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Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "I Love This Team and I Love This City" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How I feel, man, I felt great, felt great. I
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  Speaker 1: want to give all the glory to God. Honestly, my
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  Speaker 1: teammates played great going out there executing defense. Gave us
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  Speaker 1: a chance. Sam leading us, you know, no matter how
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  Speaker 1: it looks, you know, I know that we're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: down there and do what we have to do. So,
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  Speaker 1: like I said before, I loved this team, loved this city.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited for what's next. What did Sam show you
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  Speaker 1: there with you He has the turnovers early in early
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  Speaker 1: four quarter and then goes back and beat you guys
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  Speaker 1: in the win. Yeah, I mean just shows you know,
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  Speaker 1: a true competitor. You know, a lot of guys would
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  Speaker 1: get on get down on themselves and you know, give up,
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  Speaker 1: lay down. But you know that's not what we do.
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  Speaker 1: That's not who he is. And you know that's that
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  Speaker 1: goes around, you know, to the whole team. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited to have a leader, you know. And Sam, you
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  Speaker 1: succored the touchdown? Did you know you guys are to
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  Speaker 1: go for two? Like? What's your thought of that decision? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I was immediately looking to the siline and then I
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  Speaker 1: was hoping before we went out there, I was hoping,
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  Speaker 1: like Okay, we're gonna score. Hopefully we go for two.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, once that happened, look on the sideline
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  Speaker 1: might give him the two signal, and you know I
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  Speaker 1: was ready to go. What did he return do for
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  Speaker 1: the whole It turned the whole game around, honestly, big
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  Speaker 1: time play, big time play, big time player in a
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  Speaker 1: big moment, making a big play. And you know, we're
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  Speaker 1: lucky to have Shaheed and you know, you know he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna keep doing great things for us, and so it's
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  Speaker 1: an honor to go out there with him. Eric players
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  Speaker 1: talk about how much he needs his team and all
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  Speaker 1: the things he does, but it doesn't necessarily get the
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  Speaker 1: ball a lot to What did it mean to see
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  Speaker 1: him get that moment? Man, it means a lot. It
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  Speaker 1: means a lot. Felt like I scored the game winning
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  Speaker 1: two point conversion. Just so happy for him and the
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  Speaker 1: work that he puts in. He's also a leader, big
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  Speaker 1: time leader for us, you know in the old line too.
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  Speaker 1: You know, credit to them, you know, guys that don't
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  Speaker 1: really get you know, a lot of shine, and you
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  Speaker 1: know they're the glue. They're the reason why we go.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm very happy for Sab and the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the team. Well, when you guys wrapped that play,
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  Speaker 1: how often does it get back to him? Being a
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  Speaker 1: number of four rops? Never never seen it, Never seen
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  Speaker 1: it get back to him. Honestly, I practice, but you
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  Speaker 1: gotta stay ready and he he does. He he always does.
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  Speaker 1: And you know it was a great moment for him
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of us. You take you do the touchdown? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown. I have a back end line. I believe
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  Speaker 1: me and Coop kind of just playing a two man game.
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  Speaker 1: Well I believe it was Shahi and I'm not the
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  Speaker 1: first option. But you know, Sam, you know, kept the
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  Speaker 1: play alive and looked for me, you know, and I
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  Speaker 1: was there, made sure to get the feed in. Oh
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  Speaker 1: you has to see seeing he's just seeing guy and
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  Speaker 1: being drives. Whether you score or just had turnovers, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what happened, it's very important. And I'm sure it's
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  Speaker 1: a testament to what he's been through, you know, ups
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  Speaker 1: and downs in his career. But you know, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: keep pushing and keep fighting, you know, and that shows
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  Speaker 1: who you really are. So you know, I'm very blessed
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  Speaker 1: to have Shim as our quarterback and a guy called
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  Speaker 1: friend and you know, We're gonna go out there, We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna fight for him, We're gonna do anything we can
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  Speaker 1: for him. And so it's just a great mentality throughout
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  Speaker 1: the whole team. You through the second interception, were you
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  Speaker 1: looking at him to see footage? Mentality you actually want? Nah? Nope, nope.
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  Speaker 1: I know we have a no flinch mentality. I know
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  Speaker 1: that for a fact. So there's no reason to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hang our heads or anything. We're still in the ball
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  Speaker 1: game and there's a lot of time left. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's just the mentality we have. So that's it. Hear
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  Speaker 1: like the Rams laughing when there was thirty fourteen that again,
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  Speaker 1: did you hear the Rams laughing when I'm thirty to forty? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they got a little they start talking a little bit more,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, I talk when it's down, when
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  Speaker 1: we're down, or when we're up or tied. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but you know that really doesn't matter. We know we
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  Speaker 1: had to do go out there and execute, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what we did. You clinch your playoffs for the first
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  Speaker 1: times that you've been here, and how much are you
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  Speaker 1: celebrating that accomplishment versus just handlet's fucks off the Division.
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  Speaker 1: Everything else is still out there. Man. That's it's huge.
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  Speaker 1: It's huge, you know. For me, it's honestly bigger than
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  Speaker 1: any award that I've gotten yet so far. I'm excited,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for this postseason. You know, I'm ready to
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  Speaker 1: give it all and leave it all out there on
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  Speaker 1: the field. Anything else, Thank you making track