Latest / Seahawks Press Pass / Pete Carroll: "The Preseason Games Are Really Important To Us"
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Where are you looking forms preseason one?
- 0:03Speaker 2: Run on a hit and see get these guys out
- 0:04Speaker 2: there really really get the full speed stuff. This is
- 0:07Speaker 2: we we we want these preseason games to give us
- 0:10Speaker 2: the chance to make sure that we're at that uh
- 0:13Speaker 2: that mentality and technical side of what we need to do.
- 0:16Speaker 2: We'll find out how, you know, what we need to
- 0:17Speaker 2: work on and all. But we got three full weeks
- 0:20Speaker 2: to do this and uh, you know, almost two hundred
- 0:23Speaker 2: plays to get it done. So that's what the preseason
- 0:25Speaker 2: games are really important to us. He had a little
- 0:29Speaker 2: hammy uh thing again that same leg, different spot, not
- 0:33Speaker 2: the same not the same area. Uh, it doesn't seem serious,
- 0:37Speaker 2: but he's moving around and all that, but we have
- 0:39Speaker 2: to just you know, we gotta.
- 0:40Speaker 3: Be careful here.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Joey had a bad fall. He was chasing a ball
- 0:45Speaker 2: in the end zone and dove for it and landed
- 0:47Speaker 2: funny on his knee and jammed his hip, and we
- 0:50Speaker 2: were really worried about it. And he just found out
- 0:52Speaker 2: yesterday that everything's fine. He's got he's got a sort
- 0:55Speaker 2: of lower back just from the jolt, but no no
- 0:58Speaker 2: damage at all. So he'll we'll see if we can
- 1:00Speaker 2: get him back next week. So really really pleased about
- 1:03Speaker 2: that because we kind of went down the rabbit hole
- 1:05Speaker 2: that might be some you know, a bunch of nasty stuff,
- 1:06Speaker 2: but he made it through it.
- 1:08Speaker 3: So fortunate you.
- 1:09Speaker 1: Talked earlier the week about having left here for you've
- 1:13Speaker 1: brought up that Morris Michael comparison.
- 1:16Speaker 4: What that do for him to get in some days?
- 1:19Speaker 2: Well, let me find that out, you know, after those
- 1:23Speaker 2: guys are out of here, and then I'll get to
- 1:24Speaker 2: do a little bit of polling. However, what I do
- 1:28Speaker 2: know is they demonstrated how how passionate they are, you know,
- 1:32Speaker 2: and if you watched them on the it was the
- 1:35Speaker 2: Camp Wednesday practice. Uh, those those two guys were going
- 1:39Speaker 2: crazy and they had a blast and and uh it
- 1:41Speaker 2: was fun just to see that, you know, that energy
- 1:45Speaker 2: again and for me to see those guys get fired up.
- 1:48Speaker 2: But it's got to mean something, It's got to mean something.
- 1:50Speaker 2: And uh uh the practice field was lit up that
- 1:53Speaker 2: day and we had a great day's work and and
- 1:56Speaker 2: it was because of the energy, and it was everybody
- 1:58Speaker 2: on both sides of the ball were competing, but those
- 2:00Speaker 2: guys added a little bit extra.
- 2:02Speaker 3: Damian Lewismiths, a couple of days.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Yeah, he was sick and family, everybody with in the
- 2:06Speaker 2: family got sick. So he was back out today with Drew.
- 2:10Speaker 4: How important is it to give him a lot of
- 2:12Speaker 4: reps this preseason?
- 2:14Speaker 3: It's really important. Yeah, Drew's gonna play a lot of
- 2:16Speaker 3: football during the preseason him less than He took a
- 2:22Speaker 3: couple of days.
- 2:22Speaker 2: He felt a little something something and we just gave
- 2:24Speaker 2: him a break. He's back out here last two days.
- 2:26Speaker 2: He's all right, he's ready to go.
