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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of Week 5 vs. 49ers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Are we good with Irv?
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  Speaker 2: Irv Charles is going to be questionable for the game.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I had an opening speech and everything with
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  Speaker 2: the injuries, but since everybody has a common understanding, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't need to be discussed.
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  Speaker 3: So Leonard was held out yesterday. He's got no designation.
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  Speaker 3: He's good to go?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Leonard's going to play.
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  Speaker 3: So with Herb, there's a chance he plays Sunday?
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  Speaker 1: It's a chance he plays. I mean, that's obviously.
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  Speaker 4: You have to make a run.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel about, you know, after coming out
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  Speaker 3: of last week's game when you guys had some focus points,
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  Speaker 3: how do you feel like the week went?
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  Speaker 1: Guys had a solid week. Every week kind of has
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  Speaker 1: its own life of its own.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the guys did a great job today.
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  Speaker 1: They had a really good day.
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  Speaker 2: We started outside and ended up inside. But guys had
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  Speaker 2: a really good day today.
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  Speaker 4: It was fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Right where we wanted, so I'm really pleased with today.
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  Speaker 1: So that wasn't by design? Did you think you would
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  Speaker 1: finish practice outside? We thought I was going to. What
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  Speaker 1: is it like out there now? It doesn't look bad.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we should have stayed outside. It got pretty wet.
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  Speaker 4: You've talked about.
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  Speaker 5: How Charbonnet and his rehab.
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  Speaker 3: Leonard Williams, how did he just get himself ready for
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  Speaker 3: the week?
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  Speaker 4: Because that takes hard work, right?
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to take anything away from Leo. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a major.
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  Speaker 2: We had a pretty good feel throughout the week that
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be, we just wanted to do right
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  Speaker 2: by him, make sure he was good to go.
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  Speaker 4: What happened with Julian Neal? Was that in practice yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: It was in practice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Jaron mentioned get the, some of the veterans got guys
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  Speaker 5: together to address things on Monday. What's the value in
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  Speaker 5: sometimes that message coming from those guys versus you and
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  Speaker 5: the coaching staff?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't a long meeting. It was the
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  Speaker 2: guys just mentioned they wanted to do it and let's
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  Speaker 2: rock and roll. Uh, We have a lot of ownership
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  Speaker 2: from our guys. They take a lot of pride in
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  Speaker 2: our way of life here, how we play football, how
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  Speaker 2: our team plays.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a really great group.
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  Speaker 2: It's a really great group that we trust, and they
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  Speaker 2: keep delivering.
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  Speaker 3: What was your first impression of Robert Henry in practice
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  Speaker 3: this week?
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  Speaker 1: He's done a nice job. He's done a nice job.
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  Speaker 1: He's an impressive guy. I'm glad we have him.
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  Speaker 4: What impresses you about him?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you my answer from earlier in
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  Speaker 2: the week. But he's really quick. He's been good in
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  Speaker 2: the pass protection stuff. With the limited amount of time
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  Speaker 2: he's been here. Caught the ball out of the backfield.
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  Speaker 1: Seems really fast. I haven't seen him in a game yet,
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  Speaker 1: but seems fast to me.
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  Speaker 4: There's a fact that he's been on a practice squad
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  Speaker 4: practicing every day since the start of training camp. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he's football shade. There's no concern there. Just a matter
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  Speaker 4: of how much he simulated your game plan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 5: Getting Ty Okada back this week. No stats for him.
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  Speaker 5: I assume he's ready to go. What does he do
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  Speaker 5: for you guys getting back?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Rodney's done a tremendous job filling in for Ty.
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  Speaker 2: But Ty's going to play. He's ready to go. He's
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  Speaker 2: done a great job doing the things that Ty does.
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  Speaker 2: He's making plays in the back end. He's getting us
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  Speaker 2: lined up. He's getting us in and out of plays.
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  Speaker 2: He's done a really great job. He's not rusty at
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  Speaker 2: all on the mental side. And it seems like he's
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  Speaker 2: moving around great, so. Looking forward to seeing him play.
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  Speaker 1: Will you use both him and Rodney? We could.
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  Speaker 3: How did Zach Charbonnet get through the week with the
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  Speaker 3: team reps and is he ready to accelerate a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more next week?
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  Speaker 2: He's done great and yes, we're on schedule here so
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  Speaker 2: we'll see. Next week will be a little tricky with
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  Speaker 2: the speed and tempo of practice but I think we're
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  Speaker 2: in a great spot going into next week.
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  Speaker 4: With Okada, how key is his coach on the field
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  Speaker 4: knowing exactly where to be and where people are going
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  Speaker 4: to be at his position in particular? It's probably true
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  Speaker 4: for everybody in the defense.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a chemistry thing in the back end.
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  Speaker 2: We basically took every one rep throughout the offseason through
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  Speaker 2: training camp and through the spring. There's a chemistry there
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  Speaker 2: with our guys that we're trying to rebuild.
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  Speaker 1: This happened a little bit last year.
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  Speaker 2: Too, but the moving pieces we've had in our secondary
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  Speaker 2: is some, I wouldn't say it's adversity, but it's something
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  Speaker 2: that when you work through, it provides depth, which is great,
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  Speaker 2: but also there's nothing to be, there's something to be
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  Speaker 2: said for having consistency and who's back there so you
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  Speaker 2: can build the chemistry of being ahead of plays and
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  Speaker 2: things like that. I don't want to take anything away
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  Speaker 2: from Rodney. He's done a tremendous job coming in and
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  Speaker 2: filling in on short notice and playing high level football. So, um,
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  Speaker 2: I think, I think everybody that's played safety force this
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  Speaker 2: year has done a great job.
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  Speaker 3: Did having Brian Fleury come in with his time in
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  Speaker 3: San Francisco, do you have a better understanding or different
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  Speaker 3: understanding about Shanahan's offense than you did before, even though
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  Speaker 3: they're a division team?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, I don't, we, we, we really don't talk about,
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  Speaker 2: we talk about like how we're going to do it here,
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  Speaker 2: but understanding like, you know, targeting in the run game, um,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think just, you know, starting last year
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  Speaker 2: with Clinton, really since JB, you know, JB's the common denominator,
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  Speaker 2: JO's the common denominator, I think just learning about offense
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  Speaker 2: in general from my perspective, like, you know, how it's
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  Speaker 2: built and rules and things like that is, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: just as a football guy that likes football, I do
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  Speaker 2: not like learning more football.
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  Speaker 4: How's Anthony Bradford's recovery coming?
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  Speaker 5: I think he can return to practice.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing great. He's doing great. He's working really hard.
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  Speaker 2: He should be ready soon.
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  Speaker 3: Bo Stevens had mentioned that he didn't expect to play
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  Speaker 3: this season, but what have you made of his play
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  Speaker 3: coming in?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting. I haven't heard him say that, but.
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  Speaker 2: We want everybody getting ready all the time, and so
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  Speaker 2: it's probably a great lesson learned for him is you
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  Speaker 2: just stay ready to go, and you're competing to play
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  Speaker 2: and to start.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go. No rest for the weary. Let's rock and roll.
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  Speaker 1: We need you. He's doing a good job, though. He's
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  Speaker 1: playing good football.
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  Speaker 4: Anything else?
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you.