Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Head Coach Mike Macdonald Previews The Preseason Finale vs. Chiefs
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Who have expertise in some areas and you've got expertise
- 0:03Speaker 1: in football. How do you bridge that gap?
- 0:07Speaker 2: It's going to be a team effort. I think the
- 0:11Speaker 2: Coastals have explained how they're intending to operate in terms
- 0:16Speaker 2: of timeline, but I know I, for one, I can't
- 0:21Speaker 2: wait to work with them from what they feel like
- 0:25Speaker 2: they can offer right now. I want to go. It's exciting. Well,
- 0:31Speaker 2: I think the things that they have expertise in right
- 0:33Speaker 2: now and then I think the way that we've gotten
- 0:37Speaker 2: to this point is we realize we don't have all
- 0:41Speaker 2: the answers and we try to find the best ones.
- 0:44Speaker 2: And those answers can come from anywhere. So I think
- 0:46Speaker 2: it's just going to be fun to develop that relationship
- 0:50Speaker 2: and try to see where we can take our club.
- 0:54Speaker 3: Mike, what did the reps look like for your starters?
- 0:56Speaker 2: Are they going to play? Yeah, a Well, yeah, the starters,
- 1:00Speaker 2: the guys that haven't been playing won't play again. Jalen's
- 1:06Speaker 2: going to play the whole game. Drew will be ready
- 1:08Speaker 2: to go, but Jalen's going to play the whole game. Yeah,
- 1:14Speaker 2: I mean, we're making some independent decisions on some guys.
- 1:18Speaker 2: It's not a declaration of status or anything. A lot
- 1:22Speaker 2: of it has to do with just individual players, where
- 1:25Speaker 2: they're at. Some things are health considered. Some things are
- 1:28Speaker 2: depth considered. All of them have individual decision criteria. I
- 1:35Speaker 2: know it's tough, but try not to jump to conclusions.
- 1:39Speaker 2: You've talked about this.
- 1:40Speaker 1: How much is it for the players just to let
- 1:42Speaker 1: it rip in a game like.
- 1:43Speaker 2: This, not overthink it? It's the same message. These are
- 1:50Speaker 2: great games. These last preseason games, there's so many great
- 1:52Speaker 2: stories of guys playing great football and again, everybody's on
- 1:56Speaker 2: their own timeline. So, you know, are you fighting for
- 2:00Speaker 2: a rock? Yeah, you are. You're fighting for to further
- 2:04Speaker 2: your career. Is it a roster spot? Maybe, maybe, maybe not. Um,
- 2:09Speaker 2: those are things that are outside of our control at
- 2:11Speaker 2: this point in the process. So let's focus on going,
- 2:15Speaker 2: play your best football and then trust that the process
- 2:17Speaker 2: will take care of itself. You know, whether it's you're
- 2:20Speaker 2: on the initial 53 or on the initial 70, or
- 2:22Speaker 2: maybe you're a guy that's going to come back, all
- 2:26Speaker 2: those things are on the table. Mike, what do you
- 2:27Speaker 2: want to see from Jalen getting the opportunity to have
- 2:30Speaker 2: the full game? Well, I think it's really great that
- 2:33Speaker 2: he has an opportunity, just like the Green Bay game
- 2:35Speaker 2: last year, where you're not subbing in, you're not coming
- 2:38Speaker 2: in at halftime, you're going through the whole process of
- 2:41Speaker 2: starting a game and getting in rhythm and managing the situations,
- 2:45Speaker 2: all those things that we want from our quarterback. So
- 2:47Speaker 2: I think it's exciting to see him play. It's a
- 2:49Speaker 2: great opportunity for him. Leonard Williams, what makes him a
- 2:51Speaker 2: player that you guys wanted to see? Yeah, it was
- 2:54Speaker 2: a little funky this morning in terms of timing and everything,
- 2:56Speaker 2: but I'll tell you what, we couldn't be more excited
- 2:59Speaker 2: to get the deal done. Again, he's a foundational player
- 3:04Speaker 2: to our club from when we got here. I feel
- 3:08Speaker 2: like I'm kind of a broken record with this thing,
- 3:10Speaker 2: but all the things, obviously a tremendous all-pro caliber player,
- 3:18Speaker 2: the type of person he is, just an absolute A-plus person, teammate,
- 3:24Speaker 2: the day-to-day, really just how much he's invested into our
- 3:27Speaker 2: team and really his teammates. And I'm really, really excited
- 3:33Speaker 2: to have it happen. I mean, it's really great news.
