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

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  Speaker 1: All right, great to see everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, we're interested on all our our injury situations. So
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  Speaker 2: talking about Sam, everybody said yesterday, you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, that's that's that's uh. I see it the same way.
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  Speaker 2: So we're listening to as questionable, really optimistic he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be able to play. And right now we're going through
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  Speaker 2: all the protocol ran out of just out of caution
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  Speaker 2: to make sure we're ready to go, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll test it out tomorrow kind of make the final decision.
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  Speaker 2: But we're again, we're optimistic he's gonna play, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: if if he doesn't or at some point he doesn't,
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  Speaker 2: then Drew's ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why Drew's here. He's doing a great job so.
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  Speaker 2: To see us out. And so we're all, did h,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, did Sam down throw? No need to?
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  Speaker 1: I guess yeah, it's it's a walk through tempo.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll just you know, he's just as part of
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  Speaker 2: our plan right now on how we handle today. The
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  Speaker 2: light of Josh Stroes being ruled out, What does that
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  Speaker 2: tell you about what what he gave you.
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  Speaker 1: And that we get the game to get three?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, just a toughest nails guy where you know,
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  Speaker 2: we got to just very appreciative. Man.
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  Speaker 1: He played really great.
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  Speaker 2: Football for us, and you know, it's obviously great to
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  Speaker 2: have Charles back to you know. So it's the guys.
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  Speaker 2: The guy's playing it out, roll with the timing of everything.
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  Speaker 1: Charles sort up with a knee as well this week.
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  Speaker 1: Is that that, Yeah, just.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of got tangled up a little bit in practice
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  Speaker 2: and so we're working through it. But he's it's good
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  Speaker 2: to go. It's more of a precautionary thing than anything.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any thought that the injury couldn't let Sam
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  Speaker 2: in any way before he plays on Saturday? Well, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's a possibility, you know, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't think I think right now or he's confident that
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  Speaker 2: he's gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Be able to go do his.
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  Speaker 2: Thing at one hundred percent and we are too. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, with these things, something could change me now
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  Speaker 2: and then, or something can happen in game, so kind
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  Speaker 2: of just have to roll with it. So it's something
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  Speaker 2: he could play them innute testing. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: put like numbers on it. I mean I don't think
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that he I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: We would put him out there. If he couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: his job, you know, he's gonna be able to go
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  Speaker 1: do his job. So yeah, like I.
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  Speaker 2: Did, just how did the players take take the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: for what eighteth game of the season.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you see them take that opportunity of the
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  Speaker 1: way they practice to walk through the Yeah, guys did
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  Speaker 1: a great job.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, you know, coming off the break, I thought
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  Speaker 2: we were a little uh, you know, you could you
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  Speaker 2: could tell that we had some time off on the
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  Speaker 2: first practice, but we had a great football you know
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  Speaker 2: football Thursday practice. We had a great day yesterday with
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  Speaker 2: all that was going on, you know, considering all that stuff,
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  Speaker 2: and we just had a great day today.
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  Speaker 1: So guys has done a great job. You can hear
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  Speaker 1: him there excited.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get did you have to get like Jalen
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  Speaker 2: Milro more up to speed or anything in case he
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  Speaker 2: had to go or I mean, he doesn't take all
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  Speaker 2: the reps throughout the week, but he's he's doing the
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  Speaker 2: same thing he does every week. I mean, he's been
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  Speaker 2: our emergency third here for a good bit, so he's
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  Speaker 2: got to he's gotta be ready to go if need be.
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  Speaker 1: The decision not to activate Elijah or childs kind of
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  Speaker 1: what went that process for you guys have not decide
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  Speaker 1: to use that this game to kind of just.
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  Speaker 2: Roster Yeah, yeah, well it's it's some roster things on
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more, you know, just how we want
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  Speaker 2: to manage it, I guess is the easy way to
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  Speaker 2: put it. But just making sure we're deep enough at
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  Speaker 2: certain spots. So Gods has done a great job. They're
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  Speaker 2: ready to go if need be, but just couldn't work
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  Speaker 2: out this week.
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  Speaker 1: How's Elijah looking you kind of coming.
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  Speaker 2: Back to you. Yeah, he's done a great job. He really,
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  Speaker 2: he's looking great. So hopefully we were in the right
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  Speaker 2: for him to play again.
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  Speaker 1: When Donald felt it, did he take himself out of
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  Speaker 1: the practice or did you guys joint her beside that
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  Speaker 1: or you can't do he said, this isn't high.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure on the level of community, like the
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  Speaker 2: order of communication, but he felt it and we decided
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  Speaker 2: at a caution to go treat him up.
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  Speaker 1: Was he better today, improved physically?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he says he feels better. Yeah, I mean I
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  Speaker 2: think I mean you talked to him. He's confident he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be able to play. So we feel the same
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  Speaker 2: way Greek willing.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, I guess he's okay because you had to put
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  Speaker 1: them on. There was that something new with him or.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just working through the oblique And again we
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  Speaker 2: had a we had a plan for it, and it's
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  Speaker 2: not a great job. Worked his tail off over the
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  Speaker 2: weekend and and he's ready to go. How's your schedule
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  Speaker 2: looking for you guys tomorrow with a late game, We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna treat it like we did two weeks ago, so
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  Speaker 2: just in terms of what we're gonna do at the hotel,
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  Speaker 2: it's all different being at home where the guys are
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  Speaker 2: gonna be on their own getting to the stadium. But
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of business usual for a primetime game on
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  Speaker 2: the West Coast.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to the energy and that.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of feeding off the energy in the building, but
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  Speaker 2: doing it to part out to bad ways.
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  Speaker 1: There for a balance to.
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  Speaker 2: Be found between doing everything you want to.
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  Speaker 1: Do process wise up till game, babe, but then also life.
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  Speaker 1: Guys sort of take in everything they come with us
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  Speaker 1: to my out the game or just throughout the week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it just I think it just happens naturally,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like how could you not.
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  Speaker 1: Be a part of kind of what you know, what's
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  Speaker 1: going through.
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  Speaker 2: Your mind, and and yeah, of course you're gonna enjoy it,
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  Speaker 2: you know. But I feel like our guys like that
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  Speaker 2: every week, you know, just you really want to especially
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  Speaker 2: being at home.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of extra energy.
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  Speaker 2: Being at home that you kind of have to channel
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that you can go play that you
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  Speaker 2: want to play.
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  Speaker 1: But the guys, we definitely feel it, you know, around
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  Speaker 1: the city. It's definitely buzzing.
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  Speaker 2: Which is it's literally why we do what we do,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just to bring wins back to our community
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  Speaker 2: and our team.
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  Speaker 1: It's meeting number of us. You have the illness instagarliers,
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  Speaker 1: we can see if you have a better er.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was able to do majority yesterday and did
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  Speaker 2: all today and.
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  Speaker 1: It looks a lot better than you looking at the
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  Speaker 1: other day. So modern medicine. Anything else, all right, great,
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  Speaker 1: all right, thank you,