Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "My Team Trusts Me To Make Those Plays"
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Jackson. Drew said that ball was always coming to you
- 0:02Speaker 1: once you've got the one on them there to I'm
- 0:05Speaker 1: sure you're thinking the same thing to be able to
- 0:07Speaker 1: come through with it. How how heard that field for you?
- 0:10Speaker 1: I just wanted to give all glory to God, my
- 0:12Speaker 1: layd and Savior Jesus Christ. Just allow for allowing me
- 0:15Speaker 1: to wake up and play today. You know, super fun,
- 0:18Speaker 1: emotional win, emotional game, great team win. Drew Locke stepped
- 0:23Speaker 1: up and yea, all on that play. You know, I
- 0:25Speaker 1: knew if we had man coverage, it was coming to me,
- 0:27Speaker 1: So you know, just thankful I, you know, was able
- 0:30Speaker 1: to make the play. Dah, just just clip the float
- 0:33Speaker 1: around right now. That compares that catch when you had
- 0:35Speaker 1: into Utah the Rose Bowl House similar? Were those two plays? Mm?
- 0:40Speaker 1: Definitely kind of similar, same kind of corner. Yeah, I've
- 0:46Speaker 1: been making catches like that, you know, for a long time.
- 0:49Speaker 1: So hopefully you know that continues to carry on. Drew
- 0:53Speaker 1: Locke said, they were in the same you guys were
- 0:54Speaker 1: in the same play in the first drive for down.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Does go to those play side? Did you know at
- 0:59Speaker 1: that time that was going to be open? Later with
- 1:01Speaker 1: that you come back to I knew just by preparing
- 1:04Speaker 1: all week that that you know, it feels man to man,
- 1:09Speaker 1: you know that. You know I was to go to
- 1:11Speaker 1: on that play and we ran it before and they
- 1:14Speaker 1: did play man, but you know, you know, football stuff happens,
- 1:18Speaker 1: and then the next play we were able to get
- 1:20Speaker 1: it down. So you know, happy I got, you know,
- 1:23Speaker 1: the same look now in your rookie season that called
- 1:26Speaker 1: your number for a game winning. The situation just was
- 1:29Speaker 1: a head out there, the confidence day happening. Yeah. I mean,
- 1:33Speaker 1: you know, I just try to control I can can
- 1:36Speaker 1: control and come in to practice every day catching you know,
- 1:39Speaker 1: every ball in the air and you know, translate that
- 1:42Speaker 1: to the game. So yeah, I just hope, you know,
- 1:46Speaker 1: my team trust me to make those plays and it
- 1:48Speaker 1: feels good for them to do that. What Drew show
- 1:51Speaker 1: yet today just coming out and leaving the draft up
- 1:54Speaker 1: that he's a competitor. You know, he's a winner. You know,
- 1:58Speaker 1: super happy. You know, he guys opportunity and you know
- 2:01Speaker 1: showed out. We all had, you know, big faith in him.
- 2:04Speaker 1: You know in practice he brings it every day and
- 2:07Speaker 1: you know he's a good quarterback, so you know, happy
- 2:09Speaker 1: he got to step in and get the job done today, Ariel,
- 2:15Speaker 1: thanks Jacks,