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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Recaps The Week 1 Win vs. Patriots · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Alright, good to see everybody. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: How's Sam doing?
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  Speaker 1: No update, honestly, from earlier.
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  Speaker 3: But it's been positive news, so right now I think
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  Speaker 3: we're just working through the extent of the injury and
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  Speaker 3: then putting a plan in place to get back rocking
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  Speaker 3: and rolling, so It is silver lining as we have
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  Speaker 3: some extra time here. We'll kind of get things back
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  Speaker 3: up and running on Monday, actual Monday, calendar Monday, not
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  Speaker 3: football Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, it will be Monday. We'll be back.
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  Speaker 3: It will be a football Monday and a calendar Monday.
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  Speaker 3: So hopefully by then we'll have a really accurate picture
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  Speaker 3: of plan of attack and.
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  Speaker 1: What we'll do that week.
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  Speaker 2: Is he back in the building now?
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  Speaker 1: He was back today, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Have you talked to him to gauge demeanor?
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  Speaker 3: We've texted back and forth, but I haven't seen him,
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  Speaker 3: but I know he's here right now.
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  Speaker 2: Just to confirm what you said on the radio, you
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  Speaker 2: said it's a muscle thing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'd tell you more, but I don't know more. It's
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  Speaker 1: around here.
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  Speaker 3: It's around the hip. I don't think there's a hip muscle,
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  Speaker 3: but there is there.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: High school science class skeleton that you could.
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  Speaker 1: I probably should do that from moving forward. Bring it
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  Speaker 1: out every time there's a question.
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  Speaker 6: Mike, on the seven pre-snap penalties, was anything you saw
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  Speaker 6: on film any familiar theme, or are there just seven?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we've talked about it, and I think we
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  Speaker 3: have a cool plan of attack process-wise, but I think...
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if it's good or bad, but it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of multiple reasons.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so.
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  Speaker 3: If it was just one thing, we could hit the
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  Speaker 3: one thing button and attack that, but I think it's
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  Speaker 3: kind of everything right now.
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  Speaker 1: Not in bad ways.
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  Speaker 3: It's like one thing here, one thing there. Let's go
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  Speaker 3: back to the fundamentals. Let's go back to the basics.
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  Speaker 3: How we practice, how we get all the calls in,
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  Speaker 3: how we motion and shift, all that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: It's not panic, but it's definitely something that we want
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  Speaker 3: to attack and address.
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  Speaker 6: You talked about week one.
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  Speaker 2: That you don't know what other teams are going to do.
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  Speaker 6: Now that you've got some film for someone like you
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  Speaker 6: who likes to tinker, what does that do for you?
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  Speaker 1: Still not much.
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  Speaker 3: Until you get out of the first quarter of the season,
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  Speaker 3: teams really haven't declared themselves. The systems that we face
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  Speaker 3: this year are different than the systems that we saw
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  Speaker 3: last year pretty significantly.
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  Speaker 1: Really on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: I think for the first quarter of the season, it'll
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  Speaker 3: be much about how we want to improve our individual phases,
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  Speaker 3: and then once I think teams start to declare how
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  Speaker 3: they're operating, things.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, then you can kind of get into some
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  Speaker 1: of those type of details.
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  Speaker 7: Now that you've had a chance to watch the All-22 film,
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  Speaker 7: what were your thoughts on the.
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  Speaker 2: Way the run game looked for the four quarters yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: I'm really excited about our run game. I think there's
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  Speaker 3: things we want to hit our targets a little bit better,
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  Speaker 3: maybe get to some different things operationally, but I thought
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  Speaker 3: our guys ran off the ball. I think they tried
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  Speaker 3: to finish runs. I think our runners were decisive and
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  Speaker 3: got square and got the ball moving forward. We eliminated
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  Speaker 3: some negative runs, which is always a positive. I think
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  Speaker 3: we got off to a really good start and I
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  Speaker 3: expect us to get even better.
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  Speaker 4: Where's the biggest room for improvement.
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  Speaker 1: In the run? I think if we can.
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  Speaker 3: Keep drives alive on offense, that'll give us some more
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  Speaker 3: chances to run it.
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  Speaker 1: And, uh, more, more runs will be better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday, Chena was all over the place.
