What is something that got unlocked for you? Like,
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  Speaker 1: what's one of those little nuggets that has made a
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  Speaker 1: huge difference?
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  Speaker 2: I think really just, like, understanding the officers more. I'd
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  Speaker 2: say that's one for sure. And then also, too, secondly,
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  Speaker 2: I'd say my confidence. Like, my confidence is, like, this year,
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  Speaker 2: this season is, like, it's out the roof. It's, like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not thinking about nothing. Like, I'm just playing, like, man. But, like,
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  Speaker 2: the game just coming to me, like, now I'm just–
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  Speaker 2: I'm in a flow state to where, like, I can
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  Speaker 2: just be me, be who I am, and just play
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  Speaker 2: my game.
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  Speaker 1: Last week when DeMarcus Lawrence was talking about red zone,
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  Speaker 1: he kind of put it all on himself. He was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, saying they're running at my gap.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming for all you guys, you're looking at that
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  Speaker 1: like that's obviously not fully the story. But what does
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  Speaker 1: it mean when a veteran guy wants to be the
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  Speaker 1: guy to step in front and kind of take that?
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  Speaker 2: It means a lot. I mean, it just goes to
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  Speaker 2: show you, like, guys, like, They take a lot of
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  Speaker 2: ownership in their role, you know, especially like when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to dominating their box, like guys take a lot
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  Speaker 2: of pride in that, especially on this defense. Me, myself
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  Speaker 2: as a person, I take my job, you know, very seriously. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, have a guy like that, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool to have. But, you know, we put it
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  Speaker 2: all on us, not just, you know, it ain't just law.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's on the whole defense, you know, to
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  Speaker 2: improve and get better in the red zone. We did
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  Speaker 2: a great job of that, you know, this past Sunday
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  Speaker 2: going on too in the red zone. stopping them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: stopping them in the red zone, stopping them from scoring. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we just got to keep improving at that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and continue to do that week in, week out.
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  Speaker 3: You made a lot of initial impact on the run
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  Speaker 3: side of your game, and now you've grown in the
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  Speaker 3: pass rush.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Are you finding it's challenging to do both, like, at
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  Speaker 3: equal levels?
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't find it challenging at all. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I always knew I could pass rush. I knew coming
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  Speaker 2: into the league, I knew I needed, you know, take
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  Speaker 2: it to another level and improve my pass rushing. As
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  Speaker 2: far as playing the run, you know, I can, that's
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  Speaker 2: like night and day. You know, I can do that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, on any given Sunday, you know, whatever, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is. So, but it's not a challenge to me
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  Speaker 2: at all. And I, you know, I love, I love
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  Speaker 2: pass rushing. I love getting out the quarterback. I love
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  Speaker 2: third downs. I like playing the run. You know, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of guys, a lot of guys don't like playing
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  Speaker 2: the run. I like doing both. So, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm very good at both. So, just got to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: continue to be me, continue to stay at it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The flow state that you mentioned, what's that like in
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  Speaker 4: the moment? How is that different from when you didn't
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  Speaker 4: necessarily feel that way?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like when I say flow state, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like when I make that first play or that first
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  Speaker 2: tackle or when I get a sack, it's like now
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  Speaker 2: I'm in a mode to where I feel like I
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  Speaker 2: can't be stopped. When I get that flow state, it's like, okay.
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  Speaker 2: It's like I just got a mind. My mind says
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  Speaker 2: just shift. I know you can't miss me. Like, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: that's my mind going into the game. Like, you can't
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  Speaker 2: block me. You won't be able to block me. But
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  Speaker 2: it's like once I actually make that first, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that first little play or first little contact with somebody,
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  Speaker 2: it's like I'm in that mode. With Leo and Chena
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  Speaker 2: out last week, did you feel the focus kind of
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  Speaker 2: dial in on you a little bit more? And if so,
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  Speaker 2: what did you kind of take away from that and
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  Speaker 2: your ability to still kind of do your thing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I felt it. I felt it. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at the end of the day, I still
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  Speaker 2: got to go out there and do my job no
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  Speaker 2: matter who's out there on the field. It would be great,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it would have been great to have them
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  Speaker 2: guys out there on the field. But at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, we still, you know, got a job
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  Speaker 2: to do. We got to get the job done and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, come out with a win. But I feel
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  Speaker 2: like nothing has changed for me. You know, I got
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  Speaker 2: the slot a few times, more than I usually do,
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  Speaker 2: which is, you know, it's part of the game. It's
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  Speaker 2: part of it. But I feel like I was still able,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to be myself and, you know, still go
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  Speaker 2: out there and play my game and affect the game
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  Speaker 2: in the best way as possible.
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  Speaker 3: After the Washington game, well back, you know, one of
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  Speaker 3: the offensive linemen or a couple of them came up
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  Speaker 3: to you and caught on film just saying how great
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  Speaker 3: you were, right? And how often do you think that
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  Speaker 3: the respect you earn from an offensive lineman comes from
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  Speaker 3: how you play against the run versus how you pass rush?