- 2:28Speaker 3: How important. Excuse me, let me just say but about that.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Just in general, we're looking for, you know, a chance
- 2:33Speaker 2: to make sure that we don't overload him. He came
- 2:35Speaker 2: to camping the best shape I've seen him in five
- 2:37Speaker 2: six years. I can't remember a year really when he
- 2:39Speaker 2: was in better condition, better speed early in camp, and so, uh,
- 2:43Speaker 2: we didn't want to overdo it because we're so excited
- 2:45Speaker 2: about it, you know. So we make sure we made
- 2:47Speaker 2: sure and and look for an up and and uh
- 2:49Speaker 2: to give him a break.
- 2:50Speaker 3: The rookies, I mean, guys like that and some of
- 2:55Speaker 3: these names. Yeah, we need to see all the new
- 2:56Speaker 3: guys for sure. Everything.
- 2:58Speaker 2: We've got really competitive spots that we need information on. Uh,
- 3:01Speaker 2: everybody needs to play football, and so it's these Like
- 3:04Speaker 2: I said, these games are hugely important. But for the
- 3:07Speaker 2: guys we haven't had a chance to see before, you know,
- 3:09Speaker 2: in our uniforms and playing for us. Uh, it's crucial,
- 3:12Speaker 2: and they they got to show something.
- 3:13Speaker 3: They got to show that.
- 3:14Speaker 2: They're the build up and all of the prep that
- 3:16Speaker 2: to get us to this point. We've taken every step
- 3:19Speaker 2: in in a fashion that I think is in order.
- 3:21Speaker 2: So this next step is now it's full running and
- 3:23Speaker 2: hitt and then we gotta see how it goes.
- 3:25Speaker 1: You haven't Maybe.
- 3:29Speaker 3: I don't have anything to give you on that one.
- 3:31Speaker 3: I don't know that. I don't know. I don't think
- 3:32Speaker 3: it's gonna be a long time though, but I don't
- 3:34Speaker 3: know that.
- 3:35Speaker 2: How's he's starting to improve now and it looks like
- 3:39Speaker 2: he's taking little.
- 3:40Speaker 3: Turns and that was not the sports are any like
- 3:43Speaker 3: you thought.
- 3:44Speaker 2: That's not has not been determined yet, It has not
- 3:47Speaker 2: been hasn't been ruled out, but we're seeing how he
- 3:49Speaker 2: comes back.
- 3:50Speaker 3: And if he can make it back. What do you
- 3:52Speaker 3: like about.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Yeah, John's been a really fun guy in this camp
- 3:58Speaker 2: now and in the off season.
- 3:59Speaker 3: Two. He's a very aggressive very instinctive kid.
- 4:04Speaker 2: In a lot of different situations, whether he's covering receivers
- 4:07Speaker 2: or he's working a tight end or or fitting on
- 4:08Speaker 2: a run and all that. He's a he's a fun player.
- 4:11Speaker 2: I'm anxious to see how he does. He has, Yeah,
- 4:15Speaker 2: he has. He's been making some plays. He gets a
- 4:18Speaker 2: lot of work over on the side he's on and
- 4:20Speaker 2: he's getting Uh, he's he's getting a chance to show
- 4:23Speaker 2: some stuff. He's made some plays for us. He's he's
- 4:26Speaker 2: been you know, he's also been beating something too. But
- 4:30Speaker 2: he has had his share of work so far and
- 4:32Speaker 2: it's good for him.
- 4:32Speaker 3: He's shown us some stuff. He does.
- 4:34Speaker 4: Good to see. Yeah, he's had a.
- 4:42Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah he is. You know, I go back just
- 4:45Speaker 2: telling you guys before he got hurt, he was doing great.
- 4:49Speaker 3: Well, he's doing it again. He's playing.
- 4:50Speaker 2: He's playing as tough as anybody we got out there.
- 4:52Speaker 2: And uh, his coverage is aggressive and on it and consistent.
- 4:56Speaker 2: He's making plays. Uh, he's been good in all situations
- 4:59Speaker 2: in run a game too. So Uh, he's having a
- 5:01Speaker 2: great camp. No denying it.
