Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The Team's Progress Throughout The Offseason
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Important times. Got some new faces, all right, great to
- 0:09Speaker 1: see everybody.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Uh, off to a great mini camp. We did a
- 0:13Speaker 2: little bit differently this year. We got a practice, so
- 0:15Speaker 2: it's a three day deal. We got a practice yesterday,
- 0:17Speaker 2: I had a great practice, another a C T A CT.
- 0:19Speaker 2: This morning, we're gonna We're gonna bring the guys. We're
- 0:22Speaker 2: doing a community event this afternoon. So that's why we
- 0:25Speaker 2: moved today's practice till.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Tomorrow to tomorrow morning.
- 0:28Speaker 2: So it'll be fun to get out and visit some folks.
- 0:31Speaker 2: And I'm proud of our guys for for volunteering for it,
- 0:34Speaker 2: and it's gonna be a lot of fun. But Uh,
- 0:35Speaker 2: to take off here in about an hour or so,
- 0:39Speaker 2: it's a.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Normal practice tomorrow. Why was the community event important for
- 0:44Speaker 1: you guys.
- 0:44Speaker 3: To be during this week?
- 0:47Speaker 1: Guarantee that they're here.
- 0:50Speaker 2: You know, we're just we're looking for ways for for
- 0:52Speaker 2: guys to be together and we haven't we haven't really
- 0:55Speaker 2: done one of these, and so I thought it was
- 0:57Speaker 2: a great opportunity for us to get out there and
- 1:00Speaker 2: go do our thing and serve our community. And guys
- 1:03Speaker 2: are all about it, so it should be. We're really
- 1:05Speaker 2: looking forward to it be great. We got like we're
- 1:08Speaker 2: going to for It's hard to bring, you know, one
- 1:11Speaker 2: hundred and fifty people to one spot, so we shout
- 1:13Speaker 2: out to all of our offs people to Children's Health
- 1:16Speaker 2: or Children's Hospital. I think we're going to Doug's place,
- 1:20Speaker 2: We're going to v A and I think the Ron
- 1:22Speaker 2: McDonald house. Oh so different players, yeah, coaches, Yeah, we're
- 1:26Speaker 2: kind of splitting up and off we go.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike, how's running it forward?
- 1:33Speaker 3: Shorting up with the leadership of your veterans?
- 1:37Speaker 2: Well, I think I think we're just trying to be us.
- 1:40Speaker 2: I'm sure you feel the same thing. The energy, the
- 1:42Speaker 2: spirit behind the team. Uh, just feels like we're just
- 1:47Speaker 2: trying to have a great second day mini camp, you know.
- 1:50Speaker 2: I think try to be that simple and let's stay
- 1:54Speaker 2: in the present moment and try to nail that, you know,
- 1:56Speaker 2: today and tomorrow, and then put a great plan in
- 1:59Speaker 2: place for the off season, you know, for the summer,
- 2:01Speaker 2: and then let's go from there.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Pro keeping it simple.
- 2:04Speaker 3: Where do you feel like you're at in terms of
- 2:06Speaker 3: the new offense and getting things in and progress.
- 2:09Speaker 1: It's great.
- 2:10Speaker 2: I mean to use the term new, I would say
- 2:13Speaker 2: kind of you know, it's a it's a this year's
- 2:15Speaker 2: version of last year's offense, you know. So it's the
- 2:19Speaker 2: Seahawks offense, and Brian's brought some great ideas and some
- 2:22Speaker 2: things that we can kind of.
- 2:23Speaker 1: Move and shift.
- 2:24Speaker 2: But right now it's more of an installation some more
- 2:26Speaker 2: of a put guys in positions where you know, ask
- 2:32Speaker 2: them to do certain techniques and you know, protections plays
- 2:35Speaker 2: that they need to be you know, shown before we
- 2:41Speaker 2: go and start executing a plan and start kind of
- 2:43Speaker 2: carving out ultimately what we're gonna look like.
- 2:46Speaker 1: So right now it's more of an installation phase.
- 2:47Speaker 3: And what are you noticing or learning about Brian sports
- 2:50Speaker 3: and stuff?
