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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Discusses The Week 8 Loss To The Bears · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right. I think it's the tip of the cap
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  Speaker 1: to the Bears. They won the game. They won it
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  Speaker 1: fair and square. They won it in all three phases.
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  Speaker 1: And we got beat. And no other way to sugarcoat it.
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  Speaker 1: I think when you look at the things that it
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  Speaker 1: takes to win in our league, we didn't do those things,
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  Speaker 1: and they did. Credit to them. Obviously, we have some
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  Speaker 1: work to do, and that's what we intend to do,
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  Speaker 1: get back to work and attack the heck out of it.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a short week. This is the first of,
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  Speaker 1: I think, maybe four or five throughout the season. It's
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  Speaker 1: really important that we get our bodies back and get
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  Speaker 1: our minds ready to go on Wednesday. Again, credit to
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  Speaker 1: the Bears. Look at all the stats, the things that
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  Speaker 1: happened in terms of playing complimentary football. We can rattle
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  Speaker 1: them off if you want, but they made it happen
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  Speaker 1: and we didn't. It's a team effort. We lost as
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  Speaker 1: a team. I think in all three phases we can
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  Speaker 1: have better plans, we can coach it better, we can
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  Speaker 1: prepare our players better, and we can play better. But
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  Speaker 1: we'll go back to work, go attack the heck out
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  Speaker 1: of it. The margins in our league is too small.
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  Speaker 1: When you don't do the things that it takes to win,
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  Speaker 1: that's how a game like that shapes up. Well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure yet. I mean, we came off the last
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  Speaker 1: week feeling good, and then obviously we have some changeup
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  Speaker 1: on our offensive line. So I expect us to get
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  Speaker 1: back and get better. But I don't have a great
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  Speaker 1: answer for you right now. But just like what I
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  Speaker 1: told the teams, just say, look, this is what we do.
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  Speaker 1: We find solutions, and we move forward. We stay together
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  Speaker 1: and go make it happen from there. Was the running
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  Speaker 1: back rotation sort of as you envisioned it, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: going into the game, or what did you think of it? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, without getting into the play counts and all that,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you can't ask guys to come
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  Speaker 1: back and play, you know, a certain amount of snaps. So,
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  Speaker 1: obviously the game shook out a certain way, and that
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  Speaker 1: affected how we played our guys.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think we want to keep encouraging
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  Speaker 2: Sam to use his legs and use his athleticism and
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  Speaker 2: his playmaking ability, but can we design it better and
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  Speaker 2: coach it up better and be more prepared so we
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  Speaker 2: can throw it on time?
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  Speaker 1: Sure, you know, but again, if we keep forcing ourselves into,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if we're not efficient on early downs and
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  Speaker 1: we're not moving the ball forward all the time, it's
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  Speaker 1: tough sledding. And when you play a team like that,
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  Speaker 1: that is really proficient on third down, then, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's the type of stuff that happens. But it's, but
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  Speaker 1: we have to, you know, the sense of urgency for
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  Speaker 1: us to improve right now is high.
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  Speaker 2: The sequence where they, the delay game penalty looked like
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  Speaker 2: maybe you're going to get to stop there in the day,
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  Speaker 2: but then on the next play that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, there's some unfortunate series of
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  Speaker 1: events that didn't go our way. But, I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: got to play the game, you know. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: got to be able to tackle guys on the perimeter
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  Speaker 1: and understand the situation and execute, you know. So, they
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  Speaker 1: did that and we didn't. So, it's just, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty cut and dry.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are normally very good on special teams, but
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  Speaker 2: there's a handful of gaps tonight.
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  Speaker 1: What did you do about that? Again, it was a
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  Speaker 1: team effort. We lost in all three phases, you know.
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  Speaker 1: We knew the timing of the kickoffs would be different
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  Speaker 1: on our kick returns, and it just didn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: we could get the return, you know, timed up with
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  Speaker 1: the blocks, you know, and that's how they make their A,
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  Speaker 1: and they're good at it. So, you know, I expect
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  Speaker 1: us to improve.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean....
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  Speaker 1: We didn't do the things on offense that we need
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  Speaker 1: to be able to do to play Seahawk football. So
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  Speaker 1: to me, like we got similar questions throughout the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the season on where we're falling short, but to
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  Speaker 1: me it's inputs. If we're playing the way that we're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to and we're running off the rock and we're
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  Speaker 1: targeted right and we're dialed in on what we should
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  Speaker 1: be doing, we're way more efficient and then the ball
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  Speaker 1: is distributed more evenly. So that's where we need to
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  Speaker 1: put our focus. You mentioned short week here. What's the
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  Speaker 1: key from your standpoint? Yeah, we have a plan. We
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  Speaker 1: haven't had a six-day week yet this year. We had
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  Speaker 1: one last year, and we'll go try to execute it
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  Speaker 1: to the best of our ability. But similar to going
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  Speaker 1: into a Thursday night game, you don't have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time to– This isn't the time for studying. It's just, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's attack the tape. Let's make sure we're all on
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  Speaker 1: the same page on one accord when we show up
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and let's go. We don't have time to
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  Speaker 1: be licking our wounds or anything like that. It's time
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  Speaker 1: to move forward.
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  Speaker 2: Mike, how did the two running backs come out, and
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  Speaker 2: do you have an update on Leo?
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  Speaker 1: To my knowledge, the running backs came out of the
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  Speaker 1: game okay, so we'll see where that goes. Leo had
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  Speaker 1: a stinger, and we'll see how that shakes out Connor
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  Speaker 1: O'Toole as a foot.
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  Speaker 2: Could you get a sense of how Quentin Nelson played?
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  Speaker 1: No, no. Anything else? All right, thank you.