Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Geno Smith: "We Have To Go Out There And Execute"
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Yeah, you do you do? How where do you have
- 0:06Speaker 1: to be aware A ninety five.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Is at this weekend? Uh? Super aware? As you know.
- 0:11Speaker 3: Man, Miles Garrett is having a tremendous year, and he's
- 0:13Speaker 3: a heck of a player. They're very start up front,
- 0:16Speaker 3: man it. You know, it starts with him, But they
- 0:18Speaker 3: got a bunch of different guys. You know, it's just
- 0:19Speaker 3: a Zadarius Smith, uh, Dalvin Thomlinson. You know, they got
- 0:22Speaker 3: rotational guys. So all their guys really do a great job.
- 0:25Speaker 3: And you know, I think Miles gets a lot of
- 0:27Speaker 3: the credit. He's got you know, about seven and a
- 0:28Speaker 3: half sacks already, so obviously he's that's well deserved. He's
- 0:31Speaker 3: one of the better edge rushers in the game. So
- 0:34Speaker 3: we gotta create a platform and and go out there
- 0:36Speaker 3: and execute.
- 0:37Speaker 1: What ways does he rush differently than the other edge guys?
- 0:40Speaker 3: I was saying, it's just his uh, his mixture of
- 0:42Speaker 3: speed and power, you know, just physically, Uh, you know,
- 0:46Speaker 3: a strong dude, you know, a big dude out there,
- 0:48Speaker 3: and then he's he's uh equally as athletic, you know,
- 0:50Speaker 3: which is rare to have that uh speed to power combo.
- 0:54Speaker 3: He's quick, he can get on the edges, he can bend. Uh,
- 0:57Speaker 3: he does so many things uh really well and so
- 1:00Speaker 3: uh you know, he he's showing and proving that.
- 1:02Speaker 2: He's a force to be reckon with.
- 1:03Speaker 3: So uh obviously, you know that's every week in the NFL,
- 1:06Speaker 3: you're gonna have these challenges, and uh, I think our
- 1:08Speaker 3: guys are gonna you know, really be be ready for
- 1:10Speaker 3: the challenge this week.
- 1:11Speaker 1: What of things the Browns do well? They do a
- 1:13Speaker 1: lot of great things on defense, but third down conversions if.
- 1:16Speaker 4: They don't allow a lot of the But what do
- 1:18Speaker 4: you like about what happened last week in terms.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Of third down?
- 1:22Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 1:22Speaker 3: I think the main thing was that, as I always say,
- 1:25Speaker 3: we gotta be great on first and second down to
- 1:26Speaker 3: being manageable situations on third down.
- 1:29Speaker 2: And I thought that's what we did.
- 1:30Speaker 3: I thought overall, you know, when we're in those situations
- 1:33Speaker 3: where it's manageable, I think we do a pretty good job.
- 1:35Speaker 3: And if you look at the Browns, uh, you know
- 1:38Speaker 3: what they've been doing great at is uh you know,
- 1:40Speaker 3: making sure teams are in third and long uh, you know,
- 1:43Speaker 3: third and third and long situations, which leads to them
- 1:45Speaker 3: being you know, the number one defense on third down.
- 1:47Speaker 3: So for us, it's got to be great on first
- 1:49Speaker 3: and second down and then obviously executing on third down,
- 1:52Speaker 3: which always gonna be a challenge. But uh, you know,
- 1:55Speaker 3: I'm really really excited about it.
- 1:58Speaker 1: You specifically in the red zone the last cool.
- 2:01Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, I want to say problems. I just think
- 2:02Speaker 3: we didn't score you know, whatever the situation is. We
- 2:05Speaker 3: gotta score points in the red zone. Obviously you gotta
- 2:08Speaker 3: you know, move the ball to get down there. So
- 2:09Speaker 3: we've been doing good at that, but we haven't been
- 2:11Speaker 3: able to score enough touchdowns. So you know that's the
- 2:14Speaker 3: main thing is obviously score touchdowns and then you know,
- 2:16Speaker 3: for me, just can't turn the ball over.
