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Julian Love: "There's So Much Out There For Us" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Definitely a disappointing kind of disconcerted effort. Just we want
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  Speaker 1: to be able to stack plays. We want to be
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  Speaker 1: able to play, you know, complimentary football. We did it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there was a few plays that I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: a ton of people wish they had back. And versus,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a good team, a well-coached team, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to kill you. So, I think across the ball,
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  Speaker 1: everybody wishes they had a few back. We've not seen
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  Speaker 1: very many teams move the ball on your defense like
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  Speaker 1: that in the last couple years. Was that more them
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  Speaker 1: just making plays or stuff you guys feel like you
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  Speaker 1: should be doing better? A mixture. I think a few
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  Speaker 1: good calls. I think– You know, the screen there, kind
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  Speaker 1: of a 40-yard screen, that was a killer. Good play call.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to find a way to get that down,
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  Speaker 1: especially on third down to give our offense a shot.
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  Speaker 1: But for the most part, I feel like everything was
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  Speaker 1: within our control. And we've got to clean up a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things, especially our red zone efficiency is terrible
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  Speaker 1: right now. And so we need to go to work
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  Speaker 1: on that. Other than that, I think we did a
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  Speaker 1: great job versus the run. The team runs the ball
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  Speaker 1: really well. And then just those open field throws made
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  Speaker 1: it a little too easy for him back there. So
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  Speaker 1: we got to tighten some things up. Uh, I think
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  Speaker 1: they have good players. I think they're well coached. I think, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: he's known to call good games. But I think, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, it could be just ego or whatever. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like we go into a lot of games knowing
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  Speaker 1: that if we play our brand of football, clean, efficient,
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  Speaker 1: on the same page, then we play well. And so
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  Speaker 1: I think kudos to them for sure. But we've got
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  Speaker 1: to go to work, man. People need to step up.
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  Speaker 1: Guys need to get together here and just play better
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  Speaker 1: football together. What makes him him? He's a good quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: I think he can make all throws. He's a strong arm.
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  Speaker 1: He's confident. He plays with a swagger to him. You
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  Speaker 1: give him some open lanes, he's going to make the throw.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of those deep developing routes in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the field, the windows are pretty big. I think
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  Speaker 1: a good quarterback can make those throws. Other than that,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to correct that for sure. You mentioned the screen,
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  Speaker 1: obviously there was the delay there. It looked like you
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  Speaker 1: guys were getting off the field. Just how critical was
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  Speaker 1: that sequence? I mean, that's tough. That's a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: You get a stop. It was a dumb penalty on us.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was a cost of doing business penalty
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  Speaker 1: on that kickoff. Get them down to kind of the 50-ish.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, you feel like we had them pretty stout.
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  Speaker 1: Then you see the flag coming in and they make
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  Speaker 1: the play the next play. Just an unfortunate series of
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  Speaker 1: events there. And we just got to find a way
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  Speaker 1: to get off on third and nine, man. Our third
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  Speaker 1: down efficiency needs to step up. I think they were
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  Speaker 1: probably like 40% today, which we got to lower that
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  Speaker 1: number on defense. Julian, when you're four and four, kind
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  Speaker 1: of big picture, and I'm sure you guys all feel
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  Speaker 1: like you're better than that, what's the level of frustration
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  Speaker 1: from a veteran group at this point? I would say
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  Speaker 1: a lesser team would be really frustrated and like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: pointing fingers, turning on each other. I think the guys
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  Speaker 1: in the room, or at least me, it's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much out there for us. We play a
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  Speaker 1: good brand of football. Teams know kind of what we're about.
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  Speaker 1: I think we play tough, like we're connected. But we're
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  Speaker 1: still chasing efficiency. I think on both sides of the
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  Speaker 1: ball and teams, we know there's so much more for
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  Speaker 1: us to be. And it's exciting because we have a
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  Speaker 1: bunch more games to go out and prove that. I
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  Speaker 1: think we're still in identity-finding mode. We want to get
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  Speaker 1: this thing moving and grooving in the way that you
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  Speaker 1: guys have seen it before, the way that we know
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  Speaker 1: how it's supposed to look. Right now it does not
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  Speaker 1: feel how it's supposed to look, and so we're going
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  Speaker 1: to go work, attack the process. Is there a little
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  Speaker 1: more urgency with that, though? I mean, I know it's
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  Speaker 1: early in the season, but at the same time, you're
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  Speaker 1: now eight games into the season. Yeah, I mean, I know.
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  Speaker 1: It's never good. I think it's one of those things that,
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  Speaker 1: You work through the process. You attack whoever you have
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  Speaker 1: that week. We've got a division game coming up. And
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  Speaker 1: hopefully that identity can be formed. It's not something that
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  Speaker 1: you can't force one of those things. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: play better. It's a results business. We've got to win games.
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  Speaker 1: Four and four is not a great spot to be.
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  Speaker 1: But I think I'm optimistic that we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: things right. I think we're going to catch our stride here.
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  Speaker 1: And once this thing gets going, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: tough to stop. Yeah, it's a bummer. I mean, we
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  Speaker 1: had a great game last week. The city was fired up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: to come on another kind of primetime game, we wish
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  Speaker 1: we had a better result. I think we had a
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  Speaker 1: shot there. The momentum, you kind of could feel it
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  Speaker 1: in the stadium. The momentum was swinging. And then that
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  Speaker 1: freaking third and nine, that screenplay just killed all momentum.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's got to win those critical situations, man.
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  Speaker 1: This is a situation football game. I think I'm just
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  Speaker 1: happy with the guys playing tough, but Everyone, I know
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  Speaker 1: each guy, just wishes they had a play back in
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  Speaker 1: some of those critical downs. And I think that was
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  Speaker 1: a really big, pivotal moment of the game. What did
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  Speaker 1: you see on that play? Were you surprised on that call?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they throw in a screen to hopefully one
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  Speaker 1: of their playmakers can make a play. And just we
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  Speaker 1: have to get that leverage. We have to get somebody,
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  Speaker 1: some bodies over there. They've blocked it really well. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great play call kind of for what we
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  Speaker 1: were presenting there. And it's a bummer because we have
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  Speaker 1: to stop on the delay again and play before. And so.
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  Speaker 1: It's those little moments. You could pinpoint that moment of, man,
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  Speaker 1: we make this stop, and who knows what happens the
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  Speaker 1: rest of this game. And, yeah, we sort of fizzled out.
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  Speaker 1: So one more fight, but we know the opportunities are
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  Speaker 1: out there. Appreciate you guys. Thank you.