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Rayshawn Jenkins: "The Defense Is Really Creative" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Things about you. So what do you like about this
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  Speaker 1: defense and how it plays to your strengths?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, the defense is really creative. It it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of thinking. But you know, we're a professional, so you
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  Speaker 2: know that just comes with the game. But it'll be uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think challenging for opposing offenses to kind of figure
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  Speaker 2: out what we're in. Uh. If you go back and
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  Speaker 2: watch just like the Baltimore film and everything like that,
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  Speaker 2: you'll see how difficult it was for you know, any
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  Speaker 2: quarterback in the league to to kind of get anything
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  Speaker 2: on 'em.
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  Speaker 1: What's the difficulty in getting the concepts down? Cause he said,
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  Speaker 1: it's not so much of the about the play. It's
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  Speaker 1: the communication and the concepts.
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  Speaker 2: And that and that's theact you're ac she leave right
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  Speaker 2: right there. It is the communication. It's every play, every
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  Speaker 2: movement on the offense, every shift, every motion, something has
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  Speaker 2: to be communicated. We're never just sitting back in one defense.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's really creative, really fun defense, but you
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  Speaker 2: gotta be on the details. New is that for you think?
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  Speaker 1: Just being so multiple right in the staff is.
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  Speaker 2: That new for you for? I would say fairly new.
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  Speaker 2: I mean a lot of this is is pre snap
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  Speaker 2: like pre snap, I is, give the quarterback the same
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  Speaker 2: look every single time. Uh, we don't want them to
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  Speaker 2: know that we're in cover three, cover one, cover four,
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  Speaker 2: cover two, whatever it may be. So it it's I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like I say, you gotta be just really poison his defense.
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  Speaker 1: You visited with several teams are in the free agency period.
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  Speaker 1: What jumped out about Seattle that made this the place
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to continue your career?
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  Speaker 2: I mean I wanted to go to a CUB contender,
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  Speaker 2: A I wanted to go to a you know, just
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  Speaker 2: a bigger market.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I felt like Seattle was the the the you know,
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  Speaker 2: perfect place, plan of opportunity. I'm going into, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a team with a head coach that's you know, defensive
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  Speaker 2: minded and you know, quite frankly out of San Francisco
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  Speaker 2: and Seattle to taxes as well. So I had to
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  Speaker 2: I had to. I had to think about that.
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  Speaker 1: So has this defense or this coaching staff forced you
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  Speaker 1: to change the way that you study personally so you
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  Speaker 1: can be a better leader on the team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not so much study film, but study just internally
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  Speaker 2: as far as the cause you have to, especially playing
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  Speaker 2: the you know that safety position you are you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're the leader back there, so you gotta really know everything,
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  Speaker 2: Like you have to communicate to multiple people and wanna
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  Speaker 2: play the corner back, the will backer, the nickel, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the mic. So you constantly have to tell people where
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  Speaker 2: you're coming down to uh calls where it might get
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  Speaker 2: you in or out of blitzes and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So it it it's it's definitely challenged me as far
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  Speaker 2: as you know, studying just the game internally, you know,
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  Speaker 2: are with.
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  Speaker 1: The the confusion you're talking about wanting to create confusion
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  Speaker 1: with the offense. How else do you do that? Aside
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  Speaker 1: from making.
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  Speaker 2: Everything look the same at the startin I mean, you
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  Speaker 2: can do opposite as well, Like y you could, like
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  Speaker 2: I say, before, we could come out and we could
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  Speaker 2: try to give the opposing quarterback the same look every play,
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  Speaker 2: or we can show opposite of where we're dropping to
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  Speaker 2: and you know, show to to where we're going to
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  Speaker 2: or wherever. Maybe uh show zone, show man, So we
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  Speaker 2: can also mix it up like that. Before the most part,
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  Speaker 2: we wanna kind of just just keep a shell on everything.
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  Speaker 1: You're early in the installation process obviously, but from a
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  Speaker 1: position standpoint, how does what.
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  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald's staff or ask you to do.
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  Speaker 1: Compare to what you did with the Chargers or with
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  Speaker 1: the Jaguars.
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  Speaker 2: I I pretty much did like the similar, like the
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  Speaker 2: similar things. I I know that you know in the
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  Speaker 2: past I played like that dime role as well, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know we've even talked about that here as well.
