Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Tyler Lockett: "We Have Great Depth In Our WR Room"
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- 0:04Speaker 1: What a.
- 0:08Speaker 2: How long does it take you to do the thousand
- 0:10Speaker 2: tennis balls a day?
- 0:12Speaker 1: That that you catch a thousand tennis balls? Oh well,
- 0:15Speaker 1: I don't catch a thousand. I don't know how many
- 0:17Speaker 1: I catch.
- 0:18Speaker 3: But oh no, yeah, I don't watch TV like that,
- 0:22Speaker 3: except it's TV shows and movies. But now, I mean,
- 0:25Speaker 3: I do whatever I feel like it's necessary, Like whatever
- 0:28Speaker 3: I feel like I got to do to be able
- 0:30Speaker 3: to feel comfortable within you know, my approach to the games,
- 0:36Speaker 3: my hand eye coordination. I think like a lot of
- 0:38Speaker 3: those things kind of help. Some people don't see it
- 0:41Speaker 3: that way because it's like you're catching a football, But
- 0:43Speaker 3: for me, you catch a tennis ball. If you're catching
- 0:46Speaker 3: something so much smaller, it's easier to catch, you know,
- 0:48Speaker 3: a football. But for me, it's just hand eye coordination,
- 0:52Speaker 3: allowing my hands to be able to see the ball
- 0:54Speaker 3: and being able to move accordingly.
- 0:57Speaker 2: You and DK both rarely have been injured. Are you
- 1:00Speaker 2: telling him to take it easy this sweek and let
- 1:02Speaker 2: himself feel or that's not his nature?
- 1:04Speaker 1: Nah?
- 1:04Speaker 3: I mean DK is approach so he understands what he
- 1:07Speaker 3: needs to do to be able to get himself right
- 1:09Speaker 3: and a position himself to be able to.
- 1:11Speaker 1: Go out there and play at a high level.
- 1:12Speaker 3: I mean, obviously he's in your six and you know
- 1:15Speaker 3: he's been in these situations before where if he needed
- 1:18Speaker 3: to practice or he felt the need to, then you know,
- 1:21Speaker 3: he would practice if he needed to. If he feels
- 1:23Speaker 3: like he just needs to do walk through, he'll do that.
- 1:25Speaker 3: Like whatever it is that he knows that he needs
- 1:28Speaker 3: to do to be able to get right, that's exactly
- 1:30Speaker 3: what he'll do. And I think you know, everybody trusts
- 1:33Speaker 3: him knowing that he's going to always be ready and
- 1:35Speaker 3: prepared to play.
- 1:36Speaker 2: You've done that when you've had injuries where you barely
- 1:38Speaker 2: can practice and then you.
- 1:39Speaker 3: Still play in the game.
- 1:40Speaker 2: And what's the challenge of that as a player is
- 1:42Speaker 2: to get ready to minimal with any reps.
- 1:45Speaker 3: I think mentally, it's just you know, so it's a
- 1:47Speaker 3: different approach sometimes. You know, we're always used to being
- 1:51Speaker 3: able to practice the whole time, but you know, your
- 1:53Speaker 3: approach changes. Sometimes the film study changes because watching the
- 1:57Speaker 3: film and watching the practice is how you get yourself
- 2:00Speaker 3: ready for the game. And so sometimes you tap into
- 2:03Speaker 3: that a little bit more. Sometimes you tap into you know,
- 2:07Speaker 3: like for me, I catch drugs a little bit more.
- 2:09Speaker 3: I do some of the fundamental stuff that I can
- 2:12Speaker 3: be able to do if I can't practice, like some
- 2:14Speaker 3: of those little things that you have to be able
- 2:16Speaker 3: to really be in tune with in order to go
- 2:18Speaker 3: out there and still be able to play without getting
- 2:21Speaker 3: those reps.
- 2:23Speaker 4: You're seeing a lot of these veteran receivers getting traded
- 2:25Speaker 4: around the league. I'm curious, like what it means for
- 2:28Speaker 4: you to still be on the same team and still
- 2:30Speaker 4: be contributing to a winning team.
