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Mike Macdonald: "It’s A Great Opportunity For Our Team To Learn From This" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: M all right. You know, look, we're trying.
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  Speaker 2: We're trying to win games, and so ultimately the goal is, uh,
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  Speaker 2: we fell short in that department, which I actually think
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna it's gonna be a really great opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: our team to to learn from this on how we
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  Speaker 2: manage games and uh, the things you need to be
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  Speaker 2: able to do in the second half to to win
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  Speaker 2: football games first first half included. But the bright side
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  Speaker 2: is I really do feel like our team got better
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  Speaker 2: this week from the work that we got in practice,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, uh, we did a lot of great things,
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  Speaker 2: especially earlier in this game, which is what we're looking for.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think we I think we took a step.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think we're improving, and I think the
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  Speaker 2: important thing for our team is that we have to
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  Speaker 2: we have to shed an expectation.
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  Speaker 1: About where we need to be right now.
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  Speaker 2: I think the focus needs to be about how fast
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  Speaker 2: can we improve on a daily basis, and our guys
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  Speaker 2: have had that attitude and so through that lens, I
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  Speaker 2: think I think it was assess cessful week, but ultimately
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to be able to win these games,
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  Speaker 2: but we definitely made an improvement from last week.
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  Speaker 1: So let's uh, let's keep going.
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  Speaker 3: What are you about by Clark?
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, we had a two really tough injuries today.
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  Speaker 2: So Bud has a broken ankle to my knowledge, severity,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but he's gonna be out multiple months.
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  Speaker 1: And then.
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  Speaker 2: But we're gonna we're gonna try to figure out what's
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  Speaker 2: going on with Mason, but we will also think that's
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  Speaker 2: a major injury, a long term injury. So two guys
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  Speaker 2: that we we love, that play our style ball, that
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  Speaker 2: are our type of guys. Teammates love them, great teammates,
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  Speaker 2: great guys, great football players, they have great futures. It's
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  Speaker 2: a it's a really it's a heartbreaker. Honestly, we've got
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  Speaker 2: three heartbreakers this week, which is which is stuff?
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  Speaker 3: Is it hard to get when that happens here? They
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  Speaker 3: see the going down there cast bat, Is it hard
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  Speaker 3: to kind of get the team back into a game
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  Speaker 3: and then them or what's that process?
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  Speaker 1: Like, Uh, yeah, yeah, it's it's it's not easy.
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  Speaker 2: I just I just think like to see to see
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  Speaker 2: how our team reacted, you know, I think we had
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  Speaker 2: the whole team go out there to say, say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to give him some love. So I think that that
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  Speaker 2: tells you what everybody thinks about them.
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  Speaker 1: Did you get a chance to speak with him. I
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  Speaker 1: just gave a hug at halftime with the back of
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  Speaker 1: the football side of it.
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  Speaker 3: Early on, you know they're playing their starters. You guys
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  Speaker 3: are able to jump out to sixteen three lead. What
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  Speaker 3: did you like about just the way you operated on
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  Speaker 3: both sides?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like the things we said we wanted to improve
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  Speaker 2: on from last from last week. I think we did
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  Speaker 2: those things so operation wise, just how we get out
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  Speaker 2: of the huddle, how we take the line, how we
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  Speaker 2: you know, all those all those kind of before the
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  Speaker 2: play type of things that we wanted to improve on.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think we did, which is great.
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  Speaker 2: We played physically, I thought, uh, I thought we rushed
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  Speaker 2: the passer really well. It's good to see the run game,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get off a little bit in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: Be great to run it better than the second half.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of good things, a lot of good things.
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  Speaker 3: Drew Locke in particular, he's had a.
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  Speaker 1: Good camp and today. Yeah, yeah, same thing. I saw
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  Speaker 1: the same thing you did about He's done a good job.
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  Speaker 3: I MANE Henderson, is that exactly what you're gonna from
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  Speaker 3: the place he makes on the gunners one across the field.
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  Speaker 2: Well it's one of the reasons, yeah, for sure. But
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  Speaker 2: I mean I stopped there, you know. But that's that's
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  Speaker 2: really that's the stuff that really popped and gets you
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  Speaker 2: the most excited from his college tape. But in the
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  Speaker 2: return game, you know, like like you know, she should
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  Speaker 2: be trying to be a all Pro returner too. He
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  Speaker 2: should be you should think about being a great receiver
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  Speaker 2: in our league as well.