- 3:35Speaker 2: So I understand he hasn't signed yet. He's going to
- 3:37Speaker 2: sign here within the hour, and everybody's going to celebrate.
- 3:40Speaker 2: It's a great deal for everybody, and we're excited to
- 3:42Speaker 2: make it happen.
- 3:43Speaker 1: People who haven't.
- 3:44Speaker 4: Watched him play closely might look at it and say,
- 3:46Speaker 4: 32 years old, that's a huge reinvestment in a guy
- 3:49Speaker 4: like that.
- 3:49Speaker 2: What kind of football is he still playing right now?
- 3:53Speaker 2: some of the best in the world. His production is high,
- 3:58Speaker 2: but it's also a synergistic thing where I feel like
- 4:01Speaker 2: the way he plays sets up other players as well,
- 4:04Speaker 2: both in the run and pass, let alone how he interacts,
- 4:09Speaker 2: just how he builds up the whole team on a
- 4:12Speaker 2: day-to-day basis too. Again, I think it's a great deal
- 4:16Speaker 2: for both sides, and he's earned it, and we're excited
- 4:19Speaker 2: to make it happen. man i uh i have a
- 4:28Speaker 2: hard time thinking people it's hard it's hard to not
- 4:30Speaker 2: see what he does it's interesting that you guys are
- 4:32Speaker 2: asking those questions he's um he's an absolute force that
- 4:36Speaker 2: people have to account for and when you do that
- 4:38Speaker 2: that takes resources towards him and he can win those
- 4:42Speaker 2: those matchups and when You allocate resources one way, you
- 4:47Speaker 2: can't allocate them another way, and now our other guys
- 4:50Speaker 2: have opportunities. So not only is he making a ton
- 4:53Speaker 2: of plays, he's setting his teammates up for making plays
- 4:56Speaker 2: as well, and we play better defense with him for sure. Yeah,
- 5:01Speaker 2: that's what I'm saying. He's just a great teammate every day,
- 5:04Speaker 2: same guy, positive outlook. We talked about warriors in the garden,
- 5:10Speaker 2: just who we want to be as people, and he's that.
- 5:13Speaker 2: I mean, that's who he is.
- 5:18Speaker 4: Speaking of allocating resources, I know that you don't jump
- 5:20Speaker 4: too much into weeds when it comes to the contract stuff,
- 5:22Speaker 4: but how big of a deal is it that you
- 5:25Speaker 4: now have several more seasons where you get to have
- 5:28Speaker 4: Leo and Byron playing together and not have to worry
- 5:30Speaker 4: about Byron having his pending contract and things like that?
- 5:34Speaker 4: It's just hard to keep two high-priced DTs together and
- 5:37Speaker 4: have that luxury.
- 5:38Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm excited. Yeah. I'm very excited. You know, look, we've,
- 5:45Speaker 2: we want, we want great players, great people. We want
- 5:48Speaker 2: Seahawks on our team as many as we can possibly have. Um,
- 5:53Speaker 2: you want to be able to pay everybody as much
- 5:54Speaker 2: as you possibly can. Obviously there's limitations on these things, uh,
- 5:58Speaker 2: which is why, you know, it's, it's so important for
- 6:00Speaker 2: us to be able to keep as many Seahawks that
- 6:04Speaker 2: we feel like can, you know, can help us out
- 6:06Speaker 2: in our building as we, as we come down to
- 6:07Speaker 2: like this portion of the year and really throughout the season. Um,
- 6:12Speaker 2: But when there's game-changing type guys like Leo, like Spoon,
- 6:15Speaker 2: like Jax, we had the opportunity to lock them up
- 6:18Speaker 2: for an extended period of time and make them foundational
- 6:21Speaker 2: pieces of our team. That's got to fire you up.
