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Head Coach Mike Macdonald Gives Final Updates Ahead Of Week 7 vs. Chiefs · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Alright, this will be fun. Alright, I get to be
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  Speaker 1: back to being my vague injury update guy. Nick is
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  Speaker 1: questionable with a hip. Zach's going to be out. Conor
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  Speaker 1: O'Toole's questionable. Chaz Surratt is out. Drake Thomas is out.
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  Speaker 1: And Drew Locke is questionable with an elbow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're going along with the plan.
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  Speaker 1: The plan was to get a great week's worth of
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  Speaker 1: work and see where we're at.
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  Speaker 2: And so we're going to take it in next week.
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  Speaker 1: I'd just say it's part of the plan. Zach's doing great,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll go into next week and see.
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  Speaker 2: How it goes.
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  Speaker 3: There's no setback with Zach?
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  Speaker 2: No setback, no.
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  Speaker 1: If anything, it's going as good as we could hope
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  Speaker 1: it could go.
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  Speaker 3: Is there Anthony Bradford?
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  Speaker 2: What's he saying to Nick? AB's, I think all that's
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  Speaker 2: going to go down tomorrow, so AB will play. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: what's going on with Nick? He just had a hip today.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be questionable.
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  Speaker 3: Questionable, okay. What happened with Drew Locke's been.
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  Speaker 2: On the record for all week? He's working through an elbow.
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  Speaker 2: So he's going to be questionable. What did you like.
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  Speaker 3: About the way your team attacked the process this.
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  Speaker 2: Week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We just.
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  Speaker 1: I think we just I think we need to stay
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  Speaker 1: steadfast and try to improve and become better. So there's
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  Speaker 1: no time to look backward. It's all the time we
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  Speaker 1: have should be looking forward and to try to find
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  Speaker 1: ways to make our team better and make our individuals better.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, I think our guys, um, had a
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  Speaker 1: great attitude. So hopefully we'll see better results on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Besides self-scouting, did you guys revisit any of your process, uh,
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  Speaker 3: heading into this week? Any tweaks there?
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  Speaker 1: I think that's where the majority of our focus lined
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  Speaker 1: up on. I mean, you need, you need an understanding
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  Speaker 1: about the things you do well, what guys are doing well, where,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where it, you know, the rankings, the stats,
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  Speaker 1: you know, quote-unquote analytics. We're going to use all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but I think that's more of a gauge on where
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  Speaker 1: you are and kind of maybe focus your attention in
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  Speaker 1: certain ways. But a lot of it has to do
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  Speaker 1: with how we do what we do on a daily basis,
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  Speaker 1: how we get the answers, how we get the plays,
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  Speaker 1: that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, A.B.
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  Speaker 1: Has done a great job. He's practiced well, so... I
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  Speaker 1: know he's in good spirit, so I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: seeing him play.
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  Speaker 3: People focus a lot on offensive line for protection. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: obviously how much does a good pass protecting back in
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  Speaker 3: the backfield matter, uh, for protection plans?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can throw them right in there with the,
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  Speaker 1: with the offensive line. A lot of times they end
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  Speaker 1: up with more one-on-ones than the line does.
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  Speaker 2: Um, it's incredibly important.
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  Speaker 1: You want, you, you want the full game, like full
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  Speaker 1: menu of protections to be, uh, available to be made
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  Speaker 1: in the kitchen. And so, um, it helps when, when
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  Speaker 1: you can call those protections and feel great about it.
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  Speaker 3: What have you made of Tyrese Knight, what he's done
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  Speaker 3: with the additional opportunities he's gotten?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Tyrese has done a really nice job. Uh, it's seamless.
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  Speaker 1: He goes in, you know, he's, he's, he's got a
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  Speaker 1: little different style of play than Drake, which is, which
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  Speaker 1: is cool. It's, um, really productive, and I know him
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  Speaker 1: and EJ have a great rapport as well. Guys are
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  Speaker 1: excited for him. He's a guy that.
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  Speaker 2: Deserves to play.
