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Clint Hurtt: "We Have To Take The Ball Away" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Something perfect when from a defensive perspective, and how do
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  Speaker 1: your message just trying to get something done people making
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  Speaker 1: plays without kind of over being overly.
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  Speaker 2: Addressing at this play. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's always when you teach players to look
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  Speaker 3: for their shots and their opportunities of when they can
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  Speaker 3: go for something, and you have to understand when you're protected, uh,
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  Speaker 3: within a call. I think it's a understanding the question
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  Speaker 3: that you're getting to and there's times for that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: but obviously if they're and this is all through film prep,
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  Speaker 3: understanding the game plan we talk about when those opportunities show.
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  Speaker 3: But there's some games that applies, but not always, not
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  Speaker 3: in every situation, not every game every week, that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: always apply. So when you look at the explosive place
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  Speaker 3: of the forty nine ers story or to put on
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  Speaker 3: is it an issue of not knowing what to take
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  Speaker 3: your shots from you which your.
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  Speaker 2: Get used to do?
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  Speaker 3: I would say collectively, is you know, continue us gotta
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  Speaker 3: continue to help them, help guys with coaching those small
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  Speaker 3: details better of what we have to do schematically to
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  Speaker 3: be better so those things don't happen alright, and helping
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  Speaker 3: those guys understand and obviously just execute better.
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  Speaker 2: It goes all the way around, uh for those things
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  Speaker 2: to go and get fixed, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And so the big exposive plays obviously is a big
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  Speaker 3: been a big talking point for us. It's it's been
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  Speaker 3: that way as unfortunately those happen, but he's continue.
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  Speaker 2: To work to make the corrections. Uh, collectively in the
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  Speaker 2: meeting room, Mike Jackson ended up playing one in that game.
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  Speaker 2: Once you think the way to play. Uh. He competed
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  Speaker 2: on a couple third third down throws. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, maybe one or two plays he'd like
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  Speaker 3: to take back, but otherwise he did a nice job,
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  Speaker 3: competed well. You know what, we expect him to be consistent.
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  Speaker 3: That is what he's always been for us. Right now, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: Jamal's just he's still working back to get himself healthy.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm not sitting here saying that he's injured.
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  Speaker 3: I don't speak to that this coach's uh place. But
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  Speaker 3: I think there's always as guys come back from things,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they work their way back from injury. You
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  Speaker 3: gotta understand it takes time, you know, sometimes it happens
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  Speaker 3: sooner than others. And uh, but I think all those
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  Speaker 3: things you have to be patient with that process as
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  Speaker 3: guys work their way back, you know. So I think
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  Speaker 3: obviously it's you know, time continues going. He's gonna get
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  Speaker 3: better and feel better and work his way on back.
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  Speaker 3: So he's been healthy enough to play, but obviously he's
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  Speaker 3: still he's still working through some things. His BLIS numbers
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  Speaker 3: are down, hash been a combination of reasons for that.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a reason he's not as you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, No, I think you know a lot of things
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  Speaker 3: that as this stuff goes, it's a again working with
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  Speaker 3: him as he's starting to work his way and his
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  Speaker 3: groove back into stuff and you know, playing and whatnot.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's been battling his butt off to get
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  Speaker 3: back out there with us. And like I said, I've
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  Speaker 3: said numerous times it has been awesome to have him. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: but that doesn't mean, you know, a guy's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: one thousand percent where he was, you know, pre you know,
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  Speaker 3: any injury or whatnot that he's been working back from
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  Speaker 3: that he's back to being his original self. So I
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  Speaker 3: think those things take time, and as you put guys
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  Speaker 3: in certain situations to do things, you gotta have an
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  Speaker 3: understanding of that.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously coaching them.
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  Speaker 1: Too, replilling what are you kind of finding its just
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  Speaker 1: played last week.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, there's some aspects of his that have gotten better,
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  Speaker 3: others that we just got to continue to improve upon,
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  Speaker 3: and that starts with us coaching him and making sure
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  Speaker 3: he understands exactly how he needs to do it and
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  Speaker 3: and getting that level of consistency. Still a young player,
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  Speaker 3: the second year in the league, and it's done a
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  Speaker 3: lot of good things, but there's still a lot of
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  Speaker 3: room in his game for him to continue to grow.
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  Speaker 3: When look at this offense that the Eagles are gonna run,
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  Speaker 3: Jered Reed said, it's a game you just have to
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  Speaker 3: do right well. Or how do you look at this
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  Speaker 3: convertible last three weeks?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, different style of a game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot more Uh the previous weeks
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  Speaker 3: that we had a lot more pret motions and things
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  Speaker 3: like that that can get your eyes going to different directions.
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  Speaker 3: But with Philadelphia is not so much that. But they
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  Speaker 3: definitely have outstanding talent. You know, the quarterback is instead
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  Speaker 3: of a player, great competitor, strong physical, could make all
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  Speaker 3: the throws. Obviously, they're very dynamic at the skills spots
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  Speaker 3: with the wide receivers and backs and the old line. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: I work with their offensive line coach for a number
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  Speaker 3: of years of Miami just style, and so I hold
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  Speaker 3: him in high regard. They're really well coached all the
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  Speaker 3: way around and play really really well together collectively as
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  Speaker 3: a unit. So it it is it requires you. They
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  Speaker 3: don't do a lot, but what they do do they
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  Speaker 3: execute at a high level, and so it challenges you
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  Speaker 3: to make sure you have to do the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta be consistent with playing your technique on fundamentals,
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  Speaker 3: leveraging the football understanding fits you know, because they can
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  Speaker 3: spread you out and challenge you some ways s grammatically
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  Speaker 3: that other people don't. They do it in a different
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  Speaker 3: kind of way. They make it more of a space game.