- 6:23Speaker 2: It's pretty awesome.
- 6:24Speaker 5: All those guys you just mentioned, Leo, Jax, Spoon, they're
- 6:27Speaker 5: all in that leadership council that we've heard you reference,
- 6:29Speaker 5: but we saw.
- 6:29Speaker 2: It on Hard Knocks the other day.
- 6:31Speaker 5: For you as a couple years ago first-time head coach,
- 6:33Speaker 5: how valuable has that back and forth been with a
- 6:36Speaker 5: group of guys to get their feedback and not just
- 6:38Speaker 5: here's how I'm going to do it?
- 6:39Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been great. Charles is part of that crew
- 6:44Speaker 2: as well. And, uh, had a couple of fun conversations
- 6:48Speaker 2: since then. It turns out if you'd like, if I,
- 6:51Speaker 2: if I, if I, if we have a leadership meeting,
- 6:54Speaker 2: you can be excused from other responsibilities in the building. Uh,
- 6:59Speaker 2: so we've had, but no, the guys have been great. They, uh,
- 7:05Speaker 2: it's just, it's trying to create, trying to create an
- 7:06Speaker 2: atmosphere where we're all aligned in how we're doing things.
- 7:10Speaker 2: And so sometimes it's, what's coming down the pike. Sometimes it's, Hey,
- 7:15Speaker 2: you know, maybe we need to, maybe we need to veer.
- 7:17Speaker 2: Sometimes it's coming from me. Sometimes it's coming from the players.
- 7:21Speaker 2: It's a, it's a team effort on, on, you know,
- 7:23Speaker 2: getting the chip sailing in the right direction at all times.
- 7:27Speaker 2: And I'm done now. Sorry.
- 7:32Speaker 1: Have you guys already made your decision about whether Zach
- 7:35Speaker 1: Charbonnet is going to come off PUP or is that
- 7:37Speaker 1: something that could still happen.
- 7:38Speaker 2: Before next week? Um, We don't have any– let's just
- 7:41Speaker 2: say we don't have any news on that front right now.
- 7:43Speaker 3: Okay.
- 7:44Speaker 1: And Nicky Mimori, when would he have to start practicing
- 7:46Speaker 1: to be available in week one for you guys?
- 7:49Speaker 2: Probably not going to answer that one.
- 7:52Speaker 4: How's Torrey Horton doing?
- 7:54Speaker 2: Doing good. Doing good. All the injuries– you know me,
- 7:58Speaker 2: injury stuff coming into week one, it's just we're going
- 8:01Speaker 2: to keep it pretty close to the vest.
- 8:02Speaker 1: Has Torrey's long-term injury been ruled out or is this– Yeah.
- 8:06Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:07Speaker 5: Leo's just one of four guys you have up front
- 8:10Speaker 5: who's played 10-plus years, and Shannon's right there, too. Whether
- 8:14Speaker 5: it's in-game trying to adjust things or plan things, that
- 8:17Speaker 5: level of experience you have up front, what does that
- 8:19Speaker 5: do for you?
