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Mike Macdonald: "This Leaves Us Hungry For More" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, obviously disappointed we uh didn't win the game,
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  Speaker 1: and as you're going through it, there's just so many
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  Speaker 1: things that uh, you know, we just we need to
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  Speaker 1: execute better situation wise. But there's also a lot of
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  Speaker 1: good stuff on tape to a lot of stuff we
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  Speaker 1: improved on from last week. So that's message of guys
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  Speaker 1: to say, let's just stay steady, let's to attack the
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  Speaker 1: reasons why we lost and and uh where we fell short,
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  Speaker 1: and and then keep improving on the other stuff and
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  Speaker 1: make sure we have a heck of a week. Before
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  Speaker 1: we played Cleveland to close close out the preseason, I
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  Speaker 1: thought Sam was really sharp, you know. I thought we
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  Speaker 1: moved the ball, it made some I thought he made
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  Speaker 1: smart decisions. We ran and out of the huddle, which
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  Speaker 1: felt like we could improve that, you know, in the
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  Speaker 1: second half. But please, it's just pleased, you know, piggybacking
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  Speaker 1: on his performance last week and then in practice on
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday and Thursday, well, you know, the defensively third ounce,
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  Speaker 1: you know, penalties showing up decisions like decisions that we're
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  Speaker 1: making down the field. How we were now rushing coverage
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  Speaker 1: Marrion together didn't extra get a couple of pressures had
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  Speaker 1: a penalty in there in the fringe where they had
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  Speaker 1: third and long, which you know, like back and that's
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  Speaker 1: another third and short penalty. Uh, played the run better
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  Speaker 1: in the second half, I felt like, so that was
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  Speaker 1: a positive, you know, I think I think Dave said that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we had one penalty in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: We had six in the second half. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what happened on those plays. But felt like
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  Speaker 1: we could have made some smarter decisions on some of
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  Speaker 1: those situations, and offensively, you know, weren't getting off the
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  Speaker 1: field on defense, and then I think we piggybacked it
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  Speaker 1: with a three.
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  Speaker 2: And out or a four and out or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So trying to maintain possession and try to take control
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  Speaker 1: of the game in that situation would have.
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  Speaker 2: Been would have been good. But you know, we put
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  Speaker 2: ourselves in the situation to win the game.
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  Speaker 1: We made time, made a great play, we tipped the ball,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Jason made a great kick and when you
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately didn't close it out.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was part of the conversation, but we you know,
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  Speaker 1: went we went backwards. So I just felt like, let's
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  Speaker 1: go take the lead and try to win.
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  Speaker 2: For Oh, it's great. It's so it's great for us.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like we were I feel like we're on
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  Speaker 1: top of for the most part as a coaching staff,
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  Speaker 1: but the players talking through some of those situations, especially
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  Speaker 1: with the backups in the game.
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  Speaker 2: It's invaluable, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna really have to take advantage of that
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  Speaker 1: time to watch the tape with the guys and so
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  Speaker 1: everybody kind of hears what's the thinking is the first
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  Speaker 1: time going through it where they're hearing some of those
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  Speaker 1: alerts things like that, So it'll be it'll be a
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  Speaker 1: valuable next couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he did a great job.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, you know, having the three time outs is
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  Speaker 1: you know, mirrors the execution that in the operation that
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  Speaker 1: we had going in there. So to be able to
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  Speaker 1: have those three time outs and thirty seconds, you're able
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  Speaker 1: to you know, move down the field and you know,
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  Speaker 1: work the entire field. And so I thought he made
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  Speaker 1: some smart decisions. Uh the play at the end, the
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  Speaker 1: last play before the field goal, I thought was a
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  Speaker 1: heck of a play by him, heck of a play
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  Speaker 1: by uh by Brady there and and then we made
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  Speaker 1: the kick.
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  Speaker 2: So that was that was positive.
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  Speaker 1: Played what.
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  Speaker 2: I told you makes tackles.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't want to believe me, but uh, I know, very
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  Speaker 1: pleased with the tackles. Time to step in to the
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  Speaker 1: next level communication wise, blitz, coverage, play recognition. It's almost like, hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: you're not rookie anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Like you gotta you gotta grow up fast. You gotta
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  Speaker 2: be ready to go if your number is called.
