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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of Week 13 vs. Vikings · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, we got more than usual.
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  Speaker 2: Good to see everybody, a good week of prep, beautiful
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  Speaker 2: day out there today.
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  Speaker 1: I had a great day yesterday. So looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: You got is questionable start.
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  Speaker 2: This week, working through it still with Tie, It's probably
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  Speaker 2: gonna probably be a process even up to game time
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  Speaker 2: as a is a possibility, so positive trending is getting
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  Speaker 2: better every day, soup days.
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  Speaker 1: It's done a good job's done, a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Great having him here, so, like you know, he have
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  Speaker 2: expectations of how he's gonna operate, and he's pretty much
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  Speaker 2: on point.
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  Speaker 1: So it's great to have him. You know what, you
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  Speaker 1: plan to elevate him for the game. Yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 1: possibility right now. Yeah, I can't make. Yeah, Cam's doing
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  Speaker 1: a nice job. It's doing a nice job.
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  Speaker 2: The runs he's gotten in practice, he's he's looked really good.
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  Speaker 1: Has that a great attitude practicing fast? Uh done a
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  Speaker 1: nice job.
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  Speaker 3: Mh is George's I mean obviously didn't put him on.
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  Speaker 3: Has been something you can cut back from it a
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  Speaker 3: few weeks or next week.
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  Speaker 2: Working through it with George, Yeah, we gotta make we'll
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  Speaker 2: uh gonna make a decision with him pretty soon on
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  Speaker 2: how we're gonna handle everything.
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  Speaker 3: He's ready to go as as as much as we
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  Speaker 3: can tell.
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  Speaker 1: From the report. Yeah, yeah, Ernest is ready to go. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: kind of practice week.
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  Speaker 2: He had a strong, strong week, did a nice job.
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  Speaker 2: He's in good spirits. I had a really good week.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: You don't care about odds and all that stuff, but
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty rare for the to be favored by as
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  Speaker 3: much as back to back weeks, and over history, they
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  Speaker 3: generally either drop one of those games or they just
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  Speaker 3: struggle one of them. What's so hard about coaching or
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  Speaker 3: playing in a game where you're heavily expected.
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  Speaker 1: To win every week?
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  Speaker 2: Is extremely hard. It's it's uh, every week has its
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  Speaker 2: own challenges. Each every team in our in our league
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  Speaker 2: is tremendously tremendously talented, well coached. Everybody presents, trust me,
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  Speaker 2: a ton of problems that you have to solve throughout
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  Speaker 2: the week. So that's what we're focused on, is how
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  Speaker 2: can we put our game plan together? How can we execute?
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  Speaker 2: How can we be ready to play our best football
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  Speaker 2: comes Sunday? And those methods change from.
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  Speaker 1: Week to week.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you you see different different players, different coaches,
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  Speaker 2: different schemes, different atmospheres, all those things change. But our
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  Speaker 2: goal is the same as really every week is really
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  Speaker 2: the same goal.
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  Speaker 3: Announced that and McCarthy's out. When you looked at Rosmer
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  Speaker 3: thought him, what kind of style he is?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's got a really high academic pedigree. Uh, now
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  Speaker 2: he's he's he's he's played good football when he's been
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  Speaker 2: in there. He's been decisive, throws it on time, he's uh,
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  Speaker 2: seems like he's really accurate. So yeah, there's not a
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  Speaker 2: lot of plays, but you go back in some of
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  Speaker 2: the college stuff is also really impressive as well. So,
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  Speaker 2: but he seems like a sharp guy. I I feel
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  Speaker 2: like they're you know, I feel like they're excited about it,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, yeah, good player. When did you learn that?
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  Speaker 1: You guys went to the same high school.
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  Speaker 2: I knew that he was a good player when he
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  Speaker 2: was at Centennial, and then you kind of oh, oh
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  Speaker 2: he's playing for Minnesota. That's cool, and then oh, shoot,
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  Speaker 2: he's on this Minnesota team. So it's kind of like
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  Speaker 2: off and on throughout the years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, nobody talks to me from Centennial. They've disowned me.
