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Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "We Have The Team To Do It This Year" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How close was that ball ahead in the ground.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen a replay, so I really don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but you could probably tell me better. I don't. I
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  Speaker 2: don't really know how close it was.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you work on hand strength to be able
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  Speaker 1: to hold the ball like that that locally.
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  Speaker 2: Ground, Yes, sir, hand strength, all that stuff. Yeah, just
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  Speaker 2: strengthening my whole body. Just trying to be the best
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  Speaker 2: I can be. And yeah, do some of that work.
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  Speaker 1: Just seeing the run game get going, like the day
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  Speaker 1: with that do for you guys as in the offense,
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  Speaker 1: seeing the run game get going.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, I mean run the ball. You gotta run
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  Speaker 2: the ball, you know if you want to be a
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  Speaker 2: great offense. And you know that's something we emphasize. And
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  Speaker 2: you know we executed today. Catch well, why not just die?
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  Speaker 1: Most guys would die.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like I could. I could catch it
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  Speaker 2: and you know, do something with it, you know, honestly, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know I've seen that ball before and you know,
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  Speaker 2: just just just got to catch it. And you know
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  Speaker 2: I did that, and you know, try to get some
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  Speaker 2: more yards. Honestly, talk about your touchdown? Touchdown? Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was a it was a great scheme by Coach
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  Speaker 2: Grubb got on the safety, you know, he was on
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  Speaker 2: his heels and then just broke to the corner. Gino
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  Speaker 2: put in the right place.
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  Speaker 1: When you have a safety, you know, that's your opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to chance.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, that was a play we've you know, practiced
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  Speaker 2: a lot in practice and and then and it came
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  Speaker 2: to fruition and it was good.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think coach Grubs play calling today?
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was I thought it was good. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we score points, we moved the ball. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like still got you know, some things to figure
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  Speaker 2: out and execute on the players in and you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was a good day for us.
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  Speaker 1: Can you be on the field like a big momentum
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  Speaker 1: switch when you get the pick and then touchdown the
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  Speaker 1: next play?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I felt like it was. That was
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  Speaker 2: huge for us. And you know we want to turn
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  Speaker 2: those picks, you know, into touchdowns and you know it's
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  Speaker 2: good execution.
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  Speaker 1: Your defense is obviously been surging for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Your run game came alive today. What would it mean
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  Speaker 2: to have da consistently working for your offense to complement
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  Speaker 2: everything else you guys do? I mean, it would be great.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we feel like we would be the best
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  Speaker 2: team you know in the league. And you know, having
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  Speaker 2: the receivers that we have, have no line in running back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know we feel you know that no
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  Speaker 2: one can stop us but ourselves. You guys want the team?
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  Speaker 2: Have lost five out of six to one, that's one
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  Speaker 2: four in a row, has control of the division.
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  Speaker 1: One of the hottest teams in the league.
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  Speaker 2: What's the move? I mean, we feel good right now.
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  Speaker 2: We want to you know, first prove ourselves right and
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  Speaker 2: improve everybody else wrong. You know, we feel like we
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  Speaker 2: have the team to do it this year, and you
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  Speaker 2: know we we we're hungry.
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  Speaker 1: Came in with sharpn and said draft classes to see
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  Speaker 1: him get this opportunity with Ken Walker out and then
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  Speaker 1: just do what he did with that hell happier.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a baller, man, He's a baller you know,
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  Speaker 2: great to have him. You know, he's a he's a
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  Speaker 2: great player and anytimes balls in his hands, he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: you know, do what he does.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else. Thanks, I appreciate it.