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Sam Darnold Discusses The Offense's Progress, Working With OC Brian Fleury · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's off season has been great. Obviously got married,
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  Speaker 1: which was you know, the pinnacle of the off season,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, to be able to come here and
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  Speaker 1: be able to work hard with with my teammates and
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  Speaker 1: be able to you know, just get after it. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's awesome to be able to get after it with
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  Speaker 1: my teammates and to you know, spend time with those
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  Speaker 1: guys not only on the field but off the field
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  Speaker 1: during this time. It's a it's been great really really
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  Speaker 1: like Brian Floran but as you guys, yeah, has been great.
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  Speaker 1: Just the way that you know, his command, you know,
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  Speaker 1: his his presence, the way that he installs it, you
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  Speaker 1: know with the run game, pass game, his command over
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  Speaker 1: the entire system has been incredible. And uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: he's I'm continuing to you know, throughout these practices, throughout
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  Speaker 1: these different situations that we get in practice, to to
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  Speaker 1: be able to learn each other kind of what he's
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  Speaker 1: thinking and calling it and you know, just just continuing
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  Speaker 1: to get a feel for each other. It's been really
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  Speaker 1: good so far.
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  Speaker 2: Thing on the system you had last year versus a
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  Speaker 2: totally fresh system.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's ah. So it's a lot of the same
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  Speaker 1: stuff right, it's you know, Fleury obviously coming from San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: but a couple of different wrinkles here and there. But
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  Speaker 1: it's uh so it's been good that way to be
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  Speaker 1: able to get some of that same verbiage, but just
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of different wrinkles, like I said. So
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  Speaker 1: it's been really good though to be able to you know,
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  Speaker 1: get some stuff that you know, he's been doing with
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco the last couple of years, and and how
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  Speaker 1: we can kind of incorporate that into our system and
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  Speaker 1: you know, be able to U Yeah, just like I said,
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  Speaker 1: just incorporate it into what we've kind of been building on,
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  Speaker 1: you know this past year.
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  Speaker 3: Personality applies.
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  Speaker 2: What do you know about for his personality.
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  Speaker 1: Now after working with him a little bit that he
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. Yeah, I mean he's really stoic. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's one thing that really stands out, like he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: his standard's really high for our group, not only for us,
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  Speaker 1: but for himself as well. So that's one thing that
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  Speaker 1: you know, is great to see in a coordinator, is
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  Speaker 1: the standard being what it is and that you know,
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  Speaker 1: if it ever drops, he's gonna hold us to a
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  Speaker 1: high standard and not let that you know, he's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna let us stoop down to a certain level, knowing
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  Speaker 1: that we can continue to rise and continue to get better,
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  Speaker 1: especially during this time. But so he's been great. He's
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  Speaker 1: been great, and uh, you know, but like I said,
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  Speaker 1: we're just continuing to you know, getting to know each other,
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  Speaker 1: you know, throughout these last I guess month and a
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  Speaker 1: half two months. It's been great so far.
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  Speaker 3: Relationship, Like with him in San Francis, it's like having
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  Speaker 3: a one year there past them much or was it
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  Speaker 3: kind of a separate rooms sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: It was separate rooms sort of thing for sure, you know,
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  Speaker 1: him coaching the tight ends, me being a backup quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: You know, obviously cordial, but didn't spend a ton of
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  Speaker 1: time with him.
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  Speaker 3: What's different so far?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of specifics that we could
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  Speaker 1: dive into with you know, things that are different. But
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  Speaker 1: there's some good stuff. There's some good stuff that we
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  Speaker 1: got that he has kind of seen throughout San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the last two or three years that like
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  Speaker 1: I said, since I left there, that they continue to
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  Speaker 1: build on in their system that he brought over here.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been really good stuff. And then even kind of,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, some of the stuff that we were
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  Speaker 1: doing last year and incorporating that into some of the
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  Speaker 1: stuff that they don't necessarily do, or at least when
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  Speaker 1: I was in San Francisco, that they hadn't done. So
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  Speaker 1: it's really good to just kind of, you know, bounce
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  Speaker 1: ideas off of each other, not only with me and Fleury,
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  Speaker 1: but with other players in the locker room as well,
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  Speaker 1: and then obviously with all the other coaches that have
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  Speaker 1: really good ideas that have been other places. So it's
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  Speaker 1: really it's really cool to to just continue to collaborate
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  Speaker 1: on certain ideas and certain concepts.
