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Bobby Wagner: "Every Week We Are Getting Better" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So I did say something I would have from for you,
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  Speaker 1: so great memory.
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  Speaker 2: So today I kind of wanted to take some time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do this every week, but I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to take some time to announce that I partner with
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks and Virginia Mason Franciscan Health with Fast fifty
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  Speaker 1: four and basically Fast fifty four is to create awareness
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  Speaker 1: around stroke and the fund is under my mom's name,
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  Speaker 1: the fenian A Fund. I did it in a comic
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  Speaker 1: book form, So when you guys go back to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know where you guys reside, there's a comic book
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  Speaker 1: waiting for you guys, so you guys can read it.
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  Speaker 1: But pretty much this is what I thought would be
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  Speaker 1: a fun, interesting way to kind of raise some awareness
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  Speaker 1: around stroke, the prevention of stroke, the donations. If you
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  Speaker 1: donate fifty four dollars, it goes to the stroke patience
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  Speaker 1: and their rehabilitation. Obviously, you guys know this is something
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  Speaker 1: extremely important to me. Uh you know, my mom suffered
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  Speaker 1: from one a long time ago, and every year I've
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  Speaker 1: been trying to figure out ways to do something different
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  Speaker 1: to kind of raise awareness, and I still feel like
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  Speaker 1: there still needs to be a little bit more awareness
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  Speaker 1: raised around this topic, and so I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 1: the perfect candidate to raise awareness. So I would love
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  Speaker 1: the support of Seattle and you know, pretty much the
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  Speaker 1: whole city to come help me make this a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we'll be doing fun things throughout the city
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  Speaker 1: with this comic, whether it's within the city or within
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  Speaker 1: the community. And you know, I'm excited about this partnership.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's going to be really really cool. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of information, not enough for me to be
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  Speaker 1: able to memorize and say to you guys, So any
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  Speaker 1: other you know, if you want more information sharing, go
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  Speaker 1: to seahawks dot com. We'll be putting some out here
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  Speaker 1: shortly after this interview. I really just want to thank uh,
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks and Virginia Mason Franciscan Health for putting this together,
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  Speaker 1: making this thing a very very special.
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  Speaker 2: Deal for me. I'm excited about it. Hopefully you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Get behind it, and I think it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: really really unique opportunity and I'm looking forward to to
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  Speaker 1: doing something fun. Lastly, one more thing I forgot. I
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to say this, It's always on my mind.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to take a second to shout out my pops,
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  Speaker 1: and the reason I wanted to shout out. Over the years,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, I lost my mom. There's been
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  Speaker 1: so much focus on me losing her and how much
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  Speaker 1: of a rock she is to me and what she
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  Speaker 1: meant to me when she was alive and still present,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't feel like he always gets his just due.
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  Speaker 1: He's been very, very present in my life. He's been
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  Speaker 1: a very strong role model for me, and I just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to say thank you, because, you know, he's also
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  Speaker 1: the reason why I'm here. He's the reason why I
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  Speaker 1: am who I am today. It took me becoming a
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  Speaker 1: father to understand how hard it is to be one,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm grateful to have him in my life and
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  Speaker 1: appreciate him. So I don't feel like I acknowledge his
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  Speaker 1: contributions to my life enough and I wanted to take
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  Speaker 1: the time.
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  Speaker 2: To say that as well. So now your questions, Bob, you've.
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  Speaker 3: Been thinking about this for a while. What was the
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  Speaker 3: aha moment that this was the vehicle and that this
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  Speaker 3: is the way that you wanted to get the message
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  Speaker 3: out about his strugg awareness.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was just a collaboration thing and we
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  Speaker 1: always look for different opportunities to kind of be creative,
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  Speaker 1: and I felt like doing it in a comic book form, where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like it reaches a lot of generations.
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  Speaker 1: Like there's young people that are in a comic books,
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  Speaker 1: but there's also like, you know, older people that remember
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  Speaker 1: the comics books they have when they were young, and so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we wanted to do something fun, something unique,
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  Speaker 1: something that will stand out and people will remember, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we all felt like this was the right
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  Speaker 1: way to do it.
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  Speaker 2: To go back to your Ninja Turtle d is, is
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  Speaker 2: that where.
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  Speaker 3: Where you got the idea?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, actually one of the ideas came from, uh, the
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  Speaker 1: Spider Man into the Universe. I really really loved the
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  Speaker 1: first one, and the second one was even better than
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  Speaker 1: the first one, and so a lot of that stemmed
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  Speaker 1: from this.
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  Speaker 2: Of of course, I.
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  Speaker 1: Love Ninja Turtles, but that movie was probably like my
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  Speaker 1: top my top two movie last year. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know what the other one is. I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 1: be honest to the movies I watched. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the Miles moralest character was just really really dope,
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  Speaker 1: and I can't wait to see the part two.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be cool to see all of you guys.
