Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Ernest Jones IV: "We Have To Come Out And Just Play Our Ball"

Transcript

Ernest Jones IV: "We Have To Come Out And Just Play Our Ball" · Seahawks Press Pass

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Hello.
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Ernest, when you got here, this defense first year under
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: Mike kind of finding itself. Last year you guys really
• 0:08
  Speaker 2: hit your stride. What's kind of the next evolution for
• 0:11
  Speaker 2: this defense year three with Mike where you have a
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: lot of continuity in the same scheme for three years now?
• 0:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think our next level is just being ahead
• 0:19
  Speaker 3: of plays, just anticipating what's going to happen. You know,
• 0:24
  Speaker 3: I know we do that already, but I think there's
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: a deeper level to it where you know where your
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: problems are in certain coverages and where you can be
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: to help those problems out.
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Mike is the same person every time, but do you
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: see an added level of excitement that he gets a third.
• 0:39
  Speaker 4: Year with this defense and.
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: In this scheme to elevate it? I think Mike's been
• 0:44
  Speaker 3: the same. I think you can see the excitement now.
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: He's getting ready to go out there and call games
• 0:49
  Speaker 3: for real now, so you can tell he's excited. He's
• 0:52
  Speaker 3: dialing stuff up, coming up with all types of things,
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: so you can tell he's excited for sure.
• 0:57
  Speaker 4: Do you think some of those things he's coming up
• 0:59
  Speaker 4: with is because it's year three for him and because
• 1:02
  Speaker 4: you guys have been together.
• 1:03
  Speaker 5: For a little bit?
• 1:05
  Speaker 3: I think it's more so what we can handle. What's
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: the limit to our mental capacity and what we can
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: take into a game. I feel like that's improved. We're
• 1:14
  Speaker 3: able to take more. And we can do a couple
• 1:18
  Speaker 3: different things with that.
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: Ernest, you guys ran mostly nickel and dime packages last year.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: It seems like you guys have mixed in more three
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: linebacker sets up to this point. Is that something that
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: you're excited about, potentially being able to get Tyrese and
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: Drake and you on the field together and adding another
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: wrinkle to what you guys can do?
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think any time we can add something, especially
• 1:37
  Speaker 3: for defensive players, keep offenses off balance, that's really good.
• 1:41
  Speaker 3: But I'm excited to see T. Knight come out there
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: and ball out with us. We love having three linebackers
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: on the field. It's a little selfish thing. with us linebackers,
• 1:49
  Speaker 3: but you know, he's been making plays throughout camp. He's
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: deserved the opportunity to get out there with us. So
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: I'm excited for it.
• 1:57
  Speaker 4: You've now been in Seattle a couple of years. You've
• 2:00
  Speaker 4: been a couple of places in your career.
• 2:02
  Speaker 5: How would you compare your time in Seattle to some
• 2:04
  Speaker 5: of the other.
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: Places you've been in the NFL? No comment. I'll say that.
• 2:11
  Speaker 3: No comment.
• 2:13
  Speaker 4: Jadarian has said.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: That he worked out with wide receivers to help his
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: pass catching ability.
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: A rookie on the field.
• 2:19
  Speaker 4: Can you tell?
• 2:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, you can tell for sure. Yeah, you can tell.
• 2:24
  Speaker 3: He's gifted. I think he's going to be a really
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: good player. I'm excited for him to, you know, get
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: out there and get his first, you know, NFL contact,
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: NFL real game going on. He's a special talent. You know,
• 2:36
  Speaker 3: I'm hoping he can go out there and utilize it
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: to the best of his ability for us.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: As somebody who's had to chase him around the field
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: all season here, why? What stands out about his game
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: to you.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: When you see him on the field?
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: I think I'm going to help the Patriots out if
• 2:49
  Speaker 3: I say it. No, just know he's a good player.
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: You got to pay attention to him, that's for sure.
• 2:56
  Speaker 4: I'm asking you to help New England out, but the
• 2:58
  Speaker 4: offense is different this year with Florio Dosi instead of Kubiak.
• 3:02
  Speaker 4: Is there anything you've noticed that's formationally different scheme-wise, or
• 3:05
  Speaker 4: is there a lot of similarities to what you guys
• 3:07
  Speaker 4: ran last year on offense?
• 3:09
  Speaker 3: I think it's quite similar. I just do think– similar
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: to a certain degree. It fits what we have on
