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Devon Witherspoon: "The Defense Is Very Creative" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Short of step, but you know how.
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  Speaker 2: It's impart of the practice that's quint like that one.
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  Speaker 1: Uh what you mean by that? Like walk through? Wise?
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  Speaker 1: It just like that was a long walk through.
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  Speaker 3: It was yeah, it I mean it was cool though
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  Speaker 3: you hear me take a step back, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying, give us a little break.
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  Speaker 1: Off of lib But it was cool though. What was
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  Speaker 1: the emphasis to that? Fucking more? Is mental?
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  Speaker 3: Just getting mental reps and going through the uh walk through,
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  Speaker 3: just mind to make sure we're correcting everything we need
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  Speaker 3: to correct and just focus on what we need to
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  Speaker 3: focus on, just taking off the paths and stuff, just
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  Speaker 3: giving our body a break. Well, now we just gotta
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  Speaker 3: elevate our mental part of that.
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  Speaker 4: Soach, though, how do you maximbidize a practice like that,
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  Speaker 4: especially when there's obviously no contact at all, even compare
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  Speaker 4: the OTA.
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  Speaker 3: Style, right, I think the biggest thing is for that,
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  Speaker 3: it's just attention to detail, knowing what you're doing, going
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  Speaker 3: through everything, communicating, making all your adjustments that we need
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  Speaker 3: to make.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: So just gotta pay attention to what's going on out there,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what we got to focus on.
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  Speaker 1: The downs were a big problem for the defense last year.
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  Speaker 4: How do you guys wrack that this year?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Cole Mike McDonald, that's how you correct that.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you.
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  Speaker 3: Anticipate taking the biggest jump from last year to this year?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? I don't really know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just trying to see you how that gonna play
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  Speaker 3: out during the season. So it's unknown for right now.
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  Speaker 4: What do you like about this defense in the way
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  Speaker 4: that it should, uh highlight your skills? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: You don't know what what we're gonna be running at
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  Speaker 3: the time, so it might look like one thing and
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  Speaker 3: it be another. Then it might look like something and
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  Speaker 3: actually be that, But you'll never know at the time.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's one of the biggest things about it.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just very creative.
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  Speaker 2: So is there a lot more learning then to do
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  Speaker 2: with all that?
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  Speaker 3: Or I mean, yeah, it is, but like once you
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  Speaker 3: get it down, like it's kind of easy, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. Whence you know what you're doing, know
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  Speaker 3: what spots you're get into, it just makes it kind
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  Speaker 3: of easy for you. Now it's just kind of like
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  Speaker 3: disguising it and making our own love, mixing flavor to it.
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  Speaker 4: So with all those moving parts, would you say that
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  Speaker 4: you have to know, you have to know more of
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  Speaker 4: attention to detail on what everybody else is doing around you,
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  Speaker 4: because there's always a chance you could end up having
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  Speaker 4: to play a number of those spots.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I just think you, like, like I said, attention to
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  Speaker 3: detail and then really just got to focus on what's
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  Speaker 3: going on out there. And I think the biggest thing
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  Speaker 3: about it in this defense, you just gotta communicate. When
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  Speaker 3: you talk, you will be on point of what's going on,
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  Speaker 3: what you're gonna get into, what you're in, and just
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  Speaker 3: if anybody moves, we already know what we get into
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  Speaker 3: before they move.
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  Speaker 1: So communication is the biggest part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Is there flexibility for creativity just among players or does
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  Speaker 2: everything come from the sidelines.
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  Speaker 1: And the coaches. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a bit little bit of both. So
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  Speaker 3: it's like it's just a mix of players and coaches
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  Speaker 3: at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: Can you know of us understanding what back communication is
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  Speaker 1: right and what people okay we hear everybody. Seems like
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  Speaker 1: everybody's talking to everybody before what's going on there?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Like I said, we're just trying to talk and
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  Speaker 3: see what we're getting into, what formation we're looking at
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  Speaker 3: if somebody moves motion shift, what we're gonna get to
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  Speaker 3: before that happens, so we could be ahead of that play.
