Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps Sunday's Loss, Looks Ahead To Week 4
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Hi, everybody.
- 0:01Speaker 2: John Boyle.
- 0:03Speaker 3: You want to get us going?
- 0:05Speaker 4: Sure.
- 0:05Speaker 5: I'd love to get us started. Mike, just when you
- 0:07Speaker 5: go back and look at it, I know, you know,
- 0:09Speaker 5: the turnovers, I'm sure, stand out. But what are some
- 0:11Speaker 5: of the things that, you know, maybe you didn't notice
- 0:14Speaker 5: live that jumped out of you on tape?
- 0:17Speaker 1: I think I think our guys played hard. I think
- 0:23Speaker 1: some of the I think. Hopefully the message you got
- 0:26Speaker 1: across in our team meeting of how important the play-to-play
- 0:30Speaker 1: mindset is. We talk about stacking plays, but just how
- 0:36Speaker 1: interconnected that is between phases.
- 0:39Speaker 2: I think there's some things.
- 0:40Speaker 1: That are really good in all three phases that showed
- 0:43Speaker 1: up that you didn't feel coming off the field.
- 0:44Speaker 2: There's some things that we fell short on. It's mixed emotions.
- 0:52Speaker 1: It's an excitement about the type of team that we
- 0:54Speaker 1: can have and that we, um, you know, aspire to
- 0:57Speaker 1: be that there it's there. And it's also, um, you know,
- 1:01Speaker 1: a sense of urgency and a little bit of a
- 1:04Speaker 1: kick in the gut on that. We're not there yet,
- 1:06Speaker 1: you know, and that, uh, we have, we have room
- 1:08Speaker 1: to grow, but the exciting thing is, is it's early
- 1:10Speaker 1: in the season and we have an opportunity to go
- 1:11Speaker 1: make it right.
- 1:14Speaker 5: Brian.
- 1:16Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:17Speaker 6: Coach two quick ones. Um, so, um, the simple thing
- 1:21Speaker 6: that a lot of folks would come to when there's
- 1:22Speaker 6: struggles at the goal line is why not just run
- 1:25Speaker 6: the barnyard three times in a row and get it
- 1:28Speaker 6: in there. So just curious, like, why is it not
- 1:30Speaker 6: that simple?
- 1:32Speaker 1: Well, we, uh, we do have a reason for it. Um, Oh,
- 1:36Speaker 1: I haven't seen it yet. Not saying that we won't
- 1:38Speaker 1: be able to do it. Uh, probably don't want to
- 1:45Speaker 1: say the reason publicly, honestly. Um, But it's an option.
- 1:49Speaker 1: It's a viable option. It's something that we might do.
- 1:52Speaker 2: So probably leave it at that. But definitely understand the sentiment.
- 1:57Speaker 1: And that's definitely something that we'll keep considering moving forward.
- 2:04Speaker 6: And then one more. People talk about sequencing a lot
- 2:07Speaker 6: on offense for play callers to set up plays down
- 2:10Speaker 6: the road. I'm just curious, as a defensive play caller,
- 2:13Speaker 6: are you ever thinking about sequencing and setting up offenses?
- 2:16Speaker 6: Or are you mostly in reaction mode?
- 2:18Speaker 2: No, we think through that lens for sure. You're a
- 2:22Speaker 2: little bit more.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Reactive, you know, a little bit more subject to the
- 2:29Speaker 1: things that they're doing and how they present their personnels
- 2:33Speaker 1: and how they deploy their.
- 2:35Speaker 2: People, but we looked through it for that lens.
- 2:38Speaker 1: Really by game plan area, you know, you think about
- 2:44Speaker 1: early downs, you think about third down, it's more through
- 2:48Speaker 1: each one of those buckets, if that makes sense. Andrew? Hey, Mike.
- 2:56Speaker 6: I just wanted to ask, when you rewatched the tape,
- 2:58Speaker 6: what did you see from your two safeties in this game,
- 3:00Speaker 6: and do you anticipate that either Julian Love.
