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Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "Sam Darnold Was An Absolute Dog Today" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just kept running, just kept running. Make sure
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know, honestly, But I just want to start
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  Speaker 1: off just super proud of my guy, Super proud to
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  Speaker 1: be a Seahawks in the way that we fought out here.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give all the glory to God.
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  Speaker 2: I've before the.
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  Speaker 1: Season just wanted to give him all the glory. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just awesome to to see what he's doing on
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  Speaker 1: this team and in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: Through the seas to be the number one. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 2: that was my goal.
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  Speaker 1: That that was a goal that we talked about since
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  Speaker 1: we first our first meeting. So it's a blessing, it's
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  Speaker 1: an honor, you know, one down, you know, a couple more.
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  Speaker 2: To get all those times you got. I guess, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. There's no other defense. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: would want to go out there and play. I know
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  Speaker 1: the intensity that they bring. I know how they look
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  Speaker 1: across the field. You know it's something you don't you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to play. So super proud, super proud of them.
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  Speaker 1: How do you how do you.
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  Speaker 2: Just look at you?
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, I just want to give all the
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  Speaker 1: glory to God. I took it one day out of time,
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  Speaker 1: process over results.
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  Speaker 2: It was about the process.
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  Speaker 1: It was about you know, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, getting ready for
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  Speaker 1: the next week. It was about the little things. And
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  Speaker 1: like I said, we preach process over results. And when
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  Speaker 1: I look back, I'll think about the process.
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  Speaker 2: Thinking of the process. You remember obviously practices from where
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  Speaker 2: you guys were at.
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  Speaker 1: Where you are now. It's a it's a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: It's peaks and valleys, you know, it's people talking outside noise.
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  Speaker 1: It's a group of guys just coming together, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you know I wouldn't want to do it with
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  Speaker 1: any other guys. And uh, we got the right guys
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  Speaker 1: for the job. They mean everything. They mean everything. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's why I put my helmet on. I stripped my
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  Speaker 1: shoulder pass up and I go play for them. It
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  Speaker 1: takes a lot of weight off my shoulders. It takes
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  Speaker 1: you know, my mind off. Uh, let me get a
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards and tds no. Let me go out there
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  Speaker 1: and block for K nine and get receivers open and
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  Speaker 1: do whatever, do whatever I need to do for these guys.
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  Speaker 1: And so they mean the world to me. And the
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  Speaker 1: other reason why I've had.
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  Speaker 2: So much success.
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  Speaker 1: Sam led us today. Sam was absolute dog today. His demeanor,
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  Speaker 1: his approach, everything about what he did today was great.
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  Speaker 1: You know, of course we want to fix some things.
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  Speaker 1: Of course there's always gonna be things to fix, but
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  Speaker 1: just from the time that we got here yesterday, really
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  Speaker 1: the way we prepared, the way he prepared all week
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  Speaker 1: to make sure his guys was ready is one of
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  Speaker 1: one stuff. And I'm super super happy for him.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that helps?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's that's our leader. You know, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna follow our leader. We're gonna follow his approach and
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  Speaker 1: his mindset, and he has the right mindset to to
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  Speaker 1: do great things for us and for us to follow him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Rich history, Happy to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Happy to have a seahawk on my helmet and beat
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  Speaker 1: those guys.
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  Speaker 2: It's war every time we're out there.
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  Speaker 1: Take it very seriously, and I'm happy we got we
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  Speaker 1: got one.
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  Speaker 2: One thousand thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, last drive, start back, what was kind of running?
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  Speaker 2: It was a fun It was a fun drive. The
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  Speaker 2: whole game was fun.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, coming up in clutch moments K nine,
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  Speaker 1: coming up long third down and us having a long
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  Speaker 1: possession was key, you know for our success today, and
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  Speaker 1: something that you know, we talked about every single day,
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  Speaker 1: just taking care of the ball, moving moving, moving the
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  Speaker 1: ball forward. Yeah, I mean, I definitely definitely heard it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's hard to respond back to all my fans s,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, I knew that we were gonna see
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  Speaker 1: him today and take care of business anything else.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you,