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Clint Hurtt: "We Have To Execute Collectively As A Unit" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Is everybody doing all right?
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  Speaker 2: Thanksgiving night?
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  Speaker 1: The game? Competition ready?
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  Speaker 3: How are they ready?
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  Speaker 1: How are we looking good?
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  Speaker 3: It's another Uh, it's another game.
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  Speaker 1: You just we do would like to change the narrative.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously it's an individual opponent, so obviously knowing uh, you
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  Speaker 3: know NFC West opponents, so we're familiar with them and
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  Speaker 3: absoually they're familiar with us, so prepare accordingly.
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  Speaker 2: How much do you change?
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to change, but how much you're for gathering?
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  Speaker 1: Would you go back last year?
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  Speaker 3: You don't? Yeah, I mean there's things that you have
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  Speaker 3: to take away, you know, things that they have success,
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  Speaker 3: you know with against this officers when we played them,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, and still studying the film of what they've
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  Speaker 3: had so far this year where they've done well and whatnot.
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  Speaker 3: So uh, you got to kind of combine out together
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  Speaker 3: and still formulate your game plan and shure God to
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  Speaker 3: stay true to who you are as well.
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  Speaker 2: So whether whether it's the personnel on the field or
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  Speaker 2: things you've done stematically, just how much better do you
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  Speaker 2: feel about this defense now versus when you saw them go?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I d you know, I think I made the
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  Speaker 3: statement oother we're gonna be you know we're gonna be better,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and we're still improving, but obviously better than
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  Speaker 3: where we were and uh but still growing there like
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  Speaker 3: where things are going. But we still have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of parts of our game that we gotta clean up too,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So, but we're still we're taking strides.
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  Speaker 2: You've changed your unit so much since that January clath game.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you think you're better specifically than them?
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  Speaker 3: I would say in in all aspects. You know, up front,
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  Speaker 3: we're playing better linebackers. Jordan's better than he was last year,
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  Speaker 3: you know. Obviously having Bobby back, you know, you can't
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  Speaker 3: replicate that, and obviously having guys back in the secondary
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  Speaker 3: and being a year improved, being healthy. Uh So I
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  Speaker 3: would say at all three levels, we've were better than
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  Speaker 3: where we were last year.
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  Speaker 2: With our question, you just took Kidney's first game against him.
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  Speaker 2: But how can Witherspoon alone take away a lot of
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  Speaker 2: this stuff that they like to live?
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean, you play as a team. You have
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  Speaker 3: to play team defense. They have obviously guys who are
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  Speaker 3: dynamic playmakers all over the field. Uh So one guy
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  Speaker 3: doesn't eliminate that. You have to play collectively as a unit.
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  Speaker 3: You have to execute collectively as a unit. You know,
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  Speaker 3: that's what you have to do. I wouldn't put it
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  Speaker 3: on on one specific player.
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  Speaker 2: What would you feel about the pass rushing on.
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  Speaker 1: Something I was Uh, we struggled. Uh, I struggled a
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  Speaker 1: lot with that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, some of the chips and their protections and
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  Speaker 3: things like that were struggle for some guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's like for a younger player like my face, like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: you go seven eight games in a row where you
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  Speaker 3: getting one, you know, things are gonna start changing. They're
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  Speaker 3: gonna start bringing people around you to to slow you
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  Speaker 3: down a little bit. So now and that's a sign
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  Speaker 3: of respect, you know. So now it's adjusting and adapting
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  Speaker 3: to that accordingly and understanding how you have to adjust
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  Speaker 3: your rush plans and rushing with your teammates.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: When things like that happened to go on, So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's uh, we did we need to be better the.
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  Speaker 1: Picture and set after the game was it guys.
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  Speaker 3: Need to meet their open adjustments in the second half in.
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  Speaker 1: That mot of what yes, that is it.
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  Speaker 3: It's the young guys trying to figure out how to adapt.
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  Speaker 1: To this situation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's like knowing you know when when date,
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  Speaker 3: whether they put a receiver inside the hash mark, they
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  Speaker 3: chip with a running back, they tip with the tight ends.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, those things have an effect.
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  Speaker 3: On rushers, a lot of the effect on rushers, and
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  Speaker 3: they can slow a lot of things down for guys.
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  Speaker 3: So and depending on the location of guys, it's how
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  Speaker 3: you want to adjust your rush lanes or your the
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  Speaker 3: calling of your games, things of that nature. All adjust
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  Speaker 3: off of those things. Shippers cause a lot of issues
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  Speaker 3: like that. So second half a side, is that rush
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  Speaker 3: more in sync than what we had seen in the
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  Speaker 3: last couple of weeks, see, because you're not turning.
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  Speaker 1: Over the decisions. Yeah, I mean, it's just it's really
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  Speaker 1: it's time on task. You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like it was earlier in the year you
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  Speaker 3: were doing that building with China, the naposite China goes down.
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  Speaker 3: Now you have the new addition with Frank coming in
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  Speaker 3: the room, Draymont rushing a little bit more outside. So
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  Speaker 3: it's just some of the moving pieces and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not an excuse. We got to get that
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  Speaker 3: up to speed. We spent a lot of time on
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  Speaker 3: that this week. Uh, to get guys on the same page.
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  Speaker 2: We talked you last week about Devin's blitzing and basked
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  Speaker 2: you about his tackling and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But just as like a pure cover guy, how do
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  Speaker 3: you think he's doing there?
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  Speaker 1: Doing really well?
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's been sticky and challenging guys and been
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the right spot. So I think overall
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  Speaker 3: he's been playing really really good football.
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  Speaker 1: Hands.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's some of these things we can
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  Speaker 3: adjust an adapt technique because obviously you know the size
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  Speaker 3: of your players. Obviously you may have to adjust some stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Of a receivers five foot eight and your corner is
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  Speaker 3: six foot four, You're gonna have to adjust where you
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  Speaker 3: place your hands because some natural things happen. You know,
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  Speaker 3: even if he's going to punch a guy in the chest,
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  Speaker 3: but if the guy knocks his hands up, hands up,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with trying to release from the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 3: and you get the incidental you know, contact to his face,
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  Speaker 3: obviously it's gonna be a penalty on the defense. So
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  Speaker 3: there's things you just have to adjust and adapt, you know,
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  Speaker 3: along the way, you know when that kind of stuff happens.
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  Speaker 3: So we're helping him out through that.
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  Speaker 2: You got to tet this balance and stay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they make a challenge with all the
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  Speaker 3: motions and shifts and things like that they do pre snap. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: the biggest thing with them is, you know, your execution
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  Speaker 3: of the calls. You know, they're gonna really thrive off
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  Speaker 3: of the mistakes that you make, you know, so you
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  Speaker 3: have to make sure you understand exactly where guys have
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  Speaker 3: to be. They have to trust and play off of
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  Speaker 3: each other, and obviously you gotta be timely with some
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  Speaker 3: things that you wanna do against them to kind of
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  Speaker 3: throw them off kilter little bit. So, uh, they definitely
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  Speaker 3: prevent present a lot of unique challenges that we gotta
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  Speaker 3: be prepared for.
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  Speaker 1: What s thills are required to be a gay monk too,
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  Speaker 1: that you pay in the side and let outside. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Number one, he's smart, you know, and obviously he's an
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  Speaker 3: athletic guy that can you know, has a versatility be
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  Speaker 3: able to play out in space and not look like
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  Speaker 3: a fish out of water. So he's uh, he's handling
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  Speaker 3: all those things really well and it's not going He
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  Speaker 3: he plays some defensive end in Denver as well.
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  Speaker 1: Good. That's good. Thank everybody, You're enjoying