Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Geno Smith: "It's Going To Feel Like A Playoff Game"
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- 0:00Speaker 1: You know, what's something that you admire about each of
- 0:02Speaker 1: the quarterbacks in the NFC West And what do you
- 0:04Speaker 1: hope they admire about your game?
- 0:06Speaker 2: Oh, man, that's a great question. I think each guy
- 0:09Speaker 2: is a little different. I think st uh Matt, I
- 0:11Speaker 2: just admire like his longevity and how consistent he's been,
- 0:15Speaker 2: you know, to be a gun slinger and to be
- 0:17Speaker 2: you know, play as many years in the league as
- 0:18Speaker 2: he's had won a Super Bowl.
- 0:20Speaker 3: I think he's always done great things. Uh.
- 0:22Speaker 2: You know, I look at kyler Man just like his athleticism,
- 0:25Speaker 2: how he makes plays, you know, on and off script,
- 0:28Speaker 2: all his extending plays and uh, just you know when
- 0:30Speaker 2: he's back there, man, he's he's so fast and he
- 0:32Speaker 2: just moves around and makes so many great plays. And
- 0:35Speaker 2: then brock Man just you know, his consistency and how
- 0:37Speaker 2: he stepped in, uh the situation how he got his
- 0:41Speaker 2: starting job wasn't like common, you know, for him to
- 0:44Speaker 2: be a later draft pick and to play the way
- 0:46Speaker 2: that he's played, I think it's been outstanding. And then
- 0:48Speaker 2: you know, hopefully something they admire about me is just
- 0:52Speaker 2: my hard work. You know, I always I pride myself
- 0:54Speaker 2: on being the hardest worker and I think that's something
- 0:56Speaker 2: that maybe gets seen, maybe.
- 0:58Speaker 3: Not, but I definitely uh hope hopefully they see that
- 1:01Speaker 3: in me. What did Sunday's win affirm about the offense?
- 1:05Speaker 2: Uh, you know, it's just one game, and it just
- 1:07Speaker 2: you know, a firm that we can we can close
- 1:09Speaker 2: out games, we can finish games.
- 1:10Speaker 3: You know.
- 1:11Speaker 2: I thought, you know that last drive, everyone did their
- 1:13Speaker 2: job and did a great job to get us in
- 1:15Speaker 2: the end zone. And I think, you know, we've been
- 1:17Speaker 2: doing that, you know, the entire time. And when the
- 1:20Speaker 2: games on the line, we get the ball, guys are calm,
- 1:23Speaker 2: guys know what to do and they go out and execute.
- 1:25Speaker 3: You've had those game when he touched game winning drives.
- 1:27Speaker 3: This year, Arizona's also won three games right.
- 1:29Speaker 2: Two points.
- 1:30Speaker 1: What what does heavy those experiences do when you get.
- 1:34Speaker 3: To this part of the season.
- 1:35Speaker 2: Yeah, these games are gonna all of them are gonna
- 1:37Speaker 2: feel like playoff games. The NFL is always a close
- 1:40Speaker 2: league and there's always a lot of one score games,
- 1:42Speaker 2: and so when you, like I said, when you got
- 1:44Speaker 2: the ball at the end and you got a chance
- 1:46Speaker 2: to close it out, that's your moment to go and
- 1:48Speaker 2: take it. And as an offense, as a quarterback. We
- 1:51Speaker 2: thrive in those moments. We appreciate him, I love them,
- 1:53Speaker 2: I enjoy him, and uh, you know, we just gotta
- 1:55Speaker 2: look forward to the next one.
- 1:57Speaker 1: Yea with a stepperated in Atlanta for the Five Blind
- 2:00Speaker 1: Men or all guys.
- 2:01Speaker 3: Drafty watched for years, a couple.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Of second years, Mike girlf for that American.
- 2:05Speaker 3: Playing something this year? Have you seen the young guys
- 2:07Speaker 3: on that want to step out? I think everyone is
- 2:09Speaker 3: doing such a tremendous job.