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  Speaker 3: Mill wrote the second interception, Henderson falls down, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you say two picks. I don't know, it
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  Speaker 2: sounds a certain way. Let's watch the tape and and
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  Speaker 2: see what we can improve there.
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  Speaker 1: But I know he's upset, he's disappointed. But we got
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  Speaker 1: a long way to go. Man.
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  Speaker 2: You know he's gotta He's still got opportunity to improve
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  Speaker 2: and take his game at the level.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go focus on that.
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  Speaker 2: That's two weeks in a.
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  Speaker 3: Row and he's held the ball for a stack on
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  Speaker 3: fourth down. You just wanted to throw it at the
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  Speaker 3: coaching point.
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  Speaker 2: There, well, you don't just you don't want to be
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  Speaker 2: reckless because you don't want to pick a pick six.
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  Speaker 1: But if you have an opportunity you want to get.
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  Speaker 2: You want to be able to give someone an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to get the first down.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 3: About writing Thomas is, I guess what's going on with him?
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  Speaker 1: There is a before he had a hand surgery.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he has a hand and then uh, we'll see,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see if if when he's coming back on time.
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  Speaker 1: So got the celebration and all that you want to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good say Now, I think are our vets deserve
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  Speaker 2: a really big shout out today? They had great energy
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  Speaker 2: and it's one of those deals where you much rather
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  Speaker 2: tell him the woe then go in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: excitement and support for the guys.
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  Speaker 1: So they did. They did a phenomenal job. They had
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  Speaker 1: great energy.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think are the guys that played really
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  Speaker 2: appreciated it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a touchdown and you see one where its lot
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  Speaker 3: that well, just right up the middle of going on
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  Speaker 3: touch Yeah, it's got to be it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure there's some great things on that play. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I just I heard the call and I saw the run.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't know all the other things that happened,
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  Speaker 2: but there's got to be some good stuff to go untouched, right,
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  Speaker 2: down the pipe. So but you got to be decisive,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you got to hit it, hit in the
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  Speaker 2: A gap and read it out ABC. So uh, J
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  Speaker 2: Wright did that.
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  Speaker 1: It was cool. What's he brought to you?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he had a big preseason last year as well.
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  Speaker 2: What does he kind of bring to your guys this team?
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  Speaker 2: I think the things you saw today, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think he's still coming back a little bit from his
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  Speaker 2: from from his from his injury. But he's been a
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  Speaker 2: great teammate. He's been here the whole time. He works
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  Speaker 2: his tail off. He's got a great opportunity in front
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  Speaker 2: of him. But he was heavier back you know that
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  Speaker 2: that can run and he's got good hands out of
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  Speaker 2: the backfield too.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of a cool combination of skills.
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  Speaker 3: With Bud being out for a while. But I guess,
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  Speaker 3: how does that change your depth and safety or what
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  Speaker 3: you might have to do with the.
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  Speaker 2: Rest of the Yeah, it's gonna we're gonna have to
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  Speaker 2: re evaluate what's you know, where we're at. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: we saw some good things today out of A J
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  Speaker 2: and D Anthony and so we'll see, you know, Max
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  Speaker 2: I think did some good stuff. But well we'll definitely
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  Speaker 2: have to evaluate.
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen days until the opener and big picture.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of I mean, it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: a funky preseason work, you know, it's almost like preseason three,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in terms of the proximity to the last
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  Speaker 2: game or to the first game. So but we're we're
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  Speaker 2: blessed with another week of practice and an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: play another game. So that's kind of cool too, to
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  Speaker 2: have an opportunity to improve before we.
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  Speaker 1: Get into into game mode.
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  Speaker 3: You said you're better, operationally, better other things you saw
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  Speaker 3: to Is it safe to say you feel better than
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  Speaker 3: this week, you did this time last.
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  Speaker 1: Week or the Yeah, for sure, for sure, definitely anything else,
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  Speaker 1: all right, thanks you guys. Safe drops, Yeah,