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Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "I Love Playing With Sam Darnold" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Quarterbacks really good all season, but.
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  Speaker 2: Sixteen for sixteen first halfened could could you get a
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  Speaker 2: sense that he was.
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  Speaker 1: Just really on fired event? Yeah I didn't even notice it,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I thought we came out and started fast,
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  Speaker 1: sent it an excellent job, had us ready, oline doing
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  Speaker 1: their thing all around the board. Saw a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys step up tonight. Super excited about that, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: game plan throughout the week, you know, it was great.
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  Speaker 1: And coming in here executing always feels great. Kobe Waite
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  Speaker 1: took the bouncing around for six years. Yeah, so to
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  Speaker 1: see him get his first touchdown six years, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: man excited, excited. We know Cody's a baller. You know,
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  Speaker 1: anytime he's out there on the filly, he's making them play.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just excited he's on our team and a
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  Speaker 1: great person. Uh work ethic is through the roof, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, great to see him out there falling.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen flashes absolutely year from Tory Horden, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Coop being out and the other two receivers being interured
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  Speaker 2: for him to come out there and get his first
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  Speaker 2: two touchdown game on the offense, to do it that quickly,
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  Speaker 2: and I do Yah, what have you seen from him
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  Speaker 2: with taking all these opportunities and capitalizing them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we preach uh, next man up, you know, step up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when make a play when your number is called.
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  Speaker 1: And Tori did that, and that's what we expect from him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's a big time player and uh, you
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  Speaker 1: know he's gonna make the most of his opportunities. So
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  Speaker 1: it's great to see him take a another step forward.
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  Speaker 1: Uh this season, you know we're gonna need him. You
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  Speaker 1: know we're gonna need him throughout the whole season. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited that he had a great game today. You
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  Speaker 1: think basically happy season now been playing with Darnold or
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  Speaker 1: what did you learned about playing with him? Or what
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  Speaker 1: do you think the ceiling of this passing offenses? Man,
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  Speaker 1: He's just a pro. Love playing with him. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be ready throughout the week. He's gonna make
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  Speaker 1: sure everybody his troops are ready, and he's gonna go
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  Speaker 1: out there and execute. He's gonna play his hardest, and
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  Speaker 1: you know that's all you can ask. You know, Sam
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  Speaker 1: just playing giving his heart, you know, putting it all
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  Speaker 1: out there on the field, and you know we're all
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  Speaker 1: gonna fallo him. And he's just been great for us.
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  Speaker 1: What a quarterback has.
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  Speaker 2: A long streak of completions to start a game like that?
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  Speaker 1: Is there an etiquette like there is a baseball where
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  Speaker 1: you have to talk about it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We stay away from him, you know a little bit
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  Speaker 1: and just let him do his thing. I think somebody,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, somebody may have broke the news to him,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, honestly didn't. Honestly didn't know. We're just such
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  Speaker 1: in a flow and he was just out there dealing.
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  Speaker 1: So it was it was great to see that four
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  Speaker 1: straight hundred yard games first playing franchise. That's day to
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're not focused on individual stuff, but have
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  Speaker 2: you been even paying attention to kind of what the
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  Speaker 2: numbers you're putting.
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  Speaker 1: Up or is it just I mean it's always there,
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  Speaker 1: It's always there, So yeah, I do see it, but
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  Speaker 1: I just try to look at the bigger picture, and
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  Speaker 1: there is a bigger picture, and that's just helping this
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  Speaker 1: team and getting to the playoffs and you know, having
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  Speaker 1: a playoff push and reaching the goals that we see
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  Speaker 1: as a team. Thanks as a gusuation,