- 2:10Speaker 2: And I think the continuity, you know, that's a huge
- 2:14Speaker 2: aspect to playing O line. But I think with even
- 2:16Speaker 2: with the shuffling of guys and other guys stepping in
- 2:18Speaker 2: and stepping up, you see how connected that entire room
- 2:22Speaker 2: is in that group, how they all play connected and
- 2:24Speaker 2: no matter who steps in there, you know, Coach Huff's
- 2:27Speaker 2: doing a great job and Nude just doing a great
- 2:28Speaker 2: job and making sure they're prepared and they're ready mentally
- 2:31Speaker 2: and then physically. You know, they got to go out
- 2:33Speaker 2: there and they got to execute. But just that entire group, man,
- 2:35Speaker 2: guys have stepped up the entire year. It's been a
- 2:37Speaker 2: different guy the entire year, and they're only going to
- 2:40Speaker 2: continue to get better as they gel and play together.
- 2:43Speaker 2: What you see from the Arizona's past rush and kind
- 2:46Speaker 2: of their their front line, there's a lot of different
- 2:47Speaker 2: guys getting involved. Yeah, they have multiple defenders up front.
- 2:51Speaker 2: They give you multiple looks. They do a great job
- 2:53Speaker 2: at really mixing the looks and showing you one thing
- 2:56Speaker 2: and then the next time it's something else. And so
- 2:58Speaker 2: we would like to call out a game plan defence
- 3:00Speaker 2: where we're gonna figure out what they're doing once we
- 3:02Speaker 2: get there on Sunday, and uh, the key thing is
- 3:04Speaker 2: being able to obviously use your rules and then you know,
- 3:08Speaker 2: if there's an adjustment that needs to be made, you know,
- 3:10Speaker 2: make sure everyone's on the same page, get the adjustment done,
- 3:13Speaker 2: and then go out there and make it happen.
- 3:14Speaker 3: That was the limit of power in your effectives present
- 3:17Speaker 3: at home.
- 3:18Speaker 2: You know, it's just a little bit colder in the
- 3:19Speaker 2: indoor as you guys see, But for the most part,
- 3:22Speaker 2: you know, the prep has been great. I think guys
- 3:24Speaker 2: have you know, obviously without power at home, it's gonna
- 3:26Speaker 2: you know, hinder some things. But guys have been doing
- 3:29Speaker 2: a great job of you know, studying and uh, it
- 3:31Speaker 2: allows you to spend extra hours at the facility.
- 3:33Speaker 3: You know, if you don't got power.
- 3:34Speaker 2: At home, you got power here, so you can spend
- 3:36Speaker 2: extra hours here and just studying. And you know, we're
- 3:38Speaker 2: not gonna use it as an excuse. There's a lot
- 3:40Speaker 2: of people without power, and uh we're just blessed to
- 3:43Speaker 2: be able to, you know, come to work and still
- 3:45Speaker 2: do our jobs. Any of the stuff limit it was
- 3:47Speaker 2: like training, but take care of your body like as
- 3:49Speaker 2: any of that stuff. Uh so it's cold showers, got
- 3:52Speaker 2: a man up, you know, take a cold shower, and
- 3:54Speaker 2: then uh yeah, there's no sauna, you know, some of
- 3:56Speaker 2: the things that we're accustomed to having because there's no
- 3:59Speaker 2: electric there aren't you know here for our service. But
- 4:02Speaker 2: for the most part, man, we got everything we need
- 4:04Speaker 2: and we'll be ready on Sundays.
- 4:06Speaker 3: You know, I do yet.
- 4:08Speaker 4: What how have you and Ryan grubbs relationship changed as
- 4:12Speaker 4: you've learned each other.
- 4:13Speaker 3: He's a ten games. It's just growing. It's just continuing
- 4:16Speaker 3: to grow.
- 4:16Speaker 2: And uh, as as Grubb and I as we you know,
- 4:18Speaker 2: we got to know each other early and we spent
- 4:20Speaker 2: a lot of time just getting to know each other
- 4:22Speaker 2: as people and as human first, and then as we
- 4:25Speaker 2: continue to grow. The offenses I continue to develop under him.
- 4:29Speaker 2: The trust factor has always been there, but it's continuing
- 4:31Speaker 2: to grow.
- 4:32Speaker 3: Uh.
- 4:32Speaker 2: I know that he's gonna make the right call at
- 4:34Speaker 2: the right time, and he trusts me to make the
- 4:36Speaker 2: right decision.
