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Aden Durde: "The Sky Is The Limit For Leonard Williams" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: What you see from Ernest Jones and his debut and
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  Speaker 1: may become much problem for different The girl.
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  Speaker 2: Now is a whole week here. Yeah, I think, like
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's hard for anyone to come in like
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  Speaker 2: two days three days practice and then have to start
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  Speaker 2: a game. And like there's there's a lot of similarities
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  Speaker 2: in the schemes that we play, but there's different But
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  Speaker 2: like within that, it's the play called the details of
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  Speaker 2: the plays. So I think for the room for growth
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  Speaker 2: is huge, you know, and it's more room for understanding
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  Speaker 2: and how to use the play and how to make place,
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  Speaker 2: you know, within the system.
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  Speaker 1: What are the coaching points on debn Wetherspoon in his
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  Speaker 1: tackling in particular.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think like some of the Alley tackles
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  Speaker 2: that he missed a couple of Ali tackles this week,
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  Speaker 2: and I think the week before we've been talking about
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  Speaker 2: some of it's just taking the space out, taking shot,
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  Speaker 2: understanding where your help is in that, like especially when
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  Speaker 2: playing like vision zone coverage.
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  Speaker 1: He's working on it on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 2: What's impression about program on the safety and two games coage,
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  Speaker 2: He's done a great job. I think, like I said
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  Speaker 2: last week, I think his ability has grown to tackle
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  Speaker 2: out of the post, you know, like and with that,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like the confidence his communication has gone up
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  Speaker 2: and then you see a speed like sideline to sideline.
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  Speaker 2: He does a good job in coverage too, like man coverage.
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  Speaker 1: How do you make that Stafford and comfortable and get
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  Speaker 1: into the students. It's a hard job.
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  Speaker 2: He's a great player, and like you watch the tape,
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  Speaker 2: he's not slowing down at all. I think when you're
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  Speaker 2: playing these guys, it's it's they do a great job
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  Speaker 2: with their play calling.
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  Speaker 1: They do a great job.
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  Speaker 2: With pre snap and their alignments and their movements to
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  Speaker 2: kind of slow you down and understanding what they're really
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  Speaker 2: try and hunt what coverage you're in and make quick
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  Speaker 2: decisions that make it hard to get to Matt Stafford.
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  Speaker 2: But if we can do our jobs, we can play
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  Speaker 2: tight and rush well. And rush is one I think
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  Speaker 2: there's a chance to come life.
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  Speaker 1: How does that affect your defense from a communication standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: because this morning was saying you want to be the
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  Speaker 1: last one took the ten right, like you would have
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  Speaker 1: shut your cards last, so that you have to make
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  Speaker 1: an earlier decision.
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  Speaker 2: It's not earlier decision it's more like holding your pois.
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  Speaker 2: It's more being in position, understanding the timing of the
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  Speaker 2: play and understanding when to move.
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  Speaker 1: Probably obvious one. How does their offense change get the
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  Speaker 1: receivers back last year?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Their receiver huge?
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  Speaker 2: You know, like obviously you're talking about two elite players
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL, guys that understand how to manipulate coverage,
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  Speaker 2: understand leverage, understand how really detailed route running and separation
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  Speaker 2: at the top of breaks. I think it's huge for
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  Speaker 2: them because when you play like that and you're playing
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  Speaker 2: with someone you get mock like large amounts of reps
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  Speaker 2: with with the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: You can play with like you can play the game
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  Speaker 1: at a very high level.
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  Speaker 2: And you see like as they've got those guys back,
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  Speaker 2: the their ability is there to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm honest, Jones. What does his physicality add to this defense?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's good. You see his ability to throw hands.
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  Speaker 2: He plays with extension in the box. And I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: to play this week. You know he's playing against his
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  Speaker 2: old team. You can tell he's excited about it. What
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  Speaker 2: have you noticed that Robertson Harris gives you up front?
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  Speaker 2: He's still growing, you know, like I was talking to
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  Speaker 2: Mike today about it, saying that I still I'm really
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  Speaker 2: excited for this guy. He gives us, like I said
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  Speaker 2: I said it last week, he gives us the ability
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  Speaker 2: really to move him around, but really play firm edges,
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  Speaker 2: ability to set edges, gap.
