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Sam Darnold: "I Know We Will Bounce Back and Learn From This One" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's going on. Yeah, obviously a tough one today, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just you know, I felt like, you know, despite the turnovers,
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  Speaker 1: we moved the ball, we just couldn't finish in the
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  Speaker 1: red zone. I think that was a big, big thing today.
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  Speaker 1: And then yeah, obviously, like I said, can't turn the
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  Speaker 1: ball over as much as I did today. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'll learn from it, watch the tape, grow from it.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta give credit to you know, the Rams. Obviously they're
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  Speaker 1: really good defense, really good team. But yeah, we just
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  Speaker 1: I gotta be better personally, and I know we'll bounce
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  Speaker 1: back and learn and grow from this one.
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  Speaker 2: They talked about a safety they're moving safeties down. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of people going back out box looks ended up
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  Speaker 2: being like too high look for those some of the
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  Speaker 2: attributed to some of the interceptions to them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they do a good job of disguising
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  Speaker 1: shell and all those things. I feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of defenses do the same thing. I feel like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're you know, their pass rush, their linebackers, their safety
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  Speaker 1: just being all on the same page and playing really
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  Speaker 1: good football. They do it at a high level. They
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  Speaker 1: seem like really smart players. So but again, I just
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  Speaker 1: you know, those are self inflicted whenes turn the ball
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  Speaker 1: over like that, and sometimes you know it's better just
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  Speaker 1: to try to throw the ball away or even take
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  Speaker 1: a sack when nothing's there.
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  Speaker 2: I read the red zone struggles that you guys had
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  Speaker 2: this year.
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  Speaker 1: That has not been a problem for.
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  Speaker 2: You guys, But what were you seeing in those situations?
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  Speaker 1: You know, a couple of times you had to throw
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  Speaker 1: the ball away. What were you seeing in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the coverage and just them taking away some of your
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  Speaker 1: options there? Yeah, you know again, like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like they did a really good job of taking
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  Speaker 1: things away. I felt like I could have hit some
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  Speaker 1: throws as well. I felt like I could have moved
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  Speaker 1: on in some progressions and been able to you know,
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  Speaker 1: check the ball down. So there's a lot of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different variables that go into it, and like
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  Speaker 1: I said, we'll we'll learn from it and move on.
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  Speaker 2: You got your team out passed field on that last try,
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  Speaker 2: and why were you thinking when you know when it
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  Speaker 2: came time for that kick? It was a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: I'm confident and you know that whole operation Special Teams all,
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  Speaker 1: you know, They've been doing a great job all year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to us, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: backed up on the one yard line, you know, that
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  Speaker 1: was just you know, let's go, let's go play ball.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're we're still in this, you know, despite
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  Speaker 1: the turnovers and all the things that happened prior to that,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, you know that's a huge credit to our defense,
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  Speaker 1: the way that they played all day. I just wish
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  Speaker 1: I could have played better for you know, our defense
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  Speaker 1: and just everyone on the team. But again, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's it stings, and it sucks. It should suck,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I'm just gonna continue to grind and
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  Speaker 1: learn from this one, you know, the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any kind of conversation on the sideline that
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  Speaker 2: happened before you guys had the touchdown drive towards the
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  Speaker 2: end kind of seem like a very different drive than
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  Speaker 2: what you'd have before.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we knew we were just kind of
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  Speaker 1: in a tempo tempo situation. I wanted to try to
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  Speaker 1: score before the two minute warning to give our to
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  Speaker 1: give you know, to give us an extra kind of
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  Speaker 1: time out there with the two minute warning to be
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  Speaker 1: able to have time on the clock to go try
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  Speaker 1: to win the game and kick a field.
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  Speaker 2: Goal have challenging does that front of the Rams may
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  Speaker 2: it on quarterbacks with the consistent sure that they get.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, they do a really good job.