- 4:36Speaker 3: So we're hand in hand with that.
- 4:39Speaker 2: You know, we talk every single day, we're in the
- 4:40Speaker 2: meeting room together, and uh, it's it's our first year,
- 4:43Speaker 2: but I think we're off to a great start and
- 4:44Speaker 2: we can only improve.
- 4:45Speaker 4: How have you noticed him changed from game one to now?
- 4:48Speaker 4: How he calls the game?
- 4:50Speaker 3: Not much.
- 4:50Speaker 2: Man, He's aggressive. He you know, he wants to get
- 4:53Speaker 2: his calls off the sheet. He knows what he wants,
- 4:55Speaker 2: and uh, we're trying to you know, take advantage of
- 4:57Speaker 2: the defense in any way we can. And I think
- 4:59Speaker 2: he's done a great job of just you know, calling
- 5:01Speaker 2: games for this offense and tailoring it for the guys
- 5:04Speaker 2: on this offense, and it's allowed, you know, everyone to
- 5:07Speaker 2: step up and make great plays.
- 5:08Speaker 1: There's a lot of folks that are skeptical about college
- 5:10Speaker 1: oc is making the jump to the NFL. Can you
- 5:12Speaker 1: talk about what do you think is working so far
- 5:14Speaker 1: in that transition and where's some areas you're hoping that.
- 5:16Speaker 3: Things get better. Yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's
- 5:19Speaker 3: always gonna be. Uh.
- 5:20Speaker 2: You know, a difference when you go from college to
- 5:22Speaker 2: the NFL. That's with anything. And I think, you know,
- 5:25Speaker 2: only grub can tell you exactly what the differences are.
- 5:28Speaker 2: I haven't been in college for so long, but I
- 5:30Speaker 2: just know football is football. You know x's and no's
- 5:33Speaker 2: and is x's and o's, and you know, if you
- 5:35Speaker 2: know the game, if you know how defenses react to
- 5:37Speaker 2: certain things, you can you know, get you you can
- 5:39Speaker 2: set them up in a certain way and get your
- 5:41Speaker 2: calls and it should. You know, it comes down to
- 5:43Speaker 2: execution at the end of the day. You know, the
- 5:45Speaker 2: players got to go out there and make the plays
- 5:46Speaker 2: come alive.
- 5:47Speaker 1: Have you noticed differences between this offense and past offenses
- 5:50Speaker 1: you've been in.
- 5:51Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's there's definitely some differences. But you know,
- 5:54Speaker 2: like I said, football is football, and you know, curl
- 5:57Speaker 2: route is always gonna be a curl route. You know,
- 5:58Speaker 2: you can't really change the lot of things. You're not
- 6:00Speaker 2: gonna reinvent the wheel. But there's different ways that we
- 6:03Speaker 2: approach things, and there's different ways we try to attack defenses.
- 6:06Speaker 1: That last drive though, you guys had like, how in
- 6:08Speaker 1: how in cef are you with him?
- 6:09Speaker 3: But I mean how much credication is there?
- 6:11Speaker 2: Uh, there's a lot of communication, like on that situation
- 6:14Speaker 2: in that in that last drive when I got sacked
- 6:16Speaker 2: right there, you know, there was a chance to call
- 6:17Speaker 2: the time out, but he already had a play up
- 6:19Speaker 2: and he was like, hey, we're fine, we got enough time,
- 6:21Speaker 2: you know, let's get this playoff. And it actually led
- 6:23Speaker 2: us to get in the first down.
- 6:25Speaker 3: Uh. There's another situation.
- 6:26Speaker 2: Right before the two minute where he called it play
- 6:28Speaker 2: and he's like, hey, if if you don't love it,
- 6:29Speaker 2: you know, you can take the two minutes. I like
- 6:31Speaker 2: the play, So we got a first down on that.
- 6:33Speaker 2: So uh, the communication is, uh, you know him always
- 6:37Speaker 2: reminded me of certain things and then obviously giving me
- 6:40Speaker 2: the goal, the go away to uh the leeway to
- 6:42Speaker 2: go go ahead and make the decision.
- 6:44Speaker 3: How quickly after the play adds did you get to
- 6:47Speaker 3: europe coordinator.
