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Geno Smith: "We Never Quit Or Gave Up" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: To describe Frank felt, Uh, you know, I think the
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  Speaker 1: best way to describe it is, you know, just bittersweet. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it's always good to get a win. That's first things first,
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  Speaker 1: Uh road win and the fashion that we did today. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: shoot man, it took everybody. It came down to the wire.
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  Speaker 1: But also for us not to be able to c
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  Speaker 1: continue the season, you know, for it to be ending
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  Speaker 1: the way that it is, Uh, for for us to
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  Speaker 1: kind of let you know, our own destiny slip out
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  Speaker 1: of our hands, I think that's something that frustrates me
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, because we had a chance,
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  Speaker 1: uh had a chance to get into the playoffs and
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  Speaker 1: see what we can do. But you know, we want today.
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  Speaker 1: Uh that's all we could have done is to get
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  Speaker 1: to win today, and uh, you know the rest is
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  Speaker 1: you know kind of you know, up up to what
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  Speaker 1: we did last week. But for us, man, we got
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  Speaker 1: a win today and that was all that mattered. At
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  Speaker 1: what point the game, you know, Uh, I kind of
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  Speaker 1: knew before that that last drive. You know, they were
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  Speaker 1: showing it up there and you know kind of saw
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  Speaker 1: the score. I mean you're looking up there looking at
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  Speaker 1: the score. But shoot, that's that's not gonna dictate the
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  Speaker 1: way that I'm playing the game. We'll go out there
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  Speaker 1: and try to win at at any cost and so shoot,
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  Speaker 1: man it it it took it. It It took for
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  Speaker 1: us to come out there and you know, get it
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  Speaker 1: done in the second half and for us to you know,
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  Speaker 1: really take it down on the last drive. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I like the way guys finished it. Played til the end.
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  Speaker 1: Guys played hard. We finished you the Uh yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: was one on one they were playing, uh kind of
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  Speaker 1: quarter halfs uh doublin DK. It was some. It was
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  Speaker 1: a play we were trying to get to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much the entire game and uh, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a chance to uh but changed out it
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  Speaker 1: up at the perfect time. Uh. We got the coverage
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  Speaker 1: we wanted, you know, Tyler rant a great route protection
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  Speaker 1: was great and uh obviously you know it was able
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  Speaker 1: to make that throw. You know. The funny part about it,
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  Speaker 1: I was in the huddle. Uh we knew it was
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a touchdown, you know, I told the guys,
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  Speaker 1: and when we score right here, we're going for two. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: so be ready and uh it it it happened exactly
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  Speaker 1: how you know, we we saw it happening, so that
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  Speaker 1: was pretty cool. Did you have to go? You know?
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  Speaker 1: I I I was, I had the two fingers up
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  Speaker 1: as soon as we scored. I was looking to the
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  Speaker 1: side line with the two fingers up, and I think
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  Speaker 1: he was talking to the sideline and he turned around
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  Speaker 1: and he put the two fingers up as well, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, yes, you know, that was great. So
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  Speaker 1: we really wanted to get that done and it was great.
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  Speaker 1: Great to have it happened like that. You ten pretty
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  Speaker 1: close for a way is the scene? I would say close,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I would say close. I think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of games here and there, if we execute better,
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  Speaker 1: I think we can be a lot better record wise.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, you can't really look at that, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, in hindsight, you know, it's always twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: So for us, man we had control of it. We
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  Speaker 1: kind of let it slip away, but that didn't stop
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  Speaker 1: us from finishing the season, finishing the way that we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to, which is to come out here and get
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  Speaker 1: a win. They're gonna have to sit back. But how
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  Speaker 1: would you physics the seasons like that a little bit? Quite? Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: My assessment is you know, we didn't do it enough.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't we didn't you know, meet our goals. We
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  Speaker 1: we got high expectations. Uh, we believe that we can
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  Speaker 1: do you know, some some great things together as a team.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, for us not to make the playoffs, it's
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  Speaker 1: a disappointment for me personally. Uh, but I kind of
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  Speaker 1: look at those things as as stepping stones and as
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  Speaker 1: obstacles for me to get get better and get passed.
