Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Geno Smith: "I've Gotten Better At Every Single Thing"
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Did it good? Good?
- 0:03Speaker 2: But you know you're one of the most accurate pass
- 0:05Speaker 2: in the NFL.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Guys, I'm the best arms the NFL.
- 0:07Speaker 2: How do you balance being aggressive and taking risks downfield
- 0:11Speaker 2: versus taking a profit on check coup?
- 0:13Speaker 3: Uh?
- 0:13Speaker 1: First of all, thank you for the assessment.
- 0:15Speaker 3: You know, I think it it all comes down to,
- 0:17Speaker 3: you know, really just trusting in your reads. Uh. You know,
- 0:19Speaker 3: every play you know, really has a read and it's
- 0:22Speaker 3: based on the coverage. Really, so, uh, you know, you
- 0:25Speaker 3: gotta start with your footwork, in your eyes, and then
- 0:27Speaker 3: obviously just trusting your reads, trusting yourself and being able
- 0:30Speaker 3: to throw accurate ball.
- 0:30Speaker 1: I mean, that's the most important thing in playing quarterback.
- 0:33Speaker 3: And so you know, like you said, I feel like
- 0:35Speaker 3: I'm one of the best at that, and so I
- 0:36Speaker 3: just try to, you know, do the right things at
- 0:38Speaker 3: all times and let the game come to me.
- 0:40Speaker 4: What just training camp allow you to do as far
- 0:42Speaker 4: as installed that wasn't there during many camping ouselves.
- 0:46Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the you know a lot of back
- 0:48Speaker 3: and forth, you know, with the defense and just being
- 0:50Speaker 3: able to you know, come out here and obviously you know,
- 0:53Speaker 3: we we get the reps. As far as routes on air,
- 0:55Speaker 3: and then we do some you know, team stuff on air.
- 0:57Speaker 3: But whenever you got an opponent in front of you,
- 0:59Speaker 3: you know, you just able to.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Get that much better.
- 1:01Speaker 3: And we play against I mean, we got a great defense. Uh,
- 1:04Speaker 3: they're playing in a tremendous scheme. Uh, they're challenging us
- 1:07Speaker 3: every single day and it's only making both sides better.
- 1:10Speaker 1: You can see it out there, man.
- 1:11Speaker 3: You know, like guys are going back and forth making plays,
- 1:13Speaker 3: and that's what you want from a team.
- 1:14Speaker 1: That's that's the sign of a good team.
- 1:16Speaker 4: I think frustration though, when they showed you something that
- 1:20Speaker 4: you were not versus competition.
- 1:23Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know that's the that's the thing.
- 1:24Speaker 3: You know, we're not scouting each other. You know, everyone's
- 1:27Speaker 3: in install phases right now, so you know, sometimes the
- 1:30Speaker 3: defense will have a better play on than we do.
- 1:32Speaker 3: And uh, the great thing about our offense is that
- 1:34Speaker 3: as quarterbacks, we have the privilege to you know, get
- 1:36Speaker 3: into the right play and uh, you know, really try
- 1:39Speaker 3: to always be in a good play. You know, you
- 1:41Speaker 3: try to not to you know, waste any downs, especially
- 1:44Speaker 3: in this league. Man, every down is critical, So just
- 1:46Speaker 3: always trying to get to the right play and uh,
- 1:48Speaker 3: like I said, we gotta have answers and that's something
- 1:50Speaker 3: we work on daily.
- 1:51Speaker 1: You know.
- 1:52Speaker 4: OTAs you were saying that you felt like you guys
- 1:54Speaker 4: were gonna really get spot learning the offense. Now a
- 1:56Speaker 4: couple of days in the camp, how do you feel
- 1:57Speaker 4: about the progress where things are at the season?
