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Clint Hurtt: "It Always Starts With The Big Guys Up Front" · Seahawks Press Pass

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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm a agree to that one. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy everybody. I apologize that was taking the wrong way.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, head, we didn't even bring you up.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I'm just trying to lock it up. Be a
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  Speaker 1: fishing with time under.
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  Speaker 2: Any significant change that you made after the first two drives.
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  Speaker 1: On Sunday, uh, I just obviously once we got a
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  Speaker 1: feel for the routes and things like that they were
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  Speaker 1: trying to attack us with, and then know what the
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  Speaker 1: answers needed to be coverage wise. But really, at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, the the penalties is what extended
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  Speaker 1: those first two drives. I give them credit, there's no
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  Speaker 1: excuses for that. But fourth and three we jump off sides.
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  Speaker 1: Can't do that. The second drive we jump off sides
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  Speaker 1: again and they get an explosive play, which generally when
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  Speaker 1: you get an explosive to play within a drive, that
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  Speaker 1: leads the points for the offense. So obviously they took
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  Speaker 1: advantage of what we gave them the first series. On
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  Speaker 1: the fourth and three, I believe that was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: a freeze play, so worked the hard kind. If we
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  Speaker 1: don't flinch in the neutral zone, they take the penalty
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  Speaker 1: back up five punk the ball and then we're going.
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  Speaker 1: So we kind of we did some self harm in
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  Speaker 1: those first two drives, but we got settle down, We
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  Speaker 1: made the corrections, made the adjustments pass coverage wise what
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  Speaker 1: we needed to to get into and and did well.
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  Speaker 1: We just got to do a better job of one
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  Speaker 1: not hurting ourselves with penalties to creating more takeaways, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and get the ball back to the offense.
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  Speaker 3: Did look like playing a little bit more, uh, little
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  Speaker 3: closer to the line of scrimmage. Meeting used a little
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  Speaker 3: bit differently.
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  Speaker 2: Why was that a good It's a good way.
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  Speaker 1: He used to just uh, to find ways. It's always
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  Speaker 1: a delicate balance because obviously with uh, you know, with him,
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  Speaker 1: I I think he's the best post safety in football.
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  Speaker 1: He's unbelievable in the ball's in there and he's in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the field. There's a safety with that.
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  Speaker 1: As a coach when he's back there and the defending
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  Speaker 1: the deep part of the field for us the other
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  Speaker 1: side is really special. His ability to feel routes and
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  Speaker 1: and things like that when he's dropping into the right
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  Speaker 1: into the hooks. So, uh, he was able to do
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  Speaker 1: a lot for us and help us out. And as always,
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  Speaker 1: you wanna try to get your best players to put
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  Speaker 1: them in a position to be successful. And he does
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things well, so it worked out great
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  Speaker 1: for us.
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  Speaker 3: Would you see a person full game back, Uh, just
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  Speaker 3: the immediate you know, energy, the passion, all those things,
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  Speaker 3: cause it's infectious to his teammates and they're excited to
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  Speaker 3: go out there and play with them.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously they play making ability showed early and often
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  Speaker 1: with him. Obviously the plays out in the flat, his
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  Speaker 1: attention that he draws as a threat as a blitzer.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he redirects a lot of protections and things
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  Speaker 1: like that, so other guys can capitalize off of whether
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  Speaker 1: you're a d lineman or the guy playing next to
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  Speaker 1: him in the box.
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  Speaker 2: Think he needs to be you know, you play nickel
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  Speaker 2: for the pass and load up to the run. You
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  Speaker 2: guys have been almost all nickel with a game this year,
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  Speaker 2: and that the run numbers are really good. What's the
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  Speaker 2: key to the good that gets run.
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  Speaker 1: It always starts with the big guys up front. They
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  Speaker 1: have to control the line of scrimmage, and the guys
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  Speaker 1: that play behind them can play off of them accordingly,
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  Speaker 1: So it starts with Jaron and Mario and Draymont and
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  Speaker 1: obviously chanting them off all the guys that's played on
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  Speaker 1: the edge, because once they if they can play vertical
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  Speaker 1: and get in the backfield and create disruption, the guys
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  Speaker 1: playing behind them can aously clean up a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things that make life, makes life easy. And obviously having
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  Speaker 1: Wags back to kind of control and navigate all the
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  Speaker 1: traffic also helps. And JB it's an entire defensive effort.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't want to say their name as every single guy,
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  Speaker 1: but it collectively takes everyone to get that done.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you can do that without absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, he brings a lot to the table of where
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  Speaker 1: we can put him, playing him outside and inside. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: a very good blitzer, you know, whether Jamal's at nickel
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  Speaker 1: or not. You know, Spoon brings a lot to the
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  Speaker 1: table when he's at that position as well. So he's
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  Speaker 1: been obviously a great addition for us.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna look at Arizona's offense.
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  Speaker 3: Certainly the run game stands out, but what about their
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  Speaker 3: wide receivers becomes sort of friends.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just they have excellent speed. You know, you have
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  Speaker 1: to make sure you take care of the run game.
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  Speaker 1: Defending this team. They have a really good scheme. They
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  Speaker 1: got good talent running back position. The quarterback is a
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  Speaker 1: talent and runner as well, but they got guys that
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  Speaker 1: can take the top off the defense. Uh So you
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  Speaker 1: gotta be smart about how you play your stuff and
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  Speaker 1: and not want to give them opportunities to get explosives
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  Speaker 1: on you as well. So they create a great challenge.