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  Speaker 1: So that's really what it is.
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  Speaker 2: How is Mike as a coach in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: teaching aspect of it, Like, obviously there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: information launch of I guess how is he teaching that?
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  Speaker 3: I guess teaching step by step? So he really break
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  Speaker 3: it down and then focus on like one part of
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  Speaker 3: the install. So once you get the base down, then
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  Speaker 3: like the details that's going to it, it makes it
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  Speaker 3: kind of easy because you already know what you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: So aside from the new coaching and everything else, just
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  Speaker 2: you and your second year. How how different does it
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  Speaker 2: feel for you this year out there? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel no different. I'm just trying to build
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  Speaker 1: on what I did last year.
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  Speaker 2: So it was uh taking a step forward on the
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  Speaker 2: defense that you've been going against you. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I think the biggest person is probably Geno.
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  Speaker 3: The way he's been playing lately is just out of
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  Speaker 3: his mind though, Like all the throws, all the keys,
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  Speaker 3: the checks that he making, like he's very on point
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  Speaker 3: right now and it's just kind of making it hard
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  Speaker 3: for him, but he's really making it hard for us
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, from what you've seen at this offense so far,
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  Speaker 2: going against the once stands out. Oh, I mean just
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  Speaker 2: Geno Bucks is it's pretty impressed with what they're doing overall.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, you kind of never know what they're gonna do,
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  Speaker 3: so that's just a big part about it. Coach Grudd do.
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  Speaker 3: He makes it very difficult to know what he's in
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  Speaker 3: and what he's gonna run and it might look like
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  Speaker 3: one thing and you come out shifting run some up.
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  Speaker 3: So Coach Grudd does a very good job behind what
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: How much do you appreciate, man'm t shirt to.
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  Speaker 1: Day th pathic man? You know now I appreciated a
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  Speaker 1: lot though.
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  Speaker 3: It just takes some stress off our body and just
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  Speaker 3: focus on the mental esport, mental aspect of it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's cool, Sprie. You guys surprised. Yeah, we ain't
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  Speaker 1: expect this though.
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  Speaker 3: We just know we were finna go be in training camp,
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  Speaker 3: so you know our hard training camp is so that's
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  Speaker 3: what we were suspecting. But shout out of court MacDonald
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  Speaker 3: could appreciate you, my wife, So how is.
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  Speaker 1: Your relationship with coach McDonald? Girl for a part of
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  Speaker 1: Rock the Trainer.
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  Speaker 3: Cawn, Oh, me and my me and Court MacDonald's cool
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  Speaker 3: man you cool. We kind of we kind of picked
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  Speaker 3: me to tell the mess with each other. But and
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  Speaker 3: all in all, I think it's all love for both
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  Speaker 3: of us.
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  Speaker 1: So it's cool.
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  Speaker 4: What's it like going from a a former head coach
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  Speaker 4: that cause just like I had a pretty different stylecdonald
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  Speaker 4: to McDonald.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I mean this coach change like once you kind
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  Speaker 3: of like when you first when he first came in,
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of you don't know him, so you don't
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  Speaker 3: know what he's like and stuff like that. But once
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  Speaker 3: you get to know him and get a feel for
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  Speaker 3: our years. I mean, it's kind of kind of plays
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  Speaker 3: out the.
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  Speaker 1: Same outside I can't hear. Yeah, outside this series about
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  Speaker 1: the same. I don't know yet. I don't know inside
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  Speaker 1: and outside left right. It don't matter to me. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: coach need me to play at. I mean, then that's
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  Speaker 1: why i'm'a be So if you're gonna play ags, but
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  Speaker 1: how if you're play Olympic sport, which would it be,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't gonna lie to doing it. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I'll cut out for that though to
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  Speaker 3: be honest, so I don't know, probably hooping, though I
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  Speaker 3: probably hoop, sure