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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The 38-35 Loss To Buccaneers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, obviously very disappointed our guys. Our guys played
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  Speaker 1: extremely hard, fought all the way to the end. But
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  Speaker 1: I told the team that look this this game, this
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  Speaker 1: game is is is my responsibility. Okay that you got
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  Speaker 1: to give Tampa Bay a lot of credit. We knew
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  Speaker 1: that they would fight to the very last end, which
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  Speaker 1: they've done all year, and they are a very tough
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  Speaker 1: football team.
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  Speaker 2: They're a very good football team.
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  Speaker 1: But I have to I have to do better on
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  Speaker 1: with our defensive game plan and our execution.
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  Speaker 2: And how we call it. When you put a performance.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, it means that that I didn't prepare them
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  Speaker 1: well enough. So it hurts, its stings. It should because
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  Speaker 1: our guys work extremely hard and they care.
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  Speaker 2: But we're going to use this to move forward, and
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  Speaker 2: that's the only thing we can do.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to take it on the chin and
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  Speaker 1: move forward tomorrow and learn from it and grow and
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  Speaker 1: go get ready to play our.
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  Speaker 2: Best game against Jacksonville. So it's really that simple.
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  Speaker 1: Our offense played great, our special teams played great, and
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure there's things on that end too, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with penalties and.
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  Speaker 2: Things like that that we got to fix. But we'll
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  Speaker 2: learn from all those things and move forward. But we
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  Speaker 2: have to do that. How big obviously I had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of injuries at the back end and play with
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  Speaker 2: some different guys there. I mean, how big a fact
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  Speaker 2: that was that that kind of their offensive before.
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  Speaker 1: Look they were they were banged up too, So injuries
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  Speaker 1: happened in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: We have to design. I have to design better plays.
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  Speaker 1: And put our guys in better positions consistently for us
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  Speaker 1: to play better on defense. That's Sam was obviously colific
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  Speaker 1: and had the hiccup at the end, But how do
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  Speaker 1: you assess kind of the whole of this performance today?
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  Speaker 2: Sam was great? Sam?
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  Speaker 1: Sam played tremendous football game. I thought we're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to win the game there at the end,
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  Speaker 1: but a couple it was a ninety nine year drive,
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  Speaker 1: fourth down extended plays.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Sam played tremendous.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have been able to really kind of stipe
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  Speaker 1: the quarterbacks all season long.
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  Speaker 2: What was it about Baker because it seemed to have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of guys that will wide open most of
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  Speaker 2: the game. Well, they did a great job of scheme
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  Speaker 2: and stuff open. We got to we obviously have to.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, so it goes both ways.
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  Speaker 1: But we know that they're a great offense, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: we just didn't get it done. And when you have
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  Speaker 1: guys open like that, that can't that can't happen, and that's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: that's my job make sure that doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: With the pass rush, was that just the lack of it?
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  Speaker 2: I should say?
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  Speaker 1: Was that just a matter of anything not having tank
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  Speaker 1: and a deal?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: I mean we are guys that we went in there
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  Speaker 1: and played. You know, the expectation is the same no
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  Speaker 1: matter who's out there.
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  Speaker 2: But again, we got to design better things.
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  Speaker 1: Our pressures have to be more locked in, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: call them at better times, all all those things.
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  Speaker 2: You know, our our pressure coverage was very weak today
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  Speaker 2: and that's something we need to look at. But see
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  Speaker 2: there's some mistackles and things like that too.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, miss tackles. We're diving on the ground. We're not
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  Speaker 1: doing the things that we're trained to do. And look
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  Speaker 1: when it when it doesn't come to life on the field,
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  Speaker 1: I'm responsible for what comes to life on the field,
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't come to life today, so it's my responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: So but though that will we're definitely gonna be looking
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  Speaker 1: at that. We missed way too many tackles.
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  Speaker 2: Was it the fourth the fourth down this handed? And
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  Speaker 2: was there any down there at all? Bad for that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, was now we're going.