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  Speaker 2: What did you like about the way he was playing yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Chena's the, uh, current, uh, shocking belt holder. Had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of shocking plays on, on, on, uh, on film.
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  Speaker 3: Played a really good game. Um, played with anticipation, played
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  Speaker 3: ahead of plays, played physically. Um, was doing a lot
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  Speaker 3: of great stuff, so it was great to see.
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  Speaker 1: Happy for him.
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  Speaker 4: Who are some players or some plays that stood out
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  Speaker 4: to you watching on film that might not have stood
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  Speaker 4: out to people.
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  Speaker 2: Just watching the game?
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  Speaker 3: Man, I thought Jadarian Price had some really good runs
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  Speaker 3: for first NFL action in a setting like that. I
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  Speaker 3: was really impressed with Jalen Sundell. Had a great pile chase.
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  Speaker 3: Gave him a relentless belt. Nehemiah Pritchett played a really
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  Speaker 3: good football game. Uh, Julian, Julian Love probably played his
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  Speaker 3: best games with Seahawk. That's saying something. Um, Murph had
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  Speaker 3: a great, we had a lot of guys had really
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  Speaker 3: solid games. I thought we tackled really well on defense, which, uh,
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  Speaker 3: for a group that hasn't been out there in preseason
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  Speaker 3: to go out and tackle that effectively.
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  Speaker 1: Um, definitely, uh, definitely, um, respect that effort.
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  Speaker 2: How big was.
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  Speaker 7: DeMarcus Lawrence at that, that last interception, his ability to
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  Speaker 7: get over that cup block.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was amazing, man.
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  Speaker 3: It's a young man jumping over that cup block. Um,
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  Speaker 3: When we say 12 is one, rushing coverage, working together,
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  Speaker 3: that's how it works. Job was great earlier in the play,
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  Speaker 3: I think, disrupting some timing, which allowed the quarterback to
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  Speaker 3: hold it. And then when DeLaw prized pressure, then forced
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  Speaker 3: you to make a throw where Job could make a play.
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  Speaker 1: So that was great team defense.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's something that you expect from this team.
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  Speaker 2: From the outside, we see a team lost its quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: down to nothing, all this. And you guys found a way.
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  Speaker 1: You made the big plays.
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  Speaker 2: You've got 24 hours to move now. Just how impressed,
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  Speaker 2: whatever adjective you'd like to use, based on that ability to.
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  Speaker 4: Rally beside us today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just have a lot of respect for our guys.
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  Speaker 3: I think the rest of our coaching staff feels the
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  Speaker 3: same way, and it shows up on tape. I think
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  Speaker 3: you felt it throughout the course of the game that
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  Speaker 3: I like the poise. I think there's a confidence behind–
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  Speaker 3: We're going to find a play and then we're going
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  Speaker 3: to try to find another play. I think the guys,
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  Speaker 3: if you really keep it that simple and the things
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  Speaker 3: you can control throughout a game, that way you won't
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  Speaker 3: get caught up in all the other stuff. There's an
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  Speaker 3: emotional side too. You want to pick Sam up and
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  Speaker 3: you also want to be there for Drew as well.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was really cool to see the guys
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  Speaker 3: come to come to Drew's side and have their back,
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  Speaker 3: especially on defense.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think of the way Drew played?
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  Speaker 1: I thought Drew played great. Played great. It's just awesome, man.
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  Speaker 3: Ball was never in jeopardy. He was aggressive when he
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  Speaker 3: needed it to be. You know, operationally we'll get a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, we'll make some strides, but that's really on everybody. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he did a great job.
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  Speaker 4: When he signed here, he kind of signed knowing he
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  Speaker 4: was going to.
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  Speaker 2: Be the backup to Sam and all that.
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  Speaker 1: How has he handled that? He's been tremendous.
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  Speaker 3: He operates like a starter does in terms of preparation,
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  Speaker 3: but I think the chemistry and the personality of our
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  Speaker 3: quarterback room is one that is very supportive of each
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  Speaker 3: other and also trying to bring out the best in
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  Speaker 3: one another. Drew provides like a A cool confidence, loose
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  Speaker 3: and focusedness.
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  Speaker 1: To the whole equation, which you need. You need that.
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  Speaker 3: On top of that, since he's got here, I just
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  Speaker 3: feel like he's played really great football in practice and
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  Speaker 3: in the preseason. We saw what he could do last night.