- 2:00Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a work in progress. We're only three days
- 2:03Speaker 3: in the camp. Like I said, we got a long
- 2:05Speaker 3: ways to go there. There can be no complacency in
- 2:08Speaker 3: this group, and I don't see that. Everyone's got to
- 2:11Speaker 3: continue to push themselves and try to get better every
- 2:13Speaker 3: single day. That's that's the reason we're out here. That's
- 2:15Speaker 3: the reason for training camp. You want to build up
- 2:17Speaker 3: to the season. You know, you shouldn't be at your
- 2:20Speaker 3: best right now. But I do feel like we at
- 2:22Speaker 3: a really good spot. And like I said, man, we
- 2:24Speaker 3: just got to push each other every day. We got
- 2:26Speaker 3: to go in there and watch the film, clean up
- 2:28Speaker 3: the things, the mistakes that we had on the field today,
- 2:30Speaker 3: and then you know, take practice tomorrow with the vengeance,
- 2:32Speaker 3: with the purpose, and try and get better.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Last week, you feel like you're still getting better. Your
- 2:37Speaker 1: teammates are up here raving.
- 2:38Speaker 2: About you just Jennery, just now was it what't allowed
- 2:41Speaker 2: you going into your twelve? Do you think to continue
- 2:43Speaker 2: to improve?
- 2:44Speaker 3: You know, just a mindset of hard work, a tireless mindset.
- 2:49Speaker 1: Uh.
- 2:49Speaker 3: Never never satisfied that type of stuff. And then you know, obviously,
- 2:53Speaker 3: you know, God is a lot of that's just God,
- 2:56Speaker 3: you know, God giving you got to be able to,
- 2:57Speaker 3: you know, improve when you're working hard, and you know,
- 3:00Speaker 3: to be thirty three, about to be thirty four, and
- 3:02Speaker 3: I've gotten faster, I've gotten stronger, i put on more muscle.
- 3:06Speaker 3: You know, you got to credit the strength staff here,
- 3:09Speaker 3: my people back home who do a great job. And
- 3:12Speaker 3: then obviously, you know, just that mindset that I talked
- 3:14Speaker 3: about of always wanting to get better and just trying
- 3:16Speaker 3: to push yourself.
- 3:18Speaker 2: Seeing about both sides sharpening each other's tempo.
- 3:21Speaker 1: Can just talk about that both in offensive defensive. Yeah,
- 3:24Speaker 1: I mean that's that's an ongoing battle.
- 3:26Speaker 3: You know, we, like I said, we got a great
- 3:28Speaker 3: system on both sides, and we're seeing a lot of stuff,
- 3:32Speaker 3: you know, from our defense, and like I said, they're
- 3:34Speaker 3: installing right now. I don't think anyone's really scouting the opponent,
- 3:38Speaker 3: but they got some good stuff man, and they challenge
- 3:40Speaker 3: us every single day.
- 3:41Speaker 1: So like when we.
- 3:42Speaker 3: Come out here, you know, I'm just trying to make
- 3:44Speaker 3: sure we're getting to the right play, putting guys in
- 3:46Speaker 3: the best position to succeed. I think Grub's doing a
- 3:48Speaker 3: great job of giving us options and giving us answers.
- 3:51Speaker 3: And then obviously, once we take the field, we got
- 3:53Speaker 3: to execute, you know, that's the name of the game.
- 3:55Speaker 1: Execution. And so that's the thing that we're trying to
- 3:57Speaker 1: get better at.
- 3:58Speaker 5: Alluded to it a minute ago, But where do you
- 4:00Speaker 5: feel like you've made a strike forward coming into this year?
- 4:03Speaker 3: Everything I've gotten better at every single thing, you know,
- 4:06Speaker 3: including leadership, you know, all all those things have got
- 4:08Speaker 3: to get better. And you know, I'm gonna take it
- 4:10Speaker 3: day by day. That's that's kind of my mindset. I
- 4:12Speaker 3: really don't look too far ahead. Uh, but I do
- 4:15Speaker 3: see improvements within myself. And it's a credit again to
- 4:18Speaker 3: the guys around me, to my coaches, to my teammates,
- 4:20Speaker 3: to the strength staff, to the training staff, uh down
- 4:23Speaker 3: to you know, stew up up up in the cafeteria.