- 6:48Speaker 2: Against really as soon as I mean I know there's
- 6:50Speaker 2: a someone you know buzzing them in, but uh, just
- 6:54Speaker 2: like a second or two, maybe.
- 6:56Speaker 1: You look at their those defense there have like brew
- 6:58Speaker 1: the stands out as if it came.
- 7:00Speaker 3: Some of those guys are relatively I know.
- 7:01Speaker 1: So what are you seeing out of that pretty young group?
- 7:03Speaker 2: Yeah, young group, but you know guys that are flying around,
- 7:06Speaker 2: they're playing connected, they're all playing together. Then they they
- 7:10Speaker 2: like their scheme. You can tell. It's it's fun to
- 7:12Speaker 2: have those three safeties back there and Buddah gets a
- 7:15Speaker 2: chance to roam and all those guys get a chance
- 7:16Speaker 2: to just kind of, you know, do their thing. But
- 7:18Speaker 2: they're playing sound defense. They try to keep everything in front. Uh.
- 7:22Speaker 2: They want to make sure that you're not hitting the
- 7:23Speaker 2: big plays. Their offense does a great job at ball control.
- 7:26Speaker 2: They try to you know, control the time of possession.
- 7:29Speaker 2: All the games they won, they've done that. And their defense,
- 7:32Speaker 2: I mean they get you off the field. They get
- 7:34Speaker 2: you backed up when they do those blitzes, and then
- 7:35Speaker 2: they get you off the field on third.
- 7:36Speaker 3: Down over there. I guess what you remember him? That
- 7:40Speaker 3: the same guy?
- 7:41Speaker 2: Yeah, man, Lj's he's still out there. He's playing hard
- 7:44Speaker 2: out there, he's getting after it. Yeah, he's he's the
- 7:46Speaker 2: same guy he was here man. Just a hard worker
- 7:49Speaker 2: and the guy who's gonna give maximum effort and he's
- 7:51Speaker 2: gonna do whatever it takes, you know, I know it's
- 7:53Speaker 2: gonna you know, mean a lot for him to play
- 7:54Speaker 2: against us and a couple other guys on that team.
- 7:57Speaker 2: So yeah, they're gonna come out and play hard, but
- 8:00Speaker 2: you know we'll be ready with the risk.
- 8:01Speaker 3: Ed is right is to be like a number when
- 8:03Speaker 3: you look at the rest of it. Just gives me
- 8:05Speaker 3: a number. Yep.
- 8:05Speaker 1: What's a common misperception about you as a person and
- 8:08Speaker 1: you as a player.
- 8:10Speaker 3: That's a tough question.
- 8:11Speaker 2: I don't know what all the perceptions are, so I
- 8:14Speaker 2: don't I don't know you know what what it could be.
- 8:16Speaker 2: I just I'm just living my life and I'm just
- 8:18Speaker 2: happy to be me. I don't really focus on like
- 8:20Speaker 2: what everyone else is thinking.
- 8:21Speaker 3: You know, what do you what do you make of
- 8:22Speaker 3: this division where it's at right there watching it can
- 8:25Speaker 3: be at the bottom when you can be at the top.
- 8:26Speaker 3: Kind of how tightly pack it is.
- 8:27Speaker 2: With this, Yeah, I think I mean everyone above five
- 8:30Speaker 2: hundred or at five hundred and might be the only division.
- 8:33Speaker 3: It's very competitive. There's there's anybody can get.
- 8:36Speaker 2: It can can go get this division last seven games
- 8:39Speaker 2: of the season, so it's really you know, it's gonna
- 8:42Speaker 2: feel like playoff games, like I said, every single one
- 8:45Speaker 2: and the division games are gonna you know, feel like
- 8:46Speaker 2: you want two games because they're gonna matter that much.
- 8:49Speaker 3: The clear the room.
- 8:51Speaker 4: Credo from the military, the visitors you've had, Why did
- 8:55Speaker 4: that hit in particular, why.
- 8:56Speaker 3: Did you connect with that?
