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Bobby Wagner: "We're Moving In The Right Direction" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How good you feel a lout the way this defense
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  Speaker 1: is playing for the last month or so, feel really good.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like obviously there were some plays that we
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  Speaker 1: could have executed better, but overall, to hold team to
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  Speaker 1: ten points and under twenty two hundred and fifty yards,
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, we're moving in the right direction. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's one hundred yards and the cards one hundred yards
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  Speaker 1: in the ground in the first half of twenty three
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  Speaker 1: in a second will change. We just had to be
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  Speaker 1: on the quarterback runs, you know, they we knew they
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  Speaker 1: were going to do that coming into the game. The
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  Speaker 1: one that got on us. We need to be better,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe that they they checked into a blister
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  Speaker 1: that we have. But other than that, I think, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we communicated better throughout the second half and
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  Speaker 1: make sure we played it the scheme better. How you're
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  Speaker 1: standing on the field looking at the replay when they
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  Speaker 1: were showing them Jake and the challenge and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: just I just did what did you think of that?
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  Speaker 1: That you the catch and kind of that whole sequence
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  Speaker 1: of peach challenge that that I mean, you watch them
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  Speaker 1: make those catches that practice, you know when they do
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  Speaker 1: one on ones or things of that nature. So when
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  Speaker 1: I saw I thought he got his foot down. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I was hoping hete challenged it, and he did and
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  Speaker 1: missed a great throw, great catch. You know, glad we
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  Speaker 1: challenged it. What you thought of his ascension from you know,
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  Speaker 1: undrafted rookie with the slow forty time to a guy
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  Speaker 1: who's really helping the guys out there. I think people
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  Speaker 1: get too caught up in the forty time, to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: just period. I feel like that. I've met so many
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  Speaker 1: players that run for two that didn't make it to
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  Speaker 1: the league, and I met a lot of guys that
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  Speaker 1: run five flat that you know, had a hell of
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  Speaker 1: a career. So you know, I think we we we
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  Speaker 1: put too much into the forty time, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: But watching him when he first got in here and
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  Speaker 1: he was preparing and he was you know, you watch
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  Speaker 1: him run routes, you watch him do extra stuff off
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  Speaker 1: the field, extra workouts, things of that nature that propelled
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  Speaker 1: him into you know, making the team. And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: he worked even harder to find a role and and
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  Speaker 1: he's really mastered that role. And when we had some
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  Speaker 1: guys down, it was this opportunity to step up and
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  Speaker 1: he did, you know, a really really good job, not
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  Speaker 1: just in the past, but he's very effective in the
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  Speaker 1: run game as well. So, you know, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: just a really cool story for guys that don't get drafted.
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  Speaker 1: If you work hard and you do what you need
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  Speaker 1: to do. He's a guy that can show you that
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  Speaker 1: he can make it really awful today. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think he's doing better now than he did two years
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  Speaker 1: ago when he played together. I think he's trusting himself,
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  Speaker 1: trusting what he sees. I think he's playing free, not thinking.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's always been fast and always been you know,
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  Speaker 1: make plays. But you know, I think some of the
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  Speaker 1: plays he's just trusting his instincts, trusting his film study.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that always happens over time, as you
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  Speaker 1: you know, playing this league, you know, you learn to
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  Speaker 1: trust what you see, you learn to trust your preparation.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, he's done a really really good job.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I don't want to, you know, keep harping
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  Speaker 1: on it, but I will. What he's doing is is
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  Speaker 1: so impressive because he you know, he had a crazy injury,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think pretty late in the season, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people thought that he wasn't gonna be back.
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  Speaker 1: But not only is he back, he played at a
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  Speaker 1: very very high level and he's making a lot of plays.
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  Speaker 1: So again I don't want to look overlook the the
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  Speaker 1: road that he had to get to get to this
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  Speaker 1: point and how well he's playing. Yes, it had two
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  Speaker 1: turnovers pretty deep in your territory and they only got
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  Speaker 1: three points out of It's just how much pride the
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  Speaker 1: defense that to keep a team scoring. Yeah, we practice those,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sudden change moments. You know, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to as a defense, you know, have offense turn the
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  Speaker 1: ball over, have something you know, crazy like that happened,
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  Speaker 1: But you know, those plays all mindset. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: can get frustrated at what happened, or you can embrace
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  Speaker 1: the challenge, take it as a challenge and you know,
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  Speaker 1: see if you can get no points on the board.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of how we approached it. A straight
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  Speaker 1: game under thirty three down conver especially for the other team. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: what are you noticing? That's really changing things for you
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  Speaker 1: guys there, because early on the season, third down was
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  Speaker 1: kind of the achilles eo for you guys. It was
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  Speaker 1: under thirty the last two games. I just think the emphasis,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the emphasis you know, after a couple of
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  Speaker 1: those games in the first part of the season. I'm
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  Speaker 1: still in the first part of the season, but you know, understanding,
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  Speaker 1: you know what teams are trying to do, being more
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  Speaker 1: sticky and coverage, you know, putting more emphasis into that
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  Speaker 1: because you know, those players extend drives. If they complete
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  Speaker 1: thurs downs, you know, you stay on the field a
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  Speaker 1: lot longer. I think early on, you know, we were
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  Speaker 1: having those crazy, like fourteen play drives, and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: you get off the field on third down. It allows
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  Speaker 1: you to be fresh throughout the game and you get
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  Speaker 1: the ball back to the offense. I think it's just
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  Speaker 1: we've been emphasizing it and making sure that you know
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  Speaker 1: the communication and that in that part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Is Chris top of plan? Well, did you notice Georgia
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  Speaker 1: plans a little bit more more energy, more juice to
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  Speaker 1: particularly maybe that second half. I mean, I think when
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  Speaker 1: we make plays, it naturally brings the energy, and so
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  Speaker 1: he just he's kind of like Jamal like when he's
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  Speaker 1: making plays and when he's out there, you feed off
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  Speaker 1: of that energy, and so you know, he definitely was
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  Speaker 1: excited because he was having some hits. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: think Spoon had a nice hit, and so I think
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  Speaker 1: we were just feeding off each other. And Jordan was
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  Speaker 1: a part of excited to whar the throwbacks next week.
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  Speaker 1: Huh excited to where I am extremely excited to wear throwbacks.
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  Speaker 1: I still think that we should have black jerseys, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to complain, all right, Else appreciate