Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Geno Smith: "There Are Going To Be Great Things Coming For Us"
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is different. Yeah, so how is installing? How have
- 0:03Speaker 1: these couple of days this week been different compared to
- 0:06Speaker 1: the last couple of years.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Yeah, just more learning, a little bit more studying. Obviously,
- 0:11Speaker 2: a new system, new coordinator. Uh, you know, knew everything.
- 0:14Speaker 2: You know, we're we're uh, you know, changing the guard here.
- 0:17Speaker 2: And so for me, just studying and getting with the guys,
- 0:20Speaker 2: you know, a lot of meeting, extra meetings with the receivers,
- 0:22Speaker 2: running backs, oline, talking through some things, making sure that
- 0:25Speaker 2: we're prepared when we get out here for practice.
- 0:28Speaker 3: And you know, so far has been good.
- 0:30Speaker 4: Anyway, So what are you doing differently with those habits
- 0:36Speaker 4: and with that study type.
- 0:38Speaker 2: You know, it's just a matter of repetition because it's
- 0:41Speaker 2: all new, you know, fairly new to uh, to all
- 0:43Speaker 2: of us. I think Jack's the only guy, you know,
- 0:45Speaker 2: Jack Westover, he was already in this system. But for
- 0:47Speaker 2: the most part, everyone's learning a new system and we're
- 0:50Speaker 2: all pretty much starting at the same spot. And so
- 0:52Speaker 2: like for us, just talking about things that we may
- 0:55Speaker 2: not understand with the coaches or gaining some clarity if
- 0:59Speaker 2: we need it, you know, whether that's for me or
- 1:01Speaker 2: you know, from one of the coaches, and uh, that's
- 1:03Speaker 2: that's something that we're just continuing to work on together,
- 1:06Speaker 2: you know, just kind of learning this thing and then
- 1:08Speaker 2: obviously wanted to get out here on the practice field
- 1:10Speaker 2: execute and then be able to coach off of that.
- 1:12Speaker 4: Do you have any communication with Michael Penix Junior given that,
- 1:15Speaker 4: you know, if you've been with Ryan or you dove.
- 1:17Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean I talked to him, you know,
- 1:20Speaker 2: last year obviously, and then you know, I kind of
- 1:22Speaker 2: sent him a text, you know, when he got drafted.
- 1:23Speaker 3: But uh, you know, not really. You know, Mike's gotta
- 1:26Speaker 3: do his thing.
- 1:26Speaker 2: He's gotta you know, figure out how to be NFL
- 1:28Speaker 2: quarterback and stuff. And so for me, I just gotta
- 1:30Speaker 2: you know, do this stuff on my own. And it's
- 1:32Speaker 2: not really really that difficult, you know, It's really something
- 1:34Speaker 2: I've been in the league twelve years now. I've seen
- 1:37Speaker 2: all the systems that you know, you can throw at me,
- 1:39Speaker 2: and so it's a matter of learning studying, and you know,
- 1:41Speaker 2: I think I have a pretty good study hab it.
- 1:43Speaker 4: Obviously, your impressions or grow from this offense.
- 1:46Speaker 2: Uh, very impressed man, obviously from the s the stuff
- 1:49Speaker 2: that he's done in college. Uh, he has a great
- 1:51Speaker 2: track record, and then just being a part of the system,
- 1:54Speaker 2: being able to learn from him. Uh, the type of
- 1:56Speaker 2: guy that he is, type of man that he is,
- 1:57Speaker 2: type of coach that he is. I think there's gonna
- 2:00Speaker 2: be great things, you know, coming for us, and uh,
- 2:03Speaker 2: coach Grubb is doing a great job at you know,
- 2:05Speaker 2: being demanding, making sure that guys are studying and on
- 2:07Speaker 2: point and knowing their assignments.
- 2:09Speaker 3: But also you know, giving guys some grace.
- 2:11Speaker 2: You know, it is a new new system, a new offense,
- 2:13Speaker 2: and guy's gonna mess some things up, and so that's
- 2:15Speaker 2: not necessarily a terrible thing.
- 2:17Speaker 3: We can we can gain from that.
