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Devon Witherspoon: "We Play With Relentless Energy And Swag" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You guys a couple of days practice already. What can
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  Speaker 1: you tell about how you and your teammates.
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  Speaker 2: Are approaching this week?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it obviously we just trying to see who
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna play. We don't know who that opponent is
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  Speaker 1: yet or when when the day gonna be. We taking
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  Speaker 1: at any other game and it's just another game on
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  Speaker 1: the year when you come this far just to come
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  Speaker 1: this far, so we taking every game series.
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  Speaker 3: Does it make it easier to maintain intensity practice?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's nothing new. Like I said, Man, we
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  Speaker 1: just attacked uh every day the same, so it's like
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  Speaker 1: it's just a normal routine day for us. For how much.
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  Speaker 3: Uh does an offensive formation versus personnel kind of give
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  Speaker 3: you indications of what they're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it tells you a lot. I mean, but innsally,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, coordinators, when they know you could kind of
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  Speaker 1: like tell from stuff like that, they they try to
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  Speaker 1: give you the same maybe the same personnel, but a
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  Speaker 1: different picture just to run the same play out of it,
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  Speaker 1: but just to mix it up. So, I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta really study these these cordinations in this league. Man,
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  Speaker 1: they do a pretty good job of hotding what they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to do. So, yeah, how did the field to finish?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Is the league's best scoring defense.
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  Speaker 1: I feel good, Like I said, I mean, it was amazing,
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  Speaker 1: but we really ain't thinking none of it. I mean
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  Speaker 1: we kind of didn't find out until Juice and that's
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  Speaker 1: a text and then we were just like, oh, that's
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  Speaker 1: cool too.
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  Speaker 3: So whose plans for this weekend? You guys having to watch? Party?
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  Speaker 3: Is somebody hosting at their house? What does Saturday and
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  Speaker 3: Sunday look like? Ah?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I gotta keep the information between the locker room,
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  Speaker 1: so I can't even really display that right though.
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  Speaker 3: What do you like about just being a football fan
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  Speaker 3: and being able to back and watch some games this weekend?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, obviously, like we gotta study these guys though,
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  Speaker 1: so it's kind of just more than than watching the
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  Speaker 1: NFN point of view. But I mean, who doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to watch playoff football? Man? I mean, everybody wait for
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  Speaker 1: this time of the year to come around to see
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  Speaker 1: who's gonna do what? So I mean, yeah, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: sit back and still watch as well.
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  Speaker 2: If they're a playoff game, you remember from growing up
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  Speaker 2: watching that that uh sticks out in your mind?
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  Speaker 1: Not at the top of my mind right now. But
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  Speaker 1: it's I mean it was a lot of obviously, but
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  Speaker 1: not really at the top of my mind.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a team that you followed drawing up?
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  Speaker 1: Not really, but like I said, I like that Darrell Rivers,
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  Speaker 1: so I kind of kept up with those guys.
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  Speaker 3: We always heard a lot about your and we see
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  Speaker 3: it too. You're kind of your energy and vocal in
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  Speaker 3: this on the field, so like that. Have you always
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  Speaker 3: kind of been that way or is that just kind of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just your personality.
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  Speaker 1: Coming out or Nah, that just always with me.
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  Speaker 2: So Devin, how much is the fact that of the
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  Speaker 2: four teams you'll you could play three of them you've
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  Speaker 2: already seen this year? How does that kind of alter
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  Speaker 2: your approach going into this weekend and what you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: look for compared to them, maybe the one team that
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  Speaker 2: you haven't seen so far.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, to be honest, it's just
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  Speaker 1: another opponent. It doesn't change anything we do. But we
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  Speaker 1: know it's hard to beat the team twice, So it's
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  Speaker 1: like you gotta prost those games kind of a little
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  Speaker 1: differently because they kind of got especially division games. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you play each other so many times during the year.
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  Speaker 1: They kind of know what you're gonna do, so that
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  Speaker 1: plays a part into it. But anything else, Mana's really
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  Speaker 1: just another game.
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  Speaker 3: You guys love the league and rushing yards per carry
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  Speaker 3: aloud without playing a lot of heavy packages. Like what's
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  Speaker 3: the key to that? Do you think for your details?
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  Speaker 1: Get all all eleven guys? Make it for like twelve
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  Speaker 1: to the football. Man, We swam the football. I mean
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  Speaker 1: we played with relentless energy and swaging. I mean we
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  Speaker 1: just go out there and have each other batman. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, we made a stay. I promise ourselves back
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  Speaker 1: in Okas that this is what we're gonna do and
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  Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna be and we just hold
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  Speaker 1: ourselves to that standard.
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  Speaker 2: So you guys have two of the best nickel corners
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  Speaker 2: in the game on the same defense, and you and
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  Speaker 2: Nick how does how does that allow you guys to
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  Speaker 2: do things?
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  Speaker 3: And maybe another defense couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a better question because McDonald, to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you put us in a position to make plays, man,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you can't. You can't ask for nothing more
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  Speaker 1: than that. And then like we just go out there
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  Speaker 1: and sq So because defense.
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  Speaker 3: The front in particular of those you know, four or
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  Speaker 3: five guys upfront of what kind of what have you
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  Speaker 3: seen now that effe?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think they take speeks for itself. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: but as none of they can't do, they get out
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  Speaker 1: through the courtback, they started to run. I mean they
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  Speaker 1: rush is one. They communicate. I mean, they do it
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  Speaker 1: all up front. Bro. He just you can't ask for
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  Speaker 1: not much more than that.
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  Speaker 2: Life.
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  Speaker 1: They do everything that we need them to do, So
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  Speaker 1: shout out to the guys in front.
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  Speaker 3: So the first time he saw Nick even worry like,
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  Speaker 3: obviously there's a physical stuff that jumps out. But what
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  Speaker 3: has he done over the course of the season to
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  Speaker 3: really impress you?
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  Speaker 1: I mean just the way he's able to learn defense.
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  Speaker 1: He takes his approach to the game seriously. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he playing a lot of different positions, so he got
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  Speaker 1: to learn a lot of different things. But you don't
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  Speaker 1: really rarely hear him complain. He just go out there
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  Speaker 1: and go out there and do it. So, I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's what I like the most, bro. He just attacked
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  Speaker 1: every day the same. So not every team can run
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  Speaker 1: very well out of love and personnel. What teams do
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  Speaker 1: that well?
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  Speaker 3: Or how do they do that, well, let's sticks out
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  Speaker 3: to you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's I mean, I don't really know who
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  Speaker 1: do it well, to be honest, but I mean they
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  Speaker 1: can run the ball out of any formation. But like
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  Speaker 1: I said, like the rams, they like to get their
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  Speaker 1: receivers in just give you different looks and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: so they kind of run the ball out of their
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  Speaker 1: living person as well. But you start to see teams
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  Speaker 1: do that now just so you won't get the standard
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  Speaker 1: look and kind of predict what's coming already, so they
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  Speaker 1: try to run it out of the zero personnel. So then, yeah, it.
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  Speaker 3: Was no opponent this week, and not sure what film
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  Speaker 3: to watch? What are the coaches having you guys work
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  Speaker 3: on it?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we just found one thing we need to get
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  Speaker 1: better at. Over the course of the year, as we
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  Speaker 1: look back and reflect on what we did good and
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  Speaker 1: what we did bad. We just trying to work on
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  Speaker 1: those things that we did bad and improve them over
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  Speaker 1: to these next couple of days and then we just
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  Speaker 1: chasing this after that. To be honest, everything else, thank
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  Speaker 1: you make anything