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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The 27-10 Win vs. The Panthers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: You can to see everybody the way across the country. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Great, Look, it's a great win by our guys. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I felt like it's the same story week, but we
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  Speaker 2: didn't flinch. The big emphasis this week was like, can
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  Speaker 2: we stack plays in all three phases?
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  Speaker 1: It took us a half to do it.
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  Speaker 2: But I felt like in the second half we did
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  Speaker 2: a great job by responding to the takeaway. Darcus O
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  Speaker 2: Warrens had a phenomenal play. Then we were able to
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  Speaker 2: punch it in a j Barner was really a spark
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  Speaker 2: plug for us on an offense. Uh, and then come
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  Speaker 2: back with another takeaway with Julian in a in a
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  Speaker 2: phenomenal play, and and then just go finish out in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter. You know, I feel like this is
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  Speaker 2: it was cool to end the game in a four
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  Speaker 2: minute touchdown. I thought that was something that we've been
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  Speaker 2: wanting to get done all year. And and uh, the
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  Speaker 2: guys did a great job. So you know, fly back,
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  Speaker 2: fly back home, and get ready for next week. For
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  Speaker 2: the veterans, this time of the year, yeah, it's uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a big time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big time.
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  Speaker 2: I mean with d law you just you feel like
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a it's a play waiting to happen.
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  Speaker 2: And Julian it's a he has a he has a
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  Speaker 2: playmaking ability about.
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  Speaker 1: Him, but there's also a poise about him as well.
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  Speaker 2: So two two great players that uh that we love
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  Speaker 2: and we love having.
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  Speaker 3: Him here Zach sar first hunderd yard game of the
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  Speaker 3: season here down.
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  Speaker 2: Today. It's probably Exact's best game as a Seahawk, I
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  Speaker 2: would imagine, I mean, definitely in the last two years.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, it's just sometimes you know, it's telling
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  Speaker 2: KNA I can played a great game too, is this
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes that's the way the game goes on on some
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  Speaker 2: of those.
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  Speaker 1: Creases and things.
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  Speaker 2: And then I mean the third down conversion was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Some of those some of those you know black zone
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  Speaker 2: runs are like, you know, ninety five wasn't blocked in
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  Speaker 2: the hole, it makes the guy missing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a two yard game, but I got the big
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  Speaker 1: time two yards.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's not just the explosive runs, it's all
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  Speaker 2: those those tough, tough yards as.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and then obviously finishing out in for a minute.
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  Speaker 3: It was a big time weeks around now seventy last week,
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  Speaker 3: won sixty something this week.
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel like, yeah, yeah, I'm you know, it's uh,
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  Speaker 2: it's good. You know, it's it's right where we want
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  Speaker 2: to be at this point, and we gotta keep going.
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  Speaker 2: You know, San Franz a good run defense and go
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  Speaker 2: put a great play together and let's let's rock and roll.
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  Speaker 1: You've been saying, you know, going back to last year,
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  Speaker 1: you feel like you.
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  Speaker 3: Have two starting running backs and yeah, I mean the
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  Speaker 3: past games really illustrate that with one guy going on
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  Speaker 3: hundred last week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's the thing with with with Kenneth says, hey, man,
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  Speaker 2: like he's playing great football and he's an integral part
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  Speaker 2: of our operation, just like Zach's been when when Ken's
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  Speaker 2: been you know, getting the.
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  Speaker 1: Bulk of the carry. So it's great.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we got two really great backs and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's just like when sometimes when the offense
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  Speaker 2: needs to pick up the defense and vice versa. It
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  Speaker 2: could be could be the same thing within a position group.
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  Speaker 1: You guys have a lot of defense.
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  Speaker 3: Several games where given a few points that today, but
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  Speaker 3: it seems like from the outset, you guys are tackling
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  Speaker 3: year ties.
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  Speaker 1: Set the stage be to your tap for the lost early. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for your thoughts on the way the team tackled. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you brought that up. You're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, our guys, this is a good offense, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and they've been moving the ball and they've been creating
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  Speaker 2: explosives and they've been doing a great job recently. And
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  Speaker 2: it's because they got great players, great scheme, the whole nine.
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  Speaker 2: And those are some open field tackles as well that
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  Speaker 2: those guys are making, and those are critical, those are
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  Speaker 2: critical yards. I mean, you miss that tackle, now you're
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  Speaker 2: in a third and two. It's a great fourth down team.
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  Speaker 2: You know. The kind of the shape of that drive
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  Speaker 2: really takes a turn when you're able to kind of
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  Speaker 2: staple guys. So and I feel like it was all
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  Speaker 2: three levels.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm I'm glad you brought that up.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned responding to the takeaway after Darnold diet.
