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Sam Darnold: "There Needs To Be A Sense Of Urgency To Get Better" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Catch you guys outside today.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously a short week. So, you know, we're rolling
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  Speaker 3: on a Tuesday. It's amazing. Just another opportunity to go
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  Speaker 3: out there, play good football. Obviously learned a lot from
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  Speaker 3: last week. You know, got to, you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's really the same thing of what I said right
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  Speaker 3: after the game. You know, just got to be a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more decisive, you know, out there and continue
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  Speaker 3: to put the ball in play, get the ball moving
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  Speaker 3: forward on first and second down.
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  Speaker 1: Sam, last year coming out, you were throwing it faster
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  Speaker 1: than you've ever thrown time to throw, and you're still
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  Speaker 1: getting explosives. This year it's slower. Obviously you want to
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  Speaker 1: throw it more quickly. What are the factors that are
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  Speaker 1: maybe playing into that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think first of all, I've got to do
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  Speaker 3: a better job of getting the ball out, moving on
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  Speaker 3: in progression, stuff like that. There's that, and then obviously
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of other factors that go into it,
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  Speaker 3: but for me, I'm just I'm worried about myself and
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  Speaker 3: how I can continue to be as decisive as I
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  Speaker 3: can be on the field.
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  Speaker 2: Sam, Coop said that one of your best qualities is
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  Speaker 2: your ability to have a short-term memory and kind of
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  Speaker 2: just move on. Is that something you've always had or
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  Speaker 2: do you develop in some way?
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  Speaker 3: It's not something I always had. I think just some
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  Speaker 3: of the experiences that I've had in my life, being
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL, college, high school, just things maybe not
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  Speaker 3: going a certain way. and just learning over time that
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of things that are out of my control.
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  Speaker 3: So just having that short-term memory and knowing that you
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  Speaker 3: can't change anything in the past is always a good
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  Speaker 3: reminder as well.
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  Speaker 1: The turnovers have been kind of team-wide as well. Is
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  Speaker 1: there any worry at all that it becomes something that
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  Speaker 1: you guys think about or, you know, they kind of
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  Speaker 1: come in bunches kind of thing and it's hard to become?
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  Speaker 3: No, yeah, I think for us it's a– there's a
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  Speaker 3: sense of urgency. I think that term, you know, that
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  Speaker 3: phrase like sense of urgency, it's been– throwing around a
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  Speaker 3: lot the last couple days, and it's true. There needs
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  Speaker 3: to be a sense of urgency to get better and
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  Speaker 3: have ball security. For me personally, I'm going to continue
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  Speaker 3: to try to be as decisive as I can be
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  Speaker 3: and go through my reads and trust what I see,
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  Speaker 3: trust my feet, all those things. But, yeah, can't have turnovers.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to protect the football in this league, and
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  Speaker 3: if you don't, you'll pay. What's Brian's demeanor been like
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  Speaker 3: this week, and what's the gist of his message to
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  Speaker 3: you guys offensively? Yeah, he's been great. You know, he's
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  Speaker 3: been the same. Nothing's changed. You know, for us, it's just, again,
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  Speaker 3: it's just about turning the page and understanding that we
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  Speaker 3: have a really good defense we're going up against Thursday
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  Speaker 3: night and getting as prepared as we can be to
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  Speaker 3: face them.
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  Speaker 1: Wanting to turn that page, how much does the short
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  Speaker 1: week maybe help in that way?
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  Speaker 2: Do you just want to get back out there and.
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  Speaker 3: Fix it right away? Yeah, no doubt. No doubt, I think.
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  Speaker 3: It definitely helps, you know, getting to play a game
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  Speaker 3: on Thursday is always fun. So in front of everybody too,
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing like it. So we'll be ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Part of, you know, getting early down success is a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more success in the run game. Are you seeing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, potential there for things to start getting a
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  Speaker 1: little more productive?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's, I mean, it all kind of
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  Speaker 3: works hand in hand, right? Like, you know, for me,
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  Speaker 3: like on first and second on pass game, I got
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  Speaker 3: to get the ball out. When I get the ball out,
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  Speaker 3: then all of a sudden defenders are thinking about what
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  Speaker 3: pass plays might be coming up. And then all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden we're running the football. So yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the run game, the pass game, it complements each other.