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  Speaker 1: You know, not only the front, but you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, you know the the you know other seven
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  Speaker 1: or six guys that they have out there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's they make it. They make it tough. But again,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's every team in the NFL. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: just gotta I feel like, I gotta play better. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in the.
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  Speaker 2: Team that played fifty percent plus dying before uh.
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  Speaker 1: In the NFL. Yeah, I mean it's it's interesting. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like that's you know the way that they do
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  Speaker 1: it too. It's you know, they got they got good
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  Speaker 1: guys up front, you know that are that are all
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  Speaker 1: playing their gaps. And again, like the DB's play really
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  Speaker 1: physical when they're in there. So again, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: they got a really good bunch. And yeah, we're just
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  Speaker 1: gonna learn from it.
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  Speaker 2: Have been better to take a second. The one we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to pitch, like Elijah was that one of them
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  Speaker 2: we eau enough to win a sack because of the
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  Speaker 2: where you are on the deal at that point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was just trying to get the ball
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  Speaker 1: out of my hands. Just a poor decision, didn't you know,
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  Speaker 1: There's a there's alignment in the way. I didn't see
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  Speaker 1: the dB try to make a jump pass, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: just didn't work out. I gotta just dirt that one.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the defense just a big picture wise, how
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  Speaker 2: much confidence didn't you guys knowing that they're able to
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  Speaker 2: do what they did and keep you guys.
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  Speaker 1: In again with that, Yeah, I feel like our defense
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  Speaker 1: has been doing a great job all year. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I just got to continue to you know, I got
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  Speaker 1: to not turn the ball over, as simple as that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I got to do my job, protect the football,
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  Speaker 1: get the guys down the field, put the ball on
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  Speaker 1: the end zone. And yeah, I feel like we'll always
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  Speaker 1: be in a position to win a football game if
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  Speaker 1: I just do that. Did you notice any special attention
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  Speaker 1: to Jackson inter game? You know, they were doing some
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  Speaker 1: you know, some things defensively to take them away. But yeah, again,
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  Speaker 1: I think for me, like, even if they take Jacks away,
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  Speaker 1: we have other guys that are able to make plays
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  Speaker 1: as well. And I just got to go through my
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  Speaker 1: progressions and you know, click through it as fast as
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  Speaker 1: I can. The guys winning this game, having I think
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  Speaker 1: played the far play this season.
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  Speaker 2: Well for you if he was offensive, It's not like
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  Speaker 2: you guys were ever down big in this game. But
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  Speaker 2: does anything change there? I mean it did it feel
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  Speaker 2: any different in that sense?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean, you know, like I said before, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like we we were driving the ball. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we had we had some good you know, ten plus
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  Speaker 1: play drives out there. We just couldn't finish in the
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  Speaker 1: red zone. You know, we got it better in the
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  Speaker 1: red zone. It starts with me getting the guys out
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  Speaker 1: there and executing at a high level, and then yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just can't turn the ball over. I think that's that's
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  Speaker 1: the biggest the biggest thing, the biggest takeaway from today
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  Speaker 1: is just protecting the football. Back to play, being coming
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  Speaker 1: back to play here in la which the result would
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  Speaker 1: have been a little different. But yeah, it's always nice
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  Speaker 1: to come back to l A. You know, get to
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  Speaker 1: see family after this, you know, be in a great
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  Speaker 1: mood to see them. So uh now that's it's uh,
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  Speaker 1: it is what it is. It's uh. It's fun to
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  Speaker 1: be back home though and see family.
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  Speaker 2: Talked to you at all during the on the sideline
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  Speaker 2: to click have any sage for you. On the sideliser
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  Speaker 2: and some of the turnovers or after some of the turnovers.
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  Speaker 1: He just said, you know, keep playing. You know, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to continue to play ball, you know, and we
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  Speaker 1: just continue to have more normal dialogue about what plays
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  Speaker 1: we were thinking about calling next. Thanks guys,