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  Speaker 1: So hey, let's go, man, let's not let's not be
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  Speaker 1: settled with making tackles in the preseason. Uh tye tis
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  Speaker 1: He's done that since since I've known him. He's just
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  Speaker 1: uh great, great attitude, great spirit, plays physical, plays the
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  Speaker 1: way you want, great mentality, The guys love him, plays fast,
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  Speaker 1: communicates well. So uh he said he's at a great camp. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. I mean, it felt like
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  Speaker 1: it was going all right, but we hadn't had a
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  Speaker 1: chance to talk about it. And but it'll be fun
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  Speaker 1: to watch it and see how it looked.
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  Speaker 2: But it felt like it looked.
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  Speaker 1: God Defensively, I'd say, it's tough not to calling you know,
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  Speaker 1: so offensive.
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  Speaker 2: It was about the same, but you know, think about
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  Speaker 2: what you're gonna call next.
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  Speaker 1: Things like that didn't really speed up your between series process,
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  Speaker 1: But it's a great opportunity for those guys, and I
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  Speaker 1: thought they did a great job.
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  Speaker 2: Calls were in fast good.
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  Speaker 1: I like, it's interesting to see some of the like
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  Speaker 1: how they approach some of the situations like uh, which
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  Speaker 1: kind of opens up.
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  Speaker 2: For some discussion on how we want to do it.
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  Speaker 1: So overall, I thought it was really positive and it's
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  Speaker 1: a great experience for those guys to game plan and
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  Speaker 1: and and call it on their own. Who's that well,
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  Speaker 1: Sam like's going to him so and he makes plays
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  Speaker 1: when he's given the opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, you know, to be able to execute.
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  Speaker 1: I think I don't know where they we snap that ball,
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  Speaker 1: but once you get to the red zone, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's an opportunity to finish the drive as you get
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  Speaker 1: the ball down the field. But they were running the
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  Speaker 1: ball pretty good, and that's gonna be definitely a point
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  Speaker 1: emphasis for us as a football team is can we
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  Speaker 1: close out driving people close out games?
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  Speaker 2: Because he's gamester gonna be close. We're gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these.
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  Speaker 1: During the season, and you know, you want to be
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  Speaker 1: on the on the on the good side of how
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  Speaker 1: these things end.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got up, he's got a hamstring right now.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see. We'll see how long long it is.
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  Speaker 1: We're not really sure about the severity.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see because we're figuring out how long long it is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, so we might have to we might have
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  Speaker 1: to do something, but we'll know here in the next
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  Speaker 1: few days. I'm just pleased with our mentality, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like coming across the country practicing in the at eight
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  Speaker 1: am your time, just keep answering the bell. You know,
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  Speaker 1: us as a coaching staff, it's our responsibility to find
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  Speaker 1: the corrections and and make it right with those guys,
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  Speaker 1: but it's their job to have the right mentality and
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  Speaker 1: you know, make sure that they're executing on there. And
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  Speaker 1: so really the message from here is can we take
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  Speaker 1: that step, Can we fix some of these things that
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  Speaker 1: we made a mistake with today, and you know, so
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  Speaker 1: we can close these games out and and uh.
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  Speaker 2: Then make that jump as a football team.
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  Speaker 1: As I'd say, overall, you know, not positive. I mean
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the things became just saying things, Bob,
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  Speaker 1: we said why we wanted to come down here, fortunate
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  Speaker 1: to come out relatively healthy. I felt like we got
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  Speaker 1: great work with really all all ones, twos and threes
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  Speaker 1: and special teams. Uh, great to go against somebody else,
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  Speaker 1: like we said, and then it was cool just to
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  Speaker 1: spend time with one another. It would have been great
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  Speaker 1: to put an extimation point on it and and and
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  Speaker 1: come out with a wind. But uh, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: kind of leaves us hungry for for more moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: So but net positive for the whole week. I can't
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  Speaker 1: give you a date on when he's coming back, but
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  Speaker 1: he should be should be going here pretty soon. The
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  Speaker 1: plans have him ready for week one, yeah for sure. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: still still working through how long it's going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, thanks guys,