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Leonard Williams: "We Want To Be The Ones That Set The Tone" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Up, y'all get a defensive performance on special I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's amazing play. We seen him taking some reps on
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  Speaker 1: kickoff and practice this week and Ad was like just
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  Speaker 1: talking to the whole D line. It was like, man,
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  Speaker 1: what if Pev runs down there and gets the first
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  Speaker 1: tackle on kickoff with like how crazy would the sideline go?
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  Speaker 1: And we were just like, man, we need that. And
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  Speaker 1: he got down there and got up even better for
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  Speaker 1: ast fumble. So it was, you know, it definitely electrified
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  Speaker 1: our sideline and that was a big, big play. What
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  Speaker 1: you I mean, I trust our coaching staff. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: they must be putting him out there for a reason.
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  Speaker 1: At first, I'm like, I thought, you know, kickoff was
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  Speaker 1: like all speed guys, and sure, I'm not seeing peely
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  Speaker 1: slow or nothing, but he's a D lineman, so I
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  Speaker 1: was kind of confused, but it worked out.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, been in the league for a long time. Have
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  Speaker 2: have you ever seen a quarterback that was in the
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  Speaker 2: flow the way the set was there in the first
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  Speaker 2: first half. But I used to be on the sideline
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  Speaker 2: getting to watch the way that he was just viscerting
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  Speaker 2: those guys.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I feel like he's been kind of in his
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  Speaker 1: own a lot all season, it's been special for us
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  Speaker 1: to watch on defense. You know, it's just amazing to
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  Speaker 1: you know, have a good defense and get off the
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  Speaker 1: field and things like that, and then just have like
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  Speaker 1: such complimentary football when the offense takes the field and
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  Speaker 1: just can be able to like drive you know, almost
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  Speaker 1: the whole first quarter down the down the field and
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  Speaker 1: we're just like watching from the sidelines, just like in amazement.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: So it might view just an afterthought with the way
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  Speaker 2: that those guys were throwing throwing the football up and
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  Speaker 2: down the field, But how did you feel out the
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  Speaker 2: way you guys set the tone getting the early punt
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  Speaker 2: and then the interception and obviously peeling special teams being
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  Speaker 2: involved there, but setting the tone you'll allow the offense
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think overall this is like something
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  Speaker 1: we've been talking about, is that we feel like we
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  Speaker 1: haven't played like a complete game yet. Like there's been
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  Speaker 1: times where the offense is flashing, there's times where the
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  Speaker 1: defense and special teams is flashing. I think this was
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  Speaker 1: one of those games where we truly played like complimentary
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  Speaker 1: football and made plays on all three levels of football.
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  Speaker 1: You know, offense was you know, doing their thing, defense
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  Speaker 1: was getting stopped when we needed to, and then we
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  Speaker 1: got big plays on special teams like that, and I think, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we showed ourselves that we can do it,
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  Speaker 1: and we j we gotta keep doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Did you take it personally as the defense if they
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  Speaker 2: won the toss, who chose to receive and how you could.
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  Speaker 1: Change the game right away there? I mean, I'll take
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  Speaker 1: that personal every time. I think in general, our defense
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  Speaker 1: wants to take the field first, just cause, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like we just talked about setting the tone, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the like we respect our offense obviously, we think that
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  Speaker 1: they're amazing, but at the same time, as a defense,
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  Speaker 1: we wanna be the ones on the field. We wanna
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  Speaker 1: be the closers, we wanna be the ones that set
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  Speaker 1: the tone. So we wanna take the field first every time,
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  Speaker 1: and when the offense chooses to take the ball, we're
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  Speaker 1: just like, alright, let's give it to him.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you guys, coaches, players, you talk about you know,
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  Speaker 2: takes all seventy to have a game where you know,
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  Speaker 2: tyle cops getting an interception as a back up to
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  Speaker 2: say tea start for anjer player.
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  Speaker 1: You got Tody White doing it. Just how impressed was
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  Speaker 1: the death of this team DoD. I mean it's really impressive.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think it's just a nod to
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  Speaker 1: the type of team we have. We trust everybody in
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  Speaker 1: this build in we do a good job of like
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  Speaker 1: practicing against each other. Uh, the next man up mentality.
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  Speaker 1: It's like this was clearly just a team win. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think any just one guy's getting the job done.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like like you just said, like backups are
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  Speaker 1: coming in, Guys are getting hurt mid mid game and
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  Speaker 1: stepping up, uh like Tyree's Knight like stepped up huge
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  Speaker 1: today when when EJ went down. And I think it's
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  Speaker 1: just like I said, a not to our team that
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  Speaker 1: we can just trust everybody that way.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think you get a showing about your
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  Speaker 2: team's culture.
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  Speaker 1: When you guys lose?
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  Speaker 2: Guys don't just me.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think people talk about that next man
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  Speaker 1: up mentality a lot, Like you hear it a lot
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  Speaker 1: in the league, cause, like injuries happen obviously, but I
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  Speaker 1: think this is like a true like it's hard to
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  Speaker 1: put it into words, but this is like you could
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  Speaker 1: truly feel that next man up mentality like come to life,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just really helpful that we that we can
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  Speaker 1: do that. Put is connection to be able to do
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  Speaker 1: that because we do hear next man up, and now
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  Speaker 1: everybody can do that con that equation. It's huge. And then,
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  Speaker 1: like like I said, it's like trust is involved in that,
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  Speaker 1: and a big part of it is just having an
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  Speaker 1: identity as a team because I feel like even when
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  Speaker 1: we you know, have a new player come into the team,
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  Speaker 1: you know, their first week on our team, they're realizing
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  Speaker 1: like the type of mentality, the type of team that
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  Speaker 1: we have. And in terms of like on defense, it's
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  Speaker 1: like if a new guy comes into our into our
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  Speaker 1: defensive room after that first practice, he's going to realize
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  Speaker 1: how we run to the ball, like how we attack
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  Speaker 1: the football like high for high energy and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: So when the next man up, you know, happens, it's
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  Speaker 1: like he knows that he has to play at that level.
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  Speaker 2: And Jaken got out a couple of times in the
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  Speaker 2: first few quarters at a runner, But how did you
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  Speaker 2: feel overall with the way that your front line was
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  Speaker 2: able to maintain your pass rushing wanes and keep a
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  Speaker 2: bottle up. Seems like second half was the game would
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  Speaker 2: start to really start pinning down.
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  Speaker 1: On him too. Yeah. I mean, unfortunately, we gave up
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  Speaker 1: a lot of rushing yards more than we would like to.
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  Speaker 1: I think this might be the first three one hundred
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  Speaker 1: yard game this season, But a lot of it was
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  Speaker 1: from the quarterback. But something we talked about going into
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  Speaker 1: the game was, you know, not rushing scared. And I
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  Speaker 1: think sometimes when you see running quarterbacks, you see a
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  Speaker 1: lot of blindmen not not truly rushing. They're almost like
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  Speaker 1: trying to like spy the quarterback. And I think we
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  Speaker 1: didn't wanna do that this week. So we we thought
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  Speaker 1: it was like worth the risk of like letting him
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  Speaker 1: scramble a few times for us to like actually attack 'em. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I had to let the guys know I still got it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're eleven still running guys down. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're playing great and uh, like I just said,
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  Speaker 1: it's like complimentary football when the offense is able to
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  Speaker 1: you know, take almost the whole first quarter to get
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  Speaker 1: down there and score. We have a whole fresh defense
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  Speaker 1: to go back out there, and uh, I think if
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  Speaker 1: we are able to just keep playing complimentary football all
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  Speaker 1: sides can eat anything else.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you about Jos