- 2:18Speaker 2: So you know, Grub's doing a great job, and it's
- 2:21Speaker 2: our job to make him, you know, make the place
- 2:23Speaker 2: come alive and make it all look good.
- 2:25Speaker 3: The offensive.
- 2:28Speaker 2: Uh, I mean I gotta, I gotta, you know, get
- 2:29Speaker 2: more reps in practice and you know, obviously get a
- 2:32Speaker 2: get a chance to go out there and you know,
- 2:33Speaker 2: playing the game to really have a great assessment of that.
- 2:36Speaker 3: But overall, you know, I feel like I'm a drop.
- 2:39Speaker 2: Back passer, you know, I feel like this is a
- 2:40Speaker 2: drop back offense, you know, an offense that's gonna spread
- 2:43Speaker 2: the ball around, you know, trust the quarterbacks to make
- 2:46Speaker 2: the right decisions. Uh, that's you know, pre and posting
- 2:49Speaker 2: that and so I feel like that's something that I'm
- 2:51Speaker 2: really good at. So, uh, you know, just want to
- 2:53Speaker 2: make sure that I'm doing the right things when it
- 2:54Speaker 2: comes to that.
- 2:55Speaker 4: You called yourself a drop, but you're supposed to the
- 2:58Speaker 4: shot the.
- 2:58Speaker 3: Past, I was a pr Yeah I was. I had
- 3:02Speaker 3: twenty one.
- 3:03Speaker 2: Thought I thought it was a mistake myself, but it wasn't. So, yeah,
- 3:06Speaker 2: I had twenty one. So apparently, you know, the off
- 3:08Speaker 2: season workouts and stuff been paying off.
- 3:10Speaker 4: You guys pick it up in that same run a
- 3:11Speaker 4: little faster.
- 3:12Speaker 3: Everybody beat me after that.
- 3:14Speaker 2: It was like it was it was good for that
- 3:15Speaker 2: one day and then you could see guys running twenty
- 3:17Speaker 2: twos and then I was at the bottom again.
- 3:19Speaker 3: So did your season program change it all?
- 3:21Speaker 4: Or what you do as you get as you get
- 3:23Speaker 4: a little bit older.
- 3:24Speaker 3: And stuff like that.
- 3:24Speaker 2: Yeah, really, just diet, you know, that's the main thing,
- 3:27Speaker 2: is maintaining my diet. And then overall, you know, obviously
- 3:30Speaker 2: you gotta you know, work hard no matter what age
- 3:32Speaker 2: you are, and uh, you know, when once you get
- 3:34Speaker 2: up there a little bit more, it becomes that much
- 3:36Speaker 2: more important. So just making sure that I'm on it,
- 3:39Speaker 2: staying on my routine, just doing little things that's gonna,
- 3:42Speaker 2: you know, preserve me, you know for the long run,
- 3:44Speaker 2: you know.
- 3:44Speaker 5: And watching this offense over you does the last couple
- 3:46Speaker 5: of years, it's a lot of shifts, a lot of
- 3:48Speaker 5: motions and stuff. It seems like you guys are bringing
- 3:50Speaker 5: that over here. So yeah, how much more does that
- 3:52Speaker 5: put on your plate with the shifts and the motions,
- 3:54Speaker 5: more so than maybe what you've done the last couple
- 3:56Speaker 5: of years.
- 3:57Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we're not gonna shift the motion that much,
- 3:59Speaker 2: but you know, we'll be able to get out there
- 4:01Speaker 2: and do some things. And obviously NFL quarterback, man, that's
- 4:04Speaker 2: gonna be everything's on your plate, you know, getting in
- 4:07Speaker 2: out of the huddle, called them to play, making sure
- 4:09Speaker 2: guys are lined up in the right spots on making
- 4:12Speaker 2: sure the O line knows what they're doing running backs.
- 4:15Speaker 2: It's always gonna be a lot on your plate. I
- 4:17Speaker 2: think Grubb again has a great system. It demands a
- 4:20Speaker 2: lot from the quarterback pre and post snap, and he
- 4:22Speaker 2: has a great way of giving us some answers and
- 4:25Speaker 2: so the thing we have to do again is just
- 4:27Speaker 2: you know, be really disciplined with all of our reads,
- 4:30Speaker 2: reading our keys, and then obviously getting out there and
- 4:32Speaker 2: making the plays when they come about.
