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Sam Darnold: "There's Always Room To Grow And Continue To Learn" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right. Yeah, not our best tonight, guys. It was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just offensively couldn't really feel like we couldn't
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  Speaker 1: get anything going. You know, we had a couple good drives.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like early on, you know, I had a
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  Speaker 1: third down where Jax was there and I should have
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  Speaker 1: gotten it to him early. So, yeah, you know, again,
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  Speaker 1: credit to those guys. You know, they had a good
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  Speaker 1: plan and, you know, executed at a high level. But, again,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that we can do better
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  Speaker 1: and need to do better moving forward. What's number one
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  Speaker 1: on your list? I mean, we got to look at
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  Speaker 1: the got to look at the tape again. You know, just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I always think it starts with first and
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  Speaker 1: second down efficiency. You know, obviously third down red zone,
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  Speaker 1: red zone definitely needs to be better. But yeah, if
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  Speaker 1: we can just continue to be more efficient on first
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  Speaker 1: and second down, you know, all those other things I
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  Speaker 1: always feel like fall into line. Yeah, I think for me, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's all about, you know, when I get
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  Speaker 1: the ball out quick, it's all about knowing where to
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  Speaker 1: go with football. You know, and I think, you know, again,
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  Speaker 1: just being decisive, you know, knowing when I need to
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  Speaker 1: move on in progression and doing that. So again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: talking about this game specifically, got to watch the tape, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I feel like there were opportunities to get
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  Speaker 1: the ball out, and I just didn't. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: your big plays last season came on those, you know,
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  Speaker 1: times where you escaped the pocket and found, like, chunk
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  Speaker 1: plays down the field. Why do you think that hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been as big of a thing this year? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think teams are doing a good job, one, of taking
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  Speaker 1: those things away in scramble mode, but Again, we can
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  Speaker 1: always be better in those situations, you know, in terms
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  Speaker 1: of me allowing receivers, tight ends, backs to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: giving them time, you know, as I kind of scramble
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  Speaker 1: outside the pocket, maybe buy them a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: time to get open and find them down the field.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, there's always ways to get better. A little
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  Speaker 1: bit of new, again, with the offense, with Zach and
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  Speaker 1: Jadarian coming back in and the changes on the offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: As a process for you guys, how do you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you handled all of that as a unit today? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's, you know, the theme is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we can always be better and do better. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it just wasn't good enough today. And, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think our preparation, you know, and how we went about
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  Speaker 1: the week and with, you know, Jadarian and, you know, Sharbs,
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  Speaker 1: even Quentin up front, you know, Gray going to right. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like our prep was really good, and those
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  Speaker 1: guys had a great week of practice. You know, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: it's about going and doing it. And, you know, that
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  Speaker 1: starts with me. I've got to be better in certain situations,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got to be better as a whole on offense.
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  Speaker 1: You had a pass with Clint before you both came here.
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  Speaker 1: Is there an adjustment period for Coach Furry? Not that
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  Speaker 1: it's bad or wrong, but it's different. Yeah, I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as the season goes on, there's always– room
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  Speaker 1: to grow and continue to learn each other. And I
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  Speaker 1: feel like the last couple weeks, we've been continuing to
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  Speaker 1: develop that relationship. And I feel like it's been going good.
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  Speaker 1: And again, for whatever reason today, again, we got to
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  Speaker 1: watch the tape, but It just wasn't good enough, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll continue to dive deep into it, be very honest
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  Speaker 1: with each other really throughout the next day going forward. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: we've got Tuesday coming up tomorrow, so it's a quick
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  Speaker 1: turnaround to Wednesday and getting ready for the Cardinals. But
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  Speaker 1: we're going to take a hard look at ourselves tonight
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  Speaker 1: and tomorrow and figure what we can do a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better. Anything else? Thanks, guys.