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  Speaker 1: And a half, finish on tackles, and then interior rush.
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  Speaker 1: It is the five kind of like his primary spot
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  Speaker 1: is that where you like invest.
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  Speaker 2: Or where you no, it's not really I see him
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  Speaker 2: as a three technique or five technique, nine techniques, six technique,
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  Speaker 2: ability to move all over the front.
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  Speaker 1: On Leo, can you talk about his leadership and then
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  Speaker 1: his understanding. He gave him some insightful stuff during his
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  Speaker 1: inn Can you talk about that. Yeah, I feel like.
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  Speaker 2: Since I've got here, arrived obviously when I arrived in February,
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  Speaker 2: meeting and getting to no Leo has been like a privilege.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's a really fun guy to coach. I've
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  Speaker 2: seen him grow as a leader in the defense, you know,
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  Speaker 2: especially in his room.
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  Speaker 1: And his understanding.
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  Speaker 2: He's a really smart player that has physical attributes that
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  Speaker 2: are off the chart, you know. Like I'm excited. I
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  Speaker 2: thought this season he's playing at a really high level.
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  Speaker 2: He's got to keep growing, keep taking his opportunities. And
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  Speaker 2: I think this guy's a limiting Leo was talking to
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  Speaker 2: us earlier.
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  Speaker 1: So when guys are trying to correct the issue, it's
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  Speaker 1: been a problem.
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  Speaker 2: So you sometimes you get guys trying to do too
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  Speaker 2: much in stuff, another gap that's not theirs, so on
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  Speaker 2: and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen that on table.
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  Speaker 2: I just think sometimes when you get in those situations
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  Speaker 2: where it's later on in the game and kind of
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  Speaker 2: a mistake comes up, like say we're talking about the
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  Speaker 2: wrong game, like they get some leaky yards like last week,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of leaky yards in the wrong So
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  Speaker 2: it's like, once someone does that, you can't push plays.
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  Speaker 2: You can't make a plane necessarily outside the system that
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  Speaker 2: you're not yours to make.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not like one person's done it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that when you're a young defense and you're
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  Speaker 2: in those situations, you've got to understand that you've got
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  Speaker 2: to trust the system. You gotta trust your understand your
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  Speaker 2: fundamentals and technique, and they get you to the ball,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Like and I don't know if that's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what Leol was talking about, but that's the way I
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  Speaker 2: see it.
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  Speaker 1: You mean when you have a gap, you have a gap,
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  Speaker 1: don't take A and B.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's your primary gap to your secondary gap because
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  Speaker 2: you understand the play to a gap and then.
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  Speaker 1: The ball flows and takes you to that gap.
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  Speaker 2: But it's not it's not necessarily the same thing happening
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  Speaker 2: over and over again. It's just like you just asked this,
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  Speaker 2: when people get in those situations. At times, sometimes people
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  Speaker 2: do push to make a play. You know, and that
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  Speaker 2: and when you're playing, say running back like James Cook,
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  Speaker 2: he's an extremely patient runner that can move in and
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  Speaker 2: out of gaps and understands people's leverage and body position.
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  Speaker 2: He's got great vision you'll move you in and out
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  Speaker 2: of a gap and understanding that and the timing of
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  Speaker 2: the play so that I wouldn't say like people are
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  Speaker 2: trying to make plays that aren't there to make.
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  Speaker 1: It's just at times.
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  Speaker 2: You people push and you've gotta understand that's where you
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  Speaker 2: have to stay the course. How do you teach that
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  Speaker 2: because when you're winning, I guess it's easy, right, You've
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  Speaker 2: been coached for quite a bit.
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  Speaker 1: How you teach that in a professional to stay disciplined
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  Speaker 1: when things are going.
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  Speaker 2: Well, just as you're going through it, like as you're
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  Speaker 2: going through runfits and walkthroughs, testing all the gaps standing
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  Speaker 2: in your gap, making you understanding and as you like,
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  Speaker 2: there's a like there's a timing of a play, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, so, like when you're holding your gap late
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  Speaker 2: gap and a hearty or late roll back to your
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  Speaker 2: secondary gap.
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  Speaker 1: Those things just come up and you keep teaching and
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  Speaker 1: talking through anything else. Thank you, Thanks guys, Take care