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Nick Emmanwori: "Anyone On Our Defense Can Disrupt The Game" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Jake, to go from covering can one play to rushing
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  Speaker 1: the passer and forcing a pick to covering worthy 40
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  Speaker 1: yards downfield, just kind of, how much did that game
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  Speaker 1: kind of flash your versatility and everything you can kind
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  Speaker 1: of do?
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  Speaker 2: I think it showed everything I can do.
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  Speaker 3: You know, lining up at defensive end, covering in the slide,
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  Speaker 3: you know, running, tackling, being aggressive. That's, you know, thanks
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  Speaker 3: to the coaches letting me be me, building a good
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  Speaker 3: game plan that fits the whole defense and lets everybody
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  Speaker 3: play free, so.
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  Speaker 4: How much pride do you take in when you're guarding
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  Speaker 4: what might be the fastest guy in the NFL and
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  Speaker 4: you're running with him.
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  Speaker 2: Downfield on a deep shot?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think I would call myself, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I grew up playing defensive back, so, like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not scared out there in space, you know, to
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  Speaker 3: cover guys. So, I mean, I know what the defensive
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  Speaker 3: coaches know what I can do. They know what I have,
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  Speaker 3: but other teams probably don't. But it's good just to
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  Speaker 3: put that on film. I mean, I like those plays.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I like.
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  Speaker 1: To run, so.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking forward, and it was great. It was great.
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  Speaker 2: Can you help us.
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  Speaker 1: Understand what it takes throughout the week to get you
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  Speaker 1: ready to do all that between all the coaches who
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  Speaker 1: are working with you and all that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little bit of a process, honestly. I
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  Speaker 3: feel like if you ask any of the coaches, too,
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  Speaker 3: they'll tell you it's a process, too. Throughout the week,
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  Speaker 3: just making sure I'm getting all my reps all over
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  Speaker 3: the field, whether it's defensive end, nickel, whatever packages they
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  Speaker 3: have for me, making sure we're getting a lot of reps,
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  Speaker 3: but also keeping me limited where I'm not burning myself
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  Speaker 3: out mentally or physically. It's something new that I feel
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  Speaker 3: like they're going through, too, and we're steadily improving.
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  Speaker 2: Growing and changing stuff throughout the week.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just a different process that, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't really know how it looks until you actually watch
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  Speaker 3: us practice and watch us.
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  Speaker 2: In the meetings. Are you bouncing around different meeting rooms? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I go to the linebacker rooms on, like, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 3: D-line room on, like, Friday or Thursday, DB rooms every day.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like I'm in different rooms, different areas. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm hearing a lot of stuff at one time and
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  Speaker 3: just processing it the right way.
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  Speaker 2: You're not in the kicker's room yet?
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  Speaker 4: Nah, nah, nah.
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  Speaker 2: Nah, the kick is wrong.
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  Speaker 4: When you ran down Mahomes on the interception Okada had,
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  Speaker 4: did you sense he was surprised or didn't know anyone
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  Speaker 4: was behind him?
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  Speaker 2: Because he usually doesn't have anyone chasing him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, a lot of people are saying usually people
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  Speaker 3: don't chase him down or, you know, people, he usually
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  Speaker 3: outruns people. That's what they're saying on the sideline. But,
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  Speaker 3: you know, knowing my speed, knowing my, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: on that play I had like an inside blitz or whatever. So, like,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't really my responsibility. But right when I see
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  Speaker 3: him pull the ball, I was like, oh, man, it's on. Like,
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  Speaker 3: it's a race to him. And kind of, I'll say he,
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  Speaker 3: made a bad throw or forced him into a bad
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  Speaker 3: throw with my pressure, my speed. And, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: got an interception off of that. So I know he
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  Speaker 3: probably wants that one back.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah. You were listed as questionable going into the game.
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  Speaker 2: Was there a question you were going to play?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just throughout the week, just, you know, you know, again,
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  Speaker 3: with like, you know, doing all these different positions and stuff,
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  Speaker 3: I get a lot of reps. So just trying to
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  Speaker 3: find a good way to, you know, make sure I'm
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  Speaker 3: getting on my– reps at whatever position I'm at and
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  Speaker 3: keeping me good for the game. So it was just
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  Speaker 3: like a little bit of tightness that, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: solved and figured out it was good.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we put on a clinic, you know, we,
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  Speaker 4: I know the defense, a lot of dudes were upset
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  Speaker 4: that we, you know, we didn't give them zero. Like
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  Speaker 4: that was our goal.
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  Speaker 3: Like, give them zero we definitely could accomplish that so
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  Speaker 3: but that just says you know what type of defense
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  Speaker 3: we are like we're like you know there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of talk out there about what type of defense we
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  Speaker 3: are if we still got you know whatever but we
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  Speaker 3: don't really pay attention to that and we knew what
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  Speaker 3: we were going to do like none of us you
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  Speaker 3: know we didn't lose any sleep about any offense or
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  Speaker 3: who we're facing so was there.
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  Speaker 4: I mean with ken obviously they want to talk about
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  Speaker 4: him in the season he's had was it did you
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  Speaker 4: guys want to prove a point at.
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  Speaker 3: All about being able to hold him down or uh
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  Speaker 3: you know I mean, I did. You know, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to sit here and lie. I definitely did want
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  Speaker 3: to hold them under 100. You know, I don't really
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  Speaker 3: listen to all the media noise, but that kind of–
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  Speaker 3: that was my motivation. You know, I know a lot
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  Speaker 3: of dudes on the defense, that was their motivation too,
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  Speaker 3: to stop them under 100 and play lights out on defense.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we did that. How do you feel
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  Speaker 2: the way that the pass rush was buried up with
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  Speaker 2: the coverage?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys had seven different players get hits
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  Speaker 1: on Mahomes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it just doesn't normally happen. Yeah, it's just a swarm.
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  Speaker 2: Just a swarm of players.
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  Speaker 3: Like, it's hard to really– The schemas, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we don't even get it. Like, you know, sometimes we.
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  Speaker 3: Just go out there and play ball, play fast, play disruptive.
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  Speaker 3: We don't even know what we're doing in the moment,
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  Speaker 3: you know, until we watch the stats and look at
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  Speaker 3: the film.
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  Speaker 2: But that's just our defense.
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  Speaker 3: Like, any one of us on that defense can disrupt
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  Speaker 3: the game, whether it's our tackles, our corners, our safeties.
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  Speaker 2: It's lights out, so. Does that surprise you with Jackson
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  Speaker 2: Smith and Jigba and what he can do?
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  Speaker 3: Man. I was sitting on the bench, and I was
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  Speaker 3: just like, you know, I was just so surprised.
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  Speaker 2: Like, he, you know, he's almost, I mean, he is unguardable.
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  Speaker 3: Not even almost. He's unguardable. It's pretty amazing to see. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sitting there, like, thinking, like, you know, like, wow,
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  Speaker 3: this potential Hall of Famer. You know, he's a great,
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  Speaker 3: great receiver. And, you know, knowing that he's getting double
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  Speaker 3: teamed and they're sending Cloud his way and he's still
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  Speaker 3: making plays, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you can't even fathom it. So, big ups
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  Speaker 2: to him. He's one to one, so.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.