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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The 44-13 Win vs. The Saints · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, great to see everybody. Obviously very pleased with
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  Speaker 1: our win. Really just proud of our process right now,
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  Speaker 1: the guy's attitude, our approach every day. I think the
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  Speaker 1: coolest thing about our group is we're not satisfied it.
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  Speaker 1: We know we have a room to grow as a
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  Speaker 1: football team. We talk about being a decisive, shocking, relentless.
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  Speaker 1: I thought we were those things. But I also think,
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  Speaker 1: especially on defense, there's room for growth, you know, where
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  Speaker 1: we can learn from some of those extended drives. We'll
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  Speaker 1: look at the penalties to see, you know, what went
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  Speaker 1: wrong there and if it was cost doing business or
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  Speaker 1: if it was on the other end of the spectrum.
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  Speaker 1: But overall, just a great, great team effort. Man. Guys
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  Speaker 1: played extremely hard, played together, complimentary football. Our offense was efficient,
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  Speaker 1: it would have been great to not give up the
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  Speaker 1: ball there at the end. And defensively, we played hard,
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  Speaker 1: we did a great job and really at the story
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  Speaker 1: of the game, did a honestly as our special teams unit.
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  Speaker 1: I think Dave told me they're responsible for thirty points
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  Speaker 1: directly and some pretty high powered stuff. So those guys
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  Speaker 1: that are a lot of credit gave Jay Harbaugh a
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  Speaker 1: game ball and uh, you know, Tory Horten just a
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal game as well, the Anthony Bell, the punt block,
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  Speaker 1: just just great all around. So really proud of it.
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  Speaker 1: But now we've got to go back to work. We've
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  Speaker 1: got a game Thursday. We've got a great plan to
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  Speaker 1: get our bodies right in our minds and uh, we
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  Speaker 1: gotta we got to move on quickly because the game
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  Speaker 1: is coming fast. So what do you got a guy
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  Speaker 1: in line with the person that game? How was it
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  Speaker 1: to be able to rest a lot of starters for
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  Speaker 1: the last Yeah, that was critical. We played a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of plays on defense in the first half,
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  Speaker 1: which is a good problem because of how quickly we're scoring.
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  Speaker 1: But that's one of the reasons we were getting guys
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  Speaker 1: out a little sooner than probably would have in a
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  Speaker 1: normal game. You say you're not satisfied defense because of
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  Speaker 1: thirteen points. What are you not satisfyc with right now? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think when they moved the ball, we we I
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  Speaker 1: think we will look at it. But from my perspective,
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  Speaker 1: we made some decisions that we've we've been making smart
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  Speaker 1: decisions in those moments. A couple of those penalties that
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  Speaker 1: extended drives some of the execution on third down. So
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  Speaker 1: there's there's room to grow. Coach, you've talked, you talked
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  Speaker 1: a lot about trying to build on leads, so you
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  Speaker 1: feel about there. There's just that first couple of minutes,
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter, just that flurry there. That's great. That's
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  Speaker 1: great to start, great to start the way we do again,
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  Speaker 1: our process, I think is is good. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: gotta we got to stick to that and believe in it,
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  Speaker 1: double down on it, the principles that have got us
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  Speaker 1: to this point. But that that's how we want to
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  Speaker 1: play football right there at the beginning and a half.
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  Speaker 1: That goes into punt return What what about Tori's game
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  Speaker 1: makes him something that roal? I mean, just how he's
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  Speaker 1: attacked the whole process since he got here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we had ambitions for him to be our punt returner,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean we're talking about countless, countless reps in
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  Speaker 1: hours of preparation, and he's playing really decisive right now.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, I can't wait to watch the play on
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  Speaker 1: our part returning it and who sprung blocks and how
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  Speaker 1: we set the whole thing up. So I can't tell
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  Speaker 1: you exactly what happened in that play but anytime you
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  Speaker 1: spring a return like that, there's got to be some
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  Speaker 1: some critical blocks that have to be executed. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: see those and don't give them a shout out next
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  Speaker 1: time we get together. Like in your growth process, your
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  Speaker 1: offense seems like they begin to score early, can you
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  Speaker 1: just talk about that how they are matured as well? Again,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's an emphasis on how you know, being
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  Speaker 1: decisive is knowing what to do from the get go,
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  Speaker 1: and Clint and the and the crew deserves a lot
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  Speaker 1: of credit on how we start our openers. And that's
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  Speaker 1: it's important you know, how you start games and having
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  Speaker 1: a clear, clear idea of what you're trying to execute.