- 2:52Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate Brian. He's very detail oriented. I love
- 2:57Speaker 2: how we coach the whole offense, much like Clinton did.
- 3:00Speaker 2: But it's got to all be connected and all the
- 3:03Speaker 2: details matter. The fundamentals matter of the drills matter on
- 3:06Speaker 2: on how we build out our offense, and and he's
- 3:09Speaker 2: very aware of that matters to him. It's very detailed,
- 3:14Speaker 2: doing a great job with the staff. So I'm I'm excited,
- 3:17Speaker 2: but you know, it's it's gonna be a journey with
- 3:19Speaker 2: all three phases, and we're right where we should be
- 3:21Speaker 2: right now in mini camp and and then we'll just
- 3:24Speaker 2: u we'll you know, we'll take it day by day
- 3:26Speaker 2: and keep moving forward.
- 3:28Speaker 1: Details.
- 3:29Speaker 3: I'm sorry you guys are homelet list, but I noticed
- 3:31Speaker 3: Sam's had the UNFPS.
- 3:32Speaker 2: You guys were calling in the place for walking. Yeah,
- 3:37Speaker 2: that's a Eric Kennedy Austin Bowie special. Our equipment guys
- 3:43Speaker 2: trying to figure out a way for us not to
- 3:45Speaker 2: have to wear helmets and still be able to communicate
- 3:47Speaker 2: and simulate you know, you know, a normal game environment.
- 3:50Speaker 2: So those guys did a great job figuring out a
- 3:52Speaker 2: way to make it as least intrusive as possible.
- 3:55Speaker 3: What have you learned about Emmanuel Wilson and Jadaron Price
- 3:59Speaker 3: over the pronunci to go a part?
- 4:01Speaker 1: Uh.
- 4:01Speaker 2: Both are going to be really good players in their
- 4:03Speaker 2: own right, putting theirselves and put themselves in great positions
- 4:06Speaker 2: going into the offseason. Obviously different parts of their both careers,
- 4:10Speaker 2: but excited, excited about both guys. Take it day by day,
- 4:15Speaker 2: just keep keep chopping away, doing doing a good job.
- 4:19Speaker 3: Just seeing them progress as they're getting.
- 4:22Speaker 2: I wish that we had a better team event the
- 4:25Speaker 2: other night. You know, less rookies this year, but guys
- 4:28Speaker 2: are in great spirits. We expect a better performance in
- 4:31Speaker 2: training camp. Uh, but same thing. Just I think I
- 4:36Speaker 2: think they're they kind of got flooded with information in
- 4:40Speaker 2: terms of install during OTAs.
- 4:42Speaker 1: Now we've kind of wound it back.
- 4:43Speaker 2: They've been exposed all the things they need to be
- 4:45Speaker 2: exposed to, you know, to get into training camp. Now
- 4:47Speaker 2: the focus for them is, you know, how do how
- 4:50Speaker 2: do I how do I formulate like a kind of
- 4:52Speaker 2: a holistic plan around what I want to do this
- 4:54Speaker 2: summer to put myself in the best position I can
- 4:57Speaker 2: possibly be to have a great training camp. That's something
- 5:01Speaker 2: that you know, I felt like we've really grown as
- 5:04Speaker 2: a as a staff and me personally of you know,
- 5:07Speaker 2: giving them the tools going into summer and then really
- 5:09Speaker 2: for me setting the expectation for what we expect from
- 5:11Speaker 2: when they come back for training camp so we can
- 5:14Speaker 2: hit the ground.
- 5:14Speaker 1: Running like the walk and talk to you guys, do
- 5:17Speaker 1: what's the origins of that or the purpose of that?
- 5:19Speaker 1: Where'd you get up from? Well?
- 5:24Speaker 2: Last year we felt like we kind of treated the
- 5:27Speaker 2: treat it like a culture install with just to try
- 5:30Speaker 2: to get everybody aligned and you know, at a certain
- 5:32Speaker 2: point they want to stop listening to me and you
- 5:35Speaker 2: want to hear like from as a coach, you know,
- 5:36Speaker 2: you can add calm people in a team setting, but
- 5:39Speaker 2: you really want guys to take have the opportunity to
- 5:41Speaker 2: take ownership of how we want to be, just on
- 5:44Speaker 2: how we roll, like what's our way of life.