- 8:19Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great question. It's a fun group to
- 8:24Speaker 2: work with. The trap is that you have all this experience,
- 8:28Speaker 2: which means you have a lot of production and a
- 8:30Speaker 2: lot of success individually. People if you don't create the
- 8:39Speaker 2: right environment, you know, the right type of guys, you
- 8:41Speaker 2: have a lot of guys, you could end up in
- 8:42Speaker 2: the trap of people trying to kind of get theirs
- 8:44Speaker 2: and ego gets in the way. But you know, the
- 8:48Speaker 2: guys that you mentioned, the guys that are on our team,
- 8:50Speaker 2: they use it as a plus, you know, they use
- 8:52Speaker 2: it as a way to get the solutions and bring
- 8:56Speaker 2: each other's games to another level, which is, which makes
- 8:59Speaker 2: the process a lot of fun. And I'm not really
- 9:02Speaker 2: in the weeds on how we do what we're doing
- 9:05Speaker 2: play to play and And how we're getting it caught,
- 9:07Speaker 2: like just in the meetings and the details and all that,
- 9:09Speaker 2: like AD does a phenomenal job, CP, Bynes, Hines, those guys.
- 9:14Speaker 2: It's a tremendous team partnership on how we utilize our front,
- 9:21Speaker 2: the techniques we do, how they prepare, all those things.
- 9:23Speaker 2: It's really cool.
- 9:23Speaker 4: Coach, you all have proven experience. It can be kind
- 9:26Speaker 4: of tough for some of the younger defensive linemen to
- 9:28Speaker 4: really stand out, but J.R. Singleton this past weekend led the.
- 9:31Speaker 3: Team in tactics.
- 9:32Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty awesome.
- 9:33Speaker 4: How have you seen him progress this year after last
- 9:35Speaker 4: year being a practice squad.
- 9:36Speaker 2: The entire season? Yeah, J.R., he actually had a good
- 9:39Speaker 2: camp last year. And I think it's, you know, to
- 9:43Speaker 2: your point, like being in a room with veteran leaders
- 9:46Speaker 2: is actually a great opportunity because, you know, we're trying to–
- 9:50Speaker 2: those guys don't need as many reps as the rest
- 9:51Speaker 2: of the team. And so you're going to take a
- 9:53Speaker 2: ton of reps. If you can take advantage of those opportunities,
- 9:58Speaker 2: and then the rookie dynamic and the rookie aspect of
- 10:02Speaker 2: being in with vets, you take care of the vets
- 10:04Speaker 2: in the room, they're taking care of you. There's a
- 10:06Speaker 2: lot of knowledge that's getting poured into you with the
- 10:10Speaker 2: guys that we have and the way that JR goes
- 10:11Speaker 2: about his business. So he's definitely taking advantage of it,
- 10:14Speaker 2: and he's played good football. He should be proud of himself.
- 10:25Speaker 2: I'm really impressed with Bud and his mentality. Bobo, too. Mason,
- 10:31Speaker 2: same way. Those guys are studs. I think their mentality
- 10:36Speaker 2: is just, hey, let's go attack. What's the next thing?
- 10:38Speaker 2: It's probably going to be surgery. We'll go from there.
- 10:45Speaker 2: It hurts, but you're also.
- 10:48Speaker 2: We're rooting for him. We're going to be beside him
- 10:50Speaker 2: every step of the way.
- 10:51Speaker 3: What have you thought of the camp he's in?
- 10:54Speaker 2: Say that again. What was the question about?
- 10:56Speaker 1: The general thoughts on the camp that he's in.
- 11:00Speaker 2: He's done a great job. He really has. All three downs.
- 11:05Speaker 2: He's a rookie in terms of there's going to be
- 11:09Speaker 2: things that we're going to need to attack in his
- 11:10Speaker 2: game that will show itself in games. We haven't been
- 11:15Speaker 2: afforded the luxury of having the bodies right now at
- 11:19Speaker 2: running back to give him the reps maybe in a
- 11:22Speaker 2: game that we normally would give to a rookie runner.
- 11:26Speaker 2: But he's shown that we're really confident in him going
- 11:29Speaker 2: into week one. He's kind of earned that decision for
- 11:36Speaker 2: us to feel good about it, even though just about
- 11:39Speaker 2: any other circumstance, you definitely want really any rookie to
- 11:43Speaker 2: get preseason exposure and experience.