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  Speaker 3: If he has to play again, then we expect the
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  Speaker 3: same moving forward.
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  Speaker 4: Things that track your personnel group being said, you guys
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  Speaker 4: played more base last night, but I'm wondering with Nick,
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  Speaker 4: Does it always know whether you guys are playing him
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  Speaker 4: as a linebacker?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the idea.
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  Speaker 3: Our inside backers and our defensive ends deserve a lot
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  Speaker 3: of credit. If you're going to get in and out
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  Speaker 3: of four- and five- and six-man fronts, you need guys
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  Speaker 3: that can play physical enough at the line of scrimmage
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  Speaker 3: as well as off the ball, and then you need
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  Speaker 3: defensive ends that can reduce.
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  Speaker 1: We have those guys.
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  Speaker 3: It's a credit to our players, our coaches, for getting
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  Speaker 3: them taught and getting them honed up on that type
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  Speaker 3: of stuff so we can We can have front flexibility
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  Speaker 3: in all of our personnel groups, which is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 7: Do you feel like Jadarian, with that performance yesterday, earned
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  Speaker 7: some more carries moving forward? And what's sort of the
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  Speaker 7: process with how you guys are splitting up the backfield.
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  Speaker 1: Duties right now? Yeah, we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: The way the game played, that's the way we deployed
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  Speaker 3: our people, and we'll take that game by game.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought he had a really good game.
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  Speaker 5: When you look back at the tape, the way you
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  Speaker 5: guys executed Brian Fleury's offense, was there anything you learned
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  Speaker 5: about how different this is going to be versus last
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  Speaker 5: year scheme-wise, schematically?
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, it's a different group. Like we said, it's different
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  Speaker 3: play calls. There's a little bit of different language, but
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  Speaker 3: it's the Seahawks offense. We have an expectation about how
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  Speaker 3: we want to play. I thought you saw a lot
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  Speaker 3: of that last night. I know we didn't light the
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  Speaker 3: scoreboard up, but I think our offensive line had a
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  Speaker 3: really good game.
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  Speaker 1: I thought they played physical. I thought our tight ends
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  Speaker 1: played physical.
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  Speaker 3: Receivers were decisive, made some big plays when we needed it,
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  Speaker 3: and there's.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of room for growth too.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like what's better than coming out of a
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  Speaker 3: game and being happy on style of play but also
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  Speaker 3: understanding there's a lot of details and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: things we can improve to really take our offensive unit
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  Speaker 3: to another level defensively the same way, special teams.
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  Speaker 1: So you're in a great spot.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 6: How has your assistants' ability to be clear, their clarity,
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  Speaker 6: enhanced your players' performance on the field?
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  Speaker 1: Well, put yourself in your players' shoes.
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  Speaker 3: If you go out there and you go right, if
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  Speaker 3: the sky is red and the lights are on and
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  Speaker 3: it's cloudy, you can't play like that. So it's got
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  Speaker 3: to be really clear directives and um it takes a
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  Speaker 3: lot of work to take all the options that you
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  Speaker 3: possibly can do and whittle it down into kind of
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  Speaker 3: a way of playing that one keeps you kind of
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  Speaker 3: um on the edge schematically but also clear enough so
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  Speaker 3: you can go play the way you're supposed to you
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  Speaker 3: know so you can uh go have success so it's
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  Speaker 3: a tricky balance but Our coaches do a great job
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  Speaker 3: of that.
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  Speaker 1: It's something we're always chasing.
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  Speaker 7: The fourth and one that resulted in the touchdown pass,
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  Speaker 7: what went into the decision to not, I mean, a
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  Speaker 7: lot of times we see you guys go with A.J.
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  Speaker 2: In the first there. What went into the decision to
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  Speaker 2: put it in?
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  Speaker 1: I told you that.
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  Speaker 3: Brady would be giving away some secrets. Yeah, we just
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  Speaker 3: felt like that was the best play.
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  Speaker 4: What did you think of how Rodney Thomas played and
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  Speaker 4: how that all came together in the secondary without Ty
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  Speaker 4: and some of the other guys?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. um, credit to Rodney for staying ready. It's a
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  Speaker 3: great example of the 70 going to work. Um, there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of great, there's a couple, like there's a,
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  Speaker 3: the play he made in the flat on one of
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  Speaker 3: spoons pressures was just a tremendous play. I mean, making
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  Speaker 3: a open field tackle running out of the post on
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  Speaker 3: a hot throw in the flat for.