- 8:57Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's something that you know, when when
- 8:59Speaker 2: those guys were speaking about just what they do and
- 9:03Speaker 2: you know how they go about missions, and you know
- 9:05Speaker 2: they're one guy was speaking on you know if e
- 9:07Speaker 2: l if we go into one room and we don't
- 9:10Speaker 2: execute it perfectly, like you can't think about that. You know,
- 9:13Speaker 2: this is a life or death situation. You can't think
- 9:15Speaker 2: about that or try to correct it in that moment.
- 9:17Speaker 2: You just gotta get to the next room and you
- 9:19Speaker 2: gotta clear the next room. And so I think that's
- 9:21Speaker 2: a lot like playing quarterback and playing football. Things are
- 9:24Speaker 2: gonna happen throughout the game and your control out of
- 9:26Speaker 2: your control, some n some negative things are gonna happen.
- 9:29Speaker 3: You may hit some adversity, but you know, if.
- 9:31Speaker 2: You focus on that too long, you're not gonna be
- 9:33Speaker 2: able to clear the next room, which is which means
- 9:35Speaker 2: play the next play on the.
- 9:36Speaker 4: Coach McDonald said that to you when you came off
- 9:38Speaker 4: the field. Yeah, and did you smile? Did you automatically known?
- 9:42Speaker 3: Yeah? I knew what he was talking about. Yeah.
- 9:44Speaker 2: We we talk about that all the time, like clear
- 9:46Speaker 2: the room. You know, you said, give yourself some grace,
- 9:48Speaker 2: clear the room, which I was already in that mindset,
- 9:51Speaker 2: but him saying that just you know, made it amplified,
- 9:54Speaker 2: it made it a little better.
- 9:56Speaker 3: Yeah. And when did when did you first hear the
- 9:58Speaker 3: further room? That's aga?
- 10:00Speaker 2: This could have been maybe three or four weeks ago.
- 10:03Speaker 2: The Navy Seals came and they spoke to us.
- 10:05Speaker 1: In general, what do you guys get out of us?
- 10:07Speaker 3: Because its one of their stakes you knows, or or
- 10:09Speaker 3: whoever coming to hockey guys.
- 10:11Speaker 2: In just perspective, you know, it's not you know, they're
- 10:15Speaker 2: in life or death situations. But it takes teamwork, you know,
- 10:18Speaker 2: it takes a mind certain mindset, takes a certain ability.
- 10:22Speaker 2: So a lot of that is similar to what we do,
- 10:24Speaker 2: and you just gain a different perspective from someone else
- 10:27Speaker 2: who is doing it. You know, high level stakes and
- 10:31Speaker 2: but that there's are a lot higher than ours. But
- 10:33Speaker 2: you know, just what are their what's their mindset. What
- 10:35Speaker 2: are they're thinking about? How do they you know, go
- 10:38Speaker 2: about a successful mission and or or a failed mission?
- 10:41Speaker 2: You know, like what are they gonna do? What are
- 10:43Speaker 2: they gonna say when they get back to the base
- 10:46Speaker 2: that last.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Run you had, did you know immediately like the end
- 10:48Speaker 1: zone was open or where you're thinking that you can
- 10:50Speaker 1: get out of bounce?
- 10:51Speaker 3: Obviously? Yeah, I just saw the polon.
- 10:53Speaker 2: I kind of knew what coverage they were in, so
- 10:55Speaker 2: I knew the backery on my left would have to
- 10:57Speaker 2: relate to that back And I just feel like if he,
- 11:00Speaker 2: you know, ran in there too far, if I could
- 11:02Speaker 2: escape to my left, you know, I could get out
- 11:03Speaker 2: of bounds. I knew the clock was running, so either
- 11:05Speaker 2: got to stop the clock there, get out of bounds,
- 11:07Speaker 2: or score.
- 11:07Speaker 3: I saw the poln, so you know, went for it.
- 11:09Speaker 1: How much of the connection to you and Jackson right
- 11:12Speaker 1: now those season, Jesus, that's if you gave the e
- 11:14Speaker 1: treaty to babys of the work the game.
- 11:16Speaker 2: The season to get into uh, I would hope just
- 11:18Speaker 2: a lot of it, man, Like just how comfortable we
- 11:21Speaker 2: are with one another, our communication on the sideline and
- 11:24Speaker 2: end games. You know, we're just developing that. You know,
- 11:27Speaker 2: it's kind of unspoken. We don't have to say anything,
- 11:29Speaker 2: but we kind of know what to do. And you know,
- 11:31Speaker 2: when when we're out there, you know that's something that's developing.