• 3:16
  Speaker 3: our side.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: Of the ball.
• 3:17
  Speaker 3: It fits how our O-line likes to move. It fits,
• 3:21
  Speaker 3: you know, how Sam can see, you know, certain route combinations.
• 3:25
  Speaker 3: I think it just fits our team with the style
• 3:27
  Speaker 3: of play that we like to play. I just think it,
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: you know, just works out.
• 3:31
  Speaker 5: How do you approach a situation where this is a
• 3:33
  Speaker 5: team you played last game, last season?
• 3:35
  Speaker 4: They've got new players. You've got new players. But, you know,
• 3:38
  Speaker 4: you've got to treat this like a new game.
• 3:40
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 3:40
  Speaker 4: How do you approach it? What's different?
• 3:42
  Speaker 3: I think the biggest thing is, you know, with us
• 3:44
  Speaker 3: being in the early parts of the year, you don't
• 3:48
  Speaker 3: have tendencies. You don't have anything you can really go off.
• 3:50
  Speaker 3: You can go off, you know, certain stuff from last
• 3:52
  Speaker 3: year to a certain extent. But for the most part,
• 3:54
  Speaker 3: we got to come out and just play our ball.
• 3:56
  Speaker 3: I think you put our brand of football on tape
• 3:59
  Speaker 3: and you just make adjustments throughout the game. That's how
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: you get, you know, get through and, you know, get
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: wins throughout these first, you know, couple weeks.
• 4:07
  Speaker 4: How do you guys feel about the message that obviously
• 4:08
  Speaker 4: a couple guys got away in free agency, but Since
• 4:10
  Speaker 4: camp started, they re-signed Devin, re-signed Leonard a week or
• 4:13
  Speaker 4: so ago. Just kind of what is the message, I guess,
• 4:15
  Speaker 4: that sets you guys apart?
• 4:17
  Speaker 3: I think the message is, like, it just shows that,
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: you know, they're keeping the guys around. Like, you know,
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: it's unfortunate in certain situations that you can't keep everybody,
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: but they're keeping the core guys. They're keeping the guys
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: that they lean on, and I think the organization is
• 4:36
  Speaker 3: doing a great job of that.
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: The way Mike does his leadership council, what do you
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: like about veterans being able to kind of have that voice,
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: helping him make decisions on certain things, maybe how he
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: wants to schedule a week or practice or whatever?
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: I think that's the biggest thing, the voice. We got
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: an opinion to a certain extent. We don't get to
• 4:53
  Speaker 3: say everything, but he'll give us the opportunity. He checks
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: in with how we're feeling because how we're feeling is
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: kind of like indication of how everybody else on the
• 5:02
  Speaker 3: team is feeling. So he just checks in, just see
• 5:05
  Speaker 3: how we're doing. What can he do better? And we
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: really enjoy that. We know our coach is looking for
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: our best interest on our behalf. So it's good to
• 5:14
  Speaker 3: have that leadership council.
• 5:15
  Speaker 4: Is that like a once a week thing that you
• 5:16
  Speaker 4: guys meet?
• 5:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, once a week.
• 5:19
  Speaker 4: When he's healthy, what does Nick Imanwari do for this defense?
• 5:21
  Speaker 4: We saw him obviously last year as a rookie, have
• 5:23
  Speaker 4: a standout year. But what does he do for you guys?
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: We can do multiple things. You put him in certain
• 5:29
  Speaker 3: positions to dictate things. certain reps and how you want
• 5:33
  Speaker 3: certain things to go. He's definitely a big part of
• 5:35
  Speaker 3: our defense. And when we get him back, we can't
• 5:38
  Speaker 3: wait to get him back. But for right now, we're
• 5:41
  Speaker 3: focused on who's out there, who's available right now. And
• 5:45
  Speaker 3: we know that when his time comes, he's an alien.
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: He can do whatever. What do you think Dante Fowler
• 5:50
  Speaker 3: adds to this defense? D-Law 2.0, just energy, just the
• 5:56
  Speaker 3: way he runs to the ball, the way he plays
• 5:57
  Speaker 3: the game, it's crazy. to see how much energy he has.
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: He just gets us going, just like D-Law does. He
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: can rush. He can definitely rush. You can see those
• 6:09
  Speaker 3: bend angles. You see what he's going to bring to
• 6:11
  Speaker 3: us this year, so we're excited for him.
• 6:14
  Speaker 5: I know you don't want to dwell on the past,
• 6:16
  Speaker 5: but in terms of moving forward from what you guys
• 6:18
  Speaker 5: accomplished in Super Bowl, what are some pitfalls you need
• 6:21
  Speaker 5: to avoid that maybe you experienced in previous times?
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: I'd just say complacency. You can win it all and
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: Just figure it, like, think you got it all figured out.
• 6:32
  Speaker 3: But the other 31 teams are evolving. They're trying to
• 6:35
  Speaker 3: get better. They're trying to get to where you are.
• 6:37
  Speaker 3: So I think the biggest thing is just don't become complacent.
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: Come each and every day to work. And I think
• 6:42
  Speaker 3: we've done a great job here of coming every day
• 6:45
  Speaker 3: to work. And Super Bowl, it was cool, but it'd
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: be cooler to do it again. Anything else, guys? Thank
• 6:54
  Speaker 3: you all.