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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of Week 3 At Commanders · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Looking forward to getting on the plane. Guys had a
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  Speaker 1: great week at practice. It's still Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I know we've got quite a trip ahead of us,
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  Speaker 2: but the process continues. It's really focused on how we
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  Speaker 2: nail our sleep and hydration for the next 24 hours.
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  Speaker 1: That's where our focus shifts to right now. Mike, how
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  Speaker 1: did Sam look in practice this week? Really good. Yeah, good.
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  Speaker 2: Sam's going to play and he's ready to go. He's
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  Speaker 2: done a great job. His calf tightened up yesterday and
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  Speaker 2: now he's out.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how long it's going.
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  Speaker 2: To be. Yeah, AJ and Rodney will play and then
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  Speaker 2: we'll let the actives let you know who's going to play, uh,
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  Speaker 2: who's the next guy up. Uh, Nick is going to play.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah. Uh, just really happy to me. It's again,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, you're, you're, uh, you're really bummed about Julian, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: cause he's, he's had such a great start to the,
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  Speaker 2: to the season.
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  Speaker 1: He's such a great player, but, uh, When A.J.
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  Speaker 2: Got the pick in training camp, I'm thinking of the
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  Speaker 2: journey he's been on over the last year and the
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  Speaker 2: way he's really gotten his body back and his movement.
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  Speaker 2: He had a great practice today. He's on it now.
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  Speaker 2: He's sharp as a whip. He's a great communicator, ball skills,
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  Speaker 2: and all those things. I'm excited for him to have
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: What the... What do you do on the plane ride,
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  Speaker 1: a long plane ride like this? How do you spend
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  Speaker 1: your time?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're not supposed to sleep very long, so keep
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  Speaker 2: the naps to a minimum. On a two-day trip, we
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  Speaker 2: have a significant amount of game planning to do, so
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  Speaker 2: try to work through that. Right now I'm on the
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  Speaker 2: Tom Hanks World War II documentary. I'm on episode 21
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  Speaker 2: or 22, so it's.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty damn good.
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  Speaker 2: When you guys are game planning, are you all sitting
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  Speaker 2: next to each other, the coaches huddled up? No, no.
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  Speaker 2: AD and I sit next to each other, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: just going through some later part of the week type
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  Speaker 2: of calls on the call sheet, just ironing everything out.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing crazy. You don't got a whiteboard? No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have assistants that go through the plan and
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  Speaker 1: make sure guys don't sleep?
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: The guys are responsible.
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  Speaker 2: Just try to give them as many strategies as possible
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  Speaker 2: and let them execute their own plan, but You guys
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  Speaker 2: had your weekly rhythm with Jody and Britt Cole.
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  Speaker 1: Have you guys settled into what your rhythm is with
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  Speaker 1: the Coastals? Working through it. We met last week, which
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  Speaker 1: was great.
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  Speaker 2: How often and when, I think we're still working through
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  Speaker 2: what's best for everybody. It's been great.
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  Speaker 1: What did you need to see from Sam this week
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  Speaker 1: as he got back in the practice?
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  Speaker 2: Really just to see him confident in the things that
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  Speaker 2: he's been doing. He's been really positive and says he
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  Speaker 2: feels great. He looks great.
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  Speaker 1: We're rolling.
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  Speaker 2: It's a medical miracle he's back. I saw Dino Cozley.
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  Speaker 1: Outside the locker room in Arizona. Does he speak to
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  Speaker 1: the team after games or is he just there to
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  Speaker 1: come say hi?
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  Speaker 2: No, I think it was cool that they decided to
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  Speaker 2: come to the locker room after the win and celebrate
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  Speaker 2: with the team.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I should have asked him to see if he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to say anything.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a fun locker room, and we're really
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  Speaker 2: happy that they wanted to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 1: That was really cool. It was fun.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have the same debriefs weekly so far that
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  Speaker 2: you did with Jody after that? I just think it's
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  Speaker 2: so early in, like, what's the best thing for everybody,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So John's been great helping out, you know.
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  Speaker 2: But we're just working through, like, How frequent, what type
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  Speaker 2: of information, all that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I think I speak for John.
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  Speaker 2: John and I are ready and willing whenever.
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  Speaker 1: And how frequently. It's all good. How's Ty O'Connor.
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  Speaker 2: Doing? I haven't seen him this week, but how.
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  Speaker 1: Is he doing?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just like a day-to-day to week-to-week type
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  Speaker 2: of thing. For him to come back, we just got
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  Speaker 2: to make some more progress. He's just got to start
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  Speaker 2: making a little bit more progress, but he's doing, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's a stud. He's working his tail off.
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  Speaker 1: It's just, I don't know, just however the muscle works.
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  Speaker 2: Or whatever, whatever's involved, however that gets better, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of got its own timetable, you know.
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  Speaker 1: It's the only thing you can do is just the
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  Speaker 1: best you can do. Is there any more indications that
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  Speaker 1: Zach Sharpman might.
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  Speaker 2: Go to practice next week? As of right now, next
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  Speaker 2: week is a possibility for him to start practicing, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And how did you see Jadarian kind of work back
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  Speaker 1: this week? Good. Good. He's taking a ton of reps.
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  Speaker 2: Excited to see him go play.
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  Speaker 1: He's ready.
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  Speaker 2: To go.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you. Thank you.