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Sam Darnold: "We're Really Excited About Where We Are At" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: So guys, yeah, obviously, you know, it's a great team win.
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  Speaker 1: First and foremost. You know, thought we could have you know,
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  Speaker 1: done some things better, you know on offense, especially in
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  Speaker 1: the second half. But again, we we got the win,
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  Speaker 1: which is what matters. But we'll look at the tape
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  Speaker 1: and grow from there. But you know, you know, our defense,
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  Speaker 1: our special teams, you know that was they come up
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  Speaker 1: huge today and you know it was good to get
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  Speaker 1: those explosive plays, I will say, especially in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, there's a lot to improve on, but we're
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  Speaker 1: excited about the win. You take us through the long
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  Speaker 1: touchdown with Jackson, Yeah, you know we got you know,
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  Speaker 1: a certain look where you know, I'm kind of alerting
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  Speaker 1: the post on that and uh yeah, I was able
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  Speaker 1: to just throw it up and Jacks made a great
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  Speaker 1: play track in it. You know, that was something that
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  Speaker 1: we've we've worked on OTA's training camp, you know, even
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  Speaker 1: throughout this week in practice, and you know, we made
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  Speaker 1: it come to life in the game. I think four
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  Speaker 1: games now where top one hundred yards hasn't had kewer
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  Speaker 1: than seventy nine yards in a game. Can you say
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  Speaker 1: that his ability to just do it every single week, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: his consistency has been amazing, you know, just the way
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  Speaker 1: that he's come to work every single day, the way
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  Speaker 1: that he practices every single day. You know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: that's a testament to the way he works, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the standard that you know him and really Coop
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of the guys kind of set the
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  Speaker 1: standard in that room and they never waver from it.
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  Speaker 1: Last couple of drives, you guys came out throwing just
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  Speaker 1: how much you like the confidence to you know, not
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  Speaker 1: just get super conservative and trying to put the game
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  Speaker 1: away that way. Yeah, you know, we're gonna we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: go execute whatever you know, Clint asked us to do,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, for us to be able to go
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  Speaker 1: out their throat when we need to run it when
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  Speaker 1: we need to. You know, there's there's a ton of
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  Speaker 1: things we need to get better at. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I know that Clint is is gonna, you know, continue
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  Speaker 1: to call his game and then do his thing that way,
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  Speaker 1: and we're just gonna go out there and execute and
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  Speaker 1: do our best at that. Nice looking up and seeing
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  Speaker 1: eighty eight that wide open every end, Yeah, yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: was nice to be able to get that. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: again that's testament to all the hard work throughout the week,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and aj understanding kind of the look that
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  Speaker 1: we were getting for that, and you know he did
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  Speaker 1: a great job of selling it. You played against his
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  Speaker 1: team last year, how different did the defense little this year?
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  Speaker 1: You know, some some different coverages. I remember last year,
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  Speaker 1: they they they never played us in single high safety,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm not sure I've ever seen in a game before.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, they kind of took advantage of me
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  Speaker 1: being a little greedy out there. And I told myself,
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna, you know, take what they give me
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  Speaker 1: and and if they give me a check down, I'm
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  Speaker 1: and to take it today. And you know, I felt
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  Speaker 1: like I did a pretty good job of that. And
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  Speaker 1: uh yeah, but again that's a that's a great defense.
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  Speaker 1: They got great scheme over there, that that defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: was a really good job. I know, Coach Cohen and
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  Speaker 1: all them over there do a really great job as well.
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  Speaker 1: So a great team and you know, we're we're really
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  Speaker 1: excited about, you know, kind of where we're at as
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  Speaker 1: as a team. And you know the result of this one.
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  Speaker 1: What have you come to trust with Jackson about Jackson
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  Speaker 1: Smithy Jading games. Yeah, you know, I'm I feel like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, every single day in practice, we're just continuing
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  Speaker 1: to earn that trust together and grow that confidence with
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  Speaker 1: each other, and you know, it's just going to continue
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  Speaker 1: to grow. And taking care of the ball that was
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  Speaker 1: obviously a big emphasis coming up with Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Jacksonville had done a great job all year
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  Speaker 1: of taking you know, taking the ball away from teams,
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  Speaker 1: and that was a huge emphasis, you know, for us
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  Speaker 1: to be able to take care of the football and
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  Speaker 1: for for runners to be able to take care of
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  Speaker 1: the football in the open field. And I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we did a good job of that. Today. Was the
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  Speaker 1: AJ play something that has had in your back pocket
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  Speaker 1: if they gave you a manda. I mean, we got
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  Speaker 1: a ton of plays in our back pocket. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a ton of players we can go to. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's uh, you know, that's a play that you know,
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  Speaker 1: AJ does a really good job at. Really all of
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  Speaker 1: our guys do a really great job of of those routes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, got our defense a couple of times in
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  Speaker 1: training camp as well in that but uh no, it
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  Speaker 1: was a great job by not only AJ, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line in the in the the other tie.
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  Speaker 1: Then I think it was might have been Sobby over
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  Speaker 1: there on the defensive end, just holding him up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit so I can get that one off. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sorry if you said, did you check to that or
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  Speaker 1: you against that look or you called play, it was uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was called. And you know, I felt like, again,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, we just did a good job executing
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  Speaker 1: and everyone kind of understanding and being on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: He takes to the coop stuff, he takes to the
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  Speaker 1: coop testing. Yeah, you know, again, I feel like they
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  Speaker 1: showed an all up look and you know that's again
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  Speaker 1: that's this is kind of a trend here with the
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  Speaker 1: execution of our offense. But it's something that we've been
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  Speaker 1: working on for a really long time. That play specifically,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, Coop did a really good job of
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  Speaker 1: you know, gaining you know, outside leverage and just break
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  Speaker 1: into a spot that you know, I knew that he
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  Speaker 1: was going to go to, and he did a great
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  Speaker 1: job of coming down with that one. If there's a
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  Speaker 1: concern third downs anything in particular, one of ten, I
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  Speaker 1: think it did end up being. Yeah, again, it wasn't good. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't good. You know on third down, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think we're very great in the second half, to be
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  Speaker 1: quite honest, other than that last drive obviously, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're just going to continue to improve, look at the tape,
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  Speaker 1: see how we can get better, and go from there.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate it, guys. Thank you