- 3:02Speaker 2: Or Ty Okada will be able to practice this week?
- 3:04Speaker 5: Thank you.
- 3:06Speaker 2: Guys played good football. They communicated.
- 3:09Speaker 1: There's some opportunities out there that I think both would
- 3:12Speaker 1: say that we'd like to be able to take advantage
- 3:14Speaker 1: of next time. As far as Julian goes, it's a
- 3:19Speaker 1: day-to-day thing right now. So we'll see how that shakes out.
- 3:24Speaker 1: I know he did some extensive work this morning, and
- 3:27Speaker 1: it went well. So we'll see how that translates to
- 3:29Speaker 1: Wednesday and moving forward.
- 3:33Speaker 3: Bob?
- 3:35Speaker 7: Yeah, Mike, just with your offensive running game yesterday, how
- 3:38Speaker 7: much of it, I guess, do you look at with
- 3:40Speaker 7: Washington as a really good defense versus things you guys
- 3:42Speaker 7: could have done better? And then just with Zidarian as well,
- 3:45Speaker 7: when you looked at his fumble, just kind of what
- 3:47Speaker 7: you saw there and what's the teaching point there?
- 3:51Speaker 2: It's both.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Credit to Washington. Did a great job. And also we
- 3:56Speaker 1: feel like there's plenty of room to grow. So I
- 4:00Speaker 1: think it's a function of in real-time execution and also
- 4:07Speaker 1: finding solutions as the game goes. Also the way the
- 4:09Speaker 1: game was going of of some things we wanted to
- 4:12Speaker 1: be able to do offensively in the pass game and
- 4:14Speaker 1: in the screen game.
- 4:16Speaker 2: So I think it's a process thing. I think we
- 4:19Speaker 2: stick to our process.
- 4:21Speaker 1: And really with our whole team right now, the message
- 4:23Speaker 1: after the game was I think we'd feel the same
- 4:25Speaker 1: way after the game whether or not we closed it
- 4:28Speaker 1: out and found a way to win.
- 4:29Speaker 2: Or the way it shook out.
- 4:30Speaker 1: So really kind of in every tentacle from coming out
- 4:36Speaker 1: of the game of where can we grow, how can
- 4:38Speaker 1: we make our process better, That's been the mentality every day,
- 4:42Speaker 1: or today at least. And so with JD, I mean,
- 4:46Speaker 1: he understands what's going on. He needs to take care
- 4:48Speaker 1: of the ball. I think there's some things fundamentally where
- 4:51Speaker 1: we can focus on. And we're going to continue to
- 4:53Speaker 1: give him the ball.
- 4:54Speaker 2: We trust him. And we know that he's going to
- 4:56Speaker 2: work really hard to do his part as well.
- 5:01Speaker 4: Corbin?
- 5:03Speaker 8: Mike, kind of expanding a little bit with the run
- 5:05Speaker 8: game stuff, you talked about yesterday and just kind of
- 5:07Speaker 8: reiterated trying to find answers. How much, now that you've
- 5:10Speaker 8: watched the film, how much do you attribute the struggles
- 5:13Speaker 8: you guys had yesterday to what Washington was doing schematically?
- 5:17Speaker 8: It seemed like they were taking away some of the
- 5:18Speaker 8: angles you guys probably were looking for in your zone
- 5:21Speaker 8: game in particular, and how much was it just line
- 5:23Speaker 8: of scrimmage, not winning physically, not getting the job done
- 5:27Speaker 8: at the point of attack?
- 5:31Speaker 1: I don't think it's one thing. Again, I don't want
- 5:33Speaker 1: to take credit away from Washington. I thought we did
- 5:37Speaker 1: find some good answers in the second half. The way
- 5:39Speaker 1: the game was going, we needed to throw it there
- 5:42Speaker 1: for the majority of the second half as well. It's
- 5:46Speaker 1: probably not the most satisfying answer you want. I think
- 5:49Speaker 1: there's multiple answers to it. One, let's play better across
- 5:55Speaker 1: the board.
