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Devon Witherspoon: "We Play Hard And We Play For Each Other" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What do you like about what you've seen out of
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  Speaker 1: your defense through two games?
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  Speaker 2: Just the way we play, the physicality, the standard that
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  Speaker 2: we set for ourselves, you know. Yeah, man, just everything,
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  Speaker 2: to be honest, execution, game plan. Like everything about it,
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  Speaker 2: the way we swarm the football, most of all. We
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  Speaker 2: get to the football for sure, so.
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  Speaker 1: That last inform of the football, I was going to ask,
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  Speaker 1: you guys have been really good at keeping the explosives down.
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  Speaker 1: The Cardinals didn't have a play over, a passing play
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  Speaker 1: over nine yards. How important is, you know, when they
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  Speaker 1: do get the completions the way you guys swarm and
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  Speaker 1: keep it to the minimum yardage?
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  Speaker 2: You know, we just try to eliminate, yeah, as much
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  Speaker 2: as we can. We preach it and we work it
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  Speaker 2: every day through our e-drills. But, yeah, man, we're just
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  Speaker 2: trying to eliminate anything after the catch. And we try
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  Speaker 2: to make them earn every down.
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  Speaker 3: Did you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Realize that how few yards Arizona had picked up per
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  Speaker 1: play last week during the game?
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  Speaker 3: Like, is that something that ever.
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  Speaker 1: Crosses your mind?
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  Speaker 3: No, not really.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't even notice until I think somebody brought it up,
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  Speaker 2: but I forgot who it was.
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  Speaker 3: But we didn't even notice, to be honest.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of the fact that there's been
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  Speaker 1: 10 guys that have recorded a tackle for loss already
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  Speaker 1: this year?
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  Speaker 2: This is a testament about how we swore in the football, man.
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  Speaker 2: We play hard, we play for each other, and we
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  Speaker 2: trust each other to go out there and do our
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  Speaker 2: jobs and execute the way we know how, so.
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  Speaker 1: Devin, what have your thoughts been how Nehemiah and Rodney
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  Speaker 1: have played?
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  Speaker 4: Again, guys coming in, stepping into the lineup, and just
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  Speaker 4: being able to just keep your guys' defense playing at
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  Speaker 4: an elite level.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they do their thing, man. Like I said,
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  Speaker 3: we preach every time.
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  Speaker 2: We always coach the next man up mentality, so it's
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  Speaker 2: like everybody's going to be prepared by the time the
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  Speaker 2: game come out there. But those guys, man, they ain't
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  Speaker 2: doing nothing but doing what they do every day. They
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  Speaker 2: work at it every day. If you see them practice, man,
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  Speaker 2: they go about their business the right way. So when
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  Speaker 2: you see it happen in a game, it's just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we've done that in practice. They're just doing their thing, man,
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  Speaker 2: right now, and I'm glad to see.
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  Speaker 3: Them boys ball. I'm trying to see how far we
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  Speaker 3: can go with this, man.
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  Speaker 4: Sticking with Rodney, what's his most noteworthy trait as a safety?
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  Speaker 4: Like what makes him stand out?
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  Speaker 2: You know, just the way he communicates out there. Him
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  Speaker 2: and Ty, they both got their own little way of communicating.
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  Speaker 2: But he lets you know when he's with you and
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  Speaker 2: when he's not. Um, he lets you know what he
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  Speaker 2: sees out there. And then we ultimately, we just talk,
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  Speaker 2: see formations or, um, you know what I'm saying? Tendencies
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  Speaker 2: that we're going to see. And then we just try
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  Speaker 2: to let each other know before the play. That's how
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  Speaker 2: we play fast out there. So, like I said, man,
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  Speaker 2: he out there doing his thing right now, man.
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  Speaker 3: So. What does Julian Love bring to the back end
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  Speaker 3: of that defense? His intelligence, physicality, communication.
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  Speaker 2: Same, just the same thing I said about Rod T, man. Just,
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  Speaker 2: just the way he go about ball, man. Called Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame guy. No smart guy for sure. Um, But the
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  Speaker 2: way he communicates out there, the way he leads, bro,
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  Speaker 2: the way he gets everybody in order, even when we
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  Speaker 2: kind of confuse on some things like that during the game,
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  Speaker 2: just the way he go about business, man.
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  Speaker 3: You talk about a guy who leads front to.
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  Speaker 2: Front, who does everything right, you know, and can play football, man.
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  Speaker 2: So he's the best leader we got out here, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm always right behind him.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of receivers that, you know, when they
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  Speaker 4: get a lot of success, maybe they get a lot
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  Speaker 4: more visibility and maybe get a big head about it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Jackson seems to stand out in that way,
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  Speaker 4: and Quandre Diggs told me he thinks you're part of
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  Speaker 4: the reason that you guys keep each other in check.
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  Speaker 4: What's that relationship like for you guys?
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, that's my brother, man. We do everything together.
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  Speaker 2: We talk about everything. Ultimately, we have each other back
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  Speaker 2: when we're out there on the field. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying? Just the way he go about business is
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  Speaker 2: just different than the way I do it. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm more outgoing and upfront with him. He just, like,
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  Speaker 2: he just do his business. He just going on about
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  Speaker 2: it the next day like it's nothing happened.
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  Speaker 3: But, like, yeah, man, that's my brother for sure, man.
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  Speaker 3: Words can't explain how I feel about my dog right there.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying? That's my brother for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Have you ever seen a player that makes people look
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  Speaker 4: the way he does on the field that says so
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  Speaker 4: little about it?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, man. It's different, bro. I've been trying
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  Speaker 3: to tell y'all, bro. It's different. It is. The way
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  Speaker 3: he do it, bro, it's just so efficient.
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  Speaker 2: You can't get a tell on what he's about to do,
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  Speaker 2: so it's just hard to guard that, bro.
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  Speaker 3: It is, man.
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  Speaker 1: What's it like for a defense to be sitting out
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  Speaker 1: leading the fourth quarter and watch your offense keep the
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  Speaker 1: ball for, I think it was like 11 minutes to.
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  Speaker 2: Close out the game? Yeah, that was the best feeling ever.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking about it on the sideline. We looked
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  Speaker 2: up and we were like, bro, y'all know that we're
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  Speaker 2: still sitting down? We ain't got to go out there
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  Speaker 2: on defense right now. And then we're watching the game,
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  Speaker 2: watching them boys run the football in.
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  Speaker 3: The fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Our coach always preaches the run game is a softening process.
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  Speaker 2: At some point in time, they're going to give, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to break. And then you watch it come to life.
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  Speaker 2: In the game, you're like, bro, there it is, what
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  Speaker 2: we talked about again. Just the stuff that we go
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  Speaker 2: over in practice. We always come back to everything that
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  Speaker 2: we preach every day, and it's like, look, it shows
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  Speaker 2: up time and time and time again on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just dope, bro. It was dope.