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AJ Barner: "We Have A Very Special QB" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: And just what do you make the game like where
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  Speaker 1: you guys play like that offensively but don't come out
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  Speaker 1: with the dubs. Yeah, I mean it's tough, it's the league.
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  Speaker 1: Some things happened, and you know it's one game and
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  Speaker 1: it's a week five, so obviously you wanna win that
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  Speaker 1: game and it's no excuse to lose it. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta turn the page. And you know we go
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  Speaker 1: to Jacksonville next week, so time to you know, make
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  Speaker 1: it right, but begin working so much better for your offense.
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  Speaker 1: Uh after tybe five straight touchdown drives. Yeah, for the
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  Speaker 1: the second quarter round, I I felt like we were
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  Speaker 1: beating ourselves at the start the NFL. I think penalties
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  Speaker 1: are huge and uh, we're just getting behind the sticks
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  Speaker 1: and uh didn't do that in the second half. So
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  Speaker 1: just gotta continue to play clean football that game, don't turnover.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you think is Sam Darnolds for Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: Sam's fantastic. Uh, He's doing a heck of a job.
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  Speaker 1: Just how consistent he is, how hard he plays, how
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  Speaker 1: he leads, and you know, we have a very special
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  Speaker 1: quarterback here and I think people are starting to find
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  Speaker 1: that out. So we're going to continue to ride with him,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, what can you say about Sam's ability to
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  Speaker 1: not only escape pressure, but like continually find big ways
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  Speaker 1: the way I mean, it's just I feel like it's
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  Speaker 1: his growth in the league. You know, when you have
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  Speaker 1: a guy that's a veteran quarterback like that, their experience,
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  Speaker 1: they know, you know, when to keep their eyes downfield,
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  Speaker 1: when to throw the ball at the bounds. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing. So it's just got to continue to
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  Speaker 1: keep playing from and you know, you know he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: do having a job eight touchdowns now for you and university,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think is work so well for you
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  Speaker 1: in the right zone? Yeah, I think I just you know,
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  Speaker 1: am able to get up and and you know, get
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity. And I feel like, you know, Seattle is
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  Speaker 1: a great fit for me. Like I feel like in
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  Speaker 1: the past, I always characterized my college career as I
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  Speaker 1: was a misfit. Like I went to Indiana, I went
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  Speaker 1: to Michigan, didn't really have you know, all the things
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  Speaker 1: really work out for me. And like when I came
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  Speaker 1: to Seattle, I was like, all right, this is home,
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  Speaker 1: Like this is where I'm meant to be. So I
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  Speaker 1: feel like that what do you feel about the way
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line the communication with the Titans running backs?
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  Speaker 1: Is this defense like to bring pressure from it anywhere
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  Speaker 1: on any given snap. How do you feel about the
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  Speaker 1: way that that went today? Yeah? Great communication. Just got
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  Speaker 1: to have your eyes in the right spots, know your
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  Speaker 1: rules on different plays. And the receivers planned to that
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  Speaker 1: too as well. Cooper, you know, he's just a vocal
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  Speaker 1: eye and the old line's doing great jobs. Sunde Ou
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  Speaker 1: at center. So just gotta stay at it, especially in
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  Speaker 1: the first quarter two. Just make sure you know we
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  Speaker 1: start games that way. This is a random question, but
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  Speaker 1: what is your touchdown celebration? The story behind is me
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  Speaker 1: and Kenny McIntosh. We would just like be dancing at
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  Speaker 1: practice and just kind of fitting. We would start hitting
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  Speaker 1: it and like people just thought it was cool and
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  Speaker 1: so I did it one time and then started getting
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  Speaker 1: in there more and I feel like it's cool to
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  Speaker 1: have something that you go to and like people know it,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So hopefully you guys will continue to see
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  Speaker 1: more and more of it. Yeah, or is you like
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  Speaker 1: any thing or nah, I'm just being me so Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: as John said, eight touchdowns in two years, this is
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  Speaker 1: probably not on the top of your mind. But when
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  Speaker 1: you look back at the pre draft of evaluation, do
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  Speaker 1: you ever chuckle at the idea that you were kind
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  Speaker 1: of feeled as the blocking special. Yeah, honestly kind of
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  Speaker 1: chuckle it myself too, Like you kind of put yourself
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  Speaker 1: in that in that box too as well, Like you
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  Speaker 1: put limitations on yourself, and once you get out of
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  Speaker 1: your own way and are like, like, I can be
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  Speaker 1: whoever I wanna be in the league. That's the biggest thing. Like,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what the outside noise says. So when
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  Speaker 1: you said in Seattle was a fit, what did you
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  Speaker 1: mean that that? Can you elaborate little? Yeah? I just
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  Speaker 1: felt like the maturity of the growth I had in college,
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  Speaker 1: it was like, you just make it right, Like I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna work hard, I'm gonna do my job whatever that is.
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  Speaker 1: When opportunity comes, uh, you make the play. So I
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  Speaker 1: just felt like when I when I came here to Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: it was just okay, like, let me just do my
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  Speaker 1: thing and make it right and does your dance type
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  Speaker 1: of name, Uh the name Barnestep, barn stomp, okay, whatever
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  Speaker 1: we wanna call it. I think barnes Stomp is cool,
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  Speaker 1: But whatever we wanna call. Let's just win whatever honestly
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  Speaker 1: people call, whatever you want, let's just keep doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you,