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Sam Howell: "I Have To Be Better" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So probably not the way you want to make your
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  Speaker 1: debut or get your first like some significant snatch.
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  Speaker 2: Just how tough is that situation.
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  Speaker 1: Going in training and you know, they know you gotta
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  Speaker 1: throw the ball all that stuff. Yeah, I mean I
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  Speaker 1: think at the end of the day, I gotta be better,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think that's this is my job is
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  Speaker 1: to be ready to go in there and play well
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  Speaker 1: and help his team win. And and I didn't do
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  Speaker 1: that today. So I mean, I just gotta be better.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, watch the film, learn from it. But definitely,
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  Speaker 1: definitely we had chances there in the second half. Defense
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  Speaker 1: played well, put us in good position. I just gotta
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  Speaker 1: be better.
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  Speaker 2: What did you see in terms of what you were
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  Speaker 2: reading on that on the.
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  Speaker 1: Interception, Yeah, I mean they're playing They're playing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cover too. We kind of had a poor vertical
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  Speaker 1: four verticals concept and kind of thought I kind of
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  Speaker 1: thought I had no other in between the two linebackers.
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  Speaker 1: But just gotta make a smart decision.
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  Speaker 2: Think, I think they sacked your four times as well,
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  Speaker 2: But I guess what was kind of obviously they were
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  Speaker 2: had a good rush all night long. But would you
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  Speaker 2: kind of see.
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  Speaker 1: There with the Yeah, I mean, I just gotta find
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  Speaker 1: a way to get the ball out at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day. I mean, sacks are a quarterback stat
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  Speaker 1: and you know, got to hit the check downs a
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  Speaker 1: little faster and uh, you know, just get the bottle
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  Speaker 1: of my hand before they get to me. Is there
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  Speaker 1: anything Gino said you when he came back and the
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  Speaker 1: field on the sidelines and encouraging you a tough situation
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  Speaker 1: like that, Yeah, I mean he's he he was very encouraging,
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  Speaker 1: just trying to, you know, help me, help help me
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  Speaker 1: get get comfortable out there. I mean, obviously he's been
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  Speaker 1: in that situation before as well and knows it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of tough to come in the game, you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of coming off the bench. But at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, it's what I get paid to do, and
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  Speaker 1: I gotta be better. But now, Gino was great. He's
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  Speaker 1: a good he he's a great friend of mine, and
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  Speaker 1: it was good to happen him out there. What was
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  Speaker 1: it like when he goes down there and you russian
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  Speaker 1: to get ready and and go in there for the
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  Speaker 1: first time and kind of that whole sequence. What you're
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  Speaker 1: kind of figuring out exactly what happened to him?
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  Speaker 2: And how I don't play it out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you can't really you know, focus too
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  Speaker 1: much on you know, what exactly happened. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: still don't even know what what exactly is going on there,
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I I try to stay stay in
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  Speaker 1: the game on the sidelines and play the game each
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  Speaker 1: play in my head. So you know, you feel like
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  Speaker 1: you're in the game. So you just gotta go out there.
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  Speaker 1: And now you're the one making the.
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  Speaker 2: Plays, Sam, there's significant games still to play. If if
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  Speaker 2: you have to play going forward, do you feel like
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  Speaker 2: you're ready for that? And what would you do to prepare?
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  Speaker 1: Definitely? Man, I mean I prepare every week like I'm
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  Speaker 1: the starter. But you know, if if, if, if I
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  Speaker 1: am playing, you know, just getting those reps in practice
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  Speaker 1: to be important and you're just getting the getting the
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  Speaker 1: whole week to you know, get ready to go be
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  Speaker 1: a big thing. And I gotta I gotta make sure
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing the right things to prepare myself for Sundays.
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  Speaker 2: How was your approach or career different now that you're
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  Speaker 2: here with Seattle than it was last season?
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  Speaker 1: I mean just throughout the season obviously, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: the starter last year, not this year, But as far
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  Speaker 1: as from an approach standpoint, I try to approach the
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  Speaker 1: game the same way and try to push the game
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  Speaker 1: like I'm playing.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else. Cool.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys,