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Charles Cross: "Mike Macdonald Brings Tenacity To The Building" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing good? How I saw? Well? How's your all season?
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  Speaker 1: Our season went pretty well? Enjoyed it, spen's the time
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  Speaker 1: with my family. Had a pretty good off season. I
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  Speaker 1: needle to get a.
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  Speaker 2: Subch chef of uh Scott House or union coach? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Well uh we going to the week too. Like it's
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  Speaker 2: been a good experience.
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  Speaker 1: Just getting to learn each other, getting to know each
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  Speaker 1: other and just building they uh church between each other.
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  Speaker 1: Looking back on last year, what was it like for
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  Speaker 1: you getting hurt so early and trying to play through.
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  Speaker 2: That and you and they both kind of fighting.
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  Speaker 1: I don't season h h how'd that kind of play out?
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  Speaker 1: And see your one on when you reflect back on it,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it was a learning experience for me
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  Speaker 1: cause that was my first time I really missing time
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  Speaker 1: for football, So I feel like taught me a lot
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  Speaker 1: about myself, just trying to be a better teammate and
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  Speaker 1: continuing just to help the team any way I could.
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  Speaker 1: What's been your impression of life for Donaldson?
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  Speaker 2: For I love 'em. F Like he he brings.
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  Speaker 1: A a tenacity in the building. He's very blunt to
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  Speaker 1: the point guy, and he's just wants to get a
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  Speaker 1: job done.
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  Speaker 2: Get the job done. At the end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: What stood out.
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  Speaker 2: About facing its defense last year in that Baltimore game?
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  Speaker 1: What did they do to kind of make things top
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  Speaker 1: money guys.
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  Speaker 2: I would say.
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  Speaker 1: I would say last year versus Baltimore, they play they
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  Speaker 1: played solid defense, gap sound defense, and they played well
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  Speaker 1: like through the entire game, and they did a good
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  Speaker 1: job like controlling the offense.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're still putting everything together, but what what
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  Speaker 2: do you expect your offense to like with.
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  Speaker 1: The import Diggers to do DC explosive, explosive, getting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of first downs, getting a lot of touchdowns, really
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  Speaker 1: setting a temple against our opponents. Okay, you know, send
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  Speaker 1: things kind of a lot of kind of talk about
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  Speaker 1: the flexity moreplex city.
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  Speaker 2: This year the last.
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  Speaker 1: Is that also what you guys say about this one? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's differ It's definitely different from last year. But as
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  Speaker 1: far as like the offensive line perspective, similar schemes, just
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  Speaker 1: different words, different verbiage, and just getting to learn that
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  Speaker 1: you have ever seen about something they want with group opositively,
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  Speaker 1: h do you guys on y'all N one, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think for the players name that you took.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of year that I feel like you have
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  Speaker 2: to just house to get the.
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  Speaker 1: Definitely just finishing in the red zone, having that certain
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  Speaker 1: mentality as a collective group as on the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: and just playing this one.
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  Speaker 2: What's your mentality that do you hap into PI the
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  Speaker 2: lyrics having office my mentality stuff's finishing innocity and what
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  Speaker 2: is that.
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  Speaker 1: That's just playing tough, having that mentality that no one
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  Speaker 1: can stop us from getting in the red zone, like
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  Speaker 1: you always young and always sim world. The skins, the
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  Speaker 1: schemes cent similar like I said, but it's different words
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  Speaker 1: and different ververse for it. You play with uh A
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  Speaker 1: under major era system ran grow has a lot of
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  Speaker 1: you know what, whether parallels do you think like specifically
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  Speaker 1: try We'll see you a lot. I definitely see like,
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  Speaker 1: let's just us marry, marrying and running the past together.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep having the sposal players like running the ball
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  Speaker 1: and passing the ball and just bring it together.
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  Speaker 2: Uh for the whole offense. Who was your reaction when
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  Speaker 2: people was gonna be closed to Actually I wasn't. I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't expecting it.
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  Speaker 1: But we have to be able to adjust then and
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  Speaker 1: transition to what's next.
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  Speaker 2: Keep moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: The two years you put people.
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  Speaker 2: There's something that that you learned now that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: stuff to you. Just always competing.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what it is, just always competing and tryna
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  Speaker 1: tryna make the guy next to you better.
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  Speaker 2: Because you been spent two years since you were drafted.
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  Speaker 1: And how the times when buying one of those guys
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  Speaker 1: that are about to pick next to where they going
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  Speaker 1: through break.
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  Speaker 2: Down, probably anxious.
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  Speaker 1: Wanting to know where they'll end up at. I know
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  Speaker 1: this how I felt, uh going through the process, and
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  Speaker 1: once they find out word, it's being excited and ready
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  Speaker 1: to get to work once they get to their point.
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  Speaker 2: Did you dud your where?
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  Speaker 1: I definitely feel like I've improved h in my run game,
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  Speaker 1: in my uh past game man, and just being like
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  Speaker 1: a better teammate, oh shoally, just being being involved with
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  Speaker 1: the guys really just getting to know 'em as UH
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  Speaker 1: as a person, not a player.
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  Speaker 2: Really just like building trust and having that camaraderie as
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  Speaker 2: a team.
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  Speaker 1: My sweet y'all.
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  Speaker 2: People just agree with that though, I definitely agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, in this business, like it's different guys coming
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  Speaker 1: in and out of the locker room and just welcoming
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  Speaker 1: with new guys in and just building their camaraderie starting
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning, from last week when you got here.
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  Speaker 2: Gino as a guy who's coming in to compete her job.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's you know, promo pro back going into story
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  Speaker 2: year to start. How do you see him king bags
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  Speaker 2: as a leader? You hear them g you know is
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  Speaker 2: a great leader.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Gino does a great job leading by example,
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  Speaker 1: being vocal and really just bring the guy, bringing guys
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  Speaker 1: along with.
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  Speaker 2: Him, having the same mentality.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean matter, not bring that moment, just
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  Speaker 1: been able to be together, be together, having the same mentality.
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  Speaker 1: It's like like, can't nobody mess with us?
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  Speaker 2: Like we're the best. Yup.