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Aden Durde: "We Have To Play Our Style Of Defense" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Good. Can I go? What changed for you guys defensively
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  Speaker 1: after the two touchdown drives? You guys didn't... I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say much. I would say, like, as they got down there... Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: As they got down there, a couple of penalties gone
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  Speaker 1: down there, a fourth down conversion and a third down conversion.
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  Speaker 1: It was more just understanding, like, limited yards... understand how
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  Speaker 1: we play the run game. There was one run that
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  Speaker 1: got us on, that 16-yard run. But after that, it
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  Speaker 1: was really doing what we're doing and just tying out fundamentals.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing a Tyrese Knight film now.
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  Speaker 2: It seemed like he had quite a few plays.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he had a great game. I thought he played decisive,
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  Speaker 1: played downhill when he needed to, showed up in a
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  Speaker 1: pass game and tackled really well. The break you.
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  Speaker 2: Guys had, one week off for the coaches, but what
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  Speaker 2: did you get out of that in terms of diving
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  Speaker 2: into stuff and studying it?
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  Speaker 1: It was really good, actually. We had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: projects we'd done and kind of just looked at ourselves
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  Speaker 1: and where we can improve and then made quick decisions,
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  Speaker 1: got aligned on a couple of things and just moved forwards.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you feel like you can improve?
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  Speaker 1: Definitely the red zone. I think there's some errors on
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  Speaker 1: third down. I think we can be rushing better. Just
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  Speaker 1: some of our alignments pre and post snap. And that's it.
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  Speaker 2: You got the Chiefs with Xavier Worthy, obviously a lot
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  Speaker 2: of speed. They seem to use him a lot on
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  Speaker 2: crossing and mesh concepts. How do you guys kind of
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  Speaker 2: like contain his speed horizontally as much as vertically?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a challenge, you know. This guy can take
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  Speaker 1: the top off, he can run away, and he can
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  Speaker 1: run intermediate routes too. He's a really good player. I
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  Speaker 1: think you just have to understand where your help is,
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  Speaker 1: understand your leverage and know your matchup. And then when
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  Speaker 1: you're in those man situations, you have to win.
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  Speaker 2: What are you expecting out of seeing Ken across the way? Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you've seen him. for a while here.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen him a lot and he's playing at an
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  Speaker 1: extremely high level. You're playing him, it's different to see,
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  Speaker 1: but you're also like good for him. But it's another challenge.
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  Speaker 1: But really, it's week in, week out. It's just about us.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to play our style of defense. We've got
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  Speaker 1: to understand how run fits and then understand how we
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  Speaker 1: play the game.
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  Speaker 2: Are they asking him to run the ball differently than
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  Speaker 2: the way he ran the ball when he was here
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  Speaker 2: from your perspective?
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  Speaker 1: No, not really at all. Some of the run schemes
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  Speaker 1: are a little bit different at times, but, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he makes decisive decisions. He's extremely good at breaking tackles,
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  Speaker 1: and he has the speed to accelerate in small areas,
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  Speaker 1: and that makes it very difficult.
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  Speaker 2: Any good quarterback, if you have a good running game,
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  Speaker 2: you look at the playbook, and now he's got Ken Walker.
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  Speaker 1: What does that do for him? Yeah, I think if
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  Speaker 1: you watch Mahomes on early downs right now, he's playing
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  Speaker 1: extremely decisive. He's He's letting the ball go out of
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  Speaker 1: his hands really quickly. They have a lot of horizontal
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  Speaker 1: game early downs, getting the ball out of his hand quick,
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  Speaker 1: and then on third down, he's a problem. He can
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  Speaker 1: manoeuvre the pocket, he can make all the throws from
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  Speaker 1: any position. We really have to understand on the front
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  Speaker 1: how we rush in certain situations and how do we
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  Speaker 1: want to affect the pocket. And then on the back end,
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  Speaker 1: we've got to own our leverage and stay on top
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  Speaker 1: when we stay on top.
