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Byron Murphy II On The Monday Night Matchup vs. Bears "It's Going To Be A Battle" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, how's it going? Good. All right, we've been
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  Speaker 1: asking everybody about Quentin Nelson all week long.
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  Speaker 2: You can see his technique up close.
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  Speaker 1: How many problems can he create for a defensive lineman
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  Speaker 1: just based on his technique?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like he can cause a lot of problems.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I mean, his resume speaks for itself. You know,
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  Speaker 2: eight-time All-Pro. He's been doing it for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: so he's been doing it at the highest level. So,
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  Speaker 2: just having a guy like that, I feel like, You know,
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  Speaker 2: he can help us win a lot of games, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Make everybody around him better. You know, even like just perfecting,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just helping run game-wise in the passing game.
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  Speaker 2: But as far as seeing it up close, like even
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  Speaker 2: going against him last year, like it was a time
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  Speaker 2: where he gave me problems. You know, we went back
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  Speaker 2: and forth, had our battles and everything. He's a great player.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he can do it all. He can do
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  Speaker 2: it in there. He can maul you in the run game.
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  Speaker 2: He can pass protect, you know, or no matter what,
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  Speaker 2: you know, alignment you're in, if you're in a two-eye, three-eye,
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  Speaker 2: he know how to block from any alignment or defensive
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  Speaker 2: alignment he's in. So having a guy like that is
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  Speaker 2: very helpful. How can he make you better, technique-wise? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: really just, you know, just competing with him every day,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and trying to give him the best look
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  Speaker 2: as possible at him and him doing that vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: So really just, you know, just going back and forth,
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  Speaker 2: defeating off each other and, As far as like, also too,
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  Speaker 2: like just asking him questions, you know, what do you
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  Speaker 2: see in this rush? Or how can I do this
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  Speaker 2: better on this rush? Like what technique should I use?
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  Speaker 2: Like just stuff like that. So just asking him questions,
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  Speaker 2: just picking his brain. When you were playing the Colts
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  Speaker 2: last year, when you studied filming him, what did you
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  Speaker 2: take away of, oh, here's where I maybe can win?
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  Speaker 1: Or what was your objective in that game?
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  Speaker 2: My objective was really, I know he's very, you know,
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  Speaker 2: physical in the running game. So really just, Getting my
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  Speaker 2: hands on him before he get them on me. Really
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  Speaker 2: just trying to be the most physical player out of
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  Speaker 2: both of us when we was out there. That's really
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  Speaker 2: what I took the most. Really just getting my hands
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  Speaker 2: on them. Beating them to the stands and just trying
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  Speaker 2: to win quick. Work edges on them and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: What does it do for the locker room when John's
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  Speaker 1: able to bring in players like this at midseason? He's
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  Speaker 1: done it every year for the last four years. Bringing
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  Speaker 1: in impact players. Now Quinton gets to join that mix.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it uplifted everybody just knowing we got
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  Speaker 2: to tell them the guy just added another piece to
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  Speaker 2: the puzzle that's going to help this team even better
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  Speaker 2: and help us better our success. I feel like that's
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  Speaker 2: how I like to run a season.
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonald was telling us last week he told you
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  Speaker 1: guys you're facing the league's leading rusher.
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  Speaker 2: This week you're facing the team that leads the league
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  Speaker 2: in rushing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a defense that I know takes a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pride in their own game. How much do you like
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  Speaker 1: these challenges?
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  Speaker 2: I love them. I love them. I feel like You know,
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  Speaker 2: that's what you should want. You know, you should want
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  Speaker 2: the best, you know, the best team. Whoever the best
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  Speaker 2: at what they say they do, you know, you should
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  Speaker 2: want that, you know, week in, week out. So, I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to it. It's going to be a battle.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they do a lot of great things up front, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: They got a good old line. They physical. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they try to do a great job of running the ball. So,
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  Speaker 2: we just got to go out there and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: be better than them and, you know, play great team
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  Speaker 2: defense and stop the run.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron, what is it about their run game that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stands out to you?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, last week, Kansas City, it's K-9 doing his thing. But, like,
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  Speaker 2: they kind of do it a little bit more collectively,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of stands out about their.
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  Speaker 2: They just, you know, first they work together, for one.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they move guys. They do. I've seen on technique,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they move guys off the ball very well
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  Speaker 2: when they play with great technique and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: And they're a physical group up front. So, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like that's what helped them, you know, establish a run game.
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  Speaker 2: And also, too, they got a great back, Swift. uh, he's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's a back. I mean, he can do it all,
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  Speaker 2: you know, downhill perimeter. So we just got to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: lock in on that, hold on, you know, to the
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  Speaker 2: little details going into the game, you know, how can we, uh,
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  Speaker 2: take our option, you know, uh, what can we do
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  Speaker 2: to win or, you know, to play in a backfield.
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  Speaker 2: So we just got to, like I said, go out
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  Speaker 2: there and just be us for real. What did you
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  Speaker 2: feel like you guys did so well in the chiefs
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  Speaker 2: game against, against Walker? Uh, really just, uh, he became
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  Speaker 2: nine in a phone booth, uh, You know, not letting
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  Speaker 2: him get on the edge and stuff like that. Not
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  Speaker 2: giving him a cutback lane. And also, too, just being
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  Speaker 2: way more physical than the guys in the front. You know, obviously, like,
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  Speaker 2: getting hands on him, getting knocked back, creating negative plays.
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  Speaker 2: And I say, also, too, like, just keeping our linebackers
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  Speaker 2: free so they can, you know, feel the playoff for us. So,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we did a great job of that.
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  Speaker 1: Byron, not all zone running offenses are built the same.
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  Speaker 1: They're more power-oriented with the way that they deploy their
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  Speaker 1: zone schemes. Like, how– How does that impact the way
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  Speaker 1: that you approach a game when you're playing a team
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  Speaker 1: that is more of a power zone running team?
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  Speaker 2: For me, it's like, you know, play more heavy, play
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  Speaker 2: more thick on the guy, and get off, getting off
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  Speaker 2: the ball, you know, but getting off vertical, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not so more, you know, lateral. So just being vertical
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  Speaker 2: at my point of attack and creating that. Thank you.