- 4:25Speaker 1: Man. Everybody's doing their job and doing their part. That
- 4:28Speaker 1: this new system challenge for you. You know, just a
- 4:32Speaker 1: lot of studying.
- 4:34Speaker 3: There's a lot of volume as far as plays and
- 4:36Speaker 3: uh you know, just protections and there's a bunch of
- 4:39Speaker 3: nuances within the offense that, like I said, we're still learning, learning.
- 4:43Speaker 3: It's only day three of camp. Uh we We've done
- 4:46Speaker 3: a lot of great things out there on the field,
- 4:47Speaker 3: but uh, I still feel like we got a long
- 4:49Speaker 3: ways to go. And so you know, that's the key
- 4:51Speaker 3: thing is to focus on just you know, incremental, incremental,
- 4:54Speaker 3: you know, success and just trying to get better and
- 4:56Speaker 3: stack wins.
- 4:57Speaker 1: You know, one day at a time.
- 4:58Speaker 5: Did you know what character rifics or you start to
- 5:01Speaker 5: see in the defense that makes it tough on offense
- 5:03Speaker 5: as a quarterbacks.
- 5:05Speaker 1: You know, just the multiplicity within the scheme.
- 5:08Speaker 3: You know, the fronts, linebackers moving, you got safeties, you
- 5:12Speaker 3: know moving. You know, one minute Julian loves in the box,
- 5:14Speaker 3: next minute he's flying back to the post. I don't
- 5:16Speaker 3: want to give too much away, but like these guys
- 5:18Speaker 3: are all over the place and they're flying around. You
- 5:21Speaker 3: can see they're out there having fun. We got a
- 5:23Speaker 3: great front seven. You know, they make it tough on us.
- 5:26Speaker 3: And you saw a few times where I had to
- 5:27Speaker 3: scramble left, scramble right, like, it's not gonna be easy
- 5:30Speaker 3: back there. So as long as we continue to push
- 5:32Speaker 3: each each other, I think we'll continue to get better.
- 5:34Speaker 5: Saw Baltimore last year, was that one of the first
- 5:36Speaker 5: times you've seen the defense do that much of that
- 5:39Speaker 5: as a snap.
- 5:40Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it was the first time because I
- 5:42Speaker 3: played it. You know, I was drafted by resh Ryan
- 5:44Speaker 3: and you know he was the king of that. But
- 5:46Speaker 3: I will say that the way they did it and
- 5:49Speaker 3: just the way that they got to their stuff, how
- 5:51Speaker 3: quickly they were able to communicate and just get in
- 5:54Speaker 3: and out of different defenses, I thought that was impressive.
- 5:56Speaker 3: And obviously you can see it out there on the field.
- 5:58Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot of different veterans out there
- 6:00Speaker 2: to evaluate quarterback play, a lot of different stats.
- 6:02Speaker 1: What do you think are the three or four most
- 6:05Speaker 1: important in terms of evaluating quarterbacks in today's NFL.
- 6:08Speaker 3: I mean, I'll take it back to you know, Bill
- 6:10Speaker 3: Parcells Man. You know, the number one thing you look
- 6:13Speaker 3: for in the quarterback is accuracy, you know, before decision making,
- 6:15Speaker 3: before anything.
- 6:16Speaker 1: If you're not accurate, if you.
- 6:17Speaker 3: Can't hit the target, it doesn't matter what decision you make,
- 6:20Speaker 3: and then decision making and then leadership, toughness and all
- 6:22Speaker 3: those things that you know. You can rank them however
- 6:24Speaker 3: you want, but the number one thing is accuracy at
- 6:26Speaker 3: all times. Goes this offseason and throwing with your guys.
- 6:30Speaker 3: I was down in Florida, you know, my home down
- 6:33Speaker 3: in Miami. Jackson came down and we got a lot
- 6:35Speaker 3: of one on one work. We ended up going to
- 6:37Speaker 3: Dallas and I had a bunch of guys out there
- 6:39Speaker 3: in Dallas, you know, thank you to SMU for letting
- 6:42Speaker 3: us use their field. And then we went out to
- 6:44Speaker 3: California at the UCLA, Thank you to them as well,
- 6:48Speaker 3: and got a lot of work before we got out here,
- 6:50Speaker 3: and we got some work here as well, So it
- 6:52Speaker 3: was kind of all over the place.
