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Mike Macdonald: "All Eyes Are Straight Ahead" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Gobe. You wanted to do this all right? All right,
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  Speaker 1: good to see everybody. It's a really good Friday, so
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  Speaker 1: excited for the weekend and uh, as usual, get another
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  Speaker 1: couple of days to prepare. But that was a that
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  Speaker 1: was a really good, good practice through the week. How
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  Speaker 1: do you feel that players have just responded coming off
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  Speaker 1: of tough one on money. Yeah, we've moved We're moved on,
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  Speaker 1: We're ready to go, all all eyes straight ahead. It
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  Speaker 1: looks like you're you're you're pretty healthy with only Byron
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  Speaker 1: Byron rolled out. Uh yeah, well, uh, we'll see. You've
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of guys questionable, so we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: that plays out the next couple of days. But things
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  Speaker 1: are positive back in particular for the first time that
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  Speaker 1: what can you do for you? Well, I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: guys know, you guys know. I don't have to explain
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  Speaker 1: what Chinna brings to the team if he plays, so
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  Speaker 1: excited for him, if he gets if he's out there,
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  Speaker 1: and if he's not, then I won't be as excited.
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  Speaker 1: I guess their question whether they'll play, I'm sorry there
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  Speaker 1: question whethery'ren't play? Yeah, yeah, right now, this is your
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  Speaker 1: first week to seeing him and they have crazing since
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  Speaker 1: you've gone through which kind of see a week using
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  Speaker 1: now in pintsbe Cam looks really good. It's great to
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  Speaker 1: see him out there. I know he's been working his
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  Speaker 1: tail off. He's been getting after it for a minute now,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, he's been working kind of on the
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  Speaker 1: side the whole time, and now it's back with the guys.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the helmet on, doing all the reps. So
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  Speaker 1: excited for him, Excited for the opportunity. It's obviously not
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen this week, but if and when he'll be
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  Speaker 1: ready to rock. How did Boy and Julian Love hook
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  Speaker 1: this week? Right? Yeah? They It is a good week
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  Speaker 1: of practice for both guys. They're both working through their
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  Speaker 1: individual things and things are positive. Mean, it's positive, it's
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  Speaker 1: all good. Guys aren't having setbacks, so it's just a
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  Speaker 1: it's a matter of when it's the best for them
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  Speaker 1: to I'm back right now. I think Sunday starts a
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  Speaker 1: stretch of four of the next five games are at home.
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  Speaker 1: You always like the hometown fans, but is there something
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  Speaker 1: about this stretch of the season where that becomes additionally beneficial.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't thought about it. Through that lens. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: I have a hard time thinking about multiple things. It's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Lions game is over. Let's do what
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  Speaker 1: we need to do with that game, and let's move forward.
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  Speaker 1: Let's again one hundred thousand percent on New York this week.
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  Speaker 1: I really just not even think about next week. It's
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  Speaker 1: just we're in our little silo here. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of noise, it's pretty great. It's pretty
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  Speaker 1: insulated here, and we're thinking about Sunday against the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: I just it's not like a big, big picture thought
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  Speaker 1: behind it. Other people might be, but you know me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just kind of straight ahead, no fair dodging. How
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  Speaker 1: did you feel some of the issues that you talked
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  Speaker 1: about with the defense on my day, How did you
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  Speaker 1: feel like you kind of address Thowers again? Yeah, we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about the game. It's it's over. It's over. It's over.
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  Speaker 1: We're working. It went good. We had a good week
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  Speaker 1: of practice. You know, there's a standard every day that
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  Speaker 1: we needed we need to do here, and that's what
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  Speaker 1: we're worried about doing. That's the that's the thought. So
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  Speaker 1: we could we could have shut him out and held
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  Speaker 1: him the fifty point fifty yards and if we had
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  Speaker 1: a bad Thursday, we wouldn't be a satisfied So that's
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  Speaker 1: just that's that's how it's gonna be. What did you
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  Speaker 1: think about it? Every spent a couple of Oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is a first I was going to and then I
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  Speaker 1: was like, that's a weird angle. You know, probably wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have that was a smart move, just getting over there,
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  Speaker 1: Tyree Knight. Yeah, same with the same narrative with him.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, this guy keeps getting better. You can't rattle him.
