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Klint Kubiak On Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Preparing For The Washington Defense · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Jackson gets the award of Player of the Month to
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  Speaker 1: do it in only three games to.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of what do you make of his month,
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  Speaker 2: his season, and kind of what he's meant to you
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  Speaker 2: guys throughout the years.
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  Speaker 1: I can't say enough good things about about his work ethic,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, he's had a really productive start to
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  Speaker 1: the season and he knows as better as anybody. That's
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  Speaker 1: a long year and all of our works ahead of us,
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  Speaker 1: So just keep his head down and stay humble and
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  Speaker 1: stay hungry.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think the theme is with the buy?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously it's kind of self scouting and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: What did you learn anything really about your guys and
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  Speaker 2: kind of what you feel like you are right now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've spent spent quite a bit of time watching
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  Speaker 1: our cut ups and you know, just trying to focus
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  Speaker 1: on the things we gotta get better at and what
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  Speaker 1: our strengths are. Coach Mike gave us some time off,
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  Speaker 1: which was awesome. Really appreciative of him for that for
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  Speaker 1: our staff, but I think the most important thing is
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  Speaker 1: just getting our guys healthy, getting our guys ready for
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  Speaker 1: the second half of the season.
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  Speaker 2: What does Robbie Youts potentially getting back do for the offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, be good to get get Robbie back. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's been out for a while, so it's been good
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  Speaker 1: to give him a lot of practice reps. He's still
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  Speaker 1: a young player that's improving and growing, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: excited to see him out there on Sunday. You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get a contriting with your kids tomorrow, Yes, definitely, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I look forward to it. That'll be a blast. Kind
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  Speaker 1: of fell out on the right day, so it's good
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  Speaker 1: to be good to be with the family and uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to be awesome Washington.
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  Speaker 2: Defensively, just when you put it on tape, what.
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  Speaker 1: Do you see that? Yeah, just see just see a
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  Speaker 1: team that's really aggressive. You know, I think coach Quinn
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  Speaker 1: is as good as coaches that that there is. Really
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for their scheme. Fifty four
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  Speaker 1: in the middle is going the Hall of Fame, one
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  Speaker 1: of the best that's ever done it and is playing at
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  Speaker 1: a really high level. So you know, our guys know
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  Speaker 1: what's ahead of them. A really good defense that were playing.
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  Speaker 2: If you get Robbie, that kind of give you more
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  Speaker 2: of my ability to do some two back running and
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely, I think you know, he brings that, brings
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  Speaker 1: that to the to the offense, and uh, I know
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  Speaker 1: coach Coach Harbaugh is happy to, you know, hopefully get
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  Speaker 1: him back to But whether whether it's him, our tight ends,
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  Speaker 1: you know, everybody's got to step up. How far away
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  Speaker 1: do you think you are from getting that running game before.
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  Speaker 2: You wanted to be taking that last couple of steps
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  Speaker 2: with it.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen continuous improvement, you know. Anytime I think we're
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  Speaker 1: satisfied with where we're at, you know, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll never be satisfied before A better way to say it,
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  Speaker 1: But I I really have a ton of respect for
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  Speaker 1: how hard our backs are working and how our young
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  Speaker 1: line is coming together. And every week is a new
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  Speaker 1: new scheme in a new game, and it's just another
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  Speaker 1: area of our offense that we got to continue to
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  Speaker 1: improve on.
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  Speaker 2: What aspects of your run game? Do you feel like
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  Speaker 2: our click game?
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  Speaker 1: Like? What?
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  Speaker 2: What are some things you feel like you are doing well?
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  Speaker 1: I just see see the starting five coming together and
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  Speaker 1: getting on the same page. Just see, uh see our
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  Speaker 1: running backs being being detailed, and I just see a
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  Speaker 1: group that's improving weekly.
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  Speaker 2: When the players putting up the numbers and defenses are
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  Speaker 2: obviously going to take notice.
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  Speaker 1: And try to take him away.
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  Speaker 2: What what about his game and maybe the offense as
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  Speaker 2: a whole allows him to be some productive when teams
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  Speaker 2: know that the ball's coming his way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just think that he can separate. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's just a really talented player. He's very quick, very strong, intelligent.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he plays a lot of spots. He moves around,
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  Speaker 1: he had he's coverage and him and the quarterback are
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  Speaker 1: on the same page. Plus he's working together with his teammates,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a it's a team thing. But Jackson is
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  Speaker 1: is a is separating really.
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  Speaker 2: Well weak ones a long time ago. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: you guys have been significly more utilizing, you know, utilized
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  Speaker 2: play action a lot more. He've been more explosive. Is
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  Speaker 2: there's something from that game that you walked away with
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  Speaker 2: and he learned that helps you the rest of the way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: definitely probably learn way more than from stubbing your toe
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  Speaker 2: than you do with having success. So just trying to
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  Speaker 2: utilize the strengths of our players best and and between
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  Speaker 2: our offensive line, our hat backs and quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's been a positive part of our offense.
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  Speaker 2: Thus far, I've done a really good job of avoiding
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  Speaker 2: negative plays most of the year. There was a couple
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  Speaker 2: against Houston where you know, he made a play, would
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  Speaker 2: have rather not anything that you saw that was different
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  Speaker 2: or lessons learned in that one.
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  Speaker 1: From the from the turnovers say yeah, yeah, as a
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  Speaker 1: team we had four turnovers and uh, just just not
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  Speaker 1: good enough offensively. You know, can't put your defense in
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  Speaker 1: those positions, and those are things we're focusing on eliminating
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  Speaker 1: moving forward. But the other part of that is, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got to stay aggressive, and part of
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  Speaker 1: being aggressive is there's going to be times where that
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  Speaker 1: stuff happens. So don't want to lose that part of
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  Speaker 1: our game either.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you, Thank you, coach.