- 2:32Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean for me, all I can do is
- 2:34Speaker 3: take advantage of, you know, the opportunities that I'm giving
- 2:38Speaker 3: and just be blessed to be in the same position
- 2:40Speaker 3: that I'm at. Obviously, you hear people say like you
- 2:43Speaker 3: know you're gonna be where your feet are, and you
- 2:45Speaker 3: make the best out.
- 2:46Speaker 1: Of each and every situation.
- 2:47Speaker 3: I mean, I think the hardest part is this isn't
- 2:50Speaker 3: high school, right, Like, this isn't middle school, this isn't
- 2:53Speaker 3: college where you know you're gonna be at this school
- 2:56Speaker 3: for however long, and so there's just some things that
- 2:59Speaker 3: you know, well, you can't control, and yeah, that part
- 3:02Speaker 3: sucks about it because you know it's hard to be
- 3:04Speaker 3: able to come in and then you don't know what's
- 3:06Speaker 3: going to happen or if people were talking or whatever.
- 3:08Speaker 3: But I mean that's just life, right, So you just
- 3:11Speaker 3: got to be able to focus on Like what I
- 3:15Speaker 3: tell people is like, however long you want to play,
- 3:17Speaker 3: focus on that number. Can't get caught up in who
- 3:20Speaker 3: the team is or anything like that. You just have
- 3:22Speaker 3: to be able to focus on that number. Because if
- 3:24Speaker 3: you want to play for eight years, then you just
- 3:27Speaker 3: got to be able to go hard for those eight years.
- 3:29Speaker 1: And it might be on three, four or five different teams.
- 3:32Speaker 3: You might be on one team, but you can't control
- 3:35Speaker 3: the business aspect of what upstairs, and everybody's just going
- 3:39Speaker 3: to be able to.
- 3:40Speaker 1: Say, what's your number, what's my number? I don't know.
- 3:44Speaker 1: I weren't number sixteen right now. I don't know.
- 3:48Speaker 3: Like I said, I just I just play each year
- 3:52Speaker 3: that I can. Obviously, you know, everybody wants to leave
- 3:55Speaker 3: on their own accord rather than the NFL saying that
- 3:58Speaker 3: they're done with you.
- 3:59Speaker 1: But it's long.
- 4:00Speaker 3: I feel like I can still play at a high level,
- 4:02Speaker 3: which I feel like I am taking advantage of every opportunity,
- 4:06Speaker 3: and you know, also just understanding, like you know, as
- 4:09Speaker 3: you get older and as people view you older, reliability
- 4:12Speaker 3: is really a big thing. Like you don't know how
- 4:15Speaker 3: many targets you're gonna get or you don't know how
- 4:16Speaker 3: much you're gonna be involved, But it's about when your
- 4:19Speaker 3: name is called, are you being efficient, are you making
- 4:22Speaker 3: those plays?
- 4:23Speaker 1: Are you helping the team win?
- 4:24Speaker 3: And so those are the things that kind of happen,
- 4:26Speaker 3: you know, that you see as you get older. But
- 4:28Speaker 3: for me, I always try to focus on just being
- 4:31Speaker 3: able to play for God, like that's my number one thing,
- 4:34Speaker 3: and not being able to get caught up in the
- 4:36Speaker 3: politics or that he says, she say, or like how
- 4:40Speaker 3: you said, like how a lot of receivers that are
- 4:43Speaker 3: you know, really good or getting traded. It's like all
- 4:46Speaker 3: you can do is really just try to focus on
- 4:48Speaker 3: being the best person that you could be, the best
- 4:50Speaker 3: player and the best teammate that you can be, and
- 4:53Speaker 3: just make the best out of the place that you're at.
- 4:56Speaker 3: What's it like when it's sort of the opposite where
- 4:58Speaker 3: you're in a situation like this and the team that
- 5:00Speaker 3: you're on acquires a player like Ernest Jones, how do
- 5:03Speaker 3: you guys talk about it in the locker room?
- 5:04Speaker 1: This kind of word. How does word travel around?
- 5:07Speaker 2: Uh?
