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Mike Macdonald: "We Have A Lot To Prove" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: All right, good to see everybody. It's a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We guys are into it. Focus, excited to get on
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  Speaker 1: the road here and uh excited for Sunday, so.
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  Speaker 2: Ready to roll.
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  Speaker 1: What do you got and kay Patton and go afo.
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  Speaker 1: Uh shoot, as we expected. It's fun to see him.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be fun to see him go out there and play.
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  Speaker 1: Picked it up really quickly. Just a smart guy, great guy, physical,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's enormous, which is good. You like big players,
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  Speaker 1: big strong guy. So yeah, it'll be fun to see
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  Speaker 1: him go do his thing. How do you inscribe your suit?
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  Speaker 2: You make kick the corner right now?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll make We'll make a couple of moves tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Faym will come up, Josh Joe will come up and
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  Speaker 1: play and and uh then the other guys on the
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  Speaker 1: roster will get a great opportunity to go out there.
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  Speaker 2: And show what they can do. So I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: see him play.
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  Speaker 1: How does that limit your options to Nicol than what
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  Speaker 1: you might want to do actually be here? Uh? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think if if Spoon's not at Nickel, then you
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  Speaker 1: would see some other guys you might not have seen
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  Speaker 1: but have been repping there. So you know, we'll leave
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  Speaker 1: the combinations let them figure that out at this point.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, Spoon will play Nickel at some point. Other
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  Speaker 1: guys will play Nickel as well. So but they've all
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  Speaker 1: gotten those reps, so we should be ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: We'll kind of progress Jason years made since he's been
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  Speaker 2: here with your last weeks. Good progress. He's not coming
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  Speaker 2: up this week, so but we're excited about Jason. He's
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  Speaker 2: doing a great job. Talk about big guys up, Frank Strong,
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  Speaker 2: Byron Murphy came back this week. Just what did you
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  Speaker 2: see in terms of his aptitude? And yeah, it's great
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  Speaker 2: to see Murph come back.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we had a physical practice on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: and really show what he can do in the run game.
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  Speaker 1: So excited for him to come back and and get
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  Speaker 1: rolling and uh, you know, get those combinations up front
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  Speaker 1: with our d line that we've we haven't had the
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  Speaker 1: last few weeks. Is his hand something that was need surgery.
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  Speaker 2: He did have surgery on it already on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Been back.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, Does that mean Mike Durell at right tackle?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike, Mike's gonna start a right tackle and and
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  Speaker 1: off we go. How he progressed in strength. He had
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  Speaker 1: a great week of prep. Guys just kept improving since
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  Speaker 1: he's gotten here. It's just he's coming such a long
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  Speaker 1: way in less than a year. So proud of him.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got a great opportunity. I know he's excited
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  Speaker 1: and uh excited to see him go do his thing scouting.
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  Speaker 2: For a time, the draft was his strength.
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  Speaker 1: Has that shown up? Just his strength he had well,
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  Speaker 1: just the physical tools absolutely, and then the game slowed
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  Speaker 1: down for him tremendously. And I know he's working his
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  Speaker 1: tail off and he's banked a lot of great one
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  Speaker 1: on one reps and then against against our ones, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in practice.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, yeah, he's got he's very great future. This
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  Speaker 2: is the hopefully the start of.
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  Speaker 1: It, that jump to the NFL. Thanks to the Pig
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  Speaker 1: for some guys, let's allowed him to.
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  Speaker 2: His mentality, work ethic just it just uh it's something that.
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  Speaker 1: If you just do it every day, you don't feel
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  Speaker 1: it in the moment, but you look back and we
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  Speaker 1: talk about stacking. I mean, this is a guy that
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  Speaker 1: exemplifies that progress. And yeah, it's it's funny. The days
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  Speaker 1: are long, the years are short. You look back and
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  Speaker 1: the amount of progress that he's made Like, like I
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  Speaker 1: told Greg, it's just proud of him. You know.
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  Speaker 2: So how Stone's injury is that a long term.
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  Speaker 1: Thing or what he had is he had a like
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  Speaker 1: a hand had some stuff messed up with his hands.
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  Speaker 2: So he got it fixed and he'll be he'll be
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  Speaker 2: back soon.
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  Speaker 1: Like, how's how's this after that grind of three three
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  Speaker 1: games in a love days? How's his team feeling now
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  Speaker 1: after you had some time off and you've worked on
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  Speaker 1: some things you want to work on?
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  Speaker 2: How does his team feel? What is the move you're
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  Speaker 2: going to?
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  Speaker 1: I think there's urgency, I think or I think we're confident. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: we want to be loose and focused. I felt that
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  Speaker 1: way this week and that's that's where we're at. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we got a lot to prove and we're excited to
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  Speaker 1: go have our opportunity and take advantage of it.
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  Speaker 2: What Kavon Wallace if he has to kind of play
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  Speaker 2: a lot, but what are you see it out of him? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Same uh, same same thing we've seen from Kavon. He
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  Speaker 1: had a great training camp. He's a guy that just
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  Speaker 1: has a great a lot of great energy on special
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  Speaker 1: teams and then when he gets his opportunity on defense
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  Speaker 1: position flex he can play nickel and safety and dying
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  Speaker 1: for that matter.
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  Speaker 2: So uh, when he gets his opportunity, we'll expect good
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  Speaker 2: things from Kobe's the guy you've praised that again as
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  Speaker 2: he's progressive here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I see a lot more confidence in communicating now
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  Speaker 1: that he's really got a hold of.
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  Speaker 2: The system and he's a guy that affects the football.
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  Speaker 1: So got a lot of confidence in Kobe, and he's
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  Speaker 1: working really hard. And another another guy along with along
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  Speaker 1: with kavon that when he's in there, then we'll be
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  Speaker 1: rocking and rolling. So excited to see those guys play.
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  Speaker 2: And Josh with those guys each outside guys or Nichols
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  Speaker 2: or what or what takes us about.
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  Speaker 1: Just both both will be available for the game, as
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  Speaker 1: we anticipate right now. You know, things have to happen
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  Speaker 1: between now and then, but you know, we'll kind of
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  Speaker 1: leave that up in the air right now, but both
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  Speaker 1: will be up You're long term concerns with ker trading things.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, anytime you're not available right now, you're you know,
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  Speaker 1: But I think both are on really good timelines.
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  Speaker 2: Hoping for next week. I guess it's probably a fair
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  Speaker 2: fair thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know that we're shooting for next week at this point,
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  Speaker 1: anything else, thank you, Okay, thanks guys,