- 5:46Speaker 1: So I felt like we felt.
- 5:48Speaker 2: Like it's important to include everybody, and so you know,
- 5:51Speaker 2: how do you cross section and.
- 5:52Speaker 1: What's the right number of people?
- 5:54Speaker 2: And it's evolved over time, Like initially it was kind
- 5:56Speaker 2: of a little bit talkling more structurally about our culture,
- 5:58Speaker 2: and now it's really just a mechanism for us to
- 6:01Speaker 2: connect and and uh, you know also also kind of
- 6:04Speaker 2: let the let the culture breathe a little bit and evolve,
- 6:07Speaker 2: uh to where where this team you know, wants it
- 6:10Speaker 2: to go.
- 6:11Speaker 1: You know, so you're kind of putting in their hands
- 6:12Speaker 1: to a certain extent. It was organic or did you
- 6:14Speaker 1: get that from somewhere?
- 6:15Speaker 3: Did you see it so much?
- 6:16Speaker 1: It was it was organic? I need Bobby Hart, I
- 6:20Speaker 1: guess we'll lead into that now. Was Josh over, Well,
- 6:24Speaker 1: Bobby's a good tackle. We need we need we need.
- 6:27Speaker 2: A third tackle, and uh, Josh hasn't practiced yet. So
- 6:32Speaker 2: Josh needs to practice to compete with Bobby Right now,
- 6:36Speaker 2: Bobby's practicing, He's not practicing.
- 6:40Speaker 1: Is that related to the two injuries he dealt with.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Uh, he's just he's just not ready to practice yet.
- 6:45Speaker 2: So he needs to he needs to become ready to practice.
- 6:48Speaker 2: That's on, that's his responsibility.
- 6:51Speaker 3: Had a couple of veterans into the secondary at free agency.
- 6:54Speaker 1: How are you seeing Noight monogaeny E Rodney Thomas especially?
- 6:57Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, both guys have had a great off season. Uh,
- 7:01Speaker 2: different personalities, both really good skill sets. Uh, excited excited
- 7:06Speaker 2: about both those guys. Yeah, they're they're doing a great job.
- 7:08Speaker 1: Jared Ivy is he a defensive end? Now? Was he
- 7:15Speaker 1: see him in drills with the linemen? They kind of
- 7:17Speaker 1: all do drills like together, and he's like, he's.
- 7:20Speaker 2: Gonna play Probably could end up in the A gap.
- 7:24Speaker 2: He'd probably play a gap all the way to de gap.
- 7:26Speaker 2: So who's who's coaching them? When it's kind of a
- 7:30Speaker 2: doesn't really matter type of thing, like we all kind
- 7:32Speaker 2: of we coach everybody up. No such thing as like
- 7:34Speaker 2: farming each other's land. That's like that's like a cuss word.
- 7:38Speaker 2: We coach everybody, Okay, don't the whole like don't coach
- 7:42Speaker 2: my guy thing is.
- 7:43Speaker 1: For not not good coaches.
- 7:45Speaker 2: In my opinion, what are you looking for for a
- 7:47Speaker 2: Robbie's in his second season?
- 7:49Speaker 1: Look like for him?
- 7:51Speaker 2: Well, I think I think there there's some more ways
- 7:55Speaker 2: we can move him around.
- 7:56Speaker 1: So and he's done a good job. He's like learning
- 7:58Speaker 1: the whole rowtree.
- 7:59Speaker 2: And he's had a great, great attitude, and I think
- 8:02Speaker 2: he's going to have a great opportunity and training camp
- 8:04Speaker 2: to carve out a great role for himself where you know,
- 8:07Speaker 2: maybe we're not sitting in ibacks every time he's out there,
- 8:10Speaker 2: and that we will be in iebacks, you know, but
- 8:13Speaker 2: there's some there's an opportunity to grow his role for sure.
- 8:16Speaker 1: We've seen Rashid grow here.
- 8:19Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's been great. It's been great Rashid. Look,
- 8:22Speaker 2: he deserves a lot of credit. He's been here the
- 8:24Speaker 2: whole time.