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  Speaker 3: You're here everybody else from that Super Bowl team. But
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  Speaker 3: as it relates to the work that you guys were
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  Speaker 3: doing in the community, how much did you encourage each
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  Speaker 3: other you as a team encourage each other to get
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  Speaker 3: involved in the community and in businesses and to change
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  Speaker 3: the narrative around what an athlete looks like.
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  Speaker 2: We kind of turned it into a competition.
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  Speaker 1: To be honest, you know, somebody, Well, at first it
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  Speaker 1: was support, like whenever somebody did something, we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go out and to support. And then it started in
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  Speaker 1: their individual communities, and then it kind of came to
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  Speaker 1: the community that we was in, uh, which was Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: And so it started off just like, hey, if if
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  Speaker 1: everybody had an idea, or if everybody has something that
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to do, just make sure that we all
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  Speaker 1: come and support it. And as we were going out
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  Speaker 1: to support, we were seeing how cool the events were,
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  Speaker 1: and so then we would all try top each other,
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  Speaker 1: and so it turned into like a competition on you know,
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  Speaker 1: who can have a the best events and and be
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  Speaker 1: raised awareness around whatever whatever thing that they were trying
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  Speaker 1: to do. And we just thought it was a cool thing,
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  Speaker 1: like you're competing to do good, so.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think everybody kind of wins in that situation.
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  Speaker 2: There's gonna be.
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  Speaker 3: A lot going on around the Super Bowl Anniversary this week,
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  Speaker 3: guys coming.
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  Speaker 1: Town, Like are you gonna be able to enjoy that
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  Speaker 1: at all? Or are you just gonna be too focused
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  Speaker 1: on the game to really appreciate everything else going on.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a balance.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think as I get older, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: enjoy some of the things, obviously them be locked in
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  Speaker 1: and be focused. So I won't do everything, but I
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  Speaker 1: definitely want to, you know, be around those guys. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of those guys live in Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, I see them pretty often, so it's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be any difference. Just I have a jersey
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  Speaker 1: on there, they don't seem pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing's that or yeah? Crazy?
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  Speaker 1: Because you know, you walk into the facility, at least
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  Speaker 1: I do. When I look at the banner and I
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  Speaker 1: see all the names that you know on that team
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  Speaker 1: and you know, guys doing bigger, bigger and better things,
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  Speaker 1: and so, you know, just shows how long it's been
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  Speaker 1: since we won.
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  Speaker 2: And hopefully we put another banner.
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  Speaker 3: Up when it comes to Carolina. The the thing that
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  Speaker 3: stands out of their offense is the effectiveness of their
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  Speaker 3: running game. Where's the run defense at for you guys?
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  Speaker 3: After the first two weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we're doing good.
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  Speaker 1: We obviously we've been challenged the first two weeks, two
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  Speaker 1: really good UH run teams. But you know, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like every week we're getting better, which I think that's
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  Speaker 1: what you want. You wanna get better every week. We
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  Speaker 1: understand that they're gonna do everything they can to you know,
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  Speaker 1: take a little bit of load off to the rookie quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, we gotta make sure that we stop
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  Speaker 1: the run game, you know, put the ball in his hands,
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  Speaker 1: but then also understand that he's capable of make of
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  Speaker 1: throws and you know, you see kind of towards the
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  Speaker 1: end of the game, you know he can use his
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  Speaker 1: legs and and create positive plays for them as well.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, once you stop the run, then you
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  Speaker 1: have to stop the pass, and then you have to
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  Speaker 1: be ready for him, you know, getting out of the
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  Speaker 1: pocket and using his legs to to bru to provide
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  Speaker 1: like positive plays for them. So it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: challenge for sure. Bobby, what did you learn from your
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  Speaker 1: dad about fatherhood and then be what did you infer
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  Speaker 1: him about leadership fatherhood? I definitely say patience, because you know, kids,
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  Speaker 1: they definitely gonna try you all the time, especially when
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  Speaker 1: they get older, and so I think patience. I think
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  Speaker 1: I realized how hard it is because you know, he's working,
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  Speaker 1: you know, twenty four to seven providing and then coming
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  Speaker 1: home and have to you know, be alive enough to
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  Speaker 1: give us the attention that we want, you know, from him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being going working all day and so just
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  Speaker 1: the ability to be able to balance and how much
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  Speaker 1: we should appreciate that. I remember having a conversation with
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  Speaker 1: him a very long time ago, and I might have
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  Speaker 1: been complaining about some things that happened growing up, and
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  Speaker 1: he kind of said, like, there's no playbook, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you just do the best that you can. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: when he said that, it really hit me, Like as
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  Speaker 1: I was, you know, obviously I had, you know, children
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  Speaker 1: of my own, and so that's exactly kind of how
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  Speaker 1: I felt.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 1: Really that as well, just you know, using the tools
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  Speaker 1: that you have and really doing the best you can,
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  Speaker 1: putting your the people around you in the best position possible,
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  Speaker 1: and you know.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully they they take it further than you did anything else.
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  Speaker 2: Thank thank you, thanks too, thanks, but I appreciate it.