- 5:04Speaker 1: The value and the return stuff you can see in
- 5:07Speaker 1: the preseason games that they can do out here and
- 5:09Speaker 1: cover all that.
- 5:11Speaker 3: What are you hoping to get out of it? Yeah,
- 5:12Speaker 3: this is a chance.
- 5:13Speaker 2: You know, the guys, the young guys, you always look
- 5:16Speaker 2: for them to splash them special teams so they can
- 5:19Speaker 2: you know, make a mark and give you something. They're
- 5:21Speaker 2: going until you can determine you know, you accumulate enough plays,
- 5:25Speaker 2: uh you know understand er. So the special teams play
- 5:29Speaker 2: really you give you a chance to show the nature
- 5:31Speaker 2: of the kid and uh how much it means to
- 5:33Speaker 2: them and how instinctive they are and how tough they are,
- 5:36Speaker 2: and so, uh, we're gonna feature our guys in those situations.
- 5:42Speaker 2: Practice around the league or yeah, I think we have
- 5:46Speaker 2: we can control practice better the way we do it.
- 5:48Speaker 2: I mean, look how hard we went against each other
- 5:50Speaker 2: the other day. But more than that, you know, we
- 5:53Speaker 2: really we cherished the preseason games. We use the preseason games,
- 5:57Speaker 2: you know, and and I've done those practices befre for
- 6:00Speaker 2: and and all that, and we just feel like we
- 6:01Speaker 2: can keep our focus, stay within our our you know,
- 6:04Speaker 2: the stuff that we need to do and and uh,
- 6:06Speaker 2: we'll see see how it goes.
- 6:07Speaker 4: How often like a Minnesota who's coming all the way
- 6:10Speaker 4: out of.
- 6:10Speaker 3: Your ass.
- 6:13Speaker 2: Uh, there's been a couple of teams to ask over
- 6:14Speaker 2: the years, you know, and it hasn't been I think
- 6:16Speaker 2: they know we don't do it, so we don't get
- 6:18Speaker 2: a lot of it. But if if the days are right,
- 6:21Speaker 2: the days can come out right sometimes, you know. And
- 6:23Speaker 2: and uh, I don't wantly travel and we'll stay at
- 6:25Speaker 2: somebody else's place for you know, for a week. And
- 6:26Speaker 2: it's crazy to me, but uh, you know, we're always
- 6:30Speaker 2: open to it. We do talk about it. It's not
- 6:31Speaker 2: like we're closed minded about it. So we just haven't
- 6:33Speaker 2: had the right setup.
- 6:36Speaker 3: Daryl Taylor and Keed Walker where they.
- 6:39Speaker 2: Both are improving and they're making their their you know,
- 6:42Speaker 2: their their charge coming back. I'm really excited about Darryl.
- 6:45Speaker 2: I know, I talked to him specifically yesterday afternoon about
- 6:49Speaker 2: he's really encouraged that he's coming back feeling more normal
- 6:51Speaker 2: and uh, well we won't know him about that until
- 6:54Speaker 2: he starts using his shoulder and punching and all that
- 6:56Speaker 2: kind of stuff, but he does feel way better. Kenny
- 7:00Speaker 2: would would tell you the same can here at full speed.
- 7:02Speaker 2: He's running full speed straight ahead right now, and so
- 7:04Speaker 2: that's a really good sign. The next thing is to
- 7:05Speaker 2: get him cutting his swerving and all that and uh,
- 7:07Speaker 2: that's coming up the next couple of days. So next
- 7:09Speaker 2: week will be an interesting week to see how much
- 7:11Speaker 2: he can do, like to get him back on the
- 7:12Speaker 2: practice field where he's getting work.
- 7:14Speaker 4: He he stopped the he seen fun kicking stuff.
- 7:18Speaker 3: Yeah, they're in the running to do that.
- 7:19Speaker 2: They I I think we'll see uh Winston uh for sure,
- 7:24Speaker 2: and we'll see how they go, see if we we
- 7:26Speaker 2: see it, if we can make 'em punt first.
