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Sam Darnold: "Our Offensive Line Dominated That Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How do you feel out there?
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  Speaker 2: Good?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought, uh, I thought today was was first
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  Speaker 3: of all, was awesome to just get out there, uh,
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  Speaker 3: in front of the twelves in that atmosphere too. I
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  Speaker 3: felt like that was, you know, kind of a perfect atmosphere.
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  Speaker 3: It felt like it was almost November December already, you know,
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  Speaker 3: out there in the rain out here, and it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was an incredible atmosphere too. Just again, like I said, uh,
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  Speaker 3: last week, I think to you guys, just the way
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  Speaker 3: that the fans came out during that during a preseason game,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's incredible to see, you know, football wise, I
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  Speaker 3: think you know, our offensive line dominated really most of
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  Speaker 3: the game, which is.
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  Speaker 2: Always great to see.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that first group, that second group, even the third,
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  Speaker 3: the third and fourth group went out there and played
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  Speaker 3: really well together. And yeah, it just it felt really
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  Speaker 3: good to get out there in front of the twelves
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  Speaker 3: when you're.
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  Speaker 1: Running the ball like that.
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  Speaker 2: Was that do for the offense. It was a big,
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  Speaker 2: big game after big game. Yeah, it's it's huge.
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  Speaker 3: I mean whenever you can get a uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: big game and just stack that up and play action,
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  Speaker 3: you know, run some keepers off of it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it makes my job a lot easier as a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: And you ran how closed it but how close is
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  Speaker 1: that the script.
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  Speaker 2: Or mentality you guys?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, the way that we were
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  Speaker 3: able to run the football like like we've talked about,
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  Speaker 3: mixing and keepers and play action and and even some
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  Speaker 3: drop back there on second down early in the drive.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it was it was our style of football.
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  Speaker 2: It's the style.
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  Speaker 3: It's the style that we've you know, wanted to kind
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  Speaker 3: of create no tas and then even in training camp,
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  Speaker 3: we started to find our identity that way and can
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  Speaker 3: kind of see it come to life. Like you just mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: it's August, so you know, there's there's still long ways
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  Speaker 3: to go in terms of where we want to be
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  Speaker 3: as an offense. But it was really good to get
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  Speaker 3: out there and and just take the field as a
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  Speaker 3: unit the way that we wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: And the passing and building through four of them but
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  Speaker 2: for different receipts talked about that. Yeah, it's great.
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  Speaker 3: It's great to get the guys, you know, different guys touches,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that's that's what that's what we're going to
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  Speaker 3: be as an offense. Uh, We're going to be very
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  Speaker 3: multiple We're gonna use different guys in the past game
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  Speaker 3: and the run game so that you know, defenses aren't
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  Speaker 3: going to know to expect. We're just seeing Clinton get
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  Speaker 3: you and Drew outside the pocket quite a bit, and
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  Speaker 3: that's obviously been part of his offenses in the past.
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  Speaker 2: What do you like about that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think whenever you can run the football, that's
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  Speaker 3: always going to be a threat. To be able to
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  Speaker 3: get outside the pocket on on movements and keepers and
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  Speaker 3: be able to stress the defense that way horizontally. You know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously we're going to stress them vertically as well, but
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  Speaker 3: when you can put that stress, run, run some wide zone,
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  Speaker 3: inside zone, you know, different gap schemes, and then all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden you're running keepers off of those plays,
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  Speaker 3: it makes it very tough on defenses.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's just August, but you mentioned the variants
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  Speaker 1: of the run game. You guys had two big runs
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  Speaker 1: in the first preseason game that were coming off of
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  Speaker 1: the gap schemes. Then today you're getting the horizontal displacement.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For this stage of this season, do you feel pretty
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  Speaker 1: dark good about where that's at in terms of what
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  Speaker 1: the line is able to do with all those different
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  Speaker 1: types of schemes.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think, you know, we've we've been playing
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  Speaker 3: solid as an offense.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like.