- 5:56Speaker 2: Let's get some more things.
- 5:56Speaker 1: Let's control the game earlier in the game so now
- 5:59Speaker 1: we can we can get to those some of those
- 6:01Speaker 1: runs more so on our terms rather than be subject
- 6:03Speaker 1: to chucking around because we're, we're down multiple scores in
- 6:06Speaker 1: a second out. Tim.
- 6:12Speaker 9: Hey Mike, you mentioned this morning that you might be
- 6:15Speaker 9: able to make a determination on Zach Charbonnet and potentially
- 6:19Speaker 9: returning him to practice. Were you guys able to decide
- 6:22Speaker 9: that today? And if so, what's the plan with him?
- 6:25Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, no, no update from this morning. So we'll, uh,
- 6:29Speaker 1: still working through that process. I'm sure we'll have an
- 6:31Speaker 1: answer by sometime tomorrow, whether or not, uh, he'll start
- 6:35Speaker 1: practicing this week. So it's not out of the question yet.
- 6:37Speaker 1: We just haven't had an update.
- 6:40Speaker 9: And this is looking ahead a little bit toward this week,
- 6:42Speaker 9: but obviously you're going to be reunited with Jim. Um,
- 6:45Speaker 9: I'm wondering if you could sort of encapsulate a little bit,
- 6:47Speaker 9: what your time with him at Michigan sort of meant
- 6:51Speaker 9: to your career path, man.
- 6:55Speaker 1: Uh, A ton, a ton. I, I mean, I'm in
- 7:04Speaker 1: the whole Harbaugh family. I feel like I'm indebted to,
- 7:06Speaker 1: you know, I just had the honor to work for,
- 7:08Speaker 1: for both Jim and John, obviously one year with Jim.
- 7:12Speaker 2: Man, he gave me so much.
- 7:17Speaker 1: Autonomy and like the belief that he had in our
- 7:21Speaker 1: staff on defense, me, me personally as well. And just like,
- 7:24Speaker 1: he never felt like he never left your corner, you know?
- 7:27Speaker 1: And that meant a lot for a guy that was
- 7:28Speaker 1: unproven and trying to figure things out on the fly.
- 7:30Speaker 1: And but that was a kind of a foundational year
- 7:33Speaker 1: for me, understanding of like the power of, you know,
- 7:37Speaker 1: that's really kind of like where 12 was one started
- 7:38Speaker 1: to come from was like, hey, the power of everybody
- 7:40Speaker 1: doing it together, all going in the same direction.
- 7:42Speaker 2: The passion he had for his players.
- 7:46Speaker 1: I just we had a blast that year in Ann
- 7:48Speaker 1: Arbor and just proud to say that I could that
- 7:52Speaker 1: we work for him and proud of the year that
- 7:54Speaker 1: we had.
- 7:54Speaker 2: Honestly, I mean, we we had a great team.
- 7:57Speaker 1: And that was a lot of foundational stuff of like
- 8:00Speaker 1: what type of vision we want for for our football
- 8:02Speaker 1: team here. Jen.
- 8:08Speaker 10: Coach, you talked about it taking about four weeks for
- 8:11Speaker 10: a team to declare itself or the season to declare itself.
- 8:15Speaker 10: What's the benefit of seeing those different looks, particularly from Washington,
- 8:19Speaker 10: that forces you to change on the fly to just
- 8:21Speaker 10: see that much football this year?