- 4:34Speaker 1: It's early in the installation process obviously, but this is
- 4:37Speaker 1: not the first time you've had to learn a new
- 4:38Speaker 1: offense in the NFL.
- 4:39Speaker 3: How does so far.
- 4:40Speaker 1: This process compared to say, what you had multiple offensive
- 4:43Speaker 1: coordinators or in your career in New York and going
- 4:45Speaker 1: to LA and with the Giants, how does it compare
- 4:47Speaker 1: and how do their situations help you now in this situation.
- 4:50Speaker 3: I will say it's a lot easier.
- 4:52Speaker 2: You know, when I first got into the league, all
- 4:54Speaker 2: the words they meant nothing to me. You know, now
- 4:57Speaker 2: twelve years you know, a lot of these plays I've
- 4:59Speaker 2: run before, a lot of the ways we execute things
- 5:01Speaker 2: I've been around.
- 5:03Speaker 3: It's just a different language.
- 5:04Speaker 2: And so as a matter of just learning the terminology
- 5:06Speaker 2: and then you know, obviously being able to recite it
- 5:09Speaker 2: back to the guys in the huddle and go out
- 5:11Speaker 2: there and again make the play. So you know, it's
- 5:13Speaker 2: it's it's a lot easier for me now that I've
- 5:15Speaker 2: you know, been in the league a little bit. But
- 5:17Speaker 2: it's still a matter of studying. And I really take
- 5:20Speaker 2: that serious.
- 5:21Speaker 1: You're receiving course pretty much saw all those same guys
- 5:23Speaker 1: from from last year with Jackson and Jake now the
- 5:25Speaker 1: year too and stuff like that.
- 5:26Speaker 4: How much has that helped that?
- 5:27Speaker 3: The so much continuity there with the skill guys, shoot,
- 5:29Speaker 3: that helps a lot. You know.
- 5:30Speaker 2: I look, I look forward to guys making big jumps,
- 5:32Speaker 2: you know, all of us, you know, the entire group. Uh,
- 5:35Speaker 2: you know DK Tyler, you know Jackson, Bobo, Derek, Uh,
- 5:39Speaker 2: you know all those guys, and I think they all
- 5:40Speaker 2: have a shot to do some really good things. I
- 5:42Speaker 2: think d had a really good day today. I thought
- 5:44Speaker 2: he made some really good plays. And uh, you know
- 5:47Speaker 2: I can see that group, you know, just continuing to
- 5:49Speaker 2: make stride.
- 5:50Speaker 3: You know.
- 5:50Speaker 2: Bring coach friz In, a guy who has a track
- 5:52Speaker 2: record for you know, coaching great receivers. I think he's
- 5:56Speaker 2: gonna be able to make those guys better. And so
- 5:57Speaker 2: I think as long as we continue to push each other,
- 6:00Speaker 2: continue to work hard, Uh yeah, we got we got
- 6:02Speaker 2: a real shot.
- 6:02Speaker 3: You know, what is ryan demand from you guys to quarterbacks?
- 6:05Speaker 2: Like leadership wise, you know, the the main thing is, uh,
- 6:09Speaker 2: you know, having that pres presence, you know, in the
- 6:10Speaker 2: huddle and in the locker room. And that's something that
- 6:13Speaker 2: a quarterback has to have, no matter you know, who
- 6:14Speaker 2: the coordinator, who the coach is.
- 6:16Speaker 3: Uh. You want your.
- 6:17Speaker 2: Quarterback to be a leader. You want your quarterback to
- 6:18Speaker 2: be respected. Uh, and that's something that I think that
- 6:21Speaker 2: he uh, you know, he he really talks about it
- 6:23Speaker 2: and he emphasizes. And then obviously being smart, you know,
- 6:25Speaker 2: that's the main thing. Knowing knowing what to do. Guys
- 6:28Speaker 2: respect guys who who know their assignment and know what
- 6:30Speaker 2: they're doing. And so making sure that I'm always that
- 6:33Speaker 2: guy who's prepared and uh, that allows the guys around
- 6:36Speaker 2: me to feel comfortable.
