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Klint Kubiak On the Week Win 4 & Preparing For Tampa Bay's Defense · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: But is it curious hours a night.
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  Speaker 2: No, all of our all of our coaches are working hard,
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  Speaker 2: all of our players are working hard.
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  Speaker 3: It's just the that's the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Has always been that way. Is that your work ethic?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 2: I just think we're we all put put everything we
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  Speaker 2: can into these games. You know, these seventeen to one
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  Speaker 2: game seasons. You just want to make sure that that
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  Speaker 2: you got your players prepared and the coaches prepared. And uh,
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  Speaker 2: we're no different than any other staff in the NFL
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  Speaker 2: in that regard.
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  Speaker 4: When you are sleeping, what wakes you up? Like you
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  Speaker 4: think in la oh, I forgot about this check? Or
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  Speaker 4: what's the thing that gets you awake? I sleep really
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  Speaker 4: well at the end of the night. Yeah. But but honestly, though,
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  Speaker 4: the the thing that that ways you upon night is
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  Speaker 4: you know, just thinking of thinking of situations. Mainly because
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  Speaker 4: of coach coach Mike.
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  Speaker 2: He puts us through the craziest situations in every practice
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  Speaker 2: in such a great way.
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  Speaker 3: Him and Brian Ayres just the.
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  Speaker 2: Most phenomenal situational UH coaches that I've ever been around,
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  Speaker 2: and the things they prep our players for are are amazing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so thankful to get to work with those guys.
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  Speaker 1: What are some of those situations you hadn't seen coaches
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  Speaker 1: thrill before.
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  Speaker 2: I just think we're this coach is just so detailed
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  Speaker 2: with finding things that come up in the league each week,
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  Speaker 2: you know, meeting about it, talking about it, what we
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  Speaker 2: do here, and then putting our players through it in practice.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that's a part of the coaches DNA,
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  Speaker 2: just how prepared that he is and how prepared he
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  Speaker 2: gets his his players and coaches with those scenarios, you.
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  Speaker 4: Say, more of just the element of surprise that you
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  Speaker 4: might have to deal with something just in the snap
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  Speaker 4: of a.
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  Speaker 5: Finger, or is it how complex or it usual that
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  Speaker 5: play might.
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  Speaker 4: Be that you can see.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we we uh you know, we watch things
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  Speaker 2: that come up around the league. We'll bring up things
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  Speaker 2: that have happened, you know, years before, and then coach
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  Speaker 2: coach all all of a sudden, call a situation out
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  Speaker 2: in practice that nobody's ready for make you think on
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  Speaker 2: your feet. So I think he does a great job
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  Speaker 2: preparing preparing us that way.
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  Speaker 4: What's something you do for a game prep now that
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  Speaker 4: maybe you didn't do when you first started out that
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  Speaker 4: you find really valuable.
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  Speaker 2: I just I think the main thing is you every
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  Speaker 2: in every game, something comes up that you didn't hadn't
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  Speaker 2: talked about, you know, the unscouted looks, what have what have?
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  Speaker 3: What did this style of defense give you?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it wasn't the same team you're preparing for, and
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  Speaker 2: always always know that the other side's working on your
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  Speaker 2: weaknesses as well, so things that have that have heard
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  Speaker 2: us in the past. Maybe it's not that same coordinator,
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  Speaker 2: but it's the same defensive structure that that you're trying
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  Speaker 2: to put your players through each week and practice.
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  Speaker 4: Statistically, the run game to would take a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of step forward agains the Did you feel that.
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  Speaker 1: Way watching it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought our guys. Our guys had a much
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  Speaker 2: improved game. We're always looking to improve in all facet
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  Speaker 2: it's not just the run game but protection and past
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  Speaker 2: game situationally, but we we got to make.
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  Speaker 3: Sure every week were improving. Number say, Tampa is really
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  Speaker 3: hard to run on. What what about their defense makes
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  Speaker 3: out a challenge?
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  Speaker 2: Number One, I think there's so well coached there, discipline,
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  Speaker 2: they play really hard, they take the ball away and uh,
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  Speaker 2: very very similar to our defense. Just how physical that
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  Speaker 2: Tampa is playing against coach Bowls for many years. His guys, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're they're in the right spots and they're
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  Speaker 2: coming with a bad attitude. So we have a ton
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  Speaker 2: of respect for them and putting all of our our
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  Speaker 2: time in this week to getting ready for him.
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  Speaker 5: Over the first four games, you guys had more rushing
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  Speaker 5: plays than went for either no yards or negative yards
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  Speaker 5: than any other team.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of that? What's what's been the common.
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  Speaker 5: Thread there if any?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think number one is is coaching better. Number
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  Speaker 2: two is getting our guys ready to go, get get
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  Speaker 2: better targeted. But it all, it all starts with me
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  Speaker 2: and just being being better organized for the players so
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  Speaker 2: that we can give them a successful plan.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of challenge? You know what?
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  Speaker 2: I think he's just a premier, premier defensive lineman in
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  Speaker 2: this league. And obviously he's he's a big man, but uh,
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  Speaker 2: he plays really hard and the guys around him are
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  Speaker 2: are excellent, So it's a really good front.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we have a ton of respect for them.
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  Speaker 4: Sam's decision making in the pocket, his maturity ability to
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  Speaker 4: understand your defense.
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  Speaker 1: Is Can you talk a little bit about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think just his experience. He's got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of a lot of games in this league piled up.
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  Speaker 2: There's very few things he hasn't seen. So throughout the
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  Speaker 2: week and meetings, you know, he's always bringing bringing up
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  Speaker 2: things that, hey, what happens if if if they do this?
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  Speaker 2: You know, what's my check here? What play can I
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  Speaker 2: get to? I just think he's so forward thinking. He's
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  Speaker 2: using his past experience to his advantage.
