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Ernest Jones IV: "We Can Be Something Special" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Hello, has it feel feels great? Man? First, I want
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  Speaker 1: to give all things to my Lord and say to
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ for this team, for this win. Man, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just so thankful to be a Seattle Seahawks and year
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  Speaker 1: has been crazy for me. But to get a win
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  Speaker 1: like that against a good team like that, and to
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  Speaker 1: see how this team reacting and responded, Man, I'm thankful
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Sea Hawk.
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  Speaker 2: You guys held Christian McCaffrey under eighty rushing yards and
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  Speaker 2: you and Tyrese both in double digit tackles. How do
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  Speaker 2: you feel about the way that your linebacking group is
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  Speaker 2: a whole played and the way he stepped in?
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  Speaker 1: Let me say, now, I mean this defense. I look
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  Speaker 1: to my left, I see t Night. I look behind
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  Speaker 1: me and I see Spoon, I see those safeties. Now
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  Speaker 1: I look in front and I see those dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Can we can go out there and play with anybody?
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  Speaker 1: We come out there and show what we are and
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  Speaker 1: play physical, be disciplined in the moments that we need
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  Speaker 1: to be, which really at all moments, man, I think
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  Speaker 1: we can be something special.
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  Speaker 4: When they have the ball late in the game, you
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  Speaker 4: know you got to get the ball back to the offense.
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  Speaker 4: How are those moments to get that stop and give
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  Speaker 4: the ball back, let them have a chance to go
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  Speaker 4: win it.
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  Speaker 1: Those are big, But I mean with this team, we
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  Speaker 1: put ourselves in those positions. I'm so sorry during practice
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  Speaker 1: put ourselves in those positions where you know, when we
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  Speaker 1: get to those moments, we don't stress. We just go
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  Speaker 1: attack it, head down, head first and go through the
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  Speaker 1: man in front of you.
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  Speaker 2: You just got here.
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  Speaker 4: But you sense how big a dealer is these guys
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  Speaker 4: will finally before then.
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  Speaker 3: I do, I do?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, heck I was in LA We
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  Speaker 1: couldn't beat him in the regular season either. So for
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  Speaker 1: us to come down here and their their spot, go
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  Speaker 1: out there and take away from them, that's.
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  Speaker 3: Big for this team. That's big for what we have
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  Speaker 3: going forward.
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  Speaker 1: And we keep saying, man, I'm excited about you know
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  Speaker 1: what we really can be.
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  Speaker 3: When we when these things gets gets rolling.
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  Speaker 2: Played with Gino for longer you have played against his
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  Speaker 2: What's impressed to you in the time you've been around him,
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  Speaker 2: such a in a late moment like that.
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  Speaker 1: Come man, this young kids now said, or man, the
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  Speaker 1: way he just comes into a to to to the
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  Speaker 1: huddle and you you sense man with Gino. At any point,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna make a play, he's gonna be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: where he needs to be for his team mates. And
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  Speaker 1: you know he showed up for us tonight in a
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  Speaker 1: big way.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, how narratives can get developed in the NFL and
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  Speaker 4: Gino can't beat the forty nine ers, What do you
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  Speaker 4: think it means? Just to have a guy go out
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  Speaker 4: there and not only beat the forty nine ers but
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  Speaker 4: run the game, run in the winning touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Here, That says a lot about him, you know. You know,
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  Speaker 1: with the outside noise, we don't really listen to it.
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  Speaker 1: We're in a point right now where we where we
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  Speaker 1: know what type of team we are. We just got
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  Speaker 1: to go out to execute and do our job. And
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  Speaker 1: for him to be in that position where you know,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't hear any of those things, but for him
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  Speaker 1: for people to say he can't beat him, well, we
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  Speaker 1: just did and he scored. So that's all that matters
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  Speaker 1: right now, and you know, we'll keep going.
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  Speaker 3: Keep rolling.
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  Speaker 2: Was beneficial not just for the obvious that end up
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  Speaker 2: the rest and covering everything, but just the chord of
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  Speaker 2: like changes, adjustments that.
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  Speaker 1: You guys can stay in de undres sure, I always
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  Speaker 1: loved about we especially when you're at a spot where
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  Speaker 1: where we were at, where we had lost a few
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  Speaker 1: in a row and we were trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: where our identity was. Well, we were able to reset,
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  Speaker 1: come back into the office in list work week and
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  Speaker 1: do just that. Figure out what it is we do, well,
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  Speaker 1: what it is that's been hurting us, let's correct it
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  Speaker 1: and let's move forward. We talked about like a commitment
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  Speaker 1: letter team each to a man to like win these
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  Speaker 1: visual battles and really just make that tackle.
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  Speaker 4: Can you talk about the middle? That's what you guys
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  Speaker 4: can even see the commitment you had.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we knew coming into the game that you know,
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  Speaker 1: the way did you beat the forty nine is is
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  Speaker 1: you eliminate the explosive plays. You don't allow them to
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  Speaker 1: strike out for eighty seven yard touchdowns, and then when
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  Speaker 1: they checked the ball down, you come down and tackle.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it's a three four yard game, we know that
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  Speaker 1: coming downhill and tackling and making them continue to snap
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  Speaker 1: it as what we need. And you know offenses don't
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  Speaker 1: want to keep throwing checks downs all day. They want
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  Speaker 1: to go for the big home run. And we were
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  Speaker 1: able to eliminate that and you know, make those tackles
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  Speaker 1: when needed.
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  Speaker 4: They've they've done that against you or against the Seahawks
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  Speaker 4: defense in past years, in the past games. Right, did
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  Speaker 4: you sense any frustration or they expect to be able
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  Speaker 4: to do it again and they couldn't do it in
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  Speaker 4: this game?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 1: I you know, I think there was a sense of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we got to go out and earn our
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  Speaker 1: respect where we respected by them that much?
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  Speaker 3: Who knows, you know, it's up for them to say.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we come into the game and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna earn our respect and we're gonna get what we do.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what our thoughts was today is go attack
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  Speaker 1: this game.
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  Speaker 4: In terms of propelling you guys forward. How much can
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  Speaker 4: this win matter as you guys move forward in next
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  Speaker 4: week and weeks down the line.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's big.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, personally, I've always said, once we get that
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  Speaker 1: big one, now we can relax and let's roll. Let's
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  Speaker 1: do what we're supposed to do. Let's beat a team
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  Speaker 1: that we know we're capable of. And expectations are higher
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  Speaker 1: now because we were able to go out and beat
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  Speaker 1: a team like that and we know that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's something we should do each week we step up.
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  Speaker 2: It's forty nine ers offense. They've been known over the
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  Speaker 2: years for me, But to get in the four minute
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  Speaker 2: offense end of the game that they're able to grind
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  Speaker 2: out those wins and you guys just give up that
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  Speaker 2: long touchdown drive a bunch of third down conversions. What
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  Speaker 2: does it say about where this team is at right
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  Speaker 2: now that you guys are able to rebound from that
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  Speaker 2: against this opponent with the reputation they have there to know,
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  Speaker 2: gohead and get that last step.
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  Speaker 1: No, I've been here three weeks, but like I said earlier,
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  Speaker 1: those guys in front of me, the guys in behind me.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I've learned about them is they they're on go.
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  Speaker 1: They spend every time we get out there on the field.
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  Speaker 1: So it didn't matter for a minute, two minute, one minute.
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  Speaker 1: We were gonna go out there and get to stop needed.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna need to watch out for Jonathan Hankins patrol
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  Speaker 4: in the middle of the bill, tell you.
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  Speaker 3: That's what it seems like. He called it so smooth too.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank y'all. Y'all's willing to