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Ryan Grubb: "We Have To Have Extended & Continuous Success" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What are you guys all doing here? Don't you guys
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  Speaker 1: get a live should be home. We could have done
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  Speaker 1: this on zoom or something. Merry almost Christmas. All right,
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  Speaker 1: don't pull any punches. Let's do this. Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Who's up.
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  Speaker 1: What's the biggest challenge.
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  Speaker 3: That the Air's defense.
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  Speaker 2: I think they got a really good D line.
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  Speaker 1: I think they got some guys up front that are
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  Speaker 1: difficult to move and really are good pass rushers. I
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  Speaker 1: think they do a nice job pressure in the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: and I think really for them, it starts up front
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  Speaker 1: and they do a good job of keeping it simple
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  Speaker 1: but getting those guys.
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  Speaker 2: Vertical, keeping them in twist games. And yeah, they do
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  Speaker 2: a really nice.
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  Speaker 1: Job turn around, focus on the bayers out of the balance,
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  Speaker 1: physical and then getting the players ready to push the
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  Speaker 1: turn around.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, these guys are pros.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's that's the biggest thing you gotta lean
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  Speaker 1: on is for these guys, you just got to have
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  Speaker 1: them mentally, you know, mentally right and ready to play
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  Speaker 1: and prepared, and then have their bodies right. So you
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  Speaker 1: got to take care of them physically and do all
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  Speaker 1: the right things so that they're you know, ready to
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  Speaker 1: go out and play with a ton of energy on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night. I think that's one of the biggest challenges
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  Speaker 1: from playing a game on Sunday, obviously the Thursday, so
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  Speaker 1: especially a road game where you got to get on
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  Speaker 1: a plane tomorrow and travel.
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  Speaker 2: So I think we've done a good job.
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  Speaker 1: Mike's in a great job setting up the schedule and
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  Speaker 1: trying to get the guys fresh.
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  Speaker 3: Mike was I'm sorry, Ryan, what was your view of
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  Speaker 3: the interception.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, I mean, just stuff we got to clean up.
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  Speaker 1: We're working through those things, and you know, Gino had
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  Speaker 1: a guy kunting in his face right at the end,
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  Speaker 1: and tough play and.
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  Speaker 3: The third the sack I think it was at the
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  Speaker 3: thirty seven in the fourth quarter. What needed to happen
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  Speaker 3: better on that play?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, obviously you want the protection to hold
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  Speaker 1: up as long as you need it to and for
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  Speaker 1: Gino to completely be able.
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  Speaker 2: To get through the read.
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  Speaker 1: He had gotten through a similar progression earlier and hit
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  Speaker 1: Lockett and made a really nice completion on that one,
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  Speaker 1: So I think the thought process was similar there, and
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  Speaker 1: obviously they didn't didn't hold up quite long enough and
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  Speaker 1: took a really tough sack there.
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  Speaker 4: And I know we've got too million quotes about the
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  Speaker 4: running game, but THEOGI had some success early in that
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  Speaker 4: game a little bit. Then the numbers ended up the
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  Speaker 4: rough pass that presented a.
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  Speaker 2: Little yeah they did.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you'd love to be able to finish out
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  Speaker 1: the game with the run game, and I thought the
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  Speaker 1: guys did a good job fighting back to get in
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  Speaker 1: the game and got a little bit lopsided there. We
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  Speaker 1: had some injuries at running back as well, so there's
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  Speaker 1: a few things that we're working in play there that
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  Speaker 1: trying to figure out who's gonna be available in the
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  Speaker 1: game and things like that. So we're we're battling a
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  Speaker 1: few things on that front. But I thought the guys
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  Speaker 1: did a good job moving the football when when they
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  Speaker 1: needed to.
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  Speaker 4: There was also the kind of the give and take that,
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  Speaker 4: especially on some first downs in Minnesota, gave you some
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  Speaker 4: looks where they were expecting to run maybe and you
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  Speaker 4: guys are to make some big plays in the pass.
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  Speaker 2: Did a great job with that.
