Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Ty Okada: "We Have Such A Tight-Knit Group"

Transcript

Ty Okada: "We Have Such A Tight-Knit Group" · Seahawks Press Pass

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
• 0:00
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 0:01
  Speaker 3: Thanks for asking.
• 0:02
  Speaker 4: How does it feel to be back?
• 0:03
  Speaker 3: It's great.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: You know, to be out there with such a special group,
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: special team, I was just itching, chomping at the bit
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: to get back. So it's a blessing to be back.
• 0:11
  Speaker 4: We never saw the injury.
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: When did it happen and how did it happen?
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, going into– so I made it through camp and
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: then going into week one, just doing some sprints. That's
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: how it happened. Yeah, just unfortunate timing.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: Is it true that you have a nickname in the locker.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Room, TyGPT? Yeah, I've got a few. I've got a
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: few between all the AI jokes and Tyrone. It kind
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: of goes back and forth.
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: How did that come about?
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: I think I'd have to credit that one to Spoon.
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: He just, it's half a jab at me and also
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: half a compliment. Like, I've always got the answers, and
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: I'm always answering questions really fast and in a certain way.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: And so it's kind of been, you know, back and
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: forth between a jab and also a compliment.
• 0:55
  Speaker 4: When did he W Ty GPT?
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: I think last year at some point, and just any
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: time we're in the DB room, coach asks a question,
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: I'm going to answer it as fast as I can. And,
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: you know, that's kind of where it came from.
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: Sorry, go ahead. I was going to say, speaking of
• 1:11
  Speaker 3: those conversations, Mike called them honest conversations that were taking part,
• 1:15
  Speaker 3: and Ernest just kind of waited on that. What was
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: that in the secondary? What are the honest conversations that
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: needed to take place over the weekend in the secondary?
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just– diving deeper and not just owning our role
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: but understanding our role to as much depth as we
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: possibly can and understanding the depth within the play and
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: what coach is asking us to do and bringing those
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: plays to life and how we can better do that
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: going forward.
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: Having gone through injury issues yourself this season, your thoughts
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: on Zach Charbonnet being out on the field just eight
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: months removed from ACL surgery and being on the 53-man
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: roster for the first time this weekend?
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's super awesome to see that because we've gotten
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: kind of a firsthand look at all the work that
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: he's been putting into it and just understanding being on
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: the other side of it, the mental toll that it
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: takes on you and for him to show that type
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: of fortitude that he has and the work ethic and
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: approach that he's brought to his rehab process, it's a
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: blessing and it's awesome to see him back out there.
• 2:18
  Speaker 4: What changed so dramatically in the Denver game? They had
• 2:20
  Speaker 4: the two drives and then the rest of the game
• 2:21
  Speaker 4: they basically had almost zero yards the rest of the
• 2:23
  Speaker 4: game on like 10 possessions.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you guys saw it too, just kind
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: of on two of those drives, just very minute things
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: that we needed to hone in on that they were
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: kind of getting in order to extend drives. And once
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: we were able to dial those things in, I think
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: it really helped shut them down from there.
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: You've practiced against Ken Walker for a couple of years now.
• 2:43
  Speaker 4: What's it going to.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: Be like when it's live in game action? Yeah, K-9's
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: a great player, great person. He does a great job
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: at a lot of different things. And so it's going
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: to be a great challenge for us, and we're looking
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: forward to it.
• 2:55
  Speaker 4: Screen passes are one of the only things that have
• 2:57
  Speaker 4: given you guys trouble in a couple games this season.
• 2:59
  Speaker 3: What's the key to defending those better?
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, honestly, just all 11 guys getting to the ball.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: We play with great hustle, but then understanding that on screens,
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: it's everybody's play to make on screens. All 11 guys
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: on defense, it's everybody's play, whether it's D-linemen getting out
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: of the stack, DBs coming down from the top level,
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: and just recognizing it as fast as possible and reacting
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: to it.
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: What have you made of the season that Byron Murphy's
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: put together so far, both from watching on the sideline
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: and when you're on the field within the last few games?
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. It's just a product of the work that he's
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: been putting in. He's still a young player, and he's
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: done a tremendous job of continuously just making stride after stride.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: And it's a product of him getting coached up, listening
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: to coaching, and just taking that next step each and
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: every time he's asked to do it.
• 3:44
  Speaker 4: When your nickname is half a jab and half a compliment,
• 3:46
  Speaker 4: like you said– Is that one that you're happy to take,
• 3:50
  Speaker 4: or how do you kind of– which one matters more
• 3:53
  Speaker 4: to you in terms of do you take the compliment?
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, on this defense, everybody takes jabs at each
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: other in a loving way. So, I mean, whichever one
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: it is, I really don't mind. We have such a
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: tight-knit group that, you know, kind of razzing each other
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: is another way that we show love to each other
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 4:11
  Speaker 3: Anything else, guys?
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Thank you.