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Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "This Is A Dream Come True" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Great game, great game, feel great. I want to give
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  Speaker 1: all glory to God. You know, win or lose, draw,
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be here without him, without you know, the sacrifices
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  Speaker 1: that everyone makes, you know, family, friends, teammates, coaches, so
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  Speaker 1: super honor you know too, be a seahawk and you
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  Speaker 1: know to give everything you know on that field for
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  Speaker 1: for my brothers. So go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: What's this feeling like?
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a dream come true. Honestly, just all
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  Speaker 1: the work that that we put in in the off season,
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  Speaker 1: in the summer, throughout the season, all the people, the doubters,
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  Speaker 1: the they sayers, and you know, it feels awesome. You know,
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  Speaker 1: to have a group, have a collective that you know,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, just places for the for the guy
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  Speaker 1: next to him. So I'm I'm honored to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of that. Usually what to.
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  Speaker 2: Say about sam dos performance, especially with him to deal
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  Speaker 2: with the injury and he limited in practice and you'll
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  Speaker 2: make some of those throws, including the one up that
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  Speaker 2: got first down in the last drive, throwing the football
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  Speaker 2: in that situation, and when about the way.
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  Speaker 1: Up I mean just a true leader, true competitive leader,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he he led us today. Can't say enough
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  Speaker 1: about Sam Man, It's been a great first year. We
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  Speaker 1: got one more to go. But you know, for him
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  Speaker 1: to overcome what he has to overcome. You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm ruggling with Sam all day. So you know, we
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  Speaker 1: believe in them, This building believe in them, the city
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  Speaker 1: believe in them. And you know it's it's awesome to
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  Speaker 1: run out on the field with him.
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  Speaker 2: Can you take us through the see what will be
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  Speaker 2: in the first half when you have the lot past.
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  Speaker 1: When you get pretty hard.
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  Speaker 2: Then you have to festucause.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, post route, you know, Sam threw a great ball,
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  Speaker 1: just had to go get it cold, could kind of
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  Speaker 1: feel the defender coming, so just wanted to secure the ball.
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  Speaker 2: The role Coup played didn't have a ton of catches,
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  Speaker 2: but the ones he did have seemed just huge touch down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he said about I mean, I've known that he
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  Speaker 1: was going to come in and clutch. You know, just
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  Speaker 1: the way he prepares and you know he's ready for
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  Speaker 1: this moment, you know, play after play, like he locked in,
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  Speaker 1: you know in the run game, in the past game,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, for us to have a guy that
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  Speaker 1: we can count on like Coop, you know, it just
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  Speaker 1: takes this team to another.
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  Speaker 2: Level headed, grab take the studiad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I didn't think I could catch it
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  Speaker 1: with two hands. So just you know, whatever whatever it takes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for us to get the job done. You
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  Speaker 1: know I'm gonna do. You know, if I got to
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  Speaker 1: catch it with my toe finger, it doesn't matter, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just reach out and catch the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Take a little bit more to Cooper that it was
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  Speaker 2: against his old team to get his first touchdown year.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean super happy for him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, you know, we want to be the
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  Speaker 1: team we are without Coop. You know just what he
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  Speaker 1: brings on and off the field. He's a true leader,
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  Speaker 1: a true warrior, and you know it's an honor to
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  Speaker 1: line up next to him and how he's elevated my game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I can't thank him enough.
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  Speaker 2: You've been talking all yearly asking you about accomplishments. You're
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  Speaker 2: about the team goals, what to be where that at
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  Speaker 2: going to super Bowl? Was this?
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  Speaker 1: This is better than any individual award or goal that
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  Speaker 1: I had in mind. And you know, this is the ultimate,
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate goal that we've had get to the super Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: win the super Bowl. And you know, this feeling is
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  Speaker 1: something that I can't really explain. I'm just super proud
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  Speaker 1: of super proud of everyone involved.
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  Speaker 2: You said it's a dream coach, Would you do you
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  Speaker 2: remember the first Super Bowl you watched or what it
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  Speaker 2: kind of really became a dream.
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  Speaker 1: For you or yeah, first Super Bowl I watched Larry
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  Speaker 1: Fitzgerald and the Steelers. That's kind of the one I
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  Speaker 1: remember in you know, like today, you know, I'm ready
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  Speaker 1: to give put everything on the line, you know, whatever
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  Speaker 1: it takes, you know, I'm willing to get it done.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson seemed like this was maybe the best game you
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  Speaker 2: guys have had in terms of having a complimentary passing game.
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  Speaker 2: You get getting shots down field, attacking and the intermediate
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  Speaker 2: getting yards after the catch. A Cups touchdown just being
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  Speaker 2: one example. How critical was that for you guys in
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  Speaker 2: a close game like this to be hit on all
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  Speaker 2: cylinders of all different types of passes, being able to
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  Speaker 2: spread the ball around.
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  Speaker 1: Super critical, supercritical. I don't think our guys get enough
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  Speaker 1: credit for, you know, winning games. You know it's about
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  Speaker 1: winning games. And you know, if we need the run game,
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  Speaker 1: the run game has won us games. The pass game
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  Speaker 1: has you know, come up clutch and you know has
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  Speaker 1: done their thing. And like I said, whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's the mentality we have.
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  Speaker 2: During their time here in Seattle, you certainly experienced with
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  Speaker 2: plenty of struggles against not you pert teams, struggled against
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  Speaker 2: the forty nine ers in the Rams. I mean, what
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  Speaker 2: does it mean now that donally just get to the
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  Speaker 2: super Bowl, but you have to beat both of those
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  Speaker 2: teams on the way there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's definitely sweeter, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: in those divisional rivals.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a it's a little bit you know extra.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you play those guys, we know each other.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just the ultimate chest battle, the ultimate war.
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  Speaker 1: So all credit to those guys though they fought, They
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  Speaker 1: fought their tails off. I have nothing but respect for
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  Speaker 1: those guys over there. And you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: super proud of our guys and how we came out
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  Speaker 1: and and got the victory.
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  Speaker 2: What did you know that this team could be a
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  Speaker 2: special team, a.
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  Speaker 1: Special season, honest honestly just playing just you know, practice,
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  Speaker 1: you know, honestly going against the going against these guys
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  Speaker 1: and practice and the way Sam's talking about you know,
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  Speaker 1: meeting Sam and the way he talks about going through
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  Speaker 1: his process and you know what he likes to do
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  Speaker 1: and play making ability. So you know, I've said it before.
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  Speaker 1: You know we got a special group that can do it.
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  Speaker 1: I said it before the season and it still holds.
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  Speaker 2: True since you got drafted to see him come through
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  Speaker 2: those he plays on the final stop. Just what was
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  Speaker 2: that like watching.
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  Speaker 1: Him count on spoom. You know you can count on
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  Speaker 1: him to to be here, to be ready, to be
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  Speaker 1: accountable for himself. So you know, he's a he's an
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  Speaker 1: ultimate leader, ultimate competitor, and uh, it's an honor that
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  Speaker 1: you know, we got drafted in the same same round,
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  Speaker 1: same class, So you know that's my brother for life.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks