Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Head Coach Mike Macdonald Looks Ahead To Week 15 vs. Colts

Transcript

Head Coach Mike Macdonald Looks Ahead To Week 15 vs. Colts · Seahawks Press Pass

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, good to see everybody excited for
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: another week, be back at home. So looking forward to
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: a great practice, says had a good walkthrough, So hom
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: or we go, Like, what was your reaction to finding
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: out that the Coles signed the Philip Rivers. It's the NFL, man,
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: you know, it's every week is different, Cause finally we
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: had something kind of crazy happened this year that wasn't expected.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: So I supposed to last year with the power going out,
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: and I felt like we had something going every time
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: every week last year. But that that's kind of it.
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, just if anybody can pull it off, it's him.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: And Guy's probably one of the best competitors in the
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: history of the NFL. And I'm sure he wouldn't do
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: it if he didn't feel like he was ready. So
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: we're getting ready for him, like he's been playing the
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: whole time, expecting. Yeah, we're expecting for him to play.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, well, you know, we gotta be ready for
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: Riley and and for Brett. But yeah, you.
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: Talked about Monday, the unpredictability of facing a rookie quarterback.
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: It's the unpredictability rate facing a forty four year old
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: grandfather played in five.
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tricky. It's it's you know what, do you
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: know me? Do you overthink it? Do you do you go?
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: Mean you're gonna go back and watch some of the
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: stuff that he was doing before he played, before retired.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: You're obviously gonna go off a lot of what they've
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: done this year. So the end of day, we gotta
• 1:42
  Speaker 1: go play football. We gonna go. We gotta make sure
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: we're on our stuff and we're ahead of plays and
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: we're playing playing our style.
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: Ball at Michael High School in another banda film. No,
• 1:55
  Speaker 2: Jonathan del Eric Sober both doesn't need to come back
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: to practice. Do you expect them most have a chance
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: to play this week?
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: We hope, So we hope so that the bill available.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: But each you're on there, you know, same thing. These
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: guys coming off of extended break. So we're gonna have
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: to we have a plan for each guy. We'll see
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: how it pans out throughout the week. But we're optimistic
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: for this weekend and and uh, we gonna see how
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: today goes and then we'll kind of accelerate throughout the
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: rest of the weekend into next week.
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: Does show that he's ready to play is there a
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: chance he would end up as a backup or do
• 2:32
  Speaker 2: you expect them to be back in the lineup one place?
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we gotta, we gotta see how well practice goes.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: But but we'll just we'll make sure he's fully healthy
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: before we start making a declaration.
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: Roy and what might be up a pim.
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's out right now. Yeah, Mike, you made
• 2:54
  Speaker 1: a point after the game Sunday to highlight Hyakota. I'm
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: curious along the ways that you've got here, what what
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: has he shown that gave you the confidence to be
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: able to put him out there? And then what he
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: got out there? What stood out about the way he's played.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's not a secret, it's it's how
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: he handles his business every day. So you know, as
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: a coach, that's that's what you're evaluating on a day
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: to day basis, is what are the inputs that they're
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: putting into how do they execute? I mean, I'm thinking
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: of like last year's o TA red zone, you know,
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: just him being able to understand like red zone calls
• 3:29
  Speaker 1: and be ahead of plays. He's been doing this for
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: an extended period of time, even though he's kind of
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: been in the shadows, so to speak. So that's really it.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: And then it's one of those deals where when it
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: became evident that that Jillian wasnt gonna be able to
• 3:45
  Speaker 1: play and he was gonna have an opportunity, that's when
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: you start to think through, Okay, well now I'm excited
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: to see him go play because he's been doing it
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: for he's earned the right to go to go play.
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: Every week. Run defense is obviously key part of what
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: you guys do. It seems like against the Cold, who
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: have a great run game and might have some changes
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: a quarterback, it becomes a bigger focus.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean it's I mean, it's it's it's one
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: of those deals where if you start putting it, you
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: can't like it's not like we're gonna shift our emphasis
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: more because of outside circumstances. It's it's always a premium
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: for us. It's our standard of how we want to
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: play defense. Colts have a great run game, they have
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: great personnel, uh they call they call great games. They
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: do it. Overall, they do a really really good job
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: and that's the numbers reflect that. So but the mentality
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: is really it's really truly consistent from week to week
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: for us, what stands out to.
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: You, bet Shane Stikeen's style of offense.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: Well, it's his, it's uh, it's their offense. It's very