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  Speaker 1: For now at a certain time, we had a certain
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  Speaker 1: at a certain length we weren't going to but I
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  Speaker 1: think it was a a at two.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're was definite a go at two. Do you
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  Speaker 2: seem to rule d haul out pretty quickly? Is that
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  Speaker 2: a signal that it maybe serious? Yeah? Well we'll image
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  Speaker 2: it tonight. I think it's what is it as uh
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  Speaker 2: his o his oblique? Yeah, so image it tonight. We'll
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  Speaker 2: see see how bad it is and what the and
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  Speaker 2: with three any update on what it is? Yeah, week's
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  Speaker 2: a concussion. So you know those things go.
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  Speaker 1: You just gotta go, you know, I guess the protocol
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  Speaker 1: starts and we'll we'll work through from there.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry if your as this might but where were you
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  Speaker 2: caught him between? Maybe blitzing more a lot more pressure, but.
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  Speaker 1: Not believe in your back end exposed when the end
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  Speaker 1: us of it, we we we wanted to pressure this game,
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  Speaker 1: and we did. We didn't do it well enough, and
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  Speaker 1: so like I said, it's just wasn't designed well enough
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  Speaker 1: and didn't call it in the right spots, and we
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  Speaker 1: didn't get it done. So but you're right there there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, against this team, it's kind of kind of
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  Speaker 1: pick your poison at a certain point, what do you.
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  Speaker 2: Make up just another loss at home? I know, guys
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  Speaker 2: really want to get that fixed.
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  Speaker 1: I I mean, I'm thinking about how well we played
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  Speaker 1: as a football team and how well we were prepared.
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  Speaker 1: We were and I was playing at Homer on the road.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think has anything to do with that. Now
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  Speaker 1: we have to win at home. We got to defend
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  Speaker 1: our home turf.
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  Speaker 2: We know that.
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  Speaker 1: But that doesn't make you like execute better, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like it's just doesn't make you call better plays. So
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  Speaker 1: but I mean, it's it's really important that we played
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  Speaker 1: better at home. So that's obviously it's been a point
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  Speaker 1: of emphasis since since I was hired, and it hasn't
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  Speaker 1: come to life yet, but we're we're determined to uh
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  Speaker 1: to make it come to life.
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  Speaker 2: Our fans were awesome today as well as around on fire.
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  Speaker 1: We were asking you pretty much every week about Sam
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  Speaker 1: and Jackson and the connection that another big games.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, both guys.
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  Speaker 1: Both guys played great. Though our whole offense played a
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  Speaker 1: great game. I thought we protected Sam really well home
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  Speaker 1: to that last play, and guys are fighting really really
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  Speaker 1: hard and making big time plays in those spots.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of the run game? You guys
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  Speaker 2: have explosive friends.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, our run game, they I think are We knew
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  Speaker 1: it was gonna be tough sledding against this against this front,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought our guys did a great job that
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  Speaker 1: our coaches got the got the good plays, and I
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  Speaker 1: felt like we were blocking through the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: echo of the whistle, and uh, our guys were running
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  Speaker 1: hard too, So I thought we took a step in
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  Speaker 1: the run game.
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  Speaker 2: A J.
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  Speaker 1: Barny gets TDS can talk about his play and just
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  Speaker 1: the tight ends and he just talked about a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money. What did you Yeah, I mean they're right
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  Speaker 1: in the thick of all the things on offense right,
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  Speaker 1: just they're in there. They're instrumental in the run game
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  Speaker 1: and then in the past game them coming to life.
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  Speaker 2: We knew we would need.
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  Speaker 1: Him in this game, and uh they continued to come
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  Speaker 1: up and make plays for us. So, uh Aj is
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  Speaker 1: the leader of the pack there, so he's doing a
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  Speaker 1: great job. Would you have like Sam do anything different
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  Speaker 1: there on that final play and just eat it or
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  Speaker 1: give get rid of it. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I can't give you a gotta take a look at.
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  Speaker 1: Him anything else.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you, thank you,