- 2:18Speaker 4: You mentioned keep it at third manageable, but you guys
- 2:20Speaker 4: did convert on third and seven on the first drive.
- 2:22Speaker 1: You have that third and ten to lock it later
- 2:24Speaker 1: in the game. Just how BIG's your pass been in
- 2:26Speaker 1: those moments when you need it.
- 2:27Speaker 3: To have the Yeah, pass protection is critical. I think
- 2:30Speaker 3: they've done a great job all year, and so you
- 2:33Speaker 3: know when you're in those thirta and long situations, you
- 2:34Speaker 3: know that you know, typically those are gonna be passed downs,
- 2:37Speaker 3: and uh, that's the chance for the defense to pend
- 2:39Speaker 3: their ears back and h you know, do some stunts
- 2:42Speaker 3: and some games up front to really get out of
- 2:44Speaker 3: the quarterback. So pass pro is gonna be huge in
- 2:46Speaker 3: those situations. And then obviously me, you know, hitting my
- 2:49Speaker 3: back foot getting the ball out on time, or you know,
- 2:52Speaker 3: stepping up in the pocket and you know, creating some
- 2:54Speaker 3: things with my legs.
- 2:55Speaker 4: Seemed like you were pretty hard on yourself again after
- 2:57Speaker 4: the game on setay when you looked at the film,
- 2:58Speaker 4: Did that your opinion of that change.
- 3:01Speaker 2: At all or not much? You know, I usually have
- 3:04Speaker 2: good recollection recollection after.
- 3:06Speaker 3: The games, and when I'm being hard on myself, it's
- 3:08Speaker 3: it's just continuing to push myself. No matter what I
- 3:10Speaker 3: do in the game, I'm always gonna expect more from
- 3:12Speaker 3: myself and try and pushing and and get more. And
- 3:14Speaker 3: so I had situations where I feel like I, you know,
- 3:17Speaker 3: could have done better on certain plays, and those are
- 3:19Speaker 3: the ones I really look at. Everything else, you know,
- 3:22Speaker 3: as far as efficiency and all that has been good
- 3:24Speaker 3: for the most part during the year. Obviously, like I said,
- 3:27Speaker 3: third downs and red zones are key and critical for us.
- 3:30Speaker 2: But one of the things that I always do is
- 3:32Speaker 2: just try to look at ways to get better.
- 3:34Speaker 1: What stands up when you watch the Browns dv's on tape.
- 3:37Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, just some veteran guys out there.
- 3:41Speaker 3: Starts with Denzel Ward, you know, one of the better
- 3:43Speaker 3: corners in my opinion in the league.
- 3:45Speaker 2: He does a great job in coverage.
- 3:46Speaker 3: He's a man corner, so he does a great job
- 3:49Speaker 3: at you know, really just kind of shutting guys down.
- 3:51Speaker 3: And then when you look on the other side, you
- 3:53Speaker 3: know you got a Newsome who he plays outside, but
- 3:55Speaker 3: he also plays inside in the nickel, and so they
- 3:59Speaker 3: have a great multiple you know scheme that they use
- 4:02Speaker 3: where it's you know, either guy could be in any
- 4:05Speaker 3: spot and they all play it well. And you talk
- 4:07Speaker 3: about Emmerson on on the outside, he's got.
- 4:09Speaker 2: A few picks already. H He's very he's very tight
- 4:12Speaker 2: in coverage.
- 4:13Speaker 3: You know, he created he's a bigger guy, so he
- 4:15Speaker 3: can you know, he can cover the bigger guys in
- 4:17Speaker 3: the league. And so just looking around at their DBS, man,
- 4:19Speaker 3: they got a bunch of talented playmakers and uh, just
- 4:22Speaker 3: as always, we got to go out there and execute.