- 5:07Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I think it's just the business
- 5:10Speaker 3: aspect of how things go. You know, Like obviously you're
- 5:13Speaker 3: like whoa, whoa, Like what just happened? Like we just
- 5:15Speaker 3: heard about you know this and this and that, you know.
- 5:18Speaker 3: But for us as players, like you have to be
- 5:20Speaker 3: able to adapt. That's the biggest thing about being able
- 5:23Speaker 3: to get into this league is there is no stability,
- 5:26Speaker 3: right Like, so when you talk about stability, like, the
- 5:29Speaker 3: only way that a player can have some type of
- 5:31Speaker 3: stability is by being okay with the amount of money
- 5:34Speaker 3: that you've already made. Once you make that amount of money,
- 5:37Speaker 3: you're okay with getting traded or cut or whatever the
- 5:39Speaker 3: case is. I'm just speaking in general, right So, knowing
- 5:43Speaker 3: that there's no stability, you have to be able to
- 5:45Speaker 3: adapt as a player for any circumstance, in any situation.
- 5:49Speaker 3: And so I think, like, you know, the culture that
- 5:50Speaker 3: we have within the team and stuff is we want
- 5:53Speaker 3: to embrace everybody that comes in and we understand that
- 5:56Speaker 3: the difficulty of being able to be traded in the season,
- 6:00Speaker 3: being able to.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Kind of learn and adapt and do those type of things.
- 6:03Speaker 3: But we have a lot of great vets and a
- 6:05Speaker 3: lot of great people who will be able to try
- 6:08Speaker 3: to real people in to make it as comfortable and
- 6:11Speaker 3: allow them to be at home even though they may
- 6:14Speaker 3: be away from home, so they could be able to
- 6:15Speaker 3: play at a high level and they can be able
- 6:18Speaker 3: to do whatever is necessary to help us as a team.
- 6:21Speaker 3: J have some huge games like who soon have some
- 6:25Speaker 3: quiet games like like on Sunday.
- 6:27Speaker 2: I think that it's probably a receiver's life generally, But
- 6:30Speaker 2: I'm just worrying what you notice from him and maybe going.
- 6:33Speaker 1: From year to one year two, how be an impact
- 6:36Speaker 1: as a kid.
- 6:36Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean obviously, like you know, I think
- 6:39Speaker 3: he's been doing a great job. You know, he's very consistent,
- 6:42Speaker 3: especially when you're talking about in practice, and you know,
- 6:45Speaker 3: he's doing everything he can and he's putting himself in
- 6:47Speaker 3: a position where he's able to get open, he's able
- 6:49Speaker 3: to understand their defenses, how to be able to sit
- 6:52Speaker 3: in zones like you know, different things like that. I think,
- 6:55Speaker 3: you know, like you said, the life of a receiver
- 6:57Speaker 3: is everything has to go perfect. You have the quarter
- 7:00Speaker 3: back has to you know, throw the ball. The defense
- 7:02Speaker 3: has to run the right routes. We got to make
- 7:04Speaker 3: sure that we block it, like the person that's guarding
- 7:07Speaker 3: you has to, you know, do what we thought he
- 7:09Speaker 3: was gonna do. So there's so many different things. Even
- 7:11Speaker 3: as the receivers, we have to do our part to
- 7:13Speaker 3: be able to get everybody else open. And so I think,
- 7:16Speaker 3: you know, for the most part, I think he's been
- 7:18Speaker 3: doing a great job. You know, obviously, buying in is
- 7:21Speaker 3: the biggest thing for all of us, just to be
- 7:23Speaker 3: a great team. And I think he's bought in, and
- 7:26Speaker 3: I think he's taken advantage of the opportunities and the
- 7:28Speaker 3: things that he's being given. And you know, I think
- 7:31Speaker 3: he has made a huge jump from year one to
- 7:33Speaker 3: year two. Obviously, it's not ideal for any person to
- 7:37Speaker 3: go from year one and then it's like you learn
- 7:39Speaker 3: this offense and now in year two you're learning this offense.