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  Speaker 1: Try to get done from a upstand point. D Anthony
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  Speaker 1: going out and getting the blocked putt also out of
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  Speaker 1: tackle for lost time, making a couple of big plays
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  Speaker 1: right out there. How do you feel about those guys
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  Speaker 1: contributions getting thrown in there? Yeah, I mean I'm a
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  Speaker 1: broken record here, but this is this is why we
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  Speaker 1: operate the way we operate. You. I think he felt
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  Speaker 1: the strength of the seventy today and uh, really proud
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  Speaker 1: of those guys. I mean again, this this is you
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  Speaker 1: have to kind of. It's hard to stay ready when
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  Speaker 1: you're not in a like a prominent role, and these
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  Speaker 1: guys have done that. Darren Kendrick again, a phenomenal game.
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  Speaker 1: But the Anthony's playing really fast right now. Tye, Tye
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  Speaker 1: played a solid game, some of them. I'm proud of
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  Speaker 1: those guys, you know, to come in and play play
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  Speaker 1: winning football for us. It sounded like Jackson was pretty
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  Speaker 1: sick yesterday, I guess, but he obviously came back, came
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  Speaker 1: back from the dead. It's pretty cool. Not quite the
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  Speaker 1: flu game, but not quite the Jordan flu game. It
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  Speaker 1: was pretty solid. Well, you mentioned Darien Kendrick just through
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  Speaker 1: three games has happened two interceptions games. He should have
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  Speaker 1: three more. So he's got to go to the Leslie
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  Speaker 1: Fraser School of U of Ball drills and uh is
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  Speaker 1: Leslie over there? Oh, Ernest, Okay, all right, j uh yeah. So,
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  Speaker 1: but talk about a guy that, like, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of cool game plan things, little nuances to
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  Speaker 1: the game plan. Then he picks up and executes that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily show on the scoreboard, and that, to me,
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  Speaker 1: that's what fires me up the most because those are
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  Speaker 1: little edges that we chase throughout the week that give
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  Speaker 1: us edges, you know, recognizing splits and distributions and those
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  Speaker 1: types of things. So playing fast, decisive, and I just
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  Speaker 1: got a knack from making plays. So it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: You know. It's a short turnaround Arizona, Like you said,
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  Speaker 1: with any any idea if NIGGI even worried Devin Witherspoon
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  Speaker 1: or Julian Love will be able to play. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean I fell into the trap last week. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: take it day by day. I mean, of course we
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  Speaker 1: want those guys to play. You know, Spoon gave it
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  Speaker 1: a go this morning, just couldn't couldn't quite get there.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the right decision. I know that's killing him.
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  Speaker 1: But the rest of the guys step in and played
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  Speaker 1: great football in his place. So we'll see what he's
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  Speaker 1: got an ankle. What did you think of tyle Kott
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  Speaker 1: just stepping in and kind of first started playing the
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  Speaker 1: whole game went back? I thought, I thought he executed
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  Speaker 1: the game planing really well, but probably all the details
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  Speaker 1: I can't give you right now. I know he made
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  Speaker 1: some plays. He would have had a sack if he
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  Speaker 1: didn't lift the quarterback, so that would have been cool.
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  Speaker 1: Well with how things have gone at home town nice?
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  Speaker 1: Was it to give your fans a performance like this
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  Speaker 1: that's critical? I mean, you know, my look, this guy
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  Speaker 1: over here, EJ deserves a lot of credit. He's he's
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  Speaker 1: he's made a big emphasis of it, and guys probably
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  Speaker 1: listened to him more they do to me. So but
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  Speaker 1: it's it's important for us to play this way at
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  Speaker 1: home and it was great to do that for him,
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  Speaker 1: So we've got to do it more often. Sam had
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  Speaker 1: a perfect passer writing until I think those last two incompletions,
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  Speaker 1: just what you say about the way he's been playing
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  Speaker 1: these last couple weeks, Yeah, yeah, I mean he's just
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  Speaker 1: playing really with great confidence. He's playing decisive. I think
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  Speaker 1: there's like one ball he probably wants back on the
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  Speaker 1: spray out the Jacks. Guys are playing hard for him.
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  Speaker 1: I think our protection right now is really good and
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  Speaker 1: we got to keep that going. But I know it
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  Speaker 1: looks Sam did the first to tell you he's we're
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  Speaker 1: excited we're two and one, but we got to go
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  Speaker 1: win the next video stack and wins. We got to
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  Speaker 1: go win another one, and he's hungry to do that.
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  Speaker 1: About just big picture, your view of the offense through
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  Speaker 1: three games out closely its lightning with what you do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: same same thing. Look, we're on our way. If Clint
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  Speaker 1: was standing right here, I'm sure he could rattle off
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  Speaker 1: about a dozen things that he wants to improve on.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the mentality we want. Look, we're we're excited
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  Speaker 1: about the growth that we've had. We love our guys,
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  Speaker 1: we love going to work, but we understand that we
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  Speaker 1: can be a really good football team and we're determined
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  Speaker 1: to get there. Anything else, thanks, all right, thank you,