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  Speaker 1: And so it'll it'll drive me this entire offseason. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I know that personally. You know, I'm gonna be dialed
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  Speaker 1: in as I've ever been dialed in in the in
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  Speaker 1: the off season. So, you know, for my teammates, for
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  Speaker 1: my coaches, love the way we fought, loved the things
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  Speaker 1: we battled through. Wasn't always easy, but we never quit,
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  Speaker 1: We never gave up. Had a bunch of games come
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  Speaker 1: down to you know, last second drive, and uh that
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  Speaker 1: speaks volumes to this type of to the type of
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  Speaker 1: team that we are. So for me, man, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna look at it as what it is, a disappointment
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  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be something that drives me forward. Shoot, man,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like I got better as a quarterback. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I got better as a leader. You know, I gained
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  Speaker 1: so much perspective this year battle through injuries. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we had you know, different things in different circumstances, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with with injuries as a team, and we fought through it.
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  Speaker 1: And so I got better as a quarterback. And that's
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  Speaker 1: all I can ask for myself. You know, I pushed
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  Speaker 1: every single day, didn't miss a single day, was there early,
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  Speaker 1: left late, and gave it all I got. And so
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know I can be a lot better
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  Speaker 1: in some areas, working to improve on those. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know I'm appreciative of, like I said, of all
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  Speaker 1: these moments because they always always lead to something greater.
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  Speaker 1: You got close to, uh the ones I just told
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  Speaker 1: you my leadership, shoot man, just all my entire game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I felt like I was better in the
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  Speaker 1: pocket this year. You know, I felt like I got
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  Speaker 1: better as the season went on, uh limiting, limiting turnovers
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  Speaker 1: and uh you know really just you know, leading this
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  Speaker 1: team was able to you know, get a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: different uh you know, last second drives in the end,
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  Speaker 1: and uh that's something that we always want to do.
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  Speaker 1: We want want to finish games the right way. So overall,
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  Speaker 1: I think I just got to continue to improve. And
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  Speaker 1: uh I saw some improval for myself this year. That
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  Speaker 1: entire seventh the season they for seven. Uh, well, I
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  Speaker 1: wish it was eight or nine, you know, honestly, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I wish it was. I wish we had, you know,
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  Speaker 1: two or three more games that we won. Uh. I
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  Speaker 1: wish we could continue to play. I love this team.
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  Speaker 1: I love my coaches, I love the guys, love you guys.
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  Speaker 1: All the questions you guys ask me are the tough questions,
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  Speaker 1: the hard ones. You know, it's fun and uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: I never want these things to end. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: they end so abruptly. Uh, but you know it just
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  Speaker 1: gotta keep working, keep going, you know, honestly, I I
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  Speaker 1: never really focus on that. My job as the players
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  Speaker 1: to get better, you know, honestly, And so that's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm focused on. Security and all that. I'm secure with
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  Speaker 1: myself as a player. I'm secure with the top of
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  Speaker 1: quarterback I am. I know him, a championship quarterback. I
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  Speaker 1: know him and continue to lead and continue to be great.
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  Speaker 1: And I just gotta continue to push and continue to
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  Speaker 1: get better and and help the guys around me get
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  Speaker 1: better and so that that's really where my focus is.
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  Speaker 1: M h. Shoot, man, he's tired of locket, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's all we can say. Man, he's the most humble
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  Speaker 1: guy I've been around. Uh. He's got great perspective. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's just one part of him. He runs great routes,
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  Speaker 1: got great hands, He's tough as nails, he fights to
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  Speaker 1: the finish. He believes. Uh, he's one of the better
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  Speaker 1: receivers in this league. He's consistently showed that over the
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  Speaker 1: course of his career. And I'm just lucky to be
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  Speaker 1: able to play with him. You know, I've seen him,
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  Speaker 1: you know, do that make those catches when when Russell's
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  Speaker 1: here playing quarterback and washing him do that when we
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  Speaker 1: played him at k State. I mean, he's always been great,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, I think that's just who he is. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think the thrilling win. You know, whenever you got
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  Speaker 1: a thrilling whenever you win. Man, it's hard to win
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL, And whenever you win, God should be
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  Speaker 1: excited no matter what. You know. I know if the
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  Speaker 1: Cardinals had won today, I know they would have been
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  Speaker 1: excited in their locker room. So a win's a win always,
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  Speaker 1: and like I said, it's unfortunate the season has to end.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, you know, I'm really proud of the guys there,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Thank you, thank you guys for Shire.