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Sam Darnold On The Atmosphere For The NFC Championship: "It's Going To Be Incredible" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You guys can just go ahead. Feel really good.
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  Speaker 2: Feeling really good. Uh this whole week. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: the process is going right along where it should be.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, I feel really good for Sunday to.
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  Speaker 3: Have a process right since it happened so late in
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  Speaker 3: the last week, you're just kind of like deal a
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  Speaker 3: little bit on the flat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think just again, like like I said
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  Speaker 2: earlier this week, but you know, just having a really
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  Speaker 2: good rehab process. You know, the guys in the training
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  Speaker 2: room do a really good job with everybody, you know,
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  Speaker 2: myself included. So yeah, we're just you know, taking it
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  Speaker 2: day by day and making sure that I do all
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  Speaker 2: the things that I.
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  Speaker 1: Need to do to get ready for Sunday. How much
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  Speaker 1: was today closer to normal at least for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I felt really good out there, So uh, we'll
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  Speaker 2: leave it at that. What did Elijah Royo bring back
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  Speaker 2: to the offense with a con around. Yeah, Elijah has
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  Speaker 2: been great, you know, the last couple of weeks, he's
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  Speaker 2: been stepping up a ton on the scout team. So
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  Speaker 2: to have him back, you know, feeling really good, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's gonna be fun to see him rolling
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  Speaker 2: on game day.
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  Speaker 1: Back the time.
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  Speaker 2: He's obviously really good for you guys back that which
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  Speaker 2: back of the team? George, Yeah, No, George is uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's prepared. You know, he's been preparing for this moment,
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  Speaker 2: you know the whole season. You know, he stepped up
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  Speaker 2: in a big way for us early on and even
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  Speaker 2: in the preseason.
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  Speaker 1: You made a lot of really good plays.
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  Speaker 2: So we have a ton of confidence in George, just
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  Speaker 2: not only with his ability to go out there and
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  Speaker 2: make plays, but just how smart he is and how
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  Speaker 2: he can handle you know, everything in the system that's going.
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  Speaker 3: With those two coming back, Like what's the take to
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  Speaker 3: like kind of reset the chemistry with him kind of
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  Speaker 3: getting back on the field with them having not seen
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  Speaker 3: him in six weeks or whatever it's been for the
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  Speaker 3: kind of guys out there, what's that process? Like how
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  Speaker 3: long does it take to kind of like restart it again.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this this late in the season.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a lot easier to do than if
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  Speaker 2: it were if they were to come back mid season,
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  Speaker 2: then they got to get their legs back and.
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  Speaker 1: All those So it's a lot easier this late in
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  Speaker 1: the season.
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  Speaker 2: Zach out, Now, do you end up new spend extra
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  Speaker 2: time with some of the backs on to pick up
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  Speaker 2: and communication and some of those two minute drill stuff
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the communications at an all time high.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Sharps is obviously really good, really smart with
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  Speaker 2: protections and all those things. So just getting getting everyone,
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  Speaker 2: you know, glued into what we need to do and
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  Speaker 2: how we communicate up front and going from there. You
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  Speaker 2: talk about keeping the process the same every week, and
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  Speaker 2: was there ever a time do you have any experience
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  Speaker 2: when you didn't do that or like you kind of
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  Speaker 2: learn like I've got to treat every game kind of
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  Speaker 2: the same and not making any of those I think, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: just going through different experiences. You you learn from everything,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whether you know you have a good game,
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  Speaker 2: you have a bad game, Uh, you know, you just
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  Speaker 2: you learn. You continue to learn as you go throughout,
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  Speaker 2: not only in football but in life as well. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll just continue to stack these experiences and go from there.
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  Speaker 1: Is just something that you.
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  Speaker 3: Guys have been able to cap it to with Cooper
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  Speaker 3: Cup him having been through this very thing a couple of.
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  Speaker 1: Bad Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think having a guy like Coop being
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  Speaker 2: as experienced as he is in the playoffs definitely helps,
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  Speaker 2: and his leadership, as I always talk about, is crucial
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  Speaker 2: for our team.
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  Speaker 1: Field the same.
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  Speaker 2: This week, the past week, a lot before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it should be pretty similar. Same. How have you
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  Speaker 1: seen it to show up this week for this opportunity
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  Speaker 1: and how in what leadership will that be embraced?
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  Speaker 3: It's probably the same, obviously, How was that showing up
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  Speaker 3: this week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I think it's no different, right.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's kind of the theme of this week
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  Speaker 2: is you know, obviously it's a big game. We understand
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  Speaker 2: the implications, but we have our same process and we
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  Speaker 2: do everything the same as we have been throughout the
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  Speaker 2: entire season. What do you think the atmosphere is going
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  Speaker 2: to be like Sunday?
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be incredible.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know how you taught last week,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm sure the twelves will.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they always bring it for us, and so
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  Speaker 1: we're excited for him.
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  Speaker 3: The home offense, you think you can appreciate it more
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  Speaker 3: because you're not having to deal with they just get
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  Speaker 3: to sit back and listen too when.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the sideline for sure. For sure.
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  Speaker 2: No, and I will say to the twelves, are they're
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  Speaker 2: really smart? Football fans, like they understand when to be
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  Speaker 2: quiet and when to be really loud. So I feel
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  Speaker 2: like some some fan bases sometimes they get loud when
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  Speaker 2: they're team's on offense, like if they make a big play,
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  Speaker 2: they'll continue to cheer even when the team's in the huddle.
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  Speaker 2: So our fans do a really good job of understanding
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  Speaker 2: when to actually make noise and when not to. As
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  Speaker 2: you guys are like debriefing on the sidelines in between series,
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  Speaker 2: is it hard when you're at home?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, is it hard for you guys to communicate,
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  Speaker 3: like as you're talking about what you need to talk
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  Speaker 3: about at times?
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  Speaker 2: At times, yeah, but there are some moments. The fans
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  Speaker 2: might crush me for this, but there are some moments
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  Speaker 2: when it dies down a little bit to where we're
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  Speaker 2: able to communicate with each other.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it, guyes. Yeah,