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  Speaker 1: They might their record may not be where they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to be, but they got a lot of good things going.
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  Speaker 1: They've been in a lot of football games, so we
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of respect for this opponent.
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  Speaker 3: How much were a comfortable as Draymont seemed to get
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  Speaker 3: from Week one to now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's totally comfortable in the communication and
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  Speaker 1: all the things that we're trying to get done. He's
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  Speaker 1: been playing really really good ball. Had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: swash plays, but I know the more will come as
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  Speaker 1: the season progresses.
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  Speaker 2: How unique is it with the guy like Devin to
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  Speaker 2: be as a depth it seems it going forward and
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  Speaker 2: coming as a blitzer getting a buildings one game as
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  Speaker 2: it is in the comfort stuff and buzz a gay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's rare to be able to find that. So
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  Speaker 1: just excited about where he's at. You know he does
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  Speaker 1: this so many things. Well, usually guys have their one
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  Speaker 1: particular trait. You can do so much with them, the
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  Speaker 1: balances and making sure you don't try to do too
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  Speaker 1: much and slow him down. So he's been doing outstanding.
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  Speaker 2: What are you most played with the Rams games?
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of everybody. You know. Obviously that was a
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  Speaker 1: rough game and we needed to be better. We've done that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, continue to continually improve, and that's taking everybody
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  Speaker 1: to get that done. So I wouldn't necessarily put my
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  Speaker 1: finger on one guy. It's taking everybody collectively to do that.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest thing I preach with these guys is when
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  Speaker 1: we want to be consistent, that we've got to be unselfish.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's gonna be times within the defense that
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to have a hard down. You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a hard job to be able to allow somebody
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  Speaker 1: else to be successful, and the roles are gonna be
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  Speaker 1: reversed at other times. And so it's collectively taking everybody
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  Speaker 1: to get us going in the right direction. So I
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  Speaker 1: just want to keep building on that. It's not about
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  Speaker 1: one guy. What is hard hard down means there going
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  Speaker 1: to be a guy that's playing man the man and
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  Speaker 1: you have no safety help over the top. That's a
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  Speaker 1: hard down. It could be a detacle. We say, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna play with a light box in a run game,
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  Speaker 1: and you gotta own this gap taking on two blockers
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  Speaker 1: and you got half of the gap next to you,
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  Speaker 1: that's a hard down, you know. So there's just certain
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  Speaker 1: guys that can have that all over the defense. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be hard on the offense and knowing that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: come up, but there are situations that to play like that,
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  Speaker 1: and guys just understand. You just take it for the team,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know there's gonna be other situations guys
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  Speaker 1: are gonna sacrifice for you too.
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  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on Kem Young and Derek Hall
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  Speaker 2: and the way they've kind of grown through the first
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  Speaker 2: five games the year.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean. They've been playing hard, they've
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  Speaker 1: been steady, they haven't done it, haven't done anything to
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  Speaker 1: hurt us. The playmaking for those guys will come as
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  Speaker 1: you guys are gonna be saying this all the time
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  Speaker 1: as the game slows down. You know, things are going
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  Speaker 1: a million miles an hour from learning a new playbook,
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  Speaker 1: the terminology and things like that and the difference between
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  Speaker 1: a college game and the pro game. But they're good,
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  Speaker 1: they're solid. The playmaking is gonna come, uh soon enough.
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  Speaker 2: The play Gray Brown made the Trey Brown made up
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  Speaker 2: the interception. I'm tough for the back shoulder throws.
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  Speaker 3: That it's really hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's a difficult play, but you also have to have
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  Speaker 1: an awareness for it. You know. Most of the things
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  Speaker 1: we talked about here is staying on top and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and we worked all week. Carlscott did a great job
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  Speaker 1: of pepping the corners for that understanding. Uh, Burrough and
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  Speaker 1: and Chase and tycause they do a great job of
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  Speaker 1: working the back shoulder throws when guys are staying on top.
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  Speaker 1: So he was in the lead position and had a
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  Speaker 1: great anticipation in the thrower as a heck.
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  Speaker 2: Couple play is that reading guys and see if just having.
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  Speaker 1: An anticipation on the route. Like I said, if you
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  Speaker 1: were on top of the route, smart receiver, good quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: they know right now, Okay, I just take the back
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  Speaker 1: shoulder save to try to come back for it and
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  Speaker 1: trade play for what he knew was coming. You can
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  Speaker 1: do that too, when you can trust your safeties being
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  Speaker 1: over the top of you. So it was a really
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  Speaker 1: good play.
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  Speaker 2: How have you seen uh, Julian and Mike Jack for
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  Speaker 2: the respond to having decreased roles this year.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, unselfishness. Everybody understands there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: talented guys, uh obviously on the defense, and there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be roles that guys have to play, certain some games
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  Speaker 1: that guys may not play quite as much as others,
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  Speaker 1: and things of that nature. And again, if you keep
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  Speaker 1: it about winning football games, everything's gonna be okay. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: to have their opportunities, and it's also my job to
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  Speaker 1: make sure when they when they're out there, give them
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  Speaker 1: their shots to be able to make plays too. Humble.
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  Speaker 1: Now we got good. The guys are pros, so they
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  Speaker 1: get it, you know, and we make sure we keep
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  Speaker 1: up the lines communication so nobody's surprised by anything anything else.
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  Speaker 1: You