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Aden Durde Discusses Red Zone Defense And Looks Ahead To Week 9 · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We're so used to seeing Leo out there. To not
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  Speaker 1: have him out there at the end of the game,
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  Speaker 1: what does that change in terms of play calling and
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  Speaker 1: what you're able to do?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't necessarily change anything. I thought Jay Reid played
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  Speaker 2: a great game. I thought Byron played a great game.
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  Speaker 2: It's just sometimes you just have to be a bit
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  Speaker 2: more cognizant of the reps. And as the game gets
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  Speaker 2: into situations where you might not be able to change
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  Speaker 2: the reps, it just puts a little bit more load
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  Speaker 2: on the players. But nothing really cool works.
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  Speaker 3: How are you feeling like things are going for Riley
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  Speaker 3: Mills so far this season?
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  Speaker 2: I think they're good. I thought we played well in
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  Speaker 2: this game. I thought we played really well in the
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  Speaker 2: last Arizona game, actually. I was just watching some tape today.
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  Speaker 2: I just think the limited amount of reps right now
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  Speaker 2: and making use of them, at times the flow of
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  Speaker 2: the game necessarily means different groups are in, and he
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  Speaker 2: didn't get in the game as much. But the plays
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  Speaker 2: he's making, he's making use of them.
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  Speaker 3: How do you explain just kind of the anomaly of
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  Speaker 3: the red zone numbers when, I mean, every other number
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  Speaker 3: is top of the league and then red.
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  Speaker 4: Zone, you're kind of at the bottom.
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  Speaker 2: The simple fact is we're not good enough in it,
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  Speaker 2: and we have to correct it. Our mindset is they
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  Speaker 2: don't run it in, and right now they're running it in,
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  Speaker 2: and we have to put ourselves in a better position, alignment, assignment,
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  Speaker 2: simple technique and fundamentals, and we have to have that
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  Speaker 2: awareness when we're in there.
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  Speaker 3: Dante Fowler has only been getting a handful of snaps. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: Uchenna wasn't playing last game. What would he need to
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  Speaker 3: do to get more reps?
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  Speaker 2: I see Dante as not a pass-down player, but his
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  Speaker 2: superpower is rushing to pass that. At times, there's less
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  Speaker 2: of those situations in certain games, and it hasn't rolled
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  Speaker 2: that way at those times.
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  Speaker 4: Stopping the run, you're doing it in wrestling field. What's
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  Speaker 4: different in the regular?
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  Speaker 2: At times, you know, as the field condenses, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like the gap assignments have to go through the roof,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and at times, like, there's a difference between
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  Speaker 2: you saying stop in the run and, okay, you stop
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  Speaker 2: it for a one-yard gain and the field, that's stopping
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  Speaker 2: the run. In the red zone, you stop it, there
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  Speaker 2: are no losses. Like, you stop it there and then
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  Speaker 2: and they're catching an edge and they're getting out or
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  Speaker 2: someone's in the wrong gap and we just, it's just
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  Speaker 2: little alignment things we'll fix up and get rolling. D-Law
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  Speaker 2: took a lot of responsibility for that today when we
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  Speaker 2: talked to him. He said he's just not doing a
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  Speaker 2: good enough job with his gap in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: Do you agree with him?
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  Speaker 3: Do you appreciate kind of the leadership that he shows
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  Speaker 3: or is he oversimplifying that?
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  Speaker 2: I think this defense and Mike's team is built on
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  Speaker 2: accountability and understanding of what your role is and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: your role is like not outside of your ability, because
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  Speaker 2: I think, I believe D-Law is one of those defensive
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  Speaker 2: ends that can do anything in the NFL. He can
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  Speaker 2: play every down, any situation. He can play from a
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  Speaker 2: three technique to a nine technique. He's not not doing
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  Speaker 2: his job. He plays as hard as he can. And
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  Speaker 2: at times, when you're down there, some of D-Law's gifts
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  Speaker 2: are that he feels the game. And he's made, I've
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  Speaker 2: been with him for, since I started in this league.
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  Speaker 2: And I've seen him make multiple plays down there, multiple,
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  Speaker 2: that change games. I can just remember him right now.
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  Speaker 2: He got caught out of his gap one time, and
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  Speaker 2: you just have to fix it. Gun shooters get shot sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the life you live. But I wouldn't want
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  Speaker 2: anyone else down there.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like on one of those plays he slid
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  Speaker 1: and slid. Was that a case of him seeing something
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  Speaker 1: and trying to take a shot? No.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like Nehemiah Pritchett, every time he's on there,
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  Speaker 3: is making plays. Is he pushing for more reps?