- 6:37Speaker 3: Uh, knowing that the quarterback's prepared.
- 6:39Speaker 4: Let your friendice the practices. How is the tempo, how
- 6:42Speaker 4: it's run. Do you notice anything different from last year
- 6:44Speaker 4: to this?
- 6:45Speaker 1: Uh?
- 6:45Speaker 2: Yeah, no bags out there, so I don't have to
- 6:47Speaker 2: don't have to do the bags uh before practice, and
- 6:49Speaker 2: then you know, I mean it's OTAs. So I'm pretty
- 6:53Speaker 2: sure training camp and as we go into the season,
- 6:55Speaker 2: you know, things will ramp up a little bit more
- 6:56Speaker 2: and uh maybe even tone down some as the season
- 6:59Speaker 2: goes on, so uh, you always adjust it and uh
- 7:01Speaker 2: what I can see so far as you know, you know,
- 7:04Speaker 2: coach does a great job and making sure that we
- 7:06Speaker 2: understand the tempo of practice, we understand you know, the
- 7:09Speaker 2: rules of OTAs, you know, not attacking the ball, that
- 7:11Speaker 2: type of stuff.
- 7:12Speaker 3: And then for the most part, it's the same.
- 7:14Speaker 2: You know, you go out there, you gotta execute very
- 7:16Speaker 2: demanding you know, Coach demands excellence, and uh, that's what
- 7:19Speaker 2: we're trying to provide.
- 7:19Speaker 4: It's just where you wanna be installing. I know that
- 7:22Speaker 4: they're they're going to slow game with the install, but
- 7:25Speaker 4: it's just where.
- 7:25Speaker 3: You wanna be at this point and option get to install.
- 7:27Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, I feel like we're in a really
- 7:30Speaker 3: good spot.
- 7:30Speaker 2: Honestly, I feel like personally, I can say I you know,
- 7:33Speaker 2: I feel like I really have a really good grasp
- 7:35Speaker 2: of the offense. I know there are still things that
- 7:37Speaker 2: I have to learn, but you know from the installs
- 7:39Speaker 2: that we've done really sharp with those things. And then
- 7:42Speaker 2: as a group, you know, it's not just about me personally,
- 7:44Speaker 2: it's about the collective group. And so that's what's important
- 7:47Speaker 2: is that we all are you know, on top of
- 7:49Speaker 2: our sself and prepared, and that's coming along well as well.
- 7:52Speaker 3: You know, I think we're all just getting better. Uh.
- 7:54Speaker 2: We had a few mistakes out there of practice, but
- 7:56Speaker 2: that's a good thing.
- 7:57Speaker 3: You know.
- 7:57Speaker 2: Those are things we can clean up and we can
- 7:58Speaker 2: learn from and then and uh, you know, just try
- 8:00Speaker 2: to try to eliminate the mental mistakes and uh just
- 8:03Speaker 2: go out there and play fast.
- 8:05Speaker 4: Other presence that you have to have talked about.
- 8:07Speaker 3: Is that something that you feel like you've.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Always had it, you know, or is it sometimes kind
- 8:10Speaker 1: of come along right the course of your career.
- 8:12Speaker 2: Uh? I think I, you know, I've always had it,
- 8:13Speaker 2: But I also think that you know, those things developed,
- 8:16Speaker 2: and uh, you can get better at those things as well.
- 8:18Speaker 2: And so you know, when I was younger, I was
- 8:20Speaker 2: the guy who had to listen and learn, you know,
- 8:21Speaker 2: I had to to watch the bets and I had
- 8:23Speaker 2: to you know, figure out, you know, how to be
- 8:25Speaker 2: a pro. Uh. As I got older, I began to
- 8:27Speaker 2: be the guy who can help the younger guys and
- 8:29Speaker 2: stuff like that. And so I think that just comes
- 8:31Speaker 2: with age, some of that development. But you know, obviously
- 8:34Speaker 2: you got to have it in you to start.
- 8:36Speaker 1: So you're thirty years a starter and you're gonna have
- 8:37Speaker 1: a different starting center if it's gonna be snabbed it
- 8:39Speaker 1: to you, where's the relationship with ol over Timmy and
- 8:42Speaker 1: now Dick Harris coming over and just how critical is
- 8:45Speaker 1: that with a new offense, with everything the centers in charge.
