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Cooper Kupp: "Everyone Has The Expectation That We're Going To Find A Way To Win" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hello everyone. What can you say about the performance that
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  Speaker 1: Drew just had out there, getting thrust into the game,
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  Speaker 1: Sam going out and doing what he did, especially in
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  Speaker 1: the second half? Yeah, I mean, he did a phenomenal job. Um,
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  Speaker 1: basically took no reps with any of the guys that
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  Speaker 1: were out there all week. And, um, You can see
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  Speaker 1: the onus that he puts on himself to be ready, though,
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  Speaker 1: when the time comes. And there's just extra time that
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  Speaker 1: he spends out there on the field, extra time he
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  Speaker 1: spends with the coaches to make sure, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: the last thing you want is for Sam to have
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  Speaker 1: to not be there. But, man, Drew's done an unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: job preparing. Did a great job for us today. What
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  Speaker 1: can you say about the job Brian Fleury did? First
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  Speaker 1: game of call plays, starting quarterback, one drive in, and
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  Speaker 1: then the engineer that second half. Yeah, he did an
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable job. A lot of, I mean, not how we
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  Speaker 1: probably thought the first game calling was going to go. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think he did a great job. And even, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you lose Sam, but we also, I think, offensively, just
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  Speaker 1: as players, we shot ourselves in the foot way too much.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of stuff that we've just got to clean up.
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  Speaker 1: But he did a great job just being consistent there.
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  Speaker 1: Great to me. I even saw him smile a little
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  Speaker 1: bit on the sideline, so that's a big deal. On
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  Speaker 1: the touchdown, well, it would have been a touchdown. Did
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  Speaker 1: you realize the play clock was running down and the
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  Speaker 1: stop was going to happen before you got set, or
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  Speaker 1: what happened on that whole thing? Well, we actually ended
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  Speaker 1: up canning protection play. We got a play call come
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  Speaker 1: in with a motion, and then Drew was able to,
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  Speaker 1: in that short amount of time, get the play changed
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  Speaker 1: to what we needed to, get the protection changed so
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  Speaker 1: the back's now moving, I'm moving, and that's where things,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got a bunch of people moving, trying
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  Speaker 1: to get things lined up, and just were up against
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  Speaker 1: the clock there. How much of the belief that you
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  Speaker 1: guys have built in the locker room over the last
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  Speaker 1: 12 months lead to something like this tonight? Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's something to be said in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: about expectation that you have for yourself. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think you can get into games through whatever your
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  Speaker 1: experience has been in football. And you get into that last,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the last four minutes there and you either
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  Speaker 1: have this expectation that you're going to find a way
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  Speaker 1: to win or you have the expectation that something's going
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  Speaker 1: to go wrong and you're going to find a way
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  Speaker 1: to lose. And we've got a lot of guys on
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  Speaker 1: this team. I would say just about everyone on this
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  Speaker 1: team is, if not everyone, has the expectation that we're
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  Speaker 1: going to find a way to win the game. And
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  Speaker 1: that goes a long way, and there's power behind that.
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  Speaker 1: And it's honestly why in this league you've seen teams
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  Speaker 1: that just seem like they find a way to lose
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  Speaker 1: over and over again. There's other teams that do just
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  Speaker 1: find a way to win games. And, you know, that
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  Speaker 1: last drive, defense did a great job finding a way
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  Speaker 1: to come up with a turnover. You know, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Everything looks like– everything's looking like you're looking at– you know,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully going like having opportunity in overtime to be able to, um,
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  Speaker 1: win it. But, um, Joe goes out there and does
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  Speaker 1: a great job and wins it for us there. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: it speaks a lot to, you know, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: you talked about the work that went into it, but
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  Speaker 1: I think there's also, um, because of the work that's
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  Speaker 1: gone into it, there's an expectation, um, about what these
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  Speaker 1: outcomes are going to be. Joe, about that peg, the
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  Speaker 1: first two scores came after interceptions. Just what can you
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  Speaker 1: say about the defense, especially that second half effort? Yeah. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they, they played lights out for us. Um,
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  Speaker 1: In the first half, we weren't able to gain much
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  Speaker 1: going offensively. We were just kind of out of our rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: We had some long third downs. The third downs that
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  Speaker 1: we should have converted on were just miscommunications and things
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  Speaker 1: like that. They just weren't good. Not good enough. But
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  Speaker 1: in the second half, I thought the complimentary football is
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  Speaker 1: really what came alive. You saw Dicko does an unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: job pinning the Patriots back. Defense does a great job
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  Speaker 1: holding them there. We get great field position then offensively.
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  Speaker 1: It's just all those things go into creating points, giving
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  Speaker 1: us opportunities to get into the plays that we want
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  Speaker 1: to to be able to attack guys offensively. There's some
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  Speaker 1: great examples there of complementary football, and we talk about
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  Speaker 1: that all the time. What was the reaction on the
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  Speaker 1: sidelines seeing Sam go down, go to the locker room?
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  Speaker 1: How did you guys sort of go through, turn the
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  Speaker 1: page and rally behind Drew? Yeah, well, I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't sure exactly what was going on. You know, Coach
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  Speaker 1: came up and just said, hey, Drew's going for us. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then it's like, okay, well, let's find
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  Speaker 1: ways to make plays for him, find a way to
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  Speaker 1: bring things alive. And, you know, in the moment, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you're hurting for Sam, obviously. But in the moment, you've
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  Speaker 1: got to find ways to move forward and figure out
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  Speaker 1: how you're going to go out there and win a
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  Speaker 1: football game. Thanks, dude. Awesome. Thanks, guys.