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Cooper Kupp: "The Defense Played Lights Out" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: How's everyone doing good? How that one feel? Oh good?
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  Speaker 1: I mean wins, you're gonna take them. They're too hard
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  Speaker 1: to get in this league. So we were the benefactors
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  Speaker 1: of some very good defense being played on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball. Defense just you know, played lights out,
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  Speaker 1: put in some really good positions and then capitalize on
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  Speaker 1: some very bad positions that we put them in. So
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  Speaker 1: there a lot of stuff offensive that we're gonna want
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  Speaker 1: to tune up, a lot of stuff that we just
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  Speaker 1: wasn't up to our standard. But looking forward to looking
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  Speaker 1: at that film and uh Met, we're so close. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things just right there, just as little
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  Speaker 1: details and looking forward to making those adjustments and moving
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  Speaker 1: forward wasn't enough to standard. Just it's it's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: I mean the it's gonna be all over the all
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  Speaker 1: over the tape. There's gonna be stuff every position. Everyone's
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  Speaker 1: got a hand in it. And it's small things. It's
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  Speaker 1: you play against this defense and what flow presents, and
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  Speaker 1: you have to you have to be on your stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and you have to be able to adapt and move
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  Speaker 1: and understand that it's gonna be some looks that we
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  Speaker 1: haven't practiced. There's gonna be some things out there that
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  Speaker 1: that you just have to know your rules and be
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  Speaker 1: able to go make it, make it happen. And players
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  Speaker 1: have to make plays. I thought some stuff just I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just specifically for us at receiver, you gotta find ways
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  Speaker 1: to het the ball in your hands and make some
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  Speaker 1: explosives off the ball getting out quick and know you
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  Speaker 1: have to run and make some explosive plays and give
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  Speaker 1: kubes and the offensive coach is a chance to be
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  Speaker 1: able to jump the ball to regulate some of the
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  Speaker 1: pressures that we were seeing. And I mean, honestly, the
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  Speaker 1: defense playing so well and keeping the pressure on them
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  Speaker 1: offensive I think kept them in some of that aggressive
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  Speaker 1: stuff longer days. Knew that you know, the defense is
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  Speaker 1: going to try to find a way to win it
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  Speaker 1: for him, and yeah, it made it very challenging. And
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  Speaker 1: the stuff right there for us, I mean the little things.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the amount of balls that were bad down
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  Speaker 1: to the lot of scrimmage. So how do we find
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  Speaker 1: ways to to to get those out of the pocket?
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  Speaker 1: How do we find ways to make those positives? And
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  Speaker 1: there's not one person that's responsible for that, it's everyone
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  Speaker 1: finding ways of like, hey, how do we how do
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  Speaker 1: we make that happen. You know, the game was fairly
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  Speaker 1: in hand at that point. Helping was it to finish
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  Speaker 1: that last drive get a touch of finance? Yeah, that's huge.
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  Speaker 1: And just being able to, you know, run the ball
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  Speaker 1: when you're in a situation where like, hey, we know
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  Speaker 1: that the balls are going to be on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, finding ways to just kind of continue
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  Speaker 1: to you know, move the lot of scrimmage and battle.
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  Speaker 1: I thought there was just as time went on. I
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  Speaker 1: thought the guys did a great job of being able
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  Speaker 1: to you know, I don't know, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the word is exactly, but you know, continue to assert
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  Speaker 1: your will. And it's like, there's going to be it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be hard, you know, early in the game when
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  Speaker 1: everyone's fresh and everyone's feeling good. But how can you
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  Speaker 1: do in the third and fourth quarter? How can you
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  Speaker 1: continue to come off the rock and move the lot
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage and and hit guys and move bodies. And
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  Speaker 1: I thought the guys did good job that recovery. Can
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  Speaker 1: you just take us through that play? That looks like
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  Speaker 1: maybe I got landed on there. Oh yeahs are really fun. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just saw the ball pop out there then if
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  Speaker 1: he was down or not. And there's nothing like just
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  Speaker 1: diving headfirst into a pile, you know, some massive human
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  Speaker 1: beings are jumping into and just yeah, I got the shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: It was. It was all good. Are those a weaker
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  Speaker 1: core stories about what happened at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: piles as true? Yeah, they're all true. Everything you've heard
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  Speaker 1: is completely true. Mike was talking up here ear ago
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  Speaker 1: about just the personal hardships that Ernest has gone through.
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  Speaker 1: A way, as someone who's known him a while, what's
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  Speaker 1: a left to see him play likes play display that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've loved Earnest for since he was in LA. What
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  Speaker 1: he did at seem when he came in as a rookie,
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  Speaker 1: the way he carried himself, the way he you know,
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  Speaker 1: could command a room as a as a rookie middle
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  Speaker 1: linebacker coming in and being able to being able to
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  Speaker 1: learn this game, understand it at such a high level,
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  Speaker 1: but then also be able to call people up to
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  Speaker 1: the standard and being able to set the standard. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was one of the most impressive things
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  Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Well, he's one of the best leaders
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  Speaker 1: I've ever I've ever been around, and you know, to
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  Speaker 1: be able to go through all the adversity, all the
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  Speaker 1: things that's just the trauma, but continue to just hold
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  Speaker 1: fast and hold strong and and overcome and be the
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  Speaker 1: same Earnest regardless of the circumstances have been, you know,
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  Speaker 1: impose on regardless of the things happening in his life.
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  Speaker 1: Just being able to, you know, hold his bearing and
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  Speaker 1: and be there for the guys over and over and
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  Speaker 1: over again. It's it's an impressive thing. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I love earn and he know he's got he knows
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  Speaker 1: he's got everyone in all those teams, guys back. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's awesome seem out there making plays and doing
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  Speaker 1: what he's doing.