Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Charles Cross: "We're Continuing To Improve Week To Week"
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- 0:00Speaker 1: And so how y'all doing.
- 0:03Speaker 2: What's seen the run game? Members improved over the love
- 0:07Speaker 2: you know last month or so you massology, where have
- 0:09Speaker 2: you seen the most most crowd there living?
- 0:12Speaker 1: Do you continue to improve with the week? That's the
- 0:15Speaker 1: emphasis of ours. You know, to be able to run
- 0:17Speaker 1: the ball and I fight the past couple weeks we've
- 0:20Speaker 1: donated a high level and just continue to do that.
- 0:23Speaker 3: You wanted to step up as a leader a little
- 0:25Speaker 3: bit more this year. We talked about in training camp.
- 0:27Speaker 3: How's that felt taking on that role a little bit
- 0:30Speaker 3: more of this season?
- 0:31Speaker 1: I felt good in their role, just being my true
- 0:33Speaker 1: authentic self, just being able to lead the guys in
- 0:36Speaker 1: and you know, help the group any way I can.
- 0:38Speaker 4: What do you appreciate most when you go back and
- 0:40Speaker 4: you watch film because you are head down in the trenches.
- 0:44Speaker 4: Is it the offensive place that you see? Is that
- 0:46Speaker 4: what the defense is doing that kind of catches your
- 0:48Speaker 4: eye most when you just take a look at game
- 0:51Speaker 4: film after Sundays.
- 0:52Speaker 1: My flights acumbination of both just understanding understanding our scheme,
- 0:56Speaker 1: understanding what the defense is trying to do. Just take
- 0:59Speaker 1: advantage opportunities when we have them, like a defensive teammate
- 1:03Speaker 1: you have that just makes you go, oh my gosh,
- 1:05Speaker 1: how does he do that?
- 1:06Speaker 2: No?
- 1:07Speaker 1: Not really.
- 1:10Speaker 3: Uh, you guys have had a couple of moments of
- 1:13Speaker 3: challenge and past protection the past couple of games. After
- 1:15Speaker 3: pretty much not giving up anything for a while. What
- 1:18Speaker 3: have you seen? Uh that the kind of our areas.
- 1:21Speaker 2: Of focus for you now?
- 1:23Speaker 1: Just continue to improve the week off like the I
- 1:25Speaker 1: feel like the the progress get get better hasn't changed,
- 1:30Speaker 1: you know, just continue to you know, work hard, continue
- 1:32Speaker 1: to work, work I technique in details, and continue to
- 1:34Speaker 1: get better.
- 1:35Speaker 4: It does seem like the halftime adjustments and the really
- 1:37Speaker 4: effect of the last couple of weeks, particularly in protection
- 1:40Speaker 4: of across the line. What does it take to be
- 1:44Speaker 4: effective at those adjustments?
- 1:47Speaker 1: Just great communication? Our coach do a grade jout putting
- 1:50Speaker 1: us in a position of sussists. So just taking those
- 1:53Speaker 1: those keys and just bring them to life.
- 1:55Speaker 4: I feel like you've got less time on the sidelines
- 1:57Speaker 4: to talk about things given up quickly. The defense in
- 2:00Speaker 4: getting off the.
- 2:01Speaker 1: Field, Yeah, I can say that. Yeah.
- 2:05Speaker 4: Is that ever a challenge?
- 2:07Speaker 1: Nah? Cause I feel like at the end of the day,
- 2:09Speaker 1: like it's just the floor of the game and we
- 2:10Speaker 1: just have to take it for what it is.
- 2:13Speaker 2: Charles Sam's been one of the the fewest sacked quarterbacks
- 2:16Speaker 2: in the league this year. What what kind of pride
- 2:18Speaker 2: do you guys take? Is he in in that knowing
- 2:20Speaker 2: kind of the narrative about the struggles you guys have
- 2:23Speaker 2: had at times over the years to kind of know
- 2:24Speaker 2: that this is the season you're putting together and keeping
- 2:26Speaker 2: him up right a little bit more.
- 2:27Speaker 1: I feel like we take a lot of pride in that,
- 2:29Speaker 1: you know, just wanted to keep keep saying, well, keep
- 2:31Speaker 1: him clean, get him clean pockets, let him do what
- 2:34Speaker 1: he does, and just be able to execute him and
- 2:37Speaker 1: play good ball all.
- 2:39Speaker 4: The the little two men came in, What did what
- 2:41Speaker 4: have you seen since he's been there? And what is
- 2:44Speaker 4: the movie's strengths in terms of leadership?
- 2:46Speaker 1: Uh, I was doing a great job for training camping
- 2:49Speaker 1: now you know, just coming in when uh Sunday that
- 2:52Speaker 1: was down there and being ready to play and and
- 2:55Speaker 1: and putting us in the position of success. You've been
- 2:59Speaker 1: mind him able for basically the beginning of off season workaster.
- 3:03Speaker 1: How have you seen him?
- 3:04Speaker 3: And he came in obviously is a really good rooky,
- 3:06Speaker 3: But how have you seen him grow in.
- 3:07Speaker 4: His rookie season.
- 3:08Speaker 1: I fel like he's grown a lot, just understanding of
- 3:11Speaker 1: the game, his his IQ, and really just playing no
- 3:15Speaker 1: good bath with like he's been. He's doing a great
- 3:17Speaker 1: job since they won.
- 3:18Speaker 3: You've been here in Seattle nine for a while. Are
- 3:21Speaker 3: you getting used to this time of year with the
- 3:23Speaker 3: rain and and the dark?
- 3:24Speaker 1: Yeah? I am for sure. Like you said, I've been
- 3:27Speaker 1: here for a while, so like it's a little more
- 3:30Speaker 1: normal to me.
- 3:32Speaker 2: Your offensive line.
- 3:33Speaker 1: If he can finish his sentence, is punishing, physical, dominant.
- 3:41Speaker 3: Why do you see that?
- 3:42Speaker 1: So that the way you play my flight you turn
- 3:44Speaker 1: on the tape, this what you see in the run game,
- 3:46Speaker 1: in the past game, finishing guys and pushing piles in,
- 3:49Speaker 1: just trying to affect the player in the positive way.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Anything else, guys,