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Brian Fleury On Preparing For Thursday Night Football Matchup at Broncos · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Alright, hi everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go from Sam about being more decisive. Mike
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  Speaker 2: McDonald talked about being more decisive. That's a word, but
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  Speaker 2: how do you actually like get the quarterback to be
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  Speaker 2: able to do that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's something that he identified right away
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  Speaker 3: coming off the field that we were able to talk
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  Speaker 3: about over the last 48 hours and it's relying more
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  Speaker 3: heavily on plays that we have a lot of experience
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  Speaker 3: with both through training camp and through the first couple
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  Speaker 3: weeks that he's comfortable making swift decisions and progressing through.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to lean more in that direction. Is
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  Speaker 1: that easier to do? It's a short week anyway?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be the formula anyway going into a
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  Speaker 3: short week a lot of times, but just definitely given
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  Speaker 3: the feedback that he gave to me and kind of
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  Speaker 3: the direction we're going right now, it just makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: What is that balance for any quarterback to make quick
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  Speaker 2: decisions yet be patient in terms of.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to play the play, not assume that
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  Speaker 3: something is going to happen based on the information you're
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  Speaker 3: gathering pre-snap.
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  Speaker 1: There's an element of.
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  Speaker 3: That to any good football player, but you actually do
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  Speaker 3: have to play things in sequence as they occur in
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  Speaker 3: real time. And so you can anticipate all you want,
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  Speaker 3: but just be decisive, but, you know, play it the
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  Speaker 3: way it's meant to be played.
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  Speaker 1: Third down numbers haven't been read like the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 4: How much of that is the execution on third down
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  Speaker 4: versus what's happening first and second down?
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  Speaker 3: That's a combination of both. I mean, obviously we can
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  Speaker 3: help ourselves by being in a little bit more manageable situations.
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  Speaker 3: We can, you know, avoid some of the negatives by penalties. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we've taken a few sacks or given up
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  Speaker 3: a few sacks in some inconvenient situations. So, that would
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  Speaker 3: help us significantly if we were in more manageable third downs,
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  Speaker 3: and then we can just do a better job at
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  Speaker 3: every level of executing when we are in those bad situations.
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  Speaker 5: What was your view of the first interception on Sunday,
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  Speaker 5: and do you think maybe that highlights the challenge of
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  Speaker 5: playing decisively but also not?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we had built the route to go out there,
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  Speaker 3: and Renardo did a great job playing it, so ideally
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  Speaker 3: you can see the leverage he's taking and the fact
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  Speaker 3: that he's squatting at that distance and progressed down to
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  Speaker 3: one of the checkdowns and just keep the chains moving.
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  Speaker 3: He was trying to be aggressive to get the first
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  Speaker 3: down in that situation. The check down might not have
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  Speaker 3: moved the chains, and he has a sense of urgency
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  Speaker 3: to be better on third down as well.
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  Speaker 1: So I understand the throw for sure.
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  Speaker 3: But playing it a little bit safer is something we've
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  Speaker 3: been talking about. When the run game is struggling, what
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  Speaker 3: kinds of things can you do to help the offense
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  Speaker 3: just work a little bit better, work more efficiently? It's
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  Speaker 3: just kind of leaning on things that we have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of experience in. If the run game is struggling,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of different reasons that might be happening.
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  Speaker 3: It could be because of different front that we weren't
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  Speaker 3: expecting to see it could be a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 3: or movement so it's really kind of identifying what the
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  Speaker 3: issues are within the game and then trying to get
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  Speaker 3: to stuff that we feel confident is a better answer
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  Speaker 3: than what we had maybe planned ahead of time.
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  Speaker 5: In a week where you're sounds like you're not really
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  Speaker 5: practicing anything close to like a normal practice how do
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  Speaker 5: you really work on the ball security stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah I mean just be mindful about it it's you're
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  Speaker 3: obviously not going to be able to work through it
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  Speaker 3: in a walkthrough setting but it's just having the mindset
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  Speaker 3: that we're going to protect the football at all costs
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  Speaker 3: and like at the expense of maybe not avoiding a
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  Speaker 3: tackle or breaking a tackle or being able to run
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  Speaker 3: through contact the way you want to. It's just something
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  Speaker 3: that you have to continue to emphasize until it gets turned.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure you're seeing around the league, obviously you still
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  Speaker 2: want to protect it, but more emphasis year over year
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  Speaker 2: of teams.
