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Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "I Love To Show Up For My Team" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You just get a hundred yard games every time.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I don't know, just season opportunity, that's it.
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  Speaker 3: How being of getting a win like that? You guys
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  Speaker 3: lost five or six games, six or poine hundred the
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  Speaker 3: best movie last week? And what does it feel like
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  Speaker 3: to get over this?
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  Speaker 2: It's great, man, It's what you know the rivalry is about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, bringing it back, you know, two tough teams
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  Speaker 2: and just gritying it out a hard nosed game and
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  Speaker 2: you know, coming out with the win, it's a blessing. Man,
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  Speaker 2: give all glory to God, you know, thankful. You know
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  Speaker 2: we came out with the win.
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  Speaker 3: Two game winning touchdowns last year and then four catches
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  Speaker 3: in that drive here to end the game. But what
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  Speaker 3: is it about those moments in the game that you
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  Speaker 3: relished so much so you're able to step.
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  Speaker 2: Up in those situations? I don't know. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: love those moments, you know, I can tell you that.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, you know I love making those plays you
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  Speaker 2: know when we need it, you know, when when it's time,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I love to show up for my team,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whenever they ask, whenever they ask, whenever they
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  Speaker 2: need me. You know I'm there, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, sure, throws a pick early in the second half.
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  Speaker 3: We need to touchdown and drive after that, and then
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  Speaker 3: obviously the game winning drab as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Gino never gives up when we take the field.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we feel like we should score and that's
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  Speaker 2: our attitude, that's our confidence going in the game. And
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  Speaker 2: you know we're rocking with him.
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  Speaker 1: You got a jet sweet today. So it wasn't just catching,
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  Speaker 1: it was also running. Is that something that you guys
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  Speaker 1: think you can do more of as the season goes on?
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  Speaker 2: I think so. I think so. Coach grabb best, you know,
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  Speaker 2: has a great, great mind and you know he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: put us in the best position, you know, a great
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  Speaker 2: call right there to stretch the field and you know
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  Speaker 2: get the first down back. I mean, K man, it's
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  Speaker 2: a relief. You know, it's definitely a relief. You know
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  Speaker 2: in four teams in the game. It changes the whole
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  Speaker 2: game and how the defense licks you know, out of
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  Speaker 2: your offense and you know, freeze up a lot of
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  Speaker 2: other things. So you know, we're we're definitely a better
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  Speaker 2: team with DK out there, and you know, to have
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  Speaker 2: his leadership and for him to go out there and
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  Speaker 2: you know, always plays hard out you know we're we're
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  Speaker 2: always you know behind.
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  Speaker 1: You have a nice run after the catch on the
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  Speaker 1: tunnel screen. You've done that throughout the season. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think your run after catch is an underrated part of
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  Speaker 1: your game?
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  Speaker 2: Underrated? I mean I don't know, you know, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: it's something that I love to do. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: take pride in, you know, catching the ball and getting
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  Speaker 2: as much yards you know as I can for my team. Underrated, overrated?
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  Speaker 2: I don't really know how much at the connection.
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  Speaker 1: Here, you know, for the question for just anything can
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  Speaker 1: you attribute to the.
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  Speaker 2: Work you go do with the off season taking the
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  Speaker 2: one thousand percent? You know when we uh when we're
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  Speaker 2: traveling place to place and you know, those are the
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  Speaker 2: times you know that we talked about that we talk
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  Speaker 2: about to execute in those and those tough times, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the times that we need. You know, that's a communication
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  Speaker 2: you know that we have and you know it shows up.
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  Speaker 3: What are you know the seasons office to play make
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  Speaker 3: or smike places like the critical moldings.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you think about it?
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  Speaker 3: You know it is the same with the drivers.
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  Speaker 2: Last year he takes a play by play. You know
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  Speaker 2: you can't get you know, to a big play or
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  Speaker 2: a shot play without you know, the first place. So
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  Speaker 2: just taking a step by step is something that he
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  Speaker 2: preaches and something that our offense you know, believes in
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  Speaker 2: and has shown time after time. So you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's something that's I feel like it's built in our offense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when it's time to score, we need one,
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  Speaker 2: We're just gonna take a play play out of time.
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  Speaker 2: And you know that's what we stand on.
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  Speaker 3: And see that Calman and that poise permeate with the
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  Speaker 3: entire football team, like even the defense getting that stop
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  Speaker 3: at the very end to get you guys back the football.
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  Speaker 3: And how does that mentality from your quarterback? How is
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  Speaker 3: it contagious for the entire risks?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean credit to our vets, guys that I've
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  Speaker 2: been there before, and the rookies or young players like myself,
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  Speaker 2: you know, leaning on those guys watching how they you know,
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  Speaker 2: approach the game, and you know once you see, once
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  Speaker 2: you hear what they have to say, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you know how they carrying themselves. You know, it gives
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  Speaker 2: me all the confidence and I'm sure a lot of
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  Speaker 2: other confidence to a lot of young guys.
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  Speaker 3: That you guys do throughout the game.
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  Speaker 2: Does that think it any easier.
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  Speaker 3: When you're actually in a ten minute situation at getting
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 2: Right than that. Yeah. I mean we feel like we're
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  Speaker 2: in better shape than a lot of guys, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we could see a lot of guys fatigued. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like that style of play, you know, it goes on
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  Speaker 2: a little bit in the league, but you know it's
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  Speaker 2: it's new and we feel like it benefits us a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, once we go in that, we feel comfortable.
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  Speaker 2: We feel like, you know, the defense will get on
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  Speaker 2: their heels.
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  Speaker 1: Were the end of the half where Kenneth Walker got
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  Speaker 1: tangled up and there's some fishing and shoven like seemed
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  Speaker 1: like a team got fired up a little bit by that.
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  Speaker 1: Can you talk about what that play, what went on
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  Speaker 1: there and how the team responded in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two tough teams just going at it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the rivalry you can call it. You know, forty nine
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  Speaker 2: ers Seahawks. We know it's a big game, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of emotions, a lot of great players out on the field,
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  Speaker 2: you know, trying to make a play. And you could
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  Speaker 2: say that fueled us today, it means, it means a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know this is a win. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of could, We kind of took personal not
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  Speaker 2: winning in six games, and you know, to me in
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the week, I said, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: it's a playoff game, so we got to go out
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  Speaker 2: here and win. And I feel like our team felt
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  Speaker 2: that we were all on the same page. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a big win for us for sure, But we
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  Speaker 2: got Arizona next week and I'm sure you know we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be ready for that.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Jason,