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  Speaker 2: But we wanna just make sure, you know, we take
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  Speaker 2: it position at a time. So let's let's learn the
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  Speaker 2: strong safety first. Let's lung learn the free safety first.
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  Speaker 2: Then maybe we can start, you know, when we get
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  Speaker 2: into those big nickel, big sub packages, then we can
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  Speaker 2: start plugging different guys in. Because our safety room was
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  Speaker 2: pretty versatile, so I mean, I'm pretty sure UH will
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  Speaker 2: have defenses where you know, it'll be three safety looks
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  Speaker 2: and everything like that. And even going back to Baltimore,
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  Speaker 2: you see them with a lot of just three safeties
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: So it's speaking of that prett shock when you see
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  Speaker 1: the success in Crown. Then the teams though I was
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  Speaker 1: playing to I mean even about some of you guys
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  Speaker 1: played the over the three.
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  Speaker 2: Back back there at that. Yeah, it's very exciting. I
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  Speaker 2: you jo you just missing two guys that had you know,
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  Speaker 2: high success in his defense, and I I wanna say
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  Speaker 2: Chauncey Gardner played in a similar defense as well. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and when he was with Philly. So I mean, just
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  Speaker 2: looking at the numbers and the stats from those players,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they they, like I just said, they had
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  Speaker 2: high success in his defense, and I mean we looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to doing the same thing. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you're over there when mc mcconne was talking about witherspiiton,
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  Speaker 2: but just a little.
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  Speaker 1: Bit time you've been around that Byler's couldn't up in
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Of those games. Yeah, he he's a he's a really
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  Speaker 2: talented young player, you know, for him to be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not the biggest guy. He he he plays with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of heart out that you can see it even
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  Speaker 2: from here.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And then his his I was just thinking about this
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  Speaker 2: today actually, but his uh, his breaking on the ball
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  Speaker 2: is just elite, Like it's some of the best I've
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  Speaker 2: probably ever seen. I was literally just thinking about the
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  Speaker 2: day I saw him break up two passes and I like,
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  Speaker 2: the receiver had n't a stebbor to him. And closing
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  Speaker 2: speed is crazy. He just gets right to the ball,
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  Speaker 2: under cuts the ball, so he's gonna make a lot
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  Speaker 2: of players as he's you know, been doing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: coming off of last season.
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  Speaker 1: He talks.
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  Speaker 2: There might be a time. I know he talks in
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  Speaker 2: practice a lot. You know, I kind of just just
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  Speaker 2: I'm learning in practice. I know these are my teammates.
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  Speaker 2: But once I get in the game, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't really know you like that, I'm gonna kind of
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  Speaker 2: talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: So learning about your head coach, whether it's personality wise
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  Speaker 1: or coaching south Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the main thing is is he's patient. He
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  Speaker 2: knows that it is day one, day two of OTA's
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  Speaker 2: right now out on the field, and you know, he
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  Speaker 2: know there's gonna be some mistakes. But as far as mentally,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, the efforts has to be there obviously,
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  Speaker 2: because that's something like you don't really have to teach, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and just a little small things like that.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as just learning the game, he kind
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  Speaker 2: of lets that happen, you know, organically and not kind
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  Speaker 2: of he he's not you know, you might drop down
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  Speaker 2: or go somewhere you're not supposed to, and he's like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, let's learn from it. Let's let's let's
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  Speaker 2: change it right here. You saw it now then I
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  Speaker 2: expect for you to kind of start, you know, cleaning up,
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  Speaker 2: and it just doesn't murder.
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  Speaker 1: Did you take a visit to Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, I took a visit to the forty nine ers,
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  Speaker 2: So I was, uh, I went here first, then the
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  Speaker 2: forty nine ers, and I had two more visits set up,
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  Speaker 2: but Seattle Call made a offer then. I mean they
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  Speaker 2: matched it obviously, but going back to those taxes out here,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, we'll go out here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He went from the practice facilities pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, no, this is great. This is like
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  Speaker 2: I was just saying that the other day, like, w
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  Speaker 2: I'm on a lake looking at ball eagles fly like
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  Speaker 2: crawl across the sky and stuff. So it's that's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little cold out here, but it's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, alright, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah,