Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The Week 6 Win Over Jacksonville

Transcript

Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The Week 6 Win Over Jacksonville · Seahawks Press Pass

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: I'm so a couple of questions, coach. I'm curious with
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Landon Williams. There's been a lot of talk about him
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: on the field and obviously how well he's playing, But
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: have you ever had a player that you've worked with
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: that has had as much impact off the field on
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, working with the offensive line,
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: working with the defense, defensive side, leading across both sides
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: the way he's.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: Doing that, And I've never really thought of it through
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: that lens, but no one really comes to mind. Uh yeah,
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: I guess to you, I mean, to your point, it's
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: remark it's pretty remarkable, it's pretty it's pretty rare, and uh,
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: it's yeah, I mean, I don't know what. Again, I
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: don't know the stats, but the guy played a tremendous
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: game yesterday. Set a lot of those guys up for
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: success playing at a really high level. Whole front played great,
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: and the effect that he's had with our especially our
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: young offensive lineman over the course of the season has
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: been has.
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: Been really cool.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: That really a lot of all of our defensive linemen
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: and and veteran offensive line guys, uh, you know, willing
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: to you know, sharpen each other as has just been
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: twelve is one type of thing pretty.
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: Cool related to that. I was just curious you spent
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of time having players actually work across or
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: get to know each other, across position groups and across
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: you know, sides of the ball. Are you seeing that
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: kind of bear fruit as the team's going through the
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: season and the connections made across position groups.
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: Well, I hope so, but that's not let's not attribute
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: that to like things that I'm these got. We got great,
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: great coaches, we got great players that care about the
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: team and care about their teammates, and they've put a
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: lot of investment into our connection as a group.
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: And in order there's.
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: Gonna be testimony. I mean, there's gonna be adversity. We
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: saw it last week. We saw it out to San
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: Francisco week, where things don't go our way and it's
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: and we have to do a great job of keep
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: responding to those things by sticking together. And I think
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: that's what we saw this week.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: Right last last one, UH with Devin Witherspoon and Julian Love,
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: you mentioned that you thought Devin Witherspoon was maybe going
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: to be a little bit earlier to practice last week,
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: and that didn't happen and eventually was there a stepback?
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: And do you expect him to have a chance to
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: practice this week?
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just again I'm learning through the through the health thing.
• 2:24
  Speaker 2: But it's just, you know, there's a lot of there's
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: it's it's a it's a science, but it's also you know,
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: things change. You know, there's different opinions at hand and
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: imaging and testing on a daily basis, so you know,
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: it's just it's a little bit more vaulatile than people
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: would probably want, including me sometimes, but uh that's just
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: how you have to handle things. So yeah, at some point,
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: we hope Devon's out there this week. Uh, I can't
• 2:53
  Speaker 2: tell you. You know, we've moved the schedule back. Basically,
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: we're gonna get you know, Monday. If football, you get
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: the extra day, So we're gonna use the extra day
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: here on the front end and then keep our normal
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: weekly cadence starting on Thursday.
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: So we'll see as the week unfolds. Okay, thanks coaching Mazovita.
• 3:10
  Speaker 4: Hey Mike, this morning, you talked about connection, toughness twelve
• 3:16
  Speaker 4: is one, as you always do, and then you have
• 3:18
  Speaker 4: this comment you said, we've we've earned the right to
• 3:22
  Speaker 4: win the games we play. Can you elaborate on that
• 3:26
  Speaker 4: just from a process perspective.
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: You sure, yeah, we Uh, this is this is a
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: tough league. Man, it's a tough league and it'll humble
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: you in a second. And there's great teams and great
• 3:40
  Speaker 2: and great players and great coaches and you got to
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: go through it. You got to go through the process
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: from starting in April and the offseason program even before
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: then when the players show up and you got to
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: go nail you know, the summer and keep your body
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: in great shape and get ready for camp and you
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: got to go nail camp days and build that cows
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: and do all the things it takes to all the
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: situation where there's so much work that needs to go
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: into it, and our guys have nailed those steps. And
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: so it's really it's a message to our guys that
• 4:13
  Speaker 2: they've earned the right to be confident because they've they've
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: gone through the process so well and they've stuck together
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: doing it. They've done it unselfishly and uh, with a
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: with a sense of urgency, and we have fun doing it.
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: You know, take pride in that we're creating that it's
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: an environment where guys love coming to play football, and
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: you know, now now now it's game time, where we
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: want to go, you know, show the fruits of our labor.
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: Where can we go win games?
• 4:39
  Speaker 4: Nick Eman, you talked about the game will eventually slow down,
• 4:42
  Speaker 4: and there's some technical terms you used. But what have
• 4:46
  Speaker 4: you seen so far just in this you know, the
• 4:49
  Speaker 4: reps that he's getting now since his return.
• 4:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say there's there's some really cool stuff on
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: tape from the game where he's trying to he's trying
• 4:59
  Speaker 2: to play like us, and I think he's shown.
• 5:01
  Speaker 3: That's who he is.
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: Hell, he goes, you know, and he's a sure tackler
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: on the edge.
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: There's some things again, there's things we're gonna clean up
• 5:11
  Speaker 2: that uh details here and there in all aspects of
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: his game that are just gonna make him go to
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: the next level. And I know I'll have the right
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: mentality to get there with us. But I think I
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: think anybody watched that game yesterday could feel the impact
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: that he that he had on the game and also
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: the potential impact he can have on games moving forward.
• 5:33
  Speaker 5: Bob, just when you review when you reviewed the film yesterday,
• 5:39
  Speaker 5: especially with the defense, what really stood out to you
• 5:41
  Speaker 5: about what you know, what went so well? It was
• 5:44
  Speaker 5: kind of so different, I guess from the previous week.
• 5:48
  Speaker 3: Uh, it starts starts with a game plan. I thought.
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: I thought as a coaching staff, we we gave our
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: guys a better chance to succeed on a on a
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: on a down, down and down basis. And uh and frankly,
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: the players are the ones that make it come to life.
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: They decided they they're gonna play a certain way and
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: they're gonna play like us and play our solid ball
• 6:09
  Speaker 2: and uh proud to see that. The effort was definitely
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: their physicality. Uh, the cohesiveness, the play to play mentality.
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: I mean that's not again it's not that's not just talk.
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: That's that's what these guys what they're about. And uh,
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: and then that's what we expect moving forward, you know,
• 6:28
  Speaker 2: is to play like that.
• 6:30
  Speaker 5: And Uh, Sequille Griffin, how did you feel like he
• 6:33
  Speaker 5: played yesterday?
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: Shack did a good job, made tackles on the perimeter,
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: played with great eye control. We we had we had
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: one miscommunication on the on the first touchdown, which again
• 6:46
  Speaker 2: that's that's my job that we can execute.
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: That and and we didn't. So uh, we're gonna make
• 6:52
  Speaker 3: that come to life. That starts with me.
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: But we had a mishap there, but outside of that,
• 6:56
  Speaker 2: sticky and coverage played discipline really po.
• 7:01
  Speaker 5: And one more in terms of Sam and Jackson, I
• 7:04
  Speaker 5: know we ask all the time about the connection they have,
• 7:06
  Speaker 5: but just yesterday again it just really showed up. But
• 7:08
  Speaker 5: especially in a any key moment. And then Sam as well.
• 7:10
  Speaker 5: The past to AJ just seems like he doesn't miss
• 7:12
  Speaker 5: these opportunities for really big plays. Just kind of his
• 7:15
  Speaker 5: ability to do that every single week. Just how just
• 7:18
  Speaker 5: how I guess impressive has that been to you?
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: Well, I think it just speaks to Sam's poise, his
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: confidence right now, the preparation that he's doing. I mean,
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: you don't just show up on Sunday and these plays
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: come to life. You gotta you gotta make them happen.
• 7:32
  Speaker 2: We've got to be able to move and shake at
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage. We gotta be able to operate
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: at a high level and uh and Sam's doing that
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: and so but again, it's not just going to show
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: up next Monday night. We gotta we gotta do all
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: the things throughout the week now so you can be
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: confident going into the game, and I know he will
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: and uh.
• 7:51
  Speaker 3: To me, I think that's it's as simple as that.
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: And you've got you've got a lot of guys playing
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: really hard beside him too. Now, I mean we've got
• 7:57
  Speaker 2: our offensive line protection has been overall very positive. And
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: you know, to throw the ball down the field, it takes,
• 8:04
  Speaker 2: as we saw last week against US, it takes the
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: Mississippis and you got to.
• 8:08
  Speaker 3: Be able to create those to create those explosive plays. Gay,
• 8:12
  Speaker 3: Thank you, John.
• 8:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Mike, the the Jaguars got the ball three times
• 8:18
  Speaker 6: down eight points, you know, potential to go tie it,
• 8:20
  Speaker 6: and they punted three times. I think they got one
• 8:22
  Speaker 6: first down. Just how big is that to be able
• 8:24
  Speaker 6: to finish like that. I know there's been games to
• 8:25
  Speaker 6: here where teams have got those laid drives on you.
• 8:27
  Speaker 6: So just to close it out with those three stops.
• 8:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been it's been an emphasis for us. We
• 8:31
  Speaker 2: weren't showering away from it. Our guys were awesome. You know,
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: I think you can sense it on the sideline that
• 8:38
  Speaker 2: they they wanted the opportunities to go out there and
• 8:41
  Speaker 2: go play. And that's all you can ask for as
• 8:43
  Speaker 2: a coach. And again, it's it's not like you got it.
• 8:47
  Speaker 2: There's no secret play calls that you hide on your
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: play sheet until the fourth quarter and then all of
• 8:50
  Speaker 2: a sudden, you know, you just start waving.
• 8:53
  Speaker 3: The magic wand it's it's we're.
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: Executing our defense and our guys did at a high level,
• 8:59
  Speaker 2: and uh, that's what's gonna take. But our guy, I
• 9:02
  Speaker 2: think the mentality was the driving force behind how we
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: finished the game out and that that starts with our
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: leaders on defense, our coaches, you know, A d did
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: a tremendous job all week getting our guys ready to go, and.
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: That was it was.
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: It was a fun, fun group to be around as
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter started started to unfold.
• 9:22
  Speaker 3: And then you.
• 9:22
  Speaker 6: Mentioned your leaders, Dela, I know we asked you about yesterday,
• 9:25
  Speaker 6: but now you actually watched his performance on tape. Just
• 9:28
  Speaker 6: just how good was he in that game?
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: He's I mean, it's part for the course for deal.
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: That's that's the DeMarcus Lawrence that that I'm familiar with.
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's a disruptive, violent, decisive player that I'll
• 9:44
  Speaker 2: tell you well, I would love to play linebacker behind though.
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: I mean he's just you know, he's kicking butt in
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: there in the rush game. Again, in order to to
• 9:55
  Speaker 2: to twist and to run games, it takes a lot
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: of communication, It takes a lot of unselfishness, and our
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: guys did that and de Law was a huge part
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 10:07
  Speaker 7: Brady, Mike, this one might be a bit convoluted, so
• 10:11
  Speaker 7: I apologize in advance. But just as your home and
• 10:14
  Speaker 7: road records have been more pronounced of wondered if there's
• 10:18
  Speaker 7: maybe a correlation between a defense that requires a lot
• 10:22
  Speaker 7: of prestaffed communication and playing in the noise at home.
• 10:25
  Speaker 7: And obviously it's not that simple because as you just said,
• 10:28
  Speaker 7: you had a communication issue yesterday on the road. But
• 10:30
  Speaker 7: do you find that happening more like costly communication issues?
• 10:34
  Speaker 7: Do you find that happening more at home than on
• 10:36
  Speaker 7: the road.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's a significant difference in like themes
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: or the mash. Sometimes some things gotta like just from this,
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: have gotten lost in communication between me and EJ at home,
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: But that's not that's not like a reason that we're
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: not playing as well as it just happens because it's.
• 10:56
  Speaker 3: So dangle out.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: So uh, that's those are good problems to have, but
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: we are learning from it, you know, on what, uh
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: how fast we can play with the communication that's going
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: to be required. That's that's definitely taken a consideration.
• 11:10
  Speaker 7: And I think you have said this at some point
• 11:12
  Speaker 7: along the way, but have you changed like part of
• 11:15
  Speaker 7: what you do, like play calling wise at home to
• 11:17
  Speaker 7: account for that, to like to account for the noise
• 11:19
  Speaker 7: and to avoid Yeah, well yeah.
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm That's what I'm alluding to, is that
• 11:22
  Speaker 2: that's taken into account on how we build game plans
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: and how we want to operate moving forward, for sure.
• 11:28
  Speaker 7: Yeah, anything you can elaborate on there, I mean I can,
• 11:33
  Speaker 7: I don't really want to.
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: I mean they're listening. They're listening to you know.
• 11:38
  Speaker 8: Fair enough?
• 11:39
  Speaker 5: All right, thank you?
• 11:39
  Speaker 8: Okay, Andrew, Yeah, I suppose tangentially related to Brady's questions.
• 11:47
  Speaker 8: But on that note of you know, how well you
• 11:49
  Speaker 8: guys have done on the road even before you were
• 11:51
  Speaker 8: head coach or Mike, I mean, it seems like there
• 11:53
  Speaker 8: is something about the preparation, the game planning, you know,
• 11:56
  Speaker 8: the days leading up to the games. What is it
• 11:58
  Speaker 8: about the staff that you guys have place right now
• 12:00
  Speaker 8: that you think best prepares you guys to be able
• 12:02
  Speaker 8: to go on the road to go to the East
• 12:03
  Speaker 8: Coast and be in good positions to win.
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: Talking about the Seahawks record before twenty four Yes, yeah, well,
• 12:11
  Speaker 2: I mean I think that gives you a big part
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: of your answers.
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: We got, we got tremendous support here. When when you
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: go on the road.
• 12:17
  Speaker 2: Everything just everything happens seamlessly, and that you know, it
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: takes a lot of work for that to happen, and
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: it keeps our guys' minds on the game and their preparation.
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: It's not easy to you know, travel the length that
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: we have. It's a good problem to have because we
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: live in a great city, you know. But yeah, there's
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: a lot of people that are involved in this whole operation.
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: When you take your when you literally.
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: Take your organization three thousand miles away for a few days,
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: it takes a big commitment and we really appreciate those people.
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, a couple more, John and then Brian.
• 12:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Mike, we talked to Byron Murphy after you yesterday
• 12:58
  Speaker 6: and he told us a little bit about, you know,
• 12:59
  Speaker 6: the week he had with his daughter and just for
• 13:01
  Speaker 6: everything he was going through back and forth to nick
• 13:03
  Speaker 6: you and then to have the game be had just
• 13:05
  Speaker 6: What does that tell you about how he handled a
• 13:07
  Speaker 6: tough week.
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: Well, he's he's got a be charity beyond his years.
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: I mean, I can't imagine that'd be.
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: That's it. This is just extremely difficult situation.
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: It's a blessing that, uh, his family is healthy and
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: so that's that's extremely positive.
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: But it's also not easy at the same time.
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: So you know, it's the mental the mental capacity it
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: takes to kind of be in two spots at once. Uh,
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: it tells you, tells you how great of a guy is.
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: You know, I know he's extremely happy that, uh, his
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: daughter was born and everybody's healthy. Mean, look, you got
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: to count your blessings man, Like, there's uh, just really
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: great that everyone's.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: Healthy in this situation.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: And and then you know how he's able to play
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: a game he was play a game like he did
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: shoot Out. I don't know, I don't know he's but
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: he did play a tremendous game and he definitely affected
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: the outcome of that of that football game.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: Brian, Yeah, coach, you guys have not necessarily run the
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: ball the way you want to yet, but you're leading
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: the NFL and play action yards per attempt on play
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: action passes by almost five yards. You're averaging fifteen yards
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: per play action attempt. Do you feel like some of
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: the success in the explosive passing is due to all
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: the crowded line of scrimmage you're gaining And maybe there's
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a trade off there between running
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: and explosive passing.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: To a certain extent, I think that that might be
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: a fair evaluation. I also think, you know what, you
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: should be able to run wide zone against loaded boxes.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: It's part of the reasons why it is the way
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: it is. So that's something that we need to improve
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: on our run game. I mean, it's just it's pretty
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: pretty cut and dry. But you also need to stay
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: committed to it. I told the team today, it's just
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: a function of details.
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: The function of reps.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: It's a function of just getting better at what we're doing,
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: just like our just like our punt return and kick
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: return game. You know, we're a block away here, a
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: block away there, which you know, it's sounds like an excuse.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: It's not going to be good enough in the end.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: You know, we got to get those things right. But
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: in order to make it happen, you gotta you gotta
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: attack the details. You got to stay steadfast in it.
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: The more reps we're gonna get, the better we're gonna
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: get at it. And then you know, it does force
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: teams to uh put people on the line of scrimmaging.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: When they do that, it opens up passing lane. So, uh,
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: that's how we've been operating, and we expect our own
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: game to get better and our past game right now
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: is operating a high level and we get.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: You know, we want to keep that rolling as best
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: we can as well. Thank you, Brian. We're a couple
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: of questions away from this being a podcast.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: You know, anytime, I'm always happy and coach is always welcome,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: you too, Dave.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, thank you guys. We'll see you on Thursday. Okay,
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: all right, thank you.
• 15:56
  Speaker 8: Thanks