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Leonard Williams: “It Takes All Of Us” · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I know, right, that's it's a big time. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that was one thing that we knew we were gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to focus on on defense is just attacking the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: We knew he was a guy that liked to scramble,
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  Speaker 1: and we I think we did a good job of
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  Speaker 1: staying staying on him today.
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  Speaker 2: What was it like having it? I mean having the
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  Speaker 2: game just sort of being doubt the whole way through,
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  Speaker 2: every type of guys had to go back out there
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  Speaker 2: as a defense. What's that to go back out there
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  Speaker 2: trying to type again?
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  Speaker 1: I mean as a defense like ours, like where we
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  Speaker 1: love to compete. We love to compete with one another,
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  Speaker 1: we love to compete with the offense. Like any situation. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we take the field with pride. So it's it's like
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really matter for us. It's like we could take
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  Speaker 1: the field on the one yard line, you know, one
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  Speaker 1: and goal, whatever the situation is. That I think we're
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  Speaker 1: excited to go out there. And you know, that's kind
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  Speaker 1: of something that we always talk about too, is like
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  Speaker 1: twelve is one. You know, when when one side is
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  Speaker 1: lacking more than the other, the other side picks it up,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: So it it takes all of us.
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  Speaker 1: You have a favorite play or a player on defense.
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  Speaker 2: That sit out to you, I would say Spoon.
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  Speaker 1: You know, time and time again, he's one of those
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  Speaker 1: players that just like stands out effort wise his energy
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  Speaker 1: and today he was like really showing up today, made
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  Speaker 1: some big TFLs and he just flies around. I feed
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  Speaker 1: off of his energy and I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Which does it help for you.
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  Speaker 1: To have another veteran like Jared Reid that could move
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  Speaker 1: up and down the line and.
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  Speaker 2: Get the impact games in such a number of ways.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like he's playing his best ball as play.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's playing really great, especially the last few games.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, you know, he's definitely hitting his stride
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  Speaker 1: like later in the season. And you know, he's really
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  Speaker 1: played great since the time I met him, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like our connection has just grown even more so.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's one of my favorite guys to play
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  Speaker 1: with on the d line, to be honest, you know,
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  Speaker 1: dexhor Lawrence was like one of those guys for me
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  Speaker 1: for a long time when I was on the Giants,
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  Speaker 1: and I think now Jared Reed is kind of like
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  Speaker 1: the same type of player where we we kind of
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  Speaker 1: both have a good understanding of the game, a good
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  Speaker 1: understanding of each other, and it allows us to communicate
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  Speaker 1: well and play off of each other.
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  Speaker 2: Done a lot of good things in a ten year career.
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  Speaker 2: Where does the stretch you're on the last half season
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  Speaker 2: rank in terms of how well you've played this season?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think this is definitely one of my
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  Speaker 1: best seasons. I have a better season, like stat wise,
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  Speaker 1: I think like I had eleven and a half sacks,
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  Speaker 1: but I think this year has definitely been like more
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  Speaker 1: just dominant. And when I say that, it's more like
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  Speaker 1: it's not all about the stats and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: To me, it's more of just like how I'm playing blocks,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how I'm affecting you know, every play. And
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  Speaker 1: I think when you like turn on the film, you
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  Speaker 1: would be able to see that.
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  Speaker 2: Just weekke for you guys, with the short week and
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  Speaker 2: coming off the loss and sort of knowing your playoff
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  Speaker 2: hopes or kind of it's kind of not your destiny
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  Speaker 2: anymore with the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: I mean for us, it's like we still are seeing
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  Speaker 1: it as a possibility, you know what I mean. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, in a way we're trying to like say, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's control the controllables and you know, let the other
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  Speaker 1: things all into places as they will. So for us,
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  Speaker 1: we have to went out to control the controllables and
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  Speaker 1: then you know, we might get a chance. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: it obviously sucks sometimes depending on another team to see
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  Speaker 1: what another team is going to do. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, it also feels good to, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to finish strong and put it in our hands. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever played what's the last tame played an offense
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  Speaker 1: that ran that many screens? Yeah, I think that was
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  Speaker 1: the most screens I've ever played against, to be honest,
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  Speaker 1: especially at one point they started hitting a few of
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  Speaker 1: them in the perimeter alley, and after they started getting
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of success, they started coming back and
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  Speaker 1: back and back. After a while, I start telling like
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line stance that you know, even though they
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  Speaker 1: were in a two point stance that looked like past,
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  Speaker 1: they were kind of having a little bit of like
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  Speaker 1: forward lean where you could tell they were trying to
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  Speaker 1: like get out.
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  Speaker 2: So after a while we started like picking up on it.
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  Speaker 2: You see kind of the journey that China has been
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  Speaker 2: on really since you got here at the injuries that
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  Speaker 2: what do you mean to see him get his first.
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  Speaker 1: Sack of the year. I mean we actually talked about
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  Speaker 1: that on the sideline. He said that was his first
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  Speaker 1: sack he's gotten in a year, and you know, coming
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  Speaker 1: you know, like just hearing that from from him is
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  Speaker 1: it was amazing for me to hear, just because when
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  Speaker 1: I first got here last year on the trade and
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  Speaker 1: you know, he was one of those guys that I
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  Speaker 1: was looking forward to playing with. I played with him
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  Speaker 1: at USC and I was looking forward to to get
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  Speaker 1: some some burn with him. And then he got injured
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  Speaker 1: and been battling a lot of things, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: awesome to see him. You know, even when he was
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  Speaker 1: dealing with injury, he was just always locked in on
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  Speaker 1: the sideline. And now he's you know, playing his role
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  Speaker 1: now that he's got.
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  Speaker 2: Three games of the Spelts and he's got his legs
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  Speaker 2: back underneath it, and how does he compliment everything else in
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  Speaker 2: this defensive and I he's.
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  Speaker 1: Been doing all year, maybe bringing something different to this career. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just like Jared Reid, he's one of those
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  Speaker 1: guys who like understands the game. He's a veteran and
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  Speaker 1: he's a great communicator. I love being on his side
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  Speaker 1: of the ball, even throughout camp and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: When I first started getting more of an experience of
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  Speaker 1: how it is to to play with him.
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  Speaker 2: It showed up today as well.
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  Speaker 1: Where you know, I'm in my three point stance and
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling like it's running. He's like Leo past, past past,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like those small details that allow me to
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  Speaker 1: play a little bit faster. So having guys like that
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  Speaker 1: next to you makes a big difference. You're gonna call
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  Speaker 1: any friends around the Cardinals and promise them some Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of the guys have been joking about.
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  Speaker 1: I guess they have some friends over there and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: like you gotta do it for us or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. But I don't really know
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  Speaker 1: anyone over there, to be honest, and I'm not friends
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  Speaker 1: with other team besides Decks.
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  Speaker 2: There's what that Pete Carroll's interested in coaching again. That's
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  Speaker 2: you guys to play for him. What do you think
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  Speaker 2: he'd be like if you want to go out and
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  Speaker 2: coach again.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I only played with him for eight weeks unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's a great coach. I loved
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  Speaker 1: playing for him. I would have wanted to play more
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  Speaker 1: for him, but you know, the way things worked out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm loving where I'm at now, obviously, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's a great coach. So it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if he wants to come out of retirement or whatever
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  Speaker 1: the case is, you know, I'm inform anything else.
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  Speaker 2: He takes list necks out of name