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Ernest Jones IV: "Consistency Is Something I Pride Myself On" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Oh, how much competitive fire do you still expect to.
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  Speaker 2: See come out on Sunday?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I expect to see everything in our eyes.
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  Speaker 3: We're still playing for you know, a lot, ten wins,
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  Speaker 3: just the opportunity to start this year off the right
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  Speaker 3: way leading into next year. So I feel like we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna come out and play as we should.
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  Speaker 2: What's it gonna mean for you? I guess to go
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  Speaker 2: back there and play the rams down there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm to be honest with you, like that that stuff
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  Speaker 3: is like far beyond me, like wish it was for something.
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  Speaker 3: But like I said, I'm go out there play this
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  Speaker 3: last game with this group of this group of guys
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  Speaker 3: who welcome me in so so graciously. So I'm just
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  Speaker 3: thankful to have the opportunity to go out there and play again.
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  Speaker 2: You've said how much you'd like it here. They your
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  Speaker 2: coaches said how much he loved you here. That they
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  Speaker 2: get in any indication to you they wouldn't keep it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think words and and and all
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  Speaker 3: of that is kind of the same. Everything's going that way. Coaches.
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  Speaker 3: You know, like me here, I love it here. I
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  Speaker 3: would love to be here. But as far as like
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  Speaker 3: extension or free agency. I'm kind of just let my
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  Speaker 3: agent handle it, letting an organization handle it, and hopefully,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we get something done so I can be around.
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  Speaker 2: And it's so important. It's being consistent.
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  Speaker 3: Uh this is the third year you can do with
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  Speaker 3: one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tackles.
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  Speaker 3: Just homeportance, being consistent in your game and who you
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  Speaker 3: are as a leader. I think that's something I pride
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  Speaker 3: myself on each week. I want to be the most
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  Speaker 3: consistent player on on that defense each week. You know
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  Speaker 3: what you're gonna get out of me. From a tackle perspective,
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  Speaker 3: I like to hit people, so flying around, running down people, tackling,
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  Speaker 3: it's something that I just enjoy to do. And I've
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  Speaker 3: been blessed to have three consecutive years one hundred plus tackles,
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  Speaker 3: so you know, for me, hopefully I keep it going,
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  Speaker 3: but consistently. It's consistency is something I pride myself on
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  Speaker 3: making sure that whatever whatever team I'm on, when I
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  Speaker 3: line up that you're gonna get you're gonna get my
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  Speaker 3: best and the best out of me.
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  Speaker 1: DK said he could see the impact that Bobby Wagner
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  Speaker 1: made on you, and then you talked about that. What
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  Speaker 1: did you take.
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  Speaker 2: From him, Oh, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I I've always said my career has been crazy,
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  Speaker 3: but it's been it's been a blessing in in every
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  Speaker 3: every way.
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  Speaker 2: But Bobby Man.
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  Speaker 3: Just the way he just and it wasn't really like
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  Speaker 3: things that were telling me. The way he showed me
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  Speaker 3: and the way he went about his business, and I like,
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  Speaker 3: I admired that. That's something that I wanted to, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Be be like.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, and he's one of the greats in his game,
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  Speaker 3: so of course I wanted to model my way after him.
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  Speaker 2: But man, he was great.
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  Speaker 3: Leadership, everything, you c you, you name it, he was great.
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  Speaker 1: You played with Leo half the season and O what
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  Speaker 1: impresses you most about watching him work? In front of him?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he's a dog man like.
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  Speaker 3: His to be as big as he is and to
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  Speaker 3: do the things that he does is is insane to me.
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  Speaker 3: The way he can play the run, get all rushed
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  Speaker 3: to pass and man hold up two three blocks at
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  Speaker 3: a time. It it it makes my life so much
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  Speaker 3: easier playing behind him. Murph jy Reed Hank So, Leo's
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  Speaker 3: Leo's a dog man and he's he's been doing it
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  Speaker 3: for a while and it's finally people are starting to
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  Speaker 3: recognize and see how how really good he is.
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  Speaker 1: That group has had a lot of success getting to
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback. But the rams to I think kept their
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  Speaker 1: quarterback clean the last five games. What is it that
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  Speaker 1: they're doing upfront protection wise or or.