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  Speaker 2: I say it really comes from starting the run game because,
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  Speaker 2: you know, As a D-line, you want to be the
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  Speaker 2: most physical. You want to be the most physical guy
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  Speaker 2: out there when it comes to the run game, especially
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  Speaker 2: you want to be more physical than the guy that's
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  Speaker 2: lined up across from you, right? So I feel like
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  Speaker 2: it comes from that. And then the pass rush, then
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  Speaker 2: it come along with that because, you know, now I'm
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  Speaker 2: rushing from a two-point, rushing from a three-point. I'm in
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  Speaker 2: the three-tick, two-iron, rushing from the nose position. So I
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  Speaker 2: feel like that's where, you know, the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: respect comes from. So, and, you know, I appreciate that
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  Speaker 2: a lot. You know, it just goes to show, like,
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  Speaker 2: my body of work and how I can just do
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  Speaker 2: all these things, you know, and do it at the
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  Speaker 2: highest level. So it's pretty cool to see that guys,
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  Speaker 2: you know, around the league just coming up to me
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  Speaker 2: after the games and, like, just telling me, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they respect me, respect my game. So it's pretty dope.
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  Speaker 2: What's the idea? Oh, sorry, go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: As a pass rusher, what is the challenge of facing
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  Speaker 4: a quarterback that has basically no NFL tape?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I mean, it's a bit challenging because you don't
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  Speaker 2: have no tape on him, so you really don't, you know,
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  Speaker 2: have too many tendencies for real or, like, some of
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  Speaker 2: his weakness. But as far as what I've seen on tape,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the guy, you know, obviously number one draft pick.
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  Speaker 2: He can make all the throws. But I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as a unit, as a defense, and especially
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  Speaker 2: as a D-line, you know, we can get after this guy,
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  Speaker 2: especially in the– In the passing game, we just got
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  Speaker 2: to rush this one, be on one accord, and just
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  Speaker 2: have our communications got to be at a high level,
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  Speaker 2: but we can get out there.
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  Speaker 4: The two-point stance, we've seen that a few times recently.
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  Speaker 4: What's the idea behind that?
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  Speaker 2: Man, shout out to AD. He gave me the green
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  Speaker 2: light during, I want to say like LTAs and training camp,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to start rushing from a two-point. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we was working on it, and, you know, Man, I
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  Speaker 2: was pretty good at rushing from a two-point. And I
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  Speaker 2: told him, like, you know, I actually like rushing from
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  Speaker 2: a two-point better. I feel like I have a faster get-off.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I can see everything more. Like, my vision,
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  Speaker 2: it expands. And also, too, it just feels like it
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  Speaker 2: helps me put pressure on the alignment even more because
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  Speaker 2: when I line up in that two-point, especially if I'm
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  Speaker 2: on the edge of the guard or whoever I'm rushing,
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  Speaker 2: it's just like you don't know what I'm going to do.
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  Speaker 2: When I'm coming off the ball, you don't know if
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to speed the power, just strictly power, you know,
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  Speaker 2: get on your edge, work your edge. So I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I can kind of, you know, manipulate the offensive
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  Speaker 2: lineman a little bit. So shout out to AD. He
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  Speaker 2: gave me the green light to rush from a two-point.
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  Speaker 2: He was just telling me, like, whenever you, you know,
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  Speaker 2: see pass, whenever you find pass, you know, you don't
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  Speaker 2: got to always rush from a three-point stand. You can
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  Speaker 2: get into a two-point because, you know, you're that type
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  Speaker 2: of player. You can do it. And so I just
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  Speaker 2: stuck with it, and I've been doing it all season long.
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  Speaker 4: And you don't feel– I mean– it would seem like
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  Speaker 4: you would be more explosive coming out of a three-point.
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  Speaker 4: You don't feel like it costs you any of that?
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  Speaker 2: No. I'm explosive coming out of a three-point, but from
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  Speaker 2: the two, I feel like I'm way more explosive than
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  Speaker 2: a two-point.
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  Speaker 1: When's the last time you rushed.
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  Speaker 2: From a two-point stance? I actually rushed from a two-point
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  Speaker 2: stance this past Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Before this season?
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  Speaker 2: Before this season. I rushed last year. Last year, yep.
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  Speaker 2: Last season I rushed from a two-point in a Tennessee game,
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  Speaker 2: I believe. and another game as well.
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  Speaker 1: Did you ever do it at Texas?
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  Speaker 2: No, never did it at Texas. I was in the three-point.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not call-specific. He leaves it up to you
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  Speaker 2: to when you want to do it? Say that again?
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  Speaker 2: It's not call-specific.
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  Speaker 1: It's up to you to when.
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  Speaker 2: To use two-point? Yeah, yeah. Whenever I feel like I
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  Speaker 2: want to stand up, I can do it. Anything else, guys? Thanks, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thanks, Mark.