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: distinct to what they do. It's complimentary, it's tough, it's
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: very situational sound, they're explosive. The quarterback operates at a
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: high level. They do a lot of really really good things.
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: He's a really good coach.
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: We always talking about the guys in the middle bit,
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: the guys on the edges, like and guys like that.
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: To a run defense, it's it's kind of one of
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a twelve is one type of mentality.
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: It's like you have to you have to dominate your
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: area and then some you know, to make this thing
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: come of life. And what we ask of our edge
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: guys is to set great edges and also come to life,
• 5:22
  Speaker 1: not just you know, it's not it's not one of
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: those deals where you just like, Okay, I have contained
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: I did, like I'm just gonna sit here and do
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: my jobs. Like, No, there's I have to go be physical.
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: I have to set a violent edge, have to get
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: off blocks, I gotta I gotta run to the ball.
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: All those different types of things. You know, those and
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: both those guys are really smart and we ask them
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: to do different things in the past game in terms
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: of drops and things like that that can make our
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: pressure system come to life a little bit a little
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: bit more as well.
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: You mentioned the name Taylor in particular.
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: Just what jumps out in the channel man, great contact balance,
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: He's probably the street probably the fastest guy we've we've
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: gone again so far, can outrun angles. It's got really
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: good acceleration, really good vision. He's really he's really good back.
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: He's really good. This is a two in a row
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: now where we've faced the league's best, in my opinion.
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: How do you feel like get way you make sure
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: Robinson he got going a little bit and then it
• 6:22
  Speaker 2: seemed like a sloping deck. How do you feel like
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: your guys handled.
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: That challenge last week? Well, we did enough to win
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: the game. It wasn't really up to our standard about
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: how we want to play. I think the guys were
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: a little bit frustrated come out of the game, but
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: stright where you want him to be, you know what
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: I was pleased with. Our guys played extremely hard and
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: we had waves of the football and even though we
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: missed some tackles. Guys cleaned it up and we played
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: off one another, so we can we can fix all
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: the you know, the technical things and the coaching points.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: That's really on us as coaches to get it fixed.
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: But the intent and the the way we play is there.
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: Mike, what can you tell us about Kennedy Pulamlo taking
• 6:56
  Speaker 2: a leave of absence? Uh?
• 6:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just not going to comment on it. But you know,
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: if the guys are going to step up and Michael
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: Byrne and Justin not and are going to take over
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: that room and they're gonna do a great job and
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: excited for the opportunity those guys have. Do you expect
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: that it will be the rest of the season or
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: do you think he could come back to you it'll
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: be the rest of the season.
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: You talk about finishing in games and that aspect, but
• 7:20
  Speaker 2: you also talk about for the season, focus on one
• 7:22
  Speaker 2: game at the time. You talk about finishing seasons as well.
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: No, we haven't. We we haven't talked about that yet.
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: It's really when you talk about finishing game, it's really
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: about finishing the next play and understanding in the context
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: of where you are. I think that's where we are
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: as a team. I mean, it's really very difficult to
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: win in our league, and it takes, in my opinion,
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: it takes one of your effort and focus for everybody
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: in your organization pulling in the same direction on a
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: weekly basis to give yourself a chance to win. And
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: and our our team has done a great job of
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: that through this week. And that's our in tent every week.
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: And I don't know, maybe I just can't. I brain's
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: not big enough to think about things outside of just
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: the stuff that we can control this week. With Elijah
• 8:15
  Speaker 1: rail Is, I are consideration right now. He's just out
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: right now day to day.
• 8:21
  Speaker 2: Mike, what's Kobe Bryant provide for me in terms of
• 8:25
  Speaker 2: leadership run.
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: Game in the past? Well, leadership wise, his mentality is
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: incredibly competitive. He sets an edge for us on defense
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: run game. Uh, you know a lot of times he's
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: he's at the third level. Sometimes he's at the second level,
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: second level, you're trying to limit yards after you know,
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage to minimize gains. And then
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: when he's at the third level. Uh, you know a
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: lot of time he's it's erase tackles that are preventing explosives.
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: So all those things are really critical to us. But
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: what was the third part of your question? That was it?
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: Okay mm hmm, not much today, alright, alright, see you
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: guys later. Thanks,