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Sam Darnold: "We Have A Lot Of Guys That Are Eager To Get Back To Work" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, obviously, you know, got to be better in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways offensively. You know, obviously can't turn the
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  Speaker 1: ball over. Got to be, you know, better on first
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  Speaker 1: and second down. You got to, you know, stay in
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  Speaker 1: those manageable down and distances. And I think if we
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  Speaker 1: as an offense, if we clean that up and if I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, keep taking, you know, I got to continue
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  Speaker 1: to take care of the football, but if we continue
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  Speaker 1: to do that, we'll be all right. How about people with, like,
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  Speaker 1: look at a throw, whether it's in the right place
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  Speaker 1: or not. For you, when you look at the process
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  Speaker 1: and the decisions that you're making, are the things there
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  Speaker 1: that you're noticing that you're going to be looking for? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's a couple decisions that I would like back.
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  Speaker 1: But again, like, I think just putting the ball in
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  Speaker 1: a better place, you know, on Elijah's, the second one
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  Speaker 1: that I threw, just being able to kind of throw
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  Speaker 1: that over the top, let him go get it. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think the other one's just, you know, poor decision. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just got to continue to to trust myself,
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  Speaker 1: trust my feet, trust what I'm seeing, which I'm doing. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but, yeah, just got to be better taking
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  Speaker 1: care of the football.
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  Speaker 2: Sam, on those interceptions, were there.
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  Speaker 1: Things you saw, like, before you threw the ball that
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  Speaker 1: you expected to happen and maybe that didn't happen?
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  Speaker 2: Were there things you covered that were doing just overall that.
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  Speaker 1: Were different than what you might have expected?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: You know, again, you got to tip your cap to
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  Speaker 1: those guys. They played a good game. But, you know, just, again,
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  Speaker 1: those are all things that I can control. You know,
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  Speaker 1: just can't be putting the ball in jeopardy like that.
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  Speaker 1: On the sacks, was it more rush or coverage at
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  Speaker 1: this game? Um, you know, I don't know. I got to,
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  Speaker 1: got to look at the tape for that one, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, again, like I said, they did a good
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  Speaker 1: job rushing and covering some of our concepts. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, got to tip your cap to, to a
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  Speaker 1: good defense and obviously a good coach and Raheem over there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know where you were after the hit out
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  Speaker 2: of bounds and all that scrum, but I'm guessing you're
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  Speaker 2: not surprised that, uh, Ernest was one of the first
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  Speaker 2: guys kind of in there to have your back. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Um, Yeah, that was just craziness on the sideline. And
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  Speaker 1: then I actually saw first-hand Dre kind of headbutt EJ there. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just not a surprise. You know, I know those
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  Speaker 1: guys got my back and I got theirs. So, it's
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  Speaker 1: just how we roll as a team.
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  Speaker 2: How– the sequence at the end of the half, how
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  Speaker 2: kind of shocking was that?
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  Speaker 1: Say that again.
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  Speaker 2: The sequence at the end of the half. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how shocking was that? Yeah, you know, obviously– not
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  Speaker 1: what you want it to happen. Uh, it's just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to run the ball knowing that they had
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  Speaker 1: three timeouts. Um, so again, we just gotta be better
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  Speaker 1: and we gotta be better taking care of the football.
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  Speaker 1: What was your view of the final play or your
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  Speaker 1: final play?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. They did a, did a good, good job covering
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  Speaker 1: downfield really. And, you know, Coop had a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of separation. If, if I didn't have to move in
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  Speaker 1: the pocket, I could have gotten the ball a little
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  Speaker 1: bit sooner, um, where he would have had a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more grass to get that first down. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's, again, I got to kind of watch
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  Speaker 1: the tape to really tell you, but, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: I saw was them covering our guys, and Koop was
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  Speaker 1: really the only guy, and I felt like he had
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  Speaker 1: an all right chance if he broke that tackle, which
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  Speaker 1: he did, to get the first down. The offense hasn't
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  Speaker 1: really had a clean game the last three games. Is
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  Speaker 1: that showing up in practice, or is it, like, a
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  Speaker 1: surprise when you get to game day? No, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're practicing well. You know, we got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys that, you know, love the process. They
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  Speaker 1: love coming in every day to work. We all feel
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  Speaker 1: that way, but again, it's got to translate. There's got
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  Speaker 1: to be a sense of urgency to make what we
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  Speaker 1: do on practice translate to the field. I know it will,
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  Speaker 1: but again, we've got to have a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a sense of urgency here to continue to get better,
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  Speaker 1: especially on a short week headed to a really tough
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  Speaker 1: place to play.
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  Speaker 2: Sam, back to your second interception. After he sticks that
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  Speaker 2: are you expecting a little flatter route so you can
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  Speaker 2: stab it on him? Was there any kind of like
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  Speaker 2: maybe not on the same page part of that?
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  Speaker 1: No, we had, we had talked about that route and, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we, we talked a lot throughout the week about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, him kind of taking it high, um, and
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  Speaker 1: no matter what the coverage was. And so that was
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  Speaker 1: the coaching point. And so I knew he was going
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  Speaker 1: to do that. And I just, you know, I got
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  Speaker 1: to put more air under it and let him go
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  Speaker 1: try to get it. And, you know, again, um, Just
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  Speaker 1: have it be an us-or-nobody ball. I think that's the
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  Speaker 1: main thing there is, like, I had a chance to
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  Speaker 1: put it over the top for Elijah to make the
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  Speaker 1: catch or for it to be incomplete. And so for
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  Speaker 1: me to put it in harm's way like that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's not the way to go out there and play
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  Speaker 1: winning football. Jax had another 100-yard game in a touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: but he's in here beating himself up over the one
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  Speaker 1: he didn't get. Just tell me about him. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Jax is that kind of guy. You know, he's... He's
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  Speaker 1: a perfectionist, and I think we all are. But him especially,
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  Speaker 1: he's always going to beat himself up over the one
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  Speaker 1: thing that he didn't do well versus the ten things
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  Speaker 1: that he did do well. Again, that's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: the guy he is, and we'll keep lifting him up
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  Speaker 1: as the week goes on. Every quarterback has interceptions coming
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  Speaker 1: in bunches at times.
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  Speaker 2: When that happens to you, what has happened to you.
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  Speaker 1: In the past, are there things mentally, mechanically, physically you
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  Speaker 1: do to sort of work yourself out of it? No,
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  Speaker 1: I think I just continue to trust my feet, trust
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  Speaker 1: my eyes, and make good decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Sam, a year ago, you guys were 3-2 and you
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  Speaker 2: had a home wash to the 49ers. Was there talk
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  Speaker 2: in the locker room, hey, we've been exactly right here,
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  Speaker 2: and then What substantively happened then that you say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: let's kind of do some of that this year?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, not really, to be honest. There was
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  Speaker 1: no talk of that. I think a lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: were just pissed about not winning the game. So, yeah, again,
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  Speaker 1: it's a whole different year. We're not in the business
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  Speaker 1: of comparing this year to last year. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things that we need to get better at, plain
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  Speaker 1: and simple, and we've got to have a sense of
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  Speaker 1: urgency to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Besides pissed, what's the tenor of the team in there?
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  Speaker 2: What do you notice about this group right now?
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  Speaker 1: Again, I think we've got a lot of guys that
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  Speaker 1: are just eager to get back to work. We're just
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  Speaker 1: going to put our head down, especially, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: on a short week. We've got to put our heads
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  Speaker 1: down and get back to work and get ready for
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  Speaker 1: this game on Thursday. Thanks, guys.