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Mike Macdonald: "We Still Have A Ton Of Football To Play For" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, man, I mean it's uh, it's a great
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  Speaker 1: football game. We get to give Minnesota a lot of credit.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the reason that their record is is what
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  Speaker 1: it is, and what their record is in one score games.
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  Speaker 2: Because they're a good football team. We hung right in there.
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  Speaker 2: We had an opportunity to win the game, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: and we didn't.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's there's things in all three phases we
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  Speaker 1: can do better, but we also did a lot of
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  Speaker 1: great things give ourselves a chance to win. And so
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  Speaker 1: we're on a short week, so we've got to go
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  Speaker 1: back to work in about an hour.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be back and we'll rock.
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  Speaker 1: And we had a good plan. But fate is not
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  Speaker 1: in our hand. Our destiny is not in our hands
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  Speaker 1: right now, which is which is tough. But we have
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  Speaker 1: still a ton of football to play for. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: break here and there, we're we're right back in it
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  Speaker 1: and we're rolling. So you know, we'll dust ourselves off,
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  Speaker 1: chin up, chest out, and move forward.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll where we go.
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  Speaker 1: Going into the game, Like what was the limit on Myers.
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  Speaker 2: And uh we did. Let's just say that was the
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  Speaker 2: the top range of his of where we felt that
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  Speaker 2: we could make it.
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  Speaker 1: In the fact that I'm assuming the fact it was
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  Speaker 1: fourth and fifteen eliminated.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you have three options.
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  Speaker 1: You can kick it, you can punt it and try
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  Speaker 1: to play for you know, a field goal less than
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  Speaker 1: a minute to go, or you can try to make
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  Speaker 1: it and tie it up and try to go.
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  Speaker 2: Win the game.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, you talk about these situations things you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to say, like, we're trying to go win.
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  Speaker 2: We wanna go win the game. We're not trying to play.
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  Speaker 1: Defensive or we're trying you know, that's why were That's
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  Speaker 1: how we call it. So we wanted to call an
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  Speaker 1: aggressive game. We felt like that was the best best
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  Speaker 1: decision at that time.
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  Speaker 2: What happened on their final testown, they made a great play.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're in cover two to that side and
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  Speaker 1: through a seven cut we just couldn't get there.
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  Speaker 2: But the the face mass on Byron was obviously a
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  Speaker 2: really big play. It it just just kind of look
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  Speaker 2: like through legit call and just something he needs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta look at it. I got to look
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  Speaker 1: at it. I mean, that's what we're talking about. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the guys fighting his tail off to get to the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you got to be careful where your hands are.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff going on that moment too,
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  Speaker 1: So I mean those are the inswess we're talking now,
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  Speaker 1: we're you know, we could have had a third and
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  Speaker 1: eight team with two downs ago to try to seal it,
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden two plays later, you know,
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  Speaker 1: now we're down three. So it's like, that's how close
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  Speaker 1: we are, and uh but we're not. We're not there
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  Speaker 1: yet obviously, So those are But that's an example of
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  Speaker 1: the fight and the guys and the effort and how
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  Speaker 1: they're playing.
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  Speaker 2: That would have fallen into a different category.
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  Speaker 1: But some of the unforced errors that you guys committed,
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  Speaker 1: like in a tight game against the team, Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm representing. I mean, it's against a team like this.
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  Speaker 1: The unforced errors has to get cleaned up. Starts with me,
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  Speaker 1: So we'll look at it just like we do every week.
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  Speaker 1: We'll look at it and make adjustments and move forward.
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  Speaker 1: But we have to clean up the procedural stuff. He's
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  Speaker 1: got an ankle going to get imaging right now, So
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure the extent of it.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you see in the final pass Roucino there? Communication?
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  Speaker 2: Uh no, no, just.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta look at the tape. I mean, I know,
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  Speaker 1: the route just didn't seem like I don't I don't
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  Speaker 1: know I was I gonna look at the tape. We'll
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  Speaker 1: get back to you even more.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, how do you value that that game? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he did some really good things. A couple of scoring drives, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of turnout.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Gino is are one of our probably our
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  Speaker 1: top competitor on our football team. And we're not sitting
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  Speaker 1: there with life at the end of December unless you
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  Speaker 1: know Gino's doing done the things that he's done.
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  Speaker 2: So he's fighter. Man. I thought he played it. I
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  Speaker 2: thought he played a good game.
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  Speaker 1: You're running backs average four yards per carry, but he
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  Speaker 1: has only had fourteen carries.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was seventy eight percent past distribution.
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  Speaker 1: Is that some of this point that's starting to become
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  Speaker 1: pretty concerning that in these games you're not able to
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  Speaker 1: establish more balance. Well, we gotta start faster on defense
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  Speaker 1: and put ourselves in a better position.
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  Speaker 2: But some of the things that some of it was
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  Speaker 2: how Minnesota was.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there have some of the personnel groups on
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  Speaker 1: how they're matching us, and I think in some of
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  Speaker 1: those either war spots when we were able to pass it.
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  Speaker 2: I think that was a fishing as well. Jackson another
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  Speaker 2: solid game, thousand yard season.
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  Speaker 1: Just what you made, what he's done early the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of months. Yeah, I mean Jackson's Jack's playing with great,
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  Speaker 1: great football for us, fighting his tail off.
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  Speaker 2: We love him, happy for him. What was your message
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  Speaker 2: to him in there? It's just what I told you guys.
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  Speaker 2: You know it should hurt.
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  Speaker 1: We've we've worked incredibly hard, we've gone through we've been
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  Speaker 1: through a ton of adversity as a team, and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna stick together and we're gonna go back to work.
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  Speaker 1: So we're fighting for the right to stay alive, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on a short week.
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  Speaker 2: So what are you gonna do? Fast off?
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  Speaker 1: In the defense, did you get to the intent physicality
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  Speaker 1: that you need?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, these teams got the opening
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  Speaker 1: scripts and they got stuff, and I thought our guys
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  Speaker 1: were poised and played played hard. We didn't have a lot,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have many mixed communications. It's just they went
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  Speaker 1: down and scored. Our guys rebounded, and I thought defensively,
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  Speaker 1: they fought.
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  Speaker 2: Their tails off.
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  Speaker 1: Ball game, played a physical game, and uh, the ball
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  Speaker 1: was alive. We just we didn't take it away, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and to beat a team like this, you gotta you
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  Speaker 1: gotta turn the ball over. So we weren't able to
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  Speaker 1: do that like you didn have we got there for
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  Speaker 1: the first Oh yeah, it was a just a team
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  Speaker 1: rule thing. So we made it right and that's what
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  Speaker 1: we decided to do. It was best for the team,
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll move forward.
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  Speaker 2: How do you think you responded after that toy you
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  Speaker 2: played to the few? I felt like you played a
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  Speaker 2: good game.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I don't there's we'll see what the opportunities were.
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  Speaker 1: But he did have a couple of pass breakups, so
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  Speaker 1: that was goody.
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  Speaker 2: You your fake playing? Was that something they saw or
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  Speaker 2: something you guys kind of called from the sidelines or
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  Speaker 2: what or what the direct staff to Julia and that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm like, I don't really want to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, air out why were common fakes or when?
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  Speaker 1: But I'll just credit Jay in our operation. The guys
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  Speaker 1: did a great job of executing it. Give us a
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  Speaker 1: chance to extend to drive and potentially we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: go win, so we're looking for any any edge we
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  Speaker 1: can possibly find.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to go try to exploit it.
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  Speaker 1: Are we goes all right?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Peace,