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Leonard Williams: "We're All Hungry To Get To The Quarterback" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Describe how he viewed the defense and just deciding to
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  Speaker 1: be better at tackling last week the way coach explained it,
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  Speaker 1: what you heard, is that about.
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  Speaker 2: How it happened?
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  Speaker 3: I would say that's about how it happened, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like we explained after the bad tackling that we had
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  Speaker 3: against Tampa Bay. Uh, I think we kind of established
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  Speaker 3: a lot of it was just want to and an effort.
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  Speaker 3: And I think after addressing those points, the effort and
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  Speaker 3: want to really showed up last week.
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  Speaker 4: How does it get to really you don't have want to?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think we'd ever don't have one to. I think, uh,
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  Speaker 3: just just keeping that urgency, keep reminding each other in
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  Speaker 3: every situation on on the in the you know, throughout
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 5: Just a level of communication.
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  Speaker 2: When everybody I mean this is probably obvious, but just
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  Speaker 2: how fun is it when everybody's getting home and getting
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  Speaker 2: heads and sacks in a game like that last week?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's really fun. We talked about it up front.
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  Speaker 3: It's almost like you know, shark seeing ut in the water.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we're all like hungry to get back there.
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  Speaker 3: We're all hungry to get like a piece of the
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  Speaker 3: quarterback get a sack, half sack, regardless of what it is. Hit,
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  Speaker 3: hit on the quarterback, pressure and uh, you know, it
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  Speaker 3: starts just firing everyone up and it motivates people to
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  Speaker 3: win their one on ones.
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  Speaker 4: Did you ask DeMarcus for half a sack on where
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  Speaker 4: you knock two.
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  Speaker 5: Guys out there?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: No, But he said thank you after that play, and
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  Speaker 3: I said you're welcome. So I think that's all we
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  Speaker 3: really needed to say about that. It was during the play, like,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, right after the play.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he brought to this group.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously there's the production off fields up, but just as
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  Speaker 2: a vetra and he's seen so much football, what's he
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  Speaker 2: brought he gets?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think just his leadership, his effort is uh.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's one of those guys that we jokingly
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  Speaker 3: call a crash out in the room because if you
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  Speaker 3: watch him on tape, like he's throwing his body around
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  Speaker 3: like he's a year one type of guy, like he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't have any remorse for his body. And you know
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times, you know, we joke about me
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  Speaker 3: helping him make a sack on that one play, but
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  Speaker 3: a lot of times he's helping the rest of the
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  Speaker 3: defense make plays. As well from him, just like crashing
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  Speaker 3: into guys and shortening edges and picking guys like offensive
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  Speaker 3: linement off of other people and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: When you play alongside him, how do you play different?
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  Speaker 1: What do you get to do when you're lined.
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  Speaker 4: Up next to him?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's just a level of trust,
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  Speaker 3: Like I know that I can trust him to have
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  Speaker 3: the edge. I don't have to do anything outside of
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  Speaker 3: my frame to help towards the outside because I know
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna hold it down, so it you know, by
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  Speaker 3: trusting the guys around me, which you know I really
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  Speaker 3: have trusting everyone out there really, So I think we
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  Speaker 3: offer that way on defense and I think that's what
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  Speaker 3: allows us to do our individual job so well.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, the coaches just said that is one of the
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  Speaker 4: better game runners in the Edge of group.
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  Speaker 5: It sounds like you agree.
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  Speaker 4: What makes an edge a good game runner to work with?
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  Speaker 3: I would say patience. It's almost like how I see
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  Speaker 3: Jackson Smith's game a little bit. It's like there's something
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  Speaker 3: about his game where it doesn't seem like he's trying
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  Speaker 3: too hard. It just seems like he's in like a
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  Speaker 3: flow state, like he's just it's like smooth as fast
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  Speaker 3: type of mindset. And I think sometimes as a pass rusher,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes as a wide receiver, they're kind of similar to me.
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  Speaker 3: So sometimes I see them, you know, like the pass
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  Speaker 3: rush moves and stuff like that, and I think sometimes
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  Speaker 3: in those positions you think it's like all fast, like
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  Speaker 3: all just get out of your stands as hard as possible,
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  Speaker 3: But there is a little bit of just smoothness to it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think China does a good job of just
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  Speaker 3: like playing off off of the guys next to you
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  Speaker 3: and just feeling where the offensive lineman's at.
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  Speaker 4: You played a fair amount on the edge yourself in
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  Speaker 4: this game. Is when that comes up? Is that something
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  Speaker 4: that you see and and say like, hey, I think
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  Speaker 4: there's an opportunity here.
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  Speaker 5: Is that a coaching thing? Has that happened?
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  Speaker 3: It's a little bit both, and you know, there's times
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  Speaker 3: where I want to create someone on wants for myself
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  Speaker 3: and the coaches think that I have a mismatch on
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  Speaker 3: an offensive lineman because of power and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: That it's like a little bit of something that the
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  Speaker 3: offensive tackles are not used to seeing on the edge,
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  Speaker 3: and it helps the rest of the guys and it
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  Speaker 3: helps myself as well.
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  Speaker 2: Drake Thomas is not the biggest linebacker. What'd you guys
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  Speaker 2: think of that sack where he grabs a tackle?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we all got pretty rowdy and here in
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  Speaker 3: the team meeting after we've seen that play, and everybody
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  Speaker 3: just loves seeing that type of But that's like the
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  Speaker 3: way Drake plays every week. Honestly, I think we've been
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  Speaker 3: seeing it from him as teammates throughout camp, throughout OTAs,
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  Speaker 3: and it's cool that now it's showing up in games
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  Speaker 3: and fans are also recognizing it.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned Jackson just now.
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  Speaker 2: You came here his rookie year and when he was
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  Speaker 2: like kind of the third guy and now leading the
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  Speaker 2: league and receiving What difference do you see him now
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  Speaker 2: when you first got here.
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  Speaker 5: It's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think the biggest difference is just him
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  Speaker 3: moving to the number one spot, But besides that, he's
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  Speaker 3: been the same guy. I mean, I think he's been
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  Speaker 3: a playmaker, he's been he's been humble, like he's still
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  Speaker 3: is remaining that humble guy even now. I think he's
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  Speaker 3: a great teammate. And like I watched this game a
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  Speaker 3: lot just because, like I said, sometimes as d Lineman.
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  Speaker 5: We could learn from receivers.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of similar in the way we like hand
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  Speaker 3: fight and try to get off blocks and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's like the biggest thing I've noticed
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  Speaker 3: with him is just how smoothie is out there.
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  Speaker 4: He got a taunting penalty in this game, and you've
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  Speaker 4: had some of that yourself. What your take on the
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  Speaker 4: taunting penalty especially.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's a sensitive subject. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Some of his tauntings I've seen were from my perspective,
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  Speaker 3: it looked like it was something kind of small. But
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  Speaker 3: then also from the big picture perspective, I can see
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  Speaker 3: how the NFL might be wanting to crack down on
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  Speaker 3: that to make it a cleaner game, So I could
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  Speaker 3: see both sides.
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  Speaker 5: You ever spun a ball on team's bench before?
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  Speaker 3: Uh No, I never really played offense like that, so
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  Speaker 3: I'll never even try to spend the ball before.
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  Speaker 5: Probably should have last year after that type of thing.
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  Speaker 4: Anybody else, Thank you, Thank you,