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Cooper Kupp: "The Confidence Is Going To Continue To Build" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Is an offense to be able to close out a
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  Speaker 1: game backed up with a one and close out four
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  Speaker 1: and a half minutes, what does the team like about that?
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  Speaker 1: That's huge. That's a big deal. You're backed up there,
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  Speaker 1: you're on the one yard line, whatever it is. Move
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  Speaker 1: the ball, not only just move the ball out into
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  Speaker 1: a safe place if you did have to punt it,
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  Speaker 1: but be able to just finish with the ball. We
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  Speaker 1: talk about it all the time and Zach I think
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  Speaker 1: did a great job putting that on his shoulders and
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  Speaker 1: just making some great runs and um, laying on that
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  Speaker 1: offensive line. So, um, yeah, that's, uh, we want to
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  Speaker 1: be able to live in that world. The way that
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  Speaker 1: Zach was able to play and fall forward and run
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  Speaker 1: through tackles, what was kind of the physical, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of emotional edge that gives you guys as a
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  Speaker 1: whole offensively? Um, that's huge. It's a, it's a huge
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  Speaker 1: deal when you're talking about, you know, giving a guy
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  Speaker 1: an edge and, um, the ability to, you know, run
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  Speaker 1: through arm tackles. And like you said, fall forward. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you sit ahead of the six and you're at, you know,
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  Speaker 1: second six is a, is a big difference in second
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  Speaker 1: and 10. And so, um, You know, that was a
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  Speaker 1: huge thing today. And just pumped for Zach, really. I mean, just, man,
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  Speaker 1: just looked, you know, looked great. And so I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: for him. The confidence is going to continue to build
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  Speaker 1: for him coming back from what he's coming back from. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was really good to see. What did you see
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  Speaker 1: from Jadari as a pass catcher today and what makes
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  Speaker 1: him so tough to stop in the open field? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's electric. He's electric. He is a slash runner.
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  Speaker 1: He's decisive. has obviously has great hands and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being able to activate them in different parts of the field.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think all of our backs have shown
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  Speaker 1: an ability to do that, but Jaron did a great
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  Speaker 1: job of that today. What did you see in Drew
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  Speaker 1: and how he kind of handled the week and go
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  Speaker 1: fight for what he did to get ready to play
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  Speaker 1: that he suffers another injury and kind of comes back
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  Speaker 1: with that face? Yeah, man, that's just, man, it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're watching him go through his daily process
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  Speaker 1: and what it takes just to be able to get
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  Speaker 1: out there to throw the football, you know, early in
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  Speaker 1: the week. I mean, He didn't throw much. And so
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  Speaker 1: battling through and being able to mentally prepare for a
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  Speaker 1: football game without having to be able to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and actually do it, that's really tough to do.
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  Speaker 1: I think he did an unbelievable job and tough through, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: some stuff today as well. Cooper on that front, and
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  Speaker 1: Jadarian and Jackson both said that he threw maybe 20
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  Speaker 1: balls this week. It was a pretty limited amount, let
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  Speaker 1: alone the weeks before this where he was pretty limited, too.
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  Speaker 1: To see him come in, be as on it and
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  Speaker 1: kind of decisive as he was, what does that kind
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  Speaker 1: of speak to Drew? Yeah, I mean, he's a football player, man.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, some guys can go out there
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  Speaker 1: and do that. And just, man, it's just like when
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  Speaker 1: the lights come on, you can go out there and
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  Speaker 1: play ball. And, you know, he showed an ability to
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  Speaker 1: do that, obviously, through this week. Just the poise that
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  Speaker 1: he had in the huddle was great. They work so
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  Speaker 1: well together. They really take such a collaborative approach to
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  Speaker 1: the game. All those guys are talking constantly with one another.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it takes to be able to help whoever that
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  Speaker 1: is that's out there playing. Sam was awesome this week
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  Speaker 1: for Drew. I'm sure Drew will mention that. For him
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  Speaker 1: to come out and be as clear and be able
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  Speaker 1: to see the field like he did was really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Mike talked, when he came in here, talked about being
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  Speaker 1: an all-70 game with all the injuries, taking everybody. You're
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  Speaker 1: missing a ton of starters, including your quarterback. To be
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  Speaker 1: able to win an NFL game pretty decisively, minus the
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  Speaker 1: guys you wore, just what does that tell you about
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  Speaker 1: this team? Yeah, that's huge. It's a big deal. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of guys down, man, and a lot of guys
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  Speaker 1: asked to do things that they maybe haven't been asked
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  Speaker 1: to do in games but have been preparing to do regardless.
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  Speaker 1: And so those guys, I'm excited for those guys to
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  Speaker 1: be able to watch the film and see those guys'
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  Speaker 1: preparation come to life. And, yeah, there's going to be
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  Speaker 1: some really cool stuff to see. There's also going to
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  Speaker 1: be some really tough stuff to watch that we continue
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  Speaker 1: to get better at. where you and Jackson both had
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  Speaker 1: success on game-breaking routes over the middle of the field.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel like that and the run game
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  Speaker 1: complemented each other today? Yeah, well, I mean, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that's just kind of dependent on, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: coverages that you're getting. You know, Arizona's doing a good
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  Speaker 1: job there showing some stuff, you know, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: able to show a heavy box and then roll into
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  Speaker 1: some too high stuff, get into some places where we
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  Speaker 1: felt like, you know, the middle field was open and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, attack some places where safeties were pushing and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. But certainly, you know, when you can
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  Speaker 1: keep defense, I think when you can keep defenses in
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  Speaker 1: this place where they are playing too high, it's a
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  Speaker 1: great opportunity to build around the ball. And it puts
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  Speaker 1: the onus on us as receivers to make sure we're
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  Speaker 1: getting down the field, blocking the guys we're supposed to,
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  Speaker 1: just bringing those short runs into big ones. We saw,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of Jackson, he reached 1,000 yards on the season today.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, do you see any kind of a ceiling
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  Speaker 1: on his production? Do you think 2,000 yards is possible
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  Speaker 1: with eight games left? Oh, sure. I mean, anything is possible.
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  Speaker 1: But the great thing for him, as a human nature,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that he wants that. But, man, just the
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  Speaker 1: way he goes about his business, he wants to win games.
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  Speaker 1: He's really bought into how we operate and just wants
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  Speaker 1: us to be good, wants us to be efficient. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's what makes him special is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's doing everything that he's doing, but really he's about
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  Speaker 1: what we can do, what can we do better offensively. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we got some stuff that we got to
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  Speaker 1: go back to the, you know, go back, watch film,
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  Speaker 1: be critical of ourselves. And it feels a lot better
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  Speaker 1: to do off of a win, but, you know, plenty
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  Speaker 1: of things to fix up.