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Sam Darnold: "We Want To Chase Greatness" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I try to.
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  Speaker 2: I try to get in as I try to get
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  Speaker 2: in as soon as possible so that no one's ready
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  Speaker 2: to set up. And it's like I never even did
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  Speaker 2: my interview. It's good to see you guys so early.
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  Speaker 1: In the week.
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  Speaker 2: It's not not usual I get to see you guys
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  Speaker 2: on Tuesday. But yeah, no, we're excited about this challenge. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: it's a divisional game.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Playing these guys last time obviously wasn't my best effort.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I feel like as an offense, we just
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  Speaker 2: got to continue to do what we've been we've been practicing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, stay on the details. But again, this team
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  Speaker 2: is a very good, very good defense, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: with the pressures and you know, I think I said
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  Speaker 2: it last time and it and it held true, just
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  Speaker 2: you know, matching the pressure with the coverage and you know,
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  Speaker 2: smart DB's guys that know what they're doing and obviously
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  Speaker 2: a really good scheme. So we're excited about the challenge
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  Speaker 2: and ready to go. We stood up from the offenses
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  Speaker 2: last week when we went back to the tape. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think you know, something that we always pride ourselves
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  Speaker 2: on when we turn on the tape is effort, you know,
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  Speaker 2: everything that we can do between the whistles to to maximize.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the yards that we get.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest thing, Like you know, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's we call it pushing piles, you know, runners, you know,
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  Speaker 2: receivers getting an extra block on a guy down the field,
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  Speaker 2: just all the little things to continue to get yards
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  Speaker 2: down the field. And like I mentioned after the game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we just got to you know, continue to
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  Speaker 2: do a better job in the red zone of just
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  Speaker 2: executing playing and simple that it's seen some of those
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  Speaker 2: taps or the no no, you know, we're we see
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  Speaker 2: those things every game. I feel like our offense and
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  Speaker 2: and our guys in that locker room do a great
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  Speaker 2: job every single week of you know, making sure that
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  Speaker 2: all the effort things, things that we can control show
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  Speaker 2: up on tape. But again, we just need to continue
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  Speaker 2: to be detais hild, you know, with everything that we're
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  Speaker 2: doing and go from there.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have talked about trusting your feet in the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback room and curious, like when you look at your
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  Speaker 1: feet now versus early in the season, what do you see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just you know, it's continuing to harp
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  Speaker 2: on the little things and moving on in progressions if
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  Speaker 2: it's not there, you know, that's the biggest saying.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the thing that you know.
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  Speaker 2: I would, you know, tell myself anyways, you know, throughout
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  Speaker 2: OTAs and training camp, it's the same conversations that we
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  Speaker 2: have in the quarterback room, just trusting our feet, listening
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  Speaker 2: to progressions. I was executing the plan gone, just the
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  Speaker 2: basic execution with say that again, how is execution of
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  Speaker 2: the game plan on recent your mouth?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think you know, again the last last few games,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just moving the ball up and down the field,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we've been solid. You know, third downs
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  Speaker 2: can improve a little bit or a lot, I think
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  Speaker 2: I should say. And then you know, just in the
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  Speaker 2: red zone, I think it's a matter of just keeping
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  Speaker 2: the ball moving forward. You know, when you get in
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  Speaker 2: those second and long third and lungs that makes it
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  Speaker 2: hard to convert. So just keeping the ball moving forward,
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  Speaker 2: not only in the red zone, but you know also
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  Speaker 2: in the field as well. Do you have a preference
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  Speaker 2: about whether to keep more guys in for protection or
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  Speaker 2: more guys out in rafts?
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  Speaker 1: A lot of quarterbacks have a strong opinion on my.
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  Speaker 2: Head, yeah, kind of you know, you go back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: I think it kind of depends on the defensive scheme
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  Speaker 2: that you're facing. But yeah, I think there's there's weeks
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  Speaker 2: for it and there's other weeks where it's better to
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  Speaker 2: get some you know, more guys out in the progression
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  Speaker 2: if you can just to be the fourth time you've
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  Speaker 2: got to get to Chris shublat defense.