- 4:25Speaker 4: From the long pass to fan you had or looked
- 4:28Speaker 4: like he was a lot of people involved.
- 4:30Speaker 1: Fans at home. CEO jsn's open over here.
- 4:32Speaker 4: Can you explain how different is when you're what you're
- 4:36Speaker 4: seeing when you have to make the decision to throw,
- 4:37Speaker 4: versus what the end control it's like by the time
- 4:39Speaker 4: the ball gets there.
- 4:40Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, reads and stuff are always coverage based,
- 4:43Speaker 3: and uh, you know sometimes you know, it may seem
- 4:45Speaker 3: like some guys are open when they're not, and some
- 4:47Speaker 3: guys sometimes guys are open, and uh just may not
- 4:49Speaker 3: be a part of the reading. So I never want
- 4:52Speaker 3: to kind of get into that talk. It's kind of
- 4:54Speaker 3: easy to you know, sit at home on your couch
- 4:56Speaker 3: and you know, look at look at all twenty two
- 4:57Speaker 3: and say, somebody's open.
- 4:59Speaker 2: But you know, this is football. You make split second
- 5:01Speaker 2: decisions and there has to be no hesitation.
- 5:03Speaker 3: And so, uh when I hit my back foot, you know,
- 5:06Speaker 3: I wanna make sure that I'm you know, seeing things
- 5:07Speaker 3: correctly and getting the ball out.
- 5:10Speaker 1: So it carries who designed that the touchdown? To Jackson?
- 5:12Speaker 2: Yep?
- 5:13Speaker 1: Is that R Is he often designer stuff?
- 5:16Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Uh.
- 5:17Speaker 3: We we have a a great group of coaches and
- 5:19Speaker 3: they all have so much input and they're all, you know,
- 5:22Speaker 3: really talented and.
- 5:23Speaker 2: So uh, Carrie, he does a great job. He uh
- 5:25Speaker 2: helps out a lot.
- 5:25Speaker 3: With the red zone, and uh, that was one of
- 5:27Speaker 3: the plays where he you know, he told me during
- 5:29Speaker 3: the week He's like, this is gonna score. He brought
- 5:31Speaker 3: it to me and I was like, yeah, it looks
- 5:32Speaker 3: good and I mean it was wide open. So, uh,
- 5:34Speaker 3: big shots out to Cary for.
- 5:35Speaker 1: That one after he hit it.
- 5:37Speaker 5: Yeah, yep, what can Jake Bobos play in the corner there?
- 5:42Speaker 1: What can that do not only for.
- 5:43Speaker 4: His golfense going forward, but but for you as a
- 5:46Speaker 4: quarterback and just that relationship with caban or you get
- 5:48Speaker 4: your building together.
- 5:49Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, what an amazing catch.
- 5:52Speaker 3: You know, first of all, I mean just to get
- 5:53Speaker 3: us to catch that he caught it with one hand
- 5:55Speaker 3: and then uh, to to drag that second toe. I
- 5:58Speaker 3: mean it was like barely a centimeter between you know,
- 6:00Speaker 3: that foot and the sideline. So it just shows the
- 6:03Speaker 3: awareness that he has as a rookie. Uh, the big
- 6:05Speaker 3: play ability he has. And so as we continue to
- 6:09Speaker 3: develop together, of course it's gonna you know, uplift our
- 6:12Speaker 3: camaraderie and and and make things a lot better. I'm
- 6:15Speaker 3: developing so much trust with him and Jackson and still
- 6:18Speaker 3: developing with with d Ken Tyler.
- 6:20Speaker 2: It's only our second year playing together.
- 6:21Speaker 3: So uh, there's a lot of things out there that
- 6:23Speaker 3: we can you know, get better at.
- 6:24Speaker 2: And so that's what you know.
- 6:25Speaker 3: When you see guys making plays like that, you think, man,
- 6:28Speaker 3: I just got to give him a chance, and usually
- 6:29Speaker 3: they'll come down with it.