- 7:41Speaker 3: But I think he's got a great job being able
- 7:43Speaker 3: to learn this new offense as he's you know, in
- 7:46Speaker 3: year two.
- 7:47Speaker 2: DK couldn't go or if he had to be limited.
- 7:50Speaker 2: Just how much the faith do you having the depth
- 7:53Speaker 2: you guys.
- 7:53Speaker 1: Have that position.
- 7:54Speaker 3: Oh man, I think we got great depth in our room.
- 7:57Speaker 3: I mean, obviously you guys seen it when we were
- 7:58Speaker 3: in camp, you know, even when we had joint practices,
- 8:01Speaker 3: like everybody was making plays left and right, and it
- 8:04Speaker 3: was a very difficult probably decision for even everybody upstairs
- 8:08Speaker 3: to figure out who's gonna be on the team, who
- 8:10Speaker 3: was gonna.
- 8:11Speaker 1: Make the team.
- 8:12Speaker 3: And so I think we have great depth, and I
- 8:13Speaker 3: think we have really great players to be able to
- 8:17Speaker 3: go out there and make plays and and do what's
- 8:20Speaker 3: necessary to be able to help us be able to
- 8:22Speaker 3: win those games. Tyler.
- 8:24Speaker 4: A lot of people talk about receivers and scouting the
- 8:27Speaker 4: corners they're going to go against. I'm curious if you
- 8:29Speaker 4: look at the safety play and if you do, what
- 8:30Speaker 4: do you look at when you look at safety.
- 8:32Speaker 3: I look at everything, but I don't tell nobody what
- 8:34Speaker 3: I look at.
- 8:36Speaker 1: From the Bills secondary, I.
- 8:38Speaker 3: Think they're a really savvy unit. I think they do
- 8:41Speaker 3: a great job and playing together, like playing and sync,
- 8:45Speaker 3: having chemistry. That's the one thing that you want as
- 8:48Speaker 3: a defense. You want everybody running to the football, you
- 8:50Speaker 3: want everybody playing off of each other, understanding each other's assignments.
- 8:54Speaker 1: And I think they do a really good job.
- 8:56Speaker 3: I think that they're one of the better teams that
- 8:59Speaker 3: we've seen so far that have done a great job
- 9:02Speaker 3: being able to play and sync together and knowing each
- 9:04Speaker 3: other's jobs and how to play off of that. You know,
- 9:08Speaker 3: I think, you know, just for us, we got to
- 9:09Speaker 3: be able to understand how to take what they give us,
- 9:12Speaker 3: not try to like overly do stuff. But you know,
- 9:15Speaker 3: I think there are some things that they do really
- 9:16Speaker 3: well and some things that we could take advantage of,
- 9:19Speaker 3: but we just got to be able to be smart.
- 9:21Speaker 2: How much attention do you guys pay right now to
- 9:23Speaker 2: where you guys are in the division and you know,
- 9:25Speaker 2: the forty nine ers losing again and things like that.
- 9:27Speaker 3: I don't think nobody cares about that as much. I mean,
- 9:30Speaker 3: I think that's good for the people that you know
- 9:33Speaker 3: that are fans that can have a great week that
- 9:35Speaker 3: week because they know we're winning and leading you know,
- 9:38Speaker 3: the NFC. But you know, I think for the most part,
- 9:41Speaker 3: like you never know what the end of that story
- 9:43Speaker 3: is going to tell. And for us, I mean, if anything,
- 9:45Speaker 3: if there's anything that at least I think about, it's
- 9:48Speaker 3: you know, you got to make sure that you're you're
- 9:50Speaker 3: winning against these NFC teams for sure, because you don't
- 9:53Speaker 3: want to be in a position that we've been in
- 9:55Speaker 3: last year or whatever, where you know, there's teams where
- 9:58Speaker 3: there's a head to head and then you you lose
- 10:00Speaker 3: those head to heads because you've lost this numerous amount
- 10:03Speaker 3: of NFC games and stuff. So for me, it's like,
- 10:05Speaker 3: you got to make sure that you're taking care of
- 10:07Speaker 3: these NERC games for sure, because you don't want that
- 10:10Speaker 3: to come back and hurt you in the long run.
