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Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "I'm Blessed To Be A Seahawk" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: See you here the hate.
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  Speaker 2: Second time where the cowboy has is gonna be a team?
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  Speaker 1: It might be. It might just might just have to
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  Speaker 1: be you know, feel comfortable and weak too, and oh
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  Speaker 1: in it so you might see it again later on
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  Speaker 1: this year.
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  Speaker 2: What does it mean to you? I did to break
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  Speaker 2: the case record and kind of do it as fast
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  Speaker 2: as you.
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  Speaker 1: Did this year? It means it means a lot. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this organization, great organization and great receivers have you know,
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  Speaker 1: came through here. So honestly, I look at is it
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  Speaker 1: as it as a team award, honestly because you know,
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  Speaker 1: without Sam and without the protection, without sheet and coop,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, this doesn't happen. And you know
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  Speaker 1: so I'm grateful. I'm thankful, blessed for my team, blessed
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  Speaker 1: to be a Seahawk. Rules. It was, I mean the
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  Speaker 1: goal that I set, you know, I guess you could
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  Speaker 1: say this was definitely part of it. So did you
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  Speaker 1: do today that you had a chance, I mean that
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  Speaker 1: you were one hundred or something yards away from it? Yeah, yees, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Both in the Arizona game, this game, other games, you
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  Speaker 2: throttle down sometimes on deep passes and kind of box
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  Speaker 2: out your your defender. Is that something you've always been
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  Speaker 2: able to do or something you picked up.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, like I'm starting to notice it, like
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  Speaker 1: more like I'm doing it a little bit more. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just playing ball, going out there playing ball. Definitely notice
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  Speaker 1: it a little bit. But I wouldn't say something that
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  Speaker 1: I've done. But you know, anyway to make a play,
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  Speaker 1: you know, got to do it.
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  Speaker 2: When did you notice when?
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  Speaker 1: At what point when the ball was in plight did
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  Speaker 1: you notice you might be overrunning it? He just once
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  Speaker 1: the ball was in there, as as soon as I
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  Speaker 1: saw the ball, you know, just adjust make a play
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  Speaker 1: as soon as I as soon as I seen it.
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  Speaker 2: When you're doing that, are you trying to keep the
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  Speaker 2: defender on there coming back or is that an actual
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  Speaker 2: conscious effort?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, sometimes and that in that play specifically, he
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  Speaker 1: was kind of on my side. So just you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know dbs, I would say I have better ball
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  Speaker 1: tracking skills than a lot of dbs, and I can
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  Speaker 1: kind of feel their tenseness and you know, freaking out
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  Speaker 1: when the ball is in the air. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: just staying relaxing and calm. Me and Derek and coach Friz,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we work on drills like that all the time,
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  Speaker 1: you know, every single day, so you know, just bringing
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  Speaker 1: it to life, giving them just enough of a nudge
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  Speaker 1: to create themselves. Hold it off, hold the line, hold
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  Speaker 1: your line, and uh, you know, let the ball be
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  Speaker 1: out there and break out the last second, you know,
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  Speaker 1: catch the ball. It's a great drill and you know
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  Speaker 1: something that you know you can see in the game
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  Speaker 1: that to not get the call, just staying your ground,
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  Speaker 1: you know, stay your ground, don't pay it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: need to push, you know, I can you know, just
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  Speaker 1: hold off and stand my ground and you know, get
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  Speaker 1: the ball out the last second sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: You went the most on that play. It ended up
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  Speaker 2: being carded by safety. I think Mike was saying that
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  Speaker 2: was probably a coverage best fight in them and Sam said,
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  Speaker 2: you weren't necessarily the probable number one read there, But
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  Speaker 2: did you figure out immediately like I've got this matchup
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  Speaker 2: as this is part.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean credit to Sam, you know, just
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  Speaker 1: seeing it, sticking with me and understanding you know that
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna adjust my route mid play, so for him
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  Speaker 1: to be able to see that and put the ball
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  Speaker 1: up and give me a chance. You know, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, elite, you know, championship football and something
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  Speaker 1: you know we hope to continue.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what was your reaction to what Sam Donold
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  Speaker 2: did one week after having some turnovers, coming out throwing
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  Speaker 2: only touchdowns, no picks and still you know, going.
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  Speaker 1: Through the deep ball. No panic, you know, no penic
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  Speaker 1: from us. You know, we're gonna stick to the routine,
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  Speaker 1: make it right. We believe in Sam. He's our quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: he's our guy, and we're gonna ride with them. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, every time we come out, we just want
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  Speaker 1: to play our best game. And if we did it
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  Speaker 1: the week before, you know, we're gonna come back and swinging,
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  Speaker 1: keep swinging.
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  Speaker 2: And Walker had to explosive frons today and get some
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  Speaker 2: more carries. He's starting to feel like what he can
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  Speaker 2: add to this offense rest of the way, Oh.
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  Speaker 1: For sure, getting on the ball and good things happens.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to see him. His elusiveness is next level.
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  Speaker 1: Never seen it before, and we just got to you know,
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  Speaker 1: block better and you know, create more open lanes for him.
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  Speaker 2: Running back more in the passing game here, Lasser game
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  Speaker 2: and a half or so, are you seeing that have
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of an impact in terms of what
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  Speaker 2: you guys are seen in the back end too, because
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  Speaker 2: now teams are.
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  Speaker 1: Having to focus on it one thousand percent. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's the name of the game. Take what they give you.
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  Speaker 1: And running back's been doing a great job. Sam, just
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  Speaker 1: check down, make it to the next play, and you
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  Speaker 1: know running backs making the most of it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna need every single guy out here, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of my guys. You get that happen this
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  Speaker 1: know it's my online shopping the deal with Ah yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good cool, Thank you,