- 6:31Speaker 4: Maybe like plays a week does the coaching staff come
- 6:34Speaker 4: up and for the upcoming opponent.
- 6:37Speaker 3: We don't really count them, but you know it's always
- 6:40Speaker 3: every week's a different week. Every week's of game plan, Uh,
- 6:42Speaker 3: different game plan, different scheme. Every single defense kind of
- 6:46Speaker 3: plays it a different way. So you've got to develop,
- 6:48Speaker 3: you know, things for that particular defense. So how many
- 6:52Speaker 3: new plays, I don't really know how many, but you know,
- 6:54Speaker 3: we we do make adjustments during the week and even
- 6:56Speaker 3: during the games.
- 6:58Speaker 1: Kosha getting back to practice this week.
- 7:00Speaker 4: You obviously played with him in camp some Just what
- 7:02Speaker 4: kind of weapon can he be in the passing game?
- 7:03Speaker 1: Especially?
- 7:04Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Kenny man he's uh, obviously he's great
- 7:07Speaker 3: in the you know, he's a great running back, right,
- 7:08Speaker 3: he's uh, he's got all the tools.
- 7:10Speaker 2: That you need to be successful. But yeah, in the
- 7:12Speaker 2: passing game.
- 7:13Speaker 3: He's just showed consistency with his catching, with this route
- 7:16Speaker 3: running ability and then obviously the main thing is pass protection.
- 7:19Speaker 3: And uh he seems to be a guy who's gonna
- 7:21Speaker 3: you know, step right in there and get the job done.
- 7:23Speaker 3: So we're very happy to have him back, and we
- 7:25Speaker 3: look forward to being able to you know, use him
- 7:27Speaker 3: and add him into the offense.
- 7:29Speaker 1: What what what could D do you guys as well?
- 7:32Speaker 3: Yeah, man, another guy with just tremendous ability, you know,
- 7:36Speaker 3: so much speed, Uh, great with the ball in his hands,
- 7:39Speaker 3: had a tremendous camp I thought, you know, really really
- 7:42Speaker 3: was you know, playing excellent football, you know, until you
- 7:44Speaker 3: know he had to go away for a while.
- 7:45Speaker 2: But I can't wait to see D out there.
- 7:48Speaker 3: You know, he's got fresh legs, so he's running as
- 7:50Speaker 3: fast as ever. And uh, you know, we can't wait
- 7:52Speaker 3: to see him, you know, do his thing.
- 7:54Speaker 1: People coming back.
- 7:55Speaker 2: D K is back.
- 7:57Speaker 5: Does that do the offense?
- 7:58Speaker 3: I mean everybody knows. Man gives us that boost that
- 8:00Speaker 3: we need. You know, DK such a special player. Uh,
- 8:04Speaker 3: just the the physicality he plays, with the attention he
- 8:07Speaker 3: demands from a defense. Uh, they always gotta know where
- 8:10Speaker 3: he is and so that helps out the other guys, Uh,
- 8:12Speaker 3: but as well as just him, you know, in any
- 8:14Speaker 3: one on one situation. Uh, he's the guy who you
- 8:16Speaker 3: know typically wins, and so you know, we wanna get
- 8:19Speaker 3: him the ball, you know, as much as we can, uh,
- 8:21Speaker 3: but within the rhythm and the scheme of the offense.
- 8:23Speaker 3: And so you know, just appreciate having him. Man, he's
- 8:26Speaker 3: he's our guy. Man, he's one of our better guys,
- 8:28Speaker 3: and and we need him out there.
- 8:29Speaker 5: What is the physicality that he brings through to the offense,
- 8:34Speaker 5: like you know when he down there and he's he's
- 8:36Speaker 5: making most physical plays just to kind of bring.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Some energy there.