- 7:29Speaker 3: But he's up for both este yesterday.
- 7:34Speaker 2: Uh, he practiced today. He's back out and little something
- 7:37Speaker 2: that he was. We were just making sure we we
- 7:39Speaker 2: we knew what was going on and so he but
- 7:41Speaker 2: he felt good today.
- 7:42Speaker 3: He didn't he he's playing in the game. No, I
- 7:44Speaker 3: don't think we've asked you about it much yet.
- 7:46Speaker 4: But he ride for houses camp.
- 7:47Speaker 2: Kind of been and going, yeah, you haven't asked me
- 7:50Speaker 2: about him, and uh, what I really like what he's bringing.
- 7:55Speaker 2: He's wad in three forty two this week. Moving his feet.
- 7:59Speaker 3: Uh.
- 8:00Speaker 2: Uh, he's got he's got real good coordination and and
- 8:03Speaker 2: and body control. Moves really well. He had maybe the
- 8:07Speaker 2: probably the best hit of the day on on on
- 8:09Speaker 2: the cop day. Uh, he's he's he's gonna be when
- 8:14Speaker 2: he gets settled in and we feel like he understands
- 8:17Speaker 2: what he's doing, He's gonna be competing to play. That's
- 8:19Speaker 2: how that's how far he's come already. He's totally ready
- 8:22Speaker 2: to compete to play in the game, and we just
- 8:24Speaker 2: gotta see if he can learn this stuff and and
- 8:25Speaker 2: hold on to it.
- 8:26Speaker 3: Uh, he'll play a bunch in this game. You have
- 8:29Speaker 3: Jones out there, Yeah, he he Uh had a.
- 8:32Speaker 2: Ankle sprain and it's it's he got a legit one.
- 8:35Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a couple of weeks probably before
- 8:37Speaker 2: he gets back.
- 8:37Speaker 4: But what happened with uh, Josh.
- 8:40Speaker 3: Ankle sprains and hamstrings that Josh, what happened with him? Uh,
- 8:44Speaker 3: he hurt his elbow.
- 8:46Speaker 2: He had a tendon issue in his elbow a couple
- 8:49Speaker 2: of places. So it's it's a serious injury that we
- 8:52Speaker 2: gotta make a determination how we're gonna go about it.
- 8:55Speaker 2: It's one that you can you can have surgery, you
- 8:57Speaker 2: cannot have surgery, and we're trying to figure that out.
- 8:59Speaker 3: What's best for him.
- 9:03Speaker 1: He is really grown in the doll.
- 9:08Speaker 2: Yeah, Johnny's working at it. He has had a lot
- 9:11Speaker 2: of opportunities played with the two group the whole time.
- 9:13Speaker 2: He's got a ton of reps. He looks faster and
- 9:17Speaker 2: in better shape than he's ever been. This is the
- 9:19Speaker 2: best we've seen him. The special teams. Guys are you know,
- 9:22Speaker 2: jacked up about him and love him. But he's had
- 9:25Speaker 2: a lot of reps. He's don't play a lot in
- 9:26Speaker 2: the game, and I'm anxious to see how he does
- 9:28Speaker 2: and how if he you know, pulls it all together
- 9:30Speaker 2: really well. He he's gonna run and hit guys. You know,
- 9:32Speaker 2: he's physical and gets after it. And then you ask
- 9:35Speaker 2: me about BBK too, right, yeah, yeah, alright, Uh, this
- 9:40Speaker 2: is this is really, uh an exciting opportunity for him
- 9:42Speaker 2: and for us to see him come back and play.
- 9:46Speaker 2: You know, he he's been along road. He's looked really good.
- 9:49Speaker 2: He's looked very comfortable. He's looked full speed. Uh. He'll
- 9:52Speaker 2: be involved in teams and he'll he'll get he'll get
- 9:55Speaker 2: played uh with the defense too. So it's just, you know,
- 9:59Speaker 2: it's just kind of you know, inside personal deal for
- 10:02Speaker 2: all of us that to see him have made it
- 10:03Speaker 2: back after he was such a long haul from him
- 10:05Speaker 2: so uh excited for his his chances.