- 8:48Speaker 3: Of up front?
- 8:49Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, well, first of all, you know, Olu
- 8:51Speaker 2: played for US some last year and I thought, uh,
- 8:53Speaker 2: you know, I actually thought he did a really good job,
- 8:55Speaker 2: and I thought he was really really prepared, and I thought,
- 8:57Speaker 2: you know, for a rookie, Uh, it was very impressive.
- 9:00Speaker 2: Being at this his second year. We're both learning a
- 9:03Speaker 2: new offense at the same time. So our communication has
- 9:06Speaker 2: been great. You know, we're we're talking things out and
- 9:09Speaker 2: I'm learning from him, you know, different O line calls
- 9:11Speaker 2: and things that they're adjusting at the line of scrimmage
- 9:14Speaker 2: as well as he's learning from me as far as
- 9:15Speaker 2: you know, what I'm seeing as the quarterback and kind
- 9:18Speaker 2: of how I like things to be done. So it's
- 9:20Speaker 2: an ongoing process. You know, we're still early in that process.
- 9:23Speaker 2: But I think Olo has done a great job, tremendous job,
- 9:26Speaker 2: and I think he's only gonna continue to get better.
- 9:27Speaker 3: With that group in general. I know it's hard to
- 9:29Speaker 3: evaluate the prompts aliment in the.
- 9:30Speaker 4: Setate, but the moves that the teammates.
- 9:33Speaker 3: They're pret What do you feel like the prospects are
- 9:34Speaker 3: for that group and how it's coming to belong.
- 9:36Speaker 2: Shoot, man, I think they're gonna be the best in
- 9:38Speaker 2: the world. I mean that's the that's the way I
- 9:39Speaker 2: look at it. I think we got the right guys.
- 9:41Speaker 2: I think we got the right coaches and it all
- 9:43Speaker 2: comes down to having the right mindset. But the leadership
- 9:46Speaker 2: is great. You got a guy in Charles Cross who
- 9:49Speaker 2: is a great young tackle. You know, we're getting aid Back.
- 9:52Speaker 2: We got George back in the fall. He's been great
- 9:54Speaker 2: throughout his career. You know, getting Nick here, you know,
- 9:57Speaker 2: a guy who understands ball. He knows what he's doing.
- 10:00Speaker 2: The guards have been doing a great job.
- 10:01Speaker 3: You know.
- 10:01Speaker 2: A second year for ab would be great to see
- 10:04Speaker 2: how he can improve in his second year. And if
- 10:07Speaker 2: they collectively come together, I think that group could be
- 10:09Speaker 2: as young as they are. I think they could be
- 10:11Speaker 2: one of the best in the world.
- 10:12Speaker 3: You know, I got another position group question running backs.
- 10:15Speaker 3: What are you what are you seeing?
- 10:16Speaker 2: Whatever you're scene shooting, explosiveness, none of what you're gonna
- 10:20Speaker 2: call it. Y'all can make up a nickname for you
- 10:21Speaker 2: know those guys. But you know, you can talk about
- 10:23Speaker 2: Ken Walker in my opinion, one of the best backs
- 10:26Speaker 2: in the league. Can do it all, can catch out
- 10:28Speaker 2: of the backfield, and the best part about him is
- 10:30Speaker 2: he's super tough. Zach Sharpernay in my opinion, another number
- 10:34Speaker 2: one running back, three down running back, can do it all,
- 10:37Speaker 2: and you know the thing about him, he's always prepared,
- 10:40Speaker 2: prepares like a pro, knows what he's doing. Kenny McIntosh
- 10:43Speaker 2: coming along. We got some younger guys who are still
- 10:45Speaker 2: coming along. But overall that group, man, any one of
- 10:48Speaker 2: those guys can touch the ball, make a play and awesome.
- 10:50Speaker 3: You know, that's what you want from a running back group.
- 10:52Speaker 3: So we gotta come with a nickname for them.
- 10:54Speaker 2: You guys can do that. I'm not coming out yet.
- 10:56Speaker 2: You know they usually like smashing dash and all that
- 10:58Speaker 2: and that.
