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Geno Smith: "The Message Is To Keep Going And Keep Fighting" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Doing. Do you know how much does that one hurt
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  Speaker 1: for you guys or where you guys were at that
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  Speaker 1: you kind of lost control of a play off situation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that hurts. You know, it hurts whenever you lose. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it hurts whenever you lose. And uh, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to control our own destiny obviously, like you said, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we can't do that anymore. But you know, there's no
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  Speaker 1: time for us to kind of feel sorry for ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We got another game to play, still got a chance,
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  Speaker 1: still got a opportunity, So you know, next week's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be big for us. And uh, you know, I think
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  Speaker 1: the message is to keep going as always, to keep
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  Speaker 1: going and keep fighting. Did you have any sense of
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  Speaker 1: the flying sight hit there? But obviously when you lost
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  Speaker 1: the ball or play for still trying to throw? Uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it just d God made a good play. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's a a p a game full of plays. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we play. I don't know how many snaps
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  Speaker 1: we had today. I felt like we were clean for
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  Speaker 1: the most part and that when they got us. But again,
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  Speaker 1: those things happen in football games. And I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you know one play per se? Can you know, be
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  Speaker 1: the difference in the game. I think we have more
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  Speaker 1: than the more opportunities to make it happen, and we
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  Speaker 1: just didn't get it done. There's no time to feel
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  Speaker 1: sorry for yourselves. What what's the process gonna be these
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of days to get back Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: think the process is to go back to work. You know,
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  Speaker 1: That's the main thing for me is shoot, man, i'm'a
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  Speaker 1: keep working hard. I'm gonna work my butt off, get
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  Speaker 1: back to w to the weight room in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: get back to the film room, figure out a way
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  Speaker 1: to be better next week. And that's all I can do,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is continue to work my tail off, continue
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  Speaker 1: to help the guys get better, continue to lead this team.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, we got a chance, We got opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: uh still in front of us, and so nobody's gonna
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  Speaker 1: feel sorry around here. We're gonna pick it up and
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  Speaker 1: keep going. Outside of the the phone when we were
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  Speaker 1: maybe the biggest issues in your mind of offense today,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think just over off if you wanna
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  Speaker 1: be honest, man, teams are playing keep away. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you got teams running the ball, you know, milking the'
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  Speaker 1: clock in the first quarter, that's been the past two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's the ultimate sign of respect when teams
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  Speaker 1: are doing that. I think when they're playing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of zones, they're not gonna play us in
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  Speaker 1: man cover. They're gonna try their best to keep us
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  Speaker 1: on the sideline because they know how explosive we are.
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, again, not turning the ball over,
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  Speaker 1: that's a big factor in the game. And then overall,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being better on third downs. I think we're
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  Speaker 1: three for nine. You know, that's not up to our standard.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, finishing in the red zone. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's some things that you know, again we talk about
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  Speaker 1: every week, but it's got to be better. And that's
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  Speaker 1: all we can do is continue to fight get better.
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  Speaker 1: You guys obviously had a really big kind of emotional
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  Speaker 1: cut back wins the last two weeks. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: any of that kind of I took anything out of
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  Speaker 1: you guys? This week? We didn't preparation or anything. No,
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  Speaker 1: I think we were prepared. You know, I think guys
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  Speaker 1: came out we're ready, you know, I know I was.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I was ready for the game and
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  Speaker 1: really excited for this one, and like I said, it's
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  Speaker 1: a tough football game. The Steelers are playing for their
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  Speaker 1: season as well. You know, it came down you know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of players here and there. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: was a really close game, really hard fought game between
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  Speaker 1: you know, two good teams, and today it was their day.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we got things that we got to clean
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  Speaker 1: up on our side of the ball. We got things
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  Speaker 1: that we got to clean up as a team. And uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's all we need to focus on, is getting better.
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  Speaker 1: You know, nothing else besides getting better. Do you know
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  Speaker 1: you you gotta from up to see to some of
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  Speaker 1: the places at Kenney today. What did you kind of
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  Speaker 1: see on some of those big uh big runs he had,
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  Speaker 1: some of the shoots and stuff that he's doing in
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  Speaker 1: the other shoot man, I mean, that's ken Walker. We've
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  Speaker 1: seen that all year. We've seen that since he's gotten here,
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  Speaker 1: and he continues to show up, get the ball in
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  Speaker 1: his hands and watch the magic happen. Matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: go get a block, you know, don't watch the magic happen.
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  Speaker 1: Get a block, because that guy's gonna make something happen.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, you know, we're we're blessed to have a
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  Speaker 1: guy like that on our team. I tell him every
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  Speaker 1: single day. Man, he's one of the best, one of
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  Speaker 1: the best I've seen with the ball in his hands,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, we gotta keep getting it to him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: cause he's that special. Do you know, oh a little?
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  Speaker 1: I mean that we're up downs. So you had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of school for seconds. Yeah, how you stepped up
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  Speaker 1: the chance? Yeah, you know Stone and Olu, you know
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  Speaker 1: when they went always you know, all season they've stepped
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  Speaker 1: up when their opportunities have arised, and uh, today was
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  Speaker 1: another example of that. You know, I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: both Olu and Stone stepped in and you know, got
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  Speaker 1: to it and and things kept rolling. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: thought those guys played a great game. I thought they
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  Speaker 1: helped us get down the field. I know it's not
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  Speaker 1: easy anytime you gotta step in, you know, coming in
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  Speaker 1: Cole off the sideline. But their mentality, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: thought made it happen. And those guys were ready, They
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  Speaker 1: understood their assignments, and they came out and they did
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  Speaker 1: what they had to do. You mentioned that you kind
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  Speaker 1: of talked to us about third down residents stuff pretty
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  Speaker 1: much all year. What do you make of those things
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  Speaker 1: again being an issue in a game that you hadn't
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  Speaker 1: have just later the year. Man, it's football. Shoot, they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna stop it sometime. That's one of the best red
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  Speaker 1: zone defenses in football. They got great players on their side.
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  Speaker 1: You're not gonna score every single time you trust the ball,
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  Speaker 1: although that's the goal. The reality is is that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes they stop you. And you know, I think one
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  Speaker 1: of those trip trips down there, we had two chances
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  Speaker 1: to score. We had the ball, you know, and in
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  Speaker 1: the right place, and just didn't. The play didn't happen. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we always say it's a game of interest, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you know it doesn't the ball doesn't bounce your way,
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  Speaker 1: and you know you can't feel sorry about it. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta keep going. This time last year, you guys really
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  Speaker 1: gained looking us to help to get in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: for the exact same situation this year. You want lessons
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  Speaker 1: from last year. If you pull to hope you'll go
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  Speaker 1: into KI team. Yeah you know again, I you know,
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  Speaker 1: I you know, never imagine we'd be in this situation again. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: but here we are. And so what we can do
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  Speaker 1: is continue to fight, get r get ready for next week.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Arizona played a great game today, Uh came
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  Speaker 1: up with a win. And we know they're gonna fight
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  Speaker 1: all the way to the end, and so next week's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be an easy game. We gotta go out
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  Speaker 1: there and in on in their place and make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we're the type of team that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: always bounce back. We got the right leadership. Uh, we
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  Speaker 1: got the right coaches, right players, and we're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: it happen. We're gonna find a way to make it happen.