- 11:46Speaker 3: Mike, with Bobo out and obviously Torrey down for the
- 11:48Speaker 3: moment for you, how do you kind of view where
- 11:50Speaker 3: your receiver spot is kind of behind the top three?
- 11:53Speaker 3: Obviously Montori's made an impression here in camp, but how
- 11:56Speaker 3: do you kind of see that group and what are
- 11:57Speaker 3: you looking for?
- 11:58Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a tough one. It's a tough one. We're
- 12:00Speaker 2: down a couple guys right now. But the whole room
- 12:05Speaker 2: has done a really good job. A really good job.
- 12:09Speaker 2: As much as you hate saying it, there's opportunity for
- 12:15Speaker 2: guys now that those guys aren't available right now but
- 12:19Speaker 2: um it'll be interesting you know again it's it's you're
- 12:22Speaker 2: always in like team competition it's not it's never a
- 12:24Speaker 2: one for one it's never this guy doesn't go so
- 12:28Speaker 2: this guy goes or we're swapping it's always the whole
- 12:31Speaker 2: team you know it's even like between sides of the
- 12:33Speaker 2: ball you know you could now now you're talking about
- 12:34Speaker 2: special teams types decisions where you know it's the is
- 12:38Speaker 2: the db group or the outside linebacker how does that
- 12:40Speaker 2: get involved with you know decisions that you're making on
- 12:43Speaker 2: who's dressing for you in games and what roles are
- 12:45Speaker 2: playing so that's why it's important not to count numbers
- 12:48Speaker 2: and to, you know, okay, I've made it, or maybe
- 12:50Speaker 2: I haven't made it because it's always, it's always where
- 12:53Speaker 2: you are and where your game is compared to where
- 12:55Speaker 2: you can take it to the next level. And then
- 12:56Speaker 2: what the team needs, you know, to go put together
- 12:59Speaker 2: the best squad we can to go play a game. So,
- 13:02Speaker 2: but we're excited about the guys we still have.
- 13:05Speaker 4: You now, since you now know that Bud's out for
- 13:07Speaker 4: the season, how do you feel about the rest of
- 13:09Speaker 4: the safety group in terms of trying to fill the
- 13:11Speaker 4: different roles that you had?
- 13:13Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 13:13Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 13:13Speaker 2: It's really the same answer. It's really the same answer. It's,
- 13:19Speaker 2: We're excited about the guys we still have, and we'll
- 13:23Speaker 2: go from there. But like I said, after the game,
- 13:26Speaker 2: I think we're working through on how we can fill
- 13:29Speaker 2: Bud's role and how we envision Bud playing for us,
- 13:32Speaker 2: and that'll be a process that we haven't necessarily come
- 13:35Speaker 2: to all the solutions right now, and that's okay. It's
- 13:37Speaker 2: just something that we need to be aware of.
- 13:39Speaker 1: What's Trayvon Diggs show you this week in practice.
- 13:42Speaker 2: And how ready he might be? He's going to get
- 13:45Speaker 2: a look tomorrow. which is exciting. He's done a good job.
- 13:48Speaker 2: He's been having attention to detail, doing all the things
- 13:52Speaker 2: we're asking him to do. It's not an easy ask
- 13:56Speaker 2: coming from training, not with a club, to coming in
- 14:00Speaker 2: and trying to play high-level football, but given the opportunities,
- 14:04Speaker 2: definitely made the most of it, and we'll see where
- 14:07Speaker 2: it goes.
- 14:09Speaker 4: I think.
- 14:17Speaker 2: I think it's a similar answer that I gave earlier
- 14:19Speaker 2: in camp. It's, it's not, it's a, it's not an
- 14:22Speaker 2: easy position to just come in and play the level
- 14:25Speaker 2: of our, of our vets. So we just understand that
- 14:27Speaker 2: he's on a different, different path, you know, just keep
- 14:30Speaker 2: attacking the things. It's not because we're, or we are
- 14:34Speaker 2: where we are right now with, you know, everyone sees
- 14:37Speaker 2: that the, you know, everyone sees that it's transaction days
- 14:41Speaker 2: in a few days. That's, it's not whatever, however we
- 14:45Speaker 2: decide to, to operate. That's not the end-all, be-all with him.
