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Sam Darnold: "I'm So Proud Of The Guys In The Locker Room" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Just an incredible game. Kind of a weird game.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, you know, we as an offense, we
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  Speaker 2: didn't execute the way that we wanted to in the
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  Speaker 2: red zone at the end of drives, you know, but
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  Speaker 2: our defense, I mean, they just they step up, you know,
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  Speaker 2: time after time, and our special teams played lights out,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: But incredible win.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so proud of the guys in that locker room,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, we're gonna celebrate this one, but we
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  Speaker 2: know that we got a lot of work to do
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna get you know, right to work on
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  Speaker 2: that this this upcoming week or everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you know, it's a great, great team win.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, you know, we just we got a
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  Speaker 2: resilient group no matter what happens. I feel like I missed,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a couple of throws that you know, or
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I had Sharps open and you know,
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  Speaker 2: on that first drive in the end zone, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I could have just put the ball on them
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  Speaker 2: and let him score. And then I felt like under
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  Speaker 2: threw Jacks on that that third down play in the
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  Speaker 2: second quarter. But yeah, there's there's opportunities that you know
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have that you're gonna want back after every
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  Speaker 2: single game. But just the fact that, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: an offense, we were able to kind of move on
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  Speaker 2: and that last drive was incredible. Our offensive line, the
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  Speaker 2: way that we were able to run the ball that
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  Speaker 2: last last drive was was awesome. And yeah, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just proud of the guys in the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, the third down in the second quarter going
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  Speaker 2: into their tunnel, you know, I thought, you know, I could.
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  Speaker 1: Have put the ball out there a little bit more,
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  Speaker 1: maybe thrown it earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's just the offensive line, the tight ends,
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  Speaker 2: receivers like the foll like everybody on our offense is
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  Speaker 2: just we're continuing to communicate with each other throughout the
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  Speaker 2: week on you know, what runs we like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: communicating on different looks that you know, the defense could
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  Speaker 2: can present to us. So I just think the communication,
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  Speaker 2: in the know, cohesiveness of that group up front is
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  Speaker 2: continuing to get better and better. All that.
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  Speaker 1: What about all year?
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, you know, I I witnessed it firsthand in
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  Speaker 2: O t As in training camp. Going against our defense
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  Speaker 2: is tough. You know, they have a lot of different
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  Speaker 2: looks and present some problems, whether it's up front the
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  Speaker 2: linebacker position, you know, Nick doing his thing, you know,
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  Speaker 2: wherever he's gonna be on our defense. And then the
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  Speaker 2: back end obviously doing doing what they do. So they're
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  Speaker 2: just they're such a good group, very talented, but I
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  Speaker 2: think more than talent alone, they're they're very smart football players,
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  Speaker 2: smart people that all. You know, they're just very cohesive
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  Speaker 2: in what they do defensively. Yeah, I mean, you know
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  Speaker 2: that's us. We're just we're just gonna continue to try
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  Speaker 2: to get better. And you know, no matter what the
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  Speaker 2: results are, whether it's a win, whether it's a loss,
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  Speaker 2: like we're always gonna look in the mirror. And that's
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  Speaker 2: that's what's great about the guys in the locker room
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  Speaker 2: is you know, we got a lot of unselfish guys
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  Speaker 2: that are gonna, you know, see what they can do
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  Speaker 2: better for the team.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's I'm taking it one day at
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  Speaker 2: a time. It's it's been a whirlwind just the NFL season.
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  Speaker 2: Just preparing one week at a time. It's that's the
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  Speaker 2: best part about it is like, you know, you celebrate
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  Speaker 2: a win like this and then tomorrow you might celebrate
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  Speaker 2: a little bit too.
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  Speaker 1: Because you gotta buy.
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  Speaker 2: But we're we're right back to to seeing what we
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  Speaker 2: can do better and how we can get better.
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  Speaker 1: For the next game.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the beautiful thing about you know, the NFL
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  Speaker 2: and what we do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's huge to be.
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  Speaker 2: Able to play in from the twelves. It's unlike any
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  Speaker 2: other stadium that I've ever played in in terms of,
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  Speaker 2: you know, how loud it can be and how tough
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  Speaker 2: it could be for another offense to operate. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're we're really looking forward to playing at home for
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. Yeah, Josh has been incredible, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: just he's stepped up in many ways this this season,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's you know, coming in mid game. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he did a really good job in that first Rams
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  Speaker 2: game coming in when someone went down, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's just he's a guy that you know, again another
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  Speaker 2: you know point, you know of just how unselfish all
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  Speaker 2: of our guys are in that locker room, Like he
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  Speaker 2: just wants to do whatever whatever it takes to win,
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  Speaker 2: whether that's starting at left tackle or whether that's being
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  Speaker 2: a swing tackle that can go in there and goal
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  Speaker 2: line and short yardage stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, he's been he's been incredible all season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's huge. It's huge for obviously to recover that fumble.
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  Speaker 2: I think maybe I gotta look at the tape. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know exactly what happened. Obviously someone cliped my clip
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  Speaker 2: my foot, but I gotta watch the tape.
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  Speaker 1: I think in that situation again, I would.
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  Speaker 2: Probably try to just you know, tuck the ball and
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  Speaker 2: take the loss and not try to hand it off.
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  Speaker 1: Challenge. Yeah, No, there's a ton of great.
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  Speaker 2: Teams in this division, in the NFC, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're looking forward.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking forward to, you know, whatever challenge we face.
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  Speaker 2: You know, like I like I always say, we're very resilient,
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  Speaker 2: but we're just gonna continue to take it one week
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  Speaker 2: at a time, one day at a time, and go
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  Speaker 2: from there.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 2: Ye yeah, I think, you know, just just taking what
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  Speaker 2: the defense gives me, you know, and and you know,
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  Speaker 2: if I'm not exactly you know, if I'm not if
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  Speaker 2: I you know, play action and get my eyes down
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  Speaker 2: the field, I'm not exactly seeing it the way I
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  Speaker 2: want to, just being able to get to a check
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  Speaker 2: down or maybe scramble or just throw the ball away.
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  Speaker 2: So especially on first and second down, I think that
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  Speaker 2: was the biggest difference.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it, guys,