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Pete Carroll: "We Didn't Stop Them Consistently" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Watch out. Uh really disappointing. Uh, missing this opportunity right here.
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  Speaker 2: At home.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was ready, and uh, this was a great one
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  Speaker 1: and we missed it. We went right on on defense.
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  Speaker 1: Uh in the running game again and uh so it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's been repetitive.
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  Speaker 2: We can see it.
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  Speaker 1: We played better in the second half. We get forty
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  Speaker 1: something hours in the second half, but the first half
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  Speaker 1: they had their way with it. And uh so some
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  Speaker 1: some stuff we got we got to get right for
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  Speaker 1: for our last opportunity next week. But the other's side,
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  Speaker 1: the ball, we moved the ball, but we didn't get
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  Speaker 1: the ball enough. You know, we can get the ball
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  Speaker 1: back to the to the offense minimum amount of drives.
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  Speaker 1: It was just it was just the clock was just
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  Speaker 1: rolling on there in their favor. So I'm surprised we
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  Speaker 1: didn't play better. We did the things we needed, we
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  Speaker 1: needed in the game plan, and we we called everything
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  Speaker 1: that we had and we didn't stop them insistently. Both
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  Speaker 1: the running backs did a really nice job against us,
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  Speaker 1: and and uh it was just more than we handled
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  Speaker 1: and could handle on this day.
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  Speaker 2: And a couple of guys get banged up. You so,
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  Speaker 2: Kenny couldn't play.
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  Speaker 1: Gains shoulder banged again, so that was tough, and A
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  Speaker 1: banged his knee again too, and uh, Evan got hit
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  Speaker 1: hit in the head and needed a break. So I
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  Speaker 1: got a couple. You know, some guys. We'll have to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what's going on with them next week.
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  Speaker 3: What with the run defense feed? Is it as simple
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  Speaker 3: as just tackling or is there more to it than that?
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  Speaker 2: Tackling just seemed like it was really off.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like we just did not make the tackles
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  Speaker 1: that we had to, didn knock the piles back like
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  Speaker 1: we'd like to. And uh, I mean I really wanted
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  Speaker 1: to see the film, see w where it was happening, uh,
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  Speaker 1: to guys other than scheme, and and make sure that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't understand that, which we will.
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  Speaker 2: But uh yeah, tackling wasn't good enough. And and we
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  Speaker 2: we weren't a fishing enough.
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  Speaker 1: We had shots, shots in the line of scrimmage, We
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  Speaker 1: had opportunities, and uh they they they won the the
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  Speaker 1: battles better than we did.
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  Speaker 2: What can you do about the tackling you haven't already
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  Speaker 2: try done? You know, we.
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  Speaker 1: At this point of the season, I need to see,
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  Speaker 1: you know, really great, what what is that?
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  Speaker 2: What? What again? Happened this time?
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  Speaker 1: That that might have been unique? But there's you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's all kinds of fundamental stuff. You know, it's by
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  Speaker 1: wrapping up, bringing their feet and doing those things. Well
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  Speaker 1: we I mean, it can't be more obvious from watching
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  Speaker 1: the film. And so the principles that we we stand
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  Speaker 1: forward and teach and all that we we're gonna come
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  Speaker 1: back to them again and see if we can pull
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  Speaker 1: pull it together. Did they throw anything at you offensively
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  Speaker 1: that you weren't expecting or is that what you expected
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  Speaker 1: the first play of the final sequence. Surprised that they're
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  Speaker 1: calling the cold slander out and then hit it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's very so rare thing that the team would do,
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  Speaker 1: and they executed it really well and change the kind
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  Speaker 1: of that sequence force.
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  Speaker 2: You know, surprised. I was surprised they did that.
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  Speaker 3: But nothing with the way they were running the ball,
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  Speaker 3: always doing nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a mindset that has to change tackling as well?
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  Speaker 1: Besides this Machames and mind I mean, I mind set.
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  Speaker 2: There, that's part of it. It's certainly part of it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I would thought we we we felt like
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  Speaker 1: we were jacked and ready to go and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: we felt like we really hammered the principles in the
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  Speaker 1: scheme this week so that we could play really efficient
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  Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage, and and it didn't. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't work for us, and we didn't work out. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they continued to fall forward and make their yards. So
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  Speaker 1: but mindset is, it's a good question because that it
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  Speaker 1: needs to be.
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  Speaker 2: Different than it was, or look what just happened. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we just we gave them too much.
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  Speaker 3: What's just kind of a message coming out of this
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  Speaker 3: game with one left to go.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, there's a one game to go, and we don't
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  Speaker 1: know what we know what the scenario is gonna bring us.