- 14:48Speaker 2: He's got to stay on track. Just keep taking your
- 14:53Speaker 2: game to the level. Keep stacking wins. Stay to the process.
- 14:55Speaker 2: Trust it. We'll see where his career can go, but
- 15:00Speaker 2: he can definitely play in this league for sure.
- 15:02Speaker 4: Related to that, the.
- 15:03Speaker 3: Effort play that Peely made in the red zone the
- 15:04Speaker 3: other night to draw the holding.
- 15:07Speaker 2: Play, what does Peely do for you? Peely's done a
- 15:12Speaker 2: great job. He's a I mean, it's been a journey
- 15:16Speaker 2: with him since he's gotten here, but he's really applied himself,
- 15:19Speaker 2: and I think he's taken his game to the level.
- 15:21Speaker 2: It's one of those things where we take a lot
- 15:22Speaker 2: of pride in our players playing their best football when
- 15:26Speaker 2: they're with us, and I think he's definitely an example
- 15:27Speaker 2: of that. He's shown when you stick to the process
- 15:30Speaker 2: and you trust it and you have an honest way
- 15:33Speaker 2: about going about your work, you can really excel, and
- 15:37Speaker 2: that's what he's doing right now.
- 15:39Speaker 3: What have you thought of the preseason of both seasons
- 15:40Speaker 3: and just kind of how he's developed it?
- 15:43Speaker 2: Yeah, Bo's coming along great. He's really applying a lot
- 15:47Speaker 2: of competition to his room, really excited about where he
- 15:53Speaker 2: is and his trajectory. He's got a great career ahead
- 15:56Speaker 2: of him. I really believe that. There's a lot of
- 15:58Speaker 2: great plays of chasing the ball and finishing plays. You
- 16:03Speaker 2: can tell he's got the right mentality, so he's going
- 16:05Speaker 2: to be a good player. Coach, it was last week,
- 16:07Speaker 2: but we saw it on Hard Knocks.
- 16:09Speaker 3: You referenced your mentor, O.J.
- 16:10Speaker 2: Progranz.
- 16:12Speaker 4: When you were breaking down the team.
- 16:14Speaker 1: You were saying we owe it to him to be ourselves.
- 16:18Speaker 5: What way did your mentor shape the way that you
- 16:20Speaker 5: have that as your value system?
- 16:24Speaker 2: Daniel Stern put together a video for the team. Hard
- 16:28Speaker 2: Knocks did a great job editing it, but there was
- 16:31Speaker 2: a video we showed to the team that just painted
- 16:34Speaker 2: a great picture about who OJ was and what he
- 16:38Speaker 2: meant to not only the Ravens, but really everybody that
- 16:41Speaker 2: he came in contact with. But I think O.J. had
- 16:44Speaker 2: such a great perspective on life and such a great
- 16:48Speaker 2: spirit about him. There was a strength behind everything that
- 16:51Speaker 2: he did. I got kind of like a fierce love
- 16:54Speaker 2: behind just how he lived his life. And he didn't
- 16:58Speaker 2: have to pour into everybody that he did. You know,
- 17:00Speaker 2: he had a lot of stuff going on. But the
- 17:03Speaker 2: way that he did and invested in all those people's lives.
- 17:07Speaker 2: I mean, I think that speaks volumes about who he
- 17:09Speaker 2: is and where his priorities lied, and I think he
- 17:11Speaker 2: set a great example for everybody. I'm actually really happy
- 17:15Speaker 2: that they included that scene in the show because I
- 17:18Speaker 2: think his message, his legacy is able to reach as
- 17:23Speaker 2: many people as possible, which is really powerful, and we'll
- 17:25Speaker 2: all be better for it. Anything else? Thank you. All right,
- 17:29Speaker 2: thank you.