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  Speaker 3: Some time in Minnesota, and they also have the full
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  Speaker 3: back there what's the value of having a coach that
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  Speaker 3: has so much experience with the fullback and how he
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  Speaker 3: wants to use that position.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's a great question, and and KP is
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  Speaker 2: as good as it gets in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's it is a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: lost art.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a there's some there's some techniques and
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  Speaker 2: some fundamentals to that position that are a little bit
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  Speaker 2: unique to other positions throughout the league. And KP's done
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  Speaker 2: a tremendous job with him. And then there's cross training
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  Speaker 2: as well. I mean, you know, we've been moving Brady
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  Speaker 2: around the tight end room and the running back room.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, you know, Max done a great job with
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  Speaker 2: the with the guys when they've been with him.
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  Speaker 1: Specifically Brady. But yeah, KP is a tremendous guy. It's
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  Speaker 1: not easy.
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  Speaker 2: You're that skill set is a little bit different than
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  Speaker 2: the true halfback position as well. But they also they
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  Speaker 2: also have to see the runs very similarly as well.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're basically running the runs for the halfbacks
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  Speaker 2: a lot of times. So and then there's protection, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's all sorts of things. Then it's like a tight
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  Speaker 2: end element in terms of protections in the past game.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot going on there and KP does
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  Speaker 2: a great job.
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  Speaker 3: How was Riley Mills first week of practice?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's uh great first start, you know, trying
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  Speaker 2: to It's funny like when I asked him question, he's
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  Speaker 2: a he was in eighties office, might have been yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It's like very just like like short and serious.
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  Speaker 2: Hey man, relaxed, tell me, like, tell me what's actually
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  Speaker 2: going through your mind, you know, coming back playing football
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  Speaker 2: for such a long time, And you can tell he's
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  Speaker 2: really excited and it takes some time to get you know,
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  Speaker 2: get the like get the flow back, get the movements back.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, all these other guys we've had, they've
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  Speaker 2: had you know how many reps since the spring that
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  Speaker 2: they've been able to stack.
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  Speaker 1: So he's got a little bit of ground to make up,
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  Speaker 1: but excited to see where it goes over the next
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I think. So, Yeah, you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Have the second most rushing yards in the NFL over
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  Speaker 3: the last three weeks. Do you feel you feel in
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  Speaker 3: the running game kind of coming?
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  Speaker 1: I just I felt like I felt like we keep
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  Speaker 1: keep building.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I felt since really throughout camp and throughout
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  Speaker 2: the spring. It's just our coaches to do a great
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  Speaker 2: We talk about being relentless. You do that in terms
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  Speaker 2: of how you want to chase growth with really any
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  Speaker 2: aspect of your team or your program. And our coaches
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  Speaker 2: have done a great job of pushing the envelope and
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  Speaker 2: our players have have really been right there every step
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  Speaker 2: of the way in terms of, you know, trying to
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  Speaker 2: grow as well and keep finding things and ways to
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  Speaker 2: improve every week. And it's nice to feel that we
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  Speaker 2: were getting there, you know, it feels it's nice to
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  Speaker 2: feel that we can run the ball effectively.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have any updates on Jared Reid expecting him to?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jerry's doing well that you know, it looks good
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  Speaker 2: coming out of coming out of the operation. He's good spirits,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, he's got we got to practice with
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  Speaker 2: him when he's able to come back and stuff to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that it feels good practicing and everything.
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  Speaker 1: But trending positive right now.
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  Speaker 3: Have you talked about the whole manage emotion things or
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  Speaker 3: that trend beyond.
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  Speaker 1: I have not talked to him about that. Maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: bad head coaching, but you don't feel helped. Yeah, yeah
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  Speaker 1: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just you see his his approach every day is
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  Speaker 2: what you love about him. And uh again, same guy
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  Speaker 2: after a game where he throws for x amount of
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  Speaker 2: yards and great passer rating in the game that we lose,
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  Speaker 2: same guy, which is uh, which is.
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  Speaker 1: What you want, what you what you expect. There they
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  Speaker 1: go you okay, all right, thank you