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Sam Darnold Talks About The "Great Team Win" In Week 2 vs. The Steelers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, obviously a great result today, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I I kind of mentioned uh in the Fox postgame interview,
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  Speaker 1: but just a lot of stuff to clean up offensively. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you know, we'll
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  Speaker 1: take a win every single day, every single Sunday, just
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  Speaker 1: you know, for our defense and special teams to play
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  Speaker 1: the way that they did, especially that special team's touchdown
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  Speaker 1: one of the more interesting plays that I've seen in
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  Speaker 1: my career. But it was just great to be able
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  Speaker 1: to see our guy George uh getting the end zone
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  Speaker 1: that way. And uh, yeah, it's just a great team
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  Speaker 1: win the way that we you know, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: at halftime, Uh, you know, guys could have you know
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  Speaker 1: let up or you know let down, and I feel
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  Speaker 1: like in the locker room it was just very positive
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  Speaker 1: energy and we knew that we had a chance to
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  Speaker 1: go out there and play really good football and win
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  Speaker 1: this ball game. And I felt like our guys did
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  Speaker 1: a really good job of you know, going out there
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  Speaker 1: and you know, executing in the second half. What was that, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: exactly were you guys talking about the game? No? I
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  Speaker 1: you know, I was just saying, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: and and the coaches, you know, going right into kind
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  Speaker 1: of the plan and what our halftime adjustments were, and
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  Speaker 1: then for me personally, just letting the guys know, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if we don't turn the ball over, we're
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  Speaker 1: marching right down the field whatever, you know, kick and
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  Speaker 1: field goals or scoring touchdowns. Obviously we'd like to score touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I feel like we were driving the
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  Speaker 1: football really well, and there were just a couple, you know,
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  Speaker 1: bad plays on my end that I'm obviously going to
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  Speaker 1: clean up, watch the tape and get better from. But
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  Speaker 1: I felt like there was you know, a lot to
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  Speaker 1: go into the second half optimistic about would you like
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  Speaker 1: the past, like your leadership syf being consistently Is this
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  Speaker 1: a head game where you really need to lean on
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  Speaker 1: that to not react. Yeah, you know, at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, I've seen you know, I've I've been
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  Speaker 1: around a lot of you know, a lot of football,
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  Speaker 1: especially in this league, and I've seen it go a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of different ways. You know, that game was obviously
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  Speaker 1: very tight going into the second half. Might not have
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  Speaker 1: felt that way, but our guys knew what the situation was.
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  Speaker 1: We knew that we were gonna be able to go
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  Speaker 1: out there and and play really good football, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: and I felt like we did that. Would you like
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  Speaker 1: about the way that Quinton called the offense to get
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  Speaker 1: more guys in fall seem like you guys are really
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  Speaker 1: able to distribute the football to a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: players having a big game to the touchdown. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think at the end of the day, we put
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  Speaker 1: ourselves in good positions on you know, uh, first and
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  Speaker 1: second down to get us into good third down third manageables,
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  Speaker 1: and we converted a lot of those third downs. I think,
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  Speaker 1: not exactly sure on the exact numbers, but it felt
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  Speaker 1: like we were staying on the field longer, and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just uh, I think that was the difference converting third
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  Speaker 1: downs to being able to stay on the field, to
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  Speaker 1: be able to call the players that we want to call.
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  Speaker 1: And so yeah, I'm always confident in the way that
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  Speaker 1: Clint will call football game. The third down, the last
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  Speaker 1: escape pressure. Yeah, you know, my my progression was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: starting on the right side, and just felt felt a
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  Speaker 1: guy coming loose up the middle, and you know, he
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  Speaker 1: picked you know, I was trying to figure out what
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  Speaker 1: side he was gonna pick on me, and he picked
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  Speaker 1: the right side. So I kind of was able to
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  Speaker 1: spin out to the left, and AJ did an incredible
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  Speaker 1: job of you know, feeling me scramble even though he
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  Speaker 1: was kind of chipping his way out and uh, you
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  Speaker 1: know it was able to get to you know, get
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  Speaker 1: him the ball that whole play. Yeah, he was uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was supposed to chip and then get out. But
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  Speaker 1: there's you know, obviously certain times when he doesn't, he
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  Speaker 1: means to stay and so there's uh, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: was a great job. I again, I gotta watch the
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  Speaker 1: tape to you know, see what exactly happened on that play.
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  Speaker 1: But he did a great job of, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: feeling feeling my escape and and getting out there for me.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson said that that deep ball, you guys had a
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  Speaker 1: game that you guys had been setting that up over
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  Speaker 1: the course of the game. What does it feel like
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  Speaker 1: for your coordinator to that call at that stated the game,
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  Speaker 1: we have a chance to put it away potentially with
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  Speaker 1: a with a deep ball dag or something. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we uh, you know, we fell on one of the
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  Speaker 1: especially you know, I think it was in the third quarter,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the safety just driving driving on the you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the one of our plays and that was
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  Speaker 1: when I took a shot to you know, Tory deep
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  Speaker 1: and it fell in complete. But you know, we had
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  Speaker 1: a little opportunity there, and uh we knew that we
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  Speaker 1: had had a chance to be able to make that
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  Speaker 1: make that same play. They played a little bit different
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  Speaker 1: coverage with no safety help, but yeah, I was I
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  Speaker 1: was able to you know that that's a ball that
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  Speaker 1: me and Jack's have have thrown ever since the start
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  Speaker 1: of about tas So felt really confident about that one. Finis.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah the nineteen doesn't see like Kennedy. Yeah, it was. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it was an incredible play to watch from my angle. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just thinking I'm gonna pitch it, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm always confident. Let me start by saying, I'm always
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  Speaker 1: confident in our guys that we'll be able to go
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  Speaker 1: you know, third nineteen. No matter what, we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: able to score. But I was kind of pitching it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just telling him, hey, staying bounced here, we
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  Speaker 1: need the clock to run and uh getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: you know, send the field goal unit on and uh,
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  Speaker 1: sure enough he breaks a couple tackles and I knew
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  Speaker 1: he had a chance. So but Ken's Ken's got a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Every single play he touches the rock, and uh, it
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  Speaker 1: was just an incredible play by him and our offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: What can you say? Yeah, yeah, again, you know, not
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  Speaker 1: necessarily taking care of the ball the the way that
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  Speaker 1: I would have loved to in the first half. And again,
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  Speaker 1: our defense and our special teams, you know, the way
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  Speaker 1: that they played, you know throughout that first half again
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  Speaker 1: kept us in the game and felt like we were
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  Speaker 1: able to kind of finally play the style of ball
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  Speaker 1: that we wanted to in the second half. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily the way exactly the way that we want to play,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, you know we were able to protect the
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  Speaker 1: football and in march on the field. Appreciate you guys.