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Cooper Kupp: "We Have The Utmost Faith In Our Defense" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: We're all doing fantastic anything.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what in your eyes changed with the
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  Speaker 2: offense for the first out of the second half.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, she returned the first play for a touchdown. Defense
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  Speaker 3: heaves a bunch of short fields and we just stopped
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  Speaker 3: making the little mistakes and things like that. We were
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  Speaker 3: to finish in the red zone. And it's all small
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  Speaker 3: things for small things, and then obviously being putting some
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  Speaker 3: really good positions there as well.
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  Speaker 2: Statistically, Sam was much better in the second half of
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  Speaker 2: the first Is there anything that you see different as
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  Speaker 2: the game goes on with him or is that just
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  Speaker 2: sort of the flow of the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, like I said, I think there's just there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of little things that we we're gonna watch
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  Speaker 3: the film and like you know, stick to our stomachs
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  Speaker 3: and how the first half went, and not that there
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  Speaker 3: weren't still positives there and we were able to get
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  Speaker 3: down to the red zone and we have four drives,
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  Speaker 3: four drives, five drives in the first half, you guys,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know five five, But I mean all the
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  Speaker 3: things are it's just small things, small little mistakes, still
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  Speaker 3: things here or there that just are just killing us.
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  Speaker 3: And the things that put Sam in tough positions as well,
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  Speaker 3: where he's having to you know, trying to make things
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  Speaker 3: right for us, and you know, the second half, we
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  Speaker 3: just found it a little bit of a rhythm there
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  Speaker 3: and Sam got things going and made some big time
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  Speaker 3: throws and the look converted.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously he's converting. The converting the red zone is a
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  Speaker 1: big deal.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the kick return. What does that do for
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  Speaker 2: a team when it's this kind of tight, low scoring
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  Speaker 2: game and then right out of the gate.
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  Speaker 3: Oh mean that's huge, That's that's huge, just just for momentum,
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  Speaker 3: just like the kick off of just the momentum going
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  Speaker 3: into that second half, the energy in the locker room
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  Speaker 3: just be you know, hey, we gotta make these not
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  Speaker 3: so much adjustments, but we need to fix the mistakes
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  Speaker 3: and then we'll go out there and like man, shoot
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  Speaker 3: start things off with a seven point swing off of
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  Speaker 3: the field goal in the you know, in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a big deal. Target at the end zone.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like they got you a little early.
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  Speaker 3: You raise your hand and not get in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: But did I see the writer was that.
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  Speaker 3: That Yeah, yes, all right, I think that play, uh,
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  Speaker 3: that one you see he's talking about Oh gotcha. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean it was a really good play call. We
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  Speaker 3: uh got a good look you know what we were,
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  Speaker 3: you know, someone we were hoping to get. And then
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  Speaker 3: Cody White did a great job running his route and
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  Speaker 3: being able to create some interference there. And yeah, just
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  Speaker 3: good good play design and Cody did a really good
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  Speaker 3: job on the outside there as.
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  Speaker 2: An offensive player. When a defense has two players like
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  Speaker 2: Whetherspoon even where who are is versatile and physical to
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  Speaker 2: do the different things they do, like how hard is
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  Speaker 2: that to deal with the offensive standpoint?
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  Speaker 1: And that's a challenge.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the things that Eman does out there, well,
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  Speaker 3: he creates what he allows the defense to be in
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  Speaker 3: and the problems that he creates, just in terms of
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  Speaker 3: the player that he is, how physical he is, his
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  Speaker 3: ability to cover, the athleticism to be able to play
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  Speaker 3: a man a man against.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever's out there. It's a very special thing.
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  Speaker 3: And and Mike is a great job of being able
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  Speaker 3: to you know, allow him to play fast and allow
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  Speaker 3: those guys to play off each other. And obviously Spoon
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  Speaker 3: is you know, he's one of those guys that you know,
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  Speaker 3: you'd say, is the you know, the heart and soul
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  Speaker 3: of that defense in terms of the energy that they
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  Speaker 3: bring you, the way they communicating, and so those guys
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  Speaker 3: playing off each other, it's a specially that's a special
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  Speaker 3: group over there on that defensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 4: To you guys a lot about you know, being a
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  Speaker 4: complete team all three phases and stuff like that, and
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  Speaker 4: you know how important it is to a championship team.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think it helps when guys, whether they're young
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  Speaker 4: or new to this team, just see that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: see that, you guys, you know, special team lock fieldball defense,
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  Speaker 4: see the whole.
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  Speaker 1: Thing come together like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, do you think that that's an important part of it?
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  Speaker 3: And just understanding the importance and the like the opportunities
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  Speaker 3: that are presented. You always have control of it, but
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  Speaker 3: there's gonna be opportunities that are represented where you know,
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  Speaker 3: big plays made you know, by defense by specially whatever
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  Speaker 3: offensive do a great job. Whatever is the complimentary ball,
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  Speaker 3: the opportunities to play complimentary football. What that does in
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  Speaker 3: terms of the momentum wings and being able to you know,
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  Speaker 3: beat an opponent downward. It just like those guys start
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  Speaker 3: coming out into the field a little bit slower, start
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  Speaker 3: walking around a little bit more and you know, when
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  Speaker 3: you can do that, just the psychological toll it takes
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  Speaker 3: is a big deal. And you know we did we
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  Speaker 3: did poor job in the first US and a block
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  Speaker 3: field goal and not being able to go capitalize on
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  Speaker 3: that offensively. It's like, man, those are great opportunities to like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to turn the tide on a team, and
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  Speaker 3: and we were able to do in the second half.
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  Speaker 3: But now there's just those kinds of things you want
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  Speaker 3: to capitalize on those make the most of them. And
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  Speaker 3: for guys to see that and understand, like, man, this
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  Speaker 3: is something that Mike talks about all the time.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure we're in the facility of tomorrow and uh.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's that's where really good football's played.
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  Speaker 3: How reassuring is that if you guys on offense aren't
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  Speaker 3: getting going right away, that they'll hold it down.
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  Speaker 1: Until you Oh yeah, I mean yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We we have the utmost faith in those guys and
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  Speaker 3: they are incredible that they're a special group over there.
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  Speaker 3: They're playing really well together, playing off each other.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we.
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  Speaker 3: Turned we don't want to we don't want to have
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  Speaker 3: to rely on that, and uh, they've picked us up
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  Speaker 3: over and over again this year and and you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're not said there haven't been times with offenses done
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  Speaker 3: done their thing as well, so but it is, it's
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  Speaker 3: a it's a huge it's a huge confidence poost. None
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  Speaker 3: of those guys are gonna go out there every time
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  Speaker 3: and you know they're gonna take care of business, thank you,