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Boye Mafe: "We Have A Lot Of Potential On This Team" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How are we doing right?
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  Speaker 2: God? When you look at the last three games or so,
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  Speaker 2: what's the biggest takeaway after facing some pretty high powered offenses.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we understand that we have a lot of potential
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  Speaker 1: on this team. Uh, you know, we have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of players who been playing really well, and uh, you
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of the stuff that we need to
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  Speaker 1: correct as ourselves. You know, there's things that we know,
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  Speaker 1: there's plays that were made that we know that we
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  Speaker 1: can handle, and things that we need to adjust in
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  Speaker 1: our defense. And just how we as players gotta take
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  Speaker 1: accountability for that.
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  Speaker 2: Guess just this last game alone, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: good things three and now it's takeaways, but then obviously
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  Speaker 2: big plays as well. How do you guys kind of
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  Speaker 2: find that consistency to make more of the good happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a game of football, and things happen.
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  Speaker 1: You never know what'sn't happen every play. You know, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: teams will have players but they get a big play
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  Speaker 1: on us. But we'd have to be able to respond.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like we've done a good job of that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we don't get shaken up by those and
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  Speaker 1: we never really go down that downhill spiral and it's
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  Speaker 1: been really a testament to the guys on the defense
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  Speaker 1: often and special teams as a whole, that we find
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  Speaker 1: a way to continue to fight through every situation.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to Jabalen, it hurts. What does his
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  Speaker 2: uh athleticism test? War?
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Is it the eyes? Is it the discipline? What is it? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I mean they have the way they run their offense,
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  Speaker 1: he has the potential to do a lot of different
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  Speaker 1: things they use, you know, they specialize in using him
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  Speaker 1: to as the center point of their offense. So you
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  Speaker 1: understand that you have to figure out what he does
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  Speaker 1: and how what's the best way to limit that? And
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  Speaker 1: you know, he uses his legs a lot makes you know,
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  Speaker 1: extends plays and stuff like that. So understanding how to
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  Speaker 1: control that.
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  Speaker 2: Help the last month or so, I guess been for you.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously had the great run of sacks and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and probably got some more attention than imagine.
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  Speaker 2: From from teams and stuff that. Going forward, you feel yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you feel.
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  Speaker 1: Like you've gotten Yeah, I mean it's definitely changed a
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  Speaker 1: little bit how they decided to block me and how
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  Speaker 1: they use, you know, different things. So the biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: for me is just understanding how to if, uh, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking on chips, doubles, whatever it is, is, how
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  Speaker 1: to let that opportunity open up for other guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and find my way to also continue to be productive
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  Speaker 1: in those situations and finding ways to you know, whatever
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  Speaker 1: whatever it may be that I need to do, finding
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  Speaker 1: what those things are and using those to my advantage.
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  Speaker 1: When did why did you start feel like you were
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  Speaker 1: getting more attention from with chips and stuff like that
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  Speaker 1: a certain game or putting around time to season?
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  Speaker 2: That started? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like you said, it was kind of after
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  Speaker 1: hitting the seven Marc streak and then started noticing there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot more chips, a lot more doubles, a
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  Speaker 1: lot more different lineups, Uh, slides come in my way.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, understanding that you know that comes with
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  Speaker 1: that that you have to find a way to get
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  Speaker 1: around there, cause players do it. So there's no excuse
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  Speaker 1: of how that's the reason I have been productive. It's
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  Speaker 1: just that I gotta find a way to be better.
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  Speaker 2: You have learned from Cletapril and Michael Bennett. Sharon Reid
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  Speaker 2: was with that group. He learned from them. What if
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  Speaker 2: you learned from j Reed kind of as that line
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  Speaker 2: progresses there.
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  Speaker 1: He's a very smart football player. You know, he understands
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  Speaker 1: situational football and understanding that using those can help you
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  Speaker 1: br even more productive. You know, there's take your chance
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  Speaker 1: of taking your shots, but making educated guesses that you
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  Speaker 1: understand what the situation, what the and what calls for
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  Speaker 1: and when you can take your shot.
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  Speaker 2: What's lallams, I'm sorry but just letterblings. You know he
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  Speaker 2: played with him a few games.
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  Speaker 1: What what's he brought to your defensive?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: He has energy? Uh. I love the way he plays,
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  Speaker 1: Love the way he you know, the way he goes
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  Speaker 1: about his business and just being able to use that
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  Speaker 1: and understand that he's just another energy guy that we
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  Speaker 1: can bring in the top day. He's a great player,
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  Speaker 1: you know, playing with him on the field, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it helps the he's able to what he what he's
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  Speaker 1: able to do, and the way he's able to help
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  Speaker 1: our defense. You mentioned that you can y uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: open things up for other people if you get if
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  Speaker 1: you get work that say kind of thing, is that
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  Speaker 1: a Is.
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  Speaker 2: That a hard thing at all though?
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  Speaker 1: I mean just from the STAF, but coaches might notice
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  Speaker 1: that and maybe your teammates do. But it's not a
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  Speaker 1: statty kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean kind of understanding that's sort of a part
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  Speaker 2: of the.
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  Speaker 1: Game as well. Yeah, it's just another part of the
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  Speaker 1: game that you had to understand, you know, regardless of
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  Speaker 1: what happens in certain situations. You know, you if I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a one on one, or if someone else has
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  Speaker 1: a one on one that has opportunity for them, or
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  Speaker 1: if I have the one on one, then I have
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  Speaker 1: to take advantage of those opportunities. And when those do happen,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's you know, there's so many guys that
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  Speaker 1: have to block. You know, we have talent across the line,
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  Speaker 1: So if they decide to leave me in one on one,
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  Speaker 1: I have to take advantage of that and saving with
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  Speaker 1: the other guys when they get there one on ones,
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  Speaker 1: they take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 2: Chasing a playdown seventy plus yards down in the field. No.
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  Speaker 1: Always let me see from a guiden line skirmmager, how
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  Speaker 1: much is that just a pride thing for you, like
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  Speaker 1: staying in that play. I mean, for me, it's the
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  Speaker 1: game of football. Til that bhistle blows, you gotta keep going.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, regardless of the situation, what may have happened,
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  Speaker 1: or you can't ever sit there and just you know,
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  Speaker 1: just say oh it's oh well. But for me it
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  Speaker 1: is a very big prod thing. I probably myself and
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  Speaker 1: the way I play the game and the way I
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  Speaker 1: carry myself. You know, had a coach say me when
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  Speaker 1: I was younger that, uh, when you go on the field,
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  Speaker 1: you have two names. You have the name of the
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  Speaker 1: frontagers and the name of their back of your jersey,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, y, whatever pride or however you want
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  Speaker 1: it to be looked at as your choice. And for
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  Speaker 1: me it's relentless. Thank you.