- 8:25Speaker 1: He's had a great.
- 8:25Speaker 2: App he's great, had a great attitude. It's a lot
- 8:28Speaker 2: of personal records in our off season training program, the
- 8:32Speaker 2: timing of our plays look like look like it should,
- 8:35Speaker 2: you know, given the amount of reps that are invested
- 8:38Speaker 2: into it.
- 8:38Speaker 1: And I know I'm I'm as excited as heck to
- 8:41Speaker 1: see to see where it goes. You had said that
- 8:43Speaker 1: there was.
- 8:44Speaker 3: A chance maybe to you can get back by the
- 8:45Speaker 3: end of this, But what's his kind of progress at
- 8:47Speaker 3: the stage and you expect him to be full go.
- 8:49Speaker 1: For your kind of training camp.
- 8:50Speaker 2: Still yeah, still still all positive, a tory. He's not
- 8:53Speaker 2: going to do anything today or tomorrow. But you know,
- 8:56Speaker 2: we should be looking at early on in camp, if
- 9:00Speaker 2: not the beginning of camp, where he's you know, if
- 9:03Speaker 2: we stay on schedule and everything goes well, we'll be
- 9:05Speaker 2: praying that he can be out there and you know
- 9:07Speaker 2: it won't be a full you know, you gotta gonna
- 9:09Speaker 2: be smart how he comes back and all that, but
- 9:10Speaker 2: he should be, uh, should be active within I don't
- 9:15Speaker 2: put a timetable on. It could be anywhere from day
- 9:17Speaker 2: one he's rocking and on, or maybe it's a couple
- 9:18Speaker 2: of days.
- 9:19Speaker 1: We'll see Charles. I don't think we've talked to you
- 9:21Speaker 1: since you guys traded for Charles. What do you like
- 9:23Speaker 1: about him?
- 9:25Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot to like at Gunner and Special
- 9:26Speaker 2: Teams does a lot of great things, just you know
- 9:29Speaker 2: the body types now on Special teams. These bigger, faster guys,
- 9:32Speaker 2: I can block move people also run fast down the
- 9:36Speaker 2: field like that. That stuff really translates. And he's doing
- 9:38Speaker 2: a good job on offense. So he's writ in the
- 9:41Speaker 2: thick of things and he's catching up a little bit,
- 9:43Speaker 2: but he's he's done. He's done some good stuff in practice.
- 9:47Speaker 2: Really excited to see him, you know, playing the perimeter
- 9:49Speaker 2: on our on our teams.
- 9:50Speaker 1: I know Jay is too.
- 9:52Speaker 2: Zachar had a schedule on schedule. If you're gonna, if
- 9:55Speaker 2: you're gonna, guess what type of schedule Zach Sharbonny would
- 9:57Speaker 2: be on.
- 9:58Speaker 1: That's the type of schedule he's on.
- 10:00Speaker 2: So, uh, doing a great job, doing a great job,
- 10:03Speaker 2: I know, I know he has a high expectations for
- 10:05Speaker 2: himself and UH look forward to see you know where
- 10:09Speaker 2: it ends up.
- 10:10Speaker 3: Is there a possibility he could be at the start
- 10:12Speaker 3: of the season.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Everything's possible.
- 10:15Speaker 3: Yeah, Like Julian Julian last year, he's willing to you know,
- 10:21Speaker 3: he changed positions a little bit, I know when Kobe
- 10:23Speaker 3: went down to make easier for a tie to stay
- 10:24Speaker 3: where he didn't playing. And then he talked this year
- 10:27Speaker 3: about your dependent how they check out in the secondary
- 10:29Speaker 3: he's going to do different things for a guy who's
- 10:31Speaker 3: a vetri. He is at pro wart to be the
- 10:34Speaker 3: guys like yeah, move me versus you know, someone helps
- 10:36Speaker 3: the team or saying this.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Is my rest your life plan or was that till
- 10:39Speaker 1: you got there?
