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Devon Witherspoon: "My Teammates Made This Come Alive" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I think last year you told us you thought you
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  Speaker 1: were in trouble and you got called into pizza office
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  Speaker 1: to find.
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  Speaker 2: Out you were Pro Bowl. Oh yeah, you find out
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  Speaker 2: this time trying to see think.
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  Speaker 3: I think Mike told me yesterday, but I kind of
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  Speaker 3: already knew though for somebody else, But I ain't gonna
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  Speaker 3: reveal that information.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't mean to do you get this tears in the row?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? I mean it's special. You know when the game
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  Speaker 3: recognized who you are and stuff like that. So you
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  Speaker 3: you were taking achievement that you you got. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it feel good.
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  Speaker 2: So where did you keep up? Go ahead?
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  Speaker 4: Where did your game make the biggest jump last year
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  Speaker 4: to this year?
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, I gotta go back and rewatch the film
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  Speaker 3: to study myself. But I think I think it made
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  Speaker 3: a jump as far as bringing the team, the defense
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  Speaker 3: together and us playing as one so we all played
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  Speaker 3: better together. So I think that's my biggest jump from
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  Speaker 3: last year.
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  Speaker 4: You talked about all your uh you don't chase stats,
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  Speaker 4: not looking at that just went in and you still
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  Speaker 4: make the Pro Bowl. What do you think that? Why
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  Speaker 4: do you think that happened?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Because my teammates, man, like I said, we played better
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  Speaker 3: when we all out there on the same accord and
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  Speaker 3: when we were going out there to dominate people. So
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  Speaker 3: my teammates made this come come alive. Man, It's not
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  Speaker 3: just me.
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  Speaker 4: So you told us in training camp, a big goal
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  Speaker 4: of this season was availability. You you missed a few
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  Speaker 4: games last year.
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  Speaker 3: On Sunday, you're gonna play your seventeenth game.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean you to get the whole season?
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  Speaker 2: But that means a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I got through the whole season. I played well. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I played well. So I said that that's
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  Speaker 3: one thing I wanted to tiev this year, and I
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  Speaker 3: did so, congressing myself to that sign.
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  Speaker 2: Just continue to do it.
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  Speaker 4: So how surprised you either that letter didn't make it?
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  Speaker 2: Say that again, how surprised you that letter Williams didn't
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  Speaker 2: make it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's crazy. It ain't gonna lie like we
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  Speaker 3: they got to review that or something. Bro they eat
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  Speaker 3: trip it ain't gonna lie. They trip.
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  Speaker 2: Gun is Tyler walk at for two years? In practice?
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  Speaker 1: We were just talking to him about what have you
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  Speaker 1: learned from him? Just practicing against him, being around him
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room, just the leader he is.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, did the my goal that I I did this,
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  Speaker 3: Your uh availability help me learn how to take care
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  Speaker 3: of my body to you know what I'm saying. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: you gotta take the best decision for you out there
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  Speaker 3: on the field, like I said, helped me preserve my body.
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  Speaker 2: Man learning from him and the things.
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  Speaker 3: That he go not just on the field, off the
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  Speaker 3: field as well though, Like he taught me a lot.
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  Speaker 3: So like learning from toddlight Man, that's that's that's specially
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  Speaker 3: for real.
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  Speaker 4: The defensive stats really have improved a lot the last
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  Speaker 4: couple of months. Well, I guess what do you think
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  Speaker 4: is the biggest reasons why that's what.
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  Speaker 2: That kind of happened.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of said this a couple of games, but
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember when I said, Like, m Mike locked
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  Speaker 3: in like he he locked in, And I think that.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's what did it.
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  Speaker 3: Man his game plan that he would land out for us,
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  Speaker 3: and we just went out there and executed it and
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  Speaker 3: we brought up to life.
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  Speaker 2: I think it.
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  Speaker 3: I think it speaks highly of what he know how
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  Speaker 3: to do and how he gets his players involved in
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  Speaker 3: his scheme.
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  Speaker 2: So shout out the coach.
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  Speaker 4: You're the first Seahawk to make a Pro Bowl. Your
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  Speaker 4: first two seasons since Russell Wilson did it. Uh, there's
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  Speaker 4: only uh four other Seahawks that have done it. I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure at the end of your career. But do you
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  Speaker 4: you think about like your like, like where you fit
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  Speaker 4: in the history of this franchise and what's happened in
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  Speaker 4: the past.
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  Speaker 2: Nah.
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  Speaker 3: Not Yeah, I don't think I did not to be
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  Speaker 3: thinking about that yet, So I really don't think about that.
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  Speaker 1: Can you appreciate the fact that, you know, it seems
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  Speaker 1: like with Pro Bowl voting, a lot of times people
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  Speaker 1: just look at who's leading the certain categories of stats
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  Speaker 1: and whatever, and then they, you know, make their vote
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  Speaker 1: based on that. Can you appreciate that voters kind of
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  Speaker 1: looked beyond just the fact that you don't have any
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  Speaker 1: interceptions one sack and still.
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  Speaker 2: Voted you in. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I do, And I think that I feel like my
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  Speaker 3: game shows that when you watch the film and that
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  Speaker 3: the other coaches and players out there to that they
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  Speaker 3: know that. So shout out to them for being real
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  Speaker 3: and considered to me man, like I said, I don't
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  Speaker 3: have the stats for real, but that just testament, So
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  Speaker 3: like how I play.
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  Speaker 1: So, how is your your relationship with Mike McDonald changed
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  Speaker 1: over the season.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like I say, I mean we grew, We
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  Speaker 3: got to know each other better and better, and now
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  Speaker 3: it's just like our relationship now, we just joke around
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  Speaker 3: with each other the more or not because I understand
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  Speaker 3: what he what he's trying to do and how he's
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  Speaker 3: trying to do it, and then it's easy for me
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  Speaker 3: to just play my part in that.
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  Speaker 2: So our relationship is it's great.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think the defense has not gotten as
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  Speaker 4: many takeaways this year considering how well you guys have
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  Speaker 4: played in so many other parts of the game.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like, I mean, we we missed a lot
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  Speaker 3: of opportunities, a lot of the ads on the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: Like I say, we got a lot of draw picks,
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  Speaker 3: miss uh fumble recoveries, We ain't take shots at the
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  Speaker 3: ball enough this year, and stuff like that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think that's more so on us than it is
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  Speaker 3: like anything else.
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  Speaker 1: So you mentioned that relationship with coach growing over the year.
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  Speaker 1: How much confidence that give you what this team can
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  Speaker 1: be cap well for next year?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, give me a lot of confidence.
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  Speaker 3: Like I said, you feel me we already know what
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  Speaker 3: he trying to do now, especially that we a year in.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like we got got developed.
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  Speaker 3: To the defense that he running, and so I think
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  Speaker 3: our confidence is going to nex year and it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be through the roof.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I can't wait to see what that's gonna look like.
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  Speaker 3: When you you know what he's trying to achieve, Does
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  Speaker 3: that make you all play faster at least to wind
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  Speaker 3: up pre snap and play faster. Yeah, cause we already
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  Speaker 3: know what's going on, like situational football where we out
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  Speaker 3: on the field stuff like that, Like Okay, he gonna
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  Speaker 3: call this play in this area of the field.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, we already know ahead of the time.
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  Speaker 3: So by the time we get out there, it's like, alright,
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  Speaker 3: we know the adjustments we're gonna make if they motion
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  Speaker 3: or if they not.
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  Speaker 2: Are we already ahead of the game
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  Speaker 1: So anything else thinks good looks make it