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  Speaker 4: We're seeing run across the NFL. The twelve personnel is
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  Speaker 4: an increasing in usage the last four years.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think that is?
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't speak to that.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's played the strength of your roster and
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of you know, a lot of good
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  Speaker 2: tight ends that are that are coming up. But I
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  Speaker 2: I don't have any anything to add on that.
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  Speaker 1: What a quarterback? Where's the play sheet on the restpan?
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  Speaker 5: Is that usually the quarterbacks preference or the coordinators or
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  Speaker 5: a combination of the two.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's been both. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Some guys don't don't like the risk band, some guys
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  Speaker 2: like it. I think you just try to do what's
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  Speaker 2: best for not only the quarterback, but for the whole
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  Speaker 2: team so they can have more time at the line
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  Speaker 2: of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 5: Where do you think your play calls rank in terms
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  Speaker 5: of like the wordiest of offensive play calls?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would hope not not too high.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it's important as a coach that you
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  Speaker 2: get get the guys out of the huddle. So the
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  Speaker 2: more wordy you are, I think, the more you hurt
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  Speaker 2: the guys. But you know, we have a we have
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  Speaker 2: Our quarterbacks are really intelligent. They spit them out quick,
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  Speaker 2: they study their tail off and they're prepared. Both the
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks in this game are guys that kind of to
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  Speaker 2: bounce around a little bit before finding the success they've
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  Speaker 2: had now didn't Given the complexities of that position, maybe
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  Speaker 2: guys could give it.
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  Speaker 3: Up on a little too soon.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes absolutely, Yeah, absolutely, And that's just part of the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's going to get fired, you know, coaches, players, and
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  Speaker 2: then what happens after that, you know. So I think
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  Speaker 2: Sam is a terrific example of, you know, just keep fighting.
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  Speaker 2: You have a passion, you love playing the game. You
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  Speaker 2: get better and you get another opportunity and you make
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  Speaker 2: the most of it. So it's no different than any
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  Speaker 2: other position. There's just more of a microscope on on
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  Speaker 2: the cues focuses.
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  Speaker 4: Want to talk about connection on the team with the
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  Speaker 4: players in the locker room. What about the coaching staff
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  Speaker 4: with the connection there and how does this compare to
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  Speaker 4: coaching staffs.
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  Speaker 1: You've been on in the past.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's another advantage we have just with with
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  Speaker 2: coach Mike, the the way that number one that he's
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  Speaker 2: built the staff and the camaraderie that he that he
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  Speaker 2: fosters especially and that starts in the offseason. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's a brilliant x as an OST coach. However,
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  Speaker 2: he's he's I think he's even better at bringing our
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  Speaker 2: staff together. And everyone loves everybody when you're when you're winning, right,
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  Speaker 2: so everything's rainbows and cupcakes when you're winning. It's when
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  Speaker 2: adversity hits, and it's going to hit for all of us.
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  Speaker 2: It's you know, how does how does your staff come
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  Speaker 2: together when that happens.
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  Speaker 1: Are you chatty with your quarterbacks through the headset until
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  Speaker 1: the cutoff? Or you let him digest and see.
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  Speaker 2: I think you have to ask Sam, but I would
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  Speaker 2: I would say say less and let him get to
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  Speaker 2: the line and go to work.
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  Speaker 1: Did you find a had to find a balance as
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  Speaker 1: you started to do that in the league. When did
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  Speaker 1: when did that evolve for you? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think that. Uh it's hard to say.
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  Speaker 2: It's just you go. You go do the job and
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  Speaker 2: see what works and what doesn't. Okay, there's earlier and.
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  Speaker 1: Then found that that wasn't the way.
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  Speaker 3: I think it depends on who your quarterback is.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the things that the reminders you think they
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  Speaker 2: might they might need. So if you're with a younger guy,
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  Speaker 2: maybe given a few more reminders. If you're with a
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  Speaker 2: more of a veteran guy, you have more trust to
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  Speaker 2: to shut up and let him go play.
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  Speaker 4: Similar when your more style needs your dad's.
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  Speaker 1: Uh did you did you ever try to mimic your dad?
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear your dad?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 5: Paul the plays talked to the quarterback for the offense
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  Speaker 5: and then try to do the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: I was so fortunate to get to work with him
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  Speaker 2: in Denver and Minnesota and and and see how he
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  Speaker 2: goes about things. And then with so many other coaches
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  Speaker 2: as well, like with for instance, Kevin Stefanski or Mike
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  Speaker 2: McCoy or or Cliff Kingsbury or Mike Sherman, and they
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  Speaker 2: all have different styles and as long as you're just
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  Speaker 2: be yourself. I think that's the main thing. Be yourself,
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  Speaker 2: because the players will see right through it if you're not.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned in the right game that the targeting needs
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  Speaker 5: to be better sometimes when it's not where it's supposed
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  Speaker 5: to be.
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  Speaker 1: What the positive that something.
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  Speaker 3: The defense is do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I think it's it's a combination both. It's
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  Speaker 2: seeing seeing unscouted looks. Uh, it's line movement. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: players making plays and and and getting beat. It's coaches
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  Speaker 2: making bad calls. It's a team thing. It's we're all
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  Speaker 2: missing together offensively, and uh, we're all working to improve.
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  Speaker 1: Are there a lot of if then stuff that goes
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  Speaker 1: on pre snap for you guys when you have.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, definitely, Yeah, there's there's plenty of times where we
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  Speaker 2: have multiple multiple plays called and Sam's getting this from
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  Speaker 2: one to the other. Uh, there's plenty of collets and
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  Speaker 2: run it's with versus different fronts. So uh, it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to say it's just one.
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  Speaker 1: Thing anything else.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks guys,