- 8:40Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, he's Uh, he's a leader of the one
- 8:42Speaker 3: of the leaders on offense, one of the leaders on
- 8:45Speaker 3: this team. Like I said, man, a special talent, just
- 8:47Speaker 3: a guy who I mean, there's not many guys like him,
- 8:51Speaker 3: you know, that's the reality of it. And so he's
- 8:53Speaker 3: a mismatch at all times. And usually teams are gonna
- 8:56Speaker 3: put ah a safety over him. They're gonna cloud him
- 8:58Speaker 3: or double them any way they can. And so he's
- 9:01Speaker 3: a great run blocker, runs great routes, a vertical threat,
- 9:04Speaker 3: can run all the routes in the route treat and
- 9:06Speaker 3: to me it's just the ultimate mismatch.
- 9:08Speaker 1: What he liked on the sidelines not uh.
- 9:12Speaker 2: Again, just being a leader, cheering guys on.
- 9:15Speaker 3: You know, he was doing a great job with communicating
- 9:17Speaker 3: with the wide outs and preparing those guys and helping
- 9:19Speaker 3: out any way he can. And so you know, I think,
- 9:22Speaker 3: you know, it's better for him to be on the
- 9:23Speaker 3: field with us than off it.
- 9:24Speaker 2: But you know he did, he did a great job.
- 9:27Speaker 1: Have you always been hard on yourself?
- 9:30Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, I've always been tough for myself. Yes.
- 9:34Speaker 5: After the opening loss, you guys found a way to
- 9:35Speaker 5: win r win a few in a row after and
- 9:37Speaker 5: then of course after the Cincinnati loss again you found
- 9:39Speaker 5: a way to overcome the adversity. And what is it
- 9:41Speaker 5: about this team then whenever there is something like that,
- 9:43Speaker 5: it seems like you guys kind of responding kind and
- 9:45Speaker 5: come back in that way.
- 9:46Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's the routine that we have. You know,
- 9:49Speaker 3: coach does a great job at keeping us in a routine.
- 9:51Speaker 3: No matter what happens, we got tell the truth Monday,
- 9:53Speaker 3: where we come back and we assess it win or loss, Uh,
- 9:56Speaker 3: try to figure out things and ways to get better
- 9:58Speaker 3: and then back to right competition Winnesday. Uh we call
- 10:01Speaker 3: it touchdown Thursday. The defense might call it turnover Thursday,
- 10:04Speaker 3: and then you know throughout the week, right, So it
- 10:06Speaker 3: keeps us consistent and uh, you know that's the great
- 10:08Speaker 3: part about being here is that we're never too high
- 10:11Speaker 3: or too low on the wins and losses. Instead we're
- 10:13Speaker 3: just focused on the process and we get.
- 10:15Speaker 2: Right back to work right after.
- 10:19Speaker 3: A lot of truth telling, man, just a lot of hard,
- 10:21Speaker 3: hard conversations that need to be had.
- 10:24Speaker 2: And after the victories, I mean.
- 10:26Speaker 3: All all of it feels a lot better, but you know,
- 10:29Speaker 3: just getting right down to it, right, like what do
- 10:31Speaker 3: we need to do to get better?
- 10:32Speaker 2: Where do we where do we.
- 10:34Speaker 3: Kind of fall short in the in the previous game,
- 10:36Speaker 3: and how can we fix those things? And so, uh
- 10:39Speaker 3: it keeps everything in perspective.
- 10:40Speaker 2: And you know, I really appreciate it. Never not not
- 10:46Speaker 2: around here.
- 10:47Speaker 3: You know, coach does a great job with you know,
- 10:49Speaker 3: being stern but also being positive and uh he comes
- 10:52Speaker 3: with the same energy and everything that you know, whether
- 10:54Speaker 3: we win or lose.
- 10:55Speaker 5: How much can that on the mondays make sure things
- 10:58Speaker 5: don't linger, anything's put to it?
- 10:59Speaker 1: How much is it health in that regard.
- 11:01Speaker 2: Yeah, it does help.