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  Speaker 2: What is the one aspect you're emphasizing to turn this around? Uh,
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  Speaker 2: biggest thing always always is all about tackling.
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  Speaker 3: You know, That's the number one thing that you have
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  Speaker 3: to do to go and eliminate explosives, get people on
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  Speaker 3: the ground, that's one.
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  Speaker 2: Two.
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  Speaker 3: Gotta take the ball away, you know. They gotta be
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  Speaker 3: able to do that to create extra opportunities for the offense.
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  Speaker 3: Flip field position. Uh, those are always things that's fundamental
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  Speaker 3: to you know, our foundation. How we wanna play football
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  Speaker 3: what people believes in in the modern NFL, how do
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  Speaker 3: you how do you emphasize tackling when you can't string
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  Speaker 3: guys without injury up. Yeah, that's the that's the big
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  Speaker 3: challenge now, you know. It's if you take into count
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  Speaker 3: training camp, training camp, I believe you get a max
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  Speaker 3: of seven padded practices. It could be a little higher,
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  Speaker 3: but no one in the league goes past that. And
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  Speaker 3: then you get into the season. I believe you have
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  Speaker 3: twelve weeks that you can have one day of padded practices.
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  Speaker 3: So you mean for three hundred and sixty five days
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  Speaker 3: that you're looking at roughly twenty semi days that you
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  Speaker 3: can put on pads and physically strike people, put people
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  Speaker 3: in the around, things like that, and so it does.
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  Speaker 3: It makes it hard to get better in that aspect
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  Speaker 3: of the game when it's like that, But you can't
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  Speaker 3: complain about it. Everybody's got to play by the same rules.
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  Speaker 3: You have to adjust and adapt accordingly. The next challenge
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  Speaker 3: is coming up is are probably gonna take the hip
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  Speaker 3: drop tackle a lot of football, you know, things that
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  Speaker 3: that nature. So you have to understand the ball. Careers
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  Speaker 3: are getting more talented. It's getting harder to tackle some
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  Speaker 3: of these guys. You gotta continue to find ways and
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  Speaker 3: evolve to help yourself have a fighting chance.
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  Speaker 2: It's a challenge. She had another rule for the offense.
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  Speaker 2: How do you do your job moderns? How do you
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  Speaker 2: coach players not to illegal contact five yards bey online.
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  Speaker 1: Or to not strike a quarterback above the chest or
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  Speaker 1: below the waist?
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  Speaker 2: How do you actually force that coach that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, right now they the there's so many protection rules
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  Speaker 3: for the quarterback now it's not even worth going for
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  Speaker 3: the hits as fast as the game is going. When
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  Speaker 3: I say that, you make it more of an emphasis
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  Speaker 3: to go for the ball, I almost forget to tackle.
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  Speaker 3: If the ball is within your site and you can
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  Speaker 3: get it the pok and elbow and get after that,
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  Speaker 3: you do a better job of going after the ball,
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  Speaker 3: cause if you tackle the football, then you don't get
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  Speaker 3: caught with we call it burping the quarterback, landing on
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback and uh, you know, swiping down on his
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  Speaker 3: head and then they get automatic fifteen for illegal contact
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  Speaker 3: above head and neck. There's so many things that they're
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  Speaker 3: protected on. Now you just gotta work around that circumventent
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  Speaker 3: and say, okay, how do I still get my job
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  Speaker 3: done where I'm not hurting my team but helping my
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  Speaker 3: team as well. And it's really you just got to
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  Speaker 3: go attack the football. So now instead of the target
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  Speaker 3: of a man saying we're gonna attack, attack the small object.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of room for error that for
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  Speaker 3: that too. I mean, you just gotta continue to evolve
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  Speaker 3: and change with the rules of it. I'm still waiting
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  Speaker 3: for them to have a rule to make the offense
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  Speaker 3: have to adapt and change their game and not put
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  Speaker 3: it on the defense all the time. So that'd be
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  Speaker 3: really nice if that could happen soon.
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  Speaker 1: Where did you say the rule is in season with packing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you, well, not so much about tackling, but it's, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you have twelve padded practice. I could be off by
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  Speaker 3: one or two on that, so but I know it's
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  Speaker 3: not sixteen or seventeen weeks of the season, but it's
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  Speaker 3: like twelve weeks of where you can have one padded
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  Speaker 3: practice per week. So it's not like you get a
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  Speaker 3: ton of time to do that work. Like in college,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta you had a ton of time to work
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  Speaker 3: on that stuff. You got young kids when you get
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  Speaker 3: to the NFL. That's a hard skill to continue to
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  Speaker 3: develop and train because of the lack of padded time.
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  Speaker 2: You guys on, I guess you're not.
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  Speaker 3: Tackling like you thuding like you'll fut up the ball
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  Speaker 3: carriers and practice, but you can't take anybody to the
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  Speaker 3: ground cause you gotta keep your team healthy to play
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  Speaker 3: on Sundays.
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  Speaker 2: How did how did that? Have a winner? Spoon basically
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  Speaker 2: for most of the game. Kind of change states.
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  Speaker 3: You know, anytime you lose talent of football players, you
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  Speaker 3: gotta adapt and adjust with maybe how you call things
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  Speaker 3: and where you put guys at to get things done.
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  Speaker 2: So you just to adjust on the run. Else appreciate everybody,
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  Speaker 2: all right,