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  Speaker 1: I try to, don't let him hear that, and he
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  Speaker 1: just keeps pushing forward and keeps getting better. So he's
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  Speaker 1: got some personal things he's taking care of right now,
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  Speaker 1: but he'll be back with us and he'll be rocking
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  Speaker 1: and rolling. Oh there's different ways. Yeah, some mostly verbal
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  Speaker 1: jabs here and there, but yeah, you can't you can't
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  Speaker 1: get to him, so shout out to him, Michae. Apparently Faily,
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  Speaker 1: the league experimented with a video uncos TWGIT that you
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  Speaker 1: guys have on the sideline as a preseason Yeah. What
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  Speaker 1: was your experience like with having precon Well, we started
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  Speaker 1: doing that forever ago at the Pro Bowl like in
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  Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. I think it was my first year. So
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  Speaker 1: the technology has been there to my knowledge, and it
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  Speaker 1: would be great if we had video on the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, why would you not Why would you not
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  Speaker 1: want the video on the sideline. It's good info. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I was recruiting at Michigan and in Ohio, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and they had video at a high school game. I
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  Speaker 1: thought that I was pretty cool. I think that's fair assessment. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: steel shots on each play, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 1: For the record, our guys do it like it's there's
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  Speaker 1: a timing mechanism to it. You got to like take
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  Speaker 1: the picture at the right time. Not sure who does
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  Speaker 1: it on our end, but they do a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Timing is really good. It makes a difference. It's like
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  Speaker 1: it's actually a thing. It's like, man, why did you
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  Speaker 1: take the picture so early? You can't see anything? But
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  Speaker 1: I guess some people would say maybe it overloads guys
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  Speaker 1: on the sidelines, or it's too much to think about,
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  Speaker 1: is there. I think we're overthinking it. Yeah, I think,
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  Speaker 1: no pun intended, we're overthinking why would you not want
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  Speaker 1: video on the sideline Chargers game? I honestly, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know that I didn't. I'm just I don't know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember. It was a long time ago. Everything else
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  Speaker 1: all right, Oh oh good, what have you missed without
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  Speaker 1: Leonard Williams. Well, uh, I think you just I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say miss I say, I mean, it's just an opera. Like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I love Leo Wims. The guy can do all the things,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just the but we have guys that can
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  Speaker 1: do his skill set. He's just what he does is
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  Speaker 1: really really elite. Guy's a great player. Man, it's a
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  Speaker 1: great player. And and he's come along with I mean
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  Speaker 1: it's not that he wasn't a big time leader, but
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  Speaker 1: this guy is a is someone that we lean on
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  Speaker 1: as coaching staff and the players look to him. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not the most worthy guy of all time verbose,
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  Speaker 1: but when he does have something to say, people listen
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  Speaker 1: and and because it's real and uh, he brings it
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  Speaker 1: every day, So we love him. He's a question. But
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  Speaker 1: just one point is it to have multiple guys that
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  Speaker 1: can do different things within your scheme? Well, it's very
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  Speaker 1: it's very important. We've we've talked about this a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and you want to be able to do multiple things
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  Speaker 1: from the same spot. You know, if you start moving around,
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  Speaker 1: it's very you start getting too cute with different positions,
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  Speaker 1: and you know when this guy's only here, he only
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  Speaker 1: does that. You know, other teams have computers too, and
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  Speaker 1: they'll pick up on that type of stuff and make
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  Speaker 1: you pay. So you want to be able to be
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  Speaker 1: complimentary with where you're aligning and different looks that you're
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  Speaker 1: presenting so other teams are off balance. All right, great,
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  Speaker 1: thank you