- 10:58Speaker 3: We'll see we'll get back to. Yeah, yeah, I just joke.
- 11:01Speaker 5: Sam Howise a artist that relationship villing to obviously that's
- 11:04Speaker 5: starter back up as a pretty fund yet kick.
- 11:06Speaker 2: Yeah, Sam is shoot man. We've been uh, hanging out
- 11:08Speaker 2: playing bu Ray. I mean we went to Cowbo, we
- 11:11Speaker 2: did some golfing, developing our relationship and uh, you know,
- 11:14Speaker 2: Sam's a really really talented young player. You know, he
- 11:17Speaker 2: played a lot of football to be that young. It
- 11:19Speaker 2: did a lot of great things, showed a lot of
- 11:21Speaker 2: great things on tape. And I think, you know, for me,
- 11:24Speaker 2: the whole starter back up thing, I I don't ever
- 11:26Speaker 2: wrap my mind around that. You know, it's about that group.
- 11:29Speaker 2: The quarterback group has gotta be a collective one collective unit.
- 11:32Speaker 3: Whoever goes in the game.
- 11:33Speaker 2: Uh, has got to have the support of the other guys.
- 11:35Speaker 2: So for me, it's always about us learning and and
- 11:38Speaker 2: working together and pushing each other together. And that can
- 11:40Speaker 2: only you know, provide us with you know, excellent a
- 11:43Speaker 2: excellent chance to get better.
- 11:44Speaker 1: You know.
- 11:45Speaker 5: The the obviously the schedule team out and you guys
- 11:47Speaker 5: have two Thursday games this year, and they're gonna played
- 11:49Speaker 5: on Christmas on Wednesday, They're gonna play a Friday games
- 11:52Speaker 5: and sort of season and together day except for Tuesdays
- 11:54Speaker 5: gonna have games.
- 11:55Speaker 3: Yeah, is it.
- 11:56Speaker 5: Getting to be too much a little bit or for
- 11:58Speaker 5: you guys find what sort of just he's scheduled over
- 12:01Speaker 5: all over places.
- 12:02Speaker 2: Be honest with you, I don't. I haven't even looked
- 12:05Speaker 2: at the schedule. I don't even know. I mean, I
- 12:06Speaker 2: know we played Broncos week one, and I think we
- 12:08Speaker 2: got two away preseason games and the last ones at home.
- 12:12Speaker 2: But anything past that, I haven't really looked at. So, uh,
- 12:15Speaker 2: I play football man, wherever they want me to play, whenever.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Whenever it's time to show up, I'll be.
- 12:18Speaker 3: There for other stener here, Regina, is there anything that you'd.
- 12:21Speaker 4: Not seen before that's total totally.
- 12:24Speaker 2: To you before the doing thing, I wouldn't say that. No,
- 12:27Speaker 2: you know, it's Uh, everyone's got their own style. Every
- 12:29Speaker 2: coach has got his own style, his own philosophy, and
- 12:32Speaker 2: it's about buying in. And I think guys are doing
- 12:33Speaker 2: a great job of buying in and what what Mike's doing,
- 12:36Speaker 2: and uh, you know, we gotta continue to do that.
- 12:37Speaker 2: You know, I think he's a he's a great, great
- 12:39Speaker 2: coach man. He's he he understands exactly what he wants
- 12:42Speaker 2: to do, and uh, he's laid it out.
- 12:43Speaker 3: For us, and so it's our job to execute. You
- 12:45Speaker 3: said you guys went to Cabo. Yeah, yeah, we all
- 12:47Speaker 3: went down to Cabo. Okay, I don't know what's that?
- 12:50Speaker 3: How's MICF game? Not good enough? But I keep working
- 12:54Speaker 3: or keep working on it? Who uh p not the
- 12:59Speaker 3: whole off is? What about fifteen of us? Yeah?
- 13:04Speaker 2: Uh uh Tyler lot Tyler would say him, but uh,
- 13:08Speaker 2: I think we're all pretty bad, so I don't think.
- 13:10Speaker 2: I don't think nobody could take that one. But yeah,
- 13:12Speaker 2: Tyler might say him anything else.
- 13:15Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, thank you,