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Julian Love: "We Just Have To Play Cleaner" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: He came in. Your first thing you mentioned was the
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  Speaker 2: run defense.
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  Speaker 1: Just for you guys, what wasn't working well today? You know,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like we just couldn't get a footing today.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed like we couldn't catch our groove, catch our stride.
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  Speaker 1: In the rung game, they were just you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, just beating us off the ball.
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  Speaker 1: We weren't tackling the best, and so that was the
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  Speaker 1: makeup for what you saw. What do you make of
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  Speaker 1: the tackling thing so inconsistent from week to week.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like that was one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 2: you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Limited the explosive plays so well in the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks and then today it.
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  Speaker 2: Was just not there. Yeah, it's frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we told each other accountable and just obviously
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  Speaker 1: try to put our best foot forward. And you know
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  Speaker 1: this late in the season, that's what wins games, honestly
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  Speaker 1: close games.
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  Speaker 2: It gets a tough team like this. We got to
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  Speaker 2: tackle better, and you know, I wish I had an
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  Speaker 2: answer for it. We rep it, we drill it.
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  Speaker 1: It just wasn't our day and just seems like things
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  Speaker 1: weren't just going our way in that in that field.
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  Speaker 1: Anything they were doing in the running game to you
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  Speaker 1: know that was different than what you've seen or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that got your guys up guard or No, they
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  Speaker 1: honestly just had a good one two punch with the
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  Speaker 1: running backs. They had some big bodies up front, They
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  Speaker 1: knew kind of what we are, our style is for
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  Speaker 1: the run game, and they just got into a groove
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  Speaker 1: in that thirteen personnel and the big bodies and just
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  Speaker 1: trying to run the ball. And you know, as the
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  Speaker 1: game goes on, guys get more aggressive, trying to push
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  Speaker 1: to make plays, to make stops, and that's when gap
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  Speaker 1: starts open up a little more when you're just not
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  Speaker 1: staying within yourself.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, as a makeup of kind of what happened, what's.
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  Speaker 1: The challenge with those two backs, in particular with Harrison
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  Speaker 1: where they think, yeah, Harris, you know, he's more well
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  Speaker 1: known since his college days. He's a tough runner, strong runner,
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  Speaker 1: and then thirty just added a one two punch for
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  Speaker 1: them this year.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, he's a strong that's the kid's.
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  Speaker 1: A strong running back, great balance and so and he's
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  Speaker 1: you know, a shorter guy, and so he was just
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  Speaker 1: kind of weaving through our defenses. It seemed like, and
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, I mean they're two talented backs. We knew
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  Speaker 1: that going to the game, and we just didn't execute
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  Speaker 1: well enough to stop them. You mentioned drilling with the
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  Speaker 1: doing drill work for the tackling, and obviously there's limitations now.
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  Speaker 2: What you guys can do on the field, but yeah, at.
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  Speaker 1: This stage of the season, do you feel like there's
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  Speaker 1: anything that can be done other than simply looking at
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  Speaker 1: the film and just trying to figure out what that
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  Speaker 1: You know, we do drill it, we rep it, and
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  Speaker 1: that's just a part of football. I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you got to get your body and your mind ready
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  Speaker 1: to tackle before a game. And we obviously, as a
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  Speaker 1: secondary I can speak for our secondary, we prod ourselves
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  Speaker 1: and focus on stopping the past. You know, it's playing
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  Speaker 1: top down all that type of stuff. Sometimes you can
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  Speaker 1: let the little things like tackling go and it's a
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  Speaker 1: fundamental football and when you don't do that, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't not doing the simple things very intentional
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  Speaker 1: and well, bad results happened.
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, I wish I had an answer for
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  Speaker 2: how we could do that better. What was the mood
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  Speaker 2: like after the I mean it was frustrated. Frustrating, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: to be in that locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, everybody you know, you know, everybody has a
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  Speaker 1: one off here or there, and you see the result
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  Speaker 1: that happens. Guys, we've got to play cleaner as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: and we know that everybody hold each other pretty accountable
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  Speaker 1: in there, and that was kind of the vibe in there, honestly, Julie,
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  Speaker 1: you guys have got the wins the last two weeks
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  Speaker 1: to put you guys in the position where get your
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  Speaker 1: wins your end.
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  Speaker 2: How much does it stay this one? What the way
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  Speaker 2: it did that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously we want to make a push right here,
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  Speaker 1: play our best ball going forward, and we have been
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  Speaker 1: doing that. We've been closing games out well obviously these
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  Speaker 1: past two weeks. And yeah, it stinks, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: don't want to sit here and be dealing with a loss,
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  Speaker 1: but we got to pick our heads up and go
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  Speaker 1: out and execute and win this next game. And then
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  Speaker 1: after the game, after that final whistle, we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: things stack up. But you know we're gonna we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: finish the seasons as strong as we can. Good.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you quessing