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  Speaker 1: Punching the ball out.
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  Speaker 3: That's been going on for a decade at least. Ever
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  Speaker 3: since Tillman started doing it and everyone's been following that.
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  Speaker 3: It's been ramping up for at least 10 years.
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  Speaker 2: Last year, the Seahawks led the league in percentages snaps
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  Speaker 2: that were seven plus protection, come back in protection. This year,
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  Speaker 2: you guys are toward the bottom of the league. When
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  Speaker 2: you have kept more guys in, your numbers are really
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  Speaker 2: more efficient. Is that a philosophical thing about getting guys out,
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  Speaker 2: or how do you kind of make those choices?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the more guys out, the more you can spread
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  Speaker 3: the coverage, and there's more holes to distribute the ball to.
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  Speaker 3: So I didn't know that compared to last year. We're
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  Speaker 3: just kind of doing things how we see the best
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  Speaker 3: way to attack each opponent is, and then You know,
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  Speaker 3: how that trends is really not important to me. It's
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  Speaker 3: how we're functioning week to week in terms of, like,
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  Speaker 3: the best possible way.
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  Speaker 1: For our offense to attack the defense in that game.
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  Speaker 2: Are you saying that that maybe asks a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more of the offensive line, and as you watch them,
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  Speaker 2: that that might adjust your information.
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  Speaker 1: About how you call things?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, those decisions are made primarily based on
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  Speaker 3: the matchups we're facing. You're going to try and avoid
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  Speaker 3: one-on-ones against really, really good pass rushers as much as
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  Speaker 3: possible and give guys help when needed. So it's going
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  Speaker 3: to change week to week. This is a week where
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  Speaker 3: we're going against several really good pass rushers, both interior
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  Speaker 3: and on the edge. So we're going to have a
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  Speaker 3: plan for that.
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  Speaker 2: Going back to ball security, is there anything you've identified
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  Speaker 2: technically that's maybe a recurring theme with the four couples
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  Speaker 2: this year or is each.
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  Speaker 1: One of those plays different?
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  Speaker 3: No, each one of those plays has been a little
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  Speaker 3: bit different. It's just something that we're going to continue
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  Speaker 3: to protect the ball as a team. So that goes
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  Speaker 3: to the entire offensive line, the receivers blocking where needed.
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  Speaker 3: minimizing surprising hits on the ball carrier and just letting
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  Speaker 3: those guys continue to focus on being tight with it.
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned Sam saying that after the game about wanting
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  Speaker 4: to lean on, I guess, things he's more comfortable with
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  Speaker 4: or whatever. Is that as simple as going through everything
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  Speaker 4: that's kind of worked and meeting with him and going
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  Speaker 4: through that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we have weekly conversations about each game plan and
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  Speaker 3: then what concepts he's most comfortable with and which concepts
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  Speaker 3: with which receivers he's most comfortable with. And so it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's just constant communication between the two of us to
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  Speaker 3: get to stuff that, you know, when the call comes in,
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  Speaker 3: he's like, yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I know we're moving the ball on this one.
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  Speaker 2: When, when, you know, not everything's going exactly as you want. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, some people like the sky's falling. Do
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  Speaker 2: you fall back to like specific things that you feel
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  Speaker 2: like they're going really well and focus on those? How
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  Speaker 2: do you build out to get to where you want
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  Speaker 2: to be?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, ideally you want to focus on what you
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  Speaker 3: do well. I think that's a formula for success with anything, but, um,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's still the National Football League. Like, there's
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  Speaker 3: going to be wins, there's going to be losses, especially
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  Speaker 3: in close games. It's not like we're getting blown out. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, great job by the other team. They made
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  Speaker 3: some plays when we didn't, and we're just going to
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  Speaker 3: keep focusing on our process, make sure that we're getting
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  Speaker 3: better each and every week, and let the outcomes take
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  Speaker 3: care of themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.