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Charles Cross: "We're Still In The Fight" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How y'all doing ready, doing well?
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember your saying up for Halloween?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I do. My first costume I think was like
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  Speaker 1: probably like a ghost or something like that, or I
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  Speaker 1: really can't remember anything else.
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  Speaker 2: What's a general feeling after going after starting this week
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  Speaker 2: in the meeting rooms and and with y'all as.
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  Speaker 1: A teammates, you know, just coming out, coming out this week,
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  Speaker 1: preparing through the week, just executing starting with today I practice,
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  Speaker 1: you know, emphasizing you know, the ring game and and
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  Speaker 1: staying on track and playing on playing ahead of sticks.
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  Speaker 3: What what do you feel like you guys have to
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  Speaker 3: do to get the right game going a little better?
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  Speaker 1: Just itsecute. Everyone has to be on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone has to finish, and I feel like that help
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  Speaker 1: us be in the position of success.
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  Speaker 2: How the games that you have now to get the
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  Speaker 2: wrong game going earlier? How how do you feel like
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  Speaker 2: that's helped you guys in terms of it's not some
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  Speaker 2: one dimensional defenses don't need coming.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it helped us a lot, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: like not being one dimensional, playing compromunity football offense, helping defense,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just playing together as a team.
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  Speaker 3: The ch'alls you've uh, really leveled up your game uh
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  Speaker 3: this year and uh and it shows really well on tape,
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  Speaker 3: just your restiveness, your technique, your leading, your hand placement,
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  Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: How do you, uh you relate that to like some
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  Speaker 3: of the younger players or maybe some of the the
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  Speaker 3: guys that are maybe struggling or maybe need a little,
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  Speaker 3: uh extra help. How do you communicate to them how
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  Speaker 3: you went about uh that improvement.
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  Speaker 1: Well, for me, you know, j For me, it's just
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  Speaker 1: started in the offseason, just working to create good, good
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  Speaker 1: habits and continue to the consistently for years. You look
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  Speaker 1: at this Rams defense and it was Aaron Donald's that
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  Speaker 1: you had to account work.
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  Speaker 3: Who flashes and what stands album?
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  Speaker 2: Live up this defense down?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they have a really good d line, A couple
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  Speaker 1: young guys, a couple guys that came back from last year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really excited about it. Just being up to the challenge,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go against those guys.
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  Speaker 2: How much do you talk to Ernest Jokes about anything
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  Speaker 2: that I mean.
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  Speaker 3: You know what to expect, but how much do.
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  Speaker 1: You ask him for maybe the extra little nuggets there's
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  Speaker 1: something I will do, you know, him just being there
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  Speaker 1: for for a while and playing at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: It's definitely you know something I can do to you know,
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  Speaker 1: pick his brain and and help help the team out.
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  Speaker 1: Do you just walk up to him and say.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what do you got for me?
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  Speaker 2: Or do you call up a play and say hey,
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  Speaker 2: why does this player know how to.
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  Speaker 3: Read this play?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? I feel like he's more just picking his brain,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get a understanding the defense from the inside view.
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  Speaker 2: Where's you for? Bak your all these last couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks in his first deserts.
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  Speaker 1: On my flight, he's done a great job, you know,
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  Speaker 1: coming in and being being able to play in and
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  Speaker 1: helping the team like he done a good job with
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  Speaker 1: you know, handling it and and doing and doing it
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  Speaker 1: and going by in the right way. Charls Foot offense
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  Speaker 1: destruct fast in execution?
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  Speaker 4: Do they need to be a sense of physicality of
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  Speaker 4: dominance to create that so you guys canstruct fast?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? I feel like it does, especially just rent renting
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  Speaker 1: the ball. It starts with us, A starts with us
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  Speaker 1: up front, and we have to set song for the game.
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  Speaker 3: Trust the the run game has been struggling a little
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  Speaker 3: bit for you guys offense for.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any do they you see specifically that's been
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  Speaker 2: slund You guys got there.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. I feel like, you know, like I said before,
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  Speaker 1: just everyone be on the same page communicating and it's
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  Speaker 1: cuting to play.
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  Speaker 3: So it's when you guys are on the same page.
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  Speaker 3: What type of running game do you guys prefer, like
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  Speaker 3: depending pull or just getting downhill like inside zone, door zone,
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  Speaker 3: like that type of stuff. Like what do you think
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  Speaker 3: that that the offensive line uh does well?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: When the uh when they're.
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  Speaker 1: Clicking and running, I feel like, you know, it makes
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  Speaker 1: it easier on this not making this one dimensional. It
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  Speaker 1: opened us to playbook for everyone else. Who know, we
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of uh s uh great players on
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  Speaker 1: our team. It just gets it gets them in space
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  Speaker 1: and let them make plays.
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  Speaker 2: What's your sense of just the overall mood I guess
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  Speaker 2: of the team right now just kind of given have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of buns that's gone.
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  Speaker 1: O my falight were hungry. Obviously we haven't. We haven't
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  Speaker 1: had the past couple of weeks. We've we've lost a
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  Speaker 1: couple of games, but we're still hungry. We still you know,
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  Speaker 1: taking week by week in and trying to win week
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  Speaker 1: by week.
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  Speaker 2: Helps it all with kind of the mood of the
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  Speaker 2: team that you can look at the standings and even
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  Speaker 2: though things haven't been going while, you're kind of right
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  Speaker 2: in it with all these other teams.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we still didn't fight. We still in the fight.
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  Speaker 1: We just gotta take a week by week and you
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  Speaker 1: know the team to do that as have lost.
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  Speaker 4: Three straight at home. Obviously, you know it's tough for
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  Speaker 4: fans that are, you know, coming to the games to
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  Speaker 4: to see that. Any message that you guys have for
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  Speaker 4: fans that are coming out this weekend about why this.
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  Speaker 1: Would be different, Uh, we decided, you know, every time
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  Speaker 1: we playing lou Man, it's an exciting feeling just having
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  Speaker 1: all the fans there giving great energy in and us
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  Speaker 1: feeding off their energy. Can't wait to go go out
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  Speaker 1: at Sunday at loom Men here the twelves.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else has takes fasting