- 11:34Speaker 2: But you know, we still got DK, we still got Tyler,
- 11:37Speaker 2: we still got no We still you know, AJ's been
- 11:39Speaker 2: stepping up, Tyler, you know, all all the running backs
- 11:42Speaker 2: have stepped up.
- 11:42Speaker 3: So it's it's a development thing with all of us.
- 11:45Speaker 2: And I think Jackson has been doing a great job
- 11:47Speaker 2: at making plays. But all of those guys are capable,
- 11:50Speaker 2: and you know, we just gotta keep working at it.
- 11:52Speaker 1: When you're throwing together as an offseason, how much can
- 11:54Speaker 1: you really simulate, like an extended play situation.
- 11:57Speaker 3: That's something we actually don't do.
- 11:59Speaker 2: We actually try to work more in rhythm, and you know,
- 12:02Speaker 2: I mean, obviously there's not a full defense out there,
- 12:04Speaker 2: but you can't really simulate, you know, a scrambled drill
- 12:06Speaker 2: because you don't have all the working parts. But you know,
- 12:09Speaker 2: we just try to work in rhythm and I try to,
- 12:11Speaker 2: you know, help him visualize what the defense is gonna
- 12:14Speaker 2: look like versus a certain coverage. And then obviously you
- 12:16Speaker 2: gotta play the game.
- 12:18Speaker 3: As you see it.
- 12:18Speaker 2: So, uh, there's a lot of work that gets put in,
- 12:21Speaker 2: you know, in the off season, but mainly the work
- 12:23Speaker 2: gets put in practice when we're out here with the
- 12:25Speaker 2: defense in Miami, right yea, how long was he done there?
- 12:30Speaker 3: Have you got a new Marvin Harris Harrison Junior from no?
- 12:34Speaker 2: I just uh, I know JJ my cousin, he he,
- 12:37Speaker 2: he took a liking to him when he was going
- 12:38Speaker 2: up there on visits and they got pretty close by.
- 12:40Speaker 3: I haven't met him myself. Interested to get a brief comb
- 12:43Speaker 3: of a contract Congo. The terms pot this week is
- 12:46Speaker 3: that's advancement for back of your mind to see.
- 12:48Speaker 2: Nah, that's uh. He asked me a question, so I
- 12:50Speaker 2: had to answer it. But that's that's really not on
- 12:53Speaker 2: the back of my mind, or it's not on my
- 12:54Speaker 2: mind right now. I'm really focused on these next seven
- 12:57Speaker 2: games and really this one, this one game, and uh,
- 13:00Speaker 2: like I said to Sharn, you know, maybe I'll have
- 13:02Speaker 2: to hit him up to be my agent or something
- 13:04Speaker 2: the way he was talking. But yeah, I don't. I
- 13:06Speaker 2: don't really worry about those things. The only thing that
- 13:09Speaker 2: I can count on is I'll be playing football next
- 13:11Speaker 2: year and beyond.
- 13:12Speaker 3: Important to big guys.
- 13:13Speaker 2: The back kat success, that's that's the most important thing.
- 13:17Speaker 2: I think we're at the stretch now where we're gonna
- 13:20Speaker 2: have some really meaningful games at home. And you know,
- 13:23Speaker 2: when I think about Seattle and I think about the
- 13:25Speaker 2: fan base, the twelves and all the meaningful games that
- 13:28Speaker 2: they've had, and just how they affected those games with
- 13:31Speaker 2: the noise and all all the you know, energy they brought.
- 13:33Speaker 2: And so these games are gonna be so electric. I
- 13:36Speaker 2: can't wait to be in the stadium on Sunday. Man,
- 13:38Speaker 2: it's gonna it's gonna be so fun. We're looking forward
- 13:41Speaker 2: to the fans being there and it's just going crazy.
- 13:43Speaker 1: He's struggling the most with the cold showers.
- 13:46Speaker 3: I've been going home to showers, so I don't know.
- 13:49Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not gonna ask a guy about a shower,
- 13:51Speaker 2: but that's something you might have to ask them.
- 13:55Speaker 3: Thank you, guys,