- 10:09Speaker 3: Thanks for asking about him.
- 10:11Speaker 4: At what point did you guys do like you could
- 10:13Speaker 4: throw code and as see?
- 10:16Speaker 2: Well, I never really can't answer the question about what point.
- 10:20Speaker 2: I don't have a good answer for that one. We
- 10:22Speaker 2: want him to be uh, I he he's such a
- 10:24Speaker 2: versatile athlete.
- 10:25Speaker 3: He can do everything.
- 10:26Speaker 2: We're trying to make him available for us at to
- 10:28Speaker 2: help us at safety. We know he can play corner,
- 10:30Speaker 2: we know he can play Nicola's playing diame, He's doing everything.
- 10:33Speaker 2: So we're just trying to just make him as well
- 10:34Speaker 2: versed as possible in as many areas. And he seems
- 10:37Speaker 2: to be handling it well. He'll play a lot in
- 10:38Speaker 2: the game.
- 10:39Speaker 4: How important is that versatility in the back end for you?
- 10:42Speaker 4: I think Kwandra and Julian have both played corner and
- 10:44Speaker 4: four in.
- 10:44Speaker 3: Addition to safety.
- 10:45Speaker 4: Jamal's got kind of a linebacker skills, kind of have
- 10:47Speaker 4: a veried skill set.
- 10:49Speaker 3: Those guys in the back.
- 10:49Speaker 2: Yeah, it it is a it is a diverse group
- 10:52Speaker 2: in the and uh, those guys won't make it the
- 10:56Speaker 2: corner of those two guys, but unless it's an emergency.
- 10:58Speaker 2: But but they do have coverage. Feels like that and
- 11:00Speaker 2: and so uh both of them played the nickel spots.
- 11:03Speaker 2: You don't cover slots and all that kind of stuff.
- 11:05Speaker 2: So we feel really fortunate that we have a lot
- 11:08Speaker 2: of flexibility with what we're doing. And uh, you know,
- 11:10Speaker 2: when you're trying to make the roster fit together, you know,
- 11:12Speaker 2: the more flexibility the better. And so that's what we're
- 11:15Speaker 2: trying to develop that And you see what us doing
- 11:16Speaker 2: that with uh with Kobe and and Spoon has been
- 11:18Speaker 2: playing inside and he playing outside and all that too.
- 11:21Speaker 2: It just helps us, Uh John South Southern's all all
- 11:24Speaker 2: around to you know, we can playing in different spots.
- 11:25Speaker 2: So that's all we're just trying to, you know, figure
- 11:28Speaker 2: it out when we get to the end of the
- 11:30Speaker 2: UH camp, you know, and see what the numbers look like.
- 11:33Speaker 3: Yes, no, no, no, no no no. He's already asked a
- 11:36Speaker 3: couple of.
- 11:38Speaker 4: Adams and how is he doing mentally?
- 11:41Speaker 3: Mentally? He's on fire, I mean he he he.
- 11:44Speaker 2: He gave a rousing uh uh pregame speech last week.
- 11:49Speaker 2: He was fired up and really showed his heart uh
- 11:52Speaker 2: to the fellas that he looks really good in the workouts.
- 11:56Speaker 2: I mean they're doing He and and Jordan are both
- 11:58Speaker 2: doing a ton of stuff. They're not back at all,
- 12:00Speaker 2: they're not restricted, They're they're doing full speed workouts. Uh,
- 12:03Speaker 2: direction changes and all that kind of stuff, turning and
- 12:06Speaker 2: running full speed and their long durations to try to
- 12:09Speaker 2: really guarantee their conditioning before we put him out there.
- 12:11Speaker 2: They're they're you know, we just got to do the
- 12:14Speaker 2: right thing and make sure that the their confidence is there.