- 6:53Speaker 1: See the benefits of any of that while you're.
- 6:55Speaker 3: Here, one hundred percent, Yes, just I think the sharpness
- 7:00Speaker 3: in what we're doing.
- 7:00Speaker 1: I think just the accuracy.
- 7:02Speaker 3: I think, you know a lot of guys, it's a
- 7:04Speaker 3: new offense, you know, a new system, and you can
- 7:06Speaker 3: see guys out there just picking things up really fast.
- 7:08Speaker 3: And I think a lot of that is the personal
- 7:10Speaker 3: studying that guys are doing.
- 7:12Speaker 1: And some of the work that we put in, you know,
- 7:14Speaker 1: on on as well flairs back. You keep practice against
- 7:17Speaker 1: him a lot in his first stint here. Just what
- 7:19Speaker 1: do you remember about him, especially.
- 7:20Speaker 5: That twenty twenty camp when he was.
- 7:22Speaker 1: Really shoot man.
- 7:23Speaker 3: I remember he was it a pick six or fumble
- 7:25Speaker 3: recovery he got in that preseason game for a touchdown.
- 7:27Speaker 3: I remember him making a bunch of big hits and
- 7:29Speaker 3: just flying around.
- 7:31Speaker 1: You know, really think the world of Marquis happy.
- 7:33Speaker 3: He was able to, you know, battle back from some
- 7:35Speaker 3: injuries and uh, you know I saw him when I
- 7:37Speaker 3: saw him in the locker room. Man, everyone was just
- 7:39Speaker 3: so excited. You know, all the guys that have been
- 7:41Speaker 3: here with him, we know what he went through to
- 7:43Speaker 3: get back, man, and uh, you know, we're wishing him
- 7:45Speaker 3: the best.
- 7:45Speaker 1: Man.
- 7:46Speaker 3: I can't wait for him to get out there on
- 7:47Speaker 3: the field and keep showing the stuff. Yeah, Jackson man,
- 7:54Speaker 3: shoot man. Just super talented player man already. But his
- 7:57Speaker 3: mental you know, he wants it, man, he wants to learn,
- 8:00Speaker 3: he wants to work. Uh, he's calling me like, hey,
- 8:02Speaker 3: what is this?
- 8:03Speaker 1: What is that? You know, he Hey, let's go to
- 8:05Speaker 1: the field.
- 8:05Speaker 3: You know, he he's hitting me up and Uh, that's
- 8:08Speaker 3: something you want from a receiver, and all those guys
- 8:10Speaker 3: do that. But you know, Jackson's really taking ownership and
- 8:13Speaker 3: shoot the things that he does out there on the field. Man,
- 8:15Speaker 3: it's it's it's uh, you know, it's self explanatory what
- 8:17Speaker 3: he does. But for him to be taking ownership and
- 8:20Speaker 3: you know, stepping up and being a leader in his
- 8:22Speaker 3: second year, that's that's a big thing.
- 8:24Speaker 2: Quarterbacks separate themselves with the mind, not just their body,
- 8:27Speaker 2: especially as they get older.
- 8:29Speaker 1: Uh.
- 8:29Speaker 2: Curious how much of your prepping off season is improving
- 8:32Speaker 2: your mental preparation versus your physicalness.
- 8:35Speaker 4: Uh.
- 8:35Speaker 3: I think that's you know, mental you know, is a
- 8:39Speaker 3: is an ongoing thing. Obviously, mental health is a big
- 8:42Speaker 3: thing out there in the world. So uh, anytime you
- 8:44Speaker 3: can try to sharpen your mind. I play a lot
- 8:46Speaker 3: of chess, and you know, we play cards, and you know,
- 8:48Speaker 3: I try to compete in anything that I can, you know,
- 8:50Speaker 3: but I think it all it comes back to a
- 8:53Speaker 3: certain person.