- 10:41Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Julian. He's uh, he's the mayor man. Uh,
- 10:46Speaker 2: just one of one of one of our leaders on
- 10:47Speaker 2: our team. You know, I think that that exemplifies the
- 10:51Speaker 2: mentality would look for all our guys. Really, but it's
- 10:55Speaker 2: never really a question with Julian. You just you assume
- 10:57Speaker 2: that he's gonna feel that way. It's a testament this
- 10:59Speaker 2: is who he.
- 10:59Speaker 1: Is every day.
- 11:01Speaker 2: I would say, we're not We're never trying to take
- 11:03Speaker 2: away from his ability to make plays or get him
- 11:05Speaker 2: away from the action. I know personally, we're always thinking
- 11:08Speaker 2: about how do we get him closer to the action.
- 11:10Speaker 1: You know.
- 11:10Speaker 2: Sometimes he you know, because he is so talented and
- 11:13Speaker 2: so versatile, sometimes you do have to put him in
- 11:15Speaker 2: other situations to you know, round out the eleven and
- 11:17Speaker 2: make sure we're you know, the best eleven out there.
- 11:19Speaker 2: But the fact that that's not an issue just just
- 11:23Speaker 2: makes us a lot better team. So testament to him
- 11:26Speaker 2: your rookie corner draft picks fans be fuller and younger.
- 11:30Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not, it's not.
- 11:31Speaker 2: Uh, it's not something where you can just walk in
- 11:35Speaker 2: and just know what to do immediately.
- 11:37Speaker 1: It takes a lot of work.
- 11:38Speaker 2: Guys are putting an extra work preatitude there. They're still rookies,
- 11:43Speaker 2: you know, they're still probably not playing at the speed
- 11:47Speaker 2: that we're gonna want to expect to come training camp time.
- 11:49Speaker 2: But that's not for a lack of trying. And they
- 11:52Speaker 2: have to trust that they got to go through not
- 11:54Speaker 2: a round on this thing and and just just keep
- 11:57Speaker 2: you know, keep going through the process.
- 11:59Speaker 1: It'll it'll clear up.
- 12:01Speaker 2: And like we're not going to go into a game
- 12:02Speaker 2: with the amount of defense that we have in right now,
- 12:05Speaker 2: so uh, it'll clear up for him. And I expect
- 12:08Speaker 2: him have great training camps to can and compete for
- 12:10Speaker 2: for a large role like Clark.
- 12:12Speaker 1: Kind of safe questions. Yeah, same thing with Bud.
- 12:15Speaker 2: It's it's just a it's a it's a it's a
- 12:17Speaker 2: case of you know, how how much do you move
- 12:19Speaker 2: him around? Because he can do all the things similar
- 12:22Speaker 2: to some other guys we have, But how do you
- 12:25Speaker 2: how do you divvy up the reps in the time
- 12:26Speaker 2: so he can really get good at you know, the
- 12:29Speaker 2: right amount of things.
- 12:30Speaker 1: We can compete for it for an opportunity. So that's
- 12:32Speaker 1: where he's at.
- 12:32Speaker 2: But uh, now, he did a great job in the
- 12:36Speaker 2: at the team dinner, he was awesome.
- 12:38Speaker 1: He was Bud Clark, he was great. Kenny, where's Kenny
- 12:47Speaker 1: is good? We'll see, we'll see come training camp time
- 12:50Speaker 1: how we handle it. But he's coming along. You've seen
- 12:53Speaker 1: Nick when you're working on the ass skills and certainly
- 12:56Speaker 1: the way he's approaching trying to improve else you lot
- 13:00Speaker 1: to do the house from What is that about that?
- 13:01Speaker 1: I don't seem to just get.
- 13:03Speaker 3: Better than that?
- 13:04Speaker 1: Well, I don't.
- 13:05Speaker 2: I don't think he's changed in that regard. I think
- 13:07Speaker 2: that's the way that he was last year. We we've
- 13:13Speaker 2: our staff dynamics have changed a little bit. I think,
- 13:16Speaker 2: I think just for what we felt like we needed
- 13:19Speaker 2: to do, and so he just I guess I think
- 13:21Speaker 2: he's working with everybody because he can and because he
- 13:23Speaker 2: wants to, and there's only X amount of time in
- 13:26Speaker 2: the day, so he has to invest that time and
- 13:28Speaker 2: be intentful about it. And CEP he's doing a great
- 13:30Speaker 2: job organizing the whole thing. But again, just to see
- 13:34Speaker 2: like the law working with him, the other guys, his
- 13:36Speaker 2: willingness to learn. You know, a lot of guys would
- 13:39Speaker 2: put would be afraid to put themselves in a situation
- 13:42Speaker 2: where they don't necessarily look like they know that they're
- 13:45Speaker 2: like great at it yet.