- 8:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's, from the conversations we've had today,
- 8:29Speaker 1: I think it's a great learning experience for everybody, you know, including,
- 8:36Speaker 1: like what I said this morning, including reinforcing what our
- 8:39Speaker 1: philosophy is on a day-in, day-out basis, on a per-play basis,
- 8:44Speaker 1: as a play caller, how we game plan, what's our,
- 8:46Speaker 1: you know, how we get to solutions throughout games. It's,
- 8:50Speaker 1: you know, how we play play-to-play as players and as
- 8:53Speaker 1: a team going from unit to unit. So I think
- 8:56Speaker 1: there's a lot of things to learn. I think if
- 8:58Speaker 1: you're not learning from a game like that, you're totally
- 9:02Speaker 1: missing the target. So I'm proud of the mentality that
- 9:05Speaker 1: we've had today. The guys have been, you know, you
- 9:08Speaker 1: can tell they're upset, which they should be. But they're also,
- 9:14Speaker 1: you can feel the resolve. You can feel the eagerness
- 9:16Speaker 1: to get back at it on Wednesday.
- 9:21Speaker 8: Greg?
- 9:25Speaker 3: Mike, sorry, I think I might have joined late, but
- 9:27Speaker 3: your assessment of Josh Jobe's game yesterday, McLaurin's a pretty
- 9:30Speaker 3: tough customer, obviously. And then where's Trevon Diggs and his road,
- 9:35Speaker 3: and is he possibly in the plan to the next
- 9:38Speaker 3: couple weeks?
- 9:39Speaker 2: You asked about Josh Jobe's game?
- 9:42Speaker 3: Yes, against McLaurin in particular.
- 9:45Speaker 1: Yeah, we gave up the 1-9 ball, inside release 9 ball. Look,
- 9:50Speaker 1: it's the NFL. McLaurin's a great player. We're going to
- 9:55Speaker 1: continue to put Josh in one-on-one situations. He's a great
- 9:58Speaker 1: press player. It's a great corner. And you know, sometimes
- 10:02Speaker 1: you're going to give up completions. I mean, you can't,
- 10:04Speaker 1: you can't go undefeated, but, uh, I thought Josh played hard.
- 10:07Speaker 1: He played technically sound. And, uh, there's a couple of
- 10:10Speaker 1: one-on-ones that he didn't win. There's also several one-on-ones that
- 10:14Speaker 1: he did. So that's, uh, that's life in the NFL. Um,
- 10:18Speaker 1: but we're going to continue to push coverage away from him. Sometimes,
- 10:20Speaker 1: sometimes we'll help them. It's just, but we believe in
- 10:22Speaker 1: him for sure. He's, uh, he's had a, he's had
- 10:24Speaker 1: a good start to the season.
- 10:27Speaker 3: And Trevon dig, where's the ad and ramping up to
- 10:30Speaker 3: being ready to play and where does he factor in
- 10:32Speaker 3: the next couple of weeks?
- 10:34Speaker 1: Uh, he's definitely, definitely part of the conversation, um, without
- 10:38Speaker 1: getting into all the details, but he's done a great
- 10:41Speaker 1: job since he got here and, uh, and he's practicing well.
- 10:45Speaker 1: And I think, uh, If the situation worked out that he.
- 10:53Speaker 2: Could be up, I think he'd be ready to play.
- 10:55Speaker 3: So physically, he's ramped up from not having practiced since January?
- 10:59Speaker 5: That's now passed?
- 11:00Speaker 2: I think so, yeah.
- 11:02Speaker 1: Okay.
- 11:02Speaker 4: Thank you, sir.
- 11:05Speaker 8: Curtis? Yeah.
- 11:07Speaker 4: Mike, uh, just on the defense kind of collectively yesterday,
- 11:10Speaker 4: only 258 yards, three at 13, third down average drive started,
- 11:13Speaker 4: I think it was the 37th. Um, so, so some
- 11:16Speaker 4: short fields for them still 20 plus points on the board.
- 11:18Speaker 4: What'd you kind of make of the overall performance from,
- 11:20Speaker 4: from that side of the ball when you kind of
- 11:22Speaker 4: factor everything in there? Um, obviously the last drive didn't
- 11:25Speaker 4: go your way and such.
- 11:29Speaker 1: When you watch the tape, like the, when you think
- 11:31Speaker 1: about a play style, I think our guys played incredibly hard.
- 11:33Speaker 1: They played physical. Um, I thought we took a lot
- 11:37Speaker 1: of shots at the ball. The ball just didn't come out.