- 11:02Speaker 3: It helps a ton, you know, and I think what
- 11:03Speaker 3: it helps the most is especially young guys, right developing
- 11:07Speaker 3: that routine of understanding that it's not college football where
- 11:10Speaker 3: if you lose one game, you know you're out of
- 11:11Speaker 3: the you know, playoffs or whatever.
- 11:13Speaker 2: You know, you you still got more games to play.
- 11:16Speaker 3: There's still you know, a chance for the division to
- 11:18Speaker 3: get into the playoffs.
- 11:19Speaker 2: And so it just keeps you on a really a.
- 11:21Speaker 3: Day to day basis, but a week to week basis,
- 11:23Speaker 3: and no matter what happens when it lose, Uh, you
- 11:25Speaker 3: just come back to work. You kind of you know,
- 11:28Speaker 3: figure out how you can get better, like I said,
- 11:29Speaker 3: and then you just move on.
- 11:31Speaker 1: How different is the Mondays here versus some other places
- 11:34Speaker 1: you've been. I would say it's a lot different.
- 11:37Speaker 3: And I would say the main thing is after a loss,
- 11:39Speaker 3: you know, just the energy coach brings and the way
- 11:41Speaker 3: that we kind of just go about it, just the
- 11:44Speaker 3: week and everything. You know, obviously you don't want to lose,
- 11:46Speaker 3: but when it happens, you know, coach does a great
- 11:49Speaker 3: job at like I said, just getting back to work
- 11:51Speaker 3: and reminding us that there's more work to be done,
- 11:54Speaker 3: and you know, maybe other places it kind of feels
- 11:57Speaker 3: a little bit more somber after a loss, and you know,
- 12:00Speaker 3: God's take it harder than others.
- 12:01Speaker 2: But here's been great.
- 12:03Speaker 1: Do you want the throwbacks to be the permanent home
- 12:05Speaker 1: in the uniform?
- 12:07Speaker 2: I haven't. I haven't even warned them yet, So I
- 12:08Speaker 2: have to.
- 12:09Speaker 3: I gotta get a feel for him and you know
- 12:11Speaker 3: kind of see you know how that fee, how that
- 12:13Speaker 3: feels on game day.
- 12:14Speaker 2: But I know a lot of fans love it.
- 12:16Speaker 3: I actually had someone say that we should u Someone
- 12:18Speaker 3: text me and say we should wear it permanently. So
- 12:20Speaker 3: I don't know, man, It's not up to me. So
- 12:22Speaker 3: you know, I wear whatever we whatever we have out there.
- 12:24Speaker 5: You know, from the point you're saying that you're looking
- 12:28Speaker 5: at film and you blame yourself, is it more from
- 12:31Speaker 5: a continual improvement aspect, so you don't get two down
- 12:34Speaker 5: on the play, but you use it to motivate yourself.
- 12:37Speaker 1: Just want to make that difference.
- 12:38Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't say I I don't blame myself.
- 12:41Speaker 3: I'll just like look at it from a real life perspective, man,
- 12:44Speaker 3: Like there's things that you do well and there's things
- 12:46Speaker 3: that you know, it's it's a down and down play
- 12:48Speaker 3: to play league, and every no one's perfect on every down.
- 12:51Speaker 3: No quarterback is perfect every single down. You can watch
- 12:53Speaker 3: all thirty two quarterbacks in the league. Everyone's gonna make
- 12:56Speaker 3: a mistake. But I think, uh, the thing that you
- 12:58Speaker 3: have to do and that I try to do is
- 13:00Speaker 3: internalize those mistakes and then figure out ways that I
- 13:03Speaker 3: can improve from it. And even the things that I've
- 13:05Speaker 3: done well, I still try to look at those and say,
- 13:07Speaker 3: what could I.
- 13:07Speaker 2: Have done better?
- 13:08Speaker 3: So it's just an ongoing process of never into self improvement,
- 13:12Speaker 3: you know, just trying to figure out ways to be
- 13:14Speaker 3: better and better each day each week.
- 13:17Speaker 2: All right, thank you,