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Ernest Jones IV: "We Want To Be The Best Defense In The League" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Which like every short yard of place someone wants coming
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  Speaker 1: up there for you guys, just how far are those
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  Speaker 1: plays for a defense when everybody's getting socks? Oh, those
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  Speaker 1: are the funniest just being able to make those plays
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  Speaker 1: when you know teams are wh whether it's fourty one
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  Speaker 1: thirty one, Being able to make those plays and change
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  Speaker 1: the game. We all live for those moments and w
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  Speaker 1: you know, to have few of those moments and then
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  Speaker 1: to come out our ways a big boost for us.
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  Speaker 1: Your interception to decently sized drop in the coverage for you,
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  Speaker 1: either you think they didn't expect you there or is
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  Speaker 1: that something you'd like. I mean, I'm I'm I'm usually there,
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  Speaker 1: usually when deeper routes develop, I'm I'm holding down the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the field. This one, it caught me out
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  Speaker 1: guard a little bit, I did. I didn't see it
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  Speaker 1: til the last moment, and just glad I was able
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  Speaker 1: to you know, come down with it. You're still come
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  Speaker 1: off the ground is the way you see the ball,
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  Speaker 1: cause you just training. I think I had slipped, and
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  Speaker 1: then at by the time I slipped, the only thing
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  Speaker 1: I do is put a hand out, and God was
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  Speaker 1: with me there. I was able to catch down lean
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  Speaker 1: Fats finished with twelve pass break ups. Today have forty
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  Speaker 1: that pass and taps or what do you think right
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  Speaker 1: now about the defensibility to be able to not just
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  Speaker 1: comfort but get your hands on the footbright and No,
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  Speaker 1: that was big. I mean I I you know, know
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  Speaker 1: know from us in the past, we've you know, when
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  Speaker 1: those opportunities have presented itself, we didn't always make those plays.
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  Speaker 1: So to have that, you know, to to have Reek
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  Speaker 1: and job E man stand up the way they did
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  Speaker 1: outside with guys down and that means everything. Those guys
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  Speaker 1: s they been working their butts off and to see them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, win these battles today, that's a big boost
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  Speaker 1: for us going into the bye week and going into
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  Speaker 1: the you know, the end of the season. Do you
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  Speaker 1: feel like these teams at going in We're we're a
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  Speaker 1: good team. We're really good team. We just gotta there's
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  Speaker 1: still stuff that I think, little things that we can
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  Speaker 1: you know, do better. But that'll be always no matter
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  Speaker 1: how good we play, I'm always gonna be chasing that
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  Speaker 1: extra chasing that extra play. But I think at the
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  Speaker 1: bye week we set ourselves up nice. We gotta come
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  Speaker 1: back and let's get rolling for real coaching. Y'allas started
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  Speaker 1: a team meeting last night emphasizing the standard playing to
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  Speaker 1: the standard here? What what does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 1: What are you trying to enforce to your teammates about
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  Speaker 1: the standard here? And we we came here the first
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  Speaker 1: day of OTA's and we sat here and as a group, defensively,
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  Speaker 1: we broke up in the groups and we sat there
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  Speaker 1: and said, hey, f according to how things went last
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  Speaker 1: year when we got it rolling, we should just you know,
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  Speaker 1: pick off where we l left off at. But ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: we wanna be the best defense in the league. And
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  Speaker 1: when we say that, when you put that out in
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  Speaker 1: the are you gotta work for it every day. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe we do that a great job of that
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  Speaker 1: on defense, and then we're gonna continue to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Career high three picks already in the year for you
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  Speaker 1: don't dig, just tackles me. What is it about this
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  Speaker 1: defensive scheme that fits you well? Seems to bring out
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  Speaker 1: the best of him D line a bunch of killers
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  Speaker 1: up front. Then coach coach Mike do a good job
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  Speaker 1: put me in a position to make plays. I I
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  Speaker 1: I credited all of to Mike and my D line
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  Speaker 1: man they they make it easy on me and I