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  Speaker 1: We've tried to find ways to do it when Drake
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  Speaker 1: is up, but now that he's had his opportunities, definitely
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  Speaker 1: taking advantage of it.
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  Speaker 3: How's Jadarian Price progressing?
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  Speaker 1: J.D.
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  Speaker 2: 's doing well. We'll look at it next week, I believe,
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  Speaker 2: is when his window can open.
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  Speaker 3: Who are you going to hurt today?
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say he got hurt. He had a hip today.
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  Speaker 2: It happened today.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The hip is new today.
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  Speaker 3: What shade of questionable?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's Friday tempo. It's the best way to
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  Speaker 1: describe it is it's questionable. I'm not trying to be
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  Speaker 1: like it's just questionable.
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  Speaker 3: Would Anthony be able to play the whole game?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the plan.
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  Speaker 3: How much could Anthony being back in there help out
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  Speaker 3: a guy like Abe Lucas and give some continuity there right.
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  Speaker 1: Next to him? Yeah, I think that could help. Those
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  Speaker 1: guys have played a lot of snaps next to each other.
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  Speaker 1: I know they have a good relationship. It's nice to
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  Speaker 1: get the starting five back together. I think the guys
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  Speaker 1: did a good job filling in for them, but A.B.
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  Speaker 1: 's earned this job for a reason. He's played good
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  Speaker 1: football for us, especially during training camp.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, do you expect Elijah to be out the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the year? And if so, what are you going
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  Speaker 3: to miss without him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Elijah's will.
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  Speaker 1: Be season ending, unfortunately. So I know he had surgery
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  Speaker 1: recently and said it went well. So we're going to
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  Speaker 1: miss him.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know. the things that he's able to do.
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  Speaker 1: We got to figure out ways to get that skill
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  Speaker 1: set on the field, whether it's through his tight end
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  Speaker 1: room or through another room. But it stinks. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to miss him, but you got to figure out a
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  Speaker 1: way to find solutions to be able to do what
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  Speaker 1: he could do.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, we don't see him, but how's Terry and Earl
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  Speaker 3: doing with what he's doing with you guys?
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  Speaker 2: No update on Terry.
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  Speaker 3: Is he with the team?
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  Speaker 2: No update on Terry. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: What is the tight end production versus what you had
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  Speaker 3: hoped to.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of tight ends so far? I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you measure production purely through catches. I think I got
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  Speaker 1: the office of line question earlier in the week.
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  Speaker 2: It's just, are the guys doing a good job? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're playing their butts off. They're the identity.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're really like the engine behind our offense.
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about a guy like AJ, the way he plays,
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  Speaker 1: his personality. Sabi's a leader on our team. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Brady's an engine for us, especially on special teams.
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  Speaker 2: Can we be better?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we can be better. I think we can
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  Speaker 1: find more opportunities for them as well, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: for a lack of effort or a lack of willpower
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  Speaker 1: or how they operate every day. I think it's just
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  Speaker 1: where we are as an offense right now, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a room for growth for our unit.
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  Speaker 3: You talk and I think take pride in the fact
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  Speaker 3: that your coaching staff doesn't just farm their own land,
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  Speaker 3: coach everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: What's your philosophy with players like Sam meeting with offensive
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  Speaker 3: linemen or backs meeting with like, how do you think
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  Speaker 3: about interacting there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's same, same. It's just, we're one team, man.
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  Speaker 1: We're not like a, not a collection of position groups or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, collection of phases.
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  Speaker 2: It's for the Seahawks, you know?
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  Speaker 1: So I think our, I think our team does do that. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like we had without getting into all the details,
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  Speaker 1: cause we, There are independent meetings that guys are holding
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  Speaker 1: to get people from cross-sectional groups that are doing that
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  Speaker 1: on their own throughout the week in both phases, which
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciate. And that's a player-driven thing, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that only helps you get more aligned.
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  Speaker 2: So there's football stuff there as well.
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  Speaker 1: And then just throughout the hallways, I think our team
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  Speaker 1: does a good job of staying connected and.
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  Speaker 2: Having relationships with each other.
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  Speaker 1: Anything else? Thank you. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.