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Drake Thomas: "We Have A Process-Based Mindset" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Mike talked a little bit about red zone defense. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: over the course of the season, you've done a lot
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  Speaker 1: of good things defensively, but that one area has been
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of trouble. What do you see in there,
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  Speaker 1: and how do you guys get better there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we've got to realize that there's less
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  Speaker 2: room for error, honestly. The plays get extended. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to cover for longer. You've got to be aggressive downhill
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  Speaker 2: in the run game. Like I said, there's not really
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  Speaker 2: much room for error. In the field, if you make
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  Speaker 2: a little mistake, you can clean it up with a
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  Speaker 2: play after or within the play, somebody else can cover
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  Speaker 2: it up for you, but there's just less time and
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  Speaker 2: space down there. Everything happens a lot faster, and we've
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  Speaker 2: got to be on the same page and be ready
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  Speaker 2: to cover through the down or get the runner on
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  Speaker 2: the ground before he crosses into the end zone.
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  Speaker 3: You study, obviously, a ton of film, and when you
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  Speaker 3: look at offenses that do well in their first 15
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  Speaker 3: kind of scripted plays. What do you notice about teams
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  Speaker 3: that are effective in those plays versus ones that maybe aren't?
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  Speaker 2: They have looks that you've seen before and you know
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  Speaker 2: are stressors to your defense. They have plays off of
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  Speaker 2: their plays, so they're lining up in similar formations and structures,
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  Speaker 2: and they're running one play the first time and they're
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  Speaker 2: coming off of that and then showing a different thing
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  Speaker 2: that might contradict what you need to do as a defense.
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  Speaker 2: So just having plays off of plays, plays that flow together,
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  Speaker 2: plays that stress you and that you've seen before that
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  Speaker 2: might have gotten you in the past.
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  Speaker 3: So you see them kind of going back to things
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  Speaker 3: that other teams might have done to you to try
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  Speaker 3: to see if they're going to work for them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, this is like a copycat league is
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  Speaker 2: what a lot of people say. They see the film.
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  Speaker 2: If they see something that has hurt us in the past,
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  Speaker 2: then other teams are going to do it. So that's
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  Speaker 2: why it's so important to, you know, leave in a game,
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  Speaker 2: get those things corrected and move forward, knowing how we're
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  Speaker 2: going to play them in the future.
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  Speaker 1: But Mike was saying it's important when you look at
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  Speaker 1: a game like that on film, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: good things to not just get caught up, but totally
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  Speaker 1: in the score or whatever is that. As players, how
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  Speaker 1: easy is that or whatever to kind of take that
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  Speaker 1: approach to it when you did.
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  Speaker 2: Lose the game? Yeah, that's always the case no matter what.
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  Speaker 2: Like when you win, there's still so much that you
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  Speaker 2: can learn from it because there's always something you can
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  Speaker 2: improve on, always things that you did well. So win
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  Speaker 2: or lose, it should be a process-based mindset to attack
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  Speaker 2: the process and what it looks like to get better
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  Speaker 2: versus just being emotionally attached to the results. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the approach that all the players try to have.
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  Speaker 2: And it can be difficult, but, you know, reminders to
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  Speaker 2: each other and holding each other accountable to that is important.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to the Cardinals this weekend, you've seen
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  Speaker 1: them before, but how much different do you think they
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  Speaker 1: could look or do you know they look with a
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  Speaker 1: different quarterback and different running back situation?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I know Algiers is a really hard runner.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't watched much with Minshew in the game, so
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how much they've changed with that. But
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  Speaker 2: I'll probably keep on looking. I'm sure they're going to
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  Speaker 2: run their scheme and do what they do well no
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  Speaker 2: matter what. So I'm sure it'll be a lot of
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  Speaker 2: similar stuff with some wrinkles and twists in there to
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  Speaker 2: keep us honest.
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  Speaker 3: How much does it affect you guys or you when
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  Speaker 3: an offense keeps somebody in the block versus just uses
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  Speaker 3: them as a chip? Where does that change things for
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  Speaker 3: you guys?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it frees you up to help other players who
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  Speaker 2: are in stress when they stay in. So you can
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  Speaker 2: kind of get your depth in coverage and fill space
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  Speaker 2: in windows that the quarterback can't go certain spots. When
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  Speaker 2: they chip and release, obviously you've got to relate to
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  Speaker 2: your work. So it's just another person that you've got
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  Speaker 2: to account for being in the route. So you've got
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  Speaker 2: to relate to them or match them as the down
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  Speaker 2: progress especially. Anything else? Appreciate you guys.