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  Speaker 1: just go out there and have to go make the
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  Speaker 1: plays good. Coach McDonald talked about the chemistry you guys
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  Speaker 1: have that line back room and now you're playing a
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  Speaker 1: lot more with Drake Thomas and the results in the
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  Speaker 1: field these last couple of games, it just seems like
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  Speaker 1: the light switch really come on. What's it been like
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  Speaker 1: getting to build that on field chemistry with him here
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  Speaker 1: as the season? Yeah, that's been great. I mean, Drake's
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  Speaker 1: a baller, man. I said at at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the season. If you know, if things were to go down,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of the names in that room, Bro, we got
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of ballers, bunch of true linebackers who can
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  Speaker 1: go out there and any given Sunday, they can go
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  Speaker 1: out there and make plays. And Drake's are just a
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  Speaker 1: testament of that. He's doing that. Proud of him, and
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  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna keep this stay rolling. Is it
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  Speaker 1: not like in the hood pro coverage or a stand
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  Speaker 1: up three type of the overloads or blowing up on
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  Speaker 1: because how important is it for you or two of
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  Speaker 1: the building to a do it all line back or
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  Speaker 1: like a front warner like those types of guys. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's been the biggest thing for me. I think
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  Speaker 1: my first three three three years in the league. Four
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  Speaker 1: years in the league. People always want to classify me
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  Speaker 1: as just a run stopper. But I'm a ball player, bro.
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  Speaker 1: You put that ball anywhere, I'm going to get it. Coverage,
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  Speaker 1: run the ball. It's just what I do. I play football.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to uh the leadership and and blind backers
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  Speaker 1: to you. How impart is it for you to creation
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  Speaker 1: that you both with it's Tyree Snipe or Drink Thomas
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  Speaker 1: or whatever it's next to you on the field. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: I I mean honestly, that's easy. I mean those are
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  Speaker 1: my guys. We sit there the these are my brothers,
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  Speaker 1: deeper and deeper in football. So the chemistry that we
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  Speaker 1: have on the field, I mean that's that's second nature.
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  Speaker 1: We got chemistry off the field. So once we get
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  Speaker 1: out there on the field, it just we just flow together.
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  Speaker 1: I'm able to see the game the way they see it.
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  Speaker 1: They're up to see the game, we see it, and
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  Speaker 1: we just go out there and we just play off
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  Speaker 1: each other. So regardless of you know, who's out there,
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  Speaker 1: we expect and we know that each of them are
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  Speaker 1: gonna do their job, but we know also know how
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  Speaker 1: to play off each other so that you were exactly
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  Speaker 1: where you were supposed to feel like that gonna walk
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  Speaker 1: us through where you were supposed to be and whatever. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: i'm'a be uh completely honest with you after a football
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  Speaker 1: game or football players, it's a complete blur for me,
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  Speaker 1: Like I couldn't tell you where I was at, what
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  Speaker 1: I was doing, what the call was. All I know
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  Speaker 1: is I was just there he and he caught and
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  Speaker 1: I caught it. One of the things that Michael Donalds
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  Speaker 1: says is you guys defend the lated cross. You know
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  Speaker 1: what what goes into that just saying it, but that
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  Speaker 1: come into life, particularly that when you're backed up on
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  Speaker 1: the goal line. I mean, I think I think we
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  Speaker 1: practice and we in the in the mindset of these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Like one thing that I love from the moment I
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  Speaker 1: got here is these the defenders that play defense for
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  Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. That's their mindset. It's every every inch,
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  Speaker 1: every yards hours. So when we get in those situations,
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  Speaker 1: it's second nature. We practice to be in those situations
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  Speaker 1: and then to be able to come out here today
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  Speaker 1: get those situations and to you know, live up to
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  Speaker 1: those moments was really big for this defense. Anything I'm
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  Speaker 1: fast got, You appreciate your