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  Speaker 2: Four screen passes that have worked against you guys in
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  Speaker 2: the Chargers game in this past one.
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  Speaker 1: What's the key to defending those better? I would say
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  Speaker 1: understanding your screen keys. I'll be honest with you. You've
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  Speaker 1: got to be very careful when you get in these
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  Speaker 1: situations and you're analyzing everything. You go back and there's
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  Speaker 1: an area of the field or a situation of the
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  Speaker 1: game that you're not doing so well on. You always
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  Speaker 1: have to step back and look at how you're doing
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  Speaker 1: across the board. I think we're playing screens pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple of guys. There's one like against Denver,
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  Speaker 1: one against the Chargers, which you mentioned. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: understand our screen keys on the front. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: understand our screen keys on the second level and who
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  Speaker 1: points it and who turns it back. And it's different.
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  Speaker 1: It's like one is like that and then the next
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  Speaker 1: one's tackling. It's kind of like let's ID the problems
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  Speaker 1: and say, OK, how does it fit into this bucket
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  Speaker 1: and how does it fit into that bucket? And that's
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  Speaker 1: how we look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Ernest gave a pretty funny answer about it earlier when
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  Speaker 2: he came free on the one screenplay they.
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  Speaker 1: Got over him last week. He's like, OK, I know
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  Speaker 1: something's going on here, but do I keep going forward?
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  Speaker 1: Do I turn over?
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  Speaker 2: What do you try to coach through in a moment
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  Speaker 2: like that where they're kind of caught in between?
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  Speaker 1: They know it might be a.
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  Speaker 2: Screen turnaround, but maybe turning and running ain't the right
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  Speaker 2: decision either.
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  Speaker 1: What do you see? Again, you have to see your keys.
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  Speaker 1: If certain people leave you unblocked and they're meant to
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  Speaker 1: block you, there's a reason why. And you stop and
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  Speaker 1: you go home. Something is wrong. You're not that good
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  Speaker 1: of a rusher. That's exactly what I'm saying. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: People talk about studying tendencies of opposing offenses. How much
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  Speaker 2: do their tendencies show up in, like, protection plans, like
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  Speaker 2: slides this way versus slides that way, and does that
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  Speaker 2: give you guys things to attack?
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  Speaker 1: I would say at certain times teams do do that.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're few and far between at times. I
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  Speaker 1: think the way analytics go, everyone's self-scouting themselves at such
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  Speaker 1: a high level right now. that that's where the basis
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  Speaker 1: of where Mike thinks everyone's a rusher on our defense,
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  Speaker 1: but we have to start with the foundation of four
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  Speaker 1: people have to rush first. They have to be able
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  Speaker 1: to affect the quarterback because once you can do that,
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  Speaker 1: it opens up all the other things. And then it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: if there are no tendencies, how are we dictating it?
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  Speaker 1: How are we owning terms of that situation? But it's
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  Speaker 1: getting harder and harder.
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  Speaker 2: I would say. So it's almost like, There's fewer tendencies
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  Speaker 2: to Keyon, so you focus more on Keyon himself?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: How do you evaluate Taiwakata's play since he's come back?
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  Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing you can feel him out there.
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  Speaker 1: There's some tackles he's making from the roof that show
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  Speaker 1: his confidence, show his understanding of play. I think the
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  Speaker 1: things you guys don't see is the communicator. He's like,
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  Speaker 1: him and Jew are like the quarterbacks. They're out there
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  Speaker 1: and they run it. Him, EJ, and Julian, and it's
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  Speaker 1: great to have him back. From the roof, he helped
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  Speaker 1: us out with that one. Oh, I'm just saying from
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  Speaker 1: the third level. So when he's back, who did we
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  Speaker 1: play against? Sam Fran. He's coming from a place of
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  Speaker 1: safety position. He's coming all the way down and making
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  Speaker 1: a tackle for a loss. To me, they're great breaks
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  Speaker 1: with great angles. You're trusting your speed and confidence, and
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  Speaker 1: you know your leverage. All right, guys. Anything else? Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Take care.