- 10:12Speaker 2: You mentioned earlier part of being unreceiver is sometimes you
- 10:15Speaker 2: gotta stay ready. Sometimes you're getting the target, sometimes you're not.
- 10:18Speaker 2: How much pride do you take in some of those
- 10:20Speaker 2: big moments of like the lost drive in the half,
- 10:23Speaker 2: you have the two catches or you know, late game
- 10:25Speaker 2: third down conversion, things like that where you're the guy
- 10:27Speaker 2: they got to the most.
- 10:28Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I think for me, like.
- 10:32Speaker 3: I take a lot of pride in it just because
- 10:34Speaker 3: you know, like you said, I think every receiver wants
- 10:37Speaker 3: to be involved early on, right, and you want to
- 10:39Speaker 3: be able to get going and stuff like that, and
- 10:41Speaker 3: sometimes things like that don't happen, and it's easy to
- 10:44Speaker 3: be able to get mad, get upset, get down on
- 10:46Speaker 3: yourself whatever. But at the same time, like at least
- 10:50Speaker 3: For me, it's like I don't want to get to
- 10:51Speaker 3: that place where I'm so angry to the point of
- 10:53Speaker 3: where I do start getting opportunities. Now I'm not making
- 10:56Speaker 3: a play because now I'm not, you know, in sync
- 10:58Speaker 3: with myself, you know. So I always try to tell
- 11:01Speaker 3: myself like, hey, man, like just just stay ready because
- 11:04Speaker 3: when that opportunity comes, you know, it's like, man, if
- 11:07Speaker 3: you was mad you wasn't getting the ball, you got
- 11:09Speaker 3: the ball, now you didn't make the play, you know,
- 11:10Speaker 3: so it doesn't make your situation any better at all.
- 11:12Speaker 3: So for me, it's like, man, take advantage of the opportunities, like,
- 11:17Speaker 3: continue to try to get open, because you never know
- 11:19Speaker 3: when it's going to be your opportunity, and you never
- 11:22Speaker 3: know when the play breaks down if it's going to
- 11:24Speaker 3: be your opportunity. And so I think that's just a
- 11:26Speaker 3: great message for anybody in life too. It's like you
- 11:29Speaker 3: got to stay ready because sometimes things don't happen the
- 11:32Speaker 3: way that you want to happen, and sometimes the way
- 11:34Speaker 3: that you want to play doesn't happen the way that
- 11:36Speaker 3: you want to play, but you're still able to have
- 11:38Speaker 3: a great game. It's just a different way that it
- 11:40Speaker 3: was written right, So it's like that in life, some opportunities,
- 11:44Speaker 3: some doors don't open the way you wanted to, but
- 11:46Speaker 3: you still get to that same spot. And so like
- 11:49Speaker 3: it kind of reminds you that verse in the Bible
- 11:51Speaker 3: talks about in his heart, a man plays his course,
- 11:54Speaker 3: but the Lord orders it steps and so like, you know,
- 11:57Speaker 3: sometimes for me it's like if i'm if I'm looking
- 11:59Speaker 3: at you know, the players that were running this week
- 12:02Speaker 3: and stuff you're sometimes it's like you got to tell yourself,
- 12:05Speaker 3: like I'm exactly where God wants me to be. Let
- 12:08Speaker 3: me make the best out of this, because if you're
- 12:10Speaker 3: faithful over this, he can make you rule over much more. Right,
- 12:13Speaker 3: But you can't get more if you're not faithful over
- 12:15Speaker 3: what you have. So I try to take pride in
- 12:18Speaker 3: being able to take advantage of all the things that
- 12:20Speaker 3: I have because that's all that I need. You might
- 12:23Speaker 3: want this, so you might want that, but like what
- 12:25Speaker 3: do you need? And focus on that and if you
- 12:28Speaker 3: decide to get more, if they give you more, then
- 12:31Speaker 3: embrace that more. But if you don't embrace that role
- 12:34Speaker 3: that you've been given, because that's what you have to
- 12:36Speaker 3: do in order to help this team be successful that week.