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  Speaker 1: Like a no yard gain.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's something that he's been working on and
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  Speaker 3: just shows you like if you put intent behind areas
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  Speaker 3: of improvement, you can, you can make all that stuff
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  Speaker 3: come to life.
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  Speaker 1: So, um, very excited for him.
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  Speaker 3: He should be proud of himself, but just the beginning,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we'll see how long, um, ties out and
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  Speaker 3: we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, AJ's right there.
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  Speaker 3: AJ's ready to go too.
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  Speaker 1: He's been practicing great. Um, so we have, we have
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  Speaker 1: options in the secondary.
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  Speaker 2: And is Trevon Diggs, was he, obviously was an active yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Is he, is he close to playing, being able to play?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 3: He's doing a great job though. He's, he's, um, he's
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  Speaker 3: been awesome. Great guy buying into how we do things here. And, um,
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  Speaker 3: Awesome guy to be around. Guys love him, so we're
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  Speaker 3: excited to have him.
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  Speaker 2: Nehemiah obviously had his first interception, but it's really stood
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  Speaker 2: out his tackling yesterday. How have you seen him over
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  Speaker 2: the course of the time he's been here improve in
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  Speaker 2: that regard, just all around?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he had some great tackles yesterday. Our whole secondary did.
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  Speaker 3: As a defense, I think we missed four by our count,
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  Speaker 3: but maybe more than that. It might have been six.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: But just being decisive in the moment, understanding your angles,
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  Speaker 3: just bringing our eat stuff to life you know.
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  Speaker 1: Piece of cake does.
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  Speaker 5: Drew really not have the ability to or the green light.
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  Speaker 1: To call timeouts no he doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: One less thing he has to worry about you know
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  Speaker 3: I'll handle it just you do your thing I'll handle
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  Speaker 3: it I mean it's a team timeout but.
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  Speaker 1: Can't have like.
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  Speaker 3: Not anybody can take a timeout that'd be kind of
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  Speaker 3: It'd be kind of wild, wouldn't it? It's like the
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  Speaker 3: halfback took a timeout in the middle of the operation.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want that happening.
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  Speaker 7: Did you ever get an explanation on the barnyard penalty,
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  Speaker 7: what you guys have to do differently operationally?
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  Speaker 1: No, we did not. Not yet.
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  Speaker 2: Did you ask for one?
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  Speaker 1: Is that in the process? We're in the process of that.
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  Speaker 7: Michael Dixon, how much confidence does.
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  Speaker 3: He give you when a guy can go out there
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  Speaker 3: and just continue to play?
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  Speaker 1: He's... I'd be hard.
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  Speaker 3: hard fought to find someone better in the game right now,
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  Speaker 3: but the different types of kicks, the accuracy, and a
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  Speaker 3: game against really any game in the NFL, but especially
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  Speaker 3: a team like that caliber, a team that we played,
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  Speaker 3: every yard matters, and so when you're able to shift
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  Speaker 3: field position like that against one of the best punt
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  Speaker 3: returners probably ever.
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  Speaker 1: And hold a team to no punt return yards is
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  Speaker 1: pretty remarkable.
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  Speaker 4: Did it occur to you at all or anyone in
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  Speaker 4: there the parallels with last year's week one where there's
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  Speaker 4: a play in the.
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  Speaker 1: End zone at the end? Someone might have brought that
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  Speaker 1: to my attention this morning, which is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: What did you think? Similar games in some ways and totally.
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  Speaker 1: Different in others.
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  Speaker 3: It challenges your thinking of how do we feel today
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  Speaker 3: if the play goes a different way.
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  Speaker 1: I think that was the feeling we had at.
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  Speaker 3: The San Francisco game last year was, yeah, we're really
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  Speaker 3: disappointed in the result, but I thought there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things with that team that we could build off of,
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  Speaker 3: and that was the mentality we left. Now we're obviously
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  Speaker 3: excited to win the game, and we're happy for Joe
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  Speaker 3: for making that play. So I think it kind of
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  Speaker 3: centers you, understanding the parallels.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, guys.