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Leonard Williams: "This Is The Best Defense I've Been A Part Of" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've seen several back ups step up and play
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  Speaker 1: significant snatch this defense, then coming big, coming a big
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  Speaker 1: in today Tai Kata with a sack and a pass
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  Speaker 1: break up, Drake Thomas stuff in the status sheet. What
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  Speaker 1: do you say about the depth this defense is built
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  Speaker 1: and just really been able to bring that next man
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  Speaker 1: up to life?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, honestly, I think it just comes down to
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  Speaker 2: a mentality that we played with on defense. I was
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  Speaker 2: saying that on the sideline to some of the you know,
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  Speaker 2: to Murph and some of the other guys sitting next
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  Speaker 2: to me, that this has been like the best defense
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  Speaker 2: I've ever been a part of. And it's not because
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  Speaker 2: of stats or anything like on paper. It's just like
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  Speaker 2: the type of mindset that we have, and it's just
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  Speaker 2: like the the togetherness, the brotherhood and that we have
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  Speaker 2: on this on this defense is really special. And I
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  Speaker 2: think that allows the next man up to to really
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  Speaker 2: take in, you know, his his position and and his
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  Speaker 2: and what he has to do on the defense, cause
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  Speaker 2: he knows that everyone on the defense has his back.
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  Speaker 2: Howes to what you guys do you think I mean
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  Speaker 2: really important? I mean, he's pretty much the quarterback of
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  Speaker 2: the defense. He keeps everyone calm, he hypes everyone up
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  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, situationally. And then he also is
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  Speaker 2: making sure that he has to communicate, especially here in
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  Speaker 2: Mooman when it's you know, really loud. Uh, he does
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  Speaker 2: a good job of getting everything out.
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  Speaker 1: Running back, Skame thirty fifteen carries, you had a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of shortyard stops. Just what you guys are a
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  Speaker 1: team that just loads.
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  Speaker 2: The box all the time to stop their uner. You
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  Speaker 2: got two safeties back.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of what goes into playing the kind of
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  Speaker 1: right defensee.
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  Speaker 2: Get I mean, I think just another mentality type of thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we got some big guys up front. We
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  Speaker 2: got Murph j Reed myself, a lot of guys that
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  Speaker 2: we rotate, Mike Peely even get involved. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think we pride ourselves in being able to stop
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  Speaker 2: the run, especially with two high safeties. We know that
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  Speaker 2: that allows our defense to open up. If we have
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  Speaker 2: to put a safety into the box, that kind of
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  Speaker 2: limits certain things that we can do on defense. So
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  Speaker 2: we take probably up front and being able to you know,
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  Speaker 2: run what we want to run on defense because we
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  Speaker 2: could stop the run.
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  Speaker 1: How much just having tank in there make it easier
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  Speaker 1: for you guys to be able to play those lighter
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  Speaker 1: boxes just with the physicality and just he seems like
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy that just his presence just rubs off everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. I mean I've said this before, I
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  Speaker 2: say it again. I'm sure everyone's heard it, but we
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  Speaker 2: all jokingly call him a crashout just because how he
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  Speaker 2: throws his body around out there, and you know, you
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  Speaker 2: respect guys like that. You know, he's year twelve, I
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  Speaker 2: believe now, and he's still putting his body on the
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  Speaker 2: line every play, and he plays really hard in the run.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to get get away for your offense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. I mean big Monday night game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: back at Lumen Stadium, and it was a big win.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you just kind of see this team heading
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  Speaker 2: into your buy now? I mean, I think we got
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  Speaker 2: our buy at the perfect time. You know, it's almost
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  Speaker 2: mid season right now. I think we're going into it
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  Speaker 2: feeling good about what we've accomplished so far. There's obviously
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  Speaker 2: some areas where we got to clean up, but I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a great time to recover, figure out what
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  Speaker 2: we got to clean up, and get back on the road.
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  Speaker 2: How much better do you think this defense can get
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  Speaker 2: when guys like Hull's food love. I mean, Mike I
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  Speaker 2: mentioned that he expects him back after the buy to
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  Speaker 2: give me confidence and say this even better, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for sure. I mean just in general, I think our
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  Speaker 2: team has just a lot of potential. I mean, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we still have played a full game
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  Speaker 2: where all three levels are, you know, playing the way
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  Speaker 2: we know we could really play. Uh. There's times where
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  Speaker 2: the defense is not playing so well and the offense
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  Speaker 2: is playing great. There's times where you know, special teams offense,
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  Speaker 2: you know that type of thing where I think when
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  Speaker 2: we get all three phases going, uh, we got a
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  Speaker 2: great team.
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  Speaker 1: To tell.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean just you could just tell from his energy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's he's always been a leader, even when
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  Speaker 2: he was injured, but now that he's back, just having
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  Speaker 2: his presence on the field. He's a big communicator. I
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  Speaker 2: love playing with him. Outside of me, I've known him
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  Speaker 2: since USC. Uh, So there's like times where he will
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  Speaker 2: say some small stuff that like only me and him know,
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  Speaker 2: and offensive line is not gonna understand what we're doing,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, we play off of each other pretty well,
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  Speaker 2: and uh, it's amazing to see him playing like this
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 1: Coach McDonalds around, turn Baltimore's defense around to resist defense around. Why.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. He he's pretty smart at
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  Speaker 2: what he does. Uh. There's times where you know, we're
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  Speaker 2: what's that? Yeah, for sure, I think he's just really smart.
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  Speaker 2: He knows how to put guys in position. And I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, even when we're making the players out there
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  Speaker 2: on the field, there's times where we're running off the
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  Speaker 2: field and we're like congratulating Mike and saying, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a great call because we understand that. You know, there's
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  Speaker 2: times where he's understanding the game, he's understanding what the
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  Speaker 2: offense is gonna do, and he's calling place to set
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  Speaker 2: us up for success. I think also think it's way
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  Speaker 2: up