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Jaxon Smith-Njigba: "I Love Seeing Us Play With Swagger" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Jackson. Just just how big of a a result was
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  Speaker 1: this for you guys. You have to snap the losing
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  Speaker 1: streak at home and potentially get to the top of
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  Speaker 1: the division. Yeah, it was a big, big win for us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, all glory to God. You know, rainy day
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  Speaker 1: out here. The whole week has been you know, a
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  Speaker 1: little weird as y'all know, with the power and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. So I'm just proud of my guys coming
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  Speaker 1: in here prepared and you know, ready for today. I
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  Speaker 1: thought we attacked, attacked today, you know well, and got
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  Speaker 1: to win. It was a big win for us. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we playoff, playoff game, you know, like we've been saying,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, definitely happy with today. The tunnel screen
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  Speaker 1: play call a lot of waiting the first step. How
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  Speaker 1: how perfect was that call for the defense? It was perfect.
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  Speaker 1: It was perfect. Coach Grub made a great call. He's been,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, been putting me in those positions a lot.
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  Speaker 1: You know, uh, old line did a great job, and
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  Speaker 1: you know it was it felt good to break for
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  Speaker 1: a big one. Just when you're out there on the
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  Speaker 1: side and watching what you're defense is doing. A game
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  Speaker 1: like that, no touchow allowed, they score one. Just how
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  Speaker 1: fun is watching them? Man, It's fun. It's fun. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't get to give them credit last week, but they've
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  Speaker 1: been playing the guts out and uh, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: love seeing them play with that swagger, you know, knowing
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  Speaker 1: their reads and just playing fast. So as a you know,
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  Speaker 1: as me sitting on the sideline, you know, I love that.
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  Speaker 1: It's it was for you guys as an offensive times
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  Speaker 1: today that the eight minute drive to go up to
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  Speaker 1: scores light? How how good did that one feel? To
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  Speaker 1: put put that drive together in that moment? It felt good.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we felt like we came up short on
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  Speaker 1: you know, all the other drives you know, for like
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  Speaker 1: you know, we could have executed better, of course, and
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  Speaker 1: you know got some points, but you know those are
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  Speaker 1: big points that we needed and definitely definitely big for us.
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  Speaker 1: Your touchdown look like it was good. Didn't play between
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  Speaker 1: you and DK. They kind of created enough space there
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  Speaker 1: to work that out. I guess. Just yeah, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: two B two shack and Kobe type. You just throw
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  Speaker 1: it out there, give me the pick, catch the ball.
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  Speaker 1: See wa, I feel like you just on the verge
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  Speaker 1: of scoring on one of them tun fings. Yeah, man,
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  Speaker 1: I got getting end zone on one of those. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm letting my old line down. They they running a lot,
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  Speaker 1: you know, then I used to all that, so we
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  Speaker 1: got to get the ends on next time. Has that
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  Speaker 1: been the same? I mean it's it looked the same
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  Speaker 1: from what we see. Has it been pretty much the
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  Speaker 1: same thing? Uh? Pretty much? You know. Coach Grubbs he
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  Speaker 1: got you know, his little his little flavor to it,
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  Speaker 1: and you know it's it's different, but it's the same. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: who wins the priority? But was there a little extra
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  Speaker 1: motivation to have put your Christmas plormance against uh Marketers
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  Speaker 1: and Junior's team? Ah? Nah, nah nah? We needed this win,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being there number one, number one, see what
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  Speaker 1: was was enough? But uh, it's great seeing him on
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  Speaker 1: the other side, you know today it was great to
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  Speaker 1: see him. Uh, you know, he had a great game,
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  Speaker 1: of course, but he's g he's a great player. Loved
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  Speaker 1: sharing to fill with him all the time. So it
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  Speaker 1: was great to see him today. What was it like
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  Speaker 1: for you guys this way you're prepared for this game
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  Speaker 1: without how it was tough. It was tough, honestly, I
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  Speaker 1: mean it was tough. But our guys, you know mentally,
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  Speaker 1: mentally strong, you know, got through it. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we were professionals and we came out here and you know,
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  Speaker 1: did what we had to do. What did you make
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  Speaker 1: it Devin's play, watching him cut off Kyler Murray on
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  Speaker 1: that fourth down to the Fords, that interception, watching it
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  Speaker 1: from the sideline, I mean, he's a dog man. He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna do whatever it takes to win. And I love
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  Speaker 1: He's my favorite teammate. I love playing with him. I
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  Speaker 1: know he's gonna bring it every Sunday and he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: do all that he can. And Uh, he's a big
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  Speaker 1: leader for us. And you know if we you know,
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  Speaker 1: if we follow him and you know, if we play
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  Speaker 1: like he does, well, usually it'll be a good day
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  Speaker 1: for us. The long same ones. What's it like seeing
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  Speaker 1: Kobe have the type of impact he's had since he's missed. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Kobe. He's a he's a ball player
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  Speaker 1: for sure, tackler, Uh makes mix plays and it's great
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  Speaker 1: to see him, you know, starting to come on the
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  Speaker 1: scene for sure. And you think I'll thanks Jack, Thank sure.