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  Speaker 3: We've you know, made strides during training camp, but there's
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  Speaker 3: always ways to improve, you know. I feel like just
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  Speaker 3: continuing to get in and out of the huddle, personnel
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  Speaker 3: getting in and out, you know, and moving the football
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  Speaker 3: down the field. May be very disciplined in the past
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  Speaker 3: game if it's not there down the field getting in
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  Speaker 3: my checkdown.
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  Speaker 2: There's always always ways to.
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  Speaker 3: To be able to get better, and we're gonna look
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  Speaker 3: at the tape and continue to grow as an offense.
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  Speaker 1: Mike McDonnell mentioned it was how quickly you're getting the
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  Speaker 1: ball out practice and went up to and said that
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  Speaker 1: you were a painting but now kind of pressure. Where's
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  Speaker 1: your evolution been from the start.
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  Speaker 2: Of training camp to now?
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  Speaker 3: Just in that Yeah, you know, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think as I've as I've grown as a quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: the more experience that I gained, you know, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: always you know, on first and second now, and that's
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  Speaker 3: the goal to get the ball out as fast as possible.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, whether that's to your number one target,
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  Speaker 3: whether that's.
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  Speaker 2: To your checkdown.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the faster you can move through these progressions,
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  Speaker 3: kind of understand different what coverages they want to play,
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  Speaker 3: and understand you know, what's going to be open like okay,
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  Speaker 3: like concept's not going to be open versus certain coverage
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  Speaker 3: they're playing that coverage. How fast can I get to
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  Speaker 3: the checkdown? Like just having that kind of understanding of
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  Speaker 3: the system and what defenses want to do to us,
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  Speaker 3: that can only help me as a quarterback and and
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  Speaker 3: also us as an offense.
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  Speaker 1: McDonald's throwing in practices is going to help you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, that's you know, that's kind of what I
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  Speaker 3: was getting at was.
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  Speaker 2: It's just you know, trying to get.
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  Speaker 3: The ball out as fast as possible with with you know,
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  Speaker 3: coaches defense. Our defense does a great job of being
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  Speaker 3: able to mix in different looks and the more that
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  Speaker 3: I can see that, you know, as training camp continues
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  Speaker 3: to go, I know, we're going to Green Bay to
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  Speaker 3: play the Packers, you know, and joint practice, but in
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  Speaker 3: these practices leading up to the season, Uh, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: always a challenge to be able to figure out where
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  Speaker 3: I want to go with the football and and what
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  Speaker 3: kind of coverage our our defense is playing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what pressures they're bringing. Am I hot? Am
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  Speaker 2: I not? So?
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  Speaker 3: Just kind of that whole count cat and mouse game
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  Speaker 3: that our defense likes to play and that we kind
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  Speaker 3: of fire back with as an offense. It's it's been
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  Speaker 3: really fun in training camp. Uh, And I've learned a
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  Speaker 3: lot about, you know, the system and where my certain
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  Speaker 3: outlets are in certain plays.
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  Speaker 1: A trust aspect to play into that with the growing
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  Speaker 1: trust with your receivers like Jackson knowing that he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be prepared to when he turns his head to
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  Speaker 1: balls or a halfway coming tour.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think our receivers have been doing a great job,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, of learning understanding the system and kind
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  Speaker 3: of making it our own.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's one thing to run a route like it
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  Speaker 3: says too on paper, but when you get a certain coverage,
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  Speaker 3: you gotta you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, you might have to, you know, widen out a
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  Speaker 2: little bit to get this guy to to slough.
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  Speaker 3: Off and then come underneath a linebacker and maybe feel
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  Speaker 3: his own whereas the you know, the paper just says
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  Speaker 3: five yards up, five yards in, and for guys to
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  Speaker 3: be able to make this offense you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, our own.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like our receivers, tight ends, and running backs
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  Speaker 3: have all been doing a great job of kind of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, taking ownership of this system.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, appreciate it, guys,