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  Speaker 1: Guys executed a really high level on some of those
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  Speaker 1: plays where we got them into some you know, tough
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  Speaker 1: run looks and through the ball and then vice versa
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  Speaker 1: as well. So you know, those are the those are
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  Speaker 1: the things you want to keep building on and uh
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  Speaker 1: and we are and I think we're getting better in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those areas. And you know, unfortunately didn't
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  Speaker 1: you know, turn out like we wanted it to. But
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  Speaker 1: there were some things that operationally we did as as
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  Speaker 1: good as we've done all year on some of the
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  Speaker 1: checks and the moves that we made, and really really
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  Speaker 1: elite stuff against a really good defense on a team
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  Speaker 1: that's played at a high level defensively, Coach Flores does
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic job. And some of the things that the
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  Speaker 1: guys were able to accomplish in that game was things
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  Speaker 1: we haven't been able to do all year. Obviously, operational stuff,
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  Speaker 1: some of the turnovers, those are things that you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have to keep addressing and working on, and I
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  Speaker 1: know that we will. You just you wish they didn't
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  Speaker 1: show up, but they did, and so we have to
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  Speaker 1: keep working that and I know the guys will. But
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  Speaker 1: like I said, there was there's probably a dozen plays
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  Speaker 1: that that we did some things that we haven't been
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  Speaker 1: able to accomplish all year, and was really proud of
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  Speaker 1: that and just kind of keep building that. I think
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  Speaker 1: there's there's moments. Obviously, moments don't win you football games.
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  Speaker 1: You have to have extended and continuous success. And those
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  Speaker 1: are the things that we got to keep doing and
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  Speaker 1: building that that that continuity and consistency.
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  Speaker 3: The kind of run game you had really going for
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  Speaker 3: you against Arizona. I know you just didn't have as
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  Speaker 3: many opportunities in this past game. But is that something
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  Speaker 3: you feel like is at your disposal every week or
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  Speaker 3: is that something that's more opponent specific.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit of both. That's that's a fair question.
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  Speaker 1: I think that there's certainly is things that each defense
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  Speaker 1: defends better than others, whether that be gap scheme or
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  Speaker 1: zone scheme, and some teams are you're kind of swimming
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  Speaker 1: upstream on certain schemes that that they're really really you know,
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  Speaker 1: both schematically and maybe physically set up to stop and
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  Speaker 1: defend really really well. So you got to you got
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  Speaker 1: to plan for those things and work through it. But
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  Speaker 1: I think that there's there's components that that should be
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  Speaker 1: there every single week that we got to be able
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  Speaker 1: to line up and run those type of plays every week.
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  Speaker 3: Earlier today, Aja said that there was this narrative about
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  Speaker 3: him coming into the NFL that you could only be
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  Speaker 3: a blocking tight end.
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  Speaker 2: What have you seen the time? Especially with the catch
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  Speaker 2: and hands.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, shoot, I didn't think that when we drafted him.
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  Speaker 1: But I think Aj is a great athlete. I think
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  Speaker 1: he has really good ball skills. I think that one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that makes him great is that he
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  Speaker 1: is a really, really willing blocker. And that's part of
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  Speaker 1: what opens up some of the past game opportunities for
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  Speaker 1: him is you know how physically he plays in the box,
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  Speaker 1: and you know that that generates some of those opportunities
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  Speaker 1: for him. But yeah, we we totally trust him with
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  Speaker 1: the ball coming his way. He is instinctive in a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot of ways. I think he does a great job of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, listening and learning.
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  Speaker 1: I know Geno always has things that he points out
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  Speaker 1: to him about, you know, route running and where he's
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  Speaker 1: sitting anticipating zone. So I think he's just gonna get
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  Speaker 1: better in that facet for sure.
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  Speaker 3: What's the challenge of like building a plan with your
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  Speaker 3: run game this week with you know, some of the
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  Speaker 3: injury situations you guys are dealing with.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that, you know, personnel wise, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we should we should have any limitations you know, we
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  Speaker 1: should be able to keep building those things up up front.
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  Speaker 2: We're in good shape.
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  Speaker 1: So I think he just focused more on the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line and you know, maybe less on.
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  Speaker 2: The runners.
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  Speaker 4: Everything else.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Thanks everybody, Merry Christmas.