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Head Coach Mike Macdonald: "We're Going To Go Back To Work And Get Better" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right. It was a tough game. I think our
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  Speaker 1: guys played really hard, stuck together, you know. But hats
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  Speaker 1: off to Washington. I thought they played a great game,
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  Speaker 1: had a great plan. Plus, you know, they were minus
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  Speaker 1: three in the takeaway department. But, you know, the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: what wins games is great situational football and taking care
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  Speaker 1: of the rock and playing complimentary football and stacking plays.
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  Speaker 1: And we didn't do those things today. And they did.
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  Speaker 1: So credit to them. But I think the message to
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  Speaker 1: our guys is just that. Like, you know, when we
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  Speaker 1: play great Seahawks football, we should expect to win games
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  Speaker 1: with all the things that we kind of lost, like
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  Speaker 1: the miniature, you know, the inside battles of the game.
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  Speaker 1: It's still a two-point game. And we can be better
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  Speaker 1: situationally to take advantage of that and try to close
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  Speaker 1: the game out. But tough game, great game by them,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll move forward. They got to an audible against
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  Speaker 1: zero and they made a good check and we didn't
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  Speaker 1: make the play.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of Sam overall?
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  Speaker 1: Just kind of his effort. I mean, four touchdowns and everything,
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  Speaker 1: but a couple of interceptions as well. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of like a microcosm for the whole game.
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  Speaker 1: I think our guys played hard. I thought we did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good things. Offensively, we thought that through
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  Speaker 1: the ball relatively well, but we've got to take care
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  Speaker 1: of the ball as an offense. We've got to turn
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  Speaker 1: it over on defense. What do you think you didn't
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  Speaker 1: generate much in the run game today? Honestly, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 1: That was a good front. I think we were trying
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  Speaker 1: to find solutions. I think also the way the second
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  Speaker 1: half went with the weather clearing up and the way
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  Speaker 1: the pass game was going, I think that's where we
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  Speaker 1: decided to emphasize.
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  Speaker 2: Did you need to get more pressure from the interior line.
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  Speaker 1: When you felt that you got enough? No, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: get enough pressure today. They did a good job taking
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  Speaker 1: care of the quarterback. We'll look at it and see
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  Speaker 1: where we can get better, but I don't think we
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  Speaker 1: hit our mark today on the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: You talked about red zone being a question coming out
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  Speaker 2: of last.
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  Speaker 1: Week, both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of how that went today?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not good enough. We need to be better,
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  Speaker 1: especially in those sudden change situations on defense. I think
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  Speaker 1: we'll go back to our process and see what we're doing,
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  Speaker 1: see if we play well, how we game plan it
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  Speaker 1: when we rep stuff. We'll go back and kind of
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  Speaker 1: look at everything and see where we can improve.
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  Speaker 2: What's your concern on Price's fumbles?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's his team. If we turn the ball over,
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  Speaker 1: it's not good business. I don't want to come back
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  Speaker 1: after the initial fumble. We just decided to calm it
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  Speaker 1: down and bring him back after the half, but he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be fine. He's going to figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be fine.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of A.J. Finley and how you
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  Speaker 2: played without Julian?
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  Speaker 1: On a short couple days notice, I thought he did
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  Speaker 1: a great job. Did a great job. They did some
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  Speaker 1: good things operationally in moving and shifting, and I felt
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  Speaker 1: like we were organized back there. It's just a matter
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  Speaker 1: of making certain plays that we'll see how we can
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  Speaker 1: get better.
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  Speaker 2: You've obviously got a lot of bets in that room.
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  Speaker 2: What gives you confidence looking around that room a couple
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  Speaker 2: minutes ago that you're.
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  Speaker 1: Going to get the right response coming out of this?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's something that you see in the
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  Speaker 1: locker room. It's just I know our team. I know
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  Speaker 1: what they're made of. I know what we have. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to go back to work. We're going to get better.
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  Speaker 1: It's our job as coaches, too, to look at operationally. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it's not the result we want, but that's a byproduct
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  Speaker 1: of how we approach everything, how we travel. how we
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  Speaker 1: get ready, how we game plan. So we'll look at
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  Speaker 1: everything and attack the heck out of it and move forward.
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  Speaker 1: But the guys will be great.
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  Speaker 2: On that play before the two-minute warning, did you think
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  Speaker 2: that they were going to have to snap the ball
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  Speaker 2: before the two-minute warning?
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  Speaker 1: No. We thought they weren't going to snap it, but
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to save the timeout.
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  Speaker 2: You came away with that first spell.
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  Speaker 1: We came back to see if he was fine. Right
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  Speaker 1: now he's fine, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sam, overall, what do you think?
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  Speaker 1: I thought he made some tremendous plays on time and
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  Speaker 1: then on extended plays. I thought he did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: The takeaways are tough, but again, we'll look at him
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  Speaker 1: and see why we made those decisions and see what
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  Speaker 1: we can do to make better decisions. I think on
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  Speaker 1: the whole, he kept us in the game. I know that.
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  Speaker 1: We're kind of a down to score mode there and
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  Speaker 1: then went right down the field. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: positives coming out of there. It's just operationally, how can
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  Speaker 1: we stay ahead of the sticks? How can we run
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  Speaker 1: the ball better? Things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, you want to get takeaways, but you can't just
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  Speaker 2: say get takeaways to the guys. How do you then
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  Speaker 2: create more chances for those takeaways?
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  Speaker 1: I think we just need to find ways to be
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  Speaker 1: more aggressive. Credit to them. They had a great plan operationally.
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  Speaker 1: I thought the quarterback... did some things that put them
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  Speaker 1: in some good plays, which is credit to them. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we'll look at it. Takeaways really are a function of
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  Speaker 1: how often and consistently can you apply pressure on the
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  Speaker 1: other team and have the upper hand. We didn't have
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  Speaker 1: enough of those today. We'll get better. You guys had
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  Speaker 1: to go through this a while. What's the message that
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  Speaker 1: you can give to the team after a couple? I
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  Speaker 1: I think the message was going to be the same
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  Speaker 1: whether we won the game or not. It's about how
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  Speaker 1: we do what we do and how we get better.
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  Speaker 1: It's really that simple. It's about attacking problems and finding
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  Speaker 1: solutions throughout the week and making sure that we're all
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  Speaker 1: looking at our area of responsibility and how we can
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  Speaker 1: improve on it and just be honest with ourselves and
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  Speaker 1: attack the heck out of it. We say go through,
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  Speaker 1: not around. That's what we plan on doing.
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  Speaker 2: Did the site official give you an explanation on Finley's
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  Speaker 2: penalty on McLaren on the incomplete third down?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else?
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  Speaker 1: No.