- 8:53Speaker 1: It's always personal. And Uh for me, I've got a
- 8:56Speaker 1: lot of.
- 8:56Speaker 3: Motivation and so I just continue to you know, fuel
- 8:59Speaker 3: myself and push my and that's a daily thing.
- 9:01Speaker 1: You gotta keep going and you gotta be consistent with it.
- 9:03Speaker 1: What do you got to know about PJ Walker? Since
- 9:05Speaker 1: you guys have had it?
- 9:05Speaker 3: Man, you know, I've known PJ for a little bit
- 9:08Speaker 3: of time, just you know, from seeing them obviously we
- 9:10Speaker 3: played them last year and seeing them at games and
- 9:12Speaker 3: stuff like that. So always been a big fan of his.
- 9:15Speaker 3: I thought he did a tremendous job at practice today.
- 9:18Speaker 3: He's a hard worker. H He's a guy who understands
- 9:21Speaker 3: the game. He's obviously played some big time football and
- 9:23Speaker 3: you know, beating some really good teams. And so I
- 9:25Speaker 3: think PJ is a guy who's gonna help out our
- 9:27Speaker 3: QB room. And if he's got a step in there
- 9:29Speaker 3: and play, man, I know he's gonna do his thing.
- 9:30Speaker 1: What are your.
- 9:31Speaker 4: Thoughts on the NFL continuing to look out for its players,
- 9:33Speaker 4: whether it's the Guardian Caps or I know they have
- 9:35Speaker 4: a bunch of new Helmeutch.
- 9:36Speaker 1: What are your just your thoughts on the player safety
- 9:39Speaker 1: is number one.
- 9:39Speaker 3: So whatever it takes for guys to you know, be safer,
- 9:42Speaker 3: whatever it takes to cut down some cushions and injuries,
- 9:44Speaker 3: I'm all for it.
- 9:45Speaker 4: And what are your thoughts on maybe right now this
- 9:47Speaker 4: year too, a Guardian captor now, a lot of people
- 9:49Speaker 4: war game and he thoughts.
- 9:50Speaker 1: About, Yeah, I've been thinking about wearing mine.
- 9:52Speaker 3: So I'm you know, I'm I'm still debating on if
- 9:54Speaker 3: I should wear my guardian cap. I don't know yet,
- 9:56Speaker 3: but you know, obviously I hit a lot of people
- 9:58Speaker 3: with my head, so I you know, be careful out there.
- 10:01Speaker 2: You know that you have a lot of answers with
- 10:03Speaker 2: Ryan Grubb's offenses.
- 10:04Speaker 1: Do you feel like there's more parts of the.
- 10:05Speaker 2: Field and the quicker's roads available commute now than to
- 10:08Speaker 2: have any.
- 10:08Speaker 3: Past I think, you know, it's always been, you know, available.
- 10:12Speaker 3: I just think there's a different way that we're doing things.
- 10:13Speaker 3: And I think with Grubb and his system obviously, like
- 10:16Speaker 3: he's proven that you know, he can, you know, stretch
- 10:19Speaker 3: the field or he can you know, if you gotta
- 10:21Speaker 3: you know, throw short or underneath it's there too. So
- 10:24Speaker 3: the best thing that he does he gives us options.
- 10:26Speaker 3: He gives us, you know, like I said, answers, and
- 10:28Speaker 3: it's up to us to find you know, where, you know,
- 10:30Speaker 3: where the ball should go.
- 10:31Speaker 1: Based on what the defense does. You've got better as
- 10:34Speaker 1: a leader. You feel like this offseason, how have you
- 10:35Speaker 1: done that, you know.