- 12:17Speaker 2: And we have logged enough time in the football movement
- 12:20Speaker 2: stuff so that we know when they get out there,
- 12:21Speaker 2: it's not gonna be anything new to him. So we're
- 12:23Speaker 2: really going overboard to to to try to pull that together.
- 12:26Speaker 1: He saw Cody with the big catch yesterday, and it
- 12:29Speaker 1: seems like receiver the kind of those last year off
- 12:30Speaker 1: the spots are pretty competitive now what you've seen that
- 12:33Speaker 1: that group battling.
- 12:34Speaker 3: For Yeah, it's a good group. It's a really good group.
- 12:37Speaker 3: Uh Cody.
- 12:37Speaker 2: Cody has just been uh tremendous for us in terms
- 12:41Speaker 2: of doing things right. He knows all the spots, he
- 12:43Speaker 2: can do anything. He's been a factor on special teams
- 12:46Speaker 2: as well. Uh, he's gonna get some good reps there.
- 12:49Speaker 2: He can catch it, he can run, you can run
- 12:50Speaker 2: her out. So he knows the system, and he's a
- 12:52Speaker 2: good blocker, He's all of that. So, you know, excited
- 12:55Speaker 2: to see how that all works out.
- 12:58Speaker 3: Playing a preseason game see one of those guys, not
- 13:01Speaker 3: necessarily so j So Jamal.
- 13:04Speaker 4: And Jordan are roughly the same return timeline.
- 13:08Speaker 2: No.
- 13:10Speaker 4: One further along.
- 13:14Speaker 3: Yes, I'm not trying to be a wise guy. I'm
- 13:18Speaker 3: just just yes, yeah, So.
- 13:23Speaker 2: We'll see what happens to those guys. It's really we're
- 13:25Speaker 2: going just kind of day to day, week to week,
- 13:27Speaker 2: making sure that we're pushing 'em, uh, but making sure
- 13:29Speaker 2: that we're smart and and uh and that their confidence
- 13:32Speaker 2: is in the right place.
- 13:33Speaker 3: It's they they're earning their their.
- 13:34Speaker 2: Way in that regard, you know, the by by busting
- 13:36Speaker 2: their ass every day.
- 13:37Speaker 3: You know, they're earning their way to feeling right.
- 13:39Speaker 2: And I'm you know, I want them ready to go
- 13:41Speaker 2: when they're chomping at the bit to get out there,
- 13:43Speaker 2: you know, and the and uh with that kind of confidence.
- 13:45Speaker 2: So's it's working out fine so far. Do you you
- 13:48Speaker 2: body will be excited to rent through the tune tomorrow
- 13:50Speaker 2: you play a whole lot. Ah, I think you will. Well,
- 13:53Speaker 2: I I heard that last little party play a little bit. Yeah,
- 13:57Speaker 2: I I I I know he's he's fired up about it.
- 13:58Speaker 2: Bobby and I sat down last night just talked about
- 14:00Speaker 2: what's going on in the world and all. And uh,
- 14:04Speaker 2: he's been perfect.
- 14:06Speaker 3: I mean, he's just been He's done everything.
- 14:08Speaker 2: He's busted his But the first first highlight I showed
- 14:11Speaker 2: to the team today about yesterday's practice is Bobby and
- 14:14Speaker 2: Quandrey and UH and Chenna and UH and Digsy chasing
- 14:18Speaker 2: the football full speed all the way across the field.
- 14:20Speaker 2: You know, I mean he's doing everything and so uh uh,
- 14:22Speaker 2: I know, you know, he he didn't participate in the
- 14:27Speaker 2: preseason last year much. He's he's not gonna let anything
- 14:31Speaker 2: get in his way. And so uh, it's just all
- 14:35Speaker 2: of the things that you think could be happening are
- 14:37Speaker 2: happening in the right way. You know, he's he's filling in,
- 14:39Speaker 2: they're listening to him. Uh, he's in charge, he's studying,
- 14:42Speaker 2: he's working efforts great, he's really setting the standard for us.
- 14:47Speaker 3: Anything else, oh good,