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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of Week 18 vs. 49ers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, great to see everyone. Interesting on a football
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  Speaker 1: Saturday for us, But how are we go?
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  Speaker 2: How did the week go? And how did that kind
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  Speaker 2: of work out?
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  Speaker 1: Guys did a great job. Ready to go, the buses
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  Speaker 1: will we'll leave in an hour. We'll only wait on
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  Speaker 1: some people like you always obviously talk about the process
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  Speaker 1: and all that in a week like this, How did
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  Speaker 1: you guys? How'd you see guys Candle just kind of
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  Speaker 1: putting the distractions behind them. It was great and the
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  Speaker 1: guys did a great job. And we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: the process and how we wanted to change the you know,
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  Speaker 1: change the calendar a little bit. The guys were just like, look,
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  Speaker 1: we'll just we'll do whatever, just let us know, and
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  Speaker 1: and we did, and the guys executed it.
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  Speaker 2: So I thought, we've had a great week. What did
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  Speaker 2: the tempo look like? Well, like, how much full speed
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  Speaker 2: stuff were you able to get done? Well, uh, let's
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  Speaker 2: see our Tuesday football. Wednesday was a walkthrough. Our football
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  Speaker 2: Thursday was.
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  Speaker 1: About half and half a little bit probably sixty forty fast,
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  Speaker 1: and then guyesterday was like a normal Friday for us,
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  Speaker 1: and today it was like a normal Saturday for us.
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  Speaker 2: That's yeah, progressive he's progressing. Yeah, yeah, is he playing
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  Speaker 2: for you?
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  Speaker 1: In part it's questionable if he's gonna play. I just look,
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  Speaker 1: I mean he's progressing. I just you know, injury report
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. Well, we'll stick with it right now.
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  Speaker 2: What progress is? Uh working made it many get Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Well we've got some clarification on Tori.
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  Speaker 1: It's just the best way I can describe it is
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  Speaker 1: it's just what he has is just it just takes
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  Speaker 1: a long time to heal.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's it's really put it this way.
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  Speaker 1: We're planning on not having him, and uh, if if
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  Speaker 1: something happens, which we're not counting on, and he's able
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  Speaker 1: to come back, then that's great. But right now we're
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  Speaker 1: planning on not having him. So just needs time and rest.
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  Speaker 1: So it's unfortunate, you know, but these things happen.
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  Speaker 2: So we're with him. He's doing a great job. We're
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  Speaker 2: just not gonna have him right.
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  Speaker 1: Now to be able to get Shitty back and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of having some guys to protocol they can't get
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  Speaker 1: out next to play big That my under understanding. It was,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, like it was a good it was
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  Speaker 1: a good exam right there at the game. So I
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  Speaker 1: know he's confident on where he's at and feels great
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  Speaker 1: and he's had a.
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  Speaker 2: Good week, So yeah, I think he's in a good spot.
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  Speaker 2: Could Quadriy Diggs play for you if needed? He could?
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  Speaker 1: He could, Yeah, yeah, I mean he's you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: coming back from from his from his injury as well,
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  Speaker 1: so working through that.
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  Speaker 2: And how's Kobe doing? Kobe?
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  Speaker 1: Kobe's doing well, He's just it's not as much as
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  Speaker 1: he can this week, and then.
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  Speaker 2: Then we'll just keep going working back.
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  Speaker 1: To Yeah, we're optimistic for next week or the week
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  Speaker 1: after for Charles. So I think, you know, these guys
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  Speaker 1: have done a great job getting back and working.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously Charles is gonna make it this week. Mike,
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  Speaker 2: what is tiff Howard?
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  Speaker 1: Then, in terms of this communication, to be able to
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  Speaker 1: teach that bad game for your players.
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  Speaker 2: They would tell the Chiefs that have happened.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, Jeff's done a great job, Carl's done a
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  Speaker 1: great job, Nico's done a great job. I think all
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  Speaker 1: three really work well together, bring different stuff to the table.
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  Speaker 1: Common denominator is they really care about our guys and
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  Speaker 1: they're great teachers. Jeff's extremely detailed and takes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of pride in his work and invest a lot in
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  Speaker 1: the players.
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  Speaker 2: So he's doing a great job. He's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Any Walton contatory or is it gonna ultimately get back?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think you're looking at a full off season recovery.
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  Speaker 2: I mean like gonna be. He's gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: He should have been able to have a whole full
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  Speaker 1: off season, so you know, who knows how things are
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  Speaker 1: gonna shake out, how longest thing, you know, how long
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  Speaker 1: we go and all that, But right now we're not
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  Speaker 1: planning on having them but not a long term concern.
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  Speaker 2: Does George become an option for you guys to bring
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  Speaker 2: back to the points possible? Yeah, George is doing great job. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we got a few guys that are right there ready
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  Speaker 2: to go if need be.
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  Speaker 1: Cody White.
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  Speaker 2: I guess what has ended up happening with this situation.
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  Speaker 2: We just just it was gonna be a long term thing.
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  Speaker 2: So we just unfortunately to put them on I R.
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  Speaker 2: And the George.
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  Speaker 1: How about Elijah?
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  Speaker 2: Has it come along? Yeah? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: All really, all those guys are exception for Tory and Cody,
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  Speaker 1: I'd say at some point would be capable of coming back.
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  Speaker 2: You talked about earlier this week, like the prequel one.
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  Speaker 2: What do you tip your his progress from tempers and how.
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  Speaker 1: Particularly, Yeah, I think I think people are on I think,
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  Speaker 1: uh not everybody's on the same timeline, you know, so
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  Speaker 1: it just like their production accelerates or you know, goes
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  Speaker 1: on their own our own speed. But what I've seen
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  Speaker 1: is is a guy that does all the inputs the
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  Speaker 1: way we're asking.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a great attitude.
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  Speaker 1: It's not exactly mean, it's you know, he's a he's
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  Speaker 1: a starting caliber. It's a big time quit me. He's
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  Speaker 1: he's a great corner straight up. I mean, he's one
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  Speaker 1: of the top corners in the league. And uh, when
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  Speaker 1: you're when you have that type of pedigree and you're
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  Speaker 1: not playing every snap, you know, that's that's not an
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  Speaker 1: easy thing to do. But to come to work, have
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  Speaker 1: a great, great attitude, be a great teammate, do the
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  Speaker 1: things he needs to do too to keep you know,
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  Speaker 1: accelerating his role.
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  Speaker 2: He did all those things. So you gotta take your hap,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta tip your cap to him. He kind of
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  Speaker 2: kind of I guess, just accept that pretty pretty easily.
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  Speaker 2: When the will switched a little bit there, well, we
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  Speaker 2: we worked through it, but it was it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: go through it on a round, you know. But he's
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  Speaker 2: been great. Anything else, okay, all right, thank you,