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Sam Darnold: "Our Offense Can Be More Efficient And Can Be Better Operationally" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What's up, guys? Yeah, obviously not the outcome that we wanted.
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  Speaker 1: Too many turnovers, didn't execute enough in the red zone. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we just got to be better. You know,
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  Speaker 1: first downs I feel like we can be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more efficient. And, yeah, I feel like as a
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  Speaker 1: whole our offense can be more efficient and we can
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  Speaker 1: be better operationally as well.
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  Speaker 2: How are you physically?
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  Speaker 1: Physically I feel great.
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  Speaker 2: At what point did you know, because you got out
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  Speaker 2: a lot, extended a lot of plays, at what point
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  Speaker 2: in the game did you realize, yeah, this isn't an issue,
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  Speaker 2: I'm fine?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I really tried to test it pre-game, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the pre-pre-warm-up, and then obviously with the pads on,
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  Speaker 1: tried to run around a little bit out there and
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  Speaker 1: felt good.
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  Speaker 3: The secondary reception that they returned for the test, what happened.
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  Speaker 1: On that play? Yeah, just bad decision. Got out there,
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  Speaker 1: the end did a good job of, you know, not
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  Speaker 1: letting me, you know, escape to the outside and had
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  Speaker 1: to make a quick decision and should have dirted it
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  Speaker 1: at his feet. Did you see him? Were you surprised?
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  Speaker 1: I saw him. I saw him. He made a really
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  Speaker 1: good play, but, yeah, that's a ball I got to
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  Speaker 1: throw away.
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  Speaker 3: On the play earlier when there was the penalty, did
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  Speaker 3: you think that was an offside when you were throwing
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  Speaker 3: it down to Rashid at the goal line?
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  Speaker 1: No, I was just trying to give Rashid a chance,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just thinking that, you know, if I put
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  Speaker 1: my eyes enough on Jax that, you know, they might
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  Speaker 1: respond to that. But, again, 39, you know, Reeves did
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  Speaker 1: a really good job all day, you know, playing his
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  Speaker 1: spot and his responsibility.
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  Speaker 3: The first one looked like you just went up the
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  Speaker 3: guy's helmet or what on the first interception?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it hit, but yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think you got a hand on it. So again,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you got to you got to tip your
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  Speaker 1: cap to those guys. You know, they played a really
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  Speaker 1: good game defensively, you know, all around. They played a
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  Speaker 1: really good game.
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  Speaker 3: They've had better luck defending the run this year than
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  Speaker 3: the pass. Is there something you guys saw that had
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  Speaker 3: you trying to attack them on the ground early?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we always our coaches especially do a
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  Speaker 1: really good job of seeing, you know, how we want
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  Speaker 1: to attack them and and you know, implementing that in
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  Speaker 1: the game plan. And they did a really good job,
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  Speaker 1: you know, of kind of, you know, stopping our run game. But, again,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we just got to continue to be better
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  Speaker 1: and be more efficient on those early downs.
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  Speaker 2: Do you say anything to Price or you leave him
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  Speaker 2: alone and he knows the situation after the fall?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's a, you know, J.D. 's such a
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  Speaker 1: great dude, you know, and he knows his responsibility. He
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  Speaker 1: knows not to turn the ball over. So there's not
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  Speaker 1: much you say to him. You just tell him to
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  Speaker 1: keep going and we got your back.
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  Speaker 2: This team's won so many games in the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm lost since December. What's similar or different about
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  Speaker 2: the messaging and the vibe and the tone right now
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  Speaker 2: in the last half hour than after all those wins?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just, you know, unfortunately it's part of the game. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, again, I think obviously I can't turn the
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  Speaker 1: ball over the way that I did. We can't turn
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  Speaker 1: the ball over as an offense and, you know, be–
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  Speaker 1: inefficient and expect to win games. But, you know, again,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, you got to tip your hat to,
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  Speaker 1: to the commanders, you know, they played a really good
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  Speaker 1: game and we're just going to continue to look at
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  Speaker 1: the film, look at it tomorrow. And, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think it really starts with looking in the mirror and
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  Speaker 1: seeing how everyone can be better and improve.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously the turnovers are where eyes go, but what else
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  Speaker 3: do you guys, when you look at this game and
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  Speaker 3: would you point and say, man, that that was not
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  Speaker 3: to our standard?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Again, like I said, I think operation, I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there were a couple of times getting low
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  Speaker 1: on the play clock. That's on me. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: got to get the guys in there and out of
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  Speaker 1: the huddle. Um, you know, just some of the false
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  Speaker 1: starts and, uh, some of the pre-snap penalties, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think there were only a couple, but, um, and
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  Speaker 1: then for me, like, especially if we call a pass on,
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  Speaker 1: on first and second down, like being able to move
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  Speaker 1: the ball forward, um, is, is huge. And staying in those,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when we go first, second, first down, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're a really good offense when we stay in third
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  Speaker 1: and short as well. Um, were really tough, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but again, it's, it's a, it's tough to go up
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  Speaker 1: against defenses when you're always in those like third, eight,
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  Speaker 1: nine plus range. Cause you know, a lot of those guys,
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  Speaker 1: they'll just sit at the sticks and play it from there.
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  Speaker 1: But again, you know, there's a lot of different ways
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  Speaker 1: that we could be better. Red zone again, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: was another big one. So yeah, we just got to
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  Speaker 1: continue to look at ourselves and see how we can
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  Speaker 1: get better.
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  Speaker 3: Jax is up to six touchdowns, you know, two more
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  Speaker 3: this game. Is it possible he's doing better this year than.
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  Speaker 2: After what he did last year?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. You know, Jax is continuing to improve. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's, you know, it just kind of shows
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  Speaker 1: the guy that he is too, like after the game,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not being satisfied just because, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: putting up numbers and all those things. Like for him
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  Speaker 1: to be able to, you know, just– you know, after
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room, just not be satisfied. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he wants to win first and foremost. And, um, you
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  Speaker 1: can always play with a guy like that.
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  Speaker 3: Are there things the commanders did that surprised you guys
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  Speaker 3: or on defense that you hadn't seen before?
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  Speaker 1: Um, I wouldn't say they surprised us. Um, I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they're, they got really good players. Obviously I
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  Speaker 1: know DJ, their defensive coordinator from Minnesota, and I know
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  Speaker 1: that he's a really good coordinator, um, a really good coach.
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  Speaker 1: So I know they're a well-coached unit and really good. So,
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  Speaker 1: When you combine those two things, it's a really good defense.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like you were able to connect with A.J.
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  Speaker 3: Barnum a lot more frequently today than maybe previous weeks.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what was kind of going on inside? Are
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  Speaker 1: you pleased with the production you were able to get
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  Speaker 1: out of him? Yeah, you know, I thought all of
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  Speaker 1: our tight ends did a really good job today. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just how it goes sometimes, right? I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: just throw it to the open guy as a quarterback. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, A.J. did a really good job today. So
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  Speaker 1: did Sabi and, you know, Collarup and E. Elijah. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they'll start making headway as well, but, you know, That
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  Speaker 1: room just does a really good job as a whole
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  Speaker 1: throughout the entire week and obviously on game day. Thanks, Sam. Thanks, guys.