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  Speaker 1: We've been here before, you I think it was last
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  Speaker 1: year pretty pretty much the same thing. We got to
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  Speaker 1: go to Arizona and go play really well and get
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  Speaker 1: a win and see where that leaves us. I know
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  Speaker 1: there's stuff tonight and all that, but in particulars right now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care.
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  Speaker 2: If we gotta go win the game and see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: You get the ball backer that chanced to drive for
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  Speaker 3: a touchdown there late the first time? What did you
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  Speaker 3: kind of see on that play with Genomes.
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  Speaker 1: From side or what happened, got mad a nice nice
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  Speaker 1: pass rush moving and hit us and on the sack
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  Speaker 1: the funnel that we lost. Yeah, it was you know,
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  Speaker 1: we got beat and uh you know, all got knocked out.
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  Speaker 2: We couldn't come up with it. All in all.
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  Speaker 1: The pass protection held up during the day that the
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  Speaker 1: concept and the approach. I think different things that we
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  Speaker 1: did gave us a chance. It was not We were
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  Speaker 1: not harassed by the pass rush today. And they did
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  Speaker 1: a good job and Stone went in there and did
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  Speaker 1: a good job and using the different things that we did,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and it was efficient. It was just
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  Speaker 1: one time they got us and they got the ball.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nice job by the defense going out there
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  Speaker 1: making them kick a field goal right there. As deep
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  Speaker 1: as that was, we've done that all year, but we
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  Speaker 1: needed it at the time.
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  Speaker 3: With the on side kick of kicking it deep and
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  Speaker 3: trying to do it that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know, if we kicked the ball out bounds,
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  Speaker 1: I mean out of the end zone, we had done that,
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  Speaker 1: but we weren't. We weren't hitting the ball well enough
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  Speaker 1: to do that. So that was the first thought. So
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  Speaker 1: we had we had to kick it and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to return it and bring it back out. We can't
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  Speaker 1: just stop the clock there automatically, you know. So to me,
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  Speaker 1: the on sides kicked the thing is it's a chance
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  Speaker 1: to get the football is not a very good chance,
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  Speaker 1: but we have to stop them no matter what, stop
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  Speaker 1: them three plays right there or whether it's back here
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  Speaker 1: or here. And uh so we had an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: get the football, and so that's what we went for
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  Speaker 1: the challenge.
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  Speaker 3: Did you think the spots should have been before.
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  Speaker 2: The line of the game. I thought it was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we we we saw it upstairs first that you
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  Speaker 1: know that he went out of bounds abound the seven
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  Speaker 1: or eight right in there, and then we looked at
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  Speaker 1: it again. We thought, you know, in the quick little
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  Speaker 1: flash that we get on the screen, that we might
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  Speaker 1: have something there and it would have been short. I
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  Speaker 1: think it would have been short of the first down.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the reason to you know, take a
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  Speaker 1: shot out at that point. I mean, I'm not saving
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  Speaker 1: time outs or saving the flag.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine the pass protection in their pass rush, just the
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  Speaker 3: job Gino did to help with out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought Geno maneved it really well. His runs
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  Speaker 1: were fishing. He was really resourceful. And when he was
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  Speaker 1: moving and found DK found Colby found some really nice plays. No,
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  Speaker 1: I think think too, and and I thought he played
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  Speaker 1: really well to get that accomplished it for us we
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  Speaker 1: needed it with Walker.
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  Speaker 3: Did he heart Shulder of practice again this week or not?
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  Speaker 2: Or no? It was from last week?
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  Speaker 3: Early indication as to how bad the knee injury is.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, he it sounded like he he kind of
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  Speaker 1: wrenched a little bit. I don't think he reinjured it
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  Speaker 1: as much as he just just didn't have enough power
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  Speaker 1: to keep to come back.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, what would you think of how can he played? Before?
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  Speaker 1: I thought he played really well. I thought he was
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  Speaker 1: doing all kinds of good stuff and we felt like
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  Speaker 1: we were coming like we averaged pretty you know, a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good average around the football.
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  Speaker 2: Today.
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  Speaker 1: We just didn't get enough of him. But uh, he
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  Speaker 1: looked pretty good. I thought he looked sharp.
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  Speaker 3: Witherspoon, what did you think of being able to come back?
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  Speaker 1: I know that I remember right early in the game
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  Speaker 1: that he made a nice tackle and then I saw
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  Speaker 1: missing miss one. You know, he's been out for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks now, and I don't think he was
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  Speaker 1: as sharp as he's been, you know, and he had
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  Speaker 1: to kind of get going again. I don't I can't
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  Speaker 1: tell you more and longer into the game how he went.