- 12:40Speaker 2: You have a pretty big role in that two minute
- 12:42Speaker 2: drill right before halftime against the Falcons.
- 12:45Speaker 1: How have you seen that offense progress and how did
- 12:48Speaker 1: you guys evaluate that period of time In.
- 12:50Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we played really good as an offense.
- 12:52Speaker 3: I mean, you know, there's some things again, like you
- 12:54Speaker 3: know every week you say we got to clean up.
- 12:56Speaker 3: I think we did better in the pre snats, but
- 12:58Speaker 3: we still kind of hurt oursels else. I think after
- 13:02Speaker 3: the first drive where we had points, I think we
- 13:04Speaker 3: heard ourselves on that beginning of the second drive. But
- 13:07Speaker 3: I think we played the way that we wanted to
- 13:10Speaker 3: be able to play that week, where we were in control.
- 13:13Speaker 3: We can be able to run the offense that we run,
- 13:15Speaker 3: We can be able to throw if we want it,
- 13:16Speaker 3: run if we wanted, like we could kind of pick
- 13:18Speaker 3: and choose what we wanted to be able to do.
- 13:21Speaker 3: And so I think that it gave us a better
- 13:22Speaker 3: sense of where we were as an offense when we
- 13:25Speaker 3: aren't allowing penalties to kind of control the narrative of
- 13:28Speaker 3: what we have to do on offense just to get
- 13:30Speaker 3: back on track. And so I think we're definitely headed
- 13:34Speaker 3: in the right direction against a great team that we
- 13:36Speaker 3: had ended up beating in Atlanta.
- 13:39Speaker 2: When we talked to Ryan Graf, he's pretty accountable generally,
- 13:42Speaker 2: Like for instance, against.
- 13:43Speaker 1: The Giants, he was just like, yeah, I should have
- 13:44Speaker 1: called more runs.
- 13:45Speaker 3: That's just mean.
- 13:46Speaker 2: How is he when he has something that he feels
- 13:48Speaker 2: like he came up short with when he's a meeting
- 13:50Speaker 2: with you.
- 13:50Speaker 1: Guys, I mean, I think he's the same way.
- 13:53Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it might be a little bit
- 13:55Speaker 3: more open or vulnerable, you know, towards us as as
- 14:00Speaker 3: far as certain things, but I mean he's pretty spot
- 14:03Speaker 3: on with the same things that he says to you
- 14:05Speaker 3: guys he says to us.
- 14:07Speaker 1: And I think that's the biggest.
- 14:08Speaker 3: Thing is like, you know, accountability within yourself and we
- 14:12Speaker 3: know the plays that we did wrong going or like
- 14:14Speaker 3: for me, like things I could have did better on it.
- 14:16Speaker 3: So being able to like speak it upon yourself, you
- 14:20Speaker 3: don't always have to have people tell you what you
- 14:22Speaker 3: did wrong.
- 14:23Speaker 1: And I think with.
- 14:24Speaker 3: Him being able to do that, it shows within us,
- 14:26Speaker 3: like we can be able to do that same thing.
- 14:29Speaker 3: Don't just come in and wait for somebody to call
- 14:31Speaker 3: you out just to be like, oh, they knew I
- 14:33Speaker 3: messed up, right, It's like everybody knows, but when you
- 14:36Speaker 3: speak up, there's a different level of respect that comes
- 14:39Speaker 3: from that.
- 14:41Speaker 1: What did you think of What do you think of?
- 14:43Speaker 1: Smith and past? Oh? I thought I thought it did
- 14:46Speaker 1: the job. Oh what I've thrown it? I don't know.
- 14:51Speaker 3: I mean, you call a pass player, I'm most likely
- 14:53Speaker 3: gonna throw it until I can. We called a pass
- 14:57Speaker 3: player for me years ago, and it was in there
- 15:00Speaker 3: and I decided to run.
- 15:01Speaker 1: So I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do.
- 15:03Speaker 3: But I mean when you complete that, it puts trust
- 15:07Speaker 3: in our room, and that's what we need, all right,