- 13:45Speaker 1: But he's okay being in that kind of gray area.
- 13:47Speaker 2: Now, he's got a sense urgency to get there, but
- 13:49Speaker 2: he's not afraid to kind of jump head first sort
- 13:51Speaker 2: of speak.
- 13:52Speaker 3: Richet's got a great opportunity had in the year.
- 13:54Speaker 1: You've got to see him play a little bit the
- 13:56Speaker 1: last two years.
- 13:57Speaker 3: Well, what do you need to see this offseason from
- 13:59Speaker 3: him in terms of taking a big leap here and
- 14:02Speaker 3: being able to maybe step into the light up.
- 14:05Speaker 1: He's just got to keep growing. I wouldn't say it's
- 14:08Speaker 1: a it's.
- 14:08Speaker 2: A function of consistency or anything like that. He's he
- 14:11Speaker 2: has the talent. Uh, He's made He's made great plays
- 14:15Speaker 2: for us. There's gonna be a great competition on our
- 14:17Speaker 2: secondary to fill out some of these roles. And and look,
- 14:20Speaker 2: we're open to see how like it has doesn't have
- 14:22Speaker 2: to shake out the way it did last year. How
- 14:25Speaker 2: we play, you know, deploy our personnel. It's all about
- 14:27Speaker 2: letting the players kind of dictate to us on how
- 14:30Speaker 2: you know the team's going to function the best. And
- 14:33Speaker 2: he's gonna he's right there. He's got a great opportunity
- 14:35Speaker 2: in front of him.
- 14:35Speaker 1: Have you seen your guys Rings yet or you in the.
- 14:38Speaker 3: Dark and Tal tomorrow as well.
- 14:39Speaker 2: I've seen a version of some Rings, so I'm happy.
- 14:43Speaker 2: I do not know what the final one looks like,
- 14:45Speaker 2: but I'm really excited. And I know, uh, everyone involved
- 14:48Speaker 2: in the process, starting with Jody Chuck kind of headed.
- 14:51Speaker 1: Up the whole thing.
- 14:51Speaker 2: There's a lot of people involved throughout the building just
- 14:55Speaker 2: just really impressed with like how the process went down.
- 14:57Speaker 1: And I know i' this. I'm really confident it's our
- 15:02Speaker 1: guys gonna be really proud of it. It's gonna be
- 15:03Speaker 1: really awesome.
- 15:04Speaker 3: Philosophical question, Mike, your leadership, the origins of it and
- 15:09Speaker 3: the key tenants of it. Where'd that come from?
- 15:14Speaker 1: I mean.
- 15:18Speaker 2: Starts with my faith, probably goes to the principles that
- 15:21Speaker 2: my my parents raise us with, how my sisters are,
- 15:26Speaker 2: and then you know, I've been really blessed to be
- 15:28Speaker 2: around great, great people, starting with you know, John Harball,
- 15:31Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh. I mean, a lot of the lot of
- 15:33Speaker 2: the foundational principles in terms of football come from those guys.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Got two injury questions are royal at Salbert. What's going
- 15:40Speaker 1: on with them?
- 15:42Speaker 2: Ah, they're just working through some stuff. I mean, but
- 15:45Speaker 2: they're a lit'll. It's positive for training camp. So just
- 15:49Speaker 2: taking care of them right now.
- 15:51Speaker 1: We didn't see got it Eastart out there.
- 15:52Speaker 2: I guess that's yeah, same thing I'd.
- 15:56Speaker 1: Like to know. This is the earliest we've reached mid
- 15:58Speaker 1: season for um on injury. Inf Surprised you ask, but
- 16:02Speaker 1: shout out. We'll play it. Maybe next time, maybe next time.
- 16:06Speaker 1: All right, I'll see you guys.