- 11:39Speaker 1: There's a couple opportunities in the past game where maybe
- 11:41Speaker 1: we could have made the ball come to life. I mean,
- 11:47Speaker 1: I know it kind of sounds weird coming off a loss,
- 11:49Speaker 1: but our effort, I'm really proud of the way our
- 11:52Speaker 1: guys played, our mentality. I really love our group, and
- 11:59Speaker 1: they played really hard. And It shows you the importance
- 12:05Speaker 1: of team football and also understanding situations, how we can
- 12:08Speaker 1: play it better. I think that's why the guys are
- 12:11Speaker 1: disappointed because there's some situations that we probably could have
- 12:15Speaker 1: taken better advantage of to put our team in a
- 12:17Speaker 1: better position to win the game.
- 12:23Speaker 3: Bob?
- 12:25Speaker 7: Yeah, Micah. Jackson is obviously off to a great start,
- 12:28Speaker 7: basically another historical start. Whenever A lot of people from
- 12:31Speaker 7: the outside or fans or whatever, when they kind of
- 12:33Speaker 7: look at him having that many numbers, there's sort of
- 12:36Speaker 7: the philosophical question of do you need to spread it
- 12:38Speaker 7: around more just to do that? Or can one guy
- 12:39Speaker 7: kind of carry that big of a load all the time?
- 12:41Speaker 7: Do you think philosophically that, you know, is that a
- 12:44Speaker 7: big deal if one guy is getting that many.
- 12:47Speaker 2: Targets in the arc?
- 12:48Speaker 1: I think I got this question last year. I forget
- 12:53Speaker 1: what I said. I probably should remember. Jackson's off to
- 12:57Speaker 1: a great start. We've got great players around him. The
- 13:00Speaker 1: ball's going to find other guys at some point. The
- 13:06Speaker 1: thing that I'm probably most... I told him this today
- 13:08Speaker 1: with Jackson's game and I thought he blocked really well.
- 13:11Speaker 1: I think we need to improve that from our receiver
- 13:14Speaker 1: position right now. It's getting to the third level and
- 13:16Speaker 1: getting guys blocked so we can pop some more runs.
- 13:22Speaker 1: That's the best game Jackson's had blocking in a while.
- 13:24Speaker 1: If he keeps doing that, then we'll be, we'll be
- 13:25Speaker 1: just fine.
- 13:29Speaker 2: Brian.
- 13:31Speaker 4: Coach.
- 13:31Speaker 6: I assume you put a lot of thought into like
- 13:33Speaker 6: your weekly rhythm between games and how much time you
- 13:36Speaker 6: allocate for everything. Uh, so I'm just curious, like how
- 13:40Speaker 6: much do you just want to stick to the same allocation,
- 13:43Speaker 6: the same routine every week? And how much do you
- 13:45Speaker 6: take in new information to decide, Hey, we got to
- 13:47Speaker 6: deviate and focus a little bit more on this. How
- 13:49Speaker 6: does that process work?
- 13:50Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good question. Uh, I would consider it
- 13:56Speaker 1: like tweaks to our, like we have a meeting every
- 14:01Speaker 1: week around noon about process. And so it's, you know,
- 14:07Speaker 1: several coaches and people in our building sitting around about
- 14:10Speaker 1: how we went about our business and how we want
- 14:13Speaker 1: to cadence things, how we want to practice, how we
- 14:15Speaker 1: get the team ready.
- 14:18Speaker 2: So it's always a conversation.
- 14:20Speaker 1: And when you think critically about, you know, why we
- 14:23Speaker 1: do what we do and when, Um, so, but, so
- 14:27Speaker 1: I consider it like, we're just constantly like my dad
- 14:30Speaker 1: with his golf swing, you know, like constantly tinkering to
- 14:34Speaker 1: try to, uh, make it come to life.
- 14:35Speaker 2: But that's, that's really our philosophy.
- 14:38Speaker 1: If the wholesale change is needed, we would do it.
