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Mike Macdonald: "We've Earned This Opportunity" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, good to see your buddy.
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  Speaker 2: How you in this one?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm great, I'm great.
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  Speaker 2: How's your pundet in this week?
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  Speaker 1: Looks he's getting better every day, He's I mean, looks
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  Speaker 1: positive right now. You just never know. It was like
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  Speaker 1: gonna lock up again, you know, you just so you
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  Speaker 1: have a contingent, contingency plan. And but we're playing on
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  Speaker 1: him being ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Kath Walker, is that excited question? What does he seem
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  Speaker 2: to be now?
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you. I just don't know
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  Speaker 1: right now. So we'll talk about like plans in place
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  Speaker 1: on how we want to operate going into the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: if we've got to make any moves or if we
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  Speaker 1: want to take it up to the game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: We're just not sure right now.
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  Speaker 2: That was the Jets game.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, but he got yeah, And.
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  Speaker 2: George Halani is he available or needed?
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  Speaker 1: He could be one of those he could be a
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  Speaker 1: solution on that front.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Jalen Darton, what can you tell us I guess
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  Speaker 2: about him and how you might fit inside?
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  Speaker 1: Think, Uh, well, we plan don't have him out there
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. It's moving parts on that front. So
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  Speaker 1: who's returning? What and what phase. You know, we have
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  Speaker 1: a plan for all kind of the things that could
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  Speaker 1: possibly happen, or we think we do at least and
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll go from there. But he's definitely part
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 2: Is it with Walker? Is it two separate injuries? H yes? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Like just with the Chiefs, you're making the return team situations.
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  Speaker 2: We how tough is that to make mid season at
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  Speaker 2: this point to kind of make as big as swap
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  Speaker 2: with that position.
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  Speaker 1: As you already start putting to do. I mean, just
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  Speaker 1: got we got to take care of the ball, man,
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  Speaker 1: Like it's just got to take care of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: So not like excited about having to do it, but
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  Speaker 1: felt like they're necessary. You know, we've asked you about
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  Speaker 1: whether it's being a couple of times in this but
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  Speaker 1: if you look like every defensive touchdown that you guys
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  Speaker 1: to score, he's out.
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  Speaker 2: There being the charge. Yeah, what is it about him?
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  Speaker 2: That's sort of who he is every time that play happens?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he just he played. He plays his hair on fire.
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  Speaker 1: And we talk about shocking effort and if you want
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  Speaker 1: to shock people and watch twenty one play. So we
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  Speaker 1: talk about like ballfying energy and all those things but
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of all comes together with with with spoon.
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  Speaker 1: So but it brings it. I mean, you know, people
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  Speaker 1: want production and they want to be certain types of players,
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  Speaker 1: But if you don't do it every day, then I
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  Speaker 1: don't see how you could have a reasonable expectation, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to be a great player. This guy brings it every
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  Speaker 1: single day and does it every rep. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: he's a great player.
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  Speaker 2: Like what are you hoping to see for to.
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  Speaker 1: Keep building?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Like, got a game under your belt, you have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of confidence. He's had a great week of practice.
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  Speaker 1: Go throw your fastball some of the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Parts you reference in your return game? Like would would
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  Speaker 2: you be hesitant to put charbon A back as a
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  Speaker 2: kickoff returner if he had to be your lead.
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  Speaker 1: Running He's a possibility. Like again, there's just I just
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  Speaker 1: can't give you an answer right now because there's things
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  Speaker 1: that we don't know right now. So we're trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure that out. But we've we've worked it. Guys are practic.
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  Speaker 1: If you're if guys have been back there, they'll have practice,
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  Speaker 1: you know all the things we're gonna ask him to do. So,
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  Speaker 1: but we got we've got to got a good plan,
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  Speaker 1: just not sure on who's gonna be out there right
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  Speaker 1: now based off of who's available and all those things.
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  Speaker 2: Does a guy like Jackson's smith and jig but obviously
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  Speaker 2: as experienced, does the fact that he's such a key
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  Speaker 2: part of receiver, would that make you not want to
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  Speaker 2: use him as much as a pow returner or does
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  Speaker 2: that come into.
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  Speaker 1: Play or no? I mean there's any time you step
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  Speaker 1: on the field, there's certain risk. But yeah, we have
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  Speaker 1: confidence that Jack's get it done back there. You see,
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  Speaker 1: can get pick up some really tough roadmans this year's
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  Speaker 1: throughout the empirecies.
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  Speaker 2: What is it about this team ability to band together?
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  Speaker 1: Point, that's a good question. I just think the guys
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  Speaker 1: do a great job on the road, are just staying
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  Speaker 1: focused and keeping it about what we're trying to do,
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  Speaker 1: and our offs team does a great job but kind
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  Speaker 1: of keep making the transition seamless. So it's an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to be together as a football team and go out
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  Speaker 1: there together and go get a W. So we'll stand
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  Speaker 1: on that progress we've made that you know up to
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  Speaker 1: this point, but we got to go do it again.
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  Speaker 2: How was your first week of a dad?
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  Speaker 1: It's been awesome. Man, it's been awesome get pictures from
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  Speaker 1: Steph throughout the day, and it'd be good to get
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  Speaker 1: a picture pretty soon clean, you know, make it a
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  Speaker 1: little happier.
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  Speaker 2: How much you expected China will be available to full
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  Speaker 2: full go? You have any limitations there?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know we have a planform to bring him back.
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  Speaker 1: It's not he's not gonna be playing every snap, but
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  Speaker 1: if he's out there, we got a for him in
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  Speaker 1: terms of bringing him back, but it won't be like
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  Speaker 1: a full workload right now.
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  Speaker 2: With Walker, was he here earlier in the game and
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  Speaker 2: limited droptions later? Who was after? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I mean no, it's my knowledge. You get out of
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  Speaker 1: the game, find some of these things they pop up later,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just it gets kind of funky. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't to my knowledge, I don't think he was limited
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  Speaker 1: as the game moron Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Probably it's Terry s Night, Harris Jones, the way they
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  Speaker 2: hun joy as the team should gage the trips.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they're those guys. They're doing their jobs,
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  Speaker 1: they're playing playing with good effort. Uh mentally, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on top of the on the responsibilities. I think they've
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  Speaker 1: got a good rapport, good chemistry going so uh, challenge
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  Speaker 1: is to keep bringing it, you know, like what we like.
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  Speaker 1: We've earned this opportunity as a football team to go
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  Speaker 1: down there and have such a game, that such a
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  Speaker 1: high leverage game for us. So let's go attack that
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  Speaker 1: opportunity and keep building. But we gotta gotta keep moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else, thanks, okay, thank you,