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  Speaker 1: You can see your defense kind of bounces back out
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  Speaker 1: of the.
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  Speaker 2: Fields, just trying to get people going, like Williams to
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  Speaker 2: be able to live momentum like that.
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  Speaker 4: How much pride do you think?
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  Speaker 1: That's them? That's what they do, That's what they do.
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  Speaker 1: They take pride in it.
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  Speaker 2: They's not like I'm the one telling them to go.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I am, but they're responding with each other,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so special group.
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  Speaker 3: What did they tell you on that play where it
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  Speaker 3: looked like it's going forward and and.
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  Speaker 2: Uh they said it wasn't enough to overturn, So I disagree.
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  Speaker 2: I think his hands was going forward. I think I
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  Speaker 2: thought we got the spot on the fourth them And
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  Speaker 2: there's some there's some things.
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  Speaker 1: That and this is this is this is part of
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  Speaker 1: the course.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you're not going to come out of a
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  Speaker 2: game in the NFL and be like, hey, look every
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  Speaker 2: break went our way and I'm very excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: Like things aren't going to go your way, Calls aren't
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  Speaker 2: going to go your way, and obviously you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to agree with everything, but I think you gotta You
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  Speaker 2: also just have to be able to go to the.
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  Speaker 1: Next play, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So on Rachid, uh, yeah, it was a concussion and
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  Speaker 2: wasn't able to come back White.
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  Speaker 1: Uh Cody was it growing? Yeah? Growing? Yeah, we'll see,
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  Speaker 1: probably probably gonna be some time with Cody.
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  Speaker 4: That ended the first half with like.
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  Speaker 1: The sneak you mentioned spot kind of with that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I mean we were trying to get
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  Speaker 2: into our two minute mode and trying to push the
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  Speaker 2: ball forward. But uh, we were trying, we just weren't
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  Speaker 2: doing it. So that's the way the drive went, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And again you're not trying to get you know, we
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  Speaker 2: have the ball come out of the half and originally
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to go score a touchdown, but weren't able
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  Speaker 2: to get it going. So at that point trying to
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  Speaker 2: get in a field goal range and uh didn't get it,
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  Speaker 2: you know so, but we by doing that, we also
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  Speaker 2: you know, basically eliminated their ability to go score field
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  Speaker 2: goal as well.
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  Speaker 1: So that was the thought behind it.
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  Speaker 3: Easy to ask now in retrospect, but on the sneak
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  Speaker 3: with Darnold, why not go with the.
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  Speaker 2: You have to burn a time out and then you
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  Speaker 2: got to put you know, personnel in the field. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's we've been to good in those situations. We've gotten
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  Speaker 2: up to this point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll look at you. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I just it looked like to me and by from
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  Speaker 2: the naked eye, that we got it, you know, so,
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  Speaker 2: but they said we didn't.
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  Speaker 3: We played the view of or maybe fumble is that
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  Speaker 3: a factor in your No, No, we're just trying to
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  Speaker 3: we're just trying to go convert the first take a
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  Speaker 3: time out and then push the ball down the field.
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  Speaker 4: More level of concern with the defense made it move,
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  Speaker 4: but the two more turnovers were.
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  Speaker 2: Saying out the well, yeah, it's just it's not like
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  Speaker 2: a Okay, it's really just the ball being in jeopardy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so deflections things like that, and that's I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's that those things happened. But you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: if we take care of like the front end of
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  Speaker 2: the plays better.
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  Speaker 1: The it won't be as big of an issue. You know.
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  Speaker 2: So when we call it eat, it's how you finish plays,
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  Speaker 2: and we got to double down on that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's critical this part of the year.
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  Speaker 4: Like just a circle back on Marcus Lawrence for a second.
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  Speaker 1: When you think about bringing.
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  Speaker 4: A guy in like that, you know what you see
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  Speaker 4: on tape and maybe you know other things about them,
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  Speaker 4: but can you just describe what you've learned about him
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  Speaker 4: now that you've been around him for a season season?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Well, well, well, Ad deserves a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 2: deserves a shout out here because he was he's with
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  Speaker 2: DeMarcus for their time in Dallas, and you know, the
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  Speaker 2: alignment that we had that a D and really the
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  Speaker 2: rest of everybody else and myself like understanding about who
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  Speaker 2: what type of people we want to bring in the
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  Speaker 2: building and the skill sets that we need in our defense. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it really wasn't no brainer, you know, And I think
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  Speaker 2: they just they just we knew who he was and
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  Speaker 2: then you know, we take pride and create an environment
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  Speaker 2: where guys love coming to work and you can play
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  Speaker 2: your best football and that goes for you know, whatever
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  Speaker 2: whatever year he is now ten twelve year Vets and uh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy that, Like I'm happy like about his spirit
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  Speaker 2: that he has. You know, you can feel that, like
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  Speaker 2: you can feel his love for the game and and
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  Speaker 2: that that that that comes out on the on the field.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been great, it's been great. We love him
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  Speaker 2: doing a great job. Yeah, big time plays, Yeah, critical.