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  Speaker 3: Should we expect a lot of games for the tight hands, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: san Francisco and background and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, for sure. I remember. I remember like
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  Speaker 1: the first day we got here, he was I guess
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  Speaker 1: like probably the second day after the first practice, he
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  Speaker 1: was really really hard on the tight end and he
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  Speaker 1: was still kind of getting a feel of like how
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  Speaker 1: hard he could be on the other groups. So it's
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  Speaker 1: it's funny, you know, that tight end coaching him it uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it kind of shows itself sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've had a different Ocino. I think what like
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  Speaker 2: the last five years, right at least maybe I mean
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  Speaker 2: for you.
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  Speaker 1: Personally something like that. Yeah, yeah, I'm not really keeping track.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I think just think go back to Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: but yeah, with every team. But is that kind of
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  Speaker 2: a is there much of a transition from year to
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  Speaker 2: year when you have to go through that.
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  Speaker 1: Or I mean, thankfully it hasn't been too much of
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  Speaker 1: a transition, you know, going all the way back. Shoot,
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  Speaker 1: I guess to Carolina with McAdoo, a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a transition to to you know, Shanahan system in San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: and then we did a lot of the same things
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  Speaker 1: in San Francisco to Minnesota. Minnesota coming here was kind
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  Speaker 1: of back to the Shanahan uh kind of verbiage with
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  Speaker 1: with Clint and then this year obviously it's more of
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  Speaker 1: the same. So it's been really good to to have
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  Speaker 1: that kind of familiarity, not only for myself but for
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  Speaker 1: the other guys as well.
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  Speaker 3: And he kind of had to crash or build chemistry
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  Speaker 3: with Rashichahid last year.
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  Speaker 2: Now you've had this full off season to be able
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  Speaker 2: to continue that chemistry, had that long completion not slug
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  Speaker 2: O today, How do you feel about where you guys
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  Speaker 2: are at chemistry.
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  Speaker 1: Wise, Yeah, I feel like we're good. We're just continuing
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  Speaker 1: to learn each other, not only not only for me
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  Speaker 1: and Sheed, but for you know, me, Jack's Coop, you know, Bobo,
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  Speaker 1: Cody White. You know, there's there's so many receivers, so
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  Speaker 1: many tied ends, so many running backs that we as
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks only for myself, but for Dream Jalen, like, we
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  Speaker 1: got to just continue to get these reps because they're
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  Speaker 1: they're so valuable, you know, only with only having a
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  Speaker 1: few practices left and O tas and then you know
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  Speaker 1: the few practices really when you look at it on
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  Speaker 1: a calendar, how few practices you get in training camp
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  Speaker 1: and how many reps you get, Like you really got
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  Speaker 1: to value these reps. And so I think our guys
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  Speaker 1: really understand that, which is why it's so important to
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  Speaker 1: go full speed when we can.
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  Speaker 3: When you get your how much different does the sauces
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  Speaker 3: that feel for your feeling.
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  Speaker 1: You last year by teammate Tornio and you kind offering
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  Speaker 1: law of comp Yeah, I think you know you kind
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  Speaker 1: of see that with the way Brian install some of
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  Speaker 1: the the installs, just with how fast we're able to
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  Speaker 1: move through it and you know, it's it's tough, right
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  Speaker 1: because you want to move through quickly, but you also
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  Speaker 1: don't want to let the details slip through the cracks.