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  Speaker 3: So I think if we just all continue to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: detail everything out and for me, just continue to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: make quick decisions and feel really good about them and
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  Speaker 3: trust my feet and all those things, you know, we'll
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  Speaker 3: continue to to see, you know, ourselves grow in the
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  Speaker 3: pass game and the run game. Yeah, yeah, there's a
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  Speaker 3: great balance to it, right? It's the old, you know,
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  Speaker 3: John Woodenism, be quick but don't hurry kind of thing. So, yeah, it's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, understanding when something might not be there, still
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  Speaker 3: give it a chance because it's in the progression, but
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  Speaker 3: understanding when you might move on. And I think if
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  Speaker 3: I just continue to or if I do a better
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  Speaker 3: job of that moving forward, I'll like where I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to be head forward.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are seeing more cover zero this year than
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  Speaker 1: you did last year. It's a chance for some explosives
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  Speaker 1: as well. If you control the turnovers, do you see
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  Speaker 1: some potential for explosives to come out of it as well?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think any time you control the turnovers, everything
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  Speaker 3: else gets better. That's really the thing we're focused on
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  Speaker 3: is just taking care of the football. And I think that's,
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  Speaker 3: that's the main thing that we're focused on, but at
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  Speaker 3: the same time, you know, we're just going to continue
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  Speaker 3: to play fast as well.
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  Speaker 2: Sam, what stands out.
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  Speaker 1: About Denver's defense specifically?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think first of all, they got really good
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  Speaker 3: players and they got a really good coaching staff over there. Vance,
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  Speaker 3: Vance and that coaching staff do a really good job of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, making sure that they all, you know, They
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  Speaker 3: do a lot of things in the back end. They
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  Speaker 3: do a lot of pressures, a lot of different coverages,
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  Speaker 3: but they're all on the same page. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I would assume they make it very simple for the players.
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  Speaker 3: So it's, you know, it's a great scheme. And I
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  Speaker 3: know we're very, very excited to be able to go
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  Speaker 3: up against that defense. But, yeah, again, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: just really good players all around and with really good scheme.
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  Speaker 3: And all the players are smart players that make it
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  Speaker 3: come to life.
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  Speaker 1: When you have a couple weeks that don't go exactly
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  Speaker 1: the way you want, where do you start? Do you
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  Speaker 1: go back to mechanics? Do you go to film? Do
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  Speaker 1: you go, like, where do you start to kind of
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  Speaker 1: get back to center?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, I think for me, it's, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's easy to overthink things, you know, when you start,
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  Speaker 3: when you're not having as much success as you'd like,
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  Speaker 3: so I think for me, it's just continuing to do
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  Speaker 3: what I do, and, you know, continue to trust the process, like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not You know, I'm not doing anything different in
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  Speaker 3: the week that I did, you know, last year, the
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  Speaker 3: weeks prior. So just continue to do my process. Obviously
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  Speaker 3: a short week makes it a little bit different, but
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  Speaker 3: just trust the process and understand that, you know, there's
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  Speaker 3: things that I got to do differently on the field, right?
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  Speaker 3: And understand what those mistakes are and not make them again.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's that simple.
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  Speaker 1: Is trusting the process easier now because of the success
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  Speaker 1: you have had the last couple of years?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like I've just found a good rhythm
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  Speaker 3: within my process, to your point. But, again, I feel
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  Speaker 3: like I've always said this, but going and finding that
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  Speaker 3: process was always a challenge. And now that I've found it,
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  Speaker 3: it's just continuing to trust that and what we do
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  Speaker 3: throughout the week to get ready.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else?
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.