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  Speaker 1: So what does he do that makes their scheme you
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  Speaker 1: neque compared to.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else to get Yeah, you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: you know in the intro, he just does a really
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  Speaker 2: good job, you know of getting all eleven kind of
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  Speaker 2: glued into the same mindset, you know, rushing coverage, all
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  Speaker 2: working together and uh, you know, doing a really good
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  Speaker 2: job of of Uh. Yeah, like I said, just all
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  Speaker 2: the DB's being you know, on a string together with
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  Speaker 2: the coverages and then the defensive line as well, just
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  Speaker 2: working their butts off to get to the quarter. Sam,
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  Speaker 2: what do you think play people when you would or
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  Speaker 2: sheet she needs the last couple of games, Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think she'd first of all, when he's the you know,
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  Speaker 2: when he first got in here, he's been doing an
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  Speaker 2: incredible job just learning the system, uh, doing everything that
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  Speaker 2: he can to you know, just continue to to obviously
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  Speaker 2: learn the system, but but learn how I see things,
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  Speaker 2: and then if he sees things as well in a
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  Speaker 2: in a different way. We're just constantly communicating. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's the best part about Sheet is he's always.
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  Speaker 1: Willing to communicate and have those conversations. Obviously, you guys
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  Speaker 1: do want.
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  Speaker 2: To set faster offense, but a large pictures on the
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  Speaker 2: second of sports, So how do you have that's that
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  Speaker 2: you can fix that as the best of the Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a great point. You know, it's uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we can always be harder on ourselves right
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  Speaker 2: of being you know, glued into the details and then
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  Speaker 2: starting fast. And that's the kind of mindset you want.
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  Speaker 2: You always want to you want to chase you know
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  Speaker 2: it's cliche, but you want to chase greatness. You want
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  Speaker 2: to chase being the best offense in the league. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, when it when it comes down to it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we haven't been starting as fast as we'd.
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  Speaker 1: Like, so that's just another edge for us to chase. Weather,
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  Speaker 1: it might be looking a little bit windy and wet.
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  Speaker 2: You guys practice inside, they did, do you go outside
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  Speaker 2: and throw it all or how do you get acclimated
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  Speaker 2: for what might be coming.
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  Speaker 1: On a short week. It's tough. It's just a lot
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  Speaker 1: of walkthroughs.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're not gonna necessarily walk through outside in
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  Speaker 2: the wind and the rain, as much as you know
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  Speaker 2: some of the offensive linemen would love to do that. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's just not not very realistic on a
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  Speaker 2: short week. You know, we'll see about tomorrow maybe getting
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  Speaker 2: some maybe getting some throws in, but uh, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's tough with the Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Game pity.
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  Speaker 2: Study or yeah, I think you know, it's you gotta
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  Speaker 2: have a good mixture of both. You understand the game plan,
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  Speaker 2: you know, coaches do a really good job of installing
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  Speaker 2: it for us and making sure that we're focused on
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  Speaker 2: the details that we need to be focused on, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, we we go through it in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of detail, but we're also focusing on some of the
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  Speaker 2: new things that we have going in this week, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, just like we would any other week.
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  Speaker 1: And then for me, it's making sure, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, to be honest, I'm not up all night studying.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's making sure that I get my sleep,
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  Speaker 2: get my recovery in.
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  Speaker 1: Because it is such a short week.
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  Speaker 2: Attention on this game and did a lot of you
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  Speaker 2: know what, it's all this kind of show, how do
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  Speaker 2: you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of approached that, trying to get tests to it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be on this game and obviously all the ALSU
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  Speaker 1: safe everything. Yeah, it's it's the best.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's that's the kind of football you want
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  Speaker 2: to be playing in December, you know, meaningful football. And
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  Speaker 2: you know we take that head on in the in
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  Speaker 2: the locker room, and we love it. It's this game
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  Speaker 2: and this opponent.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you personally.
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  Speaker 2: Personally, I mean I would just say I grew up
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  Speaker 2: an hour away from them, but even then they were
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  Speaker 2: in Saint Louis when I was growing up, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's another opponent. Obviously it's a divisional game,
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  Speaker 2: and I would kind of just leave it at that.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, Thank you, Thanks, Thanks going