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Mike Macdonald: "It's Going To Be A Fun Night" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, everybody, okay, great, good to see everyone be
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  Speaker 1: a fun fun even here after practice.
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  Speaker 2: So looking forward to that. So keep the questions brief,
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  Speaker 2: like a what do you like a sea qush chafe
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  Speaker 2: Missigan where you like?
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  Speaker 1: That's right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think it's uh, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a team decision to bring him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to bring him in, and guys in Carolina spoke highly
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  Speaker 1: of him. Mike was very productive at Michigan, obviously, so
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  Speaker 1: we had a chance at EVLM coming out and he
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  Speaker 1: was played. Was that two years after we left to
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  Speaker 1: go back to Baltimore. So just excited to have him
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  Speaker 1: in here, and he's got a great opportunity to come
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  Speaker 1: compete and and earn himself a spot here for for
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  Speaker 1: hopefully a while.
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  Speaker 2: We look at for the starters on offense to play Saturn.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the plan is you'll see a lot of
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  Speaker 1: starters to start the game. How many reps and all that. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of on a per person type basis, but
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  Speaker 1: the plan is to see a good amount of the guys.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a couple of nicks and bruises here. We'll
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  Speaker 1: hold some guys out. So there's some some guys you
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  Speaker 1: might not see that you might expect, but for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, most of the stars will start the game.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, what are the marriage starting composition?
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  Speaker 1: Is it? Because that actually week next week show well
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  Speaker 1: different different reasons. Offense, we just hadn't had a chance
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  Speaker 1: to get everybody out there and and operate, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially you know at our home field, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: go through all those things and just you know there's
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  Speaker 1: something to you know, put the pads on, actually go
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  Speaker 1: out and move the ball before we do it for real.
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  Speaker 1: And then defensively, you know, we only got six snaps
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  Speaker 1: in the first game, so an opportunity to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and and put some put some more good film
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  Speaker 1: on tape, and have some confidence going to the first.
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  Speaker 2: Game play you said, what do you see if you practice,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to do as expected. Takes charge. He moves
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  Speaker 2: really well right now.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the languages is just different, but he's learning
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  Speaker 1: it incredibly fast, it feels like, and I think he's
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of confidence too, which is which is
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  Speaker 1: which is encouraging, and I'm just excited about him right now, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: is to get him catch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think we'll see Connor for the game.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little baker that looks like he's getting back
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  Speaker 2: into things. He's training in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we did an act today, so was able
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  Speaker 1: to get a couple more reps than he would have
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  Speaker 1: if we were going full speed. Coach, you've been part
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  Speaker 1: of turnarounds and defense in Michigan and Baltimore.
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  Speaker 2: Can you talk about what's required for a defense to
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  Speaker 2: take a big leap in one year's left alignment?
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  Speaker 1: Guys buying in on playing the way that that it
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  Speaker 1: requires to play to play good defense.
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  Speaker 2: So, uh, like we're on that trend.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the guys are into it, and it's our
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  Speaker 1: job as coaches to remind them of the standard that
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  Speaker 1: we're doing every day. And uh, and it's a process,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're trying to build it and you can't
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  Speaker 1: do it one day.
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  Speaker 2: But but buying possible. For Michael Berrick, we're playing on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Through I'm not sure we'll see where he's at tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not out of the realm of possibility. You
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  Speaker 1: talked a couple of weeks ago about the competition running
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  Speaker 1: back mostly can painting back crush.
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  Speaker 2: We should know a few about the games under their belt.
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  Speaker 2: That composition at day well.
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  Speaker 1: I you know, it just shows you what competition does
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  Speaker 1: brings out the best in people. And both guys are
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  Speaker 1: you know, both guys are making plays in their own right.
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  Speaker 1: So we're excited about those two, you know, and where
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  Speaker 1: they're at. But we still one more game to play,
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  Speaker 1: so it'll be fun to go see him do their
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  Speaker 1: thing on Saturday. Anything you can.
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  Speaker 2: Talks on Rayshawn Jenkins and Take Brown.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, ray Sean, we're not sure timetable, and uh, Trey Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at probably practicing next week.
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  Speaker 2: How Keavon Wallace, how's he kind of going and step
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  Speaker 2: in and just kind of a general throughout works.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kavan has done a great job. All the things
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  Speaker 1: we saw on tape, fast, physical thing. The thing just
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  Speaker 1: ops up that I love the most about him. This
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  Speaker 1: guy loves football. Man like the process, the communication, the competition,
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  Speaker 1: all the things. Just loves ball, loves playing the right way.
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  Speaker 1: Just so much respect for just how he goes about
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  Speaker 1: his business. And it's fun to listen to him out
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  Speaker 1: there and go fly around and make plays. So he's
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  Speaker 1: doing a great job with Yeah, Mike, so he's an
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  Speaker 1: inside backer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll be with Ko and those guys as the team.
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  Speaker 1: But we got to make a decision in the material
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  Speaker 1: line quickly, specifically right guard, you know, and then there's
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of depth questions to be had special
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  Speaker 1: teams wise, and the defensive backfield. So I mean it
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  Speaker 1: may not be that you know, exciting for you guys,
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  Speaker 1: but for for us as coaches, you know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's like it's an opportunity to go out there and
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  Speaker 1: and earn yourself a job in this league, whether it
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  Speaker 1: be with us or another team.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we'll talk about with the guys over the next.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of days, but this there's just so many examples
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  Speaker 1: of people earning a spot in this third preseason game,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's on their own timeline and earn himself as an opportunity,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to you know, to play professional football, which
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  Speaker 1: is you know, which is which is an awesome blessing.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm excited. Just it's a great.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people, it's not easy to have this opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to you know, make your dreams come true. So it's
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be a fun night. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Richard Sherman talked to the two. Oh yeah it was
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  Speaker 2: I think it was the first time coming to practice,
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  Speaker 2: so and we chatted up. But yeah, that was cool.
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  Speaker 1: We had It's great to see him cams here as well,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, good times. I mean two of the best
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  Speaker 1: to ever do it. And there are guys, so I mean,
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  Speaker 1: let's be like those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, can you talk about what it's like to have
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  Speaker 2: friends and family here today? For players and community folks.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we've put in a lot of work and
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  Speaker 1: and uh the people that are behind the scenes that
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  Speaker 1: make it come to life and allow our you know,
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  Speaker 1: our guys and men and women in the building to
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  Speaker 1: you know, come and put all the effort that it
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  Speaker 1: takes to put a successful training camp together and build
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  Speaker 1: our team. So now we can spend some time together.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be be fun, hopefully a little sunlight. But say,
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  Speaker 1: how obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Is doing a good job, steady.
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  Speaker 1: Increase, tough, all the things we saw, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: we evaluated him in the off season.
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  Speaker 2: But but he's still you know, he's still a rookie.
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  Speaker 2: But the future is bright with Tawa, you know any
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  Speaker 2: more about then or Nola, there will be amity for people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the likelihoods changed or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think they're they're on they're on schedule,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things can happen between now and then,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't I don't want to like give you
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  Speaker 1: one thing or another, but we're optimistic.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else. Thanks all right, Thanks guys, Thank you