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Sam Darnold: "To Be Able To Play With Our Defense Is Unbelievable" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously an interesting game. You know, as an offense,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we played necessarily our best football, but
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  Speaker 1: we were able to come out with a win, and
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  Speaker 1: that's all it matters. I feel like our defense, our
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  Speaker 1: special teams played really well today. There were times, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like in the second half when we were
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  Speaker 1: able to kind of get things going a little bit offensively.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think, you know, we did enough offensively
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  Speaker 1: to win the ball game and lega some of the
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  Speaker 1: issues that their pressure presented, you guys, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they they had a good uh you know, some good
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  Speaker 1: pressures for us. You know, we just got to look
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  Speaker 1: at the tape and see how we can correct correct
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  Speaker 1: some mistakes and how we can get better from it.
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  Speaker 1: You knew they were going to be aggressive, tess kind
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  Speaker 1: of they did. Did they do anything really out of ordinary?
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  Speaker 1: Did you guys have seen or you know, they just
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  Speaker 1: did some really good things, you know, some stuff that
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  Speaker 1: we've we've seen from them in the past. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think just you know, their scheme and
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  Speaker 1: their players making it come to life. They did a
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  Speaker 1: really good job. And again it's stuff that you know,
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  Speaker 1: we got to continue to look at for ourselves to
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  Speaker 1: be able to look at it and for me, like personally,
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  Speaker 1: I got to get the ball out in certain situations
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  Speaker 1: when when you're having a protection issue in a game,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of whatever game it is, how do you try
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  Speaker 1: to work through that and find a fix as the
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  Speaker 1: game is going on, where you're out there trying to
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  Speaker 1: get ready for the next series or whatever. What's that
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  Speaker 1: process like? Did you try? Yeah, you just talk about
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  Speaker 1: it on the sideline, talk about the look on the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a third down, maybe it's a second and long,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, just going about it that way and
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. You went at the blue tet for the
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  Speaker 1: prement that where is that anything? Is he gonna get
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  Speaker 1: it all or no? No, it should be good to
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  Speaker 1: go getting a late touchhout, just be able to finish
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  Speaker 1: a drive forward the end of game. What was adding
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  Speaker 1: for the job? Yeah, you know, to be able to
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  Speaker 1: you know, essentially it felt like put the game away
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  Speaker 1: at that moment in time was good for us. You know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously we you know, we got to do that earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the game and finish drives out earlier in the
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  Speaker 1: football game. But you know, again it's it's a credit
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  Speaker 1: to our offensive line or tight ends, receivers, running backs,
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  Speaker 1: everyone you know, doing their job, doing their one to
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  Speaker 1: eleventh to put the all in the end zone and
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  Speaker 1: not drive on that drive. And uh, yeah it was
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  Speaker 1: good in the in the game that way they do
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  Speaker 1: they do anything differ about Jackson today at all what
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  Speaker 1: you guys had seen or we'll have to look at
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  Speaker 1: the tape and go from there. When he's how much
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  Speaker 1: is his access from down the field is exactly against
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  Speaker 1: the pressures when you don't get the pressure in Swift
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  Speaker 1: and Jagos games with Yeah, I think it goes both ways.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, if teams pressure us, we can
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  Speaker 1: make them pay. But if teams don't pressure us, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they can you know, put guys in certain areas to
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  Speaker 1: take Jacks away. So I think sometimes it can go
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  Speaker 1: both ways. But today it just, you know, I felt
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  Speaker 1: like they did a really good job. They had a
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  Speaker 1: good plan, and again we we got to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: look at ourselves in the mirror and see how we
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  Speaker 1: can be better. What does it mean to see the
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  Speaker 1: deepense play the way they did today? Got set more time?
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  Speaker 1: What does it mean to see the defense play the
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  Speaker 1: way they did today? Or takes six? Yeah, Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable to have a defense like this, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: just consistently, you know, they're they're always whether they're you
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  Speaker 1: know for us, you know, as an offense, especially for
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  Speaker 1: me personally, Like I don't I hate putting them in
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  Speaker 1: positions to where I'm getting a sack fumble and the
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  Speaker 1: defenses are covering it and now they're all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden they're down in the red zone and you know,
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  Speaker 1: our our defense is able to turn that somehow into
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  Speaker 1: six points. And you know it's to to be able
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  Speaker 1: to play with and and for defense like that is uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's unbelievable. And uh, don't take for grant
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  Speaker 1: one day. Mike mentioned or to show off on the
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  Speaker 1: team after the games. With what he's been through this
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  Speaker 1: year and the way he wins, what does he needed
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  Speaker 1: his career? Yeah, he's uh, he's a he's a big
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  Speaker 1: time leader for us. You know, I thought going down
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  Speaker 1: a rabbit hole of of you know, just what he
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  Speaker 1: means to this team, But he is, uh, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: one of the guys that he's he's one of our
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  Speaker 1: our leaders, our big time leaders, and he you know
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  Speaker 1: what what he says carries a lot of weight for us.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he's just he's a great leader. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't he doesn't say much, but when he does, people
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  Speaker 1: listen what you think of You saw where you have
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  Speaker 1: the field there with that leader social Uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: I was just I kinda to be honest, I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching and I was like, Okay, this is good,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, we got we got to figure some
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  Speaker 1: stuff out on offense. So I wasn't necessarily running down
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  Speaker 1: the sideline hooting and hollering. But no, it was great.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever whenever our defense can go out there and make
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  Speaker 1: a play like that, it's always awesome to watch. As
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback. Ernest has had a reputation for a while
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  Speaker 1: as a great leader. And he's only a twenty days
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  Speaker 1: years old. You were surprised that he's still relatively young
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  Speaker 1: his NFL. Yeah, it's one of you know, it was
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  Speaker 1: his birthday recently and it got put up in the
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  Speaker 1: team meeting. And every time there's a birthday, coach asked
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  Speaker 1: how old are you and the guy has to say
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  Speaker 1: their age, and when Ernest said twenty six, everyone kind
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  Speaker 1: of looked around like, are you serious? That's it? So
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  Speaker 1: he is, uh, yeah, he's wise, you know, beyond his years,
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  Speaker 1: just with you know, how he speaks, and just with
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  Speaker 1: the way that he plays football as well. So like
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  Speaker 1: I said, he's a great leader wor us and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, someone we can all depend on. Appreciate it, guys. Thanks,
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  Speaker 1: thank you,