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Head Coach Mike Macdonald On The Week 1 Loss To The 49ers · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: Well, uh, there's a really hard, thought, physical football game. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: very disappointed that about the outcome, but you got to
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  Speaker 1: look at the process as well. I think our guys
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  Speaker 1: played incredibly hard, played for the you know, all sixty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Give us it's a chance to win there at the end.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I stole team. I think we have a
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  Speaker 1: really good football team and we're not there yet. So
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  Speaker 1: let's you know, let's go to work. Let's go figure
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  Speaker 1: out things that we can do better and uh move forward.
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  Speaker 1: So which we will. We're a good team now, We're
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  Speaker 1: only going to get better. So the guys will respond
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  Speaker 1: and let's go have a great week, go to Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: How would you assess the offense overall? The running kind
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  Speaker 1: of got going there a little bitter. Yeah, we're you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're hot and cold. We gotta we got to maintain
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  Speaker 1: the ball better. We need to be more efficient on
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  Speaker 1: early downs, convert more on third down. Good two minutes
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  Speaker 1: at the end, I mean, some good stuff, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we got we had to operate a little more efficiently
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  Speaker 1: and be better on first second down to give us
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  Speaker 1: some third downs where we can convert and keep keep
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  Speaker 1: drives going. View of their final drive on offense, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: got him to a second long and guy made a
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  Speaker 1: great play. He seems like Reek might have lost it
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  Speaker 1: there down the field and we got him and we
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  Speaker 1: we played the first nine point nine at that ten
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  Speaker 1: second play at the end phenomenally and the guy guy
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  Speaker 1: made a great play. You considered going for it or
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  Speaker 1: fourth and one on your second to last position offer
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  Speaker 1: we did. Yeah, I just felt like, let's go take
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  Speaker 1: a lead and go play ball. We'll just breakdowns and
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  Speaker 1: coverage or keep your sauce to get open and you
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  Speaker 1: can nowhere around him a couple of times, and you
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  Speaker 1: checked as well in the game. Something there, juice, We
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  Speaker 1: can play that one better the pierce all one. They
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  Speaker 1: just that was a good play by them. Did the
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  Speaker 1: last play did ball just slip out of Sam's hands?
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  Speaker 1: Or I guess set? So what happened on that play?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't ask him. Did it look like it just
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  Speaker 1: slipped out of his hand? I didn't look like they
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  Speaker 1: made contact. I think that looked like he just slipped
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  Speaker 1: as his hand was going backwards. What that nickim and
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  Speaker 1: worry would happened with him? And how did that kind
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  Speaker 1: of change in a defensive game plan? He hurt his ankle,
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  Speaker 1: so well, uh, we'll see, we'll see kind of moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: We don't think it's a high ankle, so that's positive.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's intact, we think, so yeah, you get just you know,
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  Speaker 1: guy goes down, you got to change person out. We
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  Speaker 1: played played the game lighter than we normally play against them.
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  Speaker 1: But I thought Spoon went in did a great job
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  Speaker 1: at nickel. Coach Forty's thoughts of the defense overall in
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  Speaker 1: this game, I mean, our guys played really, really hard.
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  Speaker 1: There's gonna be I mean, there's plenty of things that
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  Speaker 1: we're getting clean up operationally and getting the calls in
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  Speaker 1: and out substitution patterns, you know, or we'll just we'll
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  Speaker 1: look at our rush. You know, third down, we weren't
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  Speaker 1: good enough. I think they're fifty percent on third down.
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  Speaker 1: Fourth down we can clean up as well. Or two
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  Speaker 1: for two we gotta convert on those. So but the
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  Speaker 1: guys played really hard, played physical, and we'll clean up.
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  Speaker 1: We'll kind of look at the rest, like how hard
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  Speaker 1: is it to play offense the way you want to
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  Speaker 1: when you only have the ball fifteen in the first
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  Speaker 1: fifty minutes of the game. Well, I think I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that's like a given that we want to
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  Speaker 1: play that way, I think it's an indicative of we
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  Speaker 1: need to play more complimentary football and we need to
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  Speaker 1: be more efficient on first down. We can play that way.
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  Speaker 1: We just have to play better in those situations and
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  Speaker 1: then we'll maintain the ball better. And you know it's
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  Speaker 1: a team stat. Defensively, you know, there's I think the
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  Speaker 1: first touchdown drive. I think we're like, oh for a
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  Speaker 1: trillion on third down, whether it was a penalty or
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  Speaker 1: we'll look at the rough in the passer penalty. Make
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  Speaker 1: sure we're coaching Leo the right way. Mike An he
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  Speaker 1: kind of walks through the blockfield goal to what you
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  Speaker 1: guys are trying to do there. Yeah, it just shows
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  Speaker 1: you our guys just to fight. You know, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna fight, claw tooth and nail to
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  Speaker 1: the to the final whistle. Man, that's what That's what
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  Speaker 1: our guys did. How do you assays Sam barn On
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  Speaker 1: to day look at the stats, But I thought I
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  Speaker 1: thought we played efficiently, thought we protected them well. I
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  Speaker 1: thought I played fast, just like you know what Sam
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  Speaker 1: does in the in the clutch, we get put ourselves
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  Speaker 1: in position to win and bang football stipped out of
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  Speaker 1: his hand. I mean, it's not like just kind of
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  Speaker 1: go from there, the disappointment of this loss, that it
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  Speaker 1: was at home, kind of knowing how you guys wanted
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  Speaker 1: to start fast. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean our you know,
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  Speaker 1: first drive giving him a touchdown was it was a bomber.
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  Speaker 1: But our guys rebounded. Man. I mean, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what the stats are after that first touchdown, but nobody
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  Speaker 1: bat it in an eye. We went right back to
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  Speaker 1: work and we played. I thought we played really good
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  Speaker 1: defense for the remainder of the game. The game Jackson
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of big numbers. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: it was played. Yeah, Jack's made a lot of great plays.
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  Speaker 1: There's more opportunities for him out there, which I'm sure,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll tell you. Uh, and we're gonna count everybody.
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  Speaker 1: You know, SeaWorld steps up so we can it's not
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  Speaker 1: the Jack show every snap there we else all right,
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  Speaker 1: thank you,