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Sam Howell: "It Was Good To Get Back Out There" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So I guess I feel out there running things in
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  Speaker 1: the game's heading.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was good to get back out there. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we've been we've been going against ourselves a little uh
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  Speaker 2: for these past few weeks. So good to get out
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  Speaker 2: there again, I guess a different opponent. How the guys
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  Speaker 2: played well. Obviously defensive, I thought we had a really
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  Speaker 2: good game offensively, just did some good things. Could have
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  Speaker 2: could have could have scored a little more points. I thought,
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  Speaker 2: would like to finish that drive there in the early
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  Speaker 2: and the third quarter where we got stopped in the
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  Speaker 2: one over. I thought we did some good things.
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  Speaker 1: For coach McDonald going through this for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: just how would you evaluate how we handled everything.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, coach was great, so you know, first time for him. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: obviously first time head coach, but he was he was great.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he did a good job, you know, did
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  Speaker 2: a good job of getting us ready for the game.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously it's a little different one is the preseason. But
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  Speaker 2: he did a great job. You know, he was great
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  Speaker 2: before the game, great, great with in the huddle before
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  Speaker 2: the game and stuff. So he's doing a great job
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  Speaker 2: and and guys are buying in for sure.
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  Speaker 1: What what what's you got those four a's basically run
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  Speaker 1: in the with the ones when Gino was out and
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  Speaker 1: all that. I guess in general, how do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like camp has gone for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought I thought the first couple of days
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't my best. But after, you know, the first
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  Speaker 2: two days or so, I thought, I've I've been playing
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  Speaker 2: some good football. Especially this past week. I thought I
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  Speaker 2: had a really good week of practice. I think I've
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  Speaker 2: definitely gotten better each and every day, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to continue to try to do, is get
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  Speaker 2: better each and every day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm third down. Just having a part of your game
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  Speaker 1: can be to making things happen through your legs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I think that's definitely something that you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've always kind of done my whole career. Is you know,
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  Speaker 2: especially on third down, I can try to make some
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  Speaker 2: plays with my with my feet, and I think that's
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  Speaker 2: just part of part of my game and something that
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  Speaker 2: whenever I'm out there, I'm gonna try to use, especially
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  Speaker 2: on third down, especially when they're playing man coverage, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, when they're playing man coverage on defense, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of room to run the ball for the
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  Speaker 2: for the quarterbacks, so when we get man coverage, you
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  Speaker 2: know kind of look obviously trying to throw the ball first,
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  Speaker 2: but I know he's good opportunities to run as well.
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  Speaker 1: Coach McDonald said a couple of times, he feels like
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  Speaker 1: your game is also sort of best when it's an
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  Speaker 1: actual game, Like maybe sometimes your game translates better to
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  Speaker 1: a game than practice or whatever. I mean, do you
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  Speaker 1: feel that or do you you know, like when you
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  Speaker 1: get into game like tonight, do you kind of feel
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  Speaker 1: like that's that's more of your time.
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  Speaker 2: Or I mean, obviously, you know, you try to be
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  Speaker 2: try to be really good every single day, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and try to be the same player are in practice.
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  Speaker 2: But I think obviously one and you know, when the
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  Speaker 2: lights come on, I think I try to take it
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  Speaker 2: to another level for sure. And I just think kind
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  Speaker 2: of part of his question here was, you know, using
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  Speaker 2: my feet, that's something you don't really get to see
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot in practice because you're not live, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so you don't really get those live plays. And I
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  Speaker 2: feel like that's a really big part of my game
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  Speaker 2: and something I bring to the table. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: mean I try to be the same player each and every.
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  Speaker 1: Day, Brady Russell's run after catch on the touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was awesome. Definitely. When I threw it to him,
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  Speaker 2: I was kind of just expecting to get the first down.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's great when you got a guy
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  Speaker 2: who can, you know, run after the catch and make
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  Speaker 2: guys miss. And Brady's had a really good camp and
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  Speaker 2: he's doing a great job. So every time he's in there,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gona try to keep finding him for sure.
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  Speaker 1: The third and one and the fourth and one at
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  Speaker 1: the goal line, anything you wish you guys did differently there? Did?
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  Speaker 1: They just kind of beat you guys on those players.
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  Speaker 2: We were running the ball really well, so I was
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  Speaker 2: fine with the decision to run the ball there on
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  Speaker 2: fourth down, just try to try to get it in.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, we definitely got to find a way to
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  Speaker 2: finish that. But play call wise, I thought I thought
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  Speaker 2: it was that was pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was eight for fifteen on third down
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  Speaker 1: while you're in the game. That pretty encouraging to be
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  Speaker 1: converted on this third downs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought we thought there was someone we could
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  Speaker 2: have done a little better job. Obviously, gotta go look
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  Speaker 2: back at the film, but I thought there were some
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  Speaker 2: things we might have left out there, but you're not
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  Speaker 2: gonna be perfect. And we moved the ball well, controlled
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  Speaker 2: the game. I don't know what exactly the time possession was,
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  Speaker 2: but I know we had it for most of the game.
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  Speaker 2: So we played some good compliment or football for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And just the offense as a whole. Coach Grub we
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  Speaker 1: talked to him this week, he said like eighty I
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  Speaker 1: think he said eighty percent of the offenses in right now,
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  Speaker 1: you guys feel like you guys are getting a lot
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  Speaker 1: more confident with everything, kind of as with every day
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  Speaker 1: that you know you're having practice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I mean obviously, ever every single day
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  Speaker 2: that you get to, you know, rep the system, rep
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  Speaker 2: the plays in this system, is another day to get better.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we've done a really good job as
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  Speaker 2: an offense of finding what things we need to get
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  Speaker 2: better at and and focusing on those each and every day.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's that's that's definitely paid off for us.
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  Speaker 2: And We've got a good group of a lot of
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  Speaker 2: guys that you know, really love ball, want to get better.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm really excited about what we have on our
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  Speaker 2: football team. Cool appreciate you. Thank That's it