- 10:37Speaker 3: Just continuing to learn my guys, hanging out with the
- 10:39Speaker 3: guys and talking to them and figuring out ways to
- 10:42Speaker 3: not only push them, push them, but you know, as
- 10:45Speaker 3: a group for all of us to allow them to
- 10:47Speaker 3: you know, lead, and a lot of other guys to
- 10:49Speaker 3: step up. And I'm not always the vocal guy. You know,
- 10:51Speaker 3: other guys are being vocal and taking ownership. And uh,
- 10:54Speaker 3: you know I saw, you know, like O lou right,
- 10:56Speaker 3: like the way he stepped into this offense and you know,
- 10:59Speaker 3: he's leading the charge with the old line and and
- 11:01Speaker 3: they're you know, they lead our offense.
- 11:03Speaker 1: You know, the old line is gonna take us wherever
- 11:05Speaker 1: we wanna go.
- 11:05Speaker 3: So having those guys step up, and you know, the
- 11:08Speaker 3: quarterback is expected to lead, but other guys have been
- 11:12Speaker 3: able to step up, and I've kind of been able
- 11:14Speaker 3: to take a back seat and allow those guys to
- 11:16Speaker 3: speak up and do their thing the same thing.
- 11:18Speaker 1: And how important what is it in leadership for you
- 11:21Speaker 1: to set the turn in the ota? It's an also
- 11:23Speaker 1: training camp and out sharp and be able to set
- 11:26Speaker 1: the tones to the team. It's a daily thing. It's
- 11:28Speaker 1: a daily thing.
- 11:29Speaker 3: You know, practice is already over and I'm already thinking
- 11:32Speaker 3: about the next thing. So uh, it's it's it's one
- 11:34Speaker 3: one step after another, and so I just try to
- 11:36Speaker 3: focus on that. Whatever I did today, that was fine,
- 11:39Speaker 3: but you know, gotta move on and get to the
- 11:41Speaker 3: next one.
- 11:42Speaker 5: What has it been like growing back quarterback off of
- 11:45Speaker 5: the coordinator relationship?
- 11:46Speaker 3: Man, we got to I think we got a great
- 11:48Speaker 3: relationship building here. Like I said, grub Is he's a
- 11:51Speaker 3: laid back guy. He's a cool, calm, collected guy. But
- 11:54Speaker 3: he knows his stuff and he's very stern and he
- 11:56Speaker 3: wants it done a certain way. And it's my job,
- 11:58Speaker 3: it's our job to continue to live up to those expectations.
- 12:01Speaker 1: And that's why we're out here on the field. Man.
- 12:03Speaker 1: We got to prove it every day. You mentioned you
- 12:06Speaker 1: play chess, you play online. I play lock like me
- 12:09Speaker 1: and Tyler.
- 12:10Speaker 3: We play on the phone a lot, but some of
- 12:11Speaker 3: me and my buddies back home, like we sit down and.
- 12:13Speaker 1: We actually play.
- 12:16Speaker 2: You think there's another level.
- 12:19Speaker 3: And you know, that's that's my job to keep pushing him,
- 12:22Speaker 3: and that's his job to keep coming and bringing it
- 12:24Speaker 3: every single day. And I'm just trying to push him
- 12:26Speaker 3: and and and hopefully you know, I can, I can
- 12:29Speaker 3: be the quarterback that he needs to unlock that. So
- 12:31Speaker 3: he's he's he's worked his butt off though. Man, he's
- 12:33Speaker 3: had a great off season and I think you know
- 12:35Speaker 3: it's showing out there on the field.
- 12:39Speaker 1: This time of the year ago. Yeah.
- 12:42Speaker 3: Yeah, Bobo's got that swag. Man, that's something that we
- 12:44Speaker 3: love about him.
- 12:45Speaker 1: Uh.
- 12:45Speaker 3: He makes plays all over the field, super smart, knows
- 12:48Speaker 3: where to be, knows where to line up.
- 12:49Speaker 1: I call him coach Bobo. You know, if you need
- 12:51Speaker 1: if you.
- 12:52Speaker 3: Got a question, asked Bobo, He's got the answer.
- 12:54Speaker 1: And so, uh, we love we love Bobo here.
- 12:56Speaker 3: I love you know, playing with him and hopefully, you know,
- 12:58Speaker 3: I can continue to help him get better.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Thanks