- 14:41Speaker 1: I like to think that at least, but, um, at
- 14:43Speaker 1: this point, it's really just kind of whittle away at the,
- 14:46Speaker 1: at the statue until it looks like Michelangelo or until
- 14:49Speaker 1: it looks like David, excuse me.
- 14:50Speaker 10: Okay.
- 14:53Speaker 2: A couple more Corbin.
- 14:55Speaker 8: Yeah. Mike, obviously turnovers played into the field position differential yesterday,
- 15:00Speaker 8: but there also were a few kick returns that were
- 15:02Speaker 8: taken back for good chunks of yardage. Uh, had Jason's
- 15:06Speaker 8: not getting to the landing spot. How do you feel
- 15:08Speaker 8: through three weeks with where you guys are at in
- 15:10Speaker 8: terms of your.
- 15:11Speaker 5: Consistency from the special teams aspect?
- 15:15Speaker 1: Yeah. I, uh, I mean, to put it, to put
- 15:18Speaker 1: it plainly, it's, um, it's not good enough. Uh, There's
- 15:24Speaker 1: things process-wise we can improve on. And we've talked about
- 15:28Speaker 1: this throughout training camp and really since we got here,
- 15:30Speaker 1: but a Seahawk play needs to look like a Seahawk play.
- 15:32Speaker 2: And there's plays.
- 15:33Speaker 1: On tape that we're not doing that.
- 15:36Speaker 2: So the standard is higher on special teams here. We've
- 15:40Speaker 2: proven that.
- 15:41Speaker 1: And the guys will get it right, but there's definitely
- 15:43Speaker 1: a sense of urgency to make it look like us
- 15:46Speaker 1: and to play our style of ball on teams.
- 15:48Speaker 8: Is Irv Charles potentially going to fit into that here
- 15:51Speaker 8: down the line? I know that he's eligible to return
- 15:53Speaker 8: here after the next game.
- 15:54Speaker 1: Everybody, everybody is eligible to play on our special teams units.
- 15:59Speaker 1: No one is exempt from special teams consideration.
- 16:05Speaker 2: Last question, Brady.
- 16:08Speaker 5: Uh, Mike, what'd you see from Nick as you guys, uh,
- 16:11Speaker 5: you know, ramped up his workload?
- 16:13Speaker 2: Thought Nick had a good game. Um, there's some really
- 16:15Speaker 2: great plays. Uh, it'll continue to get better.
- 16:19Speaker 1: I think, I think he should be really proud of
- 16:22Speaker 1: how he's approached last week mentally. I think that's one
- 16:25Speaker 1: of the things to answer. Brian's question is something that
- 16:27Speaker 1: we want to discuss as a staff of just, you know, what,
- 16:30Speaker 1: what the process is every week of, of how, how, where,
- 16:33Speaker 1: and how often he plays. And so we can have
- 16:35Speaker 1: a really focused game plan because where he plays really
- 16:39Speaker 1: affects the position group around him because he's playing out
- 16:42Speaker 1: of really three position groups. So that's something that we'll
- 16:46Speaker 1: continue to, think about and make better, but he's done
- 16:49Speaker 1: a great job.
- 16:51Speaker 3: You guys have.
- 16:53Speaker 2: Had openings at safety with people not being available.
- 16:55Speaker 8: We haven't seen D'Anthony Bell play, let alone just being
- 16:59Speaker 8: up on the roster.
- 17:00Speaker 2: What's keeping him from getting an opportunity? D'Bell's done a
- 17:04Speaker 2: great job. So has Max.
- 17:07Speaker 1: Felt like Max deserved that opportunity to come up from
- 17:10Speaker 1: the practice squad yesterday, but we wouldn't have any problem
- 17:14Speaker 1: with D'Bell playing for us.
- 17:15Speaker 2: We'd be excited for him to play for us. Thank you, everyone.
- 17:20Speaker 2: We'll see you Wednesday.
- 17:21Speaker 1: All right.
- 17:21Speaker 2: Thank you.