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  Speaker 1: So I think being able to like walk through reps
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  Speaker 1: on the field, get those get those good reps, and
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  Speaker 1: then like when we're going live periods, to be able
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  Speaker 1: to coach it up, you know, as a group. And
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  Speaker 1: I know the O line is doing great things in
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  Speaker 1: their room being able to coach up the run game
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  Speaker 1: in the past game. But just making sure that we're
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  Speaker 1: on the details because you know, when you're when you're
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  Speaker 1: running the same system, you know, for for the second
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  Speaker 1: year in a row. You know, it's just human human
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  Speaker 1: nature is to kind of relax a little bit. So
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's on us as players and as
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  Speaker 1: coaches to continue that high standard of detail.
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  Speaker 3: The preferred that we have the same as you know,
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  Speaker 3: offensive coordinator all the time.
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  Speaker 1: But when you get a different one, does that add
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  Speaker 1: something to your game? Does each one kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of show you something about your game that makes you
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  Speaker 2: holistic that way?
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  Speaker 1: For sure? Yeah, that's a great point. I think you
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  Speaker 1: kind of learn different personalities too, right, Like you know,
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  Speaker 1: for Clint, like to be honest, like he was. The
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  Speaker 1: way that his personality is, it's a little like flurry
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  Speaker 1: like kind of stoic, and you know, I think there's
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  Speaker 1: a little like I think sometimes last year it was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we're just going to continue to run the ball for
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  Speaker 1: running the ball well, and that's that's kind of his mindset,
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  Speaker 1: and that was his mindset last year. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's going to be the exact same,
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  Speaker 1: but it's you know, you kind of build an identity
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  Speaker 1: right as an offense. And I'm not saying the identity
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  Speaker 1: has to be exactly what the coordinator wants to call
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  Speaker 1: her his personality, but it kind of ends up being
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  Speaker 1: that way a little bit coordinator quarterback. So it's it's
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  Speaker 1: really cool to be able to kind of see his
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  Speaker 1: personality and kind of see how we're developing as an
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  Speaker 1: offense and kind of finding our identity. Not necessarily right now,
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  Speaker 1: but as we go into training camp and end of
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  Speaker 1: the season.
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  Speaker 3: See if you guys had three pretty epig battles before
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  Speaker 3: last year at.
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  Speaker 1: They I was Garrett more or some things. This year,
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  Speaker 1: I imagine you're thinking of those are going.
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  Speaker 3: To be pretty pretty high, high level kind of games.
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  Speaker 1: Together this year, which is kind of your thoughts on
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  Speaker 1: on those and kind of looks ah from you guys
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  Speaker 1: in the visioneering year. Yeah, obviously, you know Miles is
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  Speaker 1: a great player. Shoot, Jared Versus a great player as well,
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we don't I don't think we see
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  Speaker 1: them until week sixteen, so you know, we'll cross that
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  Speaker 1: bridge when we get there. What has life been like
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  Speaker 1: as a Super Bowl winning quarterback?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure you were already getting recognized at Ton,
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  Speaker 2: but does that happen more after you.
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  Speaker 1: Guys did what you did. Yeah, I get recognized a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more, I guess. But shoot, I think for me,
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  Speaker 1: nothing's really changed other than getting married that was pretty cool,
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  Speaker 1: But no, it's nothing's really changed for me. The way
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  Speaker 1: that you know, I work, the way that our entire
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  Speaker 1: locker room is, you know. So yeah, think nothing changes
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  Speaker 1: that way. But I think off the field is a
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  Speaker 1: little bit different. But other than that, nothing's changed. That
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  Speaker 1: actually hasn't really changed much either, you know. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's been It's been great though, just to be able
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  Speaker 1: to be married to my best friend. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing in the world like it.
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  Speaker 2: Have you had a chance to harass Josh Allen about
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  Speaker 2: the super Bowl at all.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm staying away from that one. Anything else, Thanks, thanks,