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  Speaker 2: But it was good to have him back.
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  Speaker 3: And Jordan, I mean, obviously having to go with Devin
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  Speaker 3: instuded Jordan there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jordan's ankle has just continued to bother him and
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  Speaker 1: then and he banned it pretty good last week and
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel like he could get all the way back,
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  Speaker 1: and we thought it would give us a chance to
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  Speaker 1: give him an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: If he played on this way, he would be really
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  Speaker 2: hobbling next week.
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  Speaker 1: So we thought this was the best choice, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to try to give him an opportunity to get back
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  Speaker 1: and get right.
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  Speaker 3: The decision to put them all on I r. I
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  Speaker 3: mean it seems like it did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's to me, it's a heartbreaker. He did everything
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  Speaker 1: he could. I've said this to you a number of times.
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  Speaker 1: He tried so hard to get right, to get back,
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  Speaker 1: and he and he just couldn't make it all the
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  Speaker 1: way back.
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  Speaker 2: There wasn't enough time.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to need the time in the off season
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  Speaker 1: to get you know, get a couple more months you
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  Speaker 1: know behind him. That the weeks that we took and
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  Speaker 1: We tried a couple different times to experiment with some
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  Speaker 1: breaks to see if that would help him, but it
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  Speaker 1: really didn't. We kind of came to the conclusion together
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  Speaker 1: that you know, he couldn't get right, he couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: full speed, couldn't get where he put his foot in
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  Speaker 1: the ground. And so unfortunately, I admire the heck out
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  Speaker 1: of him. He did everything he could. He busts his
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  Speaker 1: tail throughout the whole time, with the right attitude and all,
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  Speaker 1: and it was really hard to have to get to
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  Speaker 1: the point and go, yeah, you know, I'm not able
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  Speaker 1: to get back. So but we did it together and
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  Speaker 1: it was I think we handled it well.
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  Speaker 3: The hope now he can start kind of rehappened and
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  Speaker 3: to get.
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  Speaker 1: Here, yeah he's starting, yea, And he'll make it back.
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  Speaker 1: He just this is an injury that takes more than
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  Speaker 1: the time we.
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  Speaker 2: Had if you guys were to stay alive long enough.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a thought that he could come back this
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  Speaker 1: season in the playoffs or are you shutting him down
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  Speaker 1: for good? Well, there's the four week window here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we could see, but I don't think if that's what's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen. I don't We've had enough breaks to
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  Speaker 1: see him recovering. There's not enough time, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: anything could happen and hopefully we'd have that choice.
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  Speaker 3: Frank Clark, what sort of happened with there?
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  Speaker 1: Just got down the numbers, and uh, Frankie did a
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  Speaker 1: nice job for us, coming in early and all of that,
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  Speaker 1: and he knows he's still available if we need him.
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  Speaker 1: We're really competing for roster spots to get get the
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  Speaker 1: right kids on the field and all that. So I
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  Speaker 1: really appreciate all of the play that Frankie gave us
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  Speaker 1: over the years. He'd been a great great seahawk and
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  Speaker 1: he could see what was going on, and so he
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  Speaker 1: helped us out with this one.
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  Speaker 3: What's the challenge for the team's leaders now? This week
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  Speaker 3: coming up?
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  Speaker 2: Now, we just got to stay right to it.
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  Speaker 1: If you hear Gino in the locker room right there
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  Speaker 1: and you said, there ain't no time to feeling sorry
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  Speaker 1: for yourself, and he couldn't be more right.
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  Speaker 2: We got to get going.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta come back to my own and get get
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  Speaker 1: the week started and and go after it again. So
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  Speaker 1: just like when you have the big wins, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to deal with that when you have the losses.
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  Speaker 1: You got to deal with that, and so hopefully the
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  Speaker 1: discipline that we've established will allow us to come back
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  Speaker 1: and get ready. I mean, Arizona, didn't they win at
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  Speaker 1: Philly today or against Philly. I mean, obviously they're capable
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  Speaker 1: of playing great football, so they ain't gonna be easy whatever.
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  Speaker 2: There's no easy games. It's all really hard and it's
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  Speaker 2: a championship opportunity for us. We'll see what you know,
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  Speaker 2: what the other circumstances allow, and we'll see. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: We we lost our control of it. We had control
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  Speaker 2: of it and we gave that up today.
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  Speaker 3: Anything else, like you