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's like I told the team, he's a
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  Speaker 2: spark plug for us. Attitude wise, got an edge to him,
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  Speaker 2: he's got swag. I mean all those things that's those
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  Speaker 2: are Seahawk trades man and he's he's that guy and
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  Speaker 2: we feed off of him.
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  Speaker 1: We need him. He's a great player talking.
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  Speaker 2: About Yeah, he's called like basically the facto goal line,
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  Speaker 2: and nowadays you don't go like goal line at the five,
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  Speaker 2: but you're getting like type of goal line type of
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  Speaker 2: players at a certain point in the red zone.
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  Speaker 4: A's gotten his fifteen reception. Just how criticals have been
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  Speaker 4: for him to take that next step as a pass catcher.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't something he was viewed before.
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  Speaker 4: Much when he was coming out of school.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think it's similar to Jacks.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's, uh, you know, you want to have visions
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  Speaker 2: for your players bigger than they for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And these two guys to the to their credit, this is.
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  Speaker 2: Their vision for their game on where they wanted to
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  Speaker 2: take it from the day they stepped in the door
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  Speaker 2: or the way he met him.
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  Speaker 1: And all he's done is just attack it and make
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  Speaker 1: it come to life.
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  Speaker 2: But I know we've always felt like he could be
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  Speaker 2: a complete wide tight.
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  Speaker 1: End or league at a league level, and and he's
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  Speaker 1: on his way to being that.
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  Speaker 2: And so especially in this offense, to have that that
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  Speaker 2: threat where he's not just you know, extra tackle or
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  Speaker 2: whatever out there, like that's that's big time.
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  Speaker 1: It's big for us earlier had a few of those. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for him, again to step in. Yeah, I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: grabbed miss mes Vita right now for the weekly weekly
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  Speaker 1: ty Ikta question. Give him crap for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, it's just it's remarkable, it is, it really is.
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  Speaker 1: He's just.
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  Speaker 2: He's tackling all years. We just been phenomenal. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking of playing in Atlanta. He's coming across making
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  Speaker 2: a play. I mean, he's a tough son of a
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  Speaker 2: gun and takes great angles and trusts it and it's
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  Speaker 2: a it's a it's a shout out to the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the team too, for you know, there's some open
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  Speaker 2: field tackles that were big time. But also you know,
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  Speaker 2: like every every every every tackle needs to be some
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  Speaker 2: sort of vice.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're like, you're never just going to be
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  Speaker 1: on your own out there, and so.
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  Speaker 2: Guys are running to the ball and we're populating the
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  Speaker 2: football even if the even if ball breaks.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper had the catch on the third down.
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  Speaker 2: On yeah, big time catch. I mean, I know it's
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  Speaker 2: wasn't Sam's like best game of all time, and the
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  Speaker 2: stats reflect that. But like there's some big time third
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  Speaker 2: down throws with pressure in his face. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: threw the one to Jack's you know that route to Cooper.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, those are some big time throws that you know,
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  Speaker 2: in the face of pressure that we need to be
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  Speaker 2: able to make and they're not easy to make. So
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  Speaker 2: but great, that was a big time catch by Coop.
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  Speaker 1: That was awesome.
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  Speaker 2: One game at a time.
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  Speaker 3: Now one more game, you guys get top seed in
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  Speaker 3: the NFC.
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  Speaker 2: What does that?
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean for this.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna be I'm gonna give you the
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  Speaker 2: boring answer, but I think it's the same story. Like
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  Speaker 2: as we're hitting these these benchmarks, it's gonna be the
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  Speaker 2: same message.
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  Speaker 1: To the team because that's what's got.
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  Speaker 2: Us to this point, and we're gonna do everything in
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  Speaker 2: our in our in our power to go win this
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  Speaker 2: one and then we'll go play the next one. You know,
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  Speaker 2: But that's that's a message. It takes one hundred percent
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  Speaker 2: of everybody, all the time, every week. So nothing changes
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  Speaker 2: this week. But one of our goals is to win
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  Speaker 2: the division. You know, it's going to come down to
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  Speaker 2: if we win the game, win the division. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: hit the we'll hit the next goal. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if you could see replay from Downasiland, but did you
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  Speaker 2: see the play Sundell.
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  Speaker 1: Made almost I heard of his first PBu. I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see it, but they told me about it.
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  Speaker 1: So guys will love that one. Anything else, Thank you, okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, great,