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  Speaker 3: With that scheme. I think, you know, when you got
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  Speaker 3: a quarterback like Matthew, he's very decisive, gets the ball
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  Speaker 3: out quick, he knows where he's going. He can't really,
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  Speaker 3: you know, mask anything when playing him because he knows
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  Speaker 3: it all. So I think that's where it comes from,
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  Speaker 3: just getting the ball out quick, being decisive in his decisions,
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  Speaker 3: and if he does have to hold onto the ball,
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  Speaker 3: he does a great way of escaping the pocket when
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  Speaker 3: he needs to. So I think that's been one big
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  Speaker 3: thing that I've seen that that's kept Matthew clean and
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  Speaker 3: that they've done as a as a group to keep him.
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  Speaker 2: What's the whole this week?
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  Speaker 1: Because I think they've said that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm sure to change. I think what's gonna
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  Speaker 3: change is who's protecting him. So I mean, I mean
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  Speaker 3: it's a matter of that who's protecting how well they
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  Speaker 3: do that's gonna determine a lot.
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  Speaker 1: These last few months for you personally, what's it been
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  Speaker 1: like kind of settling into a new city for the
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  Speaker 1: second time and you know, five months whatever, it's been.
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  Speaker 3: Man, Honestly, it's been I hate to use hell, but
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  Speaker 3: that's one way to describe it.
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  Speaker 2: It's been crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Been a whirlwind emotions for me these past couple of months,
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  Speaker 3: you know, having to move my family back and forth,
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  Speaker 3: just seeing my family have to stay in hotels for
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  Speaker 3: months at a time.
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  Speaker 2: It's been rough for me.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm excited that you know that this is the
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  Speaker 3: last one. I wish we were going further, but I'll say,
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  Speaker 3: like I need some decompression time, honestly, if I'm being real, witch,
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  Speaker 3: I know a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: The reflecting will happen next week, but kind of going
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  Speaker 1: into next season with the improvements that this defensive made,
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  Speaker 1: what's kind of your biggest reasons for like optimism for
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  Speaker 1: this defensive group going forward.
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  Speaker 3: I think for me, this defensive group, man, just way
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  Speaker 3: we come to work even today and to walk through
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  Speaker 3: how focused guys were, even with it being our last week.
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  Speaker 3: Guys were focused, And I'm just very optimistic about you know,
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  Speaker 3: if we we we we take this year as a
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  Speaker 3: learning experience. You know, we played well, didn't play well
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  Speaker 3: enough in certain spots, but we were hopefully we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a ten win, ten win team just short of
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs. I think we used that coming to next year,
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  Speaker 3: coming to OTAs with what kind of chip on our
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  Speaker 3: shoulder that we were. We were one of those teams
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  Speaker 3: that we think and we know we should be in it,
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  Speaker 3: but we didn't handle business well.
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  Speaker 2: In those right moments. So let's let's fix those things.
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  Speaker 3: Let's correct those things, and let's start working towards where
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  Speaker 3: we're a playoff team for sure and we don't have
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  Speaker 3: to fight for a playoff spot. And I think you
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  Speaker 3: know that learning experience going through this, that think that's
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  Speaker 3: gonna help us out.
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  Speaker 1: Was it tough coming back to work at all on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: I meaning knowing that mistakes and everything had changed, or.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it was tough. No, mean, the situation
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  Speaker 3: is what it is. We can't they they they won
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  Speaker 3: their game and they had games fall in their lap
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  Speaker 3: and fall go go their way, so you know they
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  Speaker 3: want a division and that will put us out. But
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  Speaker 3: for us, I think we I think everybody is taking
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  Speaker 3: that as a learning experience and we don't want to
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  Speaker 3: keep it in nobody else's hands.
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  Speaker 2: Again, like Donald.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned that you guys can't let outside forces their circumstances
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  Speaker 1: dictate your mentality, how you play.
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  Speaker 2: So that's soft, right. Why do you think that's.
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  Speaker 3: Important for setting a standard in the culture.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the standard.
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  Speaker 3: If we sit here as a defense and say, you know,
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  Speaker 3: deaths on what we're trying to accomplish, we can't.
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  Speaker 2: It can't be like situational. It's gotta be every week.
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  Speaker 3: Although we are out of the playoffs, although we this
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  Speaker 3: is our last game, let's leave, let's leave our brand,
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  Speaker 3: our style.
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  Speaker 2: Of football on a high note.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's just where it comes from, Like
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  Speaker 3: we got another game, regardless of what is for, what
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  Speaker 3: it's not for. We gotta go out there and as men,
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  Speaker 3: play for that name on the back of your jersey,
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  Speaker 3: but also that that Seattle you know Seahawks logo too.
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  Speaker 2: So anything else good