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  Speaker 2: I think Nehemiah's doing a great job. I was talking
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  Speaker 2: to Mike about it the other day, I think. All
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  Speaker 2: he does is just take advantage of opportunities on special
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  Speaker 2: teams and on defense. I think all he can do
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  Speaker 2: is keep pushing and pushing and everyone sees it.
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  Speaker 1: With Arizona obviously changing quarterbacks in game and now it's
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  Speaker 1: going to roll into this game.
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  Speaker 4: When you're planning for that.
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  Speaker 1: And all you have is limited tape, how much is
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  Speaker 1: it looking at what Gardner's done versus what they've done
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  Speaker 1: all season?
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  Speaker 2: I think you look at both and you look at
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  Speaker 2: what he's comfortable with. I think they're doing a great job.
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  Speaker 2: You see They're growing. They're going to give us a
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  Speaker 2: hard challenge, and it's an exciting time on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: The lateral that went for the big game, what's the
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  Speaker 4: coaching point on that?
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  Speaker 2: We just have to get out of the stack. We
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  Speaker 2: have to point it, and it's almost like a run.
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  Speaker 2: And it's those small moments in games when I feel
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  Speaker 2: like the game can go either way. We talk about
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  Speaker 2: depth zone football. You have to show up in those moments,
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  Speaker 2: and we didn't do a good enough job.
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  Speaker 4: The stack. You mean outside on the coverage or inside?
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  Speaker 2: Outside from the front, coming back out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And they outnumbered you on that. After the game,
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  Speaker 4: Julian Love, a couple people said that call was perfect.
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  Speaker 3: For what you guys were in.
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  Speaker 4: That'll happen during a game, but what can guys do
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  Speaker 4: in that situation?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why when they throw the screen game and
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  Speaker 2: they put someone out there and they're trying to put
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  Speaker 2: numbers out there, you need the guys from the front
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  Speaker 2: to come and kind of got caught up on a
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  Speaker 2: game and it fell over and it's just like you
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  Speaker 2: lose one person and the guy caught it and hit
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  Speaker 2: it running and it just is what it is. You
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  Speaker 2: just have to live to fight another down. But Nehemiah
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  Speaker 2: done a great job. He ran it down and we
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  Speaker 2: got him to second and three, got a penalty and
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  Speaker 2: we went again and we lost. It's those moments we
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  Speaker 2: talk about every time and we can talk about it
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  Speaker 2: when it's good and we can talk about it when
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  Speaker 2: it's bad. When we get that and we stop them,
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  Speaker 2: in multiple games we've done, that's defending a blade of glass.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to get ourselves down. Nehemiah gave us the chance,
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  Speaker 2: and we go again, and we didn't come out the
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  Speaker 2: way we wanted it to come out.
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  Speaker 4: The snap before that, when Eamon Worry got to tackle
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  Speaker 4: for loss on delay again. Yeah. How rare was it?
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  Speaker 4: We've talked to officials. They said that usually the process
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  Speaker 4: of the snap, they don't often blow that delay again.
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  Speaker 4: How close was that off the zero? When you saw
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  Speaker 4: it in the film, was there anything peculiar about that?
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  Speaker 2: I just went to the next play. We didn't execute
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  Speaker 2: the next play, and we have to deal with the
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  Speaker 2: situation we're in. That's the way we have to think
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  Speaker 2: about the game.
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  Speaker 3: It seemed like there was a route that they were
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  Speaker 3: hitting where I think Josh Joe was on a little
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  Speaker 3: outside leverage, and they kept getting about 20 yards downfield.
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  Speaker 3: You notice something like that happen the first time, that
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  Speaker 3: maybe they scouted it, How quickly do you guys assume, okay, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we need to adjust to that versus you need to
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  Speaker 3: see it a couple of times before you're like, okay.
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  Speaker 4: No, you need to adjust.
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  Speaker 2: I think different calls, but when you get into the
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  Speaker 2: play-action game, it needs to be, if you're not pressuring,
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  Speaker 2: it needs to be a marriage of rush and cover.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just on job. You need to affect the quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: They're blocking with seven players at times, blocking with six
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  Speaker 2: players at times. You're rushing with four, but you have
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  Speaker 2: to get to the spot when they complete balls in that,
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  Speaker 2: and it's just that marriage, and a lot of times
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  Speaker 2: it works, and At times it doesn't, and you have
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  Speaker 2: to find ways to be better fundamentally in transitional rush